Backs in the community. They are preventing violence from coming in the schools. They should be involved. I wish we were talking about m. O. U. S were folks who know the communities and are doing kind of antiviolence work as members of communities of color. First of all, i want to advise you that our offices take a lead from the staff administrators. Certainly we dont know the full positions, what has happened in the School System, and we dont propose that you have that willing. We take the lead from the School Administrators when we respond to the school. Deescalation techniques. We have weekly meetings with them and in Service Telephone calls with them on frequently and then they are consistently being trained to deal with juvenile issues, how to handle a young person dealing with posttraumatic stress or what frequently occurs in and out of the School Systems. The School Resource officer is there doing presentations on safety awareness. Presentations on young people knowingnary rights. We are there for parent conferences. We do partner with sbid. We do partner with united players and they are called as one of the many resources. We are there to provide young people with only one restaurant. It is to the young person in the School System but we help to ensure these services are available for the family, the complete family unit. Our officers have been trained how to handle young people dealing with Mental Health issues. They are receiving extensive training to ensure that we are providing a service and a resource. We are not in the schools just for disciplinary reasons. We respond because we have other programs that are offered throughout the district. I know the School Resource officer that served my Daughters School is a caring person, i also still have questions about these are more larger picture questions. I guess even specifically if we are adding language that says we wont have Police Question students. It is at this descretion of the principal how the School Resource officers are utilized. I said we take the lead from the School Administrators. We dont know if a young person has a special learning disability or anything like th that. However, we First Respond and speak directly with the dean or the principal at the school site. Our mode is that we are there to support in a way that is going to be successful for everyone who is involved. What i noticed in some occasions principals have if we are not questioning students, we have Police Question students without parents in concept. I have heard from parents a concern that School Resource officers were brought in to rooms where administrators were questioning students. I have heard this reported by parents. I would want that language to be included. I am telling you i heard from a parent that they did not want their child to be interviewed without their involvement. They were with the administrator and their son was interviewed with the sro in the room. The parent felt that was intim dating for hersion. I want it just about the actual sro. Sometimes it is how administrators may or may not about their presence. This specific sri, i know him by name. Hhe is a very caring person. We have to acknowledge that police as a presence have an impact in communities of color. That is something that i think we want to acknowledge and it is a concern that comes up for me regardless how well they are trained. If they are providing the communitybased services, all of ththe thingsna you are doing hae to do with being a caring adult. We have or folks to serve those rolls. I would like to move away from police in schools at all. These adults could be provided these services. That being a Police Officer in a school it has an impact on communities of color, and those are questions and concerns i have. I want to let you know. 96c covers a Police Officer interviewing or having these type of exchanges with a young person. That is what 96c is when. However, i believe you did discuss something about a concern of a Police Officers in rome when staff is questioning the young person. I have made it clear in our Staff Meetings and consistently that we will not be included in conversations when the school isvis gating something. We will come afterwards to speak with the administrator or the staff person that requested us. Again. That is in compliance with 96c. We have a long list of folks that want to chime in. I have commissioner norton. I just want to follow up on the question asked about the m. O. U. Doesnt really silent on the issue of students with disability and any training we are providing both school staff around the additional protection for students with disabilities would receive. I think these comments are very good. I did send her a message that we want to look at some of those comments. Let me find something that i wanted to point out. There are a couple things that i did want to mention there are specific places where we say if not there to address criminal behavior. There are some proactive things to do as part of the communities. It lists things to do. Talk about careers and restor Restorative Practices and school attendance. All of those trainings would be accessible to students with special needs. It is mentioned. I do want to say in section 20 it lists officers will be trained in special education laws. Then i said maybe we need to mention it. I said man fistation is conducted by the school psychologist. We trained all of the schools in manifestation determination and threat assessment. In both cases we dont want police to be part of it. We believe once you had the manifestation that comes up during prosecute of what happened to her whenever we have an expulsion the first thing is see if it is manifestation. If it is we cant move forward with the case. It is not as intentional as it needs to be. We can work on that. The manifestation i is a good point. Those are all of the things. Attending school stal school st. It says they will offer straining in strategies for working and communicating with students. We want to look at that language to strengthen it and talk about a man