SDUSD Board of Education Meeting

001basically everything that goes on in our class I am a current and active liaison for faculty and student body and I'm a big voice when it comes to representing my class as well as what the rest of the school has to say um besides that that's about it going on in my school thank you so much whenever I hear reports about Patrick Kane I'm always really impressed at the high level of student involvement not only like academically but um athletically and across all the clubs and you really did a good job of kind of showing us all or sharing all different sides of that so thank you so much for being here this evening um and it's too early to ask you were you going to be going to college we usually do that for

002our ASB people towards the end of the end of the year never too early yeah do you have some ideas over here oh okay um I've been very proactive on my college from a very young age because I'm a I'm a I'm a very nervous person when it comes to college applications um my main goal is obviously a four-year University um preferably up North but I wouldn't mind being in San Diego for a little longer I know my family wants me to stay um further beyond that I really want to further my education by applying to medical school I want to pursue a doctor in a specialized field currently my top two is Psychiatry and Neuroscience um my following Pathways I I'm kind of debating on minoring in education right now because I think would

003be a good step back in case I decide to retire later on and I could help um well I mean if I choose not to continue in the science field I always could pursue like a master's in education later on and help out of school I wouldn't mind that I I love working specifically with high school kids I think they're a lot of fun um like I said I'm a TA in an API class right now so I think that would be a lot of fun for me um my other goals include I really want to study abroad in Europe and Asia um I think at some point during my PhD I would really like to pursue that and apply there traveling is also a big goal of mine so I'm thinking why not hit

004two birds with one stone if I get to pursue an education and see the world wow but I'm very impressed by the answer and it sounds like whatever you choose you're going to be very successful but I would say as a mom just remember to call your parents definitely you know my suggestion thank you thank you superintendent Jackson please provide your information report thank you president bazzo and Kate uh hard act to follow well done um thank you uh this evening I have one item that I want to share as as we all know uh academics are first and foremost uh but safety um and wellness and the health of our students as well as our staff is critical and so tomorrow uh we will be having our fall Wellness festival and um I want

005to thank the the wellness committee and specifically uh Jessica Marrero out of the superintendent's office as well as Deanna Roberts out of the Deputy superintendent's office uh they have done a tremendous job uh along with the entire Wellness Committee of putting this together um I believe uh we have almost 600 folks that are signed up lots of vendors coming in uh please join us tomorrow I want to I want to invite everyone to join us tomorrow from 2 to 6 p.m it'll be located here on the front lawn we'll have health screening we'll have a local Community Partners along with a wellness market so very exciting and just appreciate the the dedication we will also be launching our Wellness hotline we recently launched the San Diego unified health and wellness hotline and this is to

006serve as a hub for students for staff for families to call for information from food and nutrition to health to District resources and so this is an opportunity for us to to have community really connect with our our families in the neighborhood and I know our Focus has really revved up around 15 Community Schools we want to continue that uh from this end from a wellness perspective again the wellness hotline is available Monday through Friday from 8 A.M to 5 p.m and we can uh invite you to visit our website for more information again tomorrow two to six front lawn please join us it'll be a great event thank you president Boswell thank you superintendent Jackson we will now hear item E1 the annual update of the Career Technical education advisory committee and approval of

007the 2324 committee appointments superintendent Jackson please introduce the item thank you president Basel this evening uh we are going to be receiving an annual report from our Career Technical and educational advisory committee and I see already our members coming up uh this annual report also includes the approval for the 2324 committee appointments uh this evening we have uh Terry mccurney thank you for being here sir who is our chair of the Career and Technical education advisory committee along with Sarah Viola our director of College and Career Technical education thank you both for being here thank you so much Board of Education superintendent Jackson where we appreciate this opportunity to be here tonight to present to you our annual CTE advisory committee uh presentation as you may know this is a required committee aligned to our

008federal Perkins 5 funding which is the strengthening career in technical education for the 21st century Act and I'm gonna okay so in college Career and Technical education we are committed to impacting students lives through high quality College and Career Pathways these are offered to our middle school students through courses and our high school student students through Pathways offered at the high schools we are focused on a mission of preparing students for post-secondary options and their future careers we collaborate with the CTE advisory committee and the expanded stakeholder engagement group we meet three times throughout the year and Terry's going to tell you a little bit more about that so the so the ctac and the engagement groups is a very diverse group of stakeholders in our Career Technical education process so that includes uh parents

009includes industry members includes students and teachers in the ccte curriculum the key thing that we do is is we review student performance data see how that's matching our goals within the the ccte department and one thing we do fairly intensely as a as a ctac is collaborative look at the comprehensive local needs assessment and make sure that the strategies that Sarah's Department are pursuing are aligned with those needs is as we see them and as the community sees them and as future employers see them real so our our strategies and our goals and our work are aligned to these four core components of high quality collagen career Pathways which are rigorous academics a high quality sequence of CTE forces work-based learning opportunities for students across the entire Continuum from career awareness and exploration to Career

010practice and comprehensive student supports so we share this to begin just setting the foundation of where how our work is focused but through our College and Career Pathways we are aligned to providing students with a meaningful graduation and for students in college and for our Pathways we see that learning becomes more relevant learning becomes connected to their own future goals and through that we also see increased student engagement increase in student achievement and overall preparation for College and Career we're going to share some of those specific outcomes with you now and this picture here is also a modernization as a result of a modernization at Cannon Hills so that's a cannon Hills High School engineering lab just newly completed thanks to the work with our facilities and uh our grant that we received there okay

011so let's take a quick look at the at a broad level the outcome is relative to to our our performers and Pathways with the basic question being are our kids doing Pathways succeeding better than we would expect and if you took a look at the left side take a look at the three things we're going to really quickly look at graduation rate post-secondary a role enrollment and then student achievement you see that that down the column are ccete completers higher graduation rates than the kids on the right uh they do better at post-secondary enrollment after they after they leave the district and they're doing better on the smarter balance assessment overall than the kids who are not engaged in the pathways foreign for our goals we have three key areas of for our work one

012is access to College and Career pathways second is uh career Readiness and third college readiness so under the ccte access we see um a graduating class upon graduation uh students in a graduating class have about 90 89 percent of them have taken at least one CTE course uh our goal here is that all students in a graduating class take at least one course this will give them exposure to design thinking opportunities for certification and design thinking financial literacy resume building and creating goals and plans for their future so um that's our goal in that area pathway completion is another Focus for us that we have been working on increasing so out of a graduating class you can see we have the years from 21 to 23 here uh pathway completion rate for a graduating class

013was at 25 in 2021 and are are it's not fully certified yet but our it looks like our numbers for 2023 are going to be at 36.7 which we see as quite um a good raise uh eight points increase from last year so we want to continue our work and we have set a long-term goal of having that be at 50 of a graduating class completing a pathway um that long-term goal is aligned to students that complete Pathways have the opportunity to master pathway standards more opportunities to earn certifications or progress towards a certificate at one of our post-secondary partners and also exposure to meaningful work-based learning the third area here and our goal here is related to post-secondary credits that students earn while they're enrolled in a CTE course High School course So currently

01473 of our Pathways offer an opportunity for early college credit and our goal is that 100 of our Pathways offer an opportunity for early college credit uh on the next slide I want to just go a little bit deeper into that post-secondary enrollment goal um the bottom the top right uh States what you saw already in that uh CTE completers are more likely to enroll in post-secondary education and so we see 76 percent of pathway completers enrolling in a two-year or a four-year we believe that they're further along uh in in their work when they have earned college credit uh and more likely than to enroll um in the bottom left is further goals related to post-secondary to our college credit that students earn through credit by exam we've been focused on increasing access and

015you can see there that from 2019-20 the number of students that were enrolled in a course that earned college credit was 3178 but last year we had 8 201 students enrolled in a course that they could earn college credit so 63 increased more than double that number the links on the left where you see the little the arrow will link to if you'd like to see more details by AI School of the enrollments and students that have been earning credit our goal moving forward is actually to also increase success in the earning of college credit so we've increased access but we know that about 44 of students that are eligible to that are enrolled in the course are earning credit we'd like to continue to increase that and we've set a short-term goal of at

016least 50 percent of students per that are enrolled earning the college credit on the right there's also a link if you'd like to see enrollments in credit by exam by school it shows you over the last few years the numbers of enrollment there and then we've included um a breakdown of more detail regarding where our programs are offered this is organized by superintendent area network and so it shows those schools in that area network and the industry sectors which include the pathways that are offered for those schools uh we use this information when we are planning to expand programs or we have opportunities to grow and we want to see you know what would be a good sector maybe a high priority sector that's not offered somewhere or not offered everywhere that we'd like to

