I am here, my daughter is in seventh grade in kipp bayview. Remember thanksgiving is coming. We will be giving thanks for not only for work and everything we have, but we want for us to be able to be thankful that you listened to the students, families and youth and we will be able to say thank you for keeping kipp academy open. [speaking spanish] i want to be able i want you to be able to say you are grateful also for the support you are giving to our school. With your vote you will be able to help others. Sometimes we just focus on our families, but we have the power to help other people. You have the power to help us. applause . [speaking spanish] good evening. From the eighth grade at kipp Bayview Academy. [speaking spanish] previously i worked for latino voice. That is a program that focuses on protecting the human rights of everybody, no matter which one is your race. [speaking spanish] i am here to ask you to renew our to let our school be renewed because the kids are worried. They are concerned where we are going to be. I have peace. I think you are going to do it. [speaking spanish] we are concerned for the security and care for the safety of our children. That is why we brought our kids to kipp. There we saw the values that we are looking for. Respect. [speaking spanish] so we see that respect that we see in the way our principal is so connected to us. We are connected to the school with the teachers, the students and families. We work together. We have a lot of get togethers to drink coffee and talk about our concerns. [speaking spanish] i am very grateful because the school helped my daughter a lot. She had a very low selfesteem, and with the help she received at kipp from 10 selfesteem she is at 100 . She has received a lot of emotional help. [speaking spanish] we believe that you are going to do the right thing. Kipp is not just a school. It is a family. We know you are going to make the right decision for our families. Thank you. [applause] hello, hello. Good evening. I know that it has been a long night for you guys as well as myself. Say, hi. I want to say thank you for taking timeout on your tuesday evening to be here. My fellow community is all out here supporting kipp. I want to say thank you for your time. I am here to show support for kipp. We are all part of this community. I am here representing bayviewhunters point. This is a future kippster. I am proud of it. You have strong opinions about kipp. Try it before you judge it. I want to say thank you. This is a blessing. I havent seen this many people in support of something for so long. The only time i see people like this is at a funeral. Please, count our blessings today. Thank you. Good evening. I would like to thank the president of the board and the superintendent as well as my fellow Community Members that came out this evening. Give yourself a round of applause. Thats right. [applause] i am the chair of the bayview cac and groups in the community. I am a legacy resident born and raised since 1958 in bayview. I have seen a lot of schools and children. At this moment i speak as a grandmother because my son is a first year kippster. I cannot express how excited he is about learning and his least favorite subject english. He is reading every day. I see as an active participant with kipp the effectiveness of the school. I want to thank the board for allowing them to exist in the first place. Had you not had a vote for confidence for kipp initially. They would not have grown and had the impact in the community. They would not have young people into colleges that before never thought they would have the opportunity to do so. They thought they had two year college and maybe a four year degree. You have heard testimony of people that have gone through kipp and used it as foundation for achievement. I want to thank you and encourage you to continue to support kipp. Thank you. applause . Good evening. I am the most recent past chair of the San Francisco unified Community Advisory for special education. We put together a statement on Charter Schools in january of 2018, and i believe all of you have been sent that in the past. If you need a copy i would be happy to provide another. I am reading from it tonight. San francisco Charter Schools have the choice much joining of joining the eldorado. It is east of sacramento. They meet monthly with the ex tension of july and september. The leadership members attend. We have parents at each meeting. They are held in support for families here at mission and vanness. We provide interpretation and child care and serve a light dinner. Eldora meets two times each year. They collaborate and participate in commits. We attend board of education and Committee Meetings and comment on matters important. Charter schools opting out of the local pan with 1 plan effect civil removes parent oversight. The sfusd has serious concerns about no robust opportunities for parental involvement and oversight. That is 10 seconds left. If anyone would like a copy of our position paper, please let me know. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Any comments from the board or superintendent . Thank you for putting together information. I had some questions that i couldnt find answers to, and in the information that we received. Two issues i had questions about. One, i continue to have questions about attrition rates. Kipp has based on several reports they have shown significant lehigher rates of attrition. I have articles. The schools have been able to report higher rates of achievement in every subject. The way they burn out teachers and students should be cause for concern. Students are more likely to be suspended which may encourage the families to move to other schools. It suggests the kipp model only works for select students with kipp. This is something i heard about and it is very hard to track. I have heard. I spoke with the parent last year. Her daughter was having trouble in middle school and she was