festation, hey that kid is in the sore program. What that means he is not responsible for those actions. I think it is a really important thing to bring up. I want to thank you for doing this m. O. U. It is really important. I do have something bad. The incident at balboa. I had a family friend in the bathroom during the incident, anchoring to my mom when the swat team showed up to the bathroom they had guns pointed at my friend. This caused him to have performed tsd. He hasnt talked to anybody since the incident because of having the gun pointed at him. He hasnt talked at all. I dont believe that having police at school is a good thing. I think it is more dangerous just because of the person of color because of the history that police have with people of color. A lot of students in and out of jail can feel like i feel when i see Police Officer. A plaintiff. A Police Officer. It is important to have healing if they look like us and relate to our stories. Some of the cases may be really strong. I strongly belief that we should handle the situation because it helps reduce suspension and expulsion. I can say that helped redoes the rates reduce the rates at my school. A lot of our schools are taking into consideration pier mediates do help and they are putting this in our data. The students getting suspended and expelled are students that are africanamericans and have iie. We are the ones hugh understand what they are going through. I dont think adults understand that. Thank you. I want to thank you for working on the m. O. U. I think it is a very powerful document and from seeing it last year i was one of the students who gave Student Input. From this presentation i can see Student Input is taken and i see the changes made to the document. I am happy to see you public size this to sros and the school admin and staff and students. This is a powerful document, as powerful as the writing is if the community sees it. I hear the other comments which i agree with. This is not the final m. O. U. , but i am happy with the work you have done. Thank you. Thank you for your work on this. I have a couple questions. Kevin can you remind me when the last time an m. O. U. Was adopted by the board . Yes. 1 14 14. It was a five year m. O. U. January 14, 2014. It was five years. It expired january 14, 2019. It is still in existence of the there is an agreement that the former m. O. U. Exists until we sign a new one. The schools know that. Any monetary contribution for this program . Yes. Well for this program. We pay for a portion of captain williams position. 25 . That is the extent of our contribution . I dont know how much he makes. It is 1 . She makes a lot. That is if extent . Yes. In that because she is partially paid by the district, and i am looking at my favorite person. That provides captain williams. She is partially paid by the district and it provides us access to synergy many times when we share data it is important that she has access to confidential data to do her job. If she knows a student has been arrest period she can look that student up to see if he is in special ed and she needs that access. This is one of the ways to provide them with the data. How did i do . I am grateful you provide that information and access to us because we have been able to work with our Mental Health professionals and sfusd wellness to provide a array of services and have them understand more about the nature of what is going on so they can stand down and be more sensitive to issues that some of the young people are going through. Thank you. Can you speak about the Selection Process for qualifying the officers to get in the program . Currently what occurs is that we have our signups every six months within the Police Department. At that time certain officers will indicate desires to become School Resource officers at that time the captain of the station will discuss the particular persons who are interested in it with myself. Then, of course, we will consider did needs of the schools within that district, the length of service of the Police Officer, we will look at their training, their other percent thrill matters to make sure we are selecting the most appropriate person to serve as School Research officer to be a valuable partner to the School District and to the parents and the community we are serving. My recollection is this originally started the relationship between sfpd formal relationship was after columbine, it was a cops in schools federal grant . Prior to that we had no program but the grant came around and gave us additional funding. Captain williams was a very big part of that grant to provide School Resource officers to be assigned to the schools. They had an office and computer in the schools. That was around 2,000 . Yes,na grant actually ended in 2012. It was 2012 the last time the sros were stationed in high schools. That is when the funding stopped, the funding required a certain m. O. U. Without that we didnt have an existing m. O. U. It went away. That is when it was decided when we had that because we had an m. O. U. How to interact. We have had situations at schools. I want people to note that there were stationed Police Officers in our high schools and middle schools when i was principal at horace mann there was a Police Officer stationed at the school. I was one of the Board Members back in the 2000s against having armed Police Officers in the schools, particularly because i think our student delegates can handle the community of color. It was a long h long time ago. Ththe event in 2002 resulted in the armed officers on marshall after they could not contain the student fight. It was others on campus that resulted in correct me if im wrong officer in distress signal, the highest they can give is officer down . Yes, i was, working at that time and was a School Resource officer. I was not working that day. It was a situation with multiple officers citywide coming to the school. It was an incident we wished never would have happened. We learned a great deal because of it we have been able to accept shortcomings. Now we base many of