Joseph a parent of a kindergartener. I dont have a speaking. Oh, you need it, its right here where you are oh hi and i didnt put my name on it. Ms. Joseph we have a board policy youre not permitted to speak is this our first board meeting. This is my second i have a speaking with my name on it. So the rule it has to be simpleminded before t your name is called im permit this one time. Thank you but good evening thanks for everyone for coming out im a parent of a kindergartener and a preschoolers at betsey Carmichael Elementary School and im here to urge funding for the program so my daughters have the opportunity to be a part of filipino cultural and my intent to have them pickup on the tagalog language everyone that i know speaks tagalog speaks more than english thats spanish and some format or form of mandarin a good Governor Terry mcauliffe gateway for learning about other cultures not only tagalog but other spanish as well as japanese or mandarin asking for equal opportunity to try
The goal of the sfusd to have all the students and programs succeed then the people and the people help the people of color needs a safe spot in the district and place to stay. Thank you very much that concludes general Public Comment yes superintendent thank you commissioner president murase i was motion to the folks in the audience this was the first time ive heard of that ill have my staff to look at this and my assist for the leadership acknowledging to brief me open this particular situation those are the types of situations are not warden but more than anything i wished someone would have picked up the phone and called the stunt we appreciate ms. Black Student Union advisors work because shes been incredible so thank you. laughter . All right. Id like to return to item h stunts proposal and ask that we do the presentation of certificates to our hard working peace members before we go into a full decision of the proposal to mr. Superintendent. Thank you commissioner president mura
Vote on this tonight i have concerns around the multi lingual pathways and the dollar amounts weve allocated for particular programs and i guess my biggest concern is around is not knowing exactly what our strategy is for growing programs be stabilizing program, aligning programs 13,000 for the tagalog program is nothing id like to have time to understand our plan for stabilizing our k program and how that feeds into the high school before i will allocated an amount the alternative not to allocate the dollars tonight but to put in x number of dollars that go into the multi lingual prop programs and for us to work through a strategy around this because i think it is very specific on how many ftes are going to programs and im not clear on whether or not those are the appropriate program to move our language programs forward thats my concern around the pathway programs and the other thing that came up for me in reviewing this we break down the excel role well and i guess i have questions
Families and in our agency we serve the Agencies Mission it is that sign that hung a long time on the facade of a building on stockton said no filipinos loud it sign no longer xitsz but today it feels like it does in this proposed budget that sits aside only a certain amount of money that makes us filipinos feel that sign is still up so commissioners please join me and lets take down the sign that says no filipinos by putting in the budget for filipino language that accurately reflect the no idea of our community our community, of course just desire as the others were overall 5 percent of the student population we need the see population to be taught like we need at least two fulltime employees to accurately represent us 30,000 wont help us so thank you, commissioners for considering a correction what we feel is incorrect we do feel you want to do something about this. speaking Foreign Language. thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Our next speaker is going to speak if tagalog i
Concerns. Expeditious reunification of families and further be it resolved they send a copy of the resolution to the honorable Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer United States senator and the nancy pelosi minority leader house of representatives and is housing. We have one presentation tonight from Christine Wong who will report on this. Commissioners, i have a presentation so if you wouldnt mind moving to the right or left. Good evening, commissioners id like to take this opportunity to provide an overview of the new comer pathways weve established in the district for a number of years and the system of supports and the work weve can you think in the last couple of months given the anticipated increase in the number of unaccompanied children in San Francisco. Okay first of all, San Francisco Unified School District k through 12 has 12 newcomer pathways at the emergency room level see chinese ed center those are set sites where students are there from 120 years and troigsdz to a site a