Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 20240712

So it looks like were all here. So welcome, everybody, for being here today for our school Board Meeting. Welcome, everybody, and superintendent matthews. I think you have an announcement regarding todays agenda. Yes, thank you, president sanchez. Good afternoon, Board Members and members of the public. Being withdrawn from the agenda today in section g is item 1. Its board policy 6142. 7, physical education and activity. That is being withdrawn, and in section h, items 3, Second Amendment to the Instructional Calendar 20202021. Both items will be heard at a future meeting of the board. Thank you, dr. Matthews. We are going to vote on the approval of the board minutes for september 8. We need a motion and a second. So moved. One one moment. Could everybody whos a panelist please mute your screen while youre not speaking at the meeting, please . Thank you. Motion and a second, please, for the board minutes. So moved. Second. Thank you. Any corrections . Okay. Seeing none, roll call vote, please. Clerk thank you. [roll call] clerk thank you very much. Thank you. We are in section b, number 2, superintendents report. Dr. Matthews . Thank you, president sanchez, Board Members, and members of the public. Good to see you all. My report from today, first and foremost, id like to encourage all families to complete the multipurpose Family Income form for the 2021 school year today. Completing the form provides benefits beyond meals, including essential funding for your Childs School. Benefits include eligibility for free meals through september 2021, eligibility for future e. D. T. Funds, discounted utilities and internet access, free enrollment in excel after School Program, free s. A. T. Waivers, benefits regardless of citizenship status, and this provides essential funding for your school. Its critical for us as a district, and it absolutely benefits your child, your family. Please go to sfusd. Edu mfif to fill out the multifamily information form. Today is also National Registration day, so if you have not registered, register today. Make sure your voice is heard. Register early. Make a plan to vote early, and then vote early. Among the many important issues san franciscans will vote on, proposition j, which addresses a legal loophole to continue to provide funding for sfusd, and proposition 15, which would increase revenue for Public Education and other services. Mayor london breed placed prop j on the ballot to replace proposition g, which was passed by San Francisco voters in 2018. Proposition g was a 298 per parcel and proposition j is for 350 per parcel in San Francisco. Californiia californians will vote on proposition 15, which would amend the state constitution to adjust the original 1978 proposition 13 to enable commercial properties to be taxed at their fair market value as opposed to the value at the time when they were purchased. Proposition 15 would not affect property taxes for homeowners. Upon full implementation, this initiative would raise between 8. 5 million and 12. 5 billion in property tax per year for education and other public services. While i cannot say how to vote on these and other ballot issues, i want to encourage all san franciscan voters to exercise their democratic right by voting in this election and every election on these important measures. Make sure your voice is heard. It is more important than ever for our San Francisco Unified School District families and gua guardians to have active information on their schools, their classes, and the district. We share information as it becomes available with you in our weekly digest. Theres a lot of critical information someone has there mic their mic on, so once again, if youre a panelist and youre not speaking, please make sure to mute your microphone. Thank you. Going to start again. The district can share information that affects many families and students, but there is a lot of information unique to each student. Families are more fod when their schools and districts keep them in the loop. Our information is can communicationed in a confidential member through our family portal, parent view. Parent view allows parents to use a single login to follow their student the entire time their student is enrolled through our public schools, kindergarten through high school. Through parent view, parents and guardians can access their students grades, and the digital platforms their students are using. Parents and guardians can also update their information in parent view, including cell phone numbers, address information, and more. Parent view works on phones and devices, including a handy mobile application so if they prefer to use their phone, they can still stay up to date on their childs education. If a parent has more than one student enrolled in our district, a parent view account lets them log in to them all. Families can change languages to their preferred language. Because it is highly secure, families need to get a unique active jags key from their Childs School to set up their account. If you are a district parent who hasnt activated your parent view account yet, you can find more information here. We look forward to here on our district website. We look forward to staying in touch about one of the most important things to all of us your childs educational journey. Thank you so much. That concludes my statements this afternoon. Thank you, superintendent matthews. Student delegates, this is the time for your report. Thank you so much, president sanchez. This months update is the sfuchd rez for Pacific Island a sfusd resolution for Pacific Island and hawaiian students. Sfusd supports the efforts to close the opportunity gap and increase hawaiian and Pacific Islander representation by implementing an amendment that promotes selfsustainability, our essential goal it to create a longterm migration into our School District. Yesterday at our s. A. C. Meeting, commissioner moliga presented at our s. A. C. Meeting, and we voted unanimously for the resolution. Special thanks to our adult ally, commissioner moliga, and the entire s. A. C. Team for disseminating this important resolution to our peers. Peef preserves sfusd programming and sports, libraries, art, and music while supporting other Educational Opportunities and academics and student and family support. Our s. A. C. Goal is to distribute the opportunity to our constituents so we can have a total of six students nominated to serve on peef c. A. C. Our student representatives will meet the peef c. A. C. Once a month on the third wednesdays at 5 00 p. M. We would like to take the opportunity to thank mr. Edmond diaz for taking the opportunity to present to us and answers all of our questions. Next, the s. A. C. Has a coalition of committees where students are driven by their passion to create a change in our School District through various projects. Our goal in the s. A. C. Is to roll out campaigns for each specific committee. For this year, we have a total of five committees health, environment, student support, social justice, and a district and accountability committee. Jet at our s. A. C. Committee meeting, we presented about each committee, and we are now beginning finals. Thank you to our president of leadier for giving this presentation. Our next meeting will be on november 5 at 3 00 p. M. If you would like to attend a meeting, make a presentation or would like a meeting agenda, please contact salvador lopezbarr. All right. Thank you so much, especially the last part. So item 4 is recognitions and resolutions and commendations. There are none tonight or today. And then, 5 is recognizing all valuable employees, rave awards. We do have some today. Dr. Matthews. Thank you, president sanchez. This evening, we do have a rave award, recognizing all valuable employees. Presenting that award will be gene robertson, the chief of special education, and kristin defi devine, the director of special education. Miss robertson . Thank you, dr. Matthews. I have the extreme pleasure this afternoon to formally present this wave award to karina mcgraw. Its have you awkward because karina, i cannot see you on the screen, but i know youre with me. Karina has served the sfusd and now as an administrator in the special Education Services department. She was called out by a colleague in the field as one of the hardest working special education administrators in the district. It was noted in the nomination that she was like part human and part octopus, having her hand in almost every pot to make sure that important is given to the site, the family, and most importantly, the child. She is responsible and seamless in the way that she addresses the issues. Thus making the job look way easier than it is. Her nominator has noted that she is super smart, and i couldnt agree more. We have a Wonderful Team in our special Education Services department, and we Work Together now more than ever during the pandemic, and karina continues to set the gold standard, and she uses her many gifts to help move the work forward positively. So on behalf of Kristin Devine and, most importantly, dr. Matthews, and all of you here today i just wish sort of we could have a virtual class, a mini class for karina mcgraw. Thank you for your kind words, jean, and for your service. I landed here 19 years ago, and ive been working here, as jean said, 17 years. I would not be here both in my experiences, what ive learned, how ive grown, without each and every student and family, so thank you. Im very grateful to be a part of sfusd. Justin, i think there are a couple of speakers who also wanted to speak. Yes. Miss fisher, did you want to go ahead and start . Of course, absolutely. So my comments are both as a member of the Community Advisory committee for special education but also a parent who has had the opportunity to collaborate and work with karina, and wearing both hats, i would like to say thank you. You have always been an amazingly collaborative partner. At our c. A. C. Meetings, we have an opportunity for parents to troubleshoot and problem solve with our special education reps, and karina is there always. All of our c. A. C. Members appreciate that. Having been a parent at a school where karina was a supervisor, i have to say, karina, i give you a lot of parent for turning me from an angry frustrated parent into a collaborative partner. You were totally instrumental in helping us understand not just the process but also part of why the bureaucracy is the way it is. You helped us understand why the system is a little convoluted and helped walk us through it, so on behalf of me and my family, id like to say thank you very much. Miss martin . My name is julia martin, and im the sfusd ombudsman and parent of a senior, long time member of the c. A. C. And got to know karina many, many years ago through c. A. C. Meetings and really appreciated her at that time as someone who was willing to lend an ear, even if she wasnt my supervisor. But to lend an ear, to give a hug, to be there to support families, and you really helped through some difficult times. I really appreciate that. Ive become even more impressed with her leadership, with her voice and empathy and strength in always speaking up for families, and now in her new role in early ed families, helping guide them through a very convoluted and difficult process, so thank you for all youve done for families. All right. Thank you. Dr. Matthews, i assume that the certificates in the mail . The certificates definitely on its way, and we have a second wave award this afternoon. Dr. Matthews, i just want to quickly say compa oh, yeah. Its so nice to see one rock star, jean, give another rock star a rave award. We are so lucky to have so many great people in our Community Working so hard to serve our students and families, so just wa wanted to put that in there. Our next office will be given by helen petifore. This next rave award goes to Blanca Gonzales. Shes a student advisor at mission high school, so miss petifore . Thank you, superintendent, and all of those present this evening. We are going to honor Blanca Gonzales. She has worked for the district over 23 plus years in serving migrant education program, which is a unique program thoroughly funded to serve these children of farm workers. This is a very vulnerable, fragile population that moves often from the city back to the Central Valley, from the city to the Central Valley to really make a living, so we can imagine the obstacles that these students face. What i was to say about blanca, when she started her role, she didnt have an office, a desk. She would work out of her car to identify families to bring them into the fold of sfusd so that we could provide their students more opportunities to go onto college, become professionals. Blanca served in this role children who are now parents, who many of them are outside of the migrant farm workers now. Theyve gone onto college and become professionals, so the work that blanca does is precious beyond words because she is really making the change for families who dont have adequate you know, families who, at times, face some of the hardest things we can imagine. So tonight, we want to honor blanca by first starting in her car, serving families from place to place, driving to school, eating lunch in her car, helping wherever schools would give her space. Blanca is warm hearted, she easily connects with people. Principals, come on in here and have lunch, teachers she has been, really, a servant to the district in serving these families, and i want to recognize her tonight, and the whole team of access and equity curriculum instruction stand by the work that Blanca Gonzales does for our students. Her work is really, really from her heart and from her soul. Thank you, blanca. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Well, this i would like to thank god first, and my family, and also my team. They are good support, good support for me. Working with migrant families is not a job for me, its a passion, its a labor of love. I am very grateful for the families that i have worked with through all these years because they taught me a lot of life lessons. These family share with me the humility and their hard work of wanting a better life for their children in this country. They alwa they i trust in god, and i trust in my families and my team, and i dedicate this award to my son, caesar, who pass away, but he guide me to my life journey. And i love you so much, my son. This is for you, and this is all for the families, who i love. I love work with the families every day, every day, and i see them every day. They are more than families, they are truly love. So thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you, blanca. So much more rock stars in our midst. Thank you so much. We are going to move onto Public Comment. So mr. Steele, you want to make the announcement and then the protocol . So yeah. If youd care to raise your hand, if you want to speak on general Public Comment on items that are not on the agenda some evening, so something that is not on the agenda, you can speak during this time. Please raise your hand, and then, well call on you when its ready. Go ahead. Perfect. Thank you. Well see what happens. All right. So the protocol for Public Comment, please note that Public Comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters in the boards jurisdiction. We ask that you refrain from using employee and student names. If you have a complaint about a district employees, you may submit it to the employees supervisor as per district policy. Rules under California Law do not allow us to respond or answer questions during the Public Comment time. If appropriate, the superintendent will ask that the staff follow up with speakers. Okay. It looks like nine hands are up right now, president sanchez. So two minutes . Yeah. Hello, angela . Hi, yes. Can you hear me . Yes. Hi. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is angela watson, and im the Vice President of local 1741. Our union would like to thank those who spoke in support of the bus drivers for recognizing us as part of sfusds family and a Union Workforce. I would like to add in support of School Bus Drivers letter, there includes a description of student bus services. We are all aware of the budget deficit the Transportation Department faced prior to covid 149. The community is dependent on our elected officials to truly represent the core values of sfusd. It is essential that the School District considered rebudgeting School Bus Drivers health care so we can continue to serve the community, which weve done for almost 50 years. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Hello, natalie . Hello, natalie . Natalie, are you there . Gerardo . Gerardo . Hello . Yes, go ahead. Two minutes. Yes, good afternoon. My names gerardo martin, and my wife and i are School Bus Drivers in San Francisco Unified School District. Were already going through some hard times, trying to help the kids with their zoom meetings, and now were facing another challenge where were going to be left without Health Insurance, and thats going to be hard not only on us but a lot of families that are School Bus Drivers that do rely on that, and i just want you to consider, we are there for you when you guys need us, and we would love for you to consider us now. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, judith . Yes. Go ahead. Okay. Yeah, my nickname is shane, but thats okay. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is shane hu 4ud fhuff,e been a School Bus Driver for 31 years. A letter published on september 8 addresses the issue of supporting School Bus Drivers in this time of layoffs due to covid19. We did find that superintendent matthews letter had some misrepresentations in it. It gives the clear impression that sfusd provided over 6 million of funds to pay wages and benefits of School Bus Drivers and staff for four months. These funds were provided by the emergency state and federal relief packages that were granted to the entire Public Education system. In specific, California Senate bill 117 directed districts to pay their contractors, which included contracted School Bus Drivers. Dr. Matthews states that cert, which is coronavirus employee relief for transportation act will help, but that bill is dead in the water and has been given an 8 chance of passing i thank you for your time. Thank you. Heather . Hi. Id like to request the board support in keeping Presidio Early Education School open. Its perfect for covid, it has rest rooms in all the classrooms, windows that open, and tons of outdoor space. Please intervene so that the school doesnt close at the end of this school year. Thank you. Thank you. Raphael . Yes, this is raphael picazzo, can you hear me . We can. Okay. Seiu 1021, chapter president. I want to talk about our student warehouse workers that are being called heros but are being treated as zeros through the districts management because they dont want to continue to pay these guys hazard pay. These people come to work every day putting their lives at risk, and its you know, theyre exposing themselves to the public, especially with student nutrition on their hand to hand contact with the public. You know, our members deserve better. Theyre not expendable members. You cannot just wait until someone gets sick with covid and then say okay, just sit, go home two weeks, three weeks, with no pay, etc. , when these guys are deserving, and they care about the kids in the School District, and make sure that they got fed, that theyve got a clean school, that theyve got the supplies that they need. We need our members treated and respected properly. Also, im in support of the bus drivers. Please at least give them their health care. Theyve got children. This is not the time to take away their health care. Theyre teachers. Give them the appropriate pay that they need. Theyre working extremely hard with the Distance Learning. I know its difficult for all of them, and its hard on all of us. Were all learning together, so lets appreciate the staffers that youve got working for you in this district and pay them appropriately with hazard pay. Thank you. Thank you. Shelby . Hello, shelby . Shelby, are you there . Can you hear me . We can, go ahead. Okay. My name is shelby. Hi, superintendent and members . My name is shelby, and i have been a School Bus Driver for 15 years. I would like you to know that we are about to lose our health care in eight days. We are eight days away from a disaster for our membership. Also, i would like you to know that several San Francisco School Bus Drivers have not received unemployment since june, and we have all these different circumstances going on. We have just horrible things going on. Some of the drivers have caught covid and are recovering from this deadly virus. My question to you guys is when School Starts were looking at a start date of november 2. How are we going to start when we have no workforce to start with if you guys dont try to help us . Its a shame that we have to beg the city of San Francisco for help, the city that we serve. Thank you. Thank you. Sam . Hi. I would like to talk real quickly about an issue that has been on peoples minds lately, which is climate change, and the bad air, and what im asking the school board to do, and everybody in our sfusd community is to have a hard look at our facilities and what we can do to get money either from the state or the city to upgrade facilities because thats an equity issue. Children need to be able to breathe clean air, and i think we need some air purification plans as well as really good air monitoring plans. This is the future of our area, and also, i just want to give a shoutout to the bus drivers. As the mother of a special ed kid, i know youre a part of our continuing care. Thank you. Thank you. Lorraine . Hello, lorraine . Lorraine, are you there . Yes, im here. [inaudible]. Your screen is on, just to let you know to turn it off. I was promoting to what . Your screen is on because i had to promote you to panelist. Im okay now . Yes, you can go ahead. Okay. Hi. My name is lorraine bowser, and i work in student nutrition department, and im also one of the local area reps for 1021. Im one of the frontline workers working in student nutrition. Im working at willie brown schools. Ive worked 30 years for the School District, and were working really hard. Were doing unusual work right now, and were all putting our families at risk. Some people have people at home that are dying, but theyre consistently still coming to work. I just want to express about our hazard pay. Thats something that we need. Were hazard. Were facetoface, frontline, with these people. And now, were hand to hand because were doing other thing with accountability, so were actually hand to hand. I wanted to speak on that behalf, and i want the board to consider the hazardous pay for the workers that are out there doing this covid. We have a lot of people out there every day, people that are dying, so were asking the board to please help us through this process. We need your help, we need your understanding. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, bissa or bissa . Hello, members of the board. My name is bissa [inaudible] and im a teacher in the district. All of these things that youre responsible for making decisions on and supporting us with is a lot of responsibility, so thank you so much for taking on that responsibility. Really appreciate it. And today, im here because i wanted to ask you to consider thinking of how we can better support the the citys hubs, the learning hubs that are just getting going for our children, and how we can better support the youth that are potentially going to be going to those learning hubs. Im a teacher at hill top high school, and the students that i teach would really benefit from being able to go to learning hubs if it were possible for them, and also members of their family to go to learning hubs. Theyre among the most vulnerable students in the city, and many of them are experiencing the multiple pandemics that we have going in our society right now. Racial pandemic, covid19 pandemic, and right now, i feel that were in an evolving education pandemic, and what can our system do to stop that racial pandemic as it rolls through our black and brown communities. Ive been involved with a c. B. O. Called homie, and theyve been trying to help set up their hub, and theyre struggling to get that going. Im wondering how we can help these hubs get going. Hearing those awardees really inspired me and made me say we have to figure out how to untie our hands so we can make that happen. I know that our hands are tied in some ways because of legalities, but were in a pandemic, and this is the way to figure out how to untie our hands. How can we do that . This is not the time to say, our hands our tied. We need to support our students. Thank you. Thats time. Thank you. Thank you for your hello, gail . Gail . Can you hear me . We can, go ahead. Hi. Good afternoon, commissioners and superintendent matthews. My name is gail flynn, and im a 15 year bus driver. I have the pleasure of working very closely with our 250 of our drivers. Im also a mother of five adult children, one who is severely disabled and rode our buses for 16 years and is the reason i became a School Bus Driver. Most of our 250plus drivers at the time knew joe, and they all watched out for him. Today, i want to discuss the appalling idea that sfusd wants to drop our bus drivers from health care on october 1. Were part of these childrens educational day. In most case, were the first pleasant person they see before they go to school. Often, were invited to a students i. E. P. Plan, connected to these children as well as their families. Weve watched these children go. The thought of dropping the drivers from their Health Insurance during a pandemic is unc unconscionable. I am recovering from a long illness and do not know what i would do if i didnt have my Health Insurance. We deserve to keep our Health Benefits while we wait for school to start back up. I ask that you please, please reconsider this action against our drivers. Thank you. Okay, speaker, you have an sfusd email address. I believe the last name is young . My name is donnie l. Young, [inaudible] and seiu 1021 vise president of the School District chapter. Im here to speak about the food pick up program, and im speaking for the members that are prayed to speak up because theyre worried about losing their jobs. Some individuals are worried about the scanner system that the school is making the parents use. Sometimes the student nutrition workers have to enlarge the q. R. Code by pinching the picture on the phone screen, so there is no social distancing. Its facetoface but more hand to hand contact, not only making it easier for our families and members to get sick, but for students, as well. Will the district provide more p. P. E. Because we have to touch everybodys phone or more paperwork . Will the district give us more time because we have to change gloves before we interact with another family so we dont paspas pas pass covid19 through the community. Work due that causes extreme physical discomfort and distress which is not adequately alleviated by protective devices is deemed to impose a physical hardship. Our members definition of why they deserve hazard pay theyre risking their lives. Please pay our heros the right way. Please show that you care about our heros. Thank you. Thank you. Leslie . Hi, good afternoon. This comment is in regards to the letter that was written by dr. Matthews and mosted on medium. Com. The letter stated if the district funded our health care that it would affect our lower or Unemployment Benefits claim, that thats not accurate. The two are completely unrelated. In fact many drivers like the millions of others dealing with unemployment are having issues with being paid on time or not being paid at all. Yes, these are difficult times for everyone, and the district has the daunting task of balancing the budget, but we ask that you dont balance the budget on the backs of the School Bus Drivers who have been part of the sfusd for decades. And when the board of ed is looking at [inaudible] and are considering cost saving measures, youre not looking at the children as individuals and the Important Services and transportation that they need. Okay. Im done. Thanks. Thank you. Hello, jan . Yeah, my name is jan jinn, and im the president of the local 1021 here at our local School District. We at protext are in solidarity stand in solidarity with the bus drivers. I think its really important for them to have at least their Health Care Benefits not be affected during this time of covid, and i know that the bus drivers, you know, they see a lot of kids, and they know, you know, they have a an understanding of our students, a special one, and i think its important to state it. Id also like to that we stand also with local 1021 about the hazard pay issue, as these people are on the frontlines, and youve been hearing about the news, the public is not necessarily very careful about their own safety precautions. So i i do think that its i think hazard pay for those people, nutrition workers or whathaveyou, being the fact that given the fact that they are going to the possibility of them being exposed, i think that they are deserving of hazard pay. Thank you. And thank you. Thats all i have to say. D. Miner . Yes, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Go ahead. I am a 1021 member, seiu 1021, and i am a radio announcer [inaudible], and i am just checking in about hazard pay. I worked i come in onsite six days a week, five to six days a week, and i think it would be appreciated to present hazard pay. I take care of my grandmother, my grandmother, whos 89. I take care of her, and my father, who his dialysis three days a week. And coming to work, coming onsite, and being around a number of people, im exposing them when i come back home, so i would so if we can have hazard pay, that would be greatly appreciated, and i also support the bus drivers, the School Bus Drivers. Thank you. Soha abdu . Soha from ccdc . Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Go ahead. So im working with a lot of the immigrant families, and i hear from a lot of the parents that theyre concerned for their kids education because most of the kids, they are still young or they came here to the country, and they wouldnt find the same help online to be advanced more in english or in other classes. So they were asking me if there is any resources they can go through this, and they can access, like, [inaudible] but as you know, a lot of these learning hubs, its very limited, so a lot of families didnt know about it. We were thinking if there would be any resources through the Unified School District, they could make think about special teachers, like, to have small groups of students, and they can work with them regarding, like, the Language Skills or math skills or maybe oneonone. A lot of immigrants are, like, really suffering from this, and they dont know where to find the help, so please, like, try to consider these options or try to consider more resources for these families. Thank you so much. Thank you. Brandy . Hello, brandy . Hi. My name is brandy markman. I am a parent at sutro school. I want to thank the district and board for changing thanksgiving to thanksgiving to fall break. I know native American Families have been asking for that for quite a while. I hope that the Central Office can announce a plan to make sure that all of our schools know that because teachers at our school have been sending out calendars that say thanksgiving break, and i know they would happily make sure that their language reflected the district language. But if theres not a plan to get this information to our schools, then it wont happen. So i just ask out of respect for our native American Families that there be a plan for native american schools and families. Also, i just want to make sure that teachers are aware also now it is and how to present it through their students to an antiracist lens, Indigenous Peoples day and the halloween holiday. Thank you so much. Thank you. Miss marshall . Good afternoon, president sanchez, subject matthews, Board Members, and delegates. I have some good news to share, great new to see share. A week ago, one of our former sfusd students, who graduated Tuskegee University was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the u. S. Air force. He was able to fly his father, reverend rob chisolm from atlanta back to tuskegee this summer. He is the only student that i have had in my career who will be a pilot. Were having a celebration in the next few weeks, and i will let everyone know. So i brought out my bells, so i want to ring my bell and congratulate ayande chisolm and his parents and his entire family, who came from bayviewhunters point. We have Second Lieutenant, ayande chisolm, who will become a pilot in march. Thank you. Thank you. And president sanchez, that concludes Public Comment on this item. Thank you, mr. Steele, and thank you to the public for coming out and making comments to the board and to the general public. Moving onto section d, Advisory Committee reports and appointments. We have the Community Advisory council for special education, julia martin. Thank you. Good evening, superintendent matthews, president sanchez, and commissioners. My name is julia martin, and i am proud to be here today as your liaison to the special education commission. With that, i hand it off to our new chair. My name is [inaudible] and i am the current chair of the c. A. C. For special education. Thank you for being here. It is important to highlight that the c. A. C. Is a state mandated Oversight Committee and part of San Francisco county special education local plan area. Our purpose aligns with the districts Mission District to drive each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21st century. During covid19, we are focusing on three responsibilities per our state mandate. One, supporting activities on behalf of individuals with exceptional needs. Two, educating parents, students, staff, and Community Members regarding special education issues, and three, Encouraging Community involvement in the parent Advisory Committee. Hold on one second, danielle. Justin, our slides, for some reason, are not showing. Okay. Ill go ahead and put them up. Thank you. There we go. Thank you, judson. Can we go to slide two oh, we are on slide two. [inaudible] we would like to provide you sorry. We would like to provide you with a brief overview im sorry. Can you go back next slide . Next slide, thank you. Sorry. We would like to provide you with a brief overview of special education in San Francisco Unified School District. Overall, we have approximately 7,700 students with an i. E. P. Which makes up about 5 of students in sfusd. A small amount, 2 , are placed in the most restrictive setting, nonpublic schools. 24 are placed in special day classes, but 74 of students who receive special Education Services have their needs meet in general education classrooms with support of resource specialists or related services programs, which is why we always return our focus to this excerpt from the sfusd exclusive education guiding principle. Students requiring special Education Services are, first and foremost, general Education Students who need Additional Services and support in order to succeed in school. Their success, therefore, is the joint responsibility of all sfusd educators. Lastly, we want to commend our sfusd special Education Team for working hard to Keep Services moving during these unprecedented times. While much of our society has shutdown, there have been no waivers for. D. E. A. Further, sb 98 was created president ial requirements for Distance Learning. While it has not been perfect, and there is still work to be did you happen, we are grateful that our district continues to provide special Education Services. Next slide, please. Now for our priorities for the Current School year. Our first and most importantly priority is a focus on institutional racist, systemic basis and inequity in special education. Second, we believe that it is very important to provide social emotional supports that address all Students Mental Health needs during covid19 and whatever else this year may throw at us. Third, the move to Distance Learning and virtual classrooms has been a big pivot for our educators, so we are focused on increases learning and collaboration for general education and special education staff. Fourth, but most definitely not least, we are focused on strengthening academic based interventions for literacy and math. It is crucial that all students continue to have access to their education and can make academic progress in these fundamental areas. Next slide, please. My name is alita fisher, and i am the Community Liaison for special education. Im presenting on behalf of liliane lim, whose birthday it is today. On behalf of the entire sfusd, i say happy birthday, liliane. This is our first mission. We are continuing abbott eye racism training for the c. A. C. Board and are excited about the new opportunities for this school year. The c. A. C. Is rethinking our outreach efforts and even our meaning formats with our membership diversity and efforts. