Through fifth grade. They will give an update on the committees work so far. It is open to the public. All are welcome. Food and child care are provided. If you have any questions or comments about the report, please contact us at 415 3552201 extension 1571. Or visit our website www. Park sf. Org. Thank you. Any questions from Board Members . Commissioner lopez. I was wondering about the report and how we can get it available online. That is a very good question. I can provide those and they can be put o on the website. I send it to everybody. That will be fine. I have minor corrections, things i learned about late. I will send a corrected version. I just also wanted to know. I want to make sure has a board we are sharing. There is a lot of stuff going on in the district. We are working on different initiatives, but i want to make sure we are doing a good job of sharing with you to gather input when we are considering new resolutions. Also, if you are interested in topics, i want to make sure we are available. I wonder how we might, you know, sometimes we are working on different streams. I wanted to get thoughts from you on how we might know about your priorities and communicate about things we have priorities to make sure we include opportunities for families. For Public Record i am the coordinator for the pac. We identified the priorities in our meeting minutes. I would be happy to provide a list. I work closely with many of the projects and things happening. One of the best ways is to say, hey, if you are aware of something. We are working on this and i didnt see anything about the pac or are you aware this is going on . One question. I want to make sure i am communicating with all of the pacs. They are the different leadership groups. I would love to be able to just there are times when i want to hear from families, and it would be nice to message out to the coordinators of the drips to say, hey, we want to chime in and you know to reach out. You are not going to know projects brewing before they come before the board. There are certain once that are parent oriented. I would love broader input from parent leaders. I asked if we could put together a list of the point people for the pacs and have an email group so any of us thinking about something with a direct impact on families we can make sure to share it out and say, hey, let them know this is what i am working on. I am open to sharing more or getting more information. That is definitely no problem. I believe we sent the list out earlier this fall. I can resend it to make sure you have the coordinators. Is it possible to have a group . As we add pacs as coordinators change that gets confusing. If there is a way to kind of i dont know. A system to send it to one place or send it to you to make sure it goes to all of those folks. I will look into that any appointments to advisory committees by the board . Thank you all. Good night. [applause] we have approval of members to the newly established world Language Council. Can i have a motion for adoption. So moved. Second. Doctor matthews you have a designee . Yes, the Program Administrator will be reading this into the record. Good evening, i am a Program Administrator. The world Language Council was approved in 2018 by the board. Under the guidance of the chief academic officer we have been recruiting members of the community and teachers to represent the languages we have programs for here in San Francisco. We are to present this roster for approval tonight. We have no public comment. Any comments from the board or superintendent. Any opportunities for community. I dont know if the lists. I dont know if this is a new group. Yes. If those could be included on the lest. We have so many parent advisory and student advisory committees. It would be great to always keep those in mind when we are sharing that information. It is going to the folks volunteering to support our work. Thank you. I am excited this council is coming together. It is many years in the making. I think of the parents and students. For many years i worked with English Proficient families this is a really important way for families and students to be involved and an opportunity to look at the future of the pathways programs at the district to solidify the vision and ultimately the implementation and success of those programs. Thank you. Seeing no other comments. Roll call vote. roll call . Seven eyes. Section e. Consent calendar. Motion. Second. Do we have any items withdrawn by the superintendent . No. Any items by the board . Seeing none. Roll call vote. roll call . That is seven eyes. Section f that is seven eyes. Section f. Discussion and vote on consent calendar items severed for separate consideration. There are no items tonight. G. Proposals for action. Superintendents proposal authorization to grant or in alternative deny renewal petition for Kipp Bayview Academy. 2. Superintendents proposal. Authorization for grant or in the alternative deny the renewal petition for kippsf bay academy. You have seen the staff report and agenda. Do you want to read the recommendation into the record . Michael davis the director of policy planning and Charter School. Thank you. We have the recommendations for the two kipp middle schools. First is the kipp bayview Charter School. Authorization to grant or deny the application pursuant to code section 47607 the kipp bay area schools submitted the petition for renew alto the School District and pursuant to 47605 the board of education received the renewal petition on september 24, 2019. The district shall comply with timelines and action as required by law and the board of education shall consider the public support and shall review all information received with respect to the recommendation and the district superintendent and staff completed the review and issued the record and recommendation to the board of education regarding the review. Be it resolved they shall grant or deny the