Ms. Norton mr. Sanchez mr. Walton ms. Eng and ms. Zaragoza thank you thank you. Ms. Casco will everyone please please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Section a accessibility information for the public as has been announced excuse me munoz are reminded if they wish to address the board of education an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item and present it to say the executive assistant speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board section b were going to hear if superintendant lee thank you thank you president walton and once again sort of like renovate my comments will be on the longer side please bear with me and thank you for being here. From the bottom of my heart let me be the first to congratulate doctor matthews as the next superintendent of sfusd applause please clapping. and sorry if im stealing anyone elses thunder president walton but i did want to make a few remarks youll hear more about doctor matthews but were excited to work with him as he returns to the roots of San Francisco and our School District ive had a chance to spend quality time including a sunday in i havent had clothing and can tell that the board of education made an excellent choice on behalf of our staff all of our staff were committed to helping him being successful and achieving great things and of Great Service to all the families and school and hes here with his wonderful family beginning on sunday so thank you for being here. So next this is partly relation to our time together on sunday congratulate the Boys Varsity Basketball team. clapping. who are colleague and former proud principal is here kevin truett go bears yes in case you do know this the Boys Basketball team succeeded in the state championship and gotten one center 82 to 17 in a dramatic over time. clapping. they made history and became the first San FranciscoPublic School 40 to win a championship they next regular meeting of on april 25th the team will join us as we recognize them along with their coach tonight, however, i want to thank the Golden State Warriors for a very special celebration they threw for the championship bears this past sunday the warriors hosted the team for a fantastic game the highlight was a live broadcaster celebration of might victory through a standing ovation from the crowd i was honored to attend this special celebration along with mayor ed lee and doctor matthew and ms. Mendozamcdonnell and a principal eric we offered our health felt thanks to the Golden State Warriors as well as ms. Mendozamcdonnell for making this unforgettable experience possible for the Championship Team ill say that a lot state championship here at sfusd and proud to announce our chief Technology Officer not here shes been named the outstanding k po of the year. clapping. by the consortium networking and the reason why ms. Doed she accepted the award and joined our district in april of 2015 so coming up on her second Year Anniversary and was charged with expanding the Digital District plan to provide every student and school with assets to 21st century learning environment want to acknowledge some of the accomplishments with us within 5 most under her direction nearly 10 thousand employees and 57 thousand students shifted to a platform we also successfully completed the laptop Educators Program that provided 46 hundred educators with a laptop thats an accomplishment they oversee the migration to google apps and focused on managing the diversity of Digital Learning tools that schools use for students announce with the team and the department of the environment is building a digital backpack for extremely for tools and online resources and finally chief doed oversee the digital and the Verizon Foundation to create 27 anytime anywhere at the 3 of the middle schools through the Initiative Learning schools with closing the gap that partnership established a program for can i see one by one home didnt see at San Francisco unified School District is congratulations and to her and the whole department of technology for supporting the educators and students at the sfusd next tomorrow wednesday april 5th the fourth high school g f a alliance day this years team logging loudly the event supports by the School HealthPrograms Department and lgbt youth is order by the sfusd High School Students and 15 high schools and 3 Charter Schools will be represented approximately, one and 50 students lgbt allies would be represented and expend to attend a day of workshops and the resource fair per next National Poetry month the largest literary celebration isnt world with tens of millions of readers and k through 12 and literary curiosities and, of course, poets marking poetry is important in our culture and lives k l a w will be focusing on hash tag and 7 combrarldz and willie l. Brown middle school have been working in teams proposed of an engineer and electrical engineer and computer engineers as part of willie l. Brown middle school hands based technology and arithmetics or m curriculum students will present their projects as a robotic celebration thursday april 6th for families so see functional robotic arms and finally after 8 years of learning cantonese or mandarin alice eight grade students go to china 57 students time or went to hong kong and other citys they attended the classes and students have returned and are excited to share what we learned and have a bridged culture and built community so that that concluded my report. Thank you, commissioners. Thank you superintendant lee and we appreciated the emphasis on the Mission Bears championship in recognition and commendations. Tonight item b3 student delegates report. Ms. Eng and ms. Zaragoza. Thank you president walton good evening board of education and president and Vice President and public and doctor manifesting i want to start with to congratulate Mission High School varsity Basketball Team is a big thing i know sounds like great and also want to remind the seniors that point out which colleges theyll attend to an may first so choose wisely i know im excited for myself and how much money so safe those dates and replying for skirlz the first thin on the report the youth submit boys survey el cap it is for next year who will be sitting here as annually we have different students and make sure youre supporting our students very at most votes and make sure that survey very out there for the public it is next the undocumented unafraid resolution for students and i have taken care of it and spent 3 hours in spring break and starting to meet with sfusd staff so he can have a final vote next student delegates. Thank you so we had a presentation from sarah acetone from the department of technology and she presented this for all to the immigrant and present to the sfusd at the next meeting so essentially this is the transition from school loop to a new platform for a new platform for grades and attention and assignments can be streamlined for teachers in the one comprehensive unit well talk about that and give her feedback she wants more feedback in the sfusd board shell be coming at the april 10th meeting and have more information and another update from 2016 so recently california allows 16 and 17yearolds to preregister and you fill out the information you cant registration until our 18 i preregistered last year when i was 18 they sent me a card this showed me where to vote if i were to vote and more information if i were to vote and to find Information Online we want to streamline this information to youll historicalers and make sure they are prepared when they want to vote and vote 16 is working on video to inspire across the country to be engaged in politics and just diversities. I know this will be more information about preregistering but to remind you the next meeting will be monday april 10th at 5 00 p. M. In the board room a Public Meeting so everybody is welcome to come stop but if you want to be part of this thing please Contact Contact mr. Salvador lopez. Thank