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with the joint council and Family Communities and other Community Outreach and empowerment events. The c. A. C. Is especially proud of our partnership with aapac, the African American parent Advisory Committee. Lastly, the c. A. C. Recommends 88 and 30, an 88 and 30 in color, a series of 30 interviews created by black and Indigenous People with disabilitied about the incident intersection of race and disability. While this whole series is amazing and worth watching, our favorites are blackautisticlearning, and 30 in 30. We shared this slide with the board in june and felt it was so important, we need to bring it back. The graph on this slide highlights the disproportionate amount of students in special education. This past spring and summer, the cceis, comprehensive coordinated Early Intervening Services task force, which consists of special education and general education staff, as well as 5 apac members has been researching the lived members of sfusd students and families that cause students to be pushed out of general education programs. The cceis teams will present their report to the California Department of education this fall. Until this report is approved, 1. 8 million is being held by the state. Once approved, it will be moved from holding to the education budget for intervention services. Lastly, we want to stress the important of literacy in this discussion and encourage you to read the linked article how families are pushing to teach reading skills more effectively. Next slide, please. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is naheed [inaudible] and i am the secretary of the parent Advisory Committee. After a very long and hard spring, the c. A. C. Advocates worthy of excellence wards in skbrun were a shallneeded opportunity to in june were a much needed opportunity to highlight achievers. [inaudible] which includes special education teachers, bobbie huang, and lauren page, as well as paraeducator miranda chen, laura romney, peggy huber, therapist at oaks childrens center. Joe goyas, and sabrina james, special education teacher. Even though this was a virtual ceremony, the contributions shared and the Award Winners were just as moving as when we were in person. We look forward to next years a. W. E. Award ceremony in april of 2021. Distance learning and the ongoing covid19 pandemic are taking a toll on students and caregivers. Many of us are experiencing a new form of isolation. The safety and needs of our students and Community Members with exceptional needs has been highlighted during this time. To address these needs and provide resources to parents, we are focusing our september cceis meeting on our education efforts. For Additional Details about the meeting, visit our website or information on our facebook page. Every ten years, the sfusd, c. A. C. , and San Francisco Special Olympics has collaborated on a special schools week. This years theme is the time for inclusion is now. Inclusive schools week provides an opportunity to highlight and model best practices, providing students with exceptional needs in our school as whole, complete, and valued citizens. Particularly now, as we are rethinking our classrooms and so thes, we must build inclusive societies, we must build inclusiveness in everything that we do. The next is to increase professionalism and collaboration for special education staff to enhance Distance Learning. Professional development is crucial as we pivot to distance laerping. This past august, the c. A. C. Participated in Digital District day, it was an opportunity to learn about the various tech tools available to staff and how to make our meetings and communications more accessible. We thank the department of technology for including us on that inspiring day. During Distance Learning, we ask for staff to have access and training on the following tech tools Remote Desktop access for teachers and support staff, streamer, for access closed captions to those who are deaf or hard of hearing, private messages options for support staff, and zoom meeting access for our students therapists. As the district creates new virtual krik also, the curriculum, the c. A. C. Hopes that more is available for our educato educato educators. We are pleased to have a large number of teachers and other staff in attendance at our august general meeting on Distance Learning. Zoom has made our meetings more accessible to staff and a resource to those looking for more information on how best to serve our students with exceptional needs. In january, we will be shining a spotlight on our paraeducators who provide important support to so many of our students with exceptional needs. Next slide, please. Literacy inventions. This bill would have eliminated an important reading test that teachers need to take to earn their credential. We cannot expect our teachers to be able to teach reading effectively if we arent ensuring their effectively prepared. The california dyslexia guidelines are more important than ever during Distance Learning. For students who need structure learned to learn how to read, it is critical that we provide those services. Math intervention. Last spring, we had hoped to have a meeting on math interventions, but the pandemic forced us to reschedule. We are happy to report that that item has been rescheduled for our february 2021 meeting. You are all invited, and we hope to see you there. Next slide, please. At our presentation last june, the c. A. C. Had eight asks to the board. While the district made progress in some areas, others still need work, and some new concerns have arisen one, we ask to keep Distance Learning for students who are thriving or have medical needs. The c. A. C. Is excited to hear a limited hybrid option is being planned, but parents and students in priority groups that are thriving in Virtual School or medically fragile should still have the option for Virtual Learning until it is safe or appropriate for them to return in person. Two, conversely, we ask to create an inperson option for students who cant access Distance Learning. While we appreciate that our most impacted students will be prioritized to return to school, there are many other students receiving special Education Services who are struggling and would also like an option to return. How and when will the district be able to skoaccommodate thos students . Further, the c. A. C. Is concerned about the layoff of the First Student bus drivers . How will transportation be provided if we dont have enough bus drivers when students come back . Three, we ask the district to provide inhome Parent Support and therapies for homebound students. While the c. A. C. Has seen some improvement in this area, parents are concerned about having to sign contracts, such as compromise and release agreements. In addition, the c. A. C. Remains concerned about how the hubs will help students with i. E. P. S. We ask the district to continue to advocate for our students, and five, we ask for a united educators memorandum of understanding that supports i. E. P. S. The c. A. C. Is proud that the fall semester m. O. U. Allows teachers to work a full day, but we are concerned about the ability of teachers to access i. E. P. S with fidelity. Next slide, judson. Thank you. Five, we ask to expand Home Delivery of meals for all members of home bound students. Thank you for providing meals to siblings of these home bound students. We ask the district to find a way to expand the number of families receiving Home Delivery. Can a. D. A. Accommodations and pick up sites be explored . For families with mobility issues, is there a way to make this easier . Six, we ask to address related needs and ensure that all prek to 2 students have learning devices. We still want to ensure that related services and all Service Minutes are appropriate in emergency learning plans and meet 1sb 98 guidelines so that students can continue to meet their goals. What is being done to move special education assessments forward . How is progress happening monitoring students with i. E. P. S . How will regression and learning loss be identified, documented, and supported this fall . Eight, lastly we ask to continue to expand structural literacy and science based dyslexia intervention. Wed like to leave you with an article by a. P. M. Reports. What the words say. Many children struggle with reading, and children of color are far less likely to get the instruction that they need, and the consequences are high for getting this wrong. We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming meetings. Please feel free to reach out to any of us and contact us to discuss any of these topics further, and finally, thank you for your time, and that concludes our presentation. All right. Thank you so much for your presentation. We have one small request. We missed our first slide, and we wanted to share just our welcome slide, which was pictures of members children, so if thats possible. Thats just some of the children that are represented. Great picture or rather great slide. Okay, mr. Steele, lets see if theres any Public Comment on this item. Okay. Thank you. Please raise your hand if you care to speak on this item today, on the c. A. C. Sped presentation. Just a moment. Hello, megan . Hi. My name is megan colusa, and im a v. A. Analyst in the district, and a c. A. C. Special education member, and i wanted to give my thanks today for all of the Board Members that presented . As always, there was an amazing presentation and highlighted a lot of the work that this argues is doing, as well as a lot of the that this organization is doing, as well as a lot of work that needs to be done. I work very closely with a lot of educators and educators serving students with special needs, and i wanted to strongly urge the district to especially move on the ask for more intervention, specifically interventions that can be used in our current learning situations for students with disabilities as well as training on supporting students with special needs via Digital Learning as well as offline home learning. Our special educators are working very long, tireless hours to try to meet the needs of the students on their caseloads but do not have the resources to do it. We need more interventions for students, especially math interventions. We need equitable access to intervention, like mathspire. Schools that cannot afford more kits are not able to serve all of their students, and we need more math interventions that can be applied online as these are students that have goals in these areas that educators dont have access to and cant makeup on the fly. Thank you very much for the c. A. C. Board, all of the c. A. C. Members, and all of the special education staff who are working really hard to meet the needs of our students. Thank you. Thank you. Marisa . Hi, good evening. Can you hear me . We can. Go ahead. This is Marisa Robinson. I wear many hats, but tonight, im going to wear the hat of a proud 11 grader who has cognitive disabilities and has an i. E. P. Due to members of the special advisory board, i was able to navigate the system of special ed for my daughter. I also want to speak to their African American special ed council. [inaudible] to help the fight. Im especially excited about partnering with the Advisory Council about addressing the disproportionality and under and overrepresentation of African American students in the district. I look forward to hearing the voices of our community through the data that we brought to the school board regarding the over representation of our babies in the industry. And dont forget to vote. Register. Thank you, and have a good night. Thank you. Michelle . Yes, hi, judson. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners, student delegates, superintendent, district staff, and Community Members. My name is michelle. Im speaking to you now in support of the Community Advisory council for special education, and their thoughtful and detailed presentation to you today, and their asks for the 2021 school year. The c. A. C. Is an integral part of the joint advisory and advisory alignment work within sfusd. They attend task force meetings, help to plan events, and members provide valuable feedback from the stakeholders to the district on on such things as the learning continuity plan and the labor attendance plan as youll hear about later in this meeting. We align our goals and priorities and Work Together to accomplish positive change. We are stronger together. Thank you. Hello, susan . Yes, hi, mr. Steele. Good afternoon Board Members and delegates. Im susan solomon, president of united educators of San Francisco. I think i say effort i hear a spedcac report. I want to echo what ms. K4colu and ms. Robinson said before me. Really happy to hear that january is paraeducators spotlight. If uesf can participate in that or help out in some way, please do let us know. We appreciate how everybody is working hard to solve some really difficult problems. We do know how much inhome support is needed and the complication that that brings in terms of health and safety for everyone, and uesf is committed to negotiations with the School District, which actually start this week around how we will be able to provide services and when we will be able to provide services to the students with whom we work. Thanks very much. Oh, and register to vote, and vote. Thank you very much, miss robinson, for that reminder. Thank you. That concludes Public Comment, president sanchez. I just wanted to open it up for Jean Robinson for maybe some additional responses. I know you work with the c. A. C. , but there was a long list of asks, and wanted to get your thoughts. Hi. Thank you for giving me a moment. Totally didnt prepare anything, but i will say that the c. A. C. Are fantastic partners. I feel as though the c. A. C. Is sort of my Oversight Committee, and theyre my site council. They definitely show up, and we collaborate, indeed. Having the ombudsman show up and serving as the liaison has been fantastic. Julia has been great in helping us hone in on what our collective goals will be. Their presentation yielded no surprises. Were very much aligned where the needs are out there in the field. Obviously, the pandemic has created all kinds of new situations and challenges for us, but were learning in together and committed. Were really looking forward to this weeks meeting also, which is going to focus on Mental Health. So all of sped will be in the house as we always are. We always show up, and we will avail ourselves to meet with the families first, and then, well Work Together to learn more about first wellness for ourselves and then obviously the children who are in our charge and in team members and taking care of each other. So im available to process out anything that might come up in the next few minutes, along with the c. A. C. Team members. Thank you so much, jean. Commissioner norton, and then commissioner lam . Thank you, and thank you for that great presentation. I just had two well, one comment and one question. Ill start with my comment, which is im so appreciative that the partnership that the c. A. C. Has built with the other parent groups. I think ive commented on that before, but i just really, really want to commend you for that. And, you know, as a former c. A. C. Members many, many years ago, i wish that i had thought of that. So im i just really think its an Incredible Alliance that youve built, and youre to be commended for that, particularly the work that youre doing with aapac and the antiracism work. Im interested and maybe if its too long, we can talk offline, but im interested in the changes that youre exploring for the meetings because that was always a challenge to get the full representation of our really diverse parents out to c. A. C. Meetings. I mean, its been our experience, right, with Board Meetings that were getting a lot more people showing up because its easier to participate through zoom, which i think we wouldnt have realized before this. We would have been oh, but it requires people to have an Internet Connection and a computer. [please stand by]. How to continue doing zoom even if we return to inperson because it has granted a lot of access to families who might not be able to come out in person and get to a meeting. So with that, i want to thank everybody for hearing us, and i have to go take care of my kid, and our other Community Members will take over. Thank you all. Yeah, thanks danielle. I think a lot of the credit belongs to danielle, but also, julia, our ombudsman. I think having a collaborative relationship with the district has allowed us to access more district services. Weve been able to coordinate vietnamese interpretation with a couple of weeks notice. If we had access to a bigger zoom account like, the account weve been using up to this month was capped at 100 people, and thats a good needtor us to have. Two years ago, they were 30, last year, they were 60 people, and now were up over 100. So our overflow goes to our Facebook