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 to present a progress update on how many students participated, current Graduation Rates, and how funding was spent. 2 25 14; received and assigned to the city and School District select committee. Pending introduction at the board of supervisors meeting on february 25, 2014 sf 11234 thank you. This hearing is on a follow up on a supplemental appropriation in the Previous Year to fund a Credit Recovery program at San Francisco Unified School Distric
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
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 the uc goal ways. We had to go through a rigorous rfp process where 20 online provide
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