Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171231

Seen some creative uses in the classroom. It was great to see my 6th grader use a caad program to create a model of a city. Neither teacher or parent had to worry about buying lostly materials to make the model. It was free. This year, my children have been able to download audio book applications from our wonderful San Francisco Public Library to listen to at home. This has been a lifesaver for a dyslexic child who loves fantastic si and science first. Fantasy and science fiction. As fantastic as some of these have been, our incredible faculty and administrators need to filter the content that pops up. One example of inappropriate content to which my child was first exposed to in the yard during lunch time with a youtube player, playing grand theft auto. He shared the channel with his younger brother. We had conversations about this and they learned. But i dont think my child would have seen this channel if they had a screen free lunch. One child has also opened one of my children, has also opened an Instagram Account on his School Device which is public. My husband and i tried to help him make it private, but it can only be done through the app. I wonder how many children have done the same and posted photos that may not be appropriate. This is not a device we gave him with the ability to control content. This is all through the school ipad. In our packet, pages 4a through 4f, we have included screen shots of some of the verizon ipad history from a 12yearold student. One screen shot is of the daily news food that contains graphic headlines. I would appreciate having a parent page on our San Francisco Unified School District website. Thank you all so much for listening and supporting our parent voices and concerns. John, sam, lawrence gardena. Public our hearts is with mayor lee and his family. But we are here again tonight. We were here in the beginning of the school year, partnership. And were here again. Our students are actually continuing to decomplien in decline in terms of math scores and english scores. Theres a lot of hope. I just got word from city college of San Francisco they closed the achievement gap for Pacific Islanders in three years. City college of San Francisco has about 325 Pacific Islander kids. Sfusd has about 600. We feel like we can do this in five years but we need your help. I was here the last meeting, a cousin of mine and he ely williams. So, the williams case. Ely was shot two weeks after the meeting. He was a San Francisco Unified School District alumni and he put his heart and soul dedicated into education and thats what he is doing today. A lot of our families are coming out of the southeast sector. When i say Pacific Islanders im talking about hawaiians, and et cetera. We ask to be on your committee. I think it was the curriculums committee, the Building Committee and what worked at the city college of San Francisco was they funded their pi program. In addition, they gave them space. And this three years they closed that achievement gap. Im saying sfusd, we can do this. We can do it together. Thats our humble ask. Thank you. Public my name is john mour. Mr. President , board members, superintendent and staff. I just want to piggyback on what was just mentioned. For us, its all about space. In order to close those gaps and to improve on our performance, especially with our youth within the district, we definitely need some space. And appreciate the fact that the president and also staff have reached out and worked with us. But really want to move it to the point where we can sit here and at the end of the night, you guys can vote yay or nay. We are asking for utilization, our anchor institution right now is a leasing space there. But we have eight other organizations that would need Additional Space as well. Thats why were asking for not rooms, but for the whole facility. So, please take that into consideration. Thank you. Public good evening. Thanks for taking the time to listen. Im going to echo some comments. Im an educator. One of my students was a student delegate, maria. Shes going to be the president of the United States when she gets i love that lady. [laughter] public just echoing. Im in my second year at junior dan and i have 15 kids. Were a small school as you guys know in the district. And i have about 1315 kids and around when we talk numbers, the Pacific Islander community is one of the most rapid growing communities in the states. This number is going to get bigger. So, we do need that space. And you guys help to implement the curriculum. Our kids need to be empowered. Not just empowered, but empowered through education. Education through their roots. Not just during the regular poly club. We need to educate them what we are showcasing about and through that education, we have empowerment and it is being done and needs to be done. Look at city College Program three years. We could do that in probably less. We have the people. We have the power. We just need the space and you guys help. Thank you. Public how do you all do . My name is lawrence. Im one of a number of parents from an Elementary School in the district. Five of those parents are here with