017expand I I show the example here of scripts because we've had initial conversations with that principal thinking about future uh possibilities which then he would then uh you know look at labor market in the local area does it align with that and then look at begin Community engagement to then decide if we wanted to move forward with adding a program so that's one example the next slides actually show small snapshots for each area but you can click the link and it'll expand for all of the areas if you want to see that so every year we do our Innovation showcase and I know some of you have attended and I encourage encourage you all to attend and encourage all of our parents to attend it as well this is where the kids in the pathways

018get a chance to show off what they've done with their pathway projects over the year it is really a uh it is really a celebration the kids who are in The Culinary departments are there to to feed everybody and uh the the level of discourse that these kids do their their presentation their pride and the work they've done and the quality of the work they've done in some of the projects they for example some of the engineering projects is just tremendous and we'll be doing that again in May it's really the the Capstone of the year and it's just a terrific celebration for what the ccte programs do of our pathway completers so we had about 2 000 pathway completers uh in that graduating class and we invited them uh to a dessert reception so

019it was actually really well received their students and parents who had completed Pathways came up to the reception and we were able to recognize them and so we want to continue to grow that and host at a larger event so that we can have all of them attend um with their parents and families um so we're looking forward to that so these are some of our partners and some of these are actually sit on the ctac but a broader number of them and this is not all of them by any means and you can see some of the companies there that offer internships work experiences for our kids so the the the students taking ccet courses get a real feel for what the industries are like and what they would be doing were they to

020go on that field and that's just that's just motivating and it's great participation by our local Industries and and community members in our programs thank you Terry yes we really want to thank our partners because they really support student experiences this slide here just lifts up some of those experiences that we've been able to offer through those Partnerships so for example uh vertex has offered paid summer internships for our students those two students were doing their end of internship presentation it was just so interesting to hear them one was from Lincoln and one was from Crawford and both of them are going on scholarship to UCSD um we also were able into it has also been a really great partner and has posted students on their campus uh here locally and did a two-week design

021thinking with them and students are presenting there so really adds to the students experience to be able to be at a partner's location to be able to go through work with them uh we held the summer Automotive experience in partnership with some of our local dealers and Industry representatives from there we've held the career in college Symposium which we are also looking to expand students really appreciated the opportunity to come together and think out what does it look like to be College and Career ready and be able to understand what are those resources and what are the um opportunities that are provided through our district and our post-secondary partners so with that I want we want to say thank you uh very much again for this opportunity to present to you and all of the

022support and commitment that you have given to our College thank you Sarah and Terry is there a motion to approve the 2324 committee appointment as published in the agenda motion approved by um trustee Barrera and a second by trustee Dr Whitehurst ping and uh just we don't have any speakers on this item right I don't think so okay um let's go to trustees do we have any questions or wish to discuss the item you want anyone uh trustee Hazen thank you and I think it's exciting to see the growth um in terms of this work and that more and more students continue to be involved I do have questions because I was struggling I think to make heads or tails of sort of around goals and objectives and outcomes and trying to figure out and

023I think something that you know Kate shared earlier actually resonated as she talked about being on I think this education pathway and we have here what was presented which seem to suggest that if you are on a career pathway um that achievement increases and I wonder is Kate as we've heard Kate experience might she be high achieving anyway and so for me the question is and I share that simply as an example um are these causal relationships right do we know um that participation in Pathways in all of the different CCT options is leading to the outcomes that we seek um because I know one of the slides said we increase engagement we increase achievement we prepare students for College and Career um and I wonder if we can really point to that because I

024didn't see that I'm a huge proponent and fan of all this but like I'd love for us to think about how do we sharpen our pencil to really understand the difference this is making um in all of these things that we have a feeling we're doing well um because that wasn't super clear for me um and I think also um being able to see sway there's some of this um we have goals like 20 30 goals which I'm yes did that come from is it from vision for 2030 um it would be really helpful to understand because that's so far off what are we expecting what are we hoping for in terms of interim goals because I think for me it's okay well we're not quite there yet where would we want to be how

025is what were do what we did in 2223 tracking against where we need to be to get to where we're trying to go by 2030. thank you I I think the first one would go to the outcomes where we see the completed versus non-completers where we see graduation rates uh post-secondary enrollment I think that goes to the first question um with that Sarah would you say that that would be the data I know we talked about that you track in terms of why you want to expand and why it's important for students to take at least one course and then we're trying to increase the pathway completers you want to talk to that yeah that's right and I I do I do uh you know I had that same question right I want to make

026sure that we can show impact for those students who may not have already already want that competitive advantage or see the competitive advantage and so I do think right getting students to take that one course and having all students get that access is really important especially for our subgroups as well and looking at how we can impact our subgroups current rate of achievement and then if they do participate in Pathways and stick with them because maybe they do see now a long-term goal or they can form that goal and now they have additional reason to stay with them they say subgroups like if you're just activating the disaggregating can you share that with us yes the the other piece I think uh trustee Hazen you you mentioned a great uh point and I I think

027Sarah and I spoke about this is the interim measures the goals I know that for participants of uh you know upon graduation we have 89 um right now I know you want to increase 92 93 and then and then into 95 and 98 into 100 as the ultimate goal you want to talk a little bit about that and we can provide that to the board yeah the interim goals that we have exactly same thing with pathway completion rate we've seen like that two percent which was actually what we had set our goal at is kind of increasing by two percent but of course we see this higher rate of increase in this last year but yes we do have those shorter term goals as well to see that incremental increase over time so that by

028that longer term goal we are able to reach it yeah and I just have one quick final question which is I think in the list of committee recommendations for appointments there wasn't a student rep are we working to get yes our student rep graduated so we are working to identify another student rep and we'd like we had one so we are actually are open to having multiple students what we did in the in the past years as well is we've actually had multiple students even though there's one officially on um on the committee uh we've invited additional students to participate so yes we will be identifying the students thank you trustee Waiters I would like to say congratulations and thank you because uh as Mike following Richard Ferrero will tell you um we've been pushing

029for a long time we've seen this causal relationship that the more students we push into a pathway that if they can take at least one class to show some connection then somehow another it's like a motivator there's a connection between school and and life beyond school and it motivates them to try others and I'll let I'm gonna share my favorite you know I'm not an educator so I look at the data I talked about how we we we really in our SeaTac meetings just Sarah does a terrific job of presenting that data and we kind of go into the the the details that you're talking about again as as stakeholders not as educators but a couple of years ago I was at Morris which has a terrific Automotive program and and we just got talking

030to the students and uh and one of the kids say well what what do you like what you don't like and this was to me this was really illustrative from from one one kid he says you know what we don't like we don't like it and I'm not going to offend any of the counselors I hope but we don't like it when a counselor just throws a kid into one of our programs just to fill a seat because that kid detracts from the rest of the program and again a graduates of this program they can walk out the door of the high school walk down to Mossy or one of the other uh one of the other uh automotive dealers with a patch on their sleeve already and go right to work when a kid

031tells you that you kind of pay attention to what what it means all over what you're you're talking about the Sanders and there's there's a level of commitment from folks like you and from the Morse example I understand I don't know if it was GE or somebody uh who has cars they use it mores as a site to test out their car design or something I guess they try to hide it but they figured a high school wouldn't it would be safe at a high school and so but that year do you remember that well I I I do remember that and I also remember I gave one I I got totaled I got told in my parole on the freeway and I gave it to Morse and they took it apart put it back

032together took it apart from it was just to run terrific to see them working on that uh that that Beast uh for for a year or so okay I have just a very I almost hesitate because it's so conceptual at a top uh and not adequately concrete but when I first saw the ccte I and in the presentation um I think a lot of folks you want to avoid tracking obviously but at the same time a lot of folks the the hope of CTE is it takes a lot of students who um were very good at getting the handoff right in relation to college and universities um and you know we have students who know a year out where they're going to go next but a lot of students may not be in a place

033where they're thinking of college and so I think the hope for CTE is that it in particular helps those students um take a path that's right for them it feels right for them and leads them to a to a life that's fulfilling and rewarding and and so uh you know part of the risk when you're you're collapsing them in a single department is that is that the the way the way a district is built or our education is built to hand off to higher education um the risk is that the CTE part about the technical education part gets wrapped up and even as I'm looking some of this these these elements I'm like is that a college track they're on or is that a Career Technical in an unusual sense so presumably you you you

