So, we'd be sitting at a two three uh two act teachers Anderson, three at West Valley. Um, I'm here tonight to ask you that we don't move forward with that. um and that if we are going to make resolutions, I would like to see both sites go to a three system um to spread out the inequities that are that are there. Um West Valley's a program, I'm not here to uh say anything negatively about them. Um but both schools are similar in numbers as far as a programs go, not sites, but a programs go. Um there's not too much of a difference between the two of our programs. And so, um, with Anderson, there is a strong discrepancy in the services that we can provide to our students as a teachers. I wear a lot of hats. Um, and and my partner currently is is getting ready to retire, which means he's stepped away quite a bit.
So, we thought we really need to examine and see what the average performance on those assessments currently is in our district for our Englishonly students and have that be the threshold of what we're expecting our English learners to do. So, we did analysis on that. I did analysis on that and we came up with the new reclassification criteria where the expectation of those tests match the average of what our English only students are doing on those two um assessments. Um so that's been done. So that that's encouraging and um hopefully that's going to help us um be able to reclassify um our students at a at a quicker rate. Um, so that's my quick sort of quick um information education on um on English language learners. Of course, there's a whole bunch more, but I thought it was good to start there and um give you guys information about what we're doing um in the district for our English learners.
And if you see something, say something. the Santa Clara County uh rapid response network is highly active in Santa Clara County and we're really grateful for their activity and so we just want to put that resource out there. And we also have um one of our um school or Batina Strickland is being honored this Saturday I believe for uh Black History Month from Assembly Member Alex Lee. And so congratulations to her and we will be there in support. So yeah, thank you so much. All right. So, next up we have nothing for review and discussion, no public hearings, and we have review and action. Um, superintendent 2026 CSBA region 20 delegate assembly election. Thank you. Um, at this time it's recommended that the board select no more than four representatives for the CSBA Delegate Assembly for Region 20 representing Santa Clara County. As you can see on the listing there, there are five candidates that have officially submitted their name for selection and consideration.
Members, any questions? >> Yeah. What's the total cost for this? Senator Kadani. Who's that question for? Total cost. Does anybody know what the total number of and what the cost would be at 5,000? Correct. >> Charter schools charter schools >> anybody. >> I know the number but I don't know. >> The number of charter schools >> number of teachers that would probably affect or is that the question is >> correct? >> Yeah. Number of charter school teachers that could possibly >> Okay. Can you send that to us before it moves on? Do you have any idea? >> I might be able to try and get information. Some some charter school teachers have switched schools because there was kind of this whole charter school like not being clarified and they didn't want to take away take the $5,000 that would go toward a certain program. >> So that's why we want to clarify, but I can find out for you.
>> Go ahead. >> Um uh so we are working on a plan to decompress the why state hospital. There was an info briefing at which that was presented. Um uh >> no there was no plan. We you you just had a goal. I remember that info briefing. >> So, uh within that decompression plan, uh there were five core uh aspects that we were looking at. Um uh one was for those patients and the key is to get people in their most appropriate setting for their care. Uh so there are patients who would be more appropriate to be cared for in a long-term care setting. And thanks to the legislature and a bill passed last year, we're able now to discharge patients from the state hospital directly to a contracted long-term care facility. and we have already begun doing that. >> But that's for long-term care facility.
Um you know, we always love to hear about what's going on. Um I love your enthusiasm. I love the stuff that you're doing, not um just the you know, the improvement of the data's and and that type of thing because that's always, you know, our our number one priority, but I love the things you're doing to to make it fun for the kids and making them want to be there cuz I think that's um a big thing, you know, if they're wanting to come to school and wanting to be there, then, you know, some of the other stuff is going to fall in place. So, kudos to you for that and and letting them have a good time. Um I really appreciate that. Um and welcome to the new employees. Um great to have you guys back back, Patrick, and and our new ones. Um Mr.
Um, and with that, I I will tell you I cannot give my students the time that they truly deserve because of other prior engagements that I have to keep the program operating and running. Um, and so with that, uh, Anderson currently has 12 sections of agriculture, uh, here. I teach six periods. Uh, George teaches five, and then Miss Bowerman teaches one for us. Um, with that, I would make the request that I no longer teach six periods. Um, three out of three years I've been asked to teach six periods. Uh, two out of those three I' I've taken that up as an offer um to expand the program and add new classes and things along those lines. And uh with that it's put a significant toll on myself as well as uh what I can provide to students and so having that extra person here um on top of that would make a great deal of difference to our students and allow us to expand the offerings that we have for students in within our program.
