Our program if there is a threat to our coming now. Our program tha that is how it s cultural rehavent to collectively thousands of students and hundreds of families in 18 years. We are all here because we leave in our program. We have seen the act to our community. Because of our program ournewal immigrants from the philippines ar. Our english language learners are getting the support they need. They are learning the filipino angwage and culture while develops the emotional schools and learning about their identities as filipino and fil l opinion notice africanamerican the. There are a there are a lot of homeless, exposed to violence and abuse and trauma. How does the board of education serving the needs of the students . How do we all respect. That is coming from the students. Good evening. I am alexis. I am a mother. You heard my son, emery, speak earlier. I am a School District employee as a School Social worker. I was formerly pat malcolm x academy. I have transitioned with a trooper visor for the district. We heard and what we are hearing our babies, families want to be seen and heard. We also heard from a mother that she was the young person that wanted to end her life. She was hospitalized. I will also share in this last we have morn than two deaths due to suicide in San Francisco. One was an employee the district. If i want to ask this clearly. Obviously, we want to be seen and heard. We want to be acknowledged. We want to understand it was birth from community selfdetermines. As a district we look at what to do to serve our students. We have been the one we have been waiting about all this time. Again, we dont understand as educators, why would you take something away that works . Why would you take it for english learnerners. Malcolm x talks about education. Concerning nonviolence i it is criminal to teach him not to defend himself when he is the common time. It is taking time in its culture. It can never be fully itself. Please respond to the families and communities. Sorry. You are over time. That concludes the names that i have read for Public Comment. Turn the mic back on. Good evening. I am theresa. Please support the program. Please for my children. Please hear our voices for my children. They are crying every night. I am sorry. Thank you. I am director. Good evening to all of you. Happy history month. You know, i want to say as the parent to three kids that went to Betsy Carmichael, i am very proud of this program and proud of my kids. My eldest is at uc davis. She is about to take her proficiency language exam to test out of the requirements because she had the benefit of emersion at Betsy Carmichael and from the program and the parents and staff and teachers that have been there for a long time. She is able to be raised by the city. Now for the first time San Francisco is recognizing the filipino community. We have been there 100 years and we have been pushed around in those 100 years. We know the city is partnering to preserve longterm communities impacted by the development that does not serve our community. At the heart is how do we support these communities and prevent displacement and the programs the community relies on. Iit is almost hard to believe in this period when the program is to have stronger collab berratives foreign chanced services for at risk communities. You have an 18 yearold plan. It is a cut from the cultural relevance program so they face a language aspect. It is really not just about well the fact that the Program Funds has been cut by more than half. Back to education. It is cut to half, butted it is also actually. You are out of time. Any other general Public Comment . Seeing none. Okay, come on up. Good evening. I am gail flynn. My talk is i in response to vehicles to drive home from School Without certified drivers. I have been a School Bus Driver for 18 years and mother of a severely mentality disabled son. I am against the idea of transporting children, especially special Needs Children in zoom plans. They would have no safety training. School buses are by far the safest mode of transportation. They are regulated by state laws and must follow Safety Standards such as rollover protection and the red light system for loading and unloading. School bus driver is some of the most highly trained in the state. Thymuses go through 20 hours of training. I have to teach out of a manual by the San Francisco department of education. It covers laws, rules and regulations. The vehicle components, unloading and loading. Passenger management. Children with disabilities. Then we have to teach a minimum of 20 hour training in the behind the wheel guide. Once they are through that they take an extensive test with the highway patrol. They must get 10 hours of training each year. School bus drivers are professionals. We train hard putting children in nonconforming zoom bans is a disaster. They are not equipped to safely transport children. Thank you. [applause. ] i have been a School Bus Driver for this School District for 34 years. Many have commented on the transportation r. F. P. And raised concerns for home school transportation. I would like to bring up additional concern regarding the heavy use of technology on the buses. R. F. P. Calls for five four g Live Streaming video and audio cameras inside and outside. It also calls for rfid or similar readers to be electronically registered. Buses have live tracking software. Tablets, Digital Radio and other technological equipment. The contractors that bid on the r. F. P. Have to factor in the costs of the technology. It is hard to see how this l save money. It seems the district could ride on the difficult routes and work with the children have been problems instead every according and monitoring them. They are required for 10 of the buses have cameras. When there is a problem a camera bus is used. It is a better use of district funds to hire aids. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you. That concludes Public Comment on section d. Advisory Committee Reports and apappointments. We have a report from the parent advisory council. Good evening. I have children at tenderloin elementary school. Good evening. I have an 11yearold daughter in fifth grade. Tonight we are going to present a report to the board of education. The role of the parents is two. Understand the voices and inform the education policy discussions. This report includes updates on the transition in the staffing of the pack. Our work to establish the priority for the year and our plans to support the engagement for the 20192020 school year. It makes sense to extend the status for the remainder of the school year. The reasons for this include that the work of the school year has already begun and michelle is engaged in several projects. The position should be determined by all to beginning the recertainly processes. The pack will pick up these at our next meeting. At the seoul meeting we celebrated we have looked at initiatives ongoing and considered new projects this year. At our october meeting we examined leadership styles and we identified the project we will focus on for this school year as well as who is leading those efforts. It includes community building. In collaboration with the research and planning and assessment department, educators from the Teachers Union and representatives to support the lomcontrol. Other issues include nutrition, transportation. Especially for the latinx students. We will support the parent engagement to the redesign of the system. They are interested in attendance, equitable fundraising. Teacher retention, available Court Options at the secondary school level and the emotional house of our students. The possibility of a schools psy. Site. The enrollment fair on october 19. This is the first event of the year and we encourage families to stop by to learn more about the pack and what we do and how to get involved in helping. Addvoy indicate and leader for your children and all students in s. F. U. S. D. Our next meeting will be hell on wednesday from 5 45 p. M. To 8 00 p. M. I am here thanking. The packs appointee to the Advisory Committee will give us an update on the work of the committee. Pack meetings are open and all are women coming. Our provided with an rsvp. Thank you for your report. Questions or comments . Have a good evening. Are there appointments to Advisory Committees by the board . Section e. Can i have a motion on the consent calendar. So moved. Second. Second. Any items withdrawn regarding the superintendent . None. Any items sepveried by discussion of vote. Seeing none. Thank you. Ms. Collins and ms. Lamb, thank you. Ms. Lopez. Discussion and vote on consent calendar resolutions. There are none tonight. G is action. Three board policies for approval. If i dont hear any objections from colleagues we will take one vote on all three. They are bored policy 36175 migrant education program. 5132. 5146. Very pregnant students. All moved and seconded at prior board meeting. We had a report from the rules committee on october 7th. Did you have a meeting on that . Yes. We will forward with a positive recommendation. Do you have a recommendation for the record . The general counsel. The recommendation for all three policies is that the board adopt the policy as submitted. They were all taken up by the rules committee as commissioner sanchez shade on october 7th and forwarded with a positive recommendation with general consent. Thank you. We have one speaker on 5146. If you are here, come to the podium. Heidi. You have two minutes. Thank you to the board and ththe administration bringing ts policy forward tonight. I have had the privilege of working with this population of students for the last 14 years. I have seen the strugglings, hardships and barriers for the parents to attempt regular. I am grateful we are naming these issues and developing policies in place. As a young mom myself, it is important that we see the mom who someones had these struggles i can people to the program of these programs to support the Young Students so they can further their education to higher learning. Thank you very much. Any comments from the board or superintendent . Roll call vote. roll call . Five eyes. Five as. May i hear a motion and appointment of the Advisory Committee for special education. Roberta havens, naheed misfeldt, heidi palomera and meghan potente. Can i have a motion and second to the appointment. So moved. Second. [please stand by] good evening, commissioners. We are really excited as the. To be re presenting their members. The way that our bylaws work is that after someone has attended multiple meetings. Im sorry good idea otherwise ill keep going. After members have attended two consecutive meetings they can apply for membership and that we bring them forward to you for approval, for ratification. Its already an immense task to be a parent of a student with special needs or support our community as an advocate. We are exceptionally grateful to our partners, family empowerment on the other Advisory Committees. We are pushing our members, i mean, membership is enough, but as you heard tonight we are pushing our members to be here and to speak, and to talk to you about the issues that they are passionate about. Hopefully he will be hearing a lot more from us this year. We would love to see all of you at our upcoming meetings as well. Our next meeting is october 24 at support for families. It starts at 6 00 or 6 30 depending on if you want to get there early. Our topic will be supports for students with dyslexia. If you need more information about any of our meetings they are on our website. Thank you. [applause] great. [roll call] congratulations. Thank you. Discussion of other educational issues. Dr. Matthews . Yes, tonight we will have the presentation of our district native summary and the california dashboard local members. This will be done by our chief of research, planning and assessment. Good evening, commissioners, superintendent and members of the public. This is our annual presentation on summarizing all of the local accountability metrics for the year 20182019. This is data that schools