For the president and congress. So you can submit them to the u. S. Commission on civil rights by either mailing them to the commission to the office of civil rights, 1331 pennsylvania avenue, thats 1331 pennsylvania Avenue Northwest suite 1150 washington 20425 or via email at Public Comments at usccr. Gov. Thats publiccomments uscc r. Gov. With that out of the way i would like to introduce and swear our panelists in and Stella Flores from vanderbilt university. Peggy carr from the u. S. Department of education and dr. James t. Minor also with the u. S. Department of education. Will you each raise your right ha hand, please. And i ask that you swear or affirm that the information youre about to provide to us is true and accurate to the best of your believe and belief, is that correct . Yes. Professor flores, please proceed. Thank you, commissioners, for the opportunity to speak on the civil rights implications on College Access, persistence and completion for underrepresented minority
Element education please stand up thank you, thank you my name is annette president commissioner and Deputy Director superintendent and student im asking you to modify the mask gratification that was adapted by adding on option for an accelerated pathway called the 3 into 2 option it is expressing contemplated in the common core state standards it is an option that brings the 9th grade algebra one categorize into the 7 and 8 grade by having the 7th grade half of the eight grade at t half of the remaining math and the amount bra one the reason that parents all over San Francisco and more than 5 hundred and 80 San Francisco parent signed the petition in support of this option the reason that parents all over San Francisco wish this option is that our high achieving math students risked constitutionally risk being left behind under the current provocation the one onesizefitsall approach didnt recognize the real differences and math capacity in students all over the city and parent all ove
Our mission we cant do that without our community the funding to invest in our children is not sufficient in terms of the funding we receive to invest in our children it takes the community to really also embrace that eco as part of the community we cant do this without you and were critically tied to social justice for our children i want to thank our Second District pta you a may or may not know at National Level the ptas insisted a food program and fought for that and were continuing to do them proud thank you youll u. For your support this makes a difference in the lives of our children clapping. thank you very much for your services. The next item on the agenda is f Public Comment on content items. Commissioner Shamann Walton i have two appointment to make. Lets go ahead and take the appointment now commissioner walton. So to the bev have you Community Council jack and maryanne melgar. Thank you very much commissioner. If i may was this the wellness item and shouldnt that be . Yea
Board members thank you for letting me speak my voice as a concerned parent i for a looked at have believed in the power and necessity of Public Education in the state and country for the democratic ideas my mother was an administrator of the Public Schools and my daughter was in Public Schools ive been a proud member of the pat that another im very, very concerned about the lack of algebra being in middle school it is very important to give all the students and all our children within San Francisco the same opportunities for success in the next generation of technologycareers he can see and without going into calculus and all bra please reconsider those motions. Do you want to identify yourselves. Im bryan carlyle. Hi, im julie robert a parent of two and here to support the district strategy in algebra i think first hand the tracking is not as a kid i went to a monthly Latino High School it took me about a month to get into honors math at the same time my husband was an english langua
Able to set our students on a path to Good Nutrition and healthy experience no matter where they live and who their parents are or their circumstances to commissioner wynns credit were fulfilling our mission we cant do that without our community the funding to invest in our children is not sufficient in terms of the funding we receive to invest in our children it takes the community to really also embrace that eco as part of the community we cant do this without you and were critically tied to social justice for our children i want to thank our Second District pta you a may or may not know at National Level the ptas insisted a food program and fought for that and were continuing to do them proud thank you youll u. For your support this makes a difference in the lives of our children clapping. thank you very much for your services. The next item on the agenda is f Public Comment on content items. Commissioner Shamann Walton i have two appointment to make. Lets go ahead and take the appo