And watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv. On cspan2. Good evening everyone and thanks for being here tonight at Balboa High School in San Francisco. I am susan solomon, i am a kindergarten and prek teacher currently serving as president of the united educators of San Francisco. [applause] thank you so how many educators we have in the room today . Okay, a lot of them. And Community Supporters . Those two. We also have San Francisco board of education member with this allison collins, glad you could make it i see others walk in, zero Gabrielle Lopez another school board member. So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to hear diane ravitch, i have a couple of housekeeping items. Can trade a retired social studies teacher in San Francisco, taught here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format is going to be diane and i are going to talk for a little while, and then we will open the floor to questions from the aud
Our community and kids desperately. If you ask please the longer time we take to applaud it takes longer so if we could do on a applause at the end. Im a former state of metro arts and he tech i want to start off by saying thank you for listening to me i want to start by saying before i went to enlighten schools i went to public and private schools i have a good concept of the good styles of education i went from kindergarten to eight grade when high school came around my parents and i decided to go to a private Catholic School would be best i found i didnt fit in there and this wasnt the right fit i thought the teachers were not helpful and the workload became heavy i was falling through the cracks after my sophomore year i transferred and this was the best decision teaching was not something ive experienced the teachers wanted to be there and have you learn they were not only our teachers but mentor and friends there was a real accepts of community envision schools helped me if i had
Has been reviewed by the organization we do not support all charters that come our way in our opinion it merits approval it falls to you i ask you approve this charter thank you. Next speaker, please. clapping. good evening my name is dan no one im a 20year veteran of the jewel Probation Department i come in support of one school im a resident of the Bayview District community our community does not have these options this is a city of innovations this is a city where innovation provides choice our community doesnt have those choices we that december pretty well need this we ask the board approve that petition because our community and kids desperately. If you ask please the longer time we take to applaud it takes longer so if we could do on a applause at the end. Im a former state of metro arts and he tech i want to start off by saying thank you for listening to me i want to start by saying before i went to enlighten schools i went to public and private schools i have a good concept o
clapping. good evening, commissioners president fewer and superintendent carranza im the executive director of my familys Walter Foundation founded by my father my father graduated from the new Jersey Public School and was the first to graduate from college hes been grateful for the tint after many years of decades of hard work and in the financial position to give back he gave back to the city therefore our mission so to support the the success of students and we fund a wide range of organizations a for example, are jumping starts and first graduate and jim ma and kip and the San Francisco ed fund at our december Board Meeting our board of 10 unanimously voted yes to the one Purpose School we believe it will be a trimmers option for the students of southeast San Francisco and to the city as a whole the educational model that the one purpose team has crafted is a combination of best practices and the innovation in Education One inform is proud of again, our foundation that the one purp
Here with the kip High School Charter was approved i know that since that colocation has been put in place weve had changed and opportunity to make sure were committed to the success of both schools and make sure that happens so i know your school is going to grow and kip high school and as part of the sfusd community there are good things to think about when were together on the campus. Thank you for your work. Dr. Murase. Ill be supporting in i want to commend the kip leadership in working with this in terms of the impacts your school has i wanted to raise one impact because kip is fourth grade to 8th and im sorry fifth to eight grade model i know thats been available for families ive heard testimony but i know that traditionally opinions survivor when we lose schools to kinney hope families if they know that theyre enrolled and there can be planning at the fifth grade level we lost kids. Commissioner mendozamcdonnell. I just wanted to say that ill be supporting this also and ive app