Live page, but we have a lot of partners here in the city, but we have spark sf, and i dont know if one of our Corporate Partners could donate one of their links to the parent advisory meetings instead of it coming out of our engagement fund. That could be an opportunity for all of us to increase collaboration and outreach. Thanks, lee. And then, my last question, ms. Robertson or somebody at legal, can you just touch on the contract issues . My ears perked up with the concerns that families are having to sign about waiver or instruction agreements . So if you could just talk a little bit about that. That sounds really, really intimidating, and a huge barrier to our families, so i dont know if we have any response to that specifically. If danielle is in the house, she can chime in, but when we put a person in a home, there are some requirements that have to be met. Theres a waiver process thats happening at the forefront. And then, to waive claims is negotiatable, and its not definite for everybody, and its not a waiver for everything, either. Its kind of a moving target depending on what the needs are of a child. We start with sort of a boiler plate, so everything is negotiatable in my opinion. If a family doesnt feel good about it, we try to give opportunities for them to speak up, and we can i will make a commitment to work through it. Yeah, no, and i know that about you, and i really appreciate it, and i know that you always promote that. Its just so intimidating to even to even to negotiate, right . Like, let alone read through a legal form. Im just wondering if theres a way we can work with our providers and not make families sign a contract or negotiate a contract. I guess thet that were in a r unusual situation and that we want to cover ourselves here, but it makes it really hard for families. I wonder if we can just try to find a way to keep families out of that loop as they would be under normal circumstances . Well, point taken, and ill bring it back and continue to try to work in harmony so that people arent feeling intimidated. Thats the last thing we need at this time, really. I agree. Thank you. I appreciate it. All right. Thanks. Thank you. Commissioner lam . Thank you to the c. A. C. I always appreciate the thoughtfulness and effort that goes in, day in and day out, that our members put into the presentation. O if we can formalize the monitoring either call it a dashboard or list of how were working with staff, so just wanted to note that with my colleagues and note that one thing two followups around recommendations number 7 and 8, both around the assessment options and maybe, jean, you can respond to currently what options are. Wants to understand recommendations just arent the structural literacy and science and support, and just the end, i hope to be a partner with you in those areas. Ill just pause there. I missed a little bit of that. I heard you ask for an update on the partnership with ucsf and the yes, exactly, the assessments. Oh, the assessments, too. So well start with ucsf. I meet with, i would say more than once a month with ucsf, maybe every three weeks. They reached out to me at the very beginning of the pandemic, and they have shared all of their webinars on safety protocols and whats happening with kids Mental Health wise, stress wise, and ive shared with them a little bit of sort of just updates from our end and just some information. We meet every three weeks, and we can continue the conversations. They do need in a little bit of the kids not Case Management per se, but really Touching Base on how to best partner with the school personnel. So i feel that our work with ucsf is really healthy right now, and with strengthening, it will be ongoing. The assessment situation to date at this point is sitting in the hands of probably myself and labor. A task force did come together and came up with about seven recommendations, so were going to flush them out and kind of hone in on what looks right at this time and bring them back for another review. Were beginning our negotiations with u. E. Beginning tomorrow, so the essential piece is different. Like i seds, itsaid, its a t, but were getting close to addressing that. As soon as we do get back into the red and we are allowed to go back into the buildings, we will have the plans flushed out. And jean, ill follow up with you around the ucsf supports and the screening, just that its been multiyear that this has been coming up in the spedcac recommendations, if theres anything policy wise or just Strategic Partnerships wise, just want to be moving that work along. Yeah, because actually, that has taken a little bit of a back seat during all of this time. We are getting close to the point where we are bubbling up our regular work, so i look forward to that. Thank you. Commissioner collins, and then, well go back to commissioner norton. Great. I appreciate your comments and questions, commissioner lam, and i want to piggyback, but before i do, i want to start by reiterating commissioner nor tans praise for the spedcac and appreciation for other parent leaders that are official parent leaders and are just parents. I want to say as a parent in the district, there are parents in your c. A. C. That have helped me as a parent before i was on the board, and i know that youre accessible to families, and julia, i just want to approximately out that youve been helping parents before you were a staff member. So i want to say thank you, and also thank you for all the parents that i dont know about that youve supported in navigating, as Marisa Robinson mentioned. I guess on that note, i want to follow up at some point. We need to follow up with families, and i think julia is great, but i think our systems should be easier to manage and shouldnt require a people to help you, they should be a little easier. With that, i guess i do want to say i appreciate all the free labor that you guys are providing us, and i think that we should be paying parent leaders because of the work that you did. We ask Staff Members to put together presentations, and we pay them for their time, and i think we need to start paying parents stipended money because you were helping us improve. So im putting that out there, and i would love to talk to other commissioners i know we are in a budget crisis, but we are improving our system on the backs of mostly women, okay, who are working for our districts for free, so i just want to name that. And then, i guess, i want to move into a question that commissioner lam posed, and i want to follow up on it, which is last year, you shared the recommendations, and i want to ask deputy superintendent or maybe its superintendent matthews, how are we whats our whats our dashboard . I remember as a native american p. A. C. Recommended to us recommendations, and i actually went out and printed out several years of recommendations, and you could see a pattern of people repeating the same questions and asking for stuff, and it was unclear how the district was responding. And then, also, in some cases, we had responded, but it was unclear how we were responding as a district. So superintendent matthews, what do you propose as a very transparent and visible way to track requests of p. A. C. S . Do you have a system we could use right now . I think you mentioned a system. Give credit to commissioner lam. Commissioner lam mentioned a dashboard. I think for resolutions, what we do is we put them on a spreadsheet, and then, we list out all of the items im sorry. I apologize. My neighbor just started blowing his leaves, and we put them all on a spreadsheet, and then, we track progress on where we are, so we similarly could do that same thing, which would be it could be a dashboard, but more of a spreadsheet, and then tracking progress, either the red, yellow, green, or done, not done, but i could do those. I would appreciate that, and i think we could make that a part of the presentation, so the spedcac could make a presentation, and the district could present their dashboard at that time because i know we have those regular presentations. Does that sound like a good process . Yes. I also want to say that not every recommendation is made actionable. Actionable. Moving forward, some are, some arent. There would need to be clarity, just because something is active doesnt mean its red. I understand some things are sometimes parents make requests that are not they dont meet legal requirements or theyre not allowed in the budget, but i just want to talk about that. I know on the lcac, parents say were not doing enough. I do want to make is more visible. And then, i guess a follow up for all of us is assessment. It came up in the assessment are. We had a curriculum meeting yesterday. Specifically, interests ae a request for a conversation around assessment. We have our regular, like, formative reading assessments that we do for all students, and then, we have specific assessments that we rely onto support students with i. E. P. S, and im just wondering, director jean robertson, do you know, when youre talking about the Assessment Task force, is that the one, like, its the up i dont know and parents and stf that just talk about all assessments or is that a different specific task force thats specific to special education . Its very specific to special education. A referral is made for a speech pathologist, we do a battery of assessments. And Classroom Teachers will also do the academic portion of those assessments. One of the problems with all of these assessments is theyre all normed. On zoom, its very difficult to do because theyre all normed. So i guess thats another i was having just similar questions around just rating assessments, right . Because teachers usually conduct those in person, and theyre normed in a classroom under a regular session. One of the concerns that im having is oftentimes, parents or teachers will refer students based on regular informative assessments, but also just formative assessments as a teacher, i do spelling tests in a regular spelling exam, i might see that student has dysgraphia or dyslexia. Im concerned were bigging a backlog of kids that were not able to do the follow up on the assessment through the special education department, but were not picking up on kids through general assessments that might not be referred right now. Im just wondering what youre thinking around this. As a chair of the Curriculum Committee, we can make start to move conversations forward, and im wondering if you have any recommendations for us as a board in that process. Im fascinated that you are hitting it out of the park with this question because weve already sort of pondered all that it entails. So we have an obligation to child find, but we also have this pandemic situation, where the questioning we would have to question any referral coming to us at this point, given the circumstances, but we do have child find. We have something, but its not ready for prime time. Its being vetted across the nation through our partners. Theres a lot of alignment having in the field of education with the pandemic conditions. All i want to say right now is yes to everything you just said. It is absolutely on our radar. We have some things in development, and its not quite ready for prime time, but it hopefully will be soon. All right. And i do want to say, i agree with president sanchez, and i think just as a general, we need to be assessing learning, but how that looks is going to be really different right now, and we want to do it thoughtfully, and we want to do it ethically. So i think we want to have a follow up conversation just in general on how were assessing learning in our district, so i will look forward to talking to other commissioners and staff to set those meetings up and hope to involve you in and spedcac members in those conversations with an idea that special education members are also members of general ed classrooms and are identified a lot of times in just general ed classrooms with those assessments. And then, i guess my final question is just getting back to concerns that the spedcac had special education c. A. C. Had lifted up the Community Hubs i wanted to know if you have had an community or staff any of our special education staff has had an opportunity to follow up with maria su with the San Francisco department of children, youth, and families to ensure that the hubs are inclusive of students with i. E. P. S or 504s . I have had one conversation with maria su early on in the school year. Have not had one since. Did reach out again. Im absolutely open to the conversation on how to best support kids in the Community Hubs. So we do have a little bit of a pilot going with boys and girls club, believe it or not, through commissioner lopez hooked us up. So thats us doing that kind of piloting. You didnt have the conversation with id like to think of it as brokering a relationship. Okay. In getting some resources and support system on how to support folks in the community who are working with our kids, so we are absolutely ready, willing, and able to sit down with maria su and sit down with her and see how we can support her folks in the community. I just want to say i appreciate your willingness to partner with both families and Community Based organizations and just thinking creatively. I want to say that i have been disappointed i want this on Public Record can director sus and the department of children, youth, and families. They have explicitly in previous meetings stated that they were not open to allowing students with i. E. P. S in their programs or they were not for those kids, and i was very clear about saying those kids are all of our kids, and they are in all different you know, and so and specifically if they are interested in supporting students that are foster youth and Homeless Youth and students from historically marginalized backgrounds, a lot of those students have i. E. P. S and 504s, and those are to be included, so i will continue to work with you and appreciate this special education c. A. C. Who have also been advocating strongly to make sure that those Community Hubs have been inclusive of all of our kids, and i will hope to follow up with all of that in the joint select committee meeting. So stay tuned, and thank you again for all the work that youre doing, and thank you so much for your families, for your advocacy, as you mentioned, for the district, but also with the city, as well. Commissioner norton, and then Vice President lopez. Oh, i just remembered i wanted to follow up on the zoom question, and im just wondering if its possible for the c. A. C. To use our account in some way, and maybe thats not possible and, you know, not to put anybody on the spot, you guys can just take it under advisement. Thats my suggestion. Okay. Go ahead, Vice President lopez. Thank you. Thank you, everyone again, of course, for all of the work that you do. I wanted to follow up with a few things about a few things that i heard, and i made a note of the measurement piece. Well, specifically with how or if this is happening now, how are you measuring the students who are thriving right now . Because this has come up a few thi times, that some of our students are in crisis learning and Virtual Learning, so if you have been, how is it being measured . Is that for miss robertson . This was actually one of the recommendations that you gave, but if theres something that youve seen . Weve been discussing that, and we have family needs that run the gamut from oh, yeah, my kids okay, or oh, my gosh, my kids accessing education for the first time in years. And some of the specific examples weve seen particularly with the asynchronous learning or kids with adhd who cant sit for 45 minutes and just get the work done. The home environment and just being able to break when you can has just been so, so beneficial. I think now the home is the classroom, so so much of what were seeing is dependent on the overall family, whether or not its safe for a student to learn, and safe is a completely subjective term, right . So i dont know that we necessarily, as a c. A. C. , have any solid data, you know, other than what were hearing from our families, and as a special education advocate, i would say one of the hardest things for Distance Learning and enforcing an i. E. P. Right now is actually progress monitoring on goals. So ill turn it over to jean or any other c. A. C. Members who might want to me, ill just jump in there. So me personally, my freshman is suffering from adhd, auditory processing, and ive seen stes level reduced fr stress level reduced from not having to get to another classroom in four minutes, having to run in and dress out for p. E. Hes doing it, clubs, games, and ive heard that from other parents whose students have been able to concentrate better because its a oneonone. Also, not having to have their camera on, believe it or not. I know that thats a big controversy. I know its hard. Im a para, as well, and its hard to run a class or teach a meeting if everybodys camera is off, but ive actually seen students who have connected a lot more because they dont feel scrutinized, so they open up. Id like to collect more data on that, because my son had ten teachers to support him last year, and now, he has me, and parents are not equipped to do that, to be the para, and the counselor, and the teacher, so we have the two camps, and thank you for being mindful of that, too, and thank you for the question. Absolutely, and i know it was in your recommendations, but im just curious if theres something youve seen be effective, if we can utilize it. Now the question is for chimis robertson if we can do that . I have to survey that. But i do know for everything kid thats thriving under zoom, there is another one whos languishing, so theres a lot of individual stories out there, and we need to capture it in order to best serve them moving forward. So theres a discussion on how best to survey, but we havent landed on agreement in that just yet. And my last question is around contact contacting families, right, cause they have to agree to a plan during this time, and its essentially doing an i. E. P. , which im