you. Thank you student delegates and as an addendum to the student delegates report. We have the department of election for Voter Registration thank you, ms. Fox. Thank you, very much. Nice to see all of you i am here to share news about the High School Students getting involved in voting you can registration to support when your 16 years old there is a voting page you have to pate e wait until our 18 the secretary of state changed this when we were 18 it is a chocolate time so we felt that was hard to remember to register to vote now it is as mentioned you can preregistration at the vote 16, 17 and we send you a birth card but a card that says your 18 birthday you can vote towards that end this spring weve been collaborating with the Youth Commission to encourage preregistration if if in all San Francisco high schools weve gone to summer job fairs and the submit to spread the word as also using social media we want to go directly into our schools every year and so we are operating in secretary of State High School election Ambassadors Program and that means our students were going to empower the students at every school to register voters preregistered during the Voter Education that is april 17th go and well train the students though how to do one events on the campus and during the two weeks and help their fellow students register to vote dont have to be 16 to participate as an election ambassador and we have sent information out to all of our schools public and private they got recruitment packages and were communicating with the adult staff i want you can know what is going on the students are volunteers but will get Customer Service theyll have a certificate of appreciation from the mayor and Service Hours and the 9th item on the resume or the College Application we hope you will help us encourage participation by sfusd students they need to apply by april 10th and you can find the information on campus or at sfelections. Org forward s f a we believe at the department of elections in encouraging students to disperse theyre Voting Rights by enhancing their education in the district required american democracy curriculum we want to do more the department of elections along with the sf Youth CommissionCivic Engagement committee requesters we have an agenda item on a future board of education meeting to hear any updates about all your resolutions. More than that asking sfusd that whoever is appropriate to notify us to participate in the development of a program that will meet the intentions of your resolution id like to be involved in that so students get involved with even though voting by being ambassadors during Voter Education week sfelections. Org and youll find information or can ask for an update one six 2283 i had to look at that and sfusd staff call me email me educating voters is my mission and job we want to work on that together department of elections wants every liberal san franciscan to be a voter and just for the adults in the room the next scheduled election is in San Francisco june 5th 2018 that means that anyone born before or on june 5, 2000, will be bloibl to vote in the next election so thank you very much im here here to answer questions i appreciate that thank you very much. Thank you, ms. Fox no questions but we appreciate the update of course, you can. I wanted to lowest the public know and ms. Fox know ive asked commissioner haney to schedule that update at future meetings. Thank you commissioner norton im interested to see what in Voter Registration looks like no Citizens Advisory Council any Committee Appointments colleagues seeing none, were going to fast forward to item g our special order of business together as you may know we have gotten a process to work hard to find the right leader for the district and tonight will be the opportunity to vote on the contract for our final list of the next superintendent of San Francisco unified School District and again to just echo superintendant lee want to thank doctor manifesting and his family for being here this evening we appreciate youre being here tonight and move forward with the business at hand so, please read read into the record the recommendations for the board. So this evening the recommendation approve the contract with doctor vincent maufbt for the San Francisco unified School District. Thank you i need to hear a motion and second. So moved. Second. Thank you very much ms. House and colleagues do we have any speakers in the audience tonight for this item. Please come up to the mike you have two minutes. Good evening. Im kevin the director of policy at cal man advocates we want to speak on behalf of our students and parent members about the hiring of the new superintendent who is here and i see the family we working with africanamerican latino parents have seen them not served well by the district and seep the board take initiatives to really change that were hoping with this hover will continue down that legacy business but be a district that leans on the parents they consulted and people are ph. D let the people in the classroom should leadership i mean let them be part of the Decision Making process and hopefully into consideration and deliberation in our hiring rose and we look forward to working with the new superintendent and to continue to work with the board and staff and also want to notify the new superintendent to come out and visit the schools in the southeast part of city and really see the school that need attention to be successful on their considerate parts on the one side of town thank you. Buenos dias. speaking spanish. good evening. Im cynthia a mother of program for improvements for schools. speaking spanish. i want to greet you all superintendant lee and doctor maufts. speaking spanish. i would like to speak about us as parents are effecting the superintendent. speaking spanish. hi were parent leaders working with the high school to advocate so for High Quality Schools for all San Francisco we know you have selected doctor vincent maufts and we want the following things from thews and following things from him. speaking spanish. over the past 6 months we participated in the survey and attended the Community Meetings about the search for a new superintendant we spread the word to other counties. speaking spanish. in october we helped to organize a School Board Candidate we filled out a pole of Top Priorities for the next superintendent. speaking spanish. the majority of the people selected an achievement as their Top Priorities for the superintendent. speaking spanish. this is what we have heard over and over from parents. speaking spanish. apartment want a superintendant who has a proven track record of truly achievement for all students particularly for our most vulnerable student spraupz that are often low income students of color English Learners and special education students. speaking spanish. our District Needs a leader it is needed to making sure that note just some but all San Francisco students receive an excellent education. speaking spanish. we agree with what weve heard from certain members of the board and School District that is that important to have a leader with a long term commitment to San Francisco. speaking spanish. we want respond who seeks to learn from schools that are having successful results and share the valuable lessons learning from a variety of charters that are successful with students, of course, acknowledging the unique environment of every school and trying new things. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good evening my name is letting to president of the united educators greasing doctor matthews and thank you for coming our family and superintendant lee and commissioners, i want to echo many of the sentiments of the speakers before me were looking forward to working with doctor matthews and we hope to see in our new superintendent is support for the students our high needs and a recognize that the center of education takes place in the classroom