the methods and responses we use now are based on best police practices. It was 126 Law Enforcement. Swat, sfpd, and deputy sheriffs in riot gear. It ended up being the largest presence in Law Enforcement. It is north getting better. I think the numbers you show here in terms of the actual detainments and arrests are going in the right direction. I would want us to get to a point where we wouldnt have to use Police Officers in our schools. I dont know if that is going to happen. We need to be sensitive to what our students are saying and be able to even get to a lower were point. Specificking in here frost the last year. Do you know how many of those students wind up at ygc which we are going to close . It is not the actual breakdown. It is all the arrests twice a year. That brains it down and includes if they are in special ed. I dont know from the 28, 13 hi, 13 middle and 2 elementary. I know where the elementary kids went . The duration of that would be good to know. Not just that they entered but how long they were there, if you can. Thank you for being here and for reporting. I think i just want to start out by saying i dont want to please presence in schools. I am not supportive of sros either. That is where i am. I am looking at the incidents at the schools. We havent had anything in place so we were uses a fiveyearold m. O. U. Specifically with the feedback about schools not contacting sfpd for disciplinary issues. The first month this year that happened four or five times and the disciplinary issue was for fighting. Sfpd was called. In one instance they were called on a fifth Grade Student because they absconded. There was fear of the student leaving and it was to the point where i had to look this up. The definition says this person is avoids arrester. In thinking it through this person is a soyearold so we are calling the police on a 10yearold. This is happens this school year. I want to figure out with this in place. My colleagues are asking for things not here. We have been working on it this entire year. It is still not in a place to have the highest level of protection for our students. How are we going to ensure that incidents like that dont continue to happen . We need the m. O. U. That everybody is completely trained on. When these things happen, she is communicating with me a lot about the incidents when it was a call that should not be made. I talk to my colleagues add lead and say this happened at your school. Talk to the principal because this happened. We do this whenever i am told that is what will happen. The officers will respond if called to the school many times it could be a fight or a student that is a danger to themselves and others. Let me know. I will talk to their school supervisor. What does the danger mean . When are they justified. The police are coming based on what the administrator is saying. If they are not prepared if we have an m. O. U. That is not going to change that incident from here on out. Those are the conversations we need to have. I have had them call me pan say this is what the student is doing police. Is there anyone that student has a relationship with . There has got to be someone who is trained. We talked through this. These are the situations that we do need to discuss and make sure we are not over policing. At least i get to use that. Let me send you the section. This is what you coul could have done. Lets talk through that. Thank you for the presentation. A couple questions to follow up on commissioner lopezs comments. Talk about in terms of utilizing the partnership with sfpd, when are we at the point, okay, this is not something we can do or are we short on t10s . First, the sfpd does not supervisor oversee at all. We want to be clear with that. Some have misunderstooding over the years. Our t10s call them so the only calls to dispatch should come from the school administrator. Not from security. I wanted to clear that up. We have a high turnover in security. We are trying to get the security guards trained. We have had extra trainings. We had trainings on Crisis Response including how to respond to emergency situations. Certainly i think our security guards. Some are highly skilled in part of that community and absolutely worth a tremendous asset to the school. We have a high turnover and it is difficult to bring everyone up to training. The Security Force is inconsistent from school to school. If we had the security t10 staff, are we calling sfpd because we dont have the capacity to provide the service to our kids . Is there a specific reason we call it. Is it specific . Schools with t10s call more frequently than those without t10s. In terms of training for the sros. We are calling dispatch. How many times do we actually have training . I think folks are busy. Officers have to get the ball. How many times are we getting officers not trained in the school resoars sources that you offer. Is it proper that we could get it because kids are inside and outside the schools, right . I concur with you. In fact, commissioner, i was discussing this with mr. True wit today. It is a goal that i have set and i am waiting to engage in a conversation with my commander on having a daytime patrol receive some limited training on how to deal and interact effectism with juveniles. How to be more understanding. It is another level of additional training. I propose it is included in the professional development and training which occurs every two years for officers on a rotational basesis. So all members can currently good some form of training in dealing more effectively with juveniles. I want to let you know right now we have two highly trained resoars officers that are cit trained so sh they can work with those who work on the citywide basis including the child Crisis Services so we are all on the same page working together to establish some cents of stability for those young people. Center i appreciate you brought up the cit stuff. Would it be possible for them to have cit training . I have two with a specialty in this area. They are working closer with the Men Tell Health