Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 8916 20160813

Plus puc, lbe contracts. Today we are doing Site Maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. In order to be success you need to work hard, bid low and keep a look at the sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity. This is a Successful Program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. The sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot of Capital Program that span over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. That is what warms my heart. My name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. Bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. Small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of San Francisco we can also perform services. This program had tremendous impact to the region. In fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. This has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded 50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. And, i significantly helped the business. It is one of the major contributors to our success. Board of education for august 9, 2016. Roll call please be tricks fewer Norton Walton wynns haney please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] on behalf of the board i want to welcome the new student delegate for the 201617 year. [applause] ms. Maria zaragoza from june jordan and ms. Jessica came from Lowell High School. We are very happy to have the week with us at your first meeting and excited to serve with you and learn from you and were honored to have you here representing students here on our board. Welcome and its quantity very enjoyable and fun year for you so thank you for serving. It has been announced at the last few Board Meetings, if you want to address the board of education, please fill out a speaker card prior to the item being called and if you please give that speaker card to our board assistant ms. Casco. Item a approval of board minutes. Of the regular meeting of june 28 26 and get a motion and second . Moved and seconded. Corrections . Nine fewer aye mendozamcdonnell norton aye wynns aye haney aye six aye item b superintendents report. Superintendent carranza thank you president mcelhaney and good evening to everybody thats here in person and not listening to us out in the community. Good evening. Im very excited to welcome back all of our school site staff our Central Office staff as well as our Port Commission could welcome to the first meeting of the news school year. This week is the official start of the 20162017 school year and at school sites that has returned to school in preparation for welcoming our students for the first day of school on monday, august 17. I want to say to everyone, i hope you are rested and ready to go. I hope everyone had an opportunity as well to get some rest but also to sharpen their professional skill set as we give up to get up another school year here in the San Francisco Unified School District. The excitement is in the air as our caregivers gather supplies teachers but their classrooms and curriculum and students get ready to return to school to see their classmates and teachers. Id like to share some highlights from the summer so that everyone knows whats been happening while youve been taking a little time off. First, as usual facilities and the bond program that a very busy summer with over 150 million others a Major Construction work happening at over 35 school sites across the city could Ida B Wells High School Daniel Webster on moving back to school sites that are been completely transformed. Students and staff will be returning to the 21st century classrooms and James Lick Middle School Presidio Middle School and visitation Valley Middle School. Mckinley Elementary School on fellow quarter j lau visitation valley elementary and Burden High School will welcome our new facilities and look beautiful. Lowell high school also has a brandnew classroom this elite which is replacing bungalows in service for many years. I want to thank on behalf of the board of education, and all of us, the voters and the citizens of San Francisco for your support of the bond program. The schools that our children are learning in our direct result of the investment you are making in the future of San Francisco. Our custodial Services Also clean and polish over 9,000,000 ft. 2 of building and 3000 classrooms. The lights are on and doors are ready to open for all of our new and returning students and staff to want to thank all of our facilities and custodial Services Personnel for their incredible work in buildings will be ready for our students next monday. In addition, extended learning and support College Career pathways unit in the office of college and Career Readiness successfully operated the third year of summer portfolio learning. With over 4500 students enrolled across our district which included High School Intervention specific curriculum for Credit Recovery workbased learning and internships and eight90 Bridge Program seen incredible results in helping students make the transition. I added an avid excel for a much language learners that he was language learner villages and innovative Elementary Learning Lab that not only serves as both an intervention for students that need the intervention the most, but also as a professional developer and opportunity for our teachers as well. In addition, communitybased organizations funded and supported by her excel program in the office of student of family and Community Support division, provided summer opportunities for over 6600 students in a mix of academic recreational physical and enrichment components open to all students at school sites for low or no cost. The program ran for at least six hours a day for six weeks during the summer so we really strove to interrupt that certain something Summer Learning loss but also our Early Education department served almost 2400 students in preschool programs. This exemplifies the astounding partnership and coordination with various offices within not only the district but such as our lead department our innovation in such an social Justice Department special education department, multilingual pathway department, access equity student Family Commitment support division and xl. It also required us to work in very close relationship with our external partners including but not limited to the mayors office, our department of children youth and family, Young Community developers, ccsf beacon ymca and a host of areas businesses and communitybased partners. This is truly an example of how a Community Comes together to serve all of the children in San Francisco. I am also proud to announce programming was offered over 25 campuses throughout San Francisco Unified School District over all School Levels this summer. As you can tell, there was a lot of learning happening this summer and her students were well served. This would truly a collaborative effort in order to serve over 13,000 of our students in Summer Engagement and interrupting the Summer Learning loss. I would also like to announce that the First Administration of the math delegation exam was given 291 rising ninth grade students on july 28 2016. This is important for parents to note of rising ninth graders Second Administration of the exam on august 20, 2016. In keeping with the math placement policy adopted by this board of education on june 14 all students who take this exam will have already completed a course that covers the content in the San Francisco Unified School District, and core algebra one course. I want to remind the public algebra one no longer exist. We have moved to a much more rigorous course called, and core algebra one. The exam is comprised of seven math tasks that assessed students conceptual knowledge procedural skills and the ability to apply the mathematics. These items were chosen by a phd mathematician and a recognized expert in mathematics pedagogy for their alignment to the common core state standards from grade 8 math and out of the one. Each item was scored twice. If there was a discrepancy between the scores was settled by a third scorer. Additionally, 5 of the exams were randomly sampled and scored by experts from the Silicon Valley Math Initiative and the Lawrence Hall of science. On the july 28 exam there were total 56 points possible. 30 points were necessary to pass the exam and i constituted what is known as a cut score. The families of all students who took the exam been notified of their students score whether the we enrolled in algebra one word geometry in the fall. August 20 administration of this exam will be available to anyone who qualifies to take the exam including those who took the exam in july in which to retake the user. Thats just need to log onto the website www. Sf ust. Edu regarding at august 20 examination. As im sure you all recall, last spring i personally set three bold goals for common core math implementation. Just abiding way of remembering, the first goal was by june of 2018 we will have reduced the number of students needing to retake algebra one geometry or algebra 2 x 50 from the numbers recorded in june of 2013. This goal will be true for the entire student population of the San Francisco Unified School District as well as each subgroup of students. I also made the commitment that by june of 2018 we will increase the number of students who take and pass fourth year of math courses post algebra two with a c or better by 10 and thirdly by june of 2010 we increase the number of latino and africanamerican students take and pass advanced placement math courses by 20 . Though it is still early in our implementation of the mike and report progress made on goal one. As you may recall, in the past years approximately 50 of our students will be glad to retake algebra one. I want you to think about that for just a moment. 50 of students taken algebra one were required to retake out of the one because theyre not mastered the content. Yet, the 201516 the first ninthgrade class in which essentially every student went through our common core state standards grade eight math and then the eligible one course sequence, 77 of all night grade students received a c or better in the common core state standards algebra one course. And will be moving on to the ccsf geometry in their sophomore year. Hence, we have already on goal one reduce the number of repeaters about javaone by over 50 . We are well ahead of the gold of the headset. In addition, theres positive indicators further upstream. Such as eighthgrade math the number of their d and f this past rain fell from 80 which result in 2015, 212. 6 in 2016. What this means for us it will much work to do but there can be no doubt were on the right track. More students are learning much more rigorous mathematics content earlier on without having to repeat. This is very good news for our community and i will also add, San Francisco unified continues to lead the state of california and the number of students not only proficient but advanced and mathematics in this past administration. So its good news something to celebrate how about a round of applause for our students . [applause] i would also finally like to say that as we start the 20162017 school year we meet this choice towns with enthusiasm and total dedication to her students our teachers and our communities. Its a new beginning and a time of Great Expectations for all of us. This year however, we are faced with new and very serious challenges in particular challenge that is been talked about a great deal in recent years and now is here. An unprecedented Teacher Shortage across the nation and in particular california has been hit hard by this stark reality is we been preparing for even though we didnt are preparing for for over two years. We work tirelessly to fill our classroom teaching vacancies and this year lease periods 615 classroom vacancies and i filled 567 vacancies so far. Close to 800 if we count all vacancies in the teacher ranks including nonclassroom positions as well. The majority of the hiring season we been filling vacancies as a much higher rate than last year until 53 classroom positions just in the last week and a half alone. I want to give a special thank you to our Human Capital team our Human Resources department for their incredible work. If you come on saturdays and sundays and they are here processing interviewing and screening and on boarding teachers. We are still doing classroom vacancies every day and will continue to do so until every vacancy is filled. What i certificated staff person in every classroom for the first week of school as continued to fill vacancies. Rest assured, we are ready for our students to start this new school year with a qualified certificated highly qualified teacher in front of them. We are asking for public for your support and again, anyone out there whos ready to make a difference in a childs life and wants to teach, speak please visit Debbie Debbie debbie sfusd. Edu. Do we have avis building job for you . So with that president haney thats my report for the human can i