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
Important when we formed this office was we wanted to be accountable and the help of julie chan. We really approached this with a top intervention model and find out through d and f list exactly what students need what rather than throwing a huge fishing net out there trying to grab whatever we can and we go at it in a more targeted intervention way and work smarter rather than harder even though we work hard but we also try to work hard as well. Sites are located in regions for access to all students through our research we discovered that its best to divide the city into geographic regions and through those regions we drill down further to the neighborhoods in the schools to see exactly what classes are needed in what area and we provide those classes rather than just a blanket class. At all the schools we look at the needs of the students and provide those classes to the students. Once again, Online Learning which is very exciting with the move through a through g certified through
Successful contract, and getting more money, and we will be opening up for wedges in healthcare, and it seems now that the california budget is showing positive stable growth and coupled with this improved out look for the economic recovery passage of proposition 30. And the event of the new locally controlled formula and the district is posed to responsibly address many of the consequences of the previous years of the budget shortfalls, and it is the advantage of everybody that we go into this bargaining, and good faith, and hopefully, that we can reach good settlements because as you know, we are members who open and close our schools just like the teachers in the para professionals, our students come in and they see us, and we serve them, and we clean their schools, and we empty the trash and we do many things and we are the secretaries and we are the clerks and we are the custodian and we kiss the booboo, and put on the bandaids and it is important that you understand our members t
And as the superintendent mentioned in that fiscal year, 0910, we did make reductions to close this gap. Which we are abruptly faced with. Many reductions across the budget, including Credit Recovery and Summer School and Evening School. Thats the historical back drop for the situation we are in now. And you will hear from dr. Schultz a lot of emerging strategies how we hope with the citys support to help the class of 2014, as many as possible to meet the ag graduation requirements. Supervisor chu asked that i address the issue of School Direct district refer reserves. In the last the budget was 150 million. And that includes 6 million of required reserves. We have requirement for the positive certification from the state. Of 2 of our total general fund expenditures. And we have certain other designated reserves for Prepaid Health care prem yiums. Thats about 15 million. If we fall short of that we are subject to state intercession. And we meat met and exceeded that requirement. We hav
To rally around the district and the schools and the students and their teachers. And certainly the Political Support for San Francisco is in the schools. And the overwhelming vote for prop a and 30 demonstrates that. Thank you. I am here to speak in support of this proposal and as someone from the schools and i relate to statistics as undercredited as i was going to balboa, and i wasnt able to graduate on my own. I was able to graduate due to support and because of mentors and counselors and programs and tutor that supported me to try to get me. Not just graduate but to go to college. When i first heard about the ag requirements and the affect that we are making that the new standard to graduate from high school. I was super, super excited as someone who found out about the ag requirements in my senior year. When i first heard about it, i was very, very enthused. And also with that i was very concerned. Because i know we cant just raise the bar on our young people without the necessar