not that unhappy we did not get it. let s see some research. what about school number 11? school no. 12? why are we engaged in this type of competition. this is a crazy competition we are engaged in. where is the senate seat? sanity? where is the justice for our kids. we can look forward to federal funding. thank you, congress. thank you for the hard work. now what s? hopefully, we can bring back the laid off professionals, the laid-off classroom teachers and other support personnel, who we desperately need in this district. we have been struggling for a long time. on page 84, you will see a list of people who have been brought back, but as i look at the lives of people we hired, at the list of people we hired, i see many of our talented young teachers have resigned. we have lost a great deal of talent. i hope the government will respond. we have to solve this entire process. there is something really wrong with the whole thing. this is just public comment on our cons
get it. let s see some research. what about school number 11? school no. 12? why are we engaged in this type of competition. this is a crazy competition we are engaged in. where is the senate seat? sanity? where is the justice for our kids. we can look forward to federal funding. thank you, congress. thank you for the hard work. now what s? hopefully, we can bring back the laid off professionals, the laid-off classroom teachers and other support personnel, who we desperately need in this district. we have been struggling for a long time. on page 84, you will see a list of people who have been brought back, but as i look at the lives of people we hired, at the list of people we hired, i see many of our talented young teachers have resigned. we have lost a great deal of talent. i hope the government will respond. we have to solve this entire process. there is something really wrong with the whole thing. this is just public comment on our consent item. i am not sure if i m
you so much. but honestly, you re such a treasure for our program and we really appreciate you and i m so happy you re getting this award. [applause] president kim: thank thank you all for this honor. my three siblings and i went through the public school system in san francisco, my mother a paraprofessional and my father retired as an elementary school teacher after about 25 years of teaching. my sister and my sister-in-law both have several years with the district, and about a year and a half ago i came over to the dark side. [laughter] but it s truly rewarding for me to know i have a job where i can sort of give back to the system that s been a large part of our lives all these years. i d like to thank allen broussard for bringing me into the child development program and making me a part of the team at 20 coach street. we have a small team but it s a great group of people and together we support the 32 child development centers and pre-k programs in the elementary sch
another priority is parent engagement, clearly. with the start of the new school year that s on a lot of people s minds. i know at our school we re trying to figure out how to better recruit a more diverse range of parents and meet the needs of our families and how to communicate with our families and really feel this is an important step for improving the schools. we know we ve heard in conversations in the past on the p.a.c. that better communication is really critical. parents are really looking for that. i know that i ve been talking to a group of parents that have been writing letters for 10 years about a teacher that they re very concerned with at their school and they re not clear about where these letters have gone, about how the process works, about how complaints are heard through the district. very important to have a transparent process in place where parents understand how these process ees from the district work. communication is one of the issues we ve heard.
she s really concerned because she feels like she doesn t know what to do. she spent a lot of time volunteering at the school, she spent a lot of her personal time working with her kids and she told me she works as a nanny and she told me now she has to work overtime to hire a private tutor for her and she feels betrayed. and this is just one example. there are many parents who are very happy with the school system but her son goes to school at a star school and, you know, the passing the proficiency rate is barely at 50%. and so there the story echoes very clearly on a certain side of town where i live and my friends live, and so we want to make sure that all the schools across the town are setting the same high standards for all kids in making sure that they all get the education that they deserve. so that is a priority that we would like to make sure that you ll hear us talking about frequently on the p.a.c. another priority is parent engagement, clearly. with the st