me tonight. Id like to read a letter written collectively by all of us. Dear president walton and members of the board of education. We are parents of six students. We are in a fifth grade class. Theres a student in this classroom whose verbal and physical aggression towards other students has escalated such that we have requested urgent action by the San Francisco Unified School District. It is affecting the physical safety of the other children. The child in question is on ten years old and 10 years old. The principal and social worker have done all they can to protect the other children in the classroom. But it is not enough. The safety of our children requires that the district take immediate action. This student came to our school during the 20162017 as a fourth grade student. He was disruptive and his behavior your interfered with learning on many occasions and levels. It is not known why his teacher left midway through the school year, but it was clear to the parents in the classroom she was overwelcomed by this students frequent outbursts which required student evacuations, lockdowns and intervention from our principal. Since the beginning of the 20172018 school year, this students inappropriate behavior your has escalated and has become increasingly violent and aggressive with his peers. Staff at the school have been attentive to the complaints from many of us, many of us who have signed this letter. But without assistance, the school seems to be unable to modify the students behavior which has become dangerous and intolerable. For example, the students outbursts [bell]. Public im representing five other people you cant represent five other people. You have had two minutes. Thank you. Terry, gerald. Eric woo, wilson chu, ruth sims raquel, jessie yang. Everyone has two minutes. Public hi. My name is allen. Good evening commissioners. Ladies and gentlemen. I dont know how to start this because ive never had this happen before. But anyway, im from washington high school. And im just a bit overwhelmed because i didnt expect things to happen and i asked people for help and i have a turnout of students who came to support me and students representing from class of 04 to class of 17. Seeing them come here and [indiscernible] public i really want to thank those students first of all and the parents also who have been supporting me throughout this whole thing. I speak from the heart, but i know i have a time limit. As a teacher, i do believe that i can be eccentric and i can sometimes be a little weird. But i believe as a teacher we need to be more creative when it comes to teaching and come up with different ideas. And i do understand that sometimes those come across as not people not as receptive to those types of ideas. So, i do apologize for that. And but every year i do try to come up with different inno vaive activity innovative activities. Those approaches can sometimes backfire. And i do want to point out no one has ever raised things that are not supposed im not supposed to experiment on when it comes to classroom activities. I do acknowledge my mistakes and i do need to be more aware with my tone and my word choice. I unfortunately said things i ought not to have. My personal issues need not to be brought into the classroom and im truly sorry for that. I sincerely apologize to all those who were hurt. I know that words can hurt but they can heal as well. I do apologize for those thank you so much. Public good evening. Im a graduate of the class of 2016 at washington high school. As a teacher, he has made his classes interactive and engaging for his students. It wasnt like every day we had to read a textbook or take notes from a google slide. It was more of working in groups, doing activities like singing out what happened in certain time periods or dancing out those activities that they have done. Every day as students we loved going to his class and we found it teaching us more than just history, but more life skills and intrapersonal communication as well as getting homework done and turned in as soon as its due. As a coach, he helped his whole team learn how to manage efficiently more than 20 people by getting tasks done efficiently, winning more medals and the value of team work overall. Working as a team, he has guided the senior classes into models that can track down leadership and it helps us as students learn Different Things like working on a job site where we need to talk with everyone and also helped us learn how to more efficiently manage our time. Thank you. Public hello board members. My name is jared. Allen is my older brother. Im here to speak on his behalf on a couple of items here. Just want to talk about how ive known him obviously for our whole life. Like i say, he is a very compassionate, responsible and caring person. His humor at times can be suspect. You dont always have to laugh at what he says. I feel like he is a very valued member of the community. He loves helping others less fortunate than himself. He volunteers outside of school. Not during school hours. What i mean is hes dealing with his students and on his own time as well. I could say for countless students who i have actually spoken to, they tell me a lot of times