receiving a lot of phone calls from the school and i the know you have heard about discipline. People talk about safety and discipline and also how they strongly encourage parent involvement. I would wonder if the families here tonight are receiving. A lot of schools track involvement. This is a way of not justen surging but shaking families who cant come to school and participate in that way, but the parent with a child with her child says she is coming down to talk about her daughters behavior. As a single mom she couldnt handle it and she pulled her child out of the school. This is in the research. You can go online. Kipp is no excuses. There is two pieces of data that i would like to discuss. If students are leaving the school, a lot of people suggest we may we seeing a level of comparable success at kipp because the student not there are coming back. I hear that from a lot of principals in the district. I want to ask if there is any is disciplindata around expulsions. I remember seeing they had one school with a higher rate of suspensions with black and latinx students with no expulsion data. Schools excel students for behaviors. Students are counseled out. They are told it wont go on their record if they choose to leave. These are questions that are hard to track as far as data. I am interested to know if there is a way to get data. My question is around do you have any suspension or ex pulls data from k. Ipp. Is it just aggravated by subgroup and i am changing my language Student Groups and i am interested in knowing. Some of the schools like bayview there are a large number of africanamerican students. Could we see that in the literature shows students with more difficult to serve ie performed. I pam assuming that kipp doesnt have pay Program Supporting people with emotion pal disturbances which a lot of our middle schools do serve. As a general answer, in the petitions for both schools that were submitted that we reviewed, they did provide suspension data over time, aggravated for in and out of school. It is for all students, black and latin x. They did not report any expulsions over the last five years and they have california dashboard information indicating green for the suspension rate. Is that by Student Group . It is by the Student Groups that i just mentioned. Other than race. I am interested in Program Students receiving special Education Services and seeing demographics of those groups. The fact that are you aware of our program to support those with emotional disturbance. Do they have one in the kipp model . I am not aware of that. Do they have any specifically focused autism programs . I am not sure. I was a founding teacher of a Charter School in oakland. I watched our School Council out a boy with autism having trouble being in the general ed classroom. I was told we didnt have money for additional support. This child was probably there because there wasnt any kind of direct services. They were from outside. We counseled the student out of that school. If i am the parent of a student with odism. I guess i want to make that point there are differences between what k ipp seems to offer and our schools offer. I want to highlight the idea there is transparency in parent advocacy. We have seen a lot tonight. It is not always easy to listen to the Community Members talking about what they feel the district is doing so. We have meetings twice a month. During Committee Meetings those are all records. As far as what i can see on the kipp website, they only meet three times each year. So far theyment in oakland. I could not find meeting minutes. From last year it was four pages long. There is no place to go. You cant rewind and hear. You could go back and hear what im saying. Definitely not with the area schools. Additionally, i looked in terms of comparable. I think about teacher experience. They talk about training because they have a lot of new teachers. The average years of service is two years. That is the aftervage. If they say it is because people leave. You could start as teacher and never get to be the english chair because people stay. The average years of service in sfusd is 15 years. We have a average of two years compared to 14 years. That may be due to the fact they do not offer a teachers union. They do not have representation. That is concerning to me as a former member. I want to put out and share with the full board. I believe if we put the stamp of approval it should meet our requirements for transparency and for compassion in serving all students including those with specific learning disabilities including emotional des turbans and autism. They should give parents a lot of access. We have a load of smithties. I am a parent. They inform the work of the district. I would like the board to take that into consideration when they make their vote. Commissioner lopez. I want to acknowledge all of the families and students and staff here. That is something that we honor. That is something all of the work that you are doing is not unnoticed. What i am trying to point out is the underlying issues. To me it is really telling with the Charter Schools and how there are only three in the entire state. If you want to advocate for your community you have to drive two pan a half hours or join telephonically three times each year. It is not equivalent to what you need to participate in your students of. That is what we are trying to point this out. I forget the name when you shared how often you were able to meet. It isnt recorded, it is during the day, it is not Family Friendly so since that conversation has there been anything in changing that sort of transparency of getting kipp doing to ensure they are advocating for their students, if anything. Are you talking about meetings of the board. Like we meet twice a year. We meet twice a month sorry. They shared they meant once a year. They have outlined how they will meet the meeting requirements for january 1, 2020. If they would like to explain