Will you please call the roll call . [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you. Please call the first item. Item one is a hearing on how the cuts of over 300 classes will affect low income in communities of color and to take in High School Students who take city college of San Francisco classes to meet college and requirements, and any proposed cuts need to be heard by the students in communities most impacted. Thank you, mr. Clerk. This is a hearing that was called by supervisor walton. I will turn it over to you to make an introductory remarks. You can feel free to run the hearing. Thank you. First i want to thank all of my colleagues on the board of education and also city College Trustees, as well as faculty from city college for coming out to have this important conversation. There is a rally going on outside to talk about some of the concerns about the college, so im pretty sure we will have a bigger crowd joining us in a minute, but i do want to open up with a statement. On decemb
Will you please call the roll call . [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you. Please call the first item. Item one is a hearing on how the cuts of over 300 classes will affect low income in communities of color and to take in High School Students who take city college of San Francisco classes to meet college and requirements, and any proposed cuts need to be heard by the students in communities most impacted. Thank you, mr. Clerk. This is a hearing that was called by supervisor walton. I will turn it over to you to make an introductory remarks. You can feel free to run the hearing. Thank you. First i want to thank all of my colleagues on the board of education and also city College Trustees, as well as faculty from city college for coming out to have this important conversation. There is a rally going on outside to talk about some of the concerns about the college, so im pretty sure we will have a bigger crowd joining us in a minute, but i do want to open up with a statement. On decemb
High school and in addition there are Parent Teacher meetings that happen and the student failing grades and struggles with math are addressed at that time and so it is really a collaborative event that happens with a parent and a student and a teacher and a counselor working together to try to find the strategy to help the student to feel stronger and in their abilities and get back on track. And the students are advised to attend both saturday and Evening School options and in this case to recover their geometry credits and there is also after School Tutoring available at all of our high schools and in this case, through the becan and the after school programs, and the student currently has earned, 205 credits so it falls into the category that you see on track with the total credits but missing just the math subject course. And it is currently enrolled in all of the required class and this student is taking advantage of the regular and Evening School, the student has passed both exa
To be provided during the school day. And that that is really our first priority, to make sure that that student if they do fail, a geometry class that they are able to take that same job class in the school day, rather than having to go to the Evening School or the Summer School. Thank you. With that said, just a summary about the findings of the class of 2014, so 74. 4 percent of them are on track again, that is an increase. 21. 1 percent of them are on and have the number of credits but they are missing one or two courses or almost two courses, in this case. And 6. 4 percent of them are off track up to a semester, and then, 2. 1 percent of them are off track one or more years. And of the 758 students, with the total missing credits the graded subject areas that they are missing are math and with the qualifiers that i stated the language other than english and the physical education and of that group of students, 441 of them are missing at most, 5 credits. And so, that is really a su
21. 1 percent of them are on and have the number of credits but they are missing one or two courses or almost two courses, in this case. And 6. 4 percent of them are off track up to a semester, and then, 2. 1 percent of them are off track one or more years. And of the 758 students, with the total missing credits the graded subject areas that they are missing are math and with the qualifiers that i stated the language other than english and the physical education and of that group of students, 441 of them are missing at most, 5 credits. And so, that is really a summary of our findings about the class of 2014. And we were asked as staff and i know that there are some Data Requests about the class of 2014 that we are going to follow up on. And because we can, and we have some analysis that we need to do and we continue to ask the questions about this particular group of students, and i do want to say this, we have better data now that is cleaner now, than we have ever had. And on a gradua