will welcome you all to the 20162017 school you. Thank you. Thank you mr. Superintendent. Item c, recognitions and resolutions of commendation. There are none tonight. Item d student delegates reported the first one hello everyone. Superintendent carranza president haney and commissioners, my name is jessica inc. , one of the student delegates this school year. On a rising senior at Lowell High School and then on the sfc since my sophomore year. Betwixt hello my name is marie sarah goes up a rising senior in equity and this is my second year report back from our meeting is going to be that our next literature training for new members will be this saturday, september 3 through monday, september 5. With Outward Bound and the location has not been determined. Actually, what would that earlier this year because last year we had it at the end of the year just to build community earlier within the staff members. Other announcement. We have our fac meeting actually yesterday. It was a success. About 25 students came from all different high schools in the San Francisco School District. The student delegates wanted to know what students want to work on this year and we got a lot of responses. We also shared some of our own. Personally, mind one of my goals is to make our own part decisions from century city is to support more undocumented students and find ways to build more communities with police with students from all the districts. Im not sure how thats going to look like. Then, for me, the sec has four committees arena. The help committee, curriculum committee, Budget Committee and special city and district committees, but i was interested in adding a new committee called the social Justice Committee and him working with someone else from the high school and she thinks is interested not easily maria, to because goes to the school of equity. So, we want to start that jumpstart that this year and then another thing i want to work on is the dress code. It came up at my school in a news article and at the meeting yesterday, couple other students also mentioned it and we found it to be something worth exploring. For me come i think the dress code is a bit big so the dress code says some things that can be up to different interpretations such as what are short shorts are they midlength or [laughing] beneath the you can measure with your finger but you know, explain something words more concrete and we can make it more manageable for the administration and students. Then, will be definitely exploring the new topics further at sec convenes more regularly. Then, for our next sec meeting on august 22 that it will be the sec cabinet election did so after this meeting will have elected the student delegate president , Vice President , treasurer, secretary, pr and historian. Just to wrap it up, like jessica said our next meeting will be august 22 at 5 pm here in the board room. Everyone is welcome to come and if you still want to come these contact our contactor for our agenda and that will be it for our feedback. Thank you. Great report. I believe Vice President wasnt walton one i want to congratulate both of you for being selected to serve with us. Hope you take advantage of the opportunity and appreciate the tagteam thing you had going tonight but welcome to serving on the board of education along with us and i want to congratulate you. And thank you. I like to extend warm welcome to both the student delegates give you a lot of hard work ahead of you and we look forward to working with you on a variety of different issues and in particular jessica inc. , her mother and i met in the third grade at golden gate. So i knew jessica before she was born and then following her ever since. So delighted to serve on this board with you. Congratulations again get were looking for to working with you. Item e, Advisory Committee reports and appointments to Advisory Committee by Board Members that there are no reports tonight. Either any deployments . Item f Public Comments on consent items. I dont believe there was any. The common on consent items. Item g consent calendar. Have a motion and second for the consent calendar moved and seconded. Items with don or corrected by the superintendent . Yes did i like last mr. Steed to read those into the record please thank you. Yes we are to w items for correction. 168 9w 10 on page 82. The appropriation line, change the year from 2017 to 2016 on all appropriation lines. Change the object code the last line from 62. 70 262. 12. Then 1609w 20 page 100, the corporation argument change the number from 11500, 211505. Then under the k item 168 9k 28 on page 190. Under date of service correcting starting date from 71 2016, 281026 on 169 per k 32 on page 200, under date of service, correct starting date from july 1, 2016, two august 12, 2016. Unlike 689 k 36, page 208, under date of service, ending it should be change from 6 to 16 262 16 and finally page 210, under date of service ending date should be change from 5191651917. Thank you mr. Steele. Any items removed for First Reading by the board . Mr. Wynns i like to remove for First Reading 3c 160 9w on page 106. I like to request that. [inaudible] can you say which one i didnt spend excuse me reading the defendant 3c, one 68 nine of you 34 on page 106. The reason i like it referred to the rules committee it involves the waiver of the board policy that weve not discussed. That has never been waived in this manner. For the whole school. Vice president walton thank you president haney. I do disagree with commissioner wynns. There are times when we do waived our current rules to vote on something and move something forward. First reading without going to certain committees i think this is one of those cases where we should do that carried commissioner fewer not on this one ive another one i am polling. Thank you. Do we vote on that or [inaudible] i will second it. I want to understand the impact of delaying this and moving it to committee, but given that it is a longstanding policy of the district, im not necessarily i dont even think i oppose the proposal necessarily but i think you might want further discussion. I would like to understand the impact of delaying and moving it to a committee. This is your item. How would you like to handle this . I think this can be the pleasure of the board. Staff is ready to discuss in more detail the impact and the limited nature of this exception. So its really the pleasure of the board. President , may i make a suggestion that we pull this item for discussion and we have a discussion for staff and then we bring the boat back if board numbers via linkage go to so that weve had enough time to deliberate and then bring back this boat that we have a discussion. Of course, just so commissioner wynns without the okay with you . Well, its not okay with me but if that is what the board once, the procedural way to proceed would be that we would, as i understand it, more discussion would be in order on whether or not we should send it to the committee. Then, we could take if a member of the board apparently has objects to it being removed from the agenda made into a First Reading, eventually we have a vote whether not to do that here this evening. I would like to avoid that. Plus i can make a big difference proposal that we i dont know how to do this parliamentary actually but that will separate have a discussion when we discuss items centered on whether or not why i think it should go to committee and white some of what the issues are with the staff. At that time, we could make a decision based on taking an action, motions that come before us, about whether or not to send it to committee commissioner wynns exactly what i said. If youre in agreement i feel like we could do that. President haney we will discuss this as a time when we discuss items seven and we consider at the time motions to either pass it now or send it to committee. Make sense to everyone . Vice president walton just one pointed this a motion and second she did not move to separate it. Ill be going to . What is the appropriate to the rules actually is to just make a request to make it at First Reading it thats all weve always operated. Commissioner norton acted like or presumed that was a motion to remove and make a First Reading. It could be i think we can just proceed as though theres a motion on the floor to tidy things up i can withdraw my second of the motion. Right clean it up over there. Come on. I think everybody is clear on what is going to happen. So what we are going to discuss this as an item severed. Any itemswell, yes. Thank you president tenants. As an item about ratification of personnel and i think it was going to be for c that counsel i think at summer house in the agenda. Im sorry. I do i have a similar request that it be put to the Personnel Committee unwilling to pull this but this ratification been on the board eight years this the first time weve ever done it. I like more extensive sort of the session around because i dont even know what it is. Im happy to hear it as a pulled item. I also think, that i was going to request we here in personnel because it is a Personnel Matter and so but i am happy to hear it did the same way that commissioner wynns and then sharing about the warrior thing. You know, then if we need to have more discussion to take it to committee and have it further understanding about it i want to support that and i want to to do the same thing. Or sever it but because i think this is really the whole point of speaking at this time. Its not the content its the process we never that needs to be discussed i think. If it pleases the vote to have a board out im open to having a vote on this right now. We dont need a vote. We would just i can just refer it. Okay if were in agreement unless theres a staff objection otherwise im happy to bring it to eight vote just note at this point your personal committee needs to be a jedis. The closed session item which recently can do. Okay, so commissioner is this time sensitive whether not taking action tonight i want to be clear . My understanding it is not time sensitive to the board has already approved contracts for all of these individuals. We could actually very quickly describe why its necessary is procedural and state law. But its not time sensitive of people not being employed. Im going to grant that request and have a go to a Personnel Committee. We wont need to discuss this further this evening. Will call vote will take under section letter o. I dont think there were any other items Board Members want to sever or the superintendent . Thats enough, okay. Item h, superintendents proposal. This was moved and seconded by june 28, 2016. If there is no objection will be dealing with the moment by substitute motion which the board has received copies are available for the public on the table at the entrance of this room. Report from the ad hoc Student Assignment committee. We received and thats the as the chair of the committee, we received two proposals related to one related to assignments for Willie Brown Middle School and one related to language pathways. There was a discussion among the committee and a consensus among that we want to alter take an alternative approach substitute motion you have in front of you taken a different approach with willie brown and wayne which pathway assignment. Thats why you have amended by substitute and i think we will probably be discussing in further detail now. Mr. Superintendent thank you very much. I would like to ask for the quick report. Id like to ask our executive director mr. Keefe to come forward if she is here. If not, we can have darlene executive director of atc get darlene then to come forward. Good Evening Commission should this item was reviewed at committee and the concerns raised by members in the committee and based on that discussion there is a substitute motion presented here that would be replacing the original policy proposal. This recommendation would be the original proposal will be replacing and the recommendations that we suspend the provision in the policy that requires that any changes must be approved three months before launching the new enrollment cycle. Any changes tonight will not make the threemonth deadline. Also, we want to continue with the middle school feeder choice process as has been for the past five years and remove any line which about automatic assignments into the middle school Feeder Schools. The process will remain the same as we have been practicing for the last five years. And, we will also continue to allow the students at clever, but part of malcolm x and dr. Charles drew to middle school feeders as has been the practice for the past year. The original school as stated in the policy along with a preference to Willie Brown Middle School. The nine 4102 preference will also stay in place. So, based on the recommendations in legal the policy will only address the Current Practice and will not include any further future action or timeline for change. Any plans to change the policy and future commitments will be captured in a separate resolution. So, further changes