Halpern and San Francisco alliance. The San Francisco suite of mr. Halpern works. Where are they going to fund it. It states the nclb tutoring money and we went into waiver to free that money. We got about 700,000 freed up by going into core waiver and now you are spending 13 percent of that money plowed back into same consultantcy to pay for the core waiver. Is this just the beginning of feeding this alternate bureaucratic structure. Do you have other payments that are going to be called for . What exactly is it that we are entering into . What will we get out of this expenditure and how much more are we on the hook for. Thank you. Any comments . Its up to the commissioners we are happy to highlight some of the information shared in advance. We have staff here who can provide an overview of some of the school designations, what these categories mean, which schools does that involve and this contract in particular is to facilitate the communities at practice or the school pairings wher
6 00 p. M. 730 on the floor. If you want to sign up for future readings because we have had an overwhelming response. I would like to direct you to c paul sf ed fund. Org. You can call her and additionally to get on future reader list you can contact Emily Thomson who is the president of black educators, she can be reached at sf alliance at black educators gmail. Com. They are already prepared with books that will be perfectly suitable for Elementary Schools and we would love if readers would consider donating the books to the Schools Library after the event. I just wanted to make that announcement and thank all of the volunteers, all of the support organizations. Im sorry, its a quick read. I want to acknowledge the Unified School District has been dmeep partnership with the alliancen with school educators, sorority, the urban ed academy, urban strategies, the bayview Hunters Point ymca, health and wellness center, the San Francisco department of human services, third baptist church,
Okay. I wanted to echo the 6th grader question on page 5, the 10th slide which is who is going to be grading the culmination for the explanation questions . Depending on the type of questions it might be a 1 word answer, the computer will be able to do that. Depending if they are a longer response, there will be some Artificial Intelligence but always against real people as well. So depending on the type of items but also anyone thats created by the computer by Artificial Intelligence will also be graded by people as well. So, 2 years from now when its the real test, it will be all electronic, all on computers, is that correct . My question is will we have the capacity to do that, to have every student on a computer at the same time . So, yes, all the test will be on Computers Starting next school year. And we should have the capacity. It shouldnt be an issue. If i may just a clarifying question. Commissioner wynns . Its not a capacity where every student will be taking it at the same
Definitely start at 7 45 to read and it will go on to 10 30 a. M. I just want to say, due to the overwhelming response of volunteer readers that the registration is already closed. We have had hundreds of responses and people have followed through and gone through their training already. There is one training left for those folks already signed up which is this thursday the 30th at the San Francisco Education Fund at 2730 bryant street from 6 00 p. M. 730 on the floor. If you want to sign up for future readings because we have had an overwhelming response. I would like to direct you to c paul sf ed fund. Org. You can call her and additionally to get on future reader list you can contact Emily Thomson who is the president of black educators, she can be reached at sf alliance at black educators gmail. Com. They are already prepared with books that will be perfectly suitable for Elementary Schools and we would love if readers would consider donating the books to the Schools Library after
These . Here we go. So we have them in arabic. Spanish. Spanish, korean and to gala. [inaudible] so its available in english, chinese, spanish, vietnamese, and to gala and the way its distributed in november its the release day and distributed to all parents that go through the post counseling session after they do primary language assessment at the educationals placement center. We also send out one copy to every english learner in the district. And other questions . Any other comments or questions from the board . Mr. Superintendent. Thank you president norton. I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank them for their work. The San Francisco Unified School District as the commissioners know is parts of the Great Council of the city schools and the largest urban School Systems in the country and i sit on the executive committee on the council and i am so proud when we get an opportunity to share what were doing in San Francisco around educating english language learners, what w