So, if you have any questions, go for it. >> Uh my question is, have you received any feedback on the the new curriculum, the off to class? um a little a little bit. Um I think there's been some difficulty with the rep and um getting some training with um how to look at reports and those types of things. Um but as far as like any like assessments that they've been doing in that um like pre and post assessments, I haven't collected that at this point, but the plan is to look at that as we move through the school year and um I review that. >> Okay. So, did that start in August? >> No. >> When did that start? >> Uh, help me out in second trimester. Beginning of second trimester start. >> It was It was in that in that range. >> I feel like it was right around when >> I have my broken eye.
There was also one candidate that did an email outreach um requesting that boards consider them as a writein, but that is optional for you to do. Um the individuals there with the asterisk next to their name are currently in that position. So you see that there are three individuals and we're just looking for the board to come to consensus on four and we will submit um those uh delegate votes on your behalf. Thank you. So to our board, do we feel strongly about any four candidates? Um I've got four um that just want to present it to the board. Um what I would like to see is that I don't see too many of our east side trustees um as one of the candidates. I only see one which is um a trustee from Mount Pleasant and um I would like to see representatives who live in our on our side in our side of San Jose because I notice many of these are mainly on the west side >> and um that's a concern to me because I would like to make sure that whoever is representing our own side of San Jose is that they live here and they know our students.
>> Okay, I appreciate that. Okay, no other questions. We will move on. Senate Bill 2754 relating to civic education establishes a civic education grant program to provide support to public middle intermediate schools in providing civic education to students to department approved programming. Establish a civic education trust fund. Um Keith Hayashi recommendation. Good afternoon again, chair. Um, vice chair Heidi Armstrong, Department of Education. The department stands on its written testimony in support of this measure. Um, we support establishing a grant program and trust fund that strengthens civic education during the critical middle school years. And we are also requesting a technical amendment to update a specific office name that is included in the bill. Thank you for the opportunity to testify. >> Thank you. Um, Lasman Shane, did I say that correctly? Um, testifying for Hawai commission on status of women, not here. Kahi Davis the judiciary.
That's for long-term care patients. >> But it frees up. >> It doesn't help those 704 patients that are still overcrowding his state hospital. >> Uh >> and that's the reason I have DCR [clears throat] here. >> So when we we look at the average length of stay uh and who's contributing to the census at any one time, uh these patients who who are chronically there uh that were able to place them in a more appropriate setting frees up. >> You know what? We don't really have time for this. Um, this is going to go to another committee and you're going to hear my recommendation that basically it's going to be tied to whether or not you folks actually do have a plan >> because Eddie Mercer's plan was shut down by the your your predecessors. Um, and I haven't heard a plan since then to reduce the overpopulation that is workable.
Bradley and Mr. Hall. So, welcome and all the other people that we approved tonight also. Thank you, Jared. That's it? All right. Um at this point we start like beating the drum over and over, but uh on the topic of the girls wrestling, just you know, congrat- obviously Maili, Maila Maili and Maya awesome, but you know, Coach Johnson's created a culture there uh and the expectations. I'm going to choke up like I always do. He's set for his girls, you know, it's just phenomenal, you know, to see Sam's growth as a Madison alumni through the program and now giving back like, you know, he's been the torchbearer for the girls wrestling in the community and he's producing phenomenal girls like like everybody said, athletes and student athletes. So, congrats to Coach Johnson. And then same thing with like girls basketball, when we talk about out in the community when I'm talking to sports circles, everybody talks about Adam Dennis and the culture he's creating.
Uh secondary to that um I do ask that if as we make this movement um that I be placed on a TOSA period as a CT coordinator and I take over Cake Perkins and uh the other grant opportunities for CTE within the district. Um having a boots on the ground a lot of our folks in the district office, they're amazing, but they wear a lot of hats just like the rest of us do. And uh having someone that can really focus on CTE in particular and do those things that the board is asking with CTE um I think would make a a huge difference in increasing funding and providing things for those students that want that career technical education. Um with that we have a loss right now. Anderson is down 100 students this year um for a variety of reasons and and Mr. Booth and I have discussed ways that we can look at that and see why our numbers are down.