to the board policy will require us to amend the policy again. Would you like me to read the requested action . Please so the requested reaction that the board of education of the San Francisco Unified School District adopt the revisions outlined in the attached Student Assignment policy board policy p5101 as amended here in. That the board suspends its Student Assignment board policy Provision Requiring revisions to be made three months before sf ust begins accepting applications so that the proposed revisions to the popup 5101 may be effective immediately. Thank you. I have no public speakers signed up for this item. Ic commissioner murase president haney, just a quick question and i apologize but this is for my information what was the intent for moving the moving willie brown from the automatic feeder pattern after one year . Doll policy states that we would have automatic assignments into all middle school feeders at thisin the 1718 school year. The policy states that the policy also states that we will have identified willie brown elementary to middle school feeders for willie brown. So the original proposal did state that those schools would feed into willie brown did it also allows the opportunity through the choice process to have a preference into their original middle school feeder that was identified originally in the policy. So the intent was to actually have the students have the same opportunity as all other students would into an automatic assignment and be promoted into a middle school. Commissioner murase thank you very much and thanks to staff for working on this very complex issue. My understanding of the proposal tonight is it is the utilization of a plan set out two years ago in terms of the middle school feeder pattern to pilot the feeders in the first couple of years and now to actually make it official policy. I want to say this is an important step in terms of predictability which is something families have been asking for that they not have to participate in a lottery going into middle school and that there are strong arguments for continuing for example language pathways from the elementary to the middle school. So, i will be supporting this action tonight. I just want to make one clarification the Japanese Language Program pathway im most familiar with. There had been instances where people, students, went from the japanese language pathway Elementary School to the middle school which is now the designated middle school for japanese but for one reason or another, the student, to continue. There wasnt a good fit in middle school. So, as they [inaudible] that student can automatically transfer to ge at the presidio because they were admitted under the Program Pathway. They would have to be applied in the transfer process. I just want make sure that families understand that they are applying to a particular Program Pathway at a school. They have an option to apply to the general Education Pathway but i just want to bring that to light because there were a number of instances of people think and an automatic transfer from a Language Program to general education and that is not the case. Thank you. Commissioner norton. So, i was president in the Student Assignment Committee Last week when we talked about this. I support the substitute motion. It was after a long discussion where we all expressed grave concerns about the status original proposal and i want to just be sure thati mean, i support the substitute motion because it basically does not take anything away from anybody. It kicks the can down the road for a year at least, but nobody loses something that they have right now good families still have the preference to their feeder middle school. The willie bound family still has a choice of the dual feeders that are currently in place. It basically keeps status quo for what people have right now and i think we actually have been pleasantly surprised at how the middle school feeders have gone over and all people are using them and seem to have accepted them after some initial pushback did so, for all those reasons i think is the right thing to do but i also amwe will have to contend with this larger question of are we going to go to automatic assignments and if we do, there is a real equity question to make sure that everybody has the same ability to actually access and automatic assignment and theres just some real issues with the language pathways and then also families willie brown clearly articulated to us they felt like they would be losing something if we took away their second feeder. That they needed more choices for various reasons. So, i dontits not the topic for tonight but i urge the committee and i want to say again, we just need to engage with this issue early not have it come up again in the summer like g, we have to look at this now again. Lets actually take that this on in Student Assignment and think about is the automatic assignment the right policy . We thought was the right policy for years ago when we past however many years ago it was in 2010 but maybe its not the right policy anymore and we should grapple with that. Commissioner fewer yet. I want to apologize. I was unable to attend the student is on an Ad Hoc Committee meeting. I requested a meeting to have a discussion and i heard the revisions were coming. I just want to say that although what im hearing is that we had not discussed the preference, and that i know that last year we did it last year commissioner gordon and i offered a resolution to but ultimately to school from home as a preference about the siege at and i see this policy actually doesnt address that. But i just want to note, i think that is a very important discussion to have and to bring up again. So, i respectfully request that at our next student meeting we actually take that topic up and look again at the evaluate also. What i am hearing, summarizing this, is that there are not big changes in this. Its basically maintaining sorted by status quo until the next file were taking it down to the next board and superintendent. Okay. I think, though, theres some real issues with our Feeder Program and also even the way we assigned students in our open choice and almost full choice program. That we have Student Assignments and i strongly recommend this board even though i will not be on this board after january 1, i respectfully request that whoever the members are on this board that we we consider that and look at that again. Thank you. Commissioner wynns thank you. I want to thank the staff for bringing this forward in this way. It does, after the Committee Meeting it does do was a lot of feedback. I know. A lot of concern. I did there are a couple things i kind of i guess want to report a little bit in more detail from the meeting. Not all of it , but things that i think should be heard by the public actually a little bit. That is that because what i think there were some concerns about whether walking in place the Feeder Programs for all the bayview schools into willie brown was what we should do and it brought up the issue about the impact which for my mind, is certainly one of the main reasons i end up supporting the feeder pattern did in fact that was one of the few tools we had to address segregation issues in the School District and even at the time, we believed we were being the modest in our willingness to sort of feed schools into someplace not its close proximity in order to try to a positive impact on desegregation. So, i just really want towithout going into the details of what people thought what the proposals were there which are available of course, just to say that for the public and for the board, i think that thats what were going to want to do this coming year is to be moreis to think more boldly about whether what we would be willing to do some more transportation or really look at assigning, as the automatic feeder Elementary Schools to sub middle schools the will not be in close proximity. And that it could mean we need to consider changing some of the features that exist now because weve always known that was going to be our challenge around willie brown. Was, inserting another middle school into a feeder pattern. Were every Elementary School already has a Feeder School in the middle schools are basically filled with those that feed from existing Elementary Schools. So, we have to be willing to talk about that, i think, in this coming year and prepare ourselves and to prepare the public for those kinds of discussions. Last, i want to say i was interested what commissioner murase said because that actually was something we did not bring up at the meeting but was is really perfect example of one of the overarching concerns we had, which was, with the recommendations about the language pathways what is the fundamental difference of access and therefore equity, for those language pathways did not in language pathways and this is kind of subsubject about which we did not discuss which in a way, even though we dont want people towe dont want to fail to explain something that causes people to think they have access to something that they dont. Thats really terrible, but also their resumption that they have access to that is actually presuming for themselves even more access because there are feeder is into the language pathways and if they didnt have regarded that as being an automatic feeder into the general education in that same school thats the kind of thing we have to clarify particularly as we develop new recommendations about the language pack ways. So, again i want to thank the staff for the work that was done on the recommendations and particularly for the work that was done between last week and this week on the substitute motion. I will definitely be supporting its. I will say i forgot one other thing i want to say, to support what commissioner norton said i think all of a sudden please with how successful two now the feeder pattern process has been and how many people are actually going to their Feeder Schools even though they have to make a request now. Doesnt happen automatically. So, that was our discussion that we did not think asking for the way he would really significantly change qualitatively the process for anybody. People are used to get it working well. They are almost all going to their Feeder Schools anyway. But we do not think this would be a big again, substantive change for people using the system rather that it would be a Better Process for getting to the next step if we do not try to muck around and make a lot of amendments to the recommendations but rather propose that we look more deeply at this next year. Thank you. Commissioner fewer thank you i just want to say the last thing that i think what ive said consistently throughout the years on my term on the board of education which we started with Student Assignment actually the first big topic is i would like the board to keep in mind that choice by its nature is [inaudible] if you need afterschool care or before school care where you have resources to get your Children School across town then you have choice. If youre able to go visit schools during the opening moments of time and i talk to people that visited 20 schools. If youre not able to do that, because youre working a job and you lose money every time youre not at work in every tort is it [inaudible] mentors are only in english and a lot of them dont allow you to bring younger children with good choice by its very nature is an inequitable. I just want the board to remember that. Though weve had a choice system, i think what we have seen is that people self segregates. I would like to keep that in mind when you are reevaluating our Student Assignment system. That choice, by its very nature and very design, is inequitable. I could show you examples of that if anyone wants to push back but it is. So i would like i did then around the world language staff, i would say that i would encourage the board, as i think that most of you know, i have been pushing several language accessible to all Elementary Schools. Maybe not in immersion but thats another subject matter and i think we should look at that having two children, one whos fluent in mandarin another child was wonderfully in spanish and i think it is only appropriate for the 20 rate in this world that so shrinking that everyone according to vision 2025 must be a Global Citizen and being able to express yourself in another language and communicate in another language is imperative to been successful in the 21st century for our children. So regardless whether in an Immersion Program the world language should be accessible to every Elementary School child and so actually are able to feed in to a Larger Program in middle school and reach a high level of proficiency in another language by the time they graduate from our schools. Thank you. Thank you for those comments. And for all the comments from the board. I was a part of this conversation on this on the proposal and the substitute motion, and i think that what weve seen with our middle school feeders really demonstrates that were moving in the right direction