imagining is over a phone or over a video call. Where are we with contacting all 7,000 families . You know, i am embarrassed to say that i dont have the number in front of me. D. J. Irvin is our numbers guy, and he was actually off last week, but he was getting me a daily counting of how many e. L. P. S have been completed. [please stand by] springtime, we needed to bolster it and make it more rigorous. The teachers are teaching full days. The number of minutes look very different now. So we really need to make those elps more robust and in alignment with what is really happening right now. So thats the charge. Some teachers hit the ground running and knocked them out of the park. And others are still struggling. The supervisors and specialists are at the ready to monitor that and ensure that we have those phone contacts phone contacts all should have happened already. As far as readjusting those plans, those continue to be a work in progress. Okay. Thats actually that actually is clear for me. I think im asking the question because im afraid if the plans arent in place, what the students, so we make that happen, right. The way the law is written, it says you fall back to your Distance Learning plan. Whatever is in place, that can be put in place at this time. What were saying, we want to make sure that its robust and appropriate during this time. So the conditions are different. The way the law is written also, it says you fall back on your spring Distance Learning plan and you dont redo your plan until your new iep is due. If its due in march, but the Distance Learning plan isnt rigorous enough, then we need to get mom or dad or caretaker back to the table. I was hearing my colleagues request around measuring your recommendations and the resolutions we have. So i wanted to share, superintendent matthews, you shared with me, tracking of the latinx as an example. If we can make this a practice on what were passing and making sure were not just saying were doing it, but actually doing it. Thank you. All right. Unless there are any other comments or questions from Board Members, commissioner collins . Ms. Collins thank you, i wanted to ask a quick question. There was a request from parents about the ispire access. I wanted to know from director robinson, is the access based on site base licenses or district based and how do we ensure all kids that need it can get access. Thats a great question. I reached out to my director who helps to ensure that ispire is where it needs to be. We did order 700 licenses for ispire. It appears that we need more. So we have to go back and find the funds to make sure that everybody has access, because obviously, im not into denying access to kids who need it. So we need to make that happen. Thank you. If you could provide a report to the board and the special education c. A. C. On how many kids were talking about and the time line, that would be great and i appreciate you being on top of it. Happy to do so. All right. Thank you to the t. A. C. On special education. I appreciate the conversation, the robust conversation with the board and with staff. So thank you again. We are going to thank you very much. Quick question, sorry, mark. Commissioner sanchez. I want to check, do we do our appointments now or is that later . President sanchez that is now. Yes. I dont see it on its actually under special order of business, so its a little later. President sanchez we can move it up if you want, since theyre here. Can we . Yeah. Yep. If you want to, we can. President sanchez let me move the special order of business up since we have everybody. Okay, so this is 20922so1 appointment of five members to the Advisory Committee for special education. Kim, sue, sam, karen, we need a motion and a second . So moved. Second. President sanchez thank you. Okay, julia . Okay. So, tonight were asking the board of education of the San Francisco Unified School District to appoint to the citizens Advisory Committee of special ed five regular members to serve a twoyear term beginning august 21, 2020. The members recommended are kim, carla, sue, sam, and karen. As designated by resolution 63987, c. A. C. Bylaws say the c. A. C. Shall have a membership of at least 11 but not more than 25 members on staggered terms. The c. A. C. Currently, if these members are appointed, will have 21 members, leaving open four seats. The nominees named were interviewed and approved for appointment by active members of the c. A. C. And were ratified for confirmation through the approval process. Biographies have been provided to the board in a separate document. President sanchez thank you, again. See if there is Public Comment on the item . President sanchez, to speak on the appointment of the new members, recommended members of the citizens Advisory Committee, please raise your hand. Hello, ms. Marshall . Thank you. President sanchez and board commissioners, congratulations to the five names we heard. We heard a scathing stats earlier about the high number of africanamericans in special ed and i want to know about the diversity and i want to know how many are africanamerican . Thank you. Thats the only hand i see up. President sanchez go ahead, ms. Fisher. Thank you. On behalf of the c. A. C. I would like to appreciate everyone for considering these nominations. These are amazing new folks that were really excited to have join us. And as always, we encourage all members of the board to send any potential members our way. As you know, were an allvolunteer organization, unless you happen to take commissioner colins advice, which i totally love and we strive hard to be as diverse as we possibly can. You know, and we do attend as many of our advisory meetings as we can and many are active in our schools. I think that our has done a great job at outreach, but we realize there is a lot more work to be do and would love the boards assistance in being representative of our parent communities, because there is a lot of intersectionality in this district. Thank you. President sanchez all right. Commissioners . All right. To the Public Comment regarding diversity, i dont expect that you have something prepared on that, but if you do, you can share that with us now or provide the board with a memo later. We can provide the board with a memo later. President sanchez okay, thank you. Can i just make a comment on that . I thought that was sort of standing expectation for Advisory Committees, when we do appointments its fine, im going to vote on the appointments. I dont have a problem with it, but i thought we generally ask for that report. I know we do with the pac and that just seems like it should be a standard thing we do with Advisory Committee appointments. Its under the executive on the board doc agenda on that item. I dont believe that the cities are included, though. Correct . In the information to the public, we do not share member demographics or personal information, but in the bios to the board we provide that. And i would welcome connecting with ms. Marshall if she has any Community Members she thinks would be interested in joining the c. A. C. As members or Board Members. And we can also talk more about outreach efforts to other folks if people are interested. President sanchez i do appreciate the invitation again for school Board Members ourselves to recommend folks as well. Okay. So if there is no other comments or questions, roll call. Thank you. Ms. Collins . Ms. Collins yes. Mr. Cook yes. Ms. Lopez yes. President sanchez yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you, that is seven ayes. President sanchez thank you. Section e, consent calendar. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. President sanchez thank you. Any Public Comment on this item . If you have Public Comment, please raise your hand at this time. Seeing none, president sanchez. President sanchez any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent . None. Any items removed for First Reading by the board . Okay. Any items severed by the board or the superintendent for discussion and a vote tonight . Okay, seeing none, roll call, please. Thank you. Ms. Collins yes. Mr. Cook yes. Ms. Lam yes. Ms. Lopez yes. Mr. Moliga yes. Ms. Norton yes. President sanchez yes. Yes. Yes. Thats seven ayes. President sanchez thank you so much, section f, discussion and vote on consent calendar, none today. G, proposals for action. The first one is policy board policy 6142. 7 oh, this is the one that is withdrawn. This is going to be heard again at Curriculum Committee and then make its way back to the board for second reading. 10623a1, implementation of strategies that will optimize San Francisco School District transportation costs and modes of transportation that are innovative, student centred. Introduced by mr. Moliga. It was heard by the Budget Committee and received a positive recommendation. Commissioner lam, is there any comments you want to make about the resolution from committee . Ms. Lam overall, we had a great discussion about the resolution. A lot of work has gone in between commissioner moliga and the staff. And we had a positive recommendation as to the full board. President sanchez thank you. Commissioner moliga . Could you read the resolution into the record . Mr. Moliga resolution number 10623a1, implementation of strategies that will amount myself San Francisco School District transportation costs and support modes of transportation that are sustainable, equitable in the Student Center by myself. Whereas on may 14, 2020, with the covid19 pandemic impacting youth, california governor newsome laid out a grim plan announcing 53. 4 billion deficit that would slash funding for education. Whereas on february 19, 2020, precovid19 pandemic, superintendent matthews in his letter to the district staff alerted educators of potential layoffs and drastic cuts totalling 26 million and where as the School District spends 33 million to provide Transportation Services to 2000 Education Students in elementary and middle school, with individualized program, and whereas, a variety of factors drive up transportation costs, including the unpredictability of assignment with a choicebased assignment system. The location of special education programs. Transporting 56 students to 16 nonpublic schools in the bay area. Offering curb to Curb Services for students with ieps when hub transportation would be more efficient and meets some needs, and 19 different start times, 27 different pickup times and 40 schools that adjust their schedules on different days of the week for common planning time. Whereas, standardizing the amount of instructional time students receive having three start times instead of 19 different start times and implementing Early Release on the same day of the week for all schools could reduce transportation costs by 5 million. Whereas sfusd has been contracting with school bus First Student, inc. To provide and maintain school buses, hire and train bus drivers. Whereas transportation costs have increased 42 since 2014 due to a 20 increase in the daily rate and increase in the number of school serving students with Transportation Services in their ie pex and increase in the number of schools with modified schedules. Whereas in february, 2020, the board approved a threeyear contract with zoom for commercial passenger vans to create more flexibility when responding to unique home to School Transportation needs. Whereas in february 2020, the board approved a oneyear contract extension for the First Student, inc. For the 2021 school year that included a 6 increase in the daily rate charges and not to exceed the amount of 30 million. Whereas, february 11, 2020, regular meet of the board of education, president sanchez noted that the districts budget is in deficit and it is absolutely out of line to spend over 30 million on transportation every year and that number had just gone up every year. Whereas the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency manages a city wide safe route to School Program with established goals of reducing singlefamily vehicle trips by 37 whereas, the transportation working with katy tang completed a child transportation study with transportation challenges. Over half the parents said that they drive their children to and from school during peak periods of the day, contributing to additional vehicle miles, congestion in local neighborhoods. The study estimated that approximately 6080,000 miles are driven daily by parents transporting k5 kids to and from school. Further more, many were unable to participate in after School Programs because of lack of sufficient transportation. And whereas, 2019 Student Transportation r. F. P. Failed to find, they rejected all bids as cost prohibitive and forced to renew the contract with the existing vendor for one year at increased cost of 6 . Therefore, be it resolved that the superintendent of staff will implement the following strategies after the Student Transportation costs and modes that are innovative environmentally, and economical economically sustainable and student centred. No later than the 202223, implement schedules that provide equitable access to planning time and reflect the requirement and sb328 that middle school start no earlier than 8 a. M. And high school no earlier than 8 30. They must join efforts with the student Transportation Department on this effort. Strengthening the process for allocating Transportation Services during iep meetings and innovative and alternatives that expand offerings beyond curb to Curb Services and result in the least restrictive environment for our students. C, evaluate the fiscal implications of supporting the different students options being explored by the board of education and share these findings with the board in the fall of 2020 with recommending a new Student Assignment policy for elementary schools. Can everyone still hear me . Yeah. D, partner with the city to improve muni school trip, empty buses during school lettout times and bringing the safe goals to fruition. The department of children, youth and families and the board of supervisors to secure a California Department Transportation Planning grant for the purpose of cocreating a San Francisco School Access plan. The plan would include near and medium term transportations for k through 5 students focusing on equity and students with individualized programs. Students experiencing homelessness, foster youth and lowincome. It would have focus groups resulting in an action plan for recommendations for direct funding, pilot programming or Business Development plan. The plan will help meet regional and state transportation planned goals of reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions and car use, Sustainable Transportation and promoting equity. In the fall of 2020, issue a request for proposal for Transportation Services that design that is designed to improve the quality of Services Provided to our students, and reduce costs and shift toward sustainable modes of transit. From this process, recommend contracts for the 202122 school year to the board of education no later than december 2020. The r. F. P. Must reflect a system of commitment to reduce the yearly cost of the transportation to the School District starting school year 2021. And the following year. Improve the experience of students and families by various means, including, but not limited to, new vehicles, optimized travel time for students, flexible options to meet special needs and circumstances and modern technology for vehicles and students in transit and rate their experience and service. Provide transparent data on the performance of services and experience of students and family. Provide a clear path and commitment to obtain the district sustainability goals, including transforming an emissionfree Student Transportation system in future years. And reflect the principles of labor, management, cooperation and collaboration that have yielded positive benefits for the district and labor partners. Further, it be resolved, district staff must seek out options with an openended request that allows providers an opportunity to demonstrate how to improve service to the district and to students at lower cost. Written submissions should be followed by oral presentation to the Selection Panel, rather than a selection based solely on written proposals. They would have open Public Committee meeting exploring Selection Process to allow Public Comment and questions by committee members. Staff must ensure that while drafting, evaluating and recommending the award of a new transportation contract, that they write and release an r. F. P. That is openended, detailed and meets the goals of the district while promoting Creative Solutions for the bidders. Bidders should be allowed to propose multiple options, slash solutions which will be evaluated on their merits, including whether the recommendation recommended approach is reasonable and feasible. And whether the bidder had the Organization Capability and competency to perform the required services. In the r. F. P. , the district should not prescribe a number of buses and routes, but bidders are asked to present a bid with their own routing. They should not describe technology, but the type of service, visibility and the accountability that the district requires. The r. F. P. Should allow the bidder to bid with their preferred technology and how it will improve services to the district. In the bid evaluation and Selection Process, district staff must create a Selection Panel made up of district staff with subject matter expertise in and provide an opportunity for bidders to orally present the bids to the Selection Panel in addition to submitting them in writing to better understand the proposal and the capabilities. The Selection Panel must use a pointbased system of evaluation. Once the panel has completed the evaluation and decided on recommendation to the board, the Selection Panel must make a presentation to the Board Committee at an open Public Meeting to allow students, labors, and Community Partners to comment on the proposed recommendations. The challenges presented by the district, the District Needs to have vehicles