So, whatever that was, >> we looked at three different programs to be the best. Um, we >> we have been having some difficulty with communication. >> Yeah. Yeah. We did um sit in on three different like with the rep for um like the sales pitch right from the three different curriculum um choices and um the one that we're going with ended up giving it to us for free for the whole year. So that was encouraging and so yeah so we're piloting that one right now. Okay. >> Thank you. >> I have a question. um who is the like EL do we have an ELD coordinator in the district or who is that person that like can you walk us through the process of how um who leads that um those committees either the ELAC or the DAC if it's the same person do we have community members that are involved on those committees and then what's the process um like when someone enrolls in school >> they answer that question what language do you speak in Then what happens?
Yeah. So, but anyway, here are my choice here. Um, and whether you like it or whether you agree or not, it's really just my own opinion. Um, from the one from Mount Pleasant, um, William Derek Grassy specifically to represent our side of San Jose and, um, Jodi Mirhead. I have known her for many, many years. And Isabelle Jubis, I guess that's how you pronounce her name, from Sunnyville School District. And uh Jessica Spicer, who is um from the county office of Ed. And those are my four. >> Unless someone else has >> selections. >> Yeah. I also want to say I am supportive of those selections as well. I know those four individuals and they're all they all would be great. I I also support those four and I appreciate you bringing up the east side of San Jose representation. So, um something to consider for next year though.
>> Welcome. >> Thank you. >> Good afternoon, Chair Kim, Vice Chair Kadani, and members of the Senate Committee on Education. I am Kahi Davis, program specialist for the commission to promote and advance civic education. The PACE Commission strongly supports Senate Bill 2754. The Pace Commission recently surveyed 883 educators statewide. The data is clear. Only 17% of DOE teachers receive civic specific professional development even once a year and only 26% of middle school teachers have adequate civics materials. When asked about their biggest challenge, 50 56% of teachers said too much pressure to teach other content because without dedicated funding, civics gets pushed aside. Synic bill 2754 provides sustainable funding to expand successful programs such as schools of democracy and the center for civic education project community pro uh across Hawaii. Every student deserves highquality civic education regardless of which school they attend. This bill makes that possible by affirming that civic education is a core public good essential to the health of our democracy.
Okay. All I heard was a goal. That's the reason I had the info briefing. But I am reluctant to put back the mentally ill back into the emergency rooms, which is what this will likely do. And even IHS is saying [music] that. Okay? And I want you guys to work together to come up with something. And I'm point to you because this it's a 704 um overpopulation at state hospital that's that's causing a lot of the overcrowding. But um any other questions? >> Super quick question. >> Okay. And why don't you call the TRS to come in? We can we can recess. >> Just super quick. Department of Health, do you guys contract to put uh patients like the one the chair described into any [clears throat] hospitals or um places on the mainland? Uh the there are patients uh with primarily acute psychiatric needs.
We're just creating lots of positive interactions in our sports through our coaches. Just a dynamic coaching staff that we currently have. Um girls swimming, the obstacles they've had to overcome this year with not having a pool and still setting school records and winning sectional championships. Again, cultures are being created in all of our sports. I think that you're going to continue seeing like that rise, which leads me to I'm going to go on a ramble tonight, sorry. Uh yesterday I was at the state house meeting with representatives and senators. Today I was out at a community meeting with business leaders and vouchers and stuff are not going to go away and it's our job as a district to sell our district and to push what we have in the junior high, what you guys laid out there tonight, the music program, what you do for our students.
Um, one of the stop losses that I would like to implement uh here at our school to backfill those two extra periods that that teacher would need in order to sustain three teachers at Anderson is working with Poach School District um to cover two periods over at their school. So, they would pay for part of this ACT teacher that we are sustaining um in order to funnel those students our way. Anderson Middle School is a great school. I graduate from there. Um but those students come to us pretty much regularly. They don't really have another option. their parents are not sending them elsewhere. Pacheo is our deciding factor when it comes to Anderson, those kids have a choice where they're going to attend. And uh much like our band program, when we were sharing a teacher with them with our band program and those students were funneled our way because they saw the light at the tunnel.
>> Yeah. So, um, Mr. McGru is the coordinator, so he helps with all of like the ELPAC testing with the initials and the summit of tests. And then, um, as far as the committees, I've been, um, working with the principles and myself um to organize the committee and make sure that the committee members, there's like a requirement for who you need to have on there. So, we have teachers and we have parents and we have administrators. um on that committee and we just had our first meetings a couple weeks ago and the next one is I can't remember I'd have to look at my calendar but we have another meeting scheduled where we're going to start going over the master plan and getting feedback from um staff members and parents um on the credit on the components of the the um master plan. I have one more question.