my brother has helped them through their hard times. Hes a fatherly figure to quite a few of them. A lot of them mentioned to me themselves that they didnt have their at their homes. So, it is something they are very appreciative of. Allen has sacrificed and done so much to be where he is. He is a valued member to the community. He would be a significant loss to the kids. He has and will continue to help succeed. I hope you consider this as part of his contributions and give him another chance. Thank you. Public hi. My name is raquel. Im his niece. I was the class of 2013 and throughout those four years i said i wasnt going to cry but okay. Any ways, i will make it short. He was more than a teacher. He really reached out or he really reached out to students and really made them feel that they were a part of the community. Especially people like myself. Ive never had parents. So, to have that kind of fatherly figure in your life is something that you need from anyone, right. But it just please understand hes done the best he can. Hes done more than what you would expect as a normal teacher. So people can get better and also volunteering. He does so much including the night he goes to the soup kitchens. [crying] public please, i know people are asking you to get more but what you already have you have someone here who is already great. So, please reconsider before you consider what has to happen recently. Please look back at all the years that he has spent creating successful students and students who truly feel like they have someone to rely on. Thank you. Public hi everyone. Im really nervous right now, but i feel as though im back to his tenth grade class when i was just a new imgrant. I was really immigrant. I was really nervous and participating in his class. But i can attest to the fatherly figure i want to speak of when he was the one that encouraged me to come out of my shell and talk in front of people. I cant imagine speaking to this large audience. But a lot of things he did encourage me. To fill out College Applications as well as being my fatherly figure in a way that he changed my life. And i think there are countless children, including his students, that he has yet in the future to be this positive figure. And i really believe that George Washington high school will not be the same without lau. I think in a way that i think all of you guys heard that theres so many things he did for his students. He would spend his weekends tutoring us to help us pass ap economics or be our coach and mentor us. I think a lot of that is because he had faith in his students and that everyone whose heart he touched will become a better person. And i believe that just as he has faith for his students, i have faith in lau and what he did was a misunderstanding and that he will correct that in the future. And i hope youll give him a chance. Thank you. President walton just want to know i have six cards and i see more than six people in line. If you dont have a card we wont be taking Public Comment. If you did not turn in a card, we will not be taking Public Comment. Announce your name when you come up. I have six cards and there are more than six people up there. So, if you did not turn in a card, you will not be able to speak. Thank you. Public i did turn in a card. [laughter] public hi. My name is michael, class of 2006. And allen was the best teacher ive ever had. So good he inspired me to become a teacher. And no one really wakes up in the morning and says hey, i really want to go to history class. I really want to learn history today. No High School Student really does that. Very little. Maybe 1 . But he did. He was extremely engaging in what he did. And what he does. His ways are a little unorthodox but thats what made him engaging. I was extremely excited every day. Really wanted to go to his class every day because of the fun fact in the beginning of class that really warmed up the class and created that conversation. He taught us team work, taught us hard work and mainly he taught that us learning can be fun. And so, i thank you so much, allen, for being my teacher and i just found this out about yesterday. So, im not too prepared for anything. One last thing to add is being a High School Student isnt easy. Throughout my high school, i dealt with anxiety, depression, bullying. But i always knew there was one thing. I always knew there was an oasis to go to. Thank you for keeping your doors open at lunch and after school. I was a super shy kid like i am now. [laughter] public please consider. And if i ever have a kid, i hope that you will be the teacher. President walton thank you. Public thank you. President walton i have five cards and five people are speaking. So, if you did not turn in a card public my name is wilson. Im class of 2005, George Washington high school. Just want to talk about a couple of things. Everyone in here, parents, faculty, teachers, everybody in here, theres a goal for everybody and thats to make a path pave a path for the student to succeed. And when i was in middle school, high school, i wasnt a good student. I can tell you that. Until i became a sophomore, i had allen as a teacher. He never gave up on me. He was basically my mentor. Im