stored, parked in a manner that allows them to be available when needed. In the r. F. B. , they must ask bidders how to solve the challenge and ask the type of Parking Solutions for vehicles, requiring a restaurant to limit the ability to attract competitive bids or drive up the bids. The fullest extent permitted by law, we will respond using the valuebased criteria described above, cost reduction, student and family experience, sustainability and the ability to perform, the contract, vendor best aligned with the longterm interests of sfusd articulated above. President sanchez thank you. Now, Vice President will read it in spanish. Ms. Lopez i will if you need it. President sanchez thank you so much, commissioner moliga. Any Public Comment on the item . Does anyone care to speak on the resolution, please raise your hand at this time. We have several hands going up. Looks like four or five. Thank you. Hello, meg . Yes, can you hear me . Go ahead. Good evening commissioners and superintendent. Im meg a School Bus Driver. I and others have brought up concerns with this transportation resolution throughout its amendment and reading. We have mentioned that the openended nature of this resolution seems to further open the door for an increase in the utilization of ride share, Tech Companies and gig workers and compromises the safety of the children and promotes the further exploitation of the marginalized workers. This would be unethical and go against the values this board claims to stand for. This transportation resolution utilizes many catch phrases such as innovative, equitable, sustainable and so forth. Understandably this resolution focuses on increasing efficiency and reducing cost. However, missing are any statements regarding student safety which should be a paramount concern in Student Transportation. Also notably absent is any substantial statement regarding fair treatment of those transporting the children, other than a general sentence about respecting general manager labor. Supporting documents provided at the committee meeting, revealed that the Transportation Department was considering allowing bus share locations as far as 50 miles away. This resolution and openended approach does not disclose the fleet location as has been done in the past. Instead, the resolution relies on bidders to offer solutions. I feel this could lead to a hodgepodge of inconsistent unreliable way of transporting school children. In the case of workers, they are not allowed to join labor unions. You should be looking for consistency in the workforce, reliability and safety in addition to cost savings. Doing otherwise would be a disservice. Thank you for your time and attention. Thank you. Hello, paul. Im paul. Im a School Bus Driver. Been with the district for about 49 years. Commissioner moliga and dr. Okeefe have done a lot of work on this and have good ideas. While i agree with most of what was said, i have a problem with some parts. [please stand by] since i have a few seconds left, i wanted to point out they have only been in the district 12 years. Before a. R. I. Services, it was educational recreational services. And before them was associated charter bus company. I dont know if that means anything, but i thought i would clear that up. But thanks for listening. Chairman thank you. Hello, megan . Hi, my name is megan, and im a behavioral andrew bell witanalyst with thel district. I wanted to echo some of the concerns around safety and training for drivers. As you may know, a large portion of students transported to school on buses are students with i. E. T. , who has transportation as a service, and some students with i. U. T. S will require special support and understanding and accommodations while being transported. And i share concerns around contracting with services that dont have training for drivers, particularly in and around student safety. Particularly in and around hope that this will be addressed. I appreciate all of the work that the commissioners have put into this detailed resolution. I especially appreciate commissioner malegan and his attention to detail and determination to read entire resolutions in all of their detail because this detail is needed to create a process that gets us to where we need to be with transportation. I just hope that the concerns around safety are addressed within this resolution. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Hello, jett . Hi. This is Julie Robertson calling in from my kids zoom account. I have concerns with this resolution, both as a parent and as someone who has helped to develop a Community Benefits and project labor greassments. Agreements. We know these resolutions drive proposals, and based on the way they crafted we end up with certain outcomes. My concern as a parent is safety is listed nowhere in this resolution. That means if the contracting language is drafted based on this resolution, even if sfufd found or had a sense that one of the contractors was not able to safely provide services, we would not be able to choose a different contractor if that particular contractor scored best on this in the matrix of it being used. It is very troubling that that language was left out, and would encourage the resolution to be amended to include language around safety. On the flipside, the word technology was in the resolution four times. As somebody who has worked on contract language, im just really concerned this is setting up a framework that will lead us towards contracting with companies that exploited workers, and my concerns around that are the works that provide transportation for our families are many of our families, are or graduates. Sfus d p sd it is what is counter to those values is dangerous. And i dont believe that were seeing that those companies are actually sustainable right now as we see uber and lyft fighting for their lives, as we hold them to the same standards as taxi drivers or taxi driver companies. I would urge you to change this to include the kinds of language that would match our values and goals. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Hello, susan . Susan solomen, united educators of San Francisco, standing in solidarity with the bus drivers and their union, the members who spoke, and their supporters who spoke. Of course safety is paramount, and that can be delivered through bus drivers who are currently working for the district. And while i spreesht appreciate language that says respect the principles of Labor Management cooperation, that have yielded positive benefits for the district and labor partners, as the previous speaker mentioned, there is no mention of a project labor agreement, nor is there really a clear definition of what the resolve means that i just read aloud. I appreciate the message, but i dont know what meaning this has for labor partners, because losing your job is not a benefit to a labor partner. So i strongly urge this school board to please not to let this become a union busing action, pure and simple. We can keep our students safe and keep a Union Workforce working for the School District. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Hold on. Hello, caller, 415 number . 902 . Caller, are yu there . Hello. Chairman yes, go ahead. This is caden miller, im a student at loyal high school, and i also have concerns with this plan, that it will shift away from our School Bus Drivers, who are highly trained in safety. And im also concerned about when we go back to school, the muni bus service that is currently provided at our schools will not be enough to meet social distancing guidelines. A lot of high school and middle School Students get to rely on the bus. They are not driven like elementary School Students. So when we go back to school, there needs to be adequate transportation to make sure were getting to school safely. Chairman thank you. Hello, tom . Hi, can you hear me . Chairman yeah, go ahead. Im tom anderson, and im a special ed teacher. The thing about safety is that students who get picked up who are in special education, the bus drivers are their first line of contact with the school. And many times they know the students really well. Just to dismiss that is a relationship and community issue, which i think is really important. The other thing, too, a lot of parents may not be able indescernable , the value may save money, but is it really what we need. The other thing is the same start time might be difficult when you have kids in three or four different schools, lets say, and also the needs of the communities in terms of the schools and the staff. My school just got, you know, our planning time, and we had to fight for that. So i think to say a blanket statement is maybe not the best tuay to way to approach it. I would encourage you to look at safety because that is the number one thing, before anything. So please be robust in that. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Randy . Hi, my name a brandy markman, and i stand in solidarity with a lot of the people speaking before me. I remember as a child, my late brother, who had autism, and how important having a quality relationship with the bus driver is. I also share some of the other callers concerns about privatization and giving the gig economy more of a foothold in our district. So i just wanted to bring up those two things. I think it is really important when these resolutions are written, that families with children with disabilities and educators are consulted, as well as their labor partners. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Thank you. My name is donny alyoung, and im in support of the School Bus Drivers. The cost of everything is going up, so lets not put that all on transportation. Im supported of having trusted drivers to take our special needs students safely to and from school. Im supporting our School Bus Drivers. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Chairman hannah . Hi, im hannah, im a school nurse, and this issue is really important to me because a lot of my students at 504, the students with i. U. P. Use get transportation accommodations. Just from being on the bus with bus drivers, and hearing everyone talking, yes, safety is the most important for our community and for our schools and our students and their families. And, um, i think keeping the transportation within a union of sfusd workers will keep our Community Safe not only physically and emotionally, but also the Mental Health and just the wellbeing of our whole community. From what other people are saying, the fact that there are a lot of families that have been in the district working, that have children who go to our schools, or grandchildren in our schools, and also just that were not using gig workers for outside organizations, corporations, to get services were going to continue to need going on with every year. I think that if we can come up with a way to do that from our own district, it will help actually keep funds down longer. So i urge you to keep our bus drivers. And thats all. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Tara . Hi. Im a teacher with the district, a special education teacher, and im also a parent. I just wanted to really think about what it would mean to get rid of our bus drivers. Theyre really hardworking individuals, and they set the day up for our students. And to have it be like another service would really do a disservice to our kids. I urge us urge the district to rethink this. Thats all. Thank you so much. Chairman thank you. Jan . Hi, im jan jenn, and im the chapter president of protect local 21. I would just like to say in this that our union is in total solidarity with the bus drivers, and i think Something Like this speaks to what experience means. And. What people who have worked for the sfusd for, like, over a decade, or even more, when they devote that much time and it shows that theyre really connected to serving the students, how important that is. Its, i think, taking the bus drivers out of the loop, were losing sort of a lower base of our pyramid, and thats and its the lower parts that have been there the longest and that has been there for the district, through thick and thin. I would really like you to consider this and retaining the bus drivers in any way, shape, or form. Okay. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Nicholas . Yes. Hey, so, im a School Bus Driver for First Student. Ive been a School Bus Driver for them for about six years now. And i just wanted to let you guys know that, you know, as the gentleman alluded earlier before me, with the lower part, taking that away, you do take away the Community Aspect of it, as far as bus drivers are concerned, and as far as relating to the kids. You know, some of them may not, you know, have family at home, or they may not have a stable household at home or whatever, but that bus driver is there for them, to get them home safely and to get them to school safely. Now, when i drive these kids when theyre on my bus, theyre like my kids. So i make sure i get them there safely, and i love what i do. If you told me i was going to be a bus driver when i was six, i wouldnt have believed you. But being able to work at First Student and work in the city of San Francisco, it is a blessing, to be able to transport these kids and see their faces, their smiles. When youve got to get on them and discipline them, you have to just for their safety because thats first, and i mean that. Im not trying to be politically correct or whatnot, but im serious when i say that. So i appreciate you listening. And thank you. Chairman thank you. Michelle . Hi. My name is michelle cody, and a teacher at sfusd, and im standing in solidarity. I have a Family Member that goes to an m. P. S. School, and that child has to travel across the bay. And our family puts our faith in the bus driver that takes care of our kiddo, and makes sure theyre safe. We have that bus drivers telephone number, and thats extremely important. Once you put your child on the bus, you want to make sure they do their best to keep them safe. I want to stay in solidarity with the bus divers, and make sure the teachers have their back because their essential and crucial to us being successful. Chairman thank you. That concludes Public Comment oh, one more. My apologies. Hello, mickey . Hi. This is amos, mickey is my husband, and we have a kid in sfusd, and i was listening to the radio and i just heard about this. My daughter is a special Education Student that relies on the school bus to bring her to and from school. So this is a shock to hear that were trying to privatize, and the bus drivers have been lifersavers for us. The bus drivers let us know when theyre running late, we have their cell numbers. So im just calling in support of the bus drivers. We need them the they keep our kids safe. We know them well. And theyve been vetted. I would want those responsibilities to go to a rideshare driver. Thank you. Chairman thank you. That concludes Public Comment, president sanchez. Sorry, go ahead. Thank you very much. On behalf of the Community Advisory committee for special education, i wanted to make a few comments here. Weve commented not only on the Student Assignment, but at the september 14th meeting for the Budget Service committee, where we saw the transportation presentation. The recurring theme here between Student Assignment and transportation is that the inequity is a cost driver. The fact that we dont have supports and services and programs at all of our schools means that Going Forward [simultaneous talking] our students have to be driven across town in some cases to get the appropriate program. And we have routes that go across the bay into multiple counties. One of the ways that we can fix this would be providing more support and services in our district, providing more supports and services at every school. And we would bring special education costs down and our transportation costs down. When we talk, though, also about i. E. P. S, if youve ever been to an i. E. P. Meeting, you talk about the team. And transportation is a related service. Our bus drivers are a part of the team. Theyre a necessary part of the system for our students to get free, and safe, Public Education. When were talking about 85 of the costs being related to special education, we have to also look nowhere in this proposal does it say take the families into account. Nowhere in this proposal does it say take the members and bus drivers into account. But legally, when you look at the laws that dictate i. E. P. S, were a fully participating member of the team. So im not sure this is even legal, the way it is written. I would encourage us to center this around equity, rather than costs, and make sure that our students make sure were diversitydriven and studentcentered. Im not seeing that fully reflected in this proposal right now. Chairman okay. Thank you. Ill open it up to commissioners for comments and questions. Commissioner norton and then Vice President lopez. Thank you. I want to thank commissioner malega for bringing this forward. We had a really good discussion at the Budget Committee. Our transportation costs are out of control, and he is really trying to address this problem and, you know, a way that will be beneficial for the district. I certainly dont think that he would have brought this forward if he had any concern or worry or meant to can compromise student safety. And i wonder, ms. Okeefe, if you can talk a little bit about how staff collaborated with the commissioner in writing this resolution, and what you think the outcomes are going to be, particularly as it pertains to safety. Good evening, commissioners. I want to thank commissioner malega for this resolution. Safety is paramount concern. While it is not in this resolution, there are a lot of things that arent in this resolution that will be in the r. F. P. , and have been in the r. F. P. Over the years. For example, were going to use a best value scoring process, where experience and safety will get points, and that will be part of the process for evaluating services. We would never contemplate bringing the board a recommendation to use a vendor that didnt