and that her families are responding to the middle school feeders as a model can but its important we get this right. I think were doing the right thing by moving in a little bit slower of a timeline to the automatic assignment. I think we are going to get there. Partly for the reason that we are hearing that this is the direction that families want to go in was enough by the choices they are making. So i think we are going to get to an automatic assignment good its going to happen soon. But i think this one year of sorting this out, planning this right, particularly around the language pathway, is going to get it to a better place in a lot less heartache when it does happen. The one thing i do want to say, though, two things, on willie brown we have more training and more conversation that needs to take place as a board around this. I think we were surprised by the proposal that came to us around willie brown if we didnt believe that it reflected the boards goals around diversity and equity in the fall success of that school and so i want to also as commissioner fewer said relief flag that the board needs to have further really challenging conversations about that. And how we think about the Feeder Schools for willie brown, the automatic assignment for willie brown, to ensure the success that middle school. Which i know this board and district is committed to. So i think does something that came out of the long conversation that we had the Student Assignment meeting. As well as commissioner fewer said the need to have more regular conversations about Student Assignment and the many issues we have to figure out what i would commit a not going to be the chairman willing for but im sure commissioner murase the incoming chairwoman sure we discuss it and as well as the many other issues brought up in the comments this evening. With that, if there are no other further comments were questions, we can take a roll call vote on the substitute motion thanks. Fewer aye, mendozamcdonnell aye murase aye norton aye walton aye wynns aye mcelhaney haney aye six aye item i Board Members proposal. There are 1900 item j Public Comment on general matters. I have a number of the good cards here. Im going to call up speakers and live 2 min. Each. [calling Public Comment cards]s i mustve been on vacation. Anyway, good Evening Commissioners present united education San Francisco. First of all i want to say to superintendent carranza. I know i will see you but i have not seen you since we got the news. Its been productive sometimes challenging and learning experience for working with you my first year as president as usf get back to school is a special time. Students eagerly wait find out who their teachers will be good parents started on making sure children have what they need for the first day of school. Educators lovingly and carefully prepare their classrooms to be the welcoming learning environment for their students. So, you as Board Members i hope you, too, have spent the same amount of time as educators and parents think about what we you be doing this year to ensure that our schools are the welcoming learning environment for students and our educators feel supported in all that they do on the first day of the school year to the last. Its an opportunity. Every school year is an opportunity to do things better. We have a big challenge ahead of us. The themes you are going to your other themes are not new things but we want to continue to make safe and Supportive Schools and actualwe want to get the resources to our school so that our schools are safe and supportive for our children. And we want to make sure there supports for our children and special ed classes and children in regular classes let ieps their teachers and paraprofessionals of adequate training and as you all know, the bigits on elephant in the room because were talking about is the affordability crisis. This is the year where the pedal its the middle. We cant be in the same place next year we are we are now were the opportunities is lost to send out a different message to the educators that are here in that they respected and supportive and we pay them what they are worth. Thank you very much. Good Evening Commission. Superintendent carranza. Happy new you. Welcome to the new student commissioners. Good to see you. So, i want to give a little background. Last semester teachers were asked to sign a letter of intent as to whether they were going to return that you turn that in by june 30. This is a provision in the education code. They were warned that if they didntif they sign the letter they were going to return and then they did not they would be reported to the commission on teacher credentialing. This is something new the district had never done before. We in felt it was in enterprise decision considering theres a teacher george foley also recognizes something that district is allowed to do. So, the one recommendation we did make was to be sure to start the letter with thinking teachers for their services. As the opening paragraph and not the final paragraph. So that was implemented. So, why am i bringing this up now . It is because we have now heard from about 15 teachers who been told that in fact they will be reported to the commission on teacher credentialing because they have accepted jobs elsewhere or their chosen to move elsewhere. From the teachers we have spoken with many of them have been affected by the affordability crisis and they can stay. One of them was evicted from her home and she proved outside of the circuit shes going to be reported to the commission on teacher credentialing. Now, again thats not against the law. However, we know that a least a couple of administrators would envy leaving the district as well get we didnt know before june 30. As far as i know theyre breaking the contracts. I am not advocating that we report them to the commission on teacher credentialing and i dont think thats a good idea. I am asking for some mercy for our teachers who been forced to leave and i want this book to show some consistency in to avoid being considered hypocritical. Why can administrators leave without report happening and teachers cannot . Please consider not only the shortage of teachers here in San Francisco but throughout california and please reconsider these reports to the commission on teacher credentialing. Teachers can end up losing their credentials for up to a year. That is a harsh penalty because they can afford to live here. Thank you. Good evening everybody. My name is jean robertson. I am the president of united administrators of San Francisco. Im thrilled to be here tonight. I want to address our board of education members who are running for reelection. Our union is having a little Party Meeting general membership meeting, we are inviting you to attend with us on tuesday september 247 pm. We know its a Board Meeting night so we will put you on. If you want to come and mingle with us. Have a few moments to share a little bit of your platform of the we dont have a Political Action committee, we do have street credit in the field. People do ask us how its going and how we are feeling about our candidates so we be happy to hear from you and share in a knot in an official capacity did so put that on your calendars. Email will be going out in the next day or two. I also want to acknowledge the principles and follow superintendent folkman thank you, richard, again for bringing that altogether to our administration is that he was advised that it was very meaningful and the feedback from the principles and the administrators in our district have been overwhelmingly positive this year. Even with the transition thats taking place among us right now we feel good and we are ready to go which brings me to wearing my principal had today was the day we kicked off. So, i had 50 of my staff for all the days that an afterschool staff coming together today and we moved mountains. We have some very meaningful work that took place. One of the biggest pieces i just have to share, given susans comments, we share what was in our hearts and with our teachers shared that her landlord reduced her rent 300 this year. Believe me when i tell you that was the highlight of our day. Last, i want to give a warm and heartfelt thank you to richard for your work with all of us throughout the years you been here. We are good. I think we are fine. We are looking for to work with you in the interim. So, thank you and definitely happy new year to everybody. Thank you. My name is bob and jillian a parent of a fifthgrader at sunnyside Elementary School. Good all the other parents from sunnyside raise their hands to be counted . So id say theres about 15 pounds here. Parents to get we are here seeking the solution to the issue raised in regards to one of our current fifthgrade teachers whose behavior is created a concern around safety and standards of education. There have been repeated letters and communications with the district staff over the past year from the Sunnyside Community and we are asking for resolution to the situation prior to the school year starting next monday. In particular, seeking clarity between all the parties. So that the district, principal, teachers, and parents are all on the same page. Thank you for your time. Hi. My name is laura. Im also apparent from sunnyside. With a fifthgrader. As you see theres a number of us here seeking resolution to the issue raised in regards to one of our current fifthgrade teachers. His behavior has greeted concerns around safety and standards of education. Thereve been repeated letters and communications with sfusd staff over the past year from Sunnyside Community. We resolution on this. I understand that for Human Resources and union reasons there might be it might take time to resolve this issue. I would really like to know is what resources you guys are going to put in place to ensure that all the fifthgraders at sunnyside have equal access to education and are safe in the classroom . I would like you to figure this out while you are working to resolve this issue. Will a be placed in the classroom to ensure childrens safety in an opportunity to differentiate instruction . Will a substitute be on call for short notice. With Creative Solutions can you come up with to support our kids . What help do you need from sunnyside parents we are a Strong Community and are willing to help. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration to this matter. I will call another batch so folks can come up. [calling Public Comment cards] my name is dana club muscle parent of sunnyside elementary a student at sunnyside elementary by the fifthgrader and i also have a recent sunnyside graduate. Im going to repeat a lot of what was just said in the last two speakers, but we have a situation where the fifthgrade teacher is a great concern about safety. I personally written letters to the board and to the people at the school. Sf ust staff get it has been at least six months since i personally have been writing letters and i dont understand why this is not resolved and i like to have a resolution prior to the start of school on monday. Thank you. Thank you very much commissioners for your time. My michelle rogers. A second grader at sunnyside. Im also a member of the School Site Council. In the last year, weve devoted significant time and thought and effort on the School Site Council to improve the scores and performance of our fifthgraders. In fact, its even a stated goal on our balance scorecard so we know this is very important for our entire community. Its very important that we have polity instructional support for this group. You know the School District here says we have a goal of providing an equal opportunities to succeed and unless this issue is resolved half of the fifthgraders at sunnyside wont have that equal opportunity. So, on behalf of the parents in the students and specifically the School Site Council, i respectfully request an immediate resolution to this issue because it is truly our final year before we prepare these fifthgrade students to enter into much more demanding middle schools system. So, thank you for your attention to this matter. Hello. My name is [inaudible] and im also a parent of a fifthgrader at sunnyside Elementary School. As you guys know, we have a number of us here. Seeking resolution to this matter. In regards to the fifthgrade teacher. As you heard before, last years behavior was very questionable. When my son found out that hes going to have this teacher, his answer was that the teacher was absent half of the school year and did not show up to field trips. So im very concerned and i would like sf us d and the staff and board to come to resolution on this issue and really appreciate your help. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hello good evening. Thank you. Am. Im also from sunnyside. My name is window on. I have three children at sunnyside and one of them is in fifth grade. I could repeat what others have said but i also am a teacher myself. In an Elementary School and fuel that teaching is a profession i appreciate is the most challenging job. But its not a position that should be held if youre unable to hold hardly be present with students. So thank you very much for listening to everybody. My name is troy amory also at sunnyside parents with incoming fifthgrader. Again, appreciate you listening especially as we repeat the same points that hopefully it counts. Over the past eight years or so sunnyside parents, teachers pta, administration, everybody has been working really hard to create a Great Community for our kids but as you know from letters to you and also sent him to the office of family voice and the principal and other administrators, we are seeking resolution on the issue raised in regard to our current history teachers whose behavior levels of dedication and professionalism have created concerns around safety and standards of education. As was mentioned before fifthgrade is an important year and foundation before heading into a more academically rigorous middle school and we want to ensure all sunnyside students are equally prepared when they graduate. Where asking for resolution to the situation to the school you which we know is coming up fast were hoping for your help. Thank you so much for your time. Quickly, for all the folks from sunnyside who came out tonight, we want to thank you for coming and i think the superintendent has something to say about that. Yes, thank you president haney. I also want to thank the parents that have come out from the Sunnyside Community and believe me, this on everybodys radar. I like to invite you are assistant superintendent Richard Ricci and david want there to me would eventually do an action plan for support and answer your questions to the extent they can this evening. So at the appropriate time, both assistant superintendents will exit if you could follow them the happy to meet with you this them. Again, thanks for coming out. Good evening. My name is brian brooks. Ive been before this board before. A few months ago and i spoke about an issue at 473 haight st. Were trying to close the cannabis plant open up near john merrill Elementary School at this because of a loophole in 2006 by the then board of supervisors. We im happy to announce we were able to temporarily close down it until october but again this only temporary. Were looking for the commissioners to work with us and other city agencies to oppose youre working with other folks and we want to give opportunity to john muro Elementary School not set a precedent come november if something happens with the city will only school in San Francisco were cannabis plant is operating under 600 feet per state law. I hopefully we can join us. We have a small band of residents and merchants of the 400 block of lower haight and we are where we are salt small scrappy band have been able to stop a lot of money coming into the neighborhood and again explained this loophole. So hopefully, we can work together. We didnt conduct with some of the stuff and thanks to them for their communication and their quickness and response to this issue. So, again thank you. Hype should money was not osborne. Honestly spying summed up what i would like to speak to you about but we would really appreciate help maybe an official position from the board to help prevent any more dispensaries going in closer to schools that are currently allowed. Anyone that knows jim muro elementary these kids have got enough challenges as it is. I have a business around the corner. I would do anything for any of the students in this is the least i can do. Were hoping we can work with you to help close this loophole and prevent anything more from happening to those kids. Thank you. Thank you. Thats the end of general Public Comment. Item k special order visited is not tonight. Item l discussion of other educational issue. None tonight. Item m consent calendar. None tonight. Item n, vote on consent calendar. Moved and seconded under item g. Fewer aye mendozamcdonnell murase aye norton aye walton aye wynns aye haney aye 60 i item o vote on consent calendar resolution seven for separatist iteration under item g. I believe we have one. That was severed by commissioner wynns. Okay so this item is on page 106. Its item related to authorization of the logo of the Golden State Warriors to be used on the exterior basco court backwards. Centocor paving and adjacent retaining wall by waiving the requirements the board of education resolution number 95 25 six commercial free school acted in the case of Willie Brown Junior Middle School. So, here are my concerns about this. We have in place for first of all, theres also a question here about paving of the courts. In fact, in some cases its referred to as we paving. This a brandnew school why are we repeating . I mean this a substantive content question about this much is the policy issue. Good Evening Commissioners. Hughes made on david golden tee facility officer. Sounding somewhat froglike tonight. Just off an airplane from the east coast. For those of you who obviously know, weve constructed a brandnew 56 Million Middle School during the course of doing that work we worked very very hard to develop some partnerships with different groups who have offered to do things and form alliances with our teachers, staff, students. And the Golden State Warriors happens to be one of them. This is the beginning of a relationship that started about two years ago. The scope of the project was for us to finish our normal exterior Basketball Courts and when it was an appropriate time the Golden State Warriors were going to come in and resurface the court, put the fancier colored coating probably the best example is Valley Middle School where youll see a similar court, put in newark fancier groups and thats and paint the logo about the Golden State Warriors and the Willie Brown Junior Middle School on various parts of the courts were the backboards were in adjacent wall. What needs to happen in order to be able to do that is commissioner wynns pointed out, in 1999 there was a resolution passed by the board of education about commercial free situations in the district that had a lot to do with commercial products. It had a lot to do with the sewing of cigarettes. It had some brief conversations with commissioner wynns why obviously coauthored the resolution. In it was a pretty broad and encompassing in scope and its been in place since 1999. Edgerton high school, when nike wanted to put their swoosh at the 50 yard line when they did the field the board said, no. I think it is staffs humble opinion there is a difference between a billiondollar corporation that sells tennis shoes and a major Sports Enterprise which is part of the community but thats an interpretation that i think board of Education Needs to make. So, we respectfully put forth this resolution and we would look for you i think the Golden State Warriors are compared to move forward with the court renovation. Irrespective of the decision of the board for the logo or not. To clarify the answer to the question, i appreciate all that background. In our 50 million we could not afford to put the fancier nicer surface on the basco Court Without private donor . We could have done it but thats notits not typically what we do on schools throughout the district but we didnt hear . Because we didvalley. Another donor, i forget who came forward and did that okay. So i appreciate that. That answers that question, but now let me Say Something about the policy. It is true this policy has been in place a long time. I think many people in our community are justifiably proud of it. This was by the way for informational purposes, one of the policies that were advocated for by advocates for children and youth. Thats being part of the package of progressive policies at the time including the beginning work on the proposal to create a Parents Advisory Council a number of other things in that list of policies that felt were needed after kind of change in administration in a more communitybased approach to governance. There were a lot of people at that timeill try to make this short. Try give a tiny bit of backbone. At the time was a rising tide of privatization and commercialization of Public School. It was the time of thethis was actually in response to proposal in our School District to have were then known as exclusive pouring conjugate our district would get a little money in either become a pepsi or cocacola School District none of the products of the other major soft drink companies would be allowed to be sold. These were sweeping the country. In addition, it was a time when the Product Placement in curriculum materials strategy started to emerge where instead of saying johnny needs wants to buy a new bicycle tire and how long will it take to earn the money to do that, there were proposals and there were in fact textbooks with inside would be a giant two page color photo of a pair of extremely expensive athletic shoes with all the logos and the names, brand names, and that would be the math problem. How long would taken to earn enough money to buy a 250 pair of athletic shoes. Things like that. There were a lot of, there were a lot of moves towards advertising in Public Schools. This was at the time a group called the center for public free for commercial free Public Education in oakland a national organization, so a lot of theseand this policy was the nations most sweeping anticommercialization policy and wasi dont know still ismany years most requested policy of the School District by others around the country. So, the center actually went out of business because these kinds of efforts kind of stopped that weave of privatization and commercialization and advertising product advertising in schools. Recently, at sba, i saw there is a new group called the center for commercial free childhood which has emerged and they knew about our policy. I told him where i was from director commercial freeso, this was important work and by the way, it has remained in place all of this time really has kind of changed the culture of our School District. Mr. Goldens example of the pertinent field i think is a good one because were in that case donors wanted to do, and they donated the surface for the track at burton and it was made out of product thats made out of recycled athletic shoes. We felt like was part of our sustainability program. It was part of our educational program. All of the money for that field was privately donated including a major gift from rosenberg and gifts from the National Football league and others. Their request, nike, was to put a big logo their swoosh in the middle of the football field to which we said, no. We said but instead we negotiated and this is the point which i think we should discuss at the rules committee that we came up with put a board in the athletic in the field at the side of the field that recognized all the donations, all the private donations. Including recognizing that this was part of our education for sustainability that we appreciated this and negotiated the placement of a small logo from nike company there. So we sort of modified and waived in that case this policy in a modest way to recognize the contribution of a commercial company for educational and useful to our students purposes. I think that we had other examples weve had major donations and requests for the placement of commercial logos and weve said, no, to them. So this is what i think. I totally love and appreciate the fact that the warriors made this commitment to the school. I think its a really Great Partnership for them given the proximity of the school to that neighborhood to what is hoped to be the new warriors arena. And their commitment to the community is something we should all applaud and want to work for. Further, i think there is a fundamental difference here which i think we should talk about. That is, they are not just proposing to make a financial donation to were to pay for something. They are proposing though its not yet finalized, Ongoing Partnership and programming in that school. Which i think makes a fundamental difference. But i think we need in a much recognize to our staff here, and to the whole public, remember, it was the board and i was very vocal and still am, who insisted it was time for us to really build our capacity to raise philanthropic and private dollars. That while we work as hard as we can for public money, we need private support to fund our schools. We can talk about whether we think it should be that way or not but it is. The work that we have done the board the staff in particular, the superintendent this administration the staff we have hired to develop the capacity to do this kind of Development Work is fundamentally important. My position is that we [inaudible] we have not talked about what kind of guidelines we need for today for things exactly like this. We have not talked about what would be our criteria for recognition of donations were ongoing partner programming from private donors even corporate donors and what would be appropriate and not too much of an imposition on the Educational Programs. So thats what i think we should