sorry. I can go on forever and forever. I know i have two minutes to talk. But because of him, him pushing me, having his doors open for me, i became who i am today. I consider myself pretty successful after going to college. And he was the one that persuaded me that college would be a future. And he basically gave me the road map to succeed. And him pushing me, reminding me every single day, go to class, do your homework, youre going to succeed in life. After having him as a teacher, he follows up with me, make sure im still on the right path. You just dont get many of those in life. I have so many teachers and i could tell you im not trying to bash anybody, but there are teachers that doesnt give you the same the same attention that he does and he cares for his students. And if im feeling that way, im sure a lot of other people are feeling that way. Thats why you have a lot of students that are willing to come here. I just found out about this yesterday. I dropped what i had to do, my work. I manage a company with a lot of employees just to come here today, just to make sure that you know, you have a gem in the Unified School District and i just want to let you guys know that. And reconsider whatever you guys are considering. President walton thank you. Public thank you. President walton we have four cards. Four people are speaking. Public all right. Im ted, class of 2006. Man, i cant believe president walton your name is not up here. Public i filled out a card. President walton next person. Public tinase. President walton did you fill out a card . Public yeah. President walton when . Public i turned it in but president walton we dont have it. Sorry. Next speaker. Public pauline. President walton pauline, youre not on the list. Next speaker. Public im eric. Im a graduate of 2014. And i went to George Washington high school and my first two years let me tell you about a story of myself first. So, my first two years i was really like unsocialized. I dont really talk to many people and after the second year of high school, i start socializing more. And what changed me was this team that really changed how i talked to people and socializing with people more. And that team was led by allen. So, i really inspired of how he taught me a lot of stuff. Like dedication and courage and and after i go and teach me like stuff that i can like prepare for college. And this is my fourth year of college and im really inspired how he did it. Yeah. Thank you. Public i dont know if my name is on the card. President walton youre not on the card. Thank you so much. I can tell you who is on the card. Terry, ruth and jessie. Public hi. My name is terry. I want to tell you about the best teacher i had when i was attending George Washington high school. When i know i was a sophomore, i met mr. Allen in his modern history class. Never thought i could learn so much from a class and at the same time have so much fun as well. Later on, in my senior year, i joined his Dragon Boat Team and i had to learn more about team work because i never joined really any other team when i was in high school. And then i got so attached to him, that after graduating, i also joined his team that he has outside of school. And i have been with him ever since. I was in contact with him outside of school after graduating and im really glad i met him. Thank you. Public hi. Im ruth. I stutter a lot, so im really nervous. Mr. Allen helped me. During my sophomore year he helped me out when i wasnt having that great of a time. He helped me. He was one of the only teachers i could talk to about my problems. [crying] public i also really enjoyed his classes as well. We i know everyone in my class enjoyed the way he teaches because he makes everything fun. He made us enjoy actually going to class. He told us stories and very great anecdotes. He made us feel welcomed. He i can tell that he trusts us like we trust him. Because kind of forgot what i was going to say. But, i really know he kriblts a lot to contributes a lot to the school even though im not part of it. I know he contributes a lot. Especially to dragon boat and he also runs a club as well. So yeah. Thank you. President walton thank you. This closes our Public Comment section for this evening. Section g, special order of business. May i hear a motion and a second to the tentative agreement between San Francisco Unified School District and united educators of San Francisco certi certify certify kated unit. So moved. President walton does it need to read into the record . We have chief of play boar relations, carmelo. Good evening superintendent, commissioners. There were recommended actions id like to read tonight is that the board approve the attached tentative agreement between San Francisco Unified School District and the united educators of San Francisco certificated unit and the related enclosed document. President walton thank you. I dont see any public speakers signed up. Does ue want to [laughter] public anyway, yes. It is kind of like having a baby nine months of hard work and then you have the ta and then you realize theres still work to be done. But here we are a month after we reached an agreement with the district. Our members ratified with