034you have the data that this that disambiguates those two two halves of the thing um and if you could just speak to the emphasis on ensuring that the CTE itself is a is a viable path and that we're investing in it and and in particular preparing kids for um or youth for uh high-paying jobs rewarding careers and um you know for example in uh in the trades or Building Trades or Automotive trades you just spoke about Automotive trade so yeah yes thank you and yes that's that's exactly right we we speak about it as post-secondary options because there are many so we want students to have connected to a goal and some of them it may be a career goal that includes you know two-year four-year but some of them it may be an apprenticeship

035program we've had students in our Automotive programs who get hired right out of high school who go into an apprenticeship program um when Terry mentioned Morrison Auto Body I remember the student who wasn't sure what he wanted to do he thought he wanted to be a firefighter took our auto body repair and and really fell in love with it uh and he actually even said that it repaired his relationship with his family and his father because they were able to connect on that topic but then you would see him at every opportunity that he had to go to the Automotive Museum or to actually volunteer with one of our industry Partners get a job early so we we recognized that over the last several years the focus of Career Technical education has expanded so that

036we are preparing students for College and Career but we also recognize that they have all a variety of post-secondary options and so we want to make sure that we're providing those as well and so that all students have uh you know a plan for what they'd like to accomplish and we're able to help support them through that I want to follow up on that because in the old days it used to be you did one or the other you were in the career um the automotive the technology now or things like ibw IBEW I think it's called you go to a program but it's through a university through a college rather and you can be getting your you can get your units towards a bachelor's degree with additional like four different classes you can get

037your your training for whatever field it is electrical and then also go into engineering because the IBEW executive director talked about how his child he put him through school straight in the cost and all this money and his uh Partners um child went to through this program took the additional four classes and then only had to do two more years of college so it didn't cost him as much money and sometimes you'll even get scholarships to get that same engineering degree so I'm sure you're familiar with that oh trustee catoriano right um first of all thank you for the awesome presentation um and when I we talk a lot about access I noticed that was a very very large part the other part is is Choice uh is that often a diverse range of classes

038two students that need it and as I look at these maps of who has access to what classes I notice you noticed I noticed that you talked just a little bit about the process of of getting um these opportunities in schools but maybe if you could just help us walk us through a little bit more when I look at this Maps I think okay what did Hoover what did uh sdhs what did Crawford do with that Kearney didn't that hurt that Henry didn't just as a couple of examples what's that process kind of look like yeah and I I can speak to some of the schools that have shifted into offering Pathways um in a more integrated way um most recently and they did old stakeholder engagement meetings and groups Lincoln just recently went through

039this when they were identifying the pathways that they were going to be offering called stakeholder engagement group meetings brought in Industry looked at labor market heard from our members and community members as far as what they wanted to see offered at that school site some of our other schools have had Pathways that have been in place for many years and so they continue to offer those as long as there's connected to a labor market demand that will lead to a high wage or high demand career or occupation so schools continue to offer them as long as we can validate through the work with our advisory committee also in their input that this is still a valuable training program or career opportunity for students uh but that is that is what schools do when they're thinking

040about expanding they'll look and hold Community engagement meetings they'll look at labor market data to identify what programs they'll be offered thank you trustee Heaton it's great it's a great question are we encouraging schools to expand or is it is the onus on the school to step up and speak up and create these additional Pathways for themselves yeah so we meet with our schools regularly to review the pathways that they're offering um and their plans for the future years and so as schools are are looking to expand we'll bring opportunities that exist as well to add into the pathways or maybe it's something to offer students if they don't offer a pathway so we use our dual enrollment program that way to offer additional opportunities for students for example Mesa college did a presentation to

041our health teachers today about their Allied Health programs if Dental they have Veterinary they have phlebotomy so all these different programs that maybe they won't offer at the high school but it's something that we can connect to and offer through our community college Partners or our post-secondary partners the other thing that we've been able to do this last year couple years is offer summer experiences so Automotive is a great example that's why we had it up there is we have Auto at five five schools but we were able to offer a summer program and give the opportunity students across the district to participate and we saw students coming and taking the back forward that experience who don't have it at their school but we're very interested in wanting more opportunities like that so we're looking

042at offering and expanding um we recently received some support from a foundation who will support us in expanding that district-wide so we can continue to offer opportunities like that um to make it available for more students trustee Barrera I know yes sorry I said follow-up which is this thing that I am like still very curious about is around how well prepared and how successful students are in College and Career and I'm wondering are we working to measure that because I think we see here and we have good data to see that 76 of our CCT leaders are enrolled in post-secondary thing for me is are they successful there so it sounds like we're getting them there but do we have a sense of how well they're doing and is it something that we could through

043the national Clearinghouse or something be able to track yep we can we can work on that because the national student Clearinghouse will will give us data as far as schools remains enrolled uh who graduates who earns a degree so we can work on creating the group of students and running the reports for those students yeah because I think for us to know are there certain Pathways that lead to that long-term success to help guide which Pathways we want to add more of Jesse Barrera thank you president Sarah and Terry thank you again for Sarah you are everywhere uh which which makes sense you know given given the role and Terry thank you so much for how many years have you it's been it's been a few it's been a few yeah yeah no thank you

044um there's a couple of data points uh that you've presented in the past that I that I think are helpful one is uh when you talk about sort of closing the achievement Gap within CCT courses and we look at the success rate of students um particularly sort of students in subgroups compared to students outside of the subgroups uh it seem to it's like the achievement Gap uh goes away you know uh with with whether it's in grades or you know uh with students who are taking CCT courses so that's a great uh data point you know for us to for us to look at that you probably discussed within the committee um the other one that you talk a lot about in our joint meeting with Community College District is the difference in outcomes between

045students who actually complete an entire career pathway versus who take only say you know one or a few courses and we're trying to get everybody to take at least one course but we're also trying to really encourage the full uh pathway so those are a couple of good data points and then what I'm wondering is um are there certain industries or career paths you know that you're looking at onto the Horizon and saying yeah we need to we need to develop something there that's uh there's a lot of opportunity uh there you know particularly in the San Diego region and and we need to need to develop a group yeah if I can uh real quick I'm gonna say Sarah you were right I was wrong so some of these data points she wanted to

046present yeah and I said as we think about I I go it can get large and we need to pare it down um based on our student outcomes Focus governance and the time frame so Sarah you were right now we just have to figure out how to put that in and what comes out because you know as we we try to have our presentations between five and seven minutes and then this this discussion a little less than what what is happening currently we've all talked about that um so Sarah did a great job Richard that was on me no I I I did Sarah great job thank you Richard I think just to answer as far as Pathways uh you know or or new trends or new areas um energy utilities and environment is definitely

047one and when we first established our pathways are we put that work into our engineering pathway so um that is one that we can think about pulling out separately there is a lot of um opportunities in that area now with solar and all of all of that we also do we do have one environmental engineering that uh we offer yeah uh the other the other we we are going to be adding an agricultural Sciences at more so we did receive a facility Grant to build out uh that program there the other thing that we're seeing too is just the idea around Ai and how AI is impacting it from everything for video production to you know photography and so just thinking about how we're going to continue to add that into our Pathways as well

048you know we've got students here we're going to talk about the climate actions coming up and so I think I really appreciate the work that we doing and looking out at creating opportunities for our students to go forward and save our planet yeah that is actually identified as one of the priority sector areas in the new Golden State Pathways program that the governor approved and that we'll be applying for so climate education Computer Sciences thank you oh did you have one more just one more comment when someone asked a question about how we're encouraging people um superintendent tells me we have to be balanced and allow the schools um anyway because I wanted a sports academy at Lincoln just because they seem to be training Sports people and the whole thing about um the health

049test Sports Medicine etc etc but obviously yeah it's actually part of the patient care pathway in the health science but they do have a sports medicine course now that they are offered yeah yes what you're referring to is our concentric Circle model where students are at the center and those closest to the schools should be discussing with the students and designing around that and uh yeah thank you I'd also like to thank you for the um for the slides the presentation you put together because while there's so much you could have shared I mean I think you did a really good job of bringing out the priorities but also I like the visuals and also the um showing us the different areas of corals all of us as trustees like to know what's going on

050in their own areas but also as a whole and also how we can also expand and get more information so we we really appreciate that um and having a daughter who just recently graduated from college with an environmental sustainability degree um this there's so much going on it's like not you know it doesn't even look like what was when we were in college so I'm excited about the opportunities we'll be able to bring our students in that and I just wanted to end by saying that the principal at Mira Mesa brought his truck into the automotive and they had a great time they like put it together took it apart put together took it apart it was like when are you guys going to be done I was like my truck so um very Hands-On

