here. thank you. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. approval of the board minutes, the regular meeting of may 27, and the special meeting for june the 3, may i have a motion and a second. i move the adoption of both. thank you and any corrections? see none we will call the votes. miss wei. yes. mr. logan. yes. mr. lany. yes. miss maufas? yes. thank you. and mendoza mcdonald? dr. murase. aye. miss norton. yes. wynns. aye. miss fewer. yes. six ayes. before i call the next item, i would like to remind the member of the public present that if they wish to address the board of education, the individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called, the speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board and i would also notify the public tonight that we will be calling general comment after item d, the student delegate s report, thank you very much. this is item be, the presentation to th
to take a empowered role in their students education and making it accessible for the children s schools the tremendous resources that the city has to offer and demonstrating the benefits of a school and museum partnership and we have had the pleasure of meeting many of you individually, and so, thank you for your time. and for those who have not yet met with, i will welcome the opportunity and i will be in touch and i also invite you to join us for the upcoming budget and curriculum meetings in early october and most importantly, we want to introduce to you, whose two sons, juan and deigo attended the first program where we piloted the model and learned a tremendous amount from their experience and i invited them to speak on behalf of the parents that we have the privilege to work alongside and to share their thoughts. [ speaking in a foreign language ] good evening, we have two sons, juan who is ten and diego who is 6 and our experience with the new school over the summ
done. i am so grateful for the contribution to the strength and the stability of the parent advisory council. i think that it is remarkable work and i couldn t be happier that you were joining our staff and thank you, deeply, from me. so, i m just going to echo what everybody else has said, i am so appreciative with the work that you have done with the pack and just how the facilitator and the staff person you just have been really so respectful of different parent voices and it is a very diverse group and just how the pack has managed to continue on in a it provides really important information for us on the board and your facilitation and support of the pack has made that continue to happen and so thank you and i look forward to working with you as a member of the district staff. thanks so much. you are stellar on the outside working with us and you will be stellar on the inside working with us and i want to just thank the pack for letting her go. you will continue to w
we are going to milk this last week. this is my last report to the board as the parent of the advisory council. kind of really flowing from what the student advisory council was just talking about, one of the pac s priorities is addressing the issue of high school graduation requirements and especially just looking at where the students who are in 11th grade right now who are the first students to have to meet the athrough g requirements where they are at. first of all the pac is very concerned about the number of students who are not on track to graduate right now. and really especially about the disproportionate on the african, latino and other students. it is making, we are really making an effort to learn more about the plans to respond to this urgent problem. and it feels the parents like a crisis and actually i have been in a number of meetings and i am glad to say that the district is responding to it as a crisis and has an action plan in place for both the short-t
and she is tenacious and really self-depricating and i think of her as a mentor as well as a friend. on behalf of pack, ruth you are a rock star and, want to present you with these flowers, and i don t have anything else to say but we love you. so ruth, we do have a certificate that we will bring up in a second and also on behalf of the entire school board, we also have a gift certificate. i am totally shocked and really appreciative. and i was saying to maranda before how much i love that part of commendations are thanking the people that they are getting recognized for and that is truly how i feel about the pack. i have worked hard over the last eight years and i am proud of what we have accomplished but it was my job. i got paid to do that. i felt that i was accountable for doing a good job at what i was doing. and everybody on the pack is a volunteer. and i just feel it was such an honor and a privilege to work for you guys and i learned, i learned so much from that.