a margin of 70 the tentative agreement, which represented a good step forward. It doesnt take care of all the extreme challenges of the affordability crisis here in San Francisco. But we recognize that the district did prioritize educator compensation and also we have a few important improvements to our working conditions and we know this is part of a severalstep process. We have a parcel tax that we already wokking on and later in the aden yeah, you will always agenda, you will be hearing about the districts proposal. Thank you. I look forward to your vote on the ta and look forward to moving forward. President walton thank you. Public good evening commissioners and superintendent matthews. Im susan simon. Executive Vice President of the united educators of San Francisco. I first want to start by offering my condolences to mayor ed hes family. That was lees family. That were certainly shocking and sad news this morning. I want to thank everybody who worked so hard. The members of uesf and the importance of improving education for our students and working conditions for our members. I, too, look forward to the work ahead, including the committees that were formed in the contract that will include for the first time parental involvement. We are really excited about that and we know that we can make those safe and Supportive School policies more real with the work we have ahead of us. Thank you very much. President walton colleagues, any comments . I just want to say on behalf of the board of education, we are excited that we have come to an agreement. Weve all worked hard and we appreciate of course all the members of ue and our educated community as well as the team from the district, mr. Scarlotto under your leadership. It was important for us to get to this place. We know we still have much more work to do in terms of equity in terms of teacher compensation as we move forward. But we are excited that we all can Work Together to come to this agreement. So, thank you for your commitment to our students every day. Thank you for being here this evening and commissioner haney and then commissioner cook. Commissioner haney i want to thank the bargaining team. I know theres a lot of frustration. Theres a lot of pain. Theres a lot of concern about how hard it is to live in this city and afford to be here. And we know that people feel because its a reality that theyre not being paid enough and not getting the support they need. So, for you all to organize to get this done and especially to be able to move us forward, but also get the message so your members that theres more work that needs to be done and done in partnership with the district. At a time there is so much strain, i think it is incredibly impressive. And for your leadership to step out and say, lets move the ball forward. Lets get our members needed raises right now and a commitment for that. But also to say theres more to do. And we are going to Work Together with the district, with the school board to get those additional raises through a parcel tax and by fighting together for additional funding from the state. I think it was really a testament to your leadership. And also the trust from the educators in this district to say, all right, were going to go on a little bit of faith here and trust that this is a step forward that is needed and essential, but also a step in a broader process that we are all going to have to Work Together to get through. I want to thank you for that and i know that theres still more work to do. And ill just say from my perspective that were with you on that. We know that this is an ongoing fight and that this is a huge step forward, but its still not enough. And were going to keep on fighting with you for that. So, thank you and thanks to all of our educators who deserve this and so much more. And were going to keep fighting to make sure that we can do everything we can. Thank you. President walton commissioner cook. Commissioner cook also want to commend the new leadership of uesf and as president and traditions for the leadership at uesf and i want to congratulate you on getting through this first contract. This is my first one too. [laughter] commissioner cook and so, its a trip for me because i mean, as you all know, im here because of the teachers of San Francisco, being a student of this district. And to be able to advocate on behalf of your pay, it was my great honor. It obviously didnt settle on as much as we wanted it to. But as long as im here, im committed to fighting for resources to make sure our educators are well supported. And that includes making having salaries that make it actually affordable for people to live here. Also appreciate the consistent updates from our leadership with the negotiating team. And we have a parcel tax that was passed. So, sign me up. I want to help. [laughter] commissioner cook its on Public Record and its the least i can do honestly. For what our educators are doing on a daly basis is really phenomenal. And you all dont get enough acknowledgment or praise for the transformative work youre doing on a daily basis and i want to see us honor that work by continuing to push for higher pay for our teachers. So, this is a great first