do. Thats where i think we should send to the rules committee. I think in this case be interested in because were not going to wait until we should do that or not want to wait until thats fully resolved to make this deal. I understand that and i dont want to do that but whats described to me in here is kind of overthetop. Saying we are going to haveand i appreciate and want to thank the staff are sending us the kind of mockup of the court with a warriors logo on the floor and i actually think im willing to be convinced thats kind of okay. Thats a really good kind of recognition, but i do have a problem with backboards because that has been one of the main targets of advertising for commercial companies in schools. Backboards. And scoreboards. I have a problem withi would like to see what they plan to put on the wall because of that and put on the wall of the schools logo, good. If they are going to put sort of turn it into a mini warriors arena, i have problem with that. I think and i also have to say that i do not expect that the staff would have resulted this because we have no policy and guidelines specifically for this. That is my issue with this and why i dont think we should just move it forward. The last thing ill say is that. The other thing that disturbs me is this policy as i read it, this resolution as i read it reads this policy for Willie Brown Middle School. Not just for this purpose. But it would put you would say you know what, we think part of our responsibility is to protect from aggressive commercial advertising. All the schools in San Francisco except for willie brown. Except for the one which is in the bayview. I think that is unacceptable to me. It needs to bewe need the policy guidelines. We need the discussion and we need to beto find a way to come up with which i would hope would be helpful to the staff, to be honest, what are appropriate and relatively modest as we have in the past recognition of commercial donors and ill just say that i know nike makes more money than the worst that they make plenty of money. Itsthat is a really organization which is both clearly Community Partner and also a major Financial Corporation is just exactly why this is something i think should be discussed. If the boards pleasure is that we go ahead with this just like this, my choice would be that we send this to committee and we particularly try to put that out and try to work out some language that says if we agree which i think we would, go ahead with some negotiation and run it past the board so it would be within the guidelines area of something which does not have too much of a commercial imposition on the school in the spirit of our interest in insight commercialization cause. I think theyll be the way to go. Thats my whole rap. Sorry took so long. Superintendent. Thank you president haney good couple of brief responses to the questions put forth by commissioner wynns. We staff nis superintendent are fully supportive of the policy insight commercialization cause. I remember it as a teacher in the late 80s early 90s where we had news programs that were being shown in classrooms just chockfull of advertisement long past against in california right. I remember this is problematic. Im very appreciative of this pulse. However, in this particular case, the reason that staff is so adamant and so supportive of this policy is that before we broke ground and Willie Brown Middle School the warriors were at the table in a very very conscious way working with us not on a logo good they were working with us on how are we going to empower students the community and staff in the bayview in particular and Willie Brown Middle School around connection to being in school, being proud of your school being proud of your community and being part of a stem account for one of the things i think a simple powerful today see the paulo powerful role models in our community i can literally not the one month without seeing a player from the warriors were a member of the Warriors Organization that is not visiting the school is not helping with the professional development activity, is not stepping up and getting of the organization to the community. I think in this particular case, its not so much a branding issue because id be very very personally opposed to that. This is much more opportunity to give students a daily reminder that there is, there are heroes in their lives who actually care who they are. They care so much that they want to have them remember the warriors have your back. And by the way when he said the warriors logo you can see the willie brown logo right with it. I think thats the message we are trying to convey. So, i would ask us to think about it in those terms of understanding theres concern about opening the door. When it comes to in terms of opening the door, i think the way you read this the background and the requested action were requesting the exemption for this one particular logo. I will go on record as a superintendent and ill ask deputy superintendent lee if he wishes as interim superintendent, that this will not be an ad hominem completely open waiver for willie brown for infinity. This is very specific request for a very very committed partner to the community of Willie Brown Middle School in the community in the bayview and quite frankly in San Francisco. Its a very specific request and we are happy to make that very public that this is just run the specific request. Commissioner norton thank you. Couple things. I actually really support the suggestion that we start working on the donor recognition false. We should have that. I think that would resolve a lot of the issues that are coming up. Were actually is commissioner wynns said would be much more successful at attracting philanthropic dollar could it smart for us to have a donor recognition policy. I dont know if i can ask the superintendent to have or the Legal Counsel to start working on such a policy to bring to us and have us look at as a board. Because i think that is the right thing to. I am actually, find with this particular postal. I think i appreciate what you said superintendent about the meaning of the local to the students and i think right now at least the warriors are heroes in our community and i think that is a very positive reminder to students about what is possible. So, it has a very positive association right now. I worry a little bit about the slippery slope. What if theres a time where the warriors logo for whatever reason doesnt have such a positive association and we cant look into the future and think about when that would happen but that does worry me. I wonder if there is a like some kind of amendment or small modification to the requested action to make very very clear the commitment you articulated, which is this is just what the Basketball Court and it just about this proposal but were not proposing any kind of a blanket exemption for willie brown because i think while unwilling to accept this, i would like to talk what the backboard. I think that the retaining wall and the court logo ive no problem with. Im a little concerned about the backboard just based on what you said. Its a place where advertising is generally sought after. Again, not huge concerns with this particular request it truly more about the slippery slope and better recognition policy and if we can really clarify very, in writing, this just about this request for willie brown and not a blanket exemption for willie brown told feel comfortable. Thank you commissioner norton. Just a few things. One, this is a Basketball Court but were talking about in the warriors do basketball. We are not talking about renaming the school. When i talk about plastering the warriors logo all over the school. We are talking about the warriors being able to have a small piece of what they represent at a school that is excited about having this actually happen. Two things i want to know. One, we are definitely not trying to commercialize schools. Im 100 against that. In fact just to give a couple of examples so we are clear on where i stand on commercialization of schools and public ties to schools one my Fraternity Brothers and i about a year ago we help paint part of the playground at, north slope. The week prior to us going and volunteering and Painting Part of the playground pg e had been out there. Somebody from pg e got the right bright idea to put their big pg e logo in the foursquare on the bottom half of the commodore slope Elementary School playground. I personally i think you can go talk to mr. Greg johns i painted over the logo i personally did that. In terms of commercialization of schools and being in favor of that corporate ties in schools [inaudible] another example, comcast. Their internet essentials program, they want to participate and make sure they could be part of putting their marketing materials in a regular school menus and i told him, point blank, i would never support anything like that. Because, to me, you will be predatory lending practice and i dont care what they try to promise at some point they would try and upsell the community at some point someday someway. Its the nature of business. This is not about jeopardizing were commercializing. Good examples of what nike wanted to do. Nike may have wanted to do certain things but nike is not in our city right now. Supposing to provide hundreds of jobs. Nike is not in our city right now making sure that when the developing arena. 50 local higher commitment without being mandated to do so but prior coming to our city and nike definitely is not providing dozens of jobs right now to people in our community which i note the Golden State Warriors are doing personal get to my point, we have an organization that wants to support our school part of the Sports Program part of the sports teams. We are people excited about the sports team and sports in San Francisco and particularly indiscriminate. Theres nothing wrong with a small token of what theyre going to be doing. Theyre going to repave the outdoor courts and i am not sure in a totally most people focused on providing advertisements on the score board. Not the backboard. But i could be wrong on that. Anecdotally, probably being bigger sports fan than some, appear on the dais, i think probably just a little bit more accurate in terms of where things get advertise. With that said, if there is a time period work commitments are broken in the warriors dont do it but theyre supposed to we can paint over the logo. Ill be the first one there leading that charge if they dont do what theyre supposed to do but in this case it something i support and we should support it. Thank you. I do not know you had those picking skills. Commissioner fewer thank you president haney. I think commissioner wynns is like. Its time that we revisited our 1999 policy and i think we heard from the board that we stand committed against anticommercialism in our school and i think its time actually because we should do this before we open up our new arts center because of her discussions about some of the private donations from our arts center and that is a very hefty actually amount of money were going to have to raise and whether not we are willing to use any privatization oftake money from people and have certain things named after them. So, if that is the intent of the art center then, yes, i agree it iswe should be having this error rules committee and having a good discussion setting parameters for this. I do another when we brought the warriors to the table double in the first conversation was not about possible courts but about the education at Willie Brown Middle School. And how can the warriors be of help to help transform that educational experience for those students the bayview. So, personally, i feel like an exemption for this. I agree that probably commissioner wynns, we should Say Something about the wording of it but this is a onetime exemption for this school and district under these guidelines. I would like to come to consensus with you and with the entire board around what might be a sensible two okay tonight. So, i hear from you that you might be okay with the logos on the ground. I guess that is called the Basketball Court right . [laughing] yes, i know that was good. I actually had to ask the superintendent what is the backboard . I just not know the name of it. I understand you have a problem often with thewhat im hearing from you and when im hearing from the majority of this board, i think, the logo on the ground is fine. I think what ive heard from two commissioners now is that may be a little hesitancy about the backboard. And im also hearing about this concrete wall that you might be having an issue that is that correct commissioner wynns . Yes. What im wondering tonight so we can come to consensus on this and tell our generous donors the warriors about what we can do, i am wondering if we would be amenable to having the ground, the courts, with the logos. We hold our rules meeting and then would we be able then to paint the wall, do the law, and also the backboard after we have this discussion. Because i do think that