petition subject to the requirements set forth by law. The superintendents proposal and board of Education Report for Kipp Bayview Academy charter the staff recommends approval every pool for k of the approval for five years beginning july 1, 2020 and ending june 30, 2025 to serve 325 students grades 5 through 8. We have the same superintendents proposal for the bay Academy Charter school with same provisions and the board of Education Report and recommendation is approval of renewal of the kipp bay Academy Charter. Staff recommends approval for the Academy Charter school at 1430 scott street for five years beginning july 1, 2020 and ends june 30, 2025 to serve 388 students in grades 5 through 8. We have speakers that have signed up for public comment. When you hear your name called make your way to the podium. You have two minutes. Ellen bray, kelly valentine. Walker, evans, mendez, mark cruise, woodson, christina, el louise and fisher. Goo good evening, trustees. I am ellen bray, principal of kipp San Francisco bay academy. I am a resident of San Francisco. I am proud of the families and students and colleagues we meet the application. Since 2003 our school has had a strong commitment to the Community Working with the city. Many of them are here tonight. I ask them to stand up. applause . Despite the rapidly changing landscape of the city it is a constant. Student population has remained stable. 84 qualify for free and reduced lunch. 32 are english language learners. Kipps academic performance is with or higher than state schools. They are prepared for high school. Over the last five years we demonstrated growth we will continue to improve. Thank you for taking into account the perspectives to renew our petition. [applause] good evening, commissioners. I am kelly valentine. I am a resident southeast San Francisco. I am honored to serve as educator in the community in which i live. Over the course of the last five years, i sat in the seat of teacher, coach, assistant principal and school leader. I am proud that the performance meets the criteria for renewal. I acknowledge we have room to grow. Continuous improvement is in our dna. We are taking steps to ensure each student grows as scholar, individual and catalyst for change in our community. We are dedicated to meeting the needs of all learners. We revamped our approach to special education and a new role to provide coaching to special education teachers. We are investing in each coach receiving 100 hours of training. Providing teachers with datadriven coaching based on best practices. To support Emotional Health we are working with a program to promote School Success for trauma impacted students. We have dedicated a wing to the School Building to student services. I cannot wait to see what students accomplish. I invite you to come see the students and teachers in action in Kipp Bayview Academy. Thank you. [applause] i aigood evening to all of te honorable members of the board. I am doctor walker, pastor of the True Hope Church of christ located in bayview. Also one of the founding members of the corporation where we built over 600 low Income Housing in San Francisco. Along with that we are concerned about various communities especially we are concerned about education. When you look at the latinos, africanamericans and pacific islands, they are not really coming up to the standard of education in the city. This board has put out information about that. Kipp has been the constant in our community. Over 16 years these middle schools have been the center of community support. The school has worked with thousands of students and families on their journey to high school and in our community. One last point because oftime is that the staff said to the envelope, stick with me and we will go places together. If the board of education will stick with kipp. We can all go someplace. The country is divided by the president of this united states. I believe the board has the ability and will do that this afternoon. Thank you very much. [applause] good evening, president cook and fellow commissioners and superintendent. It is great to see you all. I am here. Doctor walker said everything we wanted to say today. The decision that you are about to make today has implications not only for the San Francisco bay region, it has implications for the state of california. Why do i say that . I say that because the governor of california a couple of weeks ago got you together and says lets try to collaborate and find solutions. I have spent decades supporting the San Francisco unified School District. I also yours truly helped to establish a Pilot Program to enhance and to bridge the disparity in education. That program is rolled out in about six or seven schools. I need to come back to get a report on that. We believe in the diversity of education. It is not us versus them. You are problem solvers. When you get off your podium you see us on the streets. Kipp with the bayview area have performed. Now you have confident parents. They are looking at the Bigger Picture offeducation. That is why we appointed you. The superintendent has given his recommendation. Let us respect you and we will continue to work today. God bless you all. applause . Good evening, commissioners. We submitted a letter to you last month. I am joyce armstrong, proud president of the Public HousingTenant Association representing more than 5,000 residents under our jurisdiction. Good evening, i am representing the housing commissioner. Good evening, commissioners. I am with the Public HousingTenant Association phta. We represent over 6,000 families throughout San Francisco. I am here to speak about kippsf and bayview. These middle schools have been the centers of communities and i support the schools working with students demographically similar to the neighboring Public Schools lieu identified learning differences. Kipp counselors help them on the journeys to high school and adulthood. Education