step and i look forward to working with you more in the future. President walton commissioner maurase. Thank you. I do want to say i dont think we are there yet. We are not paying teachers as much as i would like. Our educators feed to be able to live in the city, need to be able to make ends meet. But, im very glad that weve gotten to where we have in terms of an agreement. Weve basically done the best that we could and i really appreciate the collaboration with the uesf leadership. And one of the things ill proud of in the agreement is new language and i think the board, the district, myself, were always open to learning new things and the cig firefighter chance of significance of language. And i think that is definitely the spirit of this agreement, that we are open and willing to learn and change our ways and really support each other. Thank you. President walton commissioner sanchez. Commissioner sanchez i want to thank carmelo and your team for your diligent work. Uesf for your phenomenal work getting more than i actually thought would happen. When i first ran for school board in 2000, we were asked how much teachers get paid and i venture to say at the time 60,000. So, that was 60,000 back in 2000. So if you adjust to todays rates, maybe thats 80,000 or more. I think teachers should be starting at least 80,000 in San Francisco. And we are nowhere near that with this agreement, but this is a big step forward and im really proud of all of us for keeping at it. We have a lot more work to do as other commissioners have referenced. We have to work on this parcel tax together. Sign me up as well. Ill be there with you. And we have to work for the state. The light at the end of this very, very long tunnel is reforming prop 13 so that educators across the state can get the compensation they deb serve deserve for the very hard work being performed in the classrooms every day. We are not near there, but we have to Work Together to get there. I want to thank you again uesf. Im very proud of you. President walton commissioner norton. Commissioner norton i just want to add my congratulations and thanks to my colleagues and to all of you. As president blanc said, it was a long labor, but we got there. And i also agree that its not enough. But its something and im glad that we have an agreement, that there are that there will be a significant increase for our educators through this contract. And im all in for passing a parcel tax and increasing the resources that we have to go towards compensation. So, very excited to vote for the tentative agreement tonight. President walton superintendent, why not. [laughter] just wanted to thank staff and our leadership of our union and unions for the contracts that have been passed, ratified and are coming before the board. Takes hard work to get to this point and just a deep appreciation on my behalf as a superintendent, but also on the behalf of the children and families in San Francisco. So, thank you all for your hard work and dedication for making this happen. President walton roll call im sorry. I just wanted to say throughout this whole process, studenting have been following along attentively and at the sacc meetings we had students bring up this concern because they felt like it was achthing them as wellment affecting them as well. And we are happy you all have reached an agreement. And we realize theres still work to be done but we are glad we have been able to reach something. We hope you will all continue to support our peers in the future. President walton ms. Casco roll call. Ms. Casco thank you. Mr. Cook. Commissioner cook yes. Ms. Casco mr. Haney. Commissioner haney yes. Ms. Casco six eyes. President walton thank you. We got it done. [applause] president walton at the risk of rustling a few feathers, i misplaced four cards. So, we have four parents who wish to speak. Marianna montoya, Elizabeth Castro smith and issa and you have two minutes to speak. And again accept my apologies. I didnt mean to skip over your cards. Public thank you. Good evening. Im a teacher and im one of the two being affected by this move we were given less than two weeks to be told that you have to move. But my main concern is the safety of my students. I teach first grade. Weer on the ground floor. They are doing a great job every fire drill. Just walk straight out the door. It is very close. They want to move us to the second floor. Ive seen first graders fall downstairs many times without being pushed or accidentally bumped into. They just fall because they are six. So, im very concerned that every fire drill and every hopefully never a fire. But every fire drill or potential fire there could be kids falling down the stairs. They fall anyway, but add to that the sound of the fire drill and i think they get excited easily. And im worried about them trampling each other. We are also very close to the main office. We would be moved to the furthest classroom away from the main office where theres no teacher next door. Theres a conference room, which seems to never be used and theres no other teacher on the other side and theres nothing on the opposite of us. So, we would never have any adults, where we are now. If theres another kind of