have a strong Safety Record student safety is paramount. I also just want to point out, i mean, i really do value our bus drivers. My own daughter was you know, took advantage of district transportation for a number of years when she was enrolled in the School District. And, um, you know, i just want to point out that i dont think that this is in any way a unio unionbusting. Thats not the objective here, and i dont even think that will be the end result, if the board should pass this. I mean, we have had a stipulation in our r. F. P correct me if im wrong as long as ive been here, weve requested that only that weve only wanted bidders that had a unionized workforce for transportation. Is that correct . No, that is not correct. We have required that all contractors pay drivers prevailing wages that are on par with current drivers. Okay. But i think the objective here obviously is to try to increase the flexibility of the School District to look at other transportation providers, right, by changing some of the restrictions my understanding is that it is to make it more competitive, so we can actually improve services for students while reducing costs. Okay. Thank you. Chairman Vice President lopez . I did want to come back to our connection to sfmta, and how were going to build on that. I know were named here in the resolution, but if there is anything we can share around specific routes that are sfmta only, or where the conversations are, i really want to keep pushing us to have a specific relationship with sfmta, and encourage our bus drivers to be a part of the citys workforce, alongside sfusd to ensure their safety tw to and from school. Since the revolution was drafted, we actually received word we got that grant. We havent launched it yet. Were working to come up with a School Access transportation plan, so im excited. Just this week we also got an update on the congestion, pricing, and talking with sfmta, the possibility if Something Like that moved forward, what kind of revenue it might generate, and how that revenue might be used to support increasing and School Transportation options. They are just two immediate examples, commissioner, of the types of conversations were having with the city. About a month ago, or a little more than that, i was in conversation with some folks from sfmta, talking about trippers, and think even within the context of covid, once we have an understanding of which schools are opening and when, and how theyre totally open and willing, and i find everyone to be very collaborative and willing to partner. Because transportation is not just a bus. Walking is a form of transportation, and biking is a form of transportation. So we want to think more broadly than just, you know, four wheels, but thinking about what are some other strategies we can use to provide safe transportation to and from schools. Yeah. And i did i see it noted as well. I understand that that is something we definitely want to encourage our students. But the question was specific to four wheels buses . Yeah, the buses that are bringing our students, and how we can take the students being transported now and shift to this other option. But they have some trippers theyve been using for a number of years. So theyre not just for sfusd students, theyre for anybody because theyre public runs, but they organize them around the time that students are getting to and from school, and they increase the frequency of them in order to support. And so thats what has been happening in the past. And we fully imagine that to continue. Okay. Thank you. Chairman any other commissioners . Mr. One of the main things in the Public Comment was around Union Workers being part of this resolution. Can you talk to us a little bit about you talked a little about it at budget, but maybe you can address that now. Sure. My goal was how we do business in the School District moving forward. You know, if this is, you know, the first example of how we do that is that we honor the p. L. A. Agreement, and ive been having conversations with the district about that, and thats super important, as were crafting out this new r. F. P. Chairman all right. Can we have i dont know if this is appropriate right now at this time, but can we guarantee that unionized workforce would get the contract . Well, the thing is, with this r. P. F. , if youre not going to honor the p. L. A. , then, you know, how the resolution is intended to fold out is, you know, were not going to honor that bidder, right . So you have to be able to meet those requirements, and its stated in the resolution. Chairman commissioner . Just for the public, when you say p. L. A. , commissioner, can you explain what that is . Of course. The p. L. A. Is the project labor agreement. And what does that entail in general term . The p. L. A. Is a project labor agreement, and it is organizations, corporations, that are in right now, they have to honor the union. The workers need to be unionized, when means theyll get protection under workers rights. Not how things are currently, where folks arent unionized, and theyre in a lot of situations. But ive been very clear with the School District, and it is stated in the resolution, to make it very clear, that that is the direction we need to go into. [please stand by]. And safety is all of our utmost concern. Everybody and the board, all of our staff, we want to insure that all our students are safe and going back home, whatever the transportation mode. If there is no other sorry. I should have captured it earlier in the committee report, but i wanted to echo the comments and questions raised by commissioners. I think for me able to name it is absolutely critical that core safety is at that is the lead for all of our work when we look at transportation for the students and the workers. And also that as critical to me to have our labor unions being represented as our drivered and the p. L. A. Making good on the p. L. A. Requirements for any r. F. P. Or contractors we work with related to transportation. And that what i was excited about, too, from the Budget Committee discussion was around exploring our different ways of how we have been looking at at having i am blanking out like having a lot, and being able to look at our own assets and way of staging things differently so it would allow us to look at creative approaches that we havent more recently done. So i think its really brought an expansion of kind of how were looking at sustainable and now that we are approaching a new Student Assignment policy and what that implementation will look like in the coming years. An i just also wanted to echo i was not in the meetings, but i appreciate the language to me around a transparent process. And thinking creatively about partnerships and thinking about assets. I dont feel like this resolution is prescriptive in any way and i think what it does is to allow us to have a more open and transparent process and do in it equitable ways. Obviously our board has been consistent in this and i can speak for other Board Members and with the waiver and labor is very important and personally i would not consider any r. P. F. S especially at this scale with anyone who isnt working with the unionized labor. Obviously safety is paramount so that kind of goes without saying. Do appreciate the work that the commissioner has put into this and i do think the community should hold us accountable and make sure that we are looking at solutions that involve unionized labor and to echo the support of the resolution. Right. If there is no other comments or questions, roll call. Thank you. Ms. Collins. Yes. Mr. Cook . Yes. Mr. Lopez. U a yes. Yes. Yes. Ms. Heinzfoster . Yes. That is seven ayes. Thank you so much. You are up again. Another also in section g. , another proposal for action with amendment to resolution 18313a1 in support of Equitable Services and staff for hawaiianened a Pacific Islander students with the focus on addressing the academic disparities amongst samoan students through a prek14 pathway rooted in samoa aganuu indigenous practice. Moved and seconded on june 23, 2020, and heard by the curriculum and Budget Committees, receiving positive recommendations from both. Any comments from Committee Chairs lam or lopez . Force lots of enthusiasm and excitement. Clearly a lot of Community Engagement and a lot of work with commissioner moliga and with community and staff. Coming from the Budget Committee, appreciating that there is going to be a progression in insuring that the implementation fiscally and holding ourselves accountable as a board if we were going to be passing policies and particularly looking at leading with equity and promises that have to continue to be made with the vulnerable, disadvantaged and many years from the district, and actually fulfilling the promises. So i know that theres been some good work to say within the first year and milestones that we hit, and thats going to be on the roll out basis with the full implementation as it has full fiscal impact. All right. Before you read it into the record, commissioner moliga, our student delegate, it is past time, but i think they want to stick around nor item having heard it and to get the comments first when we get to the board. Commissioner moliga. All right. All right. Amendment 20623a and resolution number 13a1, adopted for support of Equitable Services and staff for hawaiianened a Pacific Islanders students with a focus on addressing the academic disparities amongst samoan students through a prek14 pathway rooted in and the indigenous practices by yours truly, myself. Whereas, it is the mission of the San Francisco Unified School District to provide instruction to thrive in the 21st century and the city and county and many cities in the United States and is the home and work place of large immigrant Work Communities and with all statuses and whereas according to a 2014 report from Asian American injustice and pacific empowered and the hawaiian and Pacific Islanders are more than 1. 5 million in h. P. I. From over 20 distinct cultural groups living in the United States. And the vast majority of whom speak a language other than english at home and the h. P. I. Consists of indigenous Pacific Islander groups that include fiji and papa new guinea and aboriginal and other territories and the polynesian territories as well. That they are from the polynesian islands of samoa and hawaii with roughly 23 antiracial with africanamericans. And whereas, the 2018at academic year, approximately 1 for state or federal accountability purposes and in that year there were 1,217 students approximately 2 whose families identify as part of the Pacific Islander community which 51 are samoa. And whereas, samoans have lived and 76 and live in Public Housing and the with 7. 3 and the Unemployment Rate in San Francisco was at approximately 14. 2 with at 20. 5 and with the array of challenges and with samoans, latinx and rank lowest in math scores and Language Arts over the last three school years. And the chronic abseen teeism rate and have the highest rate twice within the past five years and three out of four asian Pacific Islanders are incarcerated at some time in state prison and represent 0. 56 of the 10 to 17 year olds in San Francisco county and constitute that 2010 and have an absenteeism rate above 42 and in the average daily attendance and the most recent year and a. C. T. Data on the subject is available and 42 nationally aspired to abtan the bachelors degree and with a graduate degree and 14 meant three or your colleagues and benchmarks and a decrease of 8. 5 and met three or more benchmarks and that hold a College Degree and students are college eligible and compared to the districts 24 with the districts average and 17 of nhpi students and whereas they do not have Health Insurance and disproportionately impacted by Heart Disease and cancer and have the second highest rate of diabetes in the world and may suffer from the fallout of Nuclear Bombs detonated during testing in the marshall islands. And whereas, according to a 2016 report from the department of education and disproportional measured against other demographics and the Pacific Islander and with the result to the single data point and critical and disproportionalities and needs and therefore, be it resolved and to provide the critical support and the board of education and to expand additional supports and be it further resolved to support our graduates and to work in partnership and h. P. I. , Community Groups and faithbased institutions and San Francisco and greater bay area to recruit an h. P. I. For positions throughout the district include in the administrative position and certificate with the custodial services and demographically and included and not limited to visitation and sunnydale, ocean view, and district that works to ensure that staff meets the needs of h. P. I. Staff and support all options and in a culturally competent way. And therefore, be it resolved San Francisco Unified School District shall provide dedicated space and included and Community Partnerships and communicable and San Francisco Unified School District. Two, supporting culturally relevant curriculums and should seek to preserve, celebrate and pass on the cultural and in all options and to operate with sfusd and to result in the progress and h. P. I. And identify students with an emphasis on samoans. And to work and comply with federal and state mandates to aggregate data from aapi data and to be it further resolved that sfuds and with the initiative and by the end of fall 2020 and superintendent and district staff will work to with the affinity based cohort and from multiple years and the achievement gap and this pathway will be implemented in fall 2021. And to develop through the indigenous samoan framework with the emphasis on science, technology, engineering, arts and path. With academic outcomes and school year 2021 and 202. And grade level for reading, writing, and math. And with the six strands Early Education and practices and curriculum and readiness and engagement and health and wellness and arts to focus on the following. Both secondary ready and specific Summer Bridge programs and partner and working in conjunction with the American Samoa department of education and to create the staffing needed and starting in sixth grade and council and planning and will graduate having the completed step and goal or program. Force job shadows with someone and workforce and create incentives and who work in sfusd. To serve indigenous cultural practices to bring to the career. And the cte Arts Initiative will host festivals and compete and show case with the art and achievement and cultural practices and with every subject led area. And newly immigranted and with the training supports and advocacy and guardians and culturally sensitive and extended family interviews and other sources as needed. And health, Financial Aid and Financial Services needed and to be involved in parent advocacy groups and also included in major Decision Making to prioritize sfusd policy and the heightened population and students and with the health and wellness and insider topics such as sexual health, obesity and diabetes prevention. And the family and Human Rights Commission and Human Services and Early Education and develop an emergence and prek program by fall 2021 in the southeast of pedestrian which includes bayview, and the petrero hill to reflect the Indigenous Culture and with the Large Population and identify students and at schools. And will provide specialized sped training to Early Childhood education teachers to be proficient in assessing ability to achieve the daily milestones and conducting observations and will be part of the assessment in those abilities and Early Childhood professionals as occupational therapy, physical therapy, Speech Therapy and language therapy. And further be it resolved, the team will possess cultural initiatives and Work Experience as an educator and strong policy with the community and providers in San Francisco. To work to eval an assessment and evaluation and to be completed by spring 2021. And the initiative will develop from the educators and Community Partners and students who will work with this. With policies and all material will be translated in samoan language in fall 2020. Further be it resolved that they will utilize the input output data and with the allocating resources of samoan students in 20202021. And allocate space to be utilized as the Family Center by september 2020. With the 2021 school year. And further be it resolved with a range of funding strategist and the initiative and including and not limited to grants, donations and city and county funding from fall 2020 and build a partnership with samoa and department of education and Pacific Islander to engage in strategist and develop professional learning meetings that capture a global approach. In addition the initiative and the latinx and working in conjunction in closing the opportunity down for each group. They will be overseen by the superintendent and the guidance of the Advisory Committee and annual report detailing strategist and outcomes and will be available online. And provided to a board of education on the metrics defined to pathway and will report back to the district education and from may 25 of 2021 thank you. And see if there is any Public Comment on the item. And thank you, president sanchez. Please raise your hand if you care to speak on this item. Can you hear me . This is historical and we know this site work and the district should be from the nhip community and established by the sfuds samoan Advisory Committee. The collect sieve important in this work and the partnerships with even when the political categories that group us and from the black and latinx communities. Hello. And i am speaking to you now and in support of who is active in the Pacific Islander community. Hello, commissioners. And to be modelled in the other districts and in the bay area. And the Building Support around the nhpi and with the partnership and the groups are instrumental. And the path forward to succeed with efforts will need to be as a village. If the