experts. They are helping other sros that may have a crisis at we are still developing within the program. My last followup. I havent had one in a long time. I want to thank you. We are doing good. We are talking about arrests . We are talking about a citation, it is an exchange of custody until we can clarify later what the timeout come of the situations . What we report is any time that student leaves the custody of the school in the custody of the police. We are considering that arrest change of custody. We dont have custody of the student. We dont know what will happen to released. They could be taken, we dont know that when the student leaves is school. Did the student leave the school, yes. I report those to you at the board. The preventative stuff around the shooting stuff, mass shooters. In terms of preventative work to prepare in schools and families and i know that nobody wants to talk about it. I am pretty sure it is on the radar. You be reading my papers. We have an active attacker. We dont want to think of it as necessarily being a shooter. The training is going to be occurring the end of january. The first officers to be trained will be School Resource officers. We are working with paramedics and response members to expect if there is a situation that requires this level of deployment. Thank you. We have been having three come verb session. We trained him with some of the school Staff Members. I would love to do the training, too. We will put you down. Thank you. Commissioner lamb. Thank you for the presentation and all of the work that has gone into putting the m. O. U. In regards to the training, you talked about the vast amount of training encouraged. I think an appendix to list out the trainings would be part of the record. I know there is language around encouraged that they be required. That will be for you all to consider and what that solution might look like. It would be helpful for me to understand what trainings are elevated and what opportunities we think would be beneficial for sros to engage in. That is one comment. I am curious on the cit training. This is new to me. If you can explain about the approaches. At what point do you bring in Law Enforcement and professionals to deal with a crisis situation at a school site. It is a 40 hour training for our officers. With that training they learn how to effectively partner and collaborate with Mental Health professionals and we have some Mental Health professionals within the Police Department as well. What that looks like i will give you an example. If we received a call, say a young person considered a juvenile beyond control. When the officer responds there, they know when they arrive try to calm down the situation. If it is something out of control to then consider contacting child crisis for assistance and at the same time also consider calling for an ambulance to assist because the last thing that we want to do when a child is experiencing a crisis situation and your uniform. It is a form of traumatizing and inflaming the situation further. This is some of the many things that we continuously discuss with our resource officers greating understanding about our response and what it means to others before we take any action. What has been raised by my colleagues is an opportunity in how to bridge our practicing, School Climate and how the sro program mean an agreement in place. It is going to be for the board to see this is not happening in the icelation. It is going to be an inti grated site in the School Climate. It is important for students to feel safe. We are going to do joint training with sfusd in the summertime when we are on a break. We have discussed with the School Resource officers that is a time to train together. I think how important it is that you raise the importance of working with captains and the neighborhood stations because exactly we dont see the borders between schools, serving young people and how our Police Officers are working in the community with students overall so thank you. Thank you. I am going to wrap up this series of questions with a few comments and some appreciation. I know that a lot of discussion has happened before this draft got to this point. I appreciate you bringing it to the board to weigh in before we voted on it. Congratulations on your last presentation. I do want to sleep tonight. I am tired tonight. If we get into it, the cops are here. laughter . I could have been his principal. He hung out at mission when i was a principal there. Let that be a lesson. You never know who i will be looking up to. All right. So i want to uplift and appreciate the comments of our student delegates around the ongoing tension between the community and the police. I have had a lot of encounters with the police in San Francisco when i called in distress. When i was approached for no reason. Now, i have one friend, two friends that are Police Officers. This effort to keep kids safe should involve the police. We know that in the community when people feel in danger, a lot of them are calling the police. That is why we have people taking issues in themselves or responding in ways that are selfdestructive. This work. We dont want to be at odds. We want to keep our kids safe and their families safe, to echo it. We have our kids when they are in school. A lot of officers see them when we dont have them. Chronic absenteeism. I would rather we deal with them then the police. Lets get those numbers down. I want to keep them away from the cops. I am sure some of you guys are night, though. Those are my general comments. Maybe we can have an update. Hopefully we can i like an opportunity to meet some of the officers that come to schools on a regular basis. I did a tour of the northern station. I have been to the baby station. Anybody tha that is in regular contact with, our schools, i want an opportunity to get to know. Did you have Something Else . I want to share a little story that happened to a friend of mine. I will not mention his name. He is a member. I remember this was about two or three weeks ago we were talking about roads and