emergency, god for bid. There was a shooting last forbid. There was a shooting in another school. We are very far away from other adults during an emergency that could potentially help us. We are very upset about the loss of teaching time for our students. Theres no way theres not going to be interruptions when they have to have a sub all of a sudden. They do the best they can, but they dont teach as much as regular Classroom Teachers do. They just cant do as much. So, it is very disruptive for the students. They are very sad about it. They dont want to move. Were in a room that is designed for first graders and we are expected to move into a classroom that is designed for third graders or older. Neither one of the teachers wants to change rooms. Im really upset i know we talk about the achievement gap. Latino test scores have to be brought up. The two classrooms affected are latino classrooms. 44 students will be disrupted for more than just the four days we are being allocated. President walton thank you. Public it is just not fair to our latino students. Thank you. Public good evening. Im the School Social worker. And im here to advocate for my students and also in solidarity with my colleagues and the families who are concerned about the sudden request to move classrooms. Our school is one of the Elementary Schools with the highest rate of students qualifying for reduced lunch. We are heavily impacted by replacement and also with many families being impacted by homelessness and being doubled and tripled up. So, given this context, our families are very concerned about the disruption in our childrens learning. And were just hoping that if it cant be stopped, were looking to you for leadership and resources to try to lessen the impacts on the achievement and success of our students and also hoping that teachers can be compensated for time worked outside of contract hours to make this change for our community if its necessary. Thank you so much. [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] translator give. Im representing other families. We are very opposed to this change because we feel our first grade students will not be safe where they are being moved to on the second floor. If we are needing to change, we ask the same rights that would be provided to marshall elementary be provided to moscone elementary and why the first grade classrooms will be moved and the other two are staying on the first floor and we find that possibly a form of discrimination. I have concerns about safety because i dont see enough exits on the second floor and my child being in first grade would have to go down the stairs. My son ask that i please ask you not to move his classroom. Thank you very much. [end of translation] president walton do we have one mr. Speaker or not . No . Okay. Public the other parent couldnt come. President walton thank you. Back to section g, special order of business. May i hear a motion and a second to the tentative agreement between San Francisco Unified School District and united educators of San Francisco classified unit professionals, superintendent please have someone introduce the recommendation to the record. Chief of play labor relations. So, the recommended action that id like to propose is to approve the attached tentative agreement between San Francisco Unified School District and united educators of San Francisco, classified unit paraeducators, paraprofessionals and related public december closure document. Disclosure document. President walton thank you, mr. Scarlotto. Did we get to hear all the Public Comment . Thank you so much. [applause] [laughter] president walton that means i assume my colleagues . Same thing . Ditto. All right. We need a motion. We already had a motion. Or we were supposed to. Let me get a motion. So moved. Second. President walton thank you commissioner maurase. Roll call vote please. Ms. Casco thank you. Ms. Lynn. Mr. Cook. Mr. Haney . Ms. Mendoza mcdonnell, dr. Maurase . Ms. Norton, mr. Sanchez, five ayes. President walton thank you so much. Motion and a second to the adoption of the Instructional Calendar for 201819 school year. Thank you. The recommend action the board adopt the 20182019 calendar. Whip there are no speakers signed up. Just a question. We are not going to get a lot of emails from people saying that we conflicted with everything that is important to them . No. We have not made any radical changes this year. We tried to keep it, you know, pretty normal now. The new normal. The only change is the one day shift in the calendar. But it resembles exactly the calendar we had this year. President walton thank you. Roll call vote please, massachusetts casco. Ms. Casco thank you. Many mims, mr. Cook, mr. Haney, mendoza mcdonnell, dr. Maurase, ms. Norman, mr. Sanchez and mr. Walton. Thats six ayes. President walton may i hear a motion and a second for the adoption of the uesf balance score card single plan for student achievement. So moved. Second. President walton thank you superintendent. Please call someone to read the recommendation in the record. We have mr. Castro, our director of state and federal programs. Thank you commissioners. Requested action is that the board of education of the sfufd a