that. Where is the outline . It looks like they dont. Press the button. Andrew evans for kipp. There are a lot of opportunities for parents to be involved. We have parent engagement meetings and parent associations that meet with the leadership of the school and faculty. We set up a system where Board Members attend as well so there is additional opportunity outside of the regular board meetings of four times each year. We welcome families to come to the board meetings. The law is going to change next year. The board minutes will be available and we will have access because of the rules say you have to hold the meetings in the jurisdiction with the most students. We will make those meetings accessible and figure outweighs to bring our meetings to different meetings to San Francisco parents to have that engagement. I have been to the school side meeting at sf bay and bayview. I have been to meetings a. I dont think that there is any less connection between our board and the families and this board and other families. Thank you. I am judily with family and Community Engagement with kipp. I brought for you that we believe in engaging with families on a regular basis. I brought just a description of what we do. So it is just one page back and forth. One side we are sharing with you the sequence and the regularity which we engage with parents. Last week i was at the kipp Academy Family association. Many of you were there with me. Raise your hand if you were there with me last week. There were about 30 families that were quite engaged. We are meeting monthly and that is part of the kipp family association. We have school side counsels where there is decision makings participation by the parents along with teachers and staff. We create cultural events. We have events to engage with families. There are meetings with leaders through special back to School Nights and parent conferences. That is what is happening at Bayview Academy on one side. If you flip to the other side. Similarly, we have a similar structure of engagement at our different schools. You will see similar items. Meeting with School Leaders and cultural events. Thank you. I want to recognize that a lot of folks came out for kipp. I want to recognize that the board when the board originally passed the kipp petitions back in what was the first year . 2003. I was on the board and i did approve the charters. I probably wouldnt approve it now as a new school. I people not you guys particularly but kipp is a predator reinstitution that feeds on vulnerable districts in the state. We just were over ruled by the state board of education to allow another kipp school in this district. As a body that decides policies. We were ignored. Kipp went above us and went to the state and authorized the petition over our heads. That is a sad statement of affairs. I hope that changes soon in the state. I am not prepared to vote against kipp. I am not for disrupting schools in our communities. I vote for it reluctantly. I do want to ask a couple questions. If somebody from the community can come up and answer about the special education resources, offering autistic classes, that is for students with emotional disturbances. I brought information on our special education program. Let me share that. Can you specifically answer that question . Is there a program for autistic and a emotionally disturbed students. At one school we have one. Given the size we dont have pay special Teaching Program for autism. I should share with you amount schools we have a large number of students on the autistic spectrum such as the high school. We center created special programs. We are now serving 16 of the students with ieps. That has really grown over time. We are working to respond to that population. We have five students. Each one has a plan that is appropriate. Should the number of autistic children increase so we could have a best Practice Model to extend from our other bay area schools. Second question for emotionally disturbed students. We have a student in that category. This is on the sfusd kipp middle school fifth and sixth grade. It shows the Bayview Academy 20152016 cohort was 44. She followed to the eighth grade that is going from 44 to 28. In other words, about 35 of the original coheart were no longer at the school in eighth grade. For the academy it was 8365, that is a 78 of students stayed. I am commissioner collins have spoken about this in the past. We suspect there is a lot of push outs other the years. Commissioner collins mentioned something she experienced herself. We have heard the reason why the numbers are the way they are. Students have been pushed out annual these have a special relation ship regarding the law. They are pushed out to go to our schools and we are happy to take them. As a former principal in my part i couldnt have that student go to kipp because the law does not allow it. That is the issue. Can you speak of the attrition rate from 44 to 28 at the Bayview Academy . Sure. I want to clarify many davis he had shared statistics and really looked at the kipp percentage. I am talking about Bayview Academy pat 63 . It went from 44 to 28 students. Only 28 made it to eighth grade. If you coul could excuse me r one second. Thank you so much. I know you communicated with me your concern around this issue. While we average out 73 . The Bayview Academy retention rate we have room to improve there. Retaining our students as a could heard from fifth to eighth is one of our biggest priorities. I dont expect you to say you are pushing out students. What accounts going from 44 to 28 students add Bayview Academy . I am happy to seek help and guidance. One of the challenges we face is we start at fifth grade. When kids come to us and at sixth grade there is open enrollment through sfusd. They do come to kipp and realize when they have a lot of open choices at sixth grade they choose to exercise that choice. We do see a higheratric rate. When we look at 6 to 8, we ar