But selecting the phones. We have randy in williamsburg, virginia. He is an educator. Caller good morning. Good morning, america. I own a business called virginia is for education. It is a very unique business. Trailermobile fitness for children k12. Had been operating for 14 years throughout the state of virginia. There are close to 1200 schools that i visit. One particular problem i operated in where we had a School Called the center for Educational Opportunity which was a very regional district, collaborative to take care of education of longterm, expelled students. This were 120 130 kids in program. For threeservice hours every wednesday. I had a cohort before i showed up and after i did the program. We have excelled academically lease and bounds. Leaps discipline go down and bounds. Why . Because one godhead showed up with a unique asset that he had bills and show interest in the students with academic problems. Friends with many of the students my see them around town, and im fri
Agenda, dwight jones, my counterpart with mcgraw hill education, who is not here as he is currently serving on his Civic Responsibility of jury duty. I mentioned who is not here but in my brief introduction i would like to share with you how i, we, mcgraw hill education, got here. At the third annual urban Superintendent Academy with asa, and with the opportunity to introduce our next keynote speaker, dr. Mark fidel. You see the role that dwight jones and i work is identify Strategic Partnerships with National Alliances that also align to the core values and mission of our company. For example, as we began four years ago, our transformation from a 125yearold Publishing Company to a learning science company, we identified with one of our longtime partners, aasa, with their work on Digital Learning and transformation and as a result of this alignment we took a lead role, an active partial with their digital and personalized learning symposiums. So our partnership continued and quite hone
And so that sets of children to not have the resources they need to pass the benchmarks for proficiencies that are established in state standards so that is another challenge. There is low funding we can talk about about you and day so even if it is low funding, not providing great sources. And finally insufficient oversight of state funding, what does that mean . We dont have enough oversight of the system to make sure the money we are putting in is being spent efficiently and that is important as well, not just we have additional money for low income children but are we spending that money wisely to get the results we need. A number of weaknesses in the School Funding system, how my argument, the rodriguez case, it was a case in 1973 by the Supreme Court. It was bought by a Mexican American family that said the low funding we were seeing in the district violates the United States constitution and equal protection clause. And their rights were being violated by the low funding they go
Mr. Clerk, can you call item no. 1. Item no. 1, ordinance amending the downtown support special use district to authorize a monetary contribution to satisfy required onsite open space requirements, exclude certain features from the Floor Area Ratio and gross floor area calculations, and dedicate the monetary contribution for light and safety improvements at victoria Manalo Draves park. Thank you very much. With the request of the project sponsor, the ordinance sponsor, i should i say, were going to entertain a motion to continue this item until march 20th. But before that, colleagues, if no questions, i would open up for Public Comment. Anyone wishing for comment on item 1, seeing none, Public Comment is closed [ gavel ]. Supervisor tang. Ly make the motion to continue to march 20th. Yes. 2017. Motion by supervisor tang and seconded by supervisorpisckin taken without objection. Mr. Clerk, please call item no. 2 please. Item no. 2, ordinance amending the commerce and industry element of
Ms. Zaragoza thank you please join me in the allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item a approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of of february 14, 2017, is there a motion please. You move adoption of minutes. Second interest vote ms. Casco thank you ms. Eng ms. Zaragoza and mr. Cook mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton and mr. Sanchez president walton thats 4 is. Thank you as been announced at the past few weeks complete a speaker card and present it to the executive assistant. Speaker cards will not be accepted if an item is already before the board presentation to the board of education. Importantly according to the board rules speaker cards are not accepted on items before the board presentation to the board of education superintendents report superintendant lee. Thank you president walton good evening, everybody tonight i would like to start my remarks a little bit differentl