the San Francisco Unified School District 2018 score card single plans for student achievement. President walton thank you. There are no public speakers signed up. Any statements or comments from colleagues . Seeing none, roll call vote please. Ms. Casco thank you. Mr. Cook, mr. Haney, ms. Mendoza mcdonnell, dr. Maurase, ms. Norton, mr. Sanchez and mr. Walton. Six ayes. President walton thank you. May i hear a motion and second for the Education Advisor Committee Appointment . So moved. Second. President walton thank you. Superintendent, can we have someone to read the recommendation in the record. Yes. We have chief of curriculum brent stevens. With the tone in your voice, im not sure that i am the chief [laughter] im going to pass the baton very quickly to director in our College Career readiness office, mr. Eric rice. Okay. President walton thank you, dr. Stevens. There are no speakers signed up for Public Comments. Any comments requested from colleagues . Commissioner maurase. One concern i wanted to flag is the ethics breakdown. I want to make sure all of our committees are representative of the students we serve and there doesnt appear to be quite so many Asian Americans on there council. So, i hope that as openings come up, we can be mindful of the students that were serving. We appreciate that. Thank you. President walton thank you. Any other comments . Seeing none, roll cal vote, please. Ms. Casco thank you. Mr. Cook, mr. Haney, ms. Mendoza mcdonnell, dr. Maurase, ms. Norton, mr. Sanchez, mr. Walton. Six ayes. President walton thank you. May i have a motion and second to compensation philosophy and salary increases for unrepresented confident and Management Employees . So moved. Second. President walton and who do we have reading the recommendation into the record . Our chief of play boar relations, carmelo scarlotto. Good evening. Approve to come prehencive compensation philosophy and salary increases for unrepresented confident and Management Employees. President walton thank you mr. Scarlotto. There are no public speakers signed up. Any comments from colleagues . Seeing none, roll call vote, please ms. Casco. Ms. Casco mr. Lynn, ms. Cook, mr. Haney, dr. Maurase, ms. Norton, mr. Sanchez, mr. Walton. Six ayes. President walton thank you ms. Casco. We have two issues this evening. Superintendent. The first item is our modified consent decree. This is the annual report on English Learners and the staff will be presenting is special assistant to me, the superintendent, ms. Christina wong. Good evening commissioners. We do have a Powerpoint Presentation for you tonight. And everyone should also have a copy of the powerpoint in their packet. So, this is the an yule annual lau report. In this report, it includes over 200 documents covering el demographic achievement data, staffing data, professional development records, el placement guidelines, translation of materials and transzlation interpretation translation interpretation guidelines and records. All of these files and records are in alignment to how were performing and providing based on the lau modified consent decree. And it looks at how well we are and our effectiveness of establishing our system of support for English Learners. So, the first slide is around data. We have in 201617 a little over 14,000 English Learners and 60 languages represented. Our spanish and cantonese population continue to be the major language groups. We are noticing in the last couple of years that the number of cantonese speaking els has decreased why the Spanish Speaking els is continuing to climb. For the percentage of special education English Learners, we have over 2,600 English Learners with i. E. Ps and we broke it down in the interest of previous presentation by pathway so you can get a sense of how many English Learners are within the pathways. Spanish had the most percentage, but included here are the numbers so that you can see how many English Learners within each pathway and the total number of English Learners to achieve the percentage that you approximately 50 of the els gained at least one level and this is broken down pathway with numbers included in each of the pathway count for by level as well. For the percentage of students who scored standard met and above on the ela literacy, we are looking closely at our Spanish Speaking el as well as the cantonese speaking els and comparing to all of the state els which is comprised of 83 . So, we are still outperforming in terms of our els population outperforming the state. But we are still concerned about the gap between the cantonese speaking els and Spanish Speaking els. For the reclassification by language pathway, the district total has continued to decrease in the last three years. And we are looking at our systems and protocols to see whether our forms are not being submitted, are their reminders that are necessary. But also at the chooefrment. Like achievement. Are their students ready for reclassification but they are certain Barriers Holding them back . And we are asking sides to take a closer look at what is holding them back and to provide the necessary supports and interventions to support students. In some cases, its a matter of available assessment