February 27, 2014, good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the city and School District committee. Im joined by supervisor mark alvarez and farrell and sandra feuer who will now join our community for 2014. I would like to that have sf gov. Tv. San francisco television and our clerk mr. Derek evans. Mr. Clerk are there any announcements . City clerk yes. Please silence all electronic devices. Thank you. Commissioner mendoza did let us know she is sick. May i entertain a motion to excuse commissioner Mendoza Mcdonnell and well do that without opposition. Mr. Clerk, please call the first item. Item 1 agenda1401421. [hearing update on the 2012 supplemental appropriation to fund a Credit Recovery program for San Francisco unified School District]sponr kimhearing to receive an update on the 2012 supplemental appropriation to fund a Credit Recovery program for San Francisco unified School District sfusdd students at risk of not graduating in school year 20142015; and requesting sfusd to
Supervisor jane kim actually supervisor had a question about this. What this report acknowledges all our strategies and it doesnt include our outcomes from the graduation class. What happened was we passed an a through g graduation requirement necessary to bring rigor and to give students opportunities to graduate because they are the minimum requirements to make you eligible to apply for a csu and uc. I think what happened is the board voted then to because of severe budget cuts to cut all of Summer School and Credit Recovery options and the city camen and generously helped us fund. What weve seen through these strategies i think we should have brought our updated list on who is on track to graduate in 2014. We are actually so close. I was completely shocked. I was sort of blown away myself because many of us saw the thousands of students on track not to graduate and i was freaked out because we knew it was a higher bar. But what weve discovered and i think well have new numbers becau
February 27, 2014, good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the city and School District committee. Im joined by supervisor mark alvarez and farrell and sandra feuer who will now join our community for 2014. I would like to that have sf gov. Tv. San francisco television and our clerk mr. Derek evans. Mr. Clerk are there any announcements . City clerk yes. Please silence all electronic devices. Thank you. Commissioner mendoza did let us know she is sick. May i entertain a motion to excuse commissioner Mendoza Mcdonnell and well do that without opposition. Mr. Clerk, please call the first item. Item 1 agenda1401421. [hearing update on the 2012 supplemental appropriation to fund a Credit Recovery program for San Francisco unified School District]sponsor kimhearing to receive an update on the 2012 supplemental appropriation to fund a Credit Recovery program for San Francisco unified School District sfusdd students at risk of not graduating in school year 20142015; and requesting sfusd
Thank you. So this is something that i would like to talk about which we find very exciting and within the spirit of San Francisco. So, this is something that our office came up withnd we call it sprout funding. What we found is we budgeted our money and we felt that really to meet the needs and goals of the students we wanted to provide an opportunity for local school sites to be able to design their own program of Credit Recovery without kind of the centralized top down management style. Although we do have those very specific Evening School Summer School and online learning. What we wanted to do was provide them with micro funding to be able to assess what programs they need and the purpose of this is really to supplement programs, not to splant and to encourage renovation at the sight and be able to meet the needs of the students which meets the goals of the district equitable resources which is really exciting for us. We came up with a criteria of sprout funding and its like i sai
Give us somewhat new instructions next time. So, it is definitely iterative and evolving. You guy are maintaining the detailed spreadsheets. I can guarantee you its going to change in 6 or 12 months. But it seems like [speaker not understood]. And i made sure to get the dos analyst directions in writing as well that we can remind them as well, this is how you directed us to [speaker not understood] the rops. Excellent, thank you very much. This is not an action item so we can move on to the next item, madam secretary. Thank you. Next item is item 6, Public Comment. Madam chair. Thank you very much. Do we have any speaker cards . Oscar james. Oscar james again. I want to bring up two things that well, three things thats been bothering me. One, certificate of preference holders in south well, i would say down by moscone center, that area, there were people that were relocated out in those houses, too, that had certificates that has not been brought up. And i think they should be added on