Pacific Islander way and require coordination through the entire process and this will be an the feedback and cultural needs. Thank you. Go ahead. Good evening, commissioners. And i am here to support the nphi board of resolution and commissioner to play out the plan with the School District to close out the opportunity gap for samoan students and today as well as to the future generations. And the dream and revision and renaming the school after longtime respected Community Educator and elder would be a huge honor for the nphi community in San Francisco. There are many ways to motivate and engage students and families and some of these require no funds and to see multiple avenues of engagement is to our best interest which would be a great opportunity to be inclusive and share the diversity that is within the great city of San Francisco. Thank you. Hello, julie. This is julie robert and i want to be support of the resolution and i learn things about the Pacific Islander community that i was taught in school and looking forward to the resolution and remedying that for my kids and specifically the Pacific Islander students in the district and get aligned and with the other resolutions passed and the latinx resolution and the Community School strategist and arguments and just brings another lay of specificity to the work to support our someaan students to i a chooef the brilliance and i also look forward to the providing data and that other systems within San Francisco will apply in order to better make our someoan Pacific Islanders in our city and planning and insuring that the needs are met. Thank you. Good evening. I am a teacher and i am also also on the board for Community Based organizations serving the bay area. I want to speak out in support of this nhpi and resolution to take into account the needs and from all the way upened so thank you, everyone for your support. We look forward to partnering more with the district and thats all. Thank you. We support this resolution and are really excited about supporting that work and implementing it. A did you care to speak . That concludes Public Comment. Go ahead, carla. Unmute yourself. We stand ready to partner. Thank you. I also really want to commend commissioner moliga. And know i am speaking that having accurate interpreters in their home languages has been crucial and i. E. P. Meetings and hard to come by. To the family. And i have to get all my thoughts together and one recommendation i have is that we try to support resolutions to the beginning to have meeting. I had a lot of friend who were samoan who wanted to speak on this time but because the meeting is so long they left. I will talk about some of them who couldnt be here and this year in the class of 2020 was able to be one of the 2,000 students we have to graduate like she was the only to pioneer everything that happens around nhpi to change and to a total of 35. And to finish and community and communitybased organizations. We cant only rely on them to create this sense of community and i totally support this resolution and if he wasnt here, who would take this step to represent the Samoan Community . I would like to go next. I had so many thoughts and i am going toment raable, so i wrote things down. And i have many Pacific Islanders friends and that the community so intense and imminencely strong from culture and tradition through singing, dance, the summer camps in the district at the koir with an enormous change with the who told us that and the resolution is peer resistance but it is liberation for things like revolution that is a huge change within one of the most marginalized and creates that and to make accurate data. I am so inspired by how indepth this resolution is. All right, commissioners. Any comments . And it wasnt quite right and to be so early in the tenure doing something and advocated and i am not surprised. And i should say on behalf of the district, he is just getting started. Dont expect him to let up, to slow down, to not follow up on the aspects of what was late out here and all of us that care advancing marginalized communities and there is a lot of people with him that with in partnership and moving this forward. Folks that have been in the community a long time and have been holding on. So we often talk about i often talk about what is happening with our africanamerican students and i think commissioner and student delegate heinz foster said it right. If he doesnt here, we know this community is not invisible, but they definitely gotten an entire new life because of his leadership. Thank you, commissioner moliga. And recognize student delegates comments and heinz foster and i would like to coauthor this resolution and be specific with the latinx at the curriculum meeting and there is a superintendent to track resolutions. And i have never seen one of the trackers and i have written resolution. How do we make this resolution and track this resolution . And we asked about parents and recommendations that come forward to us. I will ask again and how to make visible how our district is tracking us as a board and as a district in being accountable to what we are hoping to approve today. As i said earlier, we have placed the resolutions in a spread sheet with the progress thats being made on them. And the question is how to make visible the community that we havent done that and developed a dashboard and we havent done that currently as as Everybody Knows and much going on right now, and we havent put them forward with the dashboard and that is something to think about. Before covid we consistently approved resolutions and even in the equity studies resolution, i mean, it was long because i wanted to cite all the resolutions that had come before that had basically said they wanted to see cultural visibility of a variety of groups and the importance of that and yet we still werent celebrating black History Month and there are things we dont do. I want to make sure that i am approving something but i also want to make sure that it is work accountable and that includes me. I will say that, too. And i hope all of us as Board Members as a board if we vote nor and we have to make and be accountable as well to making sure that with understanding of in a very tight economic time and there is a lot of challenges and still need to be accountable. I like this idea of streamlining the equity and with the equity resolutions and i wanted to ask you and i have asked the chief academic officer and we have the equity resolution and we have the latinx resolution and we have this resolution. We have also commissioner cooks resolution that was coming before us. There is a lot of commonalty and not like were doing things and there are also specific things that are being asked for in specific resolutions and i would like for you to provide us as a board when we are reviewing in the upcoming days and will be reviewing commissioner cooks resolution to support africanamerican studies that we can see all of our resolutions and see the commonalty in curriculum development, visibility, professional development, and some of those things are the same. I would like to also see where things are different. And so that we can understand where there is connections in the work and where there are specific instances where we have to do specific things for an individual community. Is that something that you can commit to by that meeting so we can have a broad overview . No, im going to be transparent with you. With us getting ready to try to bring back in a minute i am going to read off the resolution but the how were trying to think about returning students and were deeply involved in right now and in Distance Learning and i just want to be completely transparent. As we were in the spring going through the budgeting process the priorities and cutting back on Central Office. And i cant commit to going through all the resolutions and trying to find the similarities and differences and committing to bring those forward at the meeting. I couldnt commit to doing that and i dont think we have the staff to do that. I would say that the chief academic officer and the deputy superintendent and be familiar and with the not individual specific items and how they fit together if they are charged with implementing them and i can tell you that i could do it. And i would expect that you all think that you should do that on a broad level and not necessarily a specific level and we need that and streamlining this within our other equity efforts. So we need to know what the other equity efforts are. And if we are approving another resolution which i fully support and all fully support as far as black history and africanamerican studies which also includes professional learning and addressing antiblackness. We need to know how these all fit together and what we are approving so we can actually in a sense do what we say were going to do and not overcommit or not just vote for resolutions because it feels good but actually then we are accountable as a board in making sure that we are providing resources and support. And were making choices about our priorities. I would say i would push back on you and also say we also need to be accountable as a board. That means us being owning the fact that weve got a lot of priorities and if everything is important, nothing is important. And they should be clear about what direction we are giving staff and continue this conversation and i will consistently put together i encourage the chief academic officer and deputy superintendent of instruction to be able to do that because they are charged with this work on a broad level. And so i guess thats for me the number one is we cant continue to i a prove resolutions without accountability and i am also including myself in that and our board. I am challenging other commissioners as well and our student delegates who continue to show us and take the lead and we need to put our actions and money where our mouths are. So anyway, i appreciate your transparency as well. An it will be an ongoing conversation like you mentioned. It is an ongoing issue that weve concerned ourselves with in the past as well. I think commissioner norton was next and just very briefly. I want to thank commissioner moliga for his work on this. And i think the comments that commissioner cook made about the first draft of this and then really in your second year of the board just digging in and making sure that its better and that you are improving things and the way you are representing your community is really to be commended and this is the community that we know is really struggling. I just appreciate your work and happy to support the resolution and say to the student delegates i am inspired by your comments and you know your comments are reason enough to support the resolution because youre talk about your friend, your classmates, and you are on the ground in the schools seeing what people are dealing with and struggling with and i appreciated your comments. Thank you. Vice president lopez. I was going to respond to commissioner collins given that this is going to be an ongoing conversation, but i think i will pause on that. Definitely support this resolution and appreciate your work, commissioner moliga. I dont know if commissioner lamb wants to say anything. No, again, because we discussed it at length at the Budget Services and grateful to commissioner moliga and the tunts and how critical it is to be able to support our samoan students and really having culture and history and the future be recognized. We will take a vote in a second. I wanted to pile on the praise for you, commissioner moliga. Very well written, comprehensive policy initiative that looks like all the board supports as well as student delegates and is a winwin. I do appreciate the comments, commissioner collins. This is an ongoing discussion. As i said earlier, it is a longstanding issue in our board and many other boards to insure that the policies we passed are followed through with. All that being sait said, tupt to add anything . I wanted to make sure in this resolution and in the initiatives we find lanes for student leadership. When i was a freshman and sophomore, they held spaces to meet and sfusd that would be a good lane for the polynesian clubs in our school. Lot of them are very small for one example and galileo has a club of three members compared to lowell with a club of 35 and way more resources. Having that connection in that community and that transparency between the district will definitely be a good lane to go. Can i make a quick suggestion on that . I do appreciate sergeant delegate heinzfosters comments, and im wondering in a resolution like this we should also create space in the future when were hearing about introducing resolutions specific to a community and create safe space for student and parent leaders to speak to them. Not just as Public Comment and maybe be able to speak to them as well when they have contributed to a lot of our a lot of us do resolutions that are collaborative with the community and i think it is what i just really appreciate student delegate heinz fosters communities that that is the way we foot the paradigm is actually put students at the dais and allow them not to speak just to us and speak in partnership with us. I appreciate you and thank you. And president sanchez. If i could say two things. I wanted to say thank you to the community and to the committee. And to speak and we have to continue to come out and so [speaking samoan] and what i said was i am going to say this and i have shared this before and for me the responsibility is not only the district and a duty on the Samoan Community. We are here and we are a village, an ocean, right . And it is our duty to make sure that these things are come to fruition for our kids. So in partnership with the district and so i just wanted to give a big [speaking samoan] to the community and just thank you to the staff and dr. Priestly and the superintendent for folks being supportive and sanchez, norton and cook who actually helped push the work in the beginning. So thank you to all you guys. Sorry i didnt recognize you earlier. And the author. Roll call please. [roll call vote] that is a unanimous vote. Well done. Thank you. And moving on to section h and special order of business. And the first one is 2098s01 and the San Francisco continuity office and San Francisco Unified School District and that public hearing took place at the last Board Meeting and motion and second to the item now pleasement so moved. Im second it. Dr. Matthews . Thank you, president sanchez. Tonight presenting the proposed learning continuity plan for the county office and the School District is the director of strategic Resource Planning ann marie gordon. Good evening, everybody. We do have a short slide deck tonight. I will do my best to move through it without rushing and keeping an eye on the time and the content here is repeated from our public hearing but towards the end we have some updates based on Stakeholder Feedback and recommendations so we definitely want to take a moment to address those. We are here tonight on next slide as a reminder to discuss the learning continuity as the lcap but the California Department of education has changed the reporting structure this year related to the lcap and instead of and we have the learning continuity hopefully for adoption today that will take the place of the lcap for this school year. And the next slide, we have a Short Description of the learning continuity and attendance plan. As i said, it will replace the lcap for this year. And this coming june we will come back with a new threeyear lcap returning to our standard process around timeline. But the learning continuity plan is a change in documentation due to significant changes that we are experiencing in offering our programming and structures this year. The next slide has a few requirements around stakeholder engagement. Although were already underway with engagement with stakeholders and with communities and talking about how we were going to operate this fall, etc. , there are some specific requirements listed here about engagement and processes that are specific to the learning continuity plan itself. So youll see this is soliciting recommendation and comments about the document providing the opportunity to submit written comments, presenting the learning continuity plan to the pac and to the lpac. And then providing a written response to comments that have been received. As commissioner sanchez said t last Board Meeting was the public hearing for review and comment. And then we are here today for sharing back the recommendations from advisories and to seek adoption and approval by the board of our learning continuity plan. On the next slide we have a summary of the themes and feedback in the report and that is posted on board docs alongside the learning continuity plan, this presentation, and a couple of other document. We did want to call out that the feedback that we received is what we have prepared a response to and that we have taken that kind of into consideration and into that will continue to take place around fall learning, hybrid learning and as we move through the covid pandemic and our timeline for returning to school. [please stand by] and so that and that means that it will be essential that we continue the conversation about what is outlined in this plan, and about how decisions are being made and enacted through this year and beyond. The next slide is just its an overview of the various categories and topics where feedback was shared. And the link does take you to a p. D. F. Of the report and then also as i said the report from the Advisory Committee is also attached if anyone would like to read it. And to see the comments, recommendations and the questions that were shared. On the next slide, we have highlighted the three primary the three sections of the learning continuity plans where we add Additional Details and made specific changes to the content of the document based on Stakeholder Feedback. In addition to the changes in this document, we do have that written response tha