Joining us were excited to have you all here we have speakers out there in the small room you can grab if you that 80 want to make a Public Comment give it to ms. Casco well read the resolution and sorry read the resolution im going to turn it over to to the superintendent. Thank you commissioner Vice President haney and good evening to everybody resolution modification of where had policy and issuance of diplomas to the class of 2015 that meet all the graduation requirements whereas the code provides that each person should successfully pass the holiday compassion of graduation or a condition of graduation from high school and based on this 9 board of education policy similar requires that students who successfully passed k c to get a diploma and requires that School Districts shall provide 3 opportunities to take the k c not passes and that eligible people in k c passed up to 5 times and came back take the k c and commissioner wynns. Thank you wheres historically the seniors had the
Department superintendant tom exercised discrepancy to cancel the k c and. Whereas superintendant slags cancelation of the july cancelation left seniors without an additional opportunity to pass into sections of the k c as a result of the states decision to cancel the k c in july some seniors in the San Francisco Unified School District have been impacted although theyve admission to post secondary schools their admission will be revoked because they havent earned a High School Diploma. Whereas the details caused by this cancelation of the july k c modification from final resolution has left the students in limbo and denied access to opportunities that otherwise would have been available in it had not been cancelled and whereas the students opportunity to have a hardship or failing to complete college and. Whereas the decision to cancel the administration of the july k c disprospering focuses kids of color and disengaged students therefore, be it resolved the board of education of the
Resolution and sorry read the resolution im going to turn it over to to the superintendent. Thank you commissioner Vice President haney and good evening to everybody resolution modification of where had policy and issuance of diplomas to the class of 2015 that meet all the graduation requirements whereas the code provides that each person should successfully pass the holiday compassion of graduation or a condition of graduation from high school and based on this 9 board of education policy similar requires that students who successfully passed k c to get a diploma and requires that School Districts shall provide 3 opportunities to take the k c not passes and that eligible people in k c passed up to 5 times and came back take the k c and commissioner wynns. Thank you wheres historically the seniors had the opportunity to take the k c in july to have but opportunity to pass into sections of the k c and secure Employment Opportunities after high school and whereas the senate bill proposes
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Kids will be put to the test with policy changes. The funding formula devised by jerry brown puts local districts in control how they spend Education Funding and provides money for lowincome students and English Learners. The National Common core standards takes full effect this year. They drastically change how students are taught and tested. Joining me now for an explanation are California State School board president michael kurst and jill tucker. Michael, lets begin with you, the new socalled local control funding formula is a traumatic shift for School Districts. Can you explain how it works and why is it needed . The old system of financing was a historical accretion back to the 19 60s. It did not adjust for different peoples needs. It was convoluted and impossible to understand and relied on state earmarks telling schools to spend money on librarians or School Gardens or whatever. All from sacramento heavily indicated from s
All this red ink and the surpluses are rather modest. And you see where we are. We barely have a surplus. Even if you add the Rainy Day Fund that would come up about where that black bar is. And nothing like all the red bars. Or you know, i thought of another way to do this. If we put it this way, you can see that were really doing well. There are a lot of restrictions on how the state can spend the money but the governor has plans for some of it. Scott shafer is going to discuss those plans with a panel of guests. Joining me are jill tucker San Francisco chronicle education writer. David crane, stanford lecturer and president of political advocacy organization, governor california and john myers joining us from sacramento. Almost to all of you. And john starting with you, a big week for the governor. You were there when he unveiled the budget. What are your take aways . The big message is it continues what brown has done since he has come to office which is chart a middle path between