the points have been brought up here this evening were very important around with the warrior meetings but the warrior team actually means to their youth in the bayview. I personally happen to schools where warrior players have come out and the students are so engaged. I am astounded how they know all the statistics every player, they know what happened at the last game. They know everything did i think that actually having a warriors insignia on the on our school is not a form of commercialization unless they were saying, we want all your uniforms to have the warriors insignia and i told different things. So, because i think it is also a subject of San Francisco pride. And what the warriors have meant to San Francisco and what a shock in the arm it has been that we have these players that also donate their time but also money to our community. So, i personally im fine with all of its. But i understand commissioner wynns concerns. So, i just want to put that out to the board if people were open to that to my that we go with the logo on the ground and we have discussion and then i think we can come to some assurance, perhaps, this commercialization, which we are somewhat questioning commercialization, is agreeable to have on our wall and also on the backboard. Commissioner murase thank you very much. I share commissioner wynns consumptive i dont want to give Carte Blanche for anything to happen at willie brown school. To the language i would propose to make sure this is onetime limited waiver, that the waiver is limited to this proposal only for this project only, so that it is very clear that what the waiver is for. Though we are not granting Carte Blanche on the waiver. I supPort Commissioner fewers proposali dont have a problem with the Basketball Court having the logo. I do think we should have a discussion about the rendition of the whats being proposed for the wall. Its pretty significant and i think we be to have a policy about that before we go down this track and i would also propose that the rules committee look at not only the commercial free schools policy as well as the donor recognition policy, but also our naming policy generally. On buildings and auditoriums and rooms because as we move forward with greater and greater private support thats going to be increasingly an important issue. Thank you. Im going to go to our student advocate who i think i missed one to make a comment. Student delegate yes, i would like to know find out more how this goes with the committee but i like to point out where students in the bayview seven knows that being evicted adversely that about that live in the bayview in that area. A lot of them still commute and still regardless of where they live because they really just go to richmond to sleep and that. They do come here in the weekends and i having friends that play sports, they rarely come in on weekends, and practice to the suit. I feel like all of the students mostly in the bayview be targeted by addiction is a way of telling them even though theyre addicted there still wanted and i know that of course education is first and we have this as most of you know, you must have good grades to play sports and i feel this way for students to have higher achievement on education and looking forward to going to school. People are caring about me so i also see the concerns about it and the advertisement. Thats what i have to say for now. Thank you. I want to ask a question and the go to commissioner wynns. There has been some proposals around doing part of it and then having them come back and do another part of it. I wonder if you could speak to why theres the time urgency around it and whether there is any potential to do that . I know there was some question around this needs to get done before School Starts the level of disruption. Could you also speak item that theres any renditions got on whats going to be on the wall, but im not sure what the backboard looks like because it sounds like theres a possibility that some folks want to do for that as well . Yes. So, the answer to that question is clearly we were looking to do to partner with the warriors to do this work before School Started. If some other work that had to happen at the school during summer. We sort of targeted the last couple of weeks before School Started to do this work. So theres some incentive to come in and we finished the court, put the logo on the center court. Do the wall. Same painter, same graphic, same sensible artist. Pencil artist. Whether or not it happens on the backwards, i dont think this project is and dies over the backboard. But in general the goal be to come in once and do the job. Suck on a project youd like to stagger over time. So, my hope tonight is if theres a specific compromise of where the logo goes or we are it doesnt go, i would like to if possible, to come to resolution and have a happy crew out there and go for opening day of school. You have a question . Commissioner mendozamcdonnell question about what he said because i want to ask you about the painting the use of the guys would come out and paint this and you kind of want to get all done at one time. Is this if we did not do it now would this be a huge disruption for the school . We would have to come back and repaint semidistractions also have relevant, relative in time. When school is in session and once kids are there, if we have to close down Basketball Courts and block things off, obviously students cant use the stuff. So, from our point of view, having this be done now and be new and fresh for the start of school is a good thing. I think there is the potential of some togetherness between the warriors and the school in the opening weeks that we like to have happen. All of that sort of would be nice if the work was done. We do not hear is the principle in favor of this . I believe, so. Commissioner mar i want to say couple of things. I think one of the kinds of issues we need to discuss when we have developed owner policy and integrate that into our insight commercialization policies about sort of a about marketing techniques. One of the key marketing techniques is put on there a bunch of times. Have it everywhere. Right. That is the kind of thing i think we would want to negotiate is how much. Do we want to break this and whatever it is, no matter how much we love the warriors which we do. I want to so appreciate what commissioner walton said. It is really true with the warriors mean to the city of San Francisco, to students in particularly the students and kids people live in this neighborhood is really important. In fact to be truthful thats what makes me want to do it. I want to say, this is an appropriate place to make an exception. But i also think that we need that expertise in that discussion about what we mean by that. What is appropriate donor recognition, even for an extraordinary donor whose meaningfulness to the community is something we absolutely want to recognize. So, thats why its kind of tough to say. I like the idea of saying but just authorize doing this court and then the others i also appreciate what mr. Golden said about how that might be difficult. I guess, i would although i personally would say this is big. This makes heres all the other donor. This makes the warriors this is the Basketball Court. Remember that. Different a fundamentally 20 times more important than all the other donors here because the proposal is that that is the donor wall which is a small place with the names of other donors are there. And the warriors foundation. So thats the kind of stuff i think we have to talk about. I did have a question. Where is this courts on the school . Because i was sort of thinking its not really separated. Its kind of like that. Kids can walk through it every day. Is that correct or am i wrong . Two things. My colleague has pointed out to me that the backwards are actually decals. So those can be put on anytime we choose to put on the decals. I suspect if there will be down kids play basketball by commissioner walton plays basketball putting them on several times. Because theyre going to wear off. So that issue is less critical i think on the backwards. The Basketball Courts are in the bureau of the school. On the upper level as though wearing road drives around adjacent to the gymnasium. Thank you that is important. So, even though i actually think this wall is a little overthetop, because but only to compromise the idea that thein a Basketball Court its okay to single out that donor compared to everybody else although if i was the rest of them am i not think i was okay but probably i would because they are the warriors. So, id be willing to do that. I am interested in some kind of language such as was suggested by commissioner murase. I suggest we amend this to say in the case of the single action and Willie Brown Junior Middle School. So, that we are clear that this isnot appreciate. That was the question i asked in appreciate that this is not meant [inaudible] the thing on the floor of the court and also on the wall if we want to go with that as long as we are not going to authorize. That would mean since this is the requested action, we would it would mean crossing out the exterior Basketball Court backboard words in this resolution. I would offer that as a membership that does not mean we can to a letter just means one of the authors eight tonight if thats acceptable to my colleagues. That would be acceptable to me. Vp walton i definitely appreciate the conversation particularly about coming up with a protocol and process for how we address donors at moving forward. I think one of the things that we also need to understand is the work that the warriors attended you on the courts det in terms of the repaving, is something that may wear down over time. Putting the logos on the board on the wall same thing. They wear down over time. I guess my point is that this is not permanent. If theres ever a concern if theres ever a change or switch that needs to be taken care of and something we can deal with. We can reverse whatever happens here with the decision we made tonight. Its important to note the logo on the backboard is going to be less than a foot. Would talk about 3 feet on the wall. So were not talking about extremely huge logo as well. I think that we need to understand that these are things that can be temporary if we feel to make changes in the future. So, moving forward, with this tonight does that mean we cannot fix or make alterations if we need to at a time in the future. Is that a question . Was that a question or did you want clarification on that point . Would you like me to put that in the form as a motion yes i move we amend this resolution to do two things. To end the subject and the requested action, strike the words, the exterior possible court backboard, or maybe we should just putjust cross out backwards world court backwards because then it would say to be used on the exterior Basketball Court center corp. Eating and adjacent retaining wall. Those same, just striking court backwards in the requested action, and then we add on the last line of the subject, the last line would read, quote, commercial freeze act in the case of the single action at Willie L Brown junior middle school. Thats a motion that would require a second i second. Discussion on the motion . Commissioner fewer so started for clarification, what were saying is that it is just for the center court paving . And the wall. For now until we have a discussion at this the rules committee taking up the backboard part. So youre okay with a retaining wall . Economizing on the general really . After all that discussions. I just want to clarify [crosstalking] i hear im down to the apparent interests of the majority here. Okay. So what im hearing thank you commissioner hwang. For the wall things okay with that design and the court thing is okay with the same on the ground but its the backboard that is the issue. Those i think can be switched out. In part because of your question about the difficulty of staging it did is to golden has told us that when it be hard since they are decals. The specifics concerned about backboards or scoreboards is one of the things we should talk about with a blood donor recognition so thank you commissioner wynns for coming to this compromise. I think its a good economizing i just want to say i think having the warriors logo on the ground which is now i know the paschal court is going to thrill those students playing basketball on Willie Browns middle school. I even think they would jump even higher. So thank you for coming to that compromise. That compromise is in motion. Its been second by commissioner murase. Thank you very much. Okay. [applause] so i think we have a consensus. Thank you commissioner wynns both for the compromise and also for bringing forward the needs of a real conversation about this pause. I think this is not going to be the last time were having this conversation. Its better if we dont do it in a one off and next time its probably going to be even more complicated than the warriors. Its going to be in different types of