051training and uh we're seeing that so thank you so much and with that oh so one more comment I just had one thing really quickly I really appreciate that Vice President Hayes and brought up the um current absence of a student representative I again all what I was looking through this these all look like wonderful amazing people and I just like to remind us again that this board is not complete without that Student Portal without that student member and that's student representative so I just want to remind us all to be cognizant that students really are at the heart of this and that that needs to be represented at this thank you thank you Matthew and definitely I we actually are just starting to hold our professional development with our subject to like teachers and

052so that is a topic for them to refer a student who may be on the CT advisory committee so we'll be adding more than one actually than that we've had in the past thank you all right thank you so much thank you for your time and we will go ahead and now we could talk about this for forever but it's actually a fun topic um okay we'll start with our student board members let's start with uh trustee kitoriano hi trustee lavender Williams aye and all other board members please vote electronically and that motion passes unanimously with student board members concurring we are not now going to move on to consider border consent agenda items F1 through F3 which is the adoption of the minutes recognition of September 15 2023 through October 15 2023 as National

053Latino heritage month and the resolution in the matter of support for climate change action superintendent Jackson please introduce item F2 thank you president bazo and um before you trustees is uh a resolution recognizing September 15 through October 15th as latinx heritage month and this is an honor in of this recognition of our students um being the first to raise a flag the first ever um in recognition of latinx heritage month on Friday September 15th at 10 A.M again this is student-led and I really want to thank the students uh thank ebony weathers for her work with our students you know our students uh specifically are latinx students make up um almost 45 of our student population and um we should recognize our students in recognizing all of our students um we want to celebrate and

054honor uh their voice and who they are we see them and we we hear them and this is not to take away from others we want to lift others and we want to lift all and this is a symbolic way to do that and as we stated in our vision for 2030 we are committed to creating uh the spaces where our identities of our students and our staff are represented and celebrated year round and this flag raising is one such space where we can come together with our students with our families with our staff um and provide the students with the space to be socially aware and to be agents um of change and so for us as we look at vision for 2030 and we think about the learner profile this is one key

055aspect we talk about achievement um that is one measure we talk about a sense of belonging where students are seen and where they're heard and as trustee kitoriano you said is you know our committees uh without students are not whole and our vision for all is not whole if we are not seeing our students um and this is our first ever as as we recently celebrated a Jewish Heritage our first ever um and so we want to remain public um in that way and um there are resource guides that are provided for staff and for students and I just really urge us to support this resolution um and stand uh beside and in front and behind our students and and wrap around our students with love and with care uh and honoring who they are

056allowing them to show up the way they need to show up so um that's that's what this resolution entails thank you yeah yeah can I just note that on the resubmission of the minutes from July 25th again uh I was not present on on that meeting so I will be voting on the remainder and abstaining from F1 thank you coded okay all right um do we have to have do we have speakers on this okay Motion in a second thank you so we need uh is there a motion on items F1 through F3 trustee lavender Williams is uh gonna make that motion do we have a second trustee decoratoriano all right we got all the students I love that all right thank you do we have any speakers on items F1 through F3 F3 okay

057thank you because my my list is went away so thank you we have five if I don't keep the computer active I lose my list so we have five speakers on item have three if you would come to the podium please in any order Emma Weibel Annabelle Weinstein Tatum Merrell melee guznard and Emma Baxter you each have three minutes thank you Miss Stoltz so if you guys just want to figure out who wants to start come on up okay hello okay hi my name is Tatum Merrill um I'm a student at Mission Bay High School um as well as president of our Eco Club and I also work with youth for climate um I'm here to talk about why striking is important to students in the San Diego Unified School District and why the resolution

058needs to be passed um we do not have any more time to waste the climate crisis is a serious matter and more awareness needs to be brought to the youth and the community the crisis is not a joke Canada was on fire Maui has been burned to the ground and Mother Earth is trying to tell us something she's screaming for Hope and it's time that we listen um if we do not do anything to fight for our future now there will be no future um students need to be heard and let us shout and be proud of the change that we want to make we deserve a future and that will not be possible if we don't start using our voices this movement has been and will continue to grow so please work with us

059to save our future hello my name is Annabelle Weinstein and I'm a sophomore at La Jolla High School one main reason I care so much about being here today and supporting these upcoming strikes is because of student safety one thing that I think is important to understand is that these young activists all around San Diego are going to strike no matter what because this is a cause that needs attention now and cannot wait students all around us are going to be striking no matter the consequences so my concern is that without full support from the school board and admin at our schools the students will strive but with way fewer safety precautions these strikes are so so important because they help publicize the urgency of the climate crisis our first day of school got canceled

060because of a hurricane that's crazy and if that doesn't show the urgency of climate change I don't know what does so no matter what we will be out there protesting the way I see it the two options are students striking unsafely and students striking safely that's why I think it's so important that we get support from you guys and admin at our schools I hope that you are able to provide the support in order that us students stay safe thank you um hi my name is my league I'm a junior at Mission Bay High School and I'm going to talk about why striking as a whole is very important for students um well striking is a way for students to be heard in our community especially as young adults who aren't as active right now

061in our community and who doesn't have as much of a say um in the decisions that are being made and uh striking is a part of our First Amendment right and I feel like it's really important right now for us as students to learn how to properly respectfully and safely strive while still being under the school of protection um and Mission Bay we're going to do that during our lunch time so it's going to be a student decision to strike or not and it's going to be during our free time so it's not going to take away any time from our academic education and it's all going to impact our classes and it's really our choice to um strike or not and um right now as a student I feel like um our voice is

062what's most important right now because we don't have as much of a say in our decisions like for example I can't tell my mom like I want you to only buy locally grown um Foods because she's going to tell me no I can't spend that much time like picking out everything uh so I feel like we as students our biggest job is to um speak on that and like bring awareness to adults that can make those decisions and I feel like that's our um um thing to do right now while we can hi my name is Emma Baxter and I'm a senior at Mount Everest Academy and the president of Mount Everest Academy's Ally action club which is an environmental and social justice Club the effects of climate change really scare me especially its effects

063on marginalized groups and communities each year news articles come out about historic natural disasters which officials have proven to be direct results of the climate crisis I don't want to live with increasing fear each year about whether or not my city will be destroyed by a wildfire or flooded because of a hurricane I don't want my generation to live like that and I don't want the Next Generation to live like that the sooner sustainable changes made the sooner the effects of climate change can be slowed young people are crucial to this movement because they will be around longer and therefore will have more time to move changes forward if student safety and climate education are some of the school board's top priorities supporting climate strikes seem like an excellent way to meet these goals by

064protecting us and exercising our right to strike you are helping to protect our future on this planet thank you hi my name is Emma Weibel I'm a junior at La Jolla High School and our environmental clubs president as you may know junior year is riddled with Milestones I got my permit this spring I'm taking the SAT and I did my first internship this summer I also lived through my first hurricane I got to witness heat waves and fires devastate our country and natural disasters hit my family in Europe well candidates for our 2024 election went on stage to continue to deny climate change maybe my junior year looks a little different than yours I spend my weekends going to protests meeting with elected officials and running campaigns and it's because there is nothing else I

065can do for me not acting is not an option and I know so many other students feel the same way which is why we are so grateful for the board support of Youth climate activists and making it possible for us to fight for our future it is so so important that students feel like they can use their voice to change the world and there is no better environment for them to find their place as Citizens than the educational space where they spend most of their time anyway preparing us for our future means also ensuring we have one and helping students like me with Eco anxiety feel like they have a voice is so so essential to allowing us to continue our education and growth as humans you have the opportunity to empower our students by

066voting yes on this resolution and I hope you will choose to take it thank you to all of you for taking time out of your busy schedules and being here to speak on an issue that you're so passionate about and I think all of us can um stand behind you and support you on this um unequivocally so thank you for being here and I think at this point we're going to open up to any uh trustees if anyone wants to make a comment I'll just say briefly thank you for coming tonight thank you for your leadership and your organizing um I uh I'm proud to serve on this board I'm proud to be part of a district that is arguably the most climate aggressive School District in the country um we just as a board

067pass in all electric ordinance on all new construction all end of life replacement we instructed staff to adapt adopt power 100 for all energy for the district um we've set a target for 2025 to be Net Zero um I I want to give special credit to to Mr dalgarov who has really spearheaded the solar energy here at this District we went from what five years ago I think we had 46 projects we have 74 how many do we have now 70 75 now he's two weeks ago he said 74 so it's that fast and I think we have 30 30 in the pipeline right now so we were I think we're at 54 currently of our energy is coming from solar we need to get Transportation as many of the organizer the activists in this