and Central Office have already reviewed and are acting on. I will be presenting today with district colleagues who can make connections between the practices as they relate to these outcomes, and discuss actions they are implementing after reviewing this data. To parallel the data we want to begin by showing you demographic or enrollment trend prek12. Student enrollment at sfusd has continued to be approximately 53,000, in the last three years on the subgroups have also been study in their proportions. The prek enrollment for the 2018 school year was 1570 students. Charter schools independently report their data showed an enrollment of 3633 students. Just like this slide, most slides in the presentation will report of Additional Details related to that metric. We are going to look at our spec data. Our five year trend has risen to 50 of our students meeting or exceeding grade level standards. The tranfour most of our pope populations has been an upward trend slightly decreasing the achievement gap. We see larger gains and proficiencies in our africanamerican students, specifically at the secondary and middle school levels. We attribute those gains to a focus on literacy as well as some targeted plans for those particular set subgroup. [reading notes] we definitely think our plan raising awareness of the needs of these focal students gave schools an additional tools to address them. And our work as a central team coming together to align our support and resources for these students. As we think about our district compared to the state, as this graphic shows we are higher than the state. Africanamerican students we are 12 lower in the state in e. L. A. And some lower in math. Though we have in the previous lives, we celebrate growth and an upward trend. We know this is not enough. We are not satisfied and we have to do more. I wanted to highlight for you a couple of bright spots across our district. First highlighting that there are bright spots across our district and across grades bands. No longer do we, the schools here in the schools there. It is representative of schools across the district. We are representative excited about that. These schools have shown doubledigit growth, and are more for consecutive years in upward trend sent from 201617 up to 201819. Another bright spot related to schools that we have increased the number of schools that have 75 or more of their students meeting or exceeding standards. It was nine in 1718 and it is now 121819 school year. Twelve schools in our district have an efficiency rate about 75 in both areas. These are bright spots for performance trends. Adele might cut my colleague will highlight a pitch school and share with you the data story. Good evening. Presidio middle school is a pitch school that narrowed the achievement gap as an equity gap school, their theory of action centered around providing opportunities for teachers to be in a professional learning community that focused on equity and how it connects to the instructional practices in the classroom. In parallel, they also focused on lifting the voices of the africanamerican students by conducting empathy interviews learning their supports to ensure that africanamerican students have individual learning plan that focuses on achievement and sense of belonging. For example this can be seen in students to be in in a black literacy collective in the africanamerican book club to having a mentor that they connected with. In addition, professional development on equity and professional development on literacy was given at the same time. In addition, again i want to stress that the students were lifted and celebrated. You can see for africanamerican students that they gap narrowed by 11 in e. L. A. And 5 in math. To date currently, they share they are continuing to go deeper in their work they are continuing to participate in equity through the creating braves bases training. They are continuing to attend the deeper learning conference and they are continuing to hone in on literacy strategies connected to the eld framework. As we move to High School Readiness and indicator that middle school is tracked further eighth graders local measure is High School Readiness which is defined on the slide to the right. A student is High School Ready if they meet to the following criteria in eighth grade. The gpa that is greater than 2. 5, no ds or fs in ela or mathematics. Attendance that is 95 no suspensions in eighth grade. In 201516, 1896 sfusd students that met this criteria were High School Ready. The answer ninth grade and i am proud to say that 94 of those students graduated this year. An indicator that high schools track for the incoming ninth graders is an Early Warning indicator. Eighth grade attendance, less than 87. 5 and a gpa that is less than 2. 0. In the same year 1516 there were 477 students that were identified with these Early Warning indicators that were at risk of graduating. More than one third, 30 per 7 of them graduated from sfusd in 201819. The state approves that High School Readiness is an indicator and it is highly predictive for graduation success. Therefore it motivates our effort in the middle grades to have more students in eighth grade that are High School Ready. As we move and look at the adjusted Graduation Rate which i mention in the previous slide. The state adjusted Graduation Rate which is calculated in 201617 resulted in the district and other districts in the state dropping between 13 . The state change it so slightly. The increase noted this year can be compared to the Previous Year. Graduation rate for sfusd in 1718 was 85. 