is central to all pathway of stabilization and health and happiness. I would like to say thank you for considering the renewal of kipp charters. Thank you very much. [applause] good evening. I am a proud parent of three Successful Children of San Francisco unionfied School District. I have come to many of these meetings. I attended them for support for kipp, and then i presented my progress for my girls. I am here to share our Success Story by presenting these issues. It features our Success Story. Kipp has been the best thing to happen to my girls. It helped them become organized, determined and inspired. Definitely problem solvers to pursue their life in their life what they went. 2019 has been a busy year for the girls and i, both graduating with honors. Lana graduated with a masters in science and biology and aaron graduated from a kipp connection high school. [applause] we just planned that you will consider keeping kipp open because it really worked. Thank you. [applause] good evening. I am a seventh Grade Student at kipp. I am speaking for the students in the audience and cant make it. It is special to me. There are so many reasons. The main one is that teachers really care about making sure everyone in the class learns. That makes me feel like they care about me. The teachers always give us extra help. When a student doesnt help they can go to reteach. A teacher stays after school to teach students what they dont understand. For example equations. Students can go there to redo work. A teacher helped me adding and subtracting. I have learned it and mastered it. Teachers help in learns to prior ties if you know what you need to work. I am thankful for the extra work we do. In conclusion i know my Teachers Want me to succeed. That makes me feel like home. Please vote yes to keep my school open. Thank you. applause . I dont know why i let her go ahead. Good evening. I am andrea evans, San Francisco resident and mom. For over 25 years human rights and civil rights h he o attorne. I am working on a partnership to cut chronic homelessness in half by 2022. I am here tonight because many years ago i was privileged to serve on the founds board of Kipp Bayview Academy. I think i have been to every single renewal hearing since kipp opened in 1973. I remember conversations with families in hunter point who asked us to open the school in 2003. They entrusted the education of the children to us. They have checked our performance, rightfully so. They had big treatments for their children and many of those dreams have come true. We know we are not perfect and have a lot to learn. We believe in continuous learning. We are grateful for the partnership of families, community and alumni who have gone on working in the bay area contributing to their own communities. We would not be here without that support. We must do more to strengthen our partnership. We work would to promote our common desire to ensure educational success for all kids in San Francisco. On behalf of our entire community i urge you to renew the charter petitions for kipp bayview and kipp bay. I am the parent of a student at kipp bayview and alumni student in college that went through kipp bayview. When i spoke to my daughter she wanted me to share that what kipp did for her because of the strong work ethic they instill in their students. She thought it was going to be hard. What she found because of what they teach you at kipp, it is easy. I asked her what she struggles with. She is passing with 80 . My son is 12 years old. He came reading third grade level and in a year he caught up to the rest of his class. We need these schools. Thank you. applause . [speaking spanish] good evening board, staff, students, parents. I am here tonight to support my daughter, theresa lopez. [speaking spanish] i am here, my daughter is in seventh grade in kipp bayview. Remember thanksgiving is coming. We will be giving thanks for not only for work and everything we have, but we want for us to be able to be thankful that you listened to the students, families and youth and we will be able to say thank you for keeping kipp academy open. [speaking spanish] i want to be able i want you to be able to say you are grateful also for the support you are giving to our school. With your vote you will be able to help others. Sometimes we just focus on our families, but we have the power to help other people. You have the power to help us. applause . [speaking spanish] good evening. From the eighth grade at Kipp Bayview Academy. [speaking spanish] previously i worked for latino voice. That is a program that focuses on protecting the human rights of everybody, no matter which one is your race. [speaking spanish] i am here to ask you to renew our to let our school be renewed because the kids are worried. They are concerned where we are going to be. I have peace. I think you are going to do it. [speaking spanish] we are concerned for the security and care for the safety of our children. That is why we brought our kids to kipp. There we saw the values that we are looking for. Respect. [speaking spanish] so we see that respect that we see in the way our principal is so connected to us. We are connected to the school with the teachers, the students and families. We work together. We have a lot of get togethers to drink coffee and talk about our concerns. [speaking spanish] i am very grateful because the school helped my daughter a lot. She had a very low selfesteem, and with the help she received at kipp from 10 selfesteem she is at 100 . She has received a lot of emotional help. [speaking spanish] we believe that you are going to do the right thing. Kipp is not just a school. It is a family. We know you are going to make the right decision for our families. Thank you. [applause] hello, hello. Good evening. I know that it has been a long night for you guys as well as myself. Say, hi. I want to say thank you for taking timeout on your tuesday evening to be here. My fellow