068room have pointed out we need to work on transportation and we're working on neighborhood busing um we still need to climate curriculum anyhow the leadership of our students when they come and they tell us what's important to them it lets us know it keeps this at the top of the agenda and it reinforces the fact that we cannot prepare our kids academically and socio emotionally for the future while not guaranteeing that there's a future for them to have when they get out of out of our our hands so um keep doing it we're with you I encourage my board members I don't think they need much encouragement but I encourage you to vote um I or yay or whatever you say on this uh this measure so I want to Echo everything trustee Patterson has

069shared really appreciate all of the work of our student activists and also just want to reiterate I think how meaningful it is that we have Latin latinx flag raising coming up for the very first time we are talking about nearly half of our students who identify as latinx and it's a long time coming you should have done it earlier and I'm just thrilled that we're finally doing this thank you trustee Hazen trustee lavender Williams I want to Echo everything of course and I want to say thank you for presenting today and just as students like you said it is extremely important that you come and you use your voice because that is how change is going to happen so continue to do the work that you're doing and just know that we listen and we

070hear everything and I support you fully thank you all right so with that trustee equatoriano thank you I'll keep it really short um strikes and the idea of a climate strike have been so formational to myself and many other students of course I I when I when I was this tiny little freshman I was forced into this massive School of nearly 3 000 people and I was honestly scared but when I had our first climate strike at the beginning of September we I saw hordes a river of people marching down to Civic Center and that experience was so formative for me it showed me that despite being a community of over 3 000 students of a diverse range of backgrounds we are still United on the idea of having a future that was so inspirational

071to me the idea that we could all come together and made me feel really part of the San Diego High community and the community of students here at Samuel unified in general so yes a hundred percent um the speeches that were given were amazing they were so inspirational but also provided a wonderful sense of community for me and many my other students so thank you thank you trustee catoriano all right with that we will go ahead and vote let's oops happens now which I'm sorry which flag oh very cool where he spent a little time this summer right yes that's fantastic thank you all right um let's go ahead and vote trustee um lavender Williams hi trustee catoriano hi and all others the vote passes unanimously with our students concurring thanks again all right now

072we're moving on to here item H1 enrollment update Dr Jackson please introduce the item thank you president bazo uh this evening our presentation will be provided by a full team here uh with an enrollment update uh we've been reviewing enrollment uh by cluster by grade level over the last five years in order to share the information this evening we're also reviewing current enrollment and the average daily attendance as we refer to as Ada projections and this certainly has an impact uh on us in in terms of Staffing and supporting our our students who are here so this evening we have uh Marceline shuto our senior director of operation support Jody macalos is fruit not presenting oh he's in the back [Music] that's good they're they're they've got this um and Drew Rollins um or Jody

073uh who is our Executive Director of Finance and also Drew Rollins our Deputy superintendent of operations uh I'll turn it over to the team thank you thank you Dr Jackson um yeah try this from the back row um good evening tonight we're presenting uh our 23-24 school year enrollment as of last Friday September 8th um and I'll just provide a little bit of the run-in and then again let Marceline and Jody do the hard work with this but uh you know I believe our district holds the values of equity belonging and thriving and with that I see that as us wanting us wanting to create a district where parents want to send their children to school where students want to attend our schools and where teachers want to come and do that great work that

074they do and in part looking at our enrollment is an opportunity to gauge that draw and to see our district and schools appeal so we're looking at it in that sense um before I hand the presentation off I'd like to offer two comments the first being you'll see some minor differences in the numbers we're presenting the enrollment numbers in a few different uh slices if you will the data so I just want to recognize that the data is from our one uh one data source our student information system PowerSchool but as we uh depending on how we categorize things what is an excluded and excluded you'll see that the numbers change a little bit but just wanted to acknowledge that and then secondly as I mentioned this is fresh data and we haven't done a

075full analysis uh we have thoughts and comments that we will share and we realize the analysis is the work that is ahead of us but we thought it was important to share the data as it is now uh resulting from our first 13 days of the of the 23-24 school year so with that I'll hand off to Marceline and I'll also pass the clicker but um thank you drew so the first chart that we're looking at right now total enrollment of District run schools beginning 2019-20 to current school year it shows our total official enrollment over the last five years to present uh the blue bar shows you our K-12 enrollment and the green portion on the top we thought would be important to show is our TK population that uh last year switched to

076utk and you can see that it grows in 2022-23 with the implementation of utk as you know uh our district is an early implementation District in the state of California everyone's watching us offering enrollment to all pupils whose fourth birthday occurs by September 1. then we have on the sidebars there the green the blue and the lavender where you can see that the overall enrollment decline in K-12 is somewhat mitigated by The increased utk enrollment our utk enrollment has increased an average of 24 percent over the last five years the calculation admittedly includes the one-time increase in 2022-23 due to our District's expansion of age eligibility to all four-year-olds and has positively impacted the decrease of our utk to 12 enrollment and that's represented in those four three boxes on the side the lavender box

077shows us that the enrollment decrease has slowed up a bit to 1.6 percent per year due to that mitigating factor of utk so as the program continues to grow we hope and expect to see that continuing Trend and we believe this could be our best opportunity to restore enrollment this next slide enrollment by cluster for the last two years uh shows last year's enrollment in the gray bar next to current enrollment in the blue bar by cluster clusters are at the bottom the total enrollment figure is less than what we saw in the previous chart because it does not include our dedicated magnets they have no borders and therefore they're not assigned to any clusters you see a little difference in the total number there and we highlighted for your reference cluster growth from last

078year is indicated by the green circles at the tops of the bars and cluster declines from last year are indicated by the red circles so overall as we look at our cluster enrollment it appears fairly stable but of note would be comparing our San Diego High and our lmec change rates San Diego high is down and lmec is up and that is due to the boundary adjustments related to the new cluster plus the adding on of the grade levels at lmec high and also we are seeing a decrease in the Hoover cluster and our first level analysis indicates that more residents of the optional attendance area are choosing the Henry cluster and as well we notice a high number of nearby enrollment options that families have in the Hoover Community including some Charter Schools some

079of which that are not authorized by our district but they're operating within our boundaries we also notice increases in the Henry cluster and again that's in part due to the optional attendance area enrollment from the Tallmadge Kensington and college communities and that is being monitored and planned for with regards to facilities needs our last enrollment chart uh is our final chart showing last year's numbers by grade level compared to this year's and this chart also does not match the first chart because it does not include independent study continuation pupils Early Childhood special ed and other and other describes programs that are not in feeder patterns such as XC pupils School Readiness pupils and the needle and Montessori pupils that are at lmec we monitor the year-to-year enrollment Trends and we'll be looking closely at the

080dips in enrollment which are the numbers in red as to what those reasons might be we know for example that San Diego birth rates have been on a downward trend for the last five years between two and five percent so that can make a big difference for our incoming UT carers and Kinders and we also know that shifts in high school numbers can really be due to credit deficiencies that impact the student grade level status in power school we monitor cohort progression for growth or dips moving from for example if you look at grade six in 2022-23 and then they move into grade seven in this current school year we look to see those core hope cohort progressions and if there's dips or growth there and we anticipate cohort increases between Grade 12 and 9

081because many local private schools are Ka and we see kiddos leaving the private schools and enrolling in our local public high schools so we can hope for continued growth with the utk group which we believe eventually should be close to our annual kindergarten enrollment it's about the same number of kids every year and so uh we created this little collage sort of as a visual summary um and want to note that traditional Public School enrollment has decreased across that just San Diego unified but the country and the state of California for the past two decades and these Trends are reflected in our own enrollment patterns we see it in our local census data that our birth rate is on the decline at the lowest in a hundred years in our city and our question is

082usually why why do we have enrollment declines well there are fewer school-aged children residing in our boundaries there's population migration to more affordable areas outside of our School boundaries there's an increase in inner city housing developments we have one right across the street that are really designed for uh adults without children and current housing approvals and ongoing construction within our district does not at this time include very much traditional single family homes which is the type of housing that usually generates kids um and of course there are other options that families have homeschooling private public charter schools and not reflected in our collage is the annual fluctuation we experience with our military families it's completely unpredictable number year to year so overall we notice that we need to be planning for continued growth in Henry