5 . The good news is that africanamerican Graduation Rate has maintained at 77 and the rate moved from 70 74 . We are proud to say that all subgroups in sfusd either remain the same or increased in their Graduation Rate. Good evening commissioners. I am on chronic absenteeism. It continues to increase across all grade levels and remains a high priority for schools, departments and divisions across the district. Strategies to increase student attendance are being developed based on research and practice such as strengthening attendance at data systems, learning climates, meeting students and family needs and nurturing partnerships. In combination with the absenteeism data, suspension rates unfortunately still remain high for africanamerican students and Pacific Islander students prayed for africanamerican students at has decreased slightly whereas for Pacific Islander students at has increased slightly. Providing a yearlong professional learning community for designated leads at schools. The plc is importing supporting up limitation at school sites. Schoolwide positive behavior intervention since systems and implementing alternative to suspensions part of the behavior matrix while creating a safe and supportive culture and climate. [reading notes] the growth mindset question, i can change my intelligence with hard work, received 66 favorable rating among students who are chronically absent versus 74 favorable rating among others that were not chronically absent. On the selfmanagement question i can change my intelligence with hard work, we saw an increasing variable favorable rating is the grade level increased. Further there was a 20 from africanamerican students versus white students. It was 49 for africanamerican students versus 69 for white students. During the past 30 days, how well did you get along with students who are different from you . We saw a difference in the favorability rating for student 63 , versus non el l students. Finally, on the fourth construct, the self advocacy question. I can meet all of the learning received a 49 favorable rating among students who are chronically absent versus a 59 favorable rating among students who were not. Furthermore, there was a 17 difference in favorability rating for africanamerican students and 53 versus white students at 70 . The culture and Climate Survey also asks people to self report on school color chiller culture and climate. [reading notes] another question, knowledge and unfairness of disciplinary rules. Rules in this school or make clear to students. A decrease in favorable as the grade level increased. Another safety question. How safe do you feel when youre at school . There was a 10 different in favorability rating of africanamericans versus white students. They belonging questioning. [reading notes] good evening. The fall 2019 california dashboard which is the california accountability model will be released in mid decemb december. The california dashboard reports on the ten Priority Areas listed here. Seven of these Priority Areas include a local measure, basic conditions at school as measured by the williams act. Measure of state academic standards. Parent engagement, which measures are seeking input from parents, promoting parental inspiration programs. Administration of the local Climate Survey. We just saw the results of access to a broad course of study and then only applying to county office for expelled students on services for foster youth. The local measures are more qualitative in nature and regularly address the board of education at committee meetings. Our identified needs and our annual measure related to these local indicators are reported to the board of education through the l up plan each spring undergo three starting on page 173 of volume one of the 201920 budget book. As a result im am here tonight to report that we have met the state board of education requirements to measure and report on these local indicato indicators. Results will be shared officially to the public in mid. Lastly, in communication data. We do have communication with families through our website. Each school has the highlights of the data that was just presented. The new data for the 1819 is loaded on every schools page so you can find it if you just follow the links right there. Also you will see that all other data that you would like links to, the pages are loaded there, these are the California Department of Education Resources that give you data on various things from demographics to statistics of test scores. We also do a lot of communication and use of data among schools. Each School Receives a newsletter that they can use to communicate the results of their school on all of the measures that were presented tonight. As well as we have one on one conferences that we have done over 55 of those, you know, with the schools and teams on reflecting back on the assets of last year on the practices from last year and how they connect to the outcomes. As well as looking ahead as to what their plans are and what the areas of opportunity are. Thank you. Thank you to my colleagues for presenting. Thank you. Any questions . They will be presented later when the file dashboard comes. What they do for our schools as we do productions of the dashboard which is going to be released in december. They are already public. As far as i can tell. They do say preliminary on them. It sounds like you are not ready to present on the last few slides . Certainly we can speak to them if youre interested. Technically, it is projected data. It is okay to release. While we are doing the planning, we did remove it from the presentation site. Certainly we would be happy to speak. I dont have them projected here right now. Im not sure the best way should i go to board docs and pull it up . Are you guys okay if i dont project it while we talk about it. I can pull it up on board docs area. Loaded up on board docs. I have been sitting with her parents and educators who are experts in special education. One of the questions that was asked of the students is causing some pain actually. One thing that students were asked to fill in, if i work harder, i will be more successful, i will improve. For kids with ieps are working as hard as they can with theyre being told is to work harder and they will do better. I just saw faces fall when they repeated that. We need to think about students who are trying as hard as they can and still might not get the scores they are looking for. Thank you. [applause] this is the california accountability