community is all out here supporting kipp. I want to say thank you for your time. I am here to show support for kipp. We are all part of this community. I am here representing bayviewhunters point. This is a future kippster. I am proud of it. You have strong opinions about kipp. Try it before you judge it. I want to say thank you. This is a blessing. I havent seen this many people in support of something for so long. The only time i see people like this is at a funeral. Please, count our blessings today. Thank you. Good evening. I would like to thank the president of the board and the superintendent as well as my fellow Community Members that came out this evening. Give yourself a round of applause. Thats right. [applause] i am the chair of the bayview cac and groups in the community. I am a legacy resident born and raised since 1958 in bayview. I have seen a lot of schools and children. At this moment i speak as a grandmother because my son is a first year kippster. I cannot express how excited he is about learning and his least favorite subject english. He is reading every day. I see as an active participant with kipp the effectiveness of the school. I want to thank the board for allowing them to exist in the first place. Had you not had a vote for confidence for kipp initially. They would not have grown and had the impact in the community. They would not have young people into colleges that before never thought they would have the opportunity to do so. They thought they had two year college and maybe a four year degree. You have heard testimony of people that have gone through kipp and used it as foundation for achievement. I want to thank you and encourage you to continue to support kipp. Thank you. applause . Good evening. I am the most recent past chair of the San Francisco unified Community Advisory for special education. We put together a statement on Charter Schools in january of 2018, and i believe all of you have been sent that in the past. If you need a copy i would be happy to provide another. I am reading from it tonight. San francisco Charter Schools have the choice much joining of joining the eldorado. It is east of sacramento. They meet monthly with the ex tension of july and september. The leadership members attend. We have parents at each meeting. They are held in support for families here at mission and vanness. We provide interpretation and child care and serve a light dinner. Eldora meets two times each year. They collaborate and participate in commits. We attend board of education and Committee Meetings and comment on matters important. Charter schools opting out of the local pan with 1 plan effect civil removes parent oversight. The sfusd has serious concerns about no robust opportunities for parental involvement and oversight. That is 10 seconds left. If anyone would like a copy of our position paper, please let me know. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Any comments from the board or superintendent . Thank you for putting together information. I had some questions that i couldnt find answers to, and in the information that we received. Two issues i had questions about. One, i continue to have questions about attrition rates. Kipp has based on several reports they have shown significant lehigher rates of attrition. I have articles. The schools have been able to report higher rates of achievement in every subject. The way they burn out teachers and students should be cause for concern. Students are more likely to be suspended which may encourage the families to move to other schools. It suggests the kipp model only works for select students with kipp. This is something i heard about and it is very hard to track. I have heard. I spoke with the parent last year. Her daughter was having trouble in middle school and she was receiving a lot of phone calls from the school and i the know you have heard about discipline. People talk about safety and discipline and also how they strongly encourage parent involvement. I would wonder if the families here tonight are receiving. A lot of schools track involvement. This is a way of not justen surging but shaking families who cant come to school and participate in that way, but the parent with a child with her child says she is coming down to talk about her daughters behavior. As a single mom she couldnt handle it and she pulled her child out of the school. This is in the research. You can go online. Kipp is no excuses. There is two pieces of data that i would like to discuss. If students are leaving the school, a lot of people suggest we may we seeing a level of comparable success at kipp because the student not there are coming back. I hear that from a lot of principals in the district. I want to ask if there is any is disciplindata around expulsions. I remember seeing they had one school with a higher rate of suspensions with black and latinx students with no expulsion data. Schools excel students for behaviors. Students are counseled out. They are told it wont go on their record if they choose to leave. These are questions that are hard to track as far as data. I am interested to know if there is a way to get data. My question is around do you have any suspension or ex pulls data from k. Ipp. Is it just aggravated by subgroup and i am changing my language Student Groups and i am interested in knowing. Some of the schools like bayview there are a large number of africanamerican students. Could we see that in the literature shows students with more difficult to serve ie performed. I pam assuming that kipp doesnt have pay Program Supporting people with emotion pal disturbances which a lot of our middle schools do serve. As a general answer, in the petitions for both schools that were submitted that we reviewed, they did provide suspension data over time, aggravated for in and out of school. It is for all students, black and latin x. They did not report any expulsions over the last five years and they have california