083and the Mira Mesa cluster and we also need to plan for impacts of utk expansion and so we're closely watching the pattern of retention this is just our second year of utk so we should be able to establish a pattern this year for our utk cohort progressing into kindergarten and other anomalies such as a particular cohort group being smaller than the prior year and we're currently planning for clusters with space challenges for utk including working with FPC for uh placing temporary classrooms creating cluster hubs while we're also planning for modernization and our overall goal is for every site to be able to accommodate all of their utk residents so this concludes our first level General review of our New Year's enrollment day 13 and now I'll hand it over to Jody mccallos our Executive Director

084of Finance thank you uh the next slide um just gives you some of our enrollment data um as it as it translates into how we project our Revenue so for the funded enrollment um not every student that's enrolled in our district earns funding for us um again like like our utk kids we have some that are the younger utks about 37 of our students in utk right now are not generating Ada revenue for us but they will in the years as we roll this out a little bit and to the next years um then for Ada the Ada is calculated by we take our funded enrollment and we multiply it by an attendance percentage the attendance percentage varies by grade level so it's not the same across the district um and the range can be

085anywhere between 95 89.5 all the way up to almost 93 again it varies by grade level um and then the funded Ada is derived using um the eight the Ada's over the past prior three fiscal years and it's an average and that's um so you can see from budget adoption we were um using a 91 542 and currently as the third Friday it's 91 328. Jody if I can just uh make a note um and we were just talking about this not only do we have um Universal TK where not all um are our Universal TK are counted in our Ada but we also have some lower ratios for the youngest of of utk students um who were born in the summer months so um I want to thank the board for for our commitment

086um and while on this data it doesn't show great um we believe that educating our earliest uh students early on is going to be benefit them in future years so thank you and then foreign so that that concludes our update on enrollment as of third Friday um thank you to the board and are there any questions thank you Jody I don't think we have any speakers on this item so we'll go right to trustees trustee Brewer yeah thank you Jody and Marceline marcelyn quick question on Madison and Mission Bay which we saw some pretty big increases do you have any kind of thoughts about what's happening there it looks like we are seeing an increase in Madison for this year and Mission Bay as well Madison at both Madison and Mission Bay are considered magnet

087high schools so we did have um an increase in applications and we were able to seat almost all of the ninth graders that applied to those two high schools so I think we're seeing an increase due to that um I'd have to go and dig into that to find out more details one of the things that we talked about at our lcap Workshop is trying to sort of get out ahead at the beginning of the school year uh to combat chronic absenteeism uh do we have any updates on what we've been able to do in the first few weeks the school year I think that's probably a question for John Ross or in student services but I know we work closely with him yeah so I know that there's some work going on that okay

088maybe it's something yeah yeah we can get an update on that thank you thank you trustee Barrera questions uh let's go with trustee couturiano thank you again first thank you for a great presentation keep it short 50 50 on student not based outcomes okay um I noticed that during your presentation you talked for a little bit about students who are credit deficient and those affecting the numbers can you talk a little bit about that right so on the grade level um enrollment summary there's always a Delta uh at the high school grade levels with ninth graders who have moved into 10th grade but PowerSchool still shows them as ninth graders because they don't have all of the credits that they needed to be promoted to the next grade level and we see uh that also

089with the 10th grade numbers and I also made a note that what we can do is have a base and then we can show that we can show we can pull out the numbers that uh conflate the data if you put so we can pull that out yeah as I look at the data I can't help but wonder what what does it look disaggregated how do we are what are marginalized groups look like what's the absenteeism numbers look like so I'm very excited to see those but thank you and I do I want to reiterate because I I don't think we can do this now we're talking day 13. yeah we're talking chronic absenteeism of how many days then you become right like some of this thank you team for coming this early on an

090enrollment in Ada presentation okay I want to acknowledge that and we will continue to monitor I I know we have multiple plans to come back because I know trustee Hazen brought that up we should be monitoring this mainly because we have um some strategies to increase our Ada and to decrease the The Chronic absenteeism and so we want to look at these data over time so consider this Baseline and then we will uh I know our strategies will work so I just want to remind us of the conversation we had during the budget presentation because this was the strategy remember when we're well I digress thank you trustee Hazen thank you and thank you for so clearly showing the data it was very easy to understand and very easy to track so I really appreciate

091that yeah I'm curious in terms of utk how many of those four-year-olds are sitting on a wait list or haven't yet been seated because I guess I'm curious about the level of Interest yes if we could actually accommodate them what these numbers would look like because presumably next year the year after we'll be able to meet all that to you our wait list for the last 13 days has ranged between 266 and 250 students right now there's 260 as of yesterday um and that number has kind of fluctuated because as students have dropped or maybe they weren't fully potty trained and so parents pulled them out we have kids waiting for those seats and I know that leadership is looking at a plan to continue to expand hopefully by the end of this week we'll

092have that information we have schools ready and waiting for additional utk students to be placed and is it a reasonable expectation that by next year or I guess by when do we think that we would have a wait list our hope is that by the full implementation year 2526 we will have adequate facilities at every School site to accommodate their residents I know that uh there will probably be some challenging areas for that but we're working ifpd and FPC are collaborating together to make plans for that so that parents don't have to enroll uh outside of their neighborhood school or outside of their cluster unless they want to and I guess you know as I look at adopted budget and what the numbers are showing now we are pretty darn close to what we expected

093so is everybody on the fiscal team feeling good I didn't hear sort of a takeaway and I know you said we haven't done the analysis but in terms of just sort of high level so there is uh there will be a slight decline in Revenue um just because of the the change in the numbers um but that's but again we're still working through all of the data we have it fully vetted um you know the calculations will bring that um to the board and when we do our first interim projections um and again it's just there's there's like I said we're looking at the attendance ratios and determining and again what these numbers will do though also is not necessarily affect our current year but because of the three-year rolling average you know it it

094will um hit more in the hours and I think I appreciate what the superintendent shared around using strategies to boost attendance right so even though enrollment is what it is there's a lot we can do to make sure that majority of those enrolled actually show up thank you trustee Patterson yeah thank you so much um one of the downsides of a good presentation with good data visualizations is it is that it's thought provoking which is always a problem for a board um but um I I um you know there there's very few presentations that are as important of this as this I mean this is at a broad sense like a multi-annual perspective this is a district bleeding out I mean you know so how we stop bleeding is fundamental to to our viability as

095a as an organization and our continued ability to serve the families children youth families of San Diego so I I you know one of the things that I really liked about this was you know when you're on the campaign Trail you're telling audiences of the public about the secular changes that are happening in our community that make it sort of inevitable you know you've got uh declining birth rates you've got out migration you've got aging families you've got cost of living in particular cost of housing making it difficult for young families I mean you know you're telling people about just hey it's a one to one with a one and a half percent secular Decline and that's just how it is it's all urban areas California when you get the data and you see the

096variation in the data it actually instead of instead of encouraging acquiescence it it sort of it demands study and it demands Solutions because you see we're beating the odds somewhere and if if there's anything that I think this board is dedicated to in the leadership team it's beating the odds it's not just okay well this was we're going to see 1.5 percent and we're just gonna slowly bleed out that's not the future of public education for us and so my question is about beating the odds you know looking at who's beating the spread what clusters and I'm sure you have the data but it'd be crazy to present it because then we would all get real crazy in terms of our questions site level I mean it's probably even more fascinating at a site level

097now some of that's just we're creating it internally through the programs and choicing and so some of the variations were just endogenously creating by the decisions we're making some of its exogenous housing starts and you know all the kind of stuff that's very particular to a site they put in a 500 unit project and and maybe it has three bedroom homes that are appropriate families and you get 100 students out of that or maybe they put in one bedroom or studio apartments and you get five kids five students out of that so there's all these endogenous things that are impacting it that we have some some impact on but but maybe not but I think the fascinating thing is just to to start this conversation digging into the data about what's what's in Dodges what

098do we have control over on our sites is there are there principles that are that are creating that are engaging more effectively with the community and and are there sites that have turned turned the achievement around and it's getting out to the community that oh wait now I want my child to go to that school are there sites that have persistent behavior problems and it's gotten a reputation in the community and they want to take other options Charter or private um are our whole site modernizations impacting our is our are the improvements and the and the and the public facing improvements and the actual improvements in the facilities are our family started saying whoa okay I'm gonna take a second look at that school I think this is the start of a really cool thing

099and so my question is I'm getting the question with a lot of Preamble my question is do we have the staff do we have the staff to take that deep dive because this is such an essential thing to turn it around and at the cost effectiveness of it I mean you get five more kids you get literally five more kids to to to enroll versus enrolling elsewhere and you've paid for a researcher to research it so so number one do we have the staff currently what do we do to get that number two do we have the relationships with universities in the region to recruit them to help us look at the data I'm sure they're eager there's grad students and professors are eager to work with us to try to to really understand this