Continuous Improvement system. They call it the school dashboard. John presented today, all of the local indicators those were qualitative and they have been presented to the qualitative indicators which i listed for you. Those results as you can see in the righthand corner are projected by the district and they will be released officially middecember by the state. The measures that will be released will be high school Graduation Rate, suspension, english learner progress. This is a new measure and has replaced the re designations, so now we call it the English CollegeCareer Readiness and lastly chronic absenteeism. On these measures you can get a school that ranges all the way from red to blue, what they call performance letters. Performance level is looked at with two lenses. Also the goals you made from the Previous Year to the next year. The difference from prior years under the label change, and your current performance, or your current status is on the vertical axis. You can see it could be a school that has very low performance. Again, increased in its growth from the Previous Year would again have a color of yellow. The example of the english language that we shared with our schools. This is an example of the district, this aggregates the subgroups within the district. You know indexes really small, but this aggregates all of the ethnic groups on all of the Program Groups in the district, and tells you what their performance color is in english language. As you heard earlier, the homeless on foster youth were doing well in terms of growth. The other groups that showed improvement. On the other hand you see Pacific Islanders on the lefthand side which shows that they did not make code. Pacific islanders as well as students with disabilities. Those were the groups that did not show growth and that is an area for us to improve on. The last thing that you see within that slide our targets. We have given each Group Targets as to what the targets should be for the next coming year, or for this year. Thank you for the presentation. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . Im going to handed over to comments from commissioners. Vice president sanchez . Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. On that last slide can you give us a couple of examples of the current status on the target status and what it means. For example, just use africanamerican current statuses, negative 78. 5 and then the target status is negative 63. 5. The targets that were determined by sfusd is that every single subgroup will reach at least the yellow colors. We will have at least increased or increased significantly in order to really have a target that is satisfactory. Most of the targets were determined by you moving up one level at least. Or at least reaching the yellow color. In terms of performance. Youre just saying english Language Arts but the schools have all of the other measures, mouth, attendance as well as suspension. If you can go back to slide nine. The question i have is, are these students in any of these groupings, is this a four year cohort or is it just the senior class . For asian students 94 graduation out of 100 . Is that 94 of the senior class or is that 94 of the ninthgrade class that made it all the way through . Cohort Graduation Rate matches students that began, and students that graduated four years later. It is a calculation determined by the state, and they can trace students no matter where they are. Cohort Graduation Rate is a student that completes a degree in four years. That would mean, for the district as a whole, 86 of the seniors that graduated this ye year, that is a four year cohort. That means 86 has graduated in four years . Yes. Do we calculate dropout rate or is that just basically saying that 14 dropped out . The dropout rate is slightly different. There is other categories. You can be a 50 year graduate. You can be a special education. You can receive a special education degree of completion. I can look it up while the rest of us are talking. I dont have it memorized. But i can find it. Thank you. Slide ten on chronic absenteei absenteeism. I dont know if we have this before. Do we actually survey families of students that are chronically absent . You are smiling. Is that a yes . I am interested because obviously this is a huge issue for this district we have been grappling with it for a while. We are pretty much throwing everything out the wall to see if it sticks. I want to know we are talking to families and documenting what families are saying. For africanamerican families, does the chronic absenteeism for African Americans students has gone up to 39 . It was 30 the year before that. Nine points in two years. Have we made it a point to talk to africanamerican families and Pacific Islander families and ask these pertinent questions and then actually track that data . We dont have a standardized approach right now. Its making me think there might be some things we can look at looking at the data like we looked at some of the data on the students in the cultured climate data and what they answered whether they were chronically absent or not. We are not able to do that with the parent surveys if those folks are even completing the surveys. We have done a lot of stakeholder interviews. We may not be reaching the parents of the students who are chronically absent. I think were going to have to think through, strategize and has been something that is coming up more, we are trying to figure out what is the mechanism by which we would reach those. I do appreciate looking out the satisfaction surveys. We are seeing a really high chronic absenteeism rate prek and kindergarten. If i were doing this i would say lets start looking at kindergartners at least, those families are reaching out to them. Those are going to be the same kids in fourth and fifth grade are not going to school. I know the Early Department is doing work around prek but im not familiar with it. And kindergarten that is one of the strategies that we are trying to adopt a more preventative strategy