situations especially big span our private fundraising and i do want to say i agree with everything around what this is going to mean to the students of willie docket think thats whats most important and if we try to build up this cool brandnew school and make it one the students and staff have ownership and pride in the partnerships i think this is very exciting for the school but it does bring up some important considerations for us. I can say, as someone who grew up a warriors fan i wouldve loved to have this in mind school theres many schools around the bay area especially in the east bay, who very jaws of Willie Brown Middle School at this point in the sport were getting in this community in San Francisco. I think thats a lot to do is a process question is do you want him i now authorized to share the rules committee to put the issue which will have some reference to this . Thats only reason of developing a donor policy and in the context of commercial free School Policy on the rules agenda or deferred this and some weight even though work and have it tonight acetonitrile the rules committee. You can think about that. Were going to pass this tonight but theres going to have to be some continued conversation around this issue specifically the cost of the rules Committee Edition be anything done on the backboard for example. What we need how you can refer something to the rules committee on the agenda when regarding past that . I think youll be need to be a new resolution by ford that addresses the pieces of this there not included in this bid we will not refer it proposal [inaudible] okay. Lets take a vote on the amendment thank you. Wynns aye mendozamcdonnell aye fewer aye dr. Murase aye norton aye wynns aye haney aye six aye now a vote on the resolution as amended as amended, wynns aye mendozamcdonnell aye fewer aye murase aye norton aye walton aye mcelhaney aye six aye thank you. Thank you everyone. Item p introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. I am going to read into the record the following superintendents proposal for First Reading. 160sp1 adoption of boer policy 1230 community relations. [reading ordinance] can have a motion as i can on these resolution . Moved and seconded. These will go to the rules committee which is taking place tomorrow night. Theres no board member proposals for First Reading. Item q introduction a proposal for immediate action and was a suspension of board walls. Can i have a motion and a second on the suspension of the rules to hear this moved and seconded. Rollcall vote suspension, mendozamcdonnell aye fewer aye murase aye norton aye walton aye wynns aye haney aye six aye can have a motion and second . Moved and seconded. Deputy superintendent lee thank you president haney and superintendent carranza how do step away some filling in for the remainder of the meeting. At this point, we like to ask special assistant to the superintendent christina long to comment on the item. Good Evening Commissioners. Im going to first provide some brief Historical Context that led us to this resolution and the opposition. It would please the board to lead the requested action background into the record. So, in 1998 the california voters passed proposition 227 which was in english only initiative that basically decimated a number of the multilingual pathways and Educational Programs brought the state. I do not have an impact in San Francisco across the state we knew there was a decline in multilingual programs due to this initiative. 2014 sen. Laura introduce bill senate bill 1174, which actually started the process of repealing almost proposition 227. What was required since that proposition 227 was about an initiative it basically was signed by the governor and directed that there would be a ballot measure in november 2016 election included an initiative which is now labeled as prop 58, the learning good the language education acquisition and ready this now apposite. Requested action before the board is the board of education of the sf invite School District supports the california proposition 58 learning initiative on november 8, 2016 general election ballot. Proposition 58 learning initiative will be on the november 8, 2016 general election ballot get the Initiative Recognize the importance of multilingual skills in the workplace and california employers across all sectors are actively recruiting multilingual employees. Further recognizing multilingual skills are necessary for Countries National security essential to conducting diplomacy and international programs. The School Districts and county offices of education and consultation with language experts in the field and parents determine the best line which instruction method in which acquisition programs to implement. Enable School Districts and local schools to better meet the demand for programs to prepare students with Multilingual International skills they need to compete in the global marketplace. Provide all parents with a choice to have their children educated to high standards in english and one or more additional languages. It encourages local schools to provide opportunities for native info speaking pupils to be instructed in another language. It reaffirms a much proficiency standards and continues in which language requirements in repeals the english only presumptive placement brain which learners removes they must learn her parents waiver requirement under proposition 227, which passed in 1990. Thank you. If theres any questions for discussion thats all we have comment . Robert supportive of this. A massively supportive of it and i think this is great. I urge a vote for it [call of the roll] mendozamcdonnell aye fewer aye murase aye norton aye walton aye wynns aye haney aye six aye natalie divac and restate this is going to pass but we all need to work hard to get this passed along with extension of proposition 30 and our own bonnie issue . Proposition 55 in the state on. We need that money, too. Thank you and a lot of other things. Okay, item r Board Members reports. Standing committees. I am going to read out the new Committee Assignments for this year. For building and grounds the chairman is mendozamcdonnell and Rachel Norton. For the Budget Committee, chairman Rachel Norton members murase wynns. For rules, chairman wynns fewer and murase. For Student Assignment, chairman murase walton haney. Purpose and no and labor chairman is walton and members are murase and caminong to pursue the college committee, joint Committee Chairman is mendozamcdonnell and numbers are murase and norton. Weather reports by four numbers, report from the Student Assignment committee. The only committee whose met the spar i already gave earlier. Other members want to announce their board Committee Meetings or other reports commissioner wynns i notice you referenced it before but the rules committee is meeting tomorrow night. I want to say particular because its not a right to their meeting that we propose to change our meeting night. That will be one of the items tomorrow evening is to come up with a regular new regular meeting night. But since we keep on encouraging the public as well as Board Members to come to the rules committee when we did the legislative reviews which were not doing tomorrow significantly, we i just want to make sure people know its not the be the third wednesday anymore. Thank you. Commissioner norton yes, i want to announce we will hold a Budget Committee meeting on august 15 at 6 pm. We will not hold a september Budget Committee meeting was likely. If something does get referred to the board we can change that decision but we are going to keep our regular meeting date that the first wednesday so there will be a meeting august 15 and at present the first wednesday in october. Commissioner fewer [inaudible] was more exciting than last. I believe ms. Casco is going to see if the availability on august 22 but for sure well have a meeting on the second monday of september, which is september 12, because the first monday is labor day. Then we will continue to have our curriculum meeting the first monday of every month. Thanks commissioner murase i will be working with staff on the Student Assignment Committee Meeting dates. I do have one announcement. Particularly for our educators. Scrap, the beloved warehouse of materials will be having its teacher giveaway materials are free to educators throughout the bay area. It will be held saturday, august 20 10 am4 pm and again on saturday september 10 10 am4 pm. Its kind of a highlight for scott and educators who want art material for their classrooms. Thank you. Vice president walton i want to announce up the meeting with the team at the districts week and discussed the plan for the year for the ad hoc Personnel Matters and Labor Relations committee and also becoming forward the dates for the meeting and i do just want to remind everyone im still in the curriculum and program committee. So its going to be exciting i cant wait as a new member. Any other reports from commissioners . Okay. Other item c or other informational items. Not tonight item t morrill adjournment. We have three. Commissioner murase thank you for much. I like to share with the audience memorial enjoyment [inaudible] Ellen Fondren i like to ask todays Board Meeting be adjourned in her memory. Of edition of brief election profession on her life of service to the board in 1935 in mississippi. Two immigrants from china who owned a Small Grocery store in mississippi delta. Due to jim crow laws was prevented from attending local Public Schools. During world war ii local authorities however determined that young chineseamerican man from the south were drafted into the army were serving in other wartime industry, ellen and her three brothers were finally allowed to attend Public School. After receiving a business bs in business from ms. Mississippi in 1967, she traveled to San Francisco with her brother and found work at the Hong Kong Shanghai bank. She then met and married clock from celebrating 55 years of marriage. This past june. Ellen was devoted mother to their three children alain, elyse and kent all graduates of sf usd. In the early 1970s School Encourage ellen to take a paraprofessional position at debbie stone elementary. Later renamed the longtime principal William Diablo and also worked at commodore slow. She returned to school at San Francisco State University in 1980 earned a teaching credential. Ellen [inaudible] substitute teacher for the next 25 years. Former principal of argonne elementary first hired ellen who enjoyed the yearround calendar creating lasting relationships with her students. I was recalled recently when she and owen were having dinner together former oregon soon first mechanized ellen and then her. This monk man was then in his late 30s is tormented ellen after all easy. Now the official of the california state employment, and he offered to take us out to lunch sometime. Also worked at the Sunny Side School before she retired. Her daughter a lease by classmate of old called among mostly taught kindergartners to thirdgraders are favorite was the kindergartners. I think she liked how eager innocent and cute those little fiveyearold could be. She was a deeply spiritual and devoted member of the First Chinese Southern Baptist church for 59 years. In years recently she traveled the year Hong Kong China japan europe and recently crossed the mediterranean and through the middle east could cause health affords a to baton in november and she was finally diagnosed with late stage cancer earlier this year. Own went into hospice care in midjune with the help of several caregivers who is able to spend her last week in home surrounded by family and she passed away peacefully on july 17. Fong is survived by her husband and her three children. Alan fong is a prof. Of paralegal studies business law at city college could lisa is the Program Manager for the office of Child Support enforcement at the administration of children and families and two grandchildren natalie and just joshua in San Francisco jeopardy sure and wife under good on behalf of the board of education said San Francisco Unified School District of two special heartfelt appreciation for her long service and our condolences to the font family for this loss. Thank you commissioner murase. Commissioner norton thank you. Im offering this adjournment in memory of casey jones who passed away last month after bicycle accident. Casey was inactive and devoted sfusd parent. Thanks to his curiosity involvement and tech savvy hell spread the word about that spark interest in sfusd issues i cofounding bs of schools listed back in 2000 or it grew to 1800 members and took several years every important issue in sf usd the greater Education World was examined and debated there. When a personal note, discovery is of wizard on yahoo late one night became my path into Public School advocates agreed overnight it would sit for hours in front of the computer compulsively hitting refresh to hit the sometimes nasty and always passionate debate. Later casey founded the sf school. Org blog and other popular spots