100data and then to to develop Solutions based on what is working and what is beating the odds so that's my question about Staffing and about this and I I would say first and foremost one of the things that we are very clear on is one thing that we have control over is Ava and we we can talk about enrollment I think you laid out pretty clearly the things that we don't have control on and I think we have to start there because these are students who are currently enrolled so I know we can talk about hey how do we recruit and how do we retain and all of those things um and and you lay out a pretty good argument for the things that we can't control what we can't control is Ada and what

101are the supports uh when we talk about mtss what are the the multi-tiered systems of support so we can connect with our students right that is where we have to put our effort in yes we do have staff to do that so um I I just want to lift that point up we can talk about the students who are not currently enrolled but how about let's take care of the students who are currently enrolled first and foremost um and I know Drew's going to jump in and talk a little bit about some other strategies or but I guess if I could offer another uh data point perhaps we looked at our utkers from last year and how many of them are kindergartners with us this year and when we looked at that data we saw

102that a student that was a utker at the end of last year 91 of those were kindergartners with us so that's good we think that's good but then the other thing that the work that we're doing now is when you look at it during the course of the year there's coming and goings of children and we had 600 utk children leave us during the course of the year and we do some work in capturing a reason code for leaving and so we know I think it was 20 20 of those students actually moved to a different country 119 I think it was of those students moved out of the area a few went to this school or that school but we were still left with about half that population that we don't know why they

103aren't with us anymore and one of the things Marceline and I have been talking about and the work we're going to take on is just doing some leg work behind those 300 families to see you know to your point trustee Patterson was it I I just didn't get a warm vibe from the front office of the school or whatever that was but just just to dig in because again we all believe that it's important for those youngest kids to be with us to start learning early and anything we can do to kind of bring them along is some but I think that's just one more aspect of what we want to look at and and that kind of work as we continue to dig into this so just offering that trustee white here's me I

104really have appreciated this discussion because I'm glad to see us finally contextualizing everything um I think we've all heard on yesterday the county decided to put some money in child care so they're recognizing that they need to do something I don't know if there's any way we can happen to some of that money because we now have fourth graders because they go to the fifth grade um but there ought to be a way that they have some extra money left over that we should be able to get some of that I I think that the thing that I'm excited about is to see us as a society now recognizing that we should not look at educating children even starting at the fifth grade at five years old or at six years old but we need

105to even I would challenge folks to even look younger because I have a 21 month old great nephew and he's holding books looking at it he's learning things right now and I mean I get the daily almost hourly report from his classroom of what he's doing at 21 months I mean that's Granite is private but we should start looking at that as a society that instead of trying to start teaching when they're four or five years old I mean if they're able to do it before then let's push as a society we talked about the fact that on housing the median now is a million 000 for a regular house that doesn't knock us out of the picture but to your point about whether or not new schools profit although it shows is like um

106decrease there in the cluster Crawford High School the enrollment is up man Middle School the enrollment is up when we had only been bleeding at those schools but we put new facilities in and now students are coming so I'm really excited about that that as we modernize our schools and they see that we're trying to address these concerns is happening and um I just think that we overall have to start looking Beyond ourselves as we were at Lincoln High School yesterday the principal noted that last year in the years past we've gotten out there before school started walking the community we have to connect with the community to let folks know yes we welcome you and it has to be reciprocal when they enter the door thank you thank you trustee Whitehurst Payne um and

107I I'd like to share um just from uh I think it's kind of hopeful when I see the attendance going down but even if you take away the utk if you look at like from 2019 to 2022 there's a big drop there from like what like 5 000 I think but then the last two years it kind of tapers off a little bit and it's better so hopefully that Trend will continue so it's not 3 000 a year it might be 500 a year but that's a little more tenable um and also the fact that when I'm because I go to I try to go to uh Town Council meetings but um Mira Mesa Claremont um Kearney or I'm sorry Lynn Vista um Scripps Ranch is on the same night as our school board meeting

108so but all of them you see as well they're talking about um affordable housing I mean there was like standing room only at the Claremont Town council meeting last week and I know a lot of people have very strong feelings but there is a lot of development that's going on in the city right now and I've talked to Lee dulgeroff about this we were out at Scripps Ranch last week um we have um school property there that we're building affordable well it's a beautiful apartments and percentage of that is affordable housing that is going to go to our staff that that um qualify for low-income housing and to be able to buy something at Scripps Ranch at affordable rate for I mean it's just really exciting and I know that's going to be happening more

109and more again shout out to Lee for his leadership in that area um but I'm just wondering are we partnering because I know in Mira Mesa and again like I think Claremont University City we're possibly from what we're being told by you know the city development and me talking my conversations with Lee we could see increases in those areas and possible for new schools to be built so are we kind of planning for that as well yes uh Regina rega here from ifpd connects with the city on construction projects development projects so that we can plan um they're not as forthcoming with information we have to sort of dig for it as compared to in the past they would come to us and plan with us but she and her team are doing that work

110so that we are prepared we're looking at Point Loma right now the big development that's scheduled for where the sports arena is currently located we've got development over in the Henry cluster which is making us a little nervous and and more I think in Claremont to San Francisco there's something coming up in Claremont yeah so ifpd FPC and SEO we all work together to make sure that we're planning appropriately for that thank you just real quick for the for the trustees can you rather than the acronyms and you just of course thank you facilities planning and construction for FPC and ifpd is instructional facilities planning department go ahead wrap this up and there's well thank you drew and Jody and Marceline for joining us thanks Marceline okay we will now consider item H2 fiscal year

11122 23 unaudited actuals financial report and we have Drew and Jody back with us so Dr Jackson please introduce the item yeah real quickly uh this is a presentation regarding our ending balances and uh both ending balances we generally have done for General fun and this evening we're gonna do the unrestricted uh as well as the the restricted as well as the unrestricted this evening uh you will notice uh the ending balance is higher than uh what was presented in our final presentation budget presentation in June um and I want to thank the finance team for for working to maximize our resources uh you know as we think about um the out years and our deficit it's it's important for us to continue to do the work so that we um try to mitigate uh

112that deficit as best we can and I do want to note uh approval by the board for submission to the County Board Board of Education the County Office of Education is required by September 15th and so we are asking for um approval this evening okay go ahead Drew you said it all but okay no um that concludes our presentation right round two um good evening Ms mcallis and I will present our unaudited actual financial report it's basically our closeout of the 22-23 school year and as Dr Jackson mentioned with your approval we will submit this to the County Office of Education which we're required to do by September 15th as we do in all our budget presentations we have our visual of the budget process and to show where we are you have the we

113are here on September 15th on out of the actuals and then the next time we'll be with you and in front of you will be in December where we talk about our first interim report and also this will be the at December will be the final look at the um it will be the external audit of these same numbers that you're seeing now the the wrap up of 22.23 so it is unaudited at this point and then there's an auditing process that you will see the very final final in December um I think relatively good news with all this process our general fund unrestricted pending balance is higher than reflected at budget adoption what you did in June of 20.5 2 million dollars higher um this is attributable to reduction in contributions to special education

114moving eligible expenses into other available funds and there's also some amount that is due to increase Revenue in other areas and the availability of these other funding sources and some reduced spending as well um and as Dr Jackson mentioned it's the work that's done by our finance team this is intentional we want to free up as much as much general fund unrestricted as we can particularly to lessen the impact and the short quality out years um this is just the same thing in table form again you can see what we provided at budget adoption at the end of June and where it is now going from 142.8 million to 163 million and then you can see how the tally of how the the uh the balance is carried as we move forward and with that

115I'm going to hand off to Jody to take us the rest of the way home okay thank you I did push yeah can you hear me now is it better a little bit better I think it's okay how about now better okay it's real comfortable um all right so some impacts on our district Financial picture uh as we reported at budget adoption um we do have some shortfalls in 24 25 and 25 26 that we will need to solve for and again anything that we can do now to identify and Implement um any ongoing Solutions will ultimately help us in our out years um and since the district's adopted budget in June there have been some changes um we the state adopted budget um there was an increase of 46.4 million in um one-time funds

116that was an increase for the Arts music block grant and then also the learning recovery block grant and then um as Drew mentioned or ending balance for general fund unrestricted did increase by 20 million dollars and then also um just some other things to take into consideration there very well could be some just potential increase in costs that we're not aware of at this time but um we just wanted to call that out and at least make people you know aware that that's a possibility and then for our general fund uh restricted um there were some reductions for the 23 24 year and the entitlements for both Title One and the expanded learning opportunity program the elop funding um and then again as a reminder what we had assumed in our budget presentation for 2324