dashboard information indicating green for the suspension rate. Is that by Student Group . It is by the Student Groups that i just mentioned. Other than race. I am interested in Program Students receiving special Education Services and seeing demographics of those groups. The fact that are you aware of our program to support those with emotional disturbance. Do they have one in the kipp model . I am not aware of that. Do they have any specifically focused autism programs . I am not sure. I was a founding teacher of a Charter School in oakland. I watched our School Council out a boy with autism having trouble being in the general ed classroom. I was told we didnt have money for additional support. This child was probably there because there wasnt any kind of direct services. They were from outside. We counseled the student out of that school. If i am the parent of a student with odism. I guess i want to make that point there are differences between what k ipp seems to offer and our schools offer. I want to highlight the idea there is transparency in parent advocacy. We have seen a lot tonight. It is not always easy to listen to the Community Members talking about what they feel the district is doing so. We have meetings twice a month. During Committee Meetings those are all records. As far as what i can see on the kipp website, they only meet three times each year. So far theyment in oakland. I could not find meeting minutes. From last year it was four pages long. There is no place to go. You cant rewind and hear. You could go back and hear what im saying. Definitely not with the area schools. Additionally, i looked in terms of comparable. I think about teacher experience. They talk about training because they have a lot of new teachers. The average years of service is two years. That is the aftervage. If they say it is because people leave. You could start as teacher and never get to be the english chair because people stay. The average years of service in sfusd is 15 years. We have a average of two years compared to 14 years. That may be due to the fact they do not offer a teachers union. They do not have representation. That is concerning to me as a former member. I want to put out and share with the full board. I believe if we put the stamp of approval it should meet our requirements for transparency and for compassion in serving all students including those with specific learning disabilities including emotional des turbans and autism. They should give parents a lot of access. We have a load of smithties. I am a parent. They inform the work of the district. I would like the board to take that into consideration when they make their vote. Commissioner lopez. I want to acknowledge all of the families and students and staff here. That is something that we honor. That is something all of the work that you are doing is not unnoticed. What i am trying to point out is the underlying issues. To me it is really telling with the Charter Schools and how there are only three in the entire state. If you want to advocate for your community you have to drive two pan a half hours or join telephonically three times each year. It is not equivalent to what you need to participate in your students of. That is what we are trying to point this out. I forget the name when you shared how often you were able to meet. It isnt recorded, it is during the day, it is not Family Friendly so since that conversation has there been anything in changing that sort of transparency of getting kipp doing to ensure they are advocating for their students, if anything. Are you talking about meetings of the board. Like we meet twice a year. We meet twice a month sorry. They shared they meant once a year. They have outlined how they will meet the meeting requirements for january 1, 2020. If they would like to explain that. Where is the outline . It looks like they dont. Press the button. Andrew evans for kipp. There are a lot of opportunities for parents to be involved. We have parent engagement meetings and parent associations that meet with the leadership of the school and faculty. We set up a system where Board Members attend as well so there is additional opportunity outside of the regular board meetings of four times each year. We welcome families to come to the board meetings. The law is going to change next year. The board minutes will be available and we will have access because of the rules say you have to hold the meetings in the jurisdiction with the most students. We will make those meetings accessible and figure outweighs to bring our meetings to different meetings to San Francisco parents to have that engagement. I have been to the school side meeting at sf bay and bayview. I have been to meetings a. I dont think that there is any less connection between our board and the families and this board and other families. Thank you. I am judily with family and Community Engagement with kipp. I brought for you that we believe in engaging with families on a regular basis. I brought just a description of what we do. So it is just one page back and forth. One side we are sharing with you the sequence and the regularity which we engage with parents. Last week i was at the kipp Academy Family association. Many of you were there with me. Raise your hand if you were there with me last week. There were about 30 families that were quite engaged. We are meeting monthly and that is part of the kipp family association. We have school side counsels where there is decision makings participation by the parents along with teachers and staff. We create cultural events. We have events to engage with families. There are meetings with leaders through special back to School Nights and parent conferences. That is what is happening at Bayview Academy on one side. If you flip to the other side. Similarly, we have a similar structure of engagement at our different schools. You will see similar items. Meeting with School Leaders and cultural events