thorns in the class. He said that the day before he was waiting for the j outside of school, two Police Officers came to arrest him, handcuffed him because a white woman reported that she had been harassed. Just because he was africanamerican and you are only 17years old. He was arrested right outside the school. That is why i am telling you it is incidents like this that makes us feel uncomfortable with pay Police Officer in the school. I appreciate the work done around the m. O. U. I want you to remember that. Thank you. Good night. Number two. I would like to excuse our student delegates. Ten take tip agreement between San Francisco unified School District and united educators of San Francisco. Good evening. We lost a few people. Margaret, director of special education and overseeing a whole wing of our work and mostly compliance issues. I am the chief of special education. We are here tonight to hopefully provide you a brief report of an activity that we participated in throughout this spring and a report was generated. We want to give you a little bit of the synopsis of what took place. We start with the core values. I say when they first came out i didnt know what to make of them. Now they are my anchors. I like to stay focused on them in our daily work. We start with those. This is a comprehensive review from the California Department of special education. It is something they do each year and they look at the entire state of california and look at some data reports and derm a score for each district. There is a cutoff point of 62 . Unfortunately for us this year we scored 61. They had to look at us. We are moving to the next slide to tell you what that review entailed. What we wanted to explain is how it is that San Francisco unified got selected for the comprehensive review. There are a number of monitors systems. Data informed noncompliance. You have probably heard of it. It is called think. It is a black and white do we do ieps on time and or transition plans are they done completely. They collect that data. Another one is Performance Indicator review which has 14 different targets that the state is looking at that are fed have you cal pads or the dashboard. Where we have failed to meet the targets is on the english. The ela and math achieved participation. It brings us to th us to the pe. We are disproportionate in the number of africanamerican students on ieps as well as disproportionate in the identification of kids of africanamerican students for a specific disability areas both ed and other health impaired. Another area they are looking at in terms to determine whether or not we need reviewed is th the number of complaints filed. I want to add this is the 61 score. There are rubrics for each of the four items that put them in coming to our district and what they did when they came out to our districts. They did a series of audits. They get access to facebook and like for compliant ieps. Next was a benefit review. They did a training with our staff and we invited other admin teachers to join, and they looked at where they reviewed three files to determine whether or not kids were experiencing educational benefits by being in special education. They look at the years. The other audit was eip implementation. They asked to see the service grid, what services did we say we were going to deliver, what were then as well as the service log to show we actually did what we said we were going to do. They also visited sites. They went to 12 schools, six high and one nonpublic. In those they interviewed 59 Staff Members and attempted eight families. They interviewed two families. This comprised the report. On the first shrine there is a review of the report for you to read. The results of the comprehensive review required corrective actions. Those consisted of training so we had to actually mobilize quickly and create a deck for the entire special education staff. Our administrators, the folks who serve in nonpublic schools. I acknowledged it is not the only way to engage but what we could put together in the time lanes they pr provided. Last year with legal we made it more friendly for our folks at the school sites in Central Office to participate in. There was Technical Assistance required in four areas. Discipline for those identified as africanamerican and preschool and timelines. There is a lot of trainings modules available through the cde. Also we get a lot of help when we build these relationships at the monthly table. Corrective actions are specifics to those in if ieps. The last one was tonight to present and inform you what we went through and throughout this year to become fully compliant. Without getting all of the particulars we pulled out some big ideas for you. Trying to condense it for this presentation. The big ideas of the staff training consisted of iep components. We did an educational benefit training of needs to goals to services and progress reports. There should be a very clear continuum. We revised ieps when students are not making progress. It has come una lot in close session. Is key in our work as special ed you indicators. The lpac, secondary transitional plan. We need to convene to address behaviors impeding access. We need to sat in realtime. We want to be proactive. Parent communication, notice of meeting and prior written notices and procedures. We must device means to be sure services are delivered and documented in the iep. More training is required. Timelines. That black and white thing we get dinged if we dont make the timelines. We need to do all we need to do for kids in a timely fashion. Everybody needs to come to the table for kids at the iep meetings. People are popping in, leaving early, that is giving the wrong message allaround. We started that training early last year and we are not giving up until everybody gets the unified message that Everybody Needs to present themselves with students first. Free and appropriate Public Education required after the tenth day of suspension. This was disease. W o dicey. We owe kids an education. We need to work with kids after the tenth day of