117the Esser funds the money will be going away this is the last year and so um the Assumption was that the costs that are associated with that funding will be gone out of the 24-25 year and again just given you know our significant shortfalls in our general fund and restricted and the funding going away for our restricted funds um we will need to identify Solutions and have those approved by the board when we present our first interim report in December and then as Drew mentioned the next steps for our 2223 unaudited actuals is that it is required by Ed code for our external Auditors to independently review the financial statements and then that's well they will bring to the board in December their their report on our audited financials which will then need to be

118submitted to the County Office of Ed and also submitted to the state and then our recommendation to the board is to approve the 2223 unaudited actuals um for submission to the County Office of Ed which is required by law and that must be submitted by September 15th and with that that wraps up our presentation and Drew and I are available for any questions thank you very much Drew and Jody and I don't think we have any speakers on this item so we'll move to questions if you have any questions until the message is buckle up yeah basically trustee Whitehurst pain uh just one one question on the general the gfu page there the impact uh we had projected for 24.25 to 128 mil short wall and then the next line you're telling us that we

119did get a one-time fund after that adoption or and then we also get the 20.2 higher so that gives us the 60 66.6 from that or it's already included so that 128. so the 128 the 20 million will definitely help the 128. that's General that's the unrestricted component um the 46.4 million is is restricted funding which we are working to identify expenses that we can move from unrestricted to restricted to utilize those funds so yes it will help uh the shortfall but it is still we're still in the process of identifying what can be moved over um what is allowable under the under the funding sources and just one clarification for the general public we knew that with the Essa funds pulling away we knew potentially that we wouldn't have that those funds no longer

120yes absolutely yes yeah so it's the work we need to do um the the state took action on the budget after our budget adoption remember and that's where we tried to catch up uh we provided a letter to the board the 45-day memo if you will that just brings those kind of we're trying to just make sure we're current here I guess what I'd say we provided a shortfall we provided the 45-day memo and now we're telling you we're again the ending balance at 20 million dollars higher as well so we're just trying to make sure we're keeping consistent one other question related to that and I meant to bring this up earlier the military uh what kind of impact in terms of funding if they haven't made all the necessary changes moving folks around

121I noticed the enrollment was down because I understand things are like frozen because Congress can't do what it needs to do to make appointments and move books around as they need to plus we dropped under 100 000 so will that have some impact on the revenue so um that's for the impact Aid funding that we received so yes um we are looking into that I mean we're we've got some advocacy to try to remove remove the um the requirement that if you the threshold thank you that if you drop below the hundred thousand um right now we are actually getting ready we're gearing up for our impact Aid survey form collection um which uh will be in the month of October where um and we're piloting something new this year that we're going to be

122doing it online um through the parent portal we have two options we'll be doing it online through the parent portal which we hope will be great um anything we can do to eliminate all the paper forms um but then also it after we do that first round then we will we will still submit the paper forms but um I I don't have any information on where we currently are with um with our advocacy thank you drew and Jody okay let's go ahead and vote do we have oh I'm sorry trusty Hazen thank you uh so I had a question uh on this Cider on unaudited actuals overview um mentions a reduction in the contribution to special education can you explain what and why the combination of a few things that contributed lower expenses within special

123ed so we plan on how much budget what we think we're going to have to contribute towards special ed uh there were other special ed specific funding sources that carried more of the load um and a few things like that we can provide more details if you'd like but it was yeah you're not serving no no and this is this is this is really the work after the fact of the bookkeeping where we're able to run but certainly we're not shortchanging students in this through this process and around the enrollment and how does it compare to budget and you said we're going to see less money than we expected do we have a sense of what about that dollar amount might be so um and actually we've been providing the enrollment memo updates the board

124and there's another one that is leaving the superintendent's office today the best projection with that right now is a reduction in revenue of 1.9 billion dollars and again the it I'm sorry the calculation gets uh slightly complicated and it really is again going back to our previous presentation the work we're doing now is really impacting the revenue uh for next year because of the processes with Ada calculation particularly taking advantage of the three-year rolling average it's the three previous years but obviously the word we're doing obviously it's the right thing to have children in school anyway and and improving our intents but then that from the revenue portion is really driving the number for next year all right thank you are we ready for a vote were you in a motion in a second yes

125I was working I know I was working on that oh you have a motion okay motion by uh trustee Bearer saying bye trustee Whitehurst pain and uh Jesse lavender Williams okay and Professor Victoria hi great and everyone else okay the vote passes unanimously with student board members concurring thank you drew and Jody again okay we will now consider items H3 item H3 issuance and sale a prop s measure YY and measure U bonds there is no staff presentation on this item four Bond council is available via Zoom if there are any questions do we have a motion to prove item H3 okay I think we have to do those separately I was told yeah so separate vote is required but good time thank you uh okay do we have a motion on H3 okay motion

126by trustee Whitehurst Payne and and Richard okay second by Richard and no speaker wait no speakers um and we'll go ahead and vote so let's start with trustee catoriano hi trustee lavender Williams aye and all others okay all board members both unanimously with student board members concurring all right we'll now consider item H4 issuance and sale of General obligation refunding bonds there is no staff presentation on this item Bond Council remain available via Zoom if there are questions is there a motion to prove item H4 oh Richard gets first okay okay um we have a motion by trustee Barrera a second by trustee Whitehurst pain let's um go ahead and vote trustee lavender Williams trustee catoriano hi and everyone else okay that motion passes uh trustee uh Whitehurst pain okay we we're missing your vote

127up there just to make got to make it official all right um that vote passes unanimously with board members concurring I don't know what's going on with my wife my microphone um okay now we will move to the superintendent's consent agenda we will now consider items i1 through I-43 the superintendent's consent agenda the following items were previously withdrawn by staff I 29 i-31 i-32 i-34 i-38 i-39 and i-41 is there a motion on items I one through I-43 okay motion by trustee lavender Williams and we have a second trustee buy we need someone can we get I gotta get this side going over here a second by trustee Patterson and I believe we have speakers on I 20 and i-21 so um we have Stacy mcglory Alicia Gloria and Ryan Berker if you could all

128come to the front please if you're if you are here coming to the front and it looks like just the one no one else that's it okay um and I'm assuming you're Ryan okay and you have three minutes thank you hello thank you uh for allowing some time um uh so superintendent Jackson and Cody Patterson uh and the rest of the board thank you for being here I live in the Ocean Beach area uh my wife and I and we have three daughters um and there's been a couple incidents uh in the news recently and there's um some focus on some of the aspects of this I'm not a lawyer I'm in sales um and um uh my daughter is at the heart of this uh with a couple of the other uh parents that

129are here and um we're just having some trouble navigating the system that we um we're having some trouble um getting some navigating the system to feel like uh our children are truly being protected uh so with my daughter she was inappropriately grabbed at school um she was teased after that um she's grabbed in the in the butt um and she was teased after that and then a week later she didn't tell us any of that part a week later she was threatened um um just off campus a few feet off campus she was threatened by the same boy to be raped they're in junior high they're at Korea uh junior high she's in seventh grade and um there's two boys uh and one is a follower and the other is a leader um the follower

130is the one who had the physical action with my daughter and then the teasing later and then also the the rape comment uh was made to her but was worded by the other boy by the leader boy uh who also had a gun incident and that's what brought this whole thing out was this gun incident so that's a concern too I'm not going to speak to that there's some others that will speak to that in pursuing this there's been a couple of other things that have come up um with um the the leader boy uh texting videos uh inappropriate uh videos highly inappropriate videos I'm not gonna put any details there and also some selfies pictures of himself that would be highly inappropriate I believe it's a federal felony the type of pictures and the

131videos that he sent um so we're communicating um with our local head of our Administration as the principal and now as of tonight is the principal of Korea um and I want to believe him I want to believe that he has my daughter's best interests at heart and our children's best interests are um and to some level his hands are tied because there's no clear Direction uh also with uh latash I talked to you earlier today at some level she can't give me clear Direction does San Diego unified have authority when it comes to um these images that have been turned over to the administration do they have the authority to turn those over to uh police are we supposed to talk talk to the D.A thank you um so we just have some questions

132and there's been no clear answers um so I I'd like to at some point have something to uh to help get some answers so thank you okay is it are you Stacy or Alicia okay come on up at least you have three minutes thank you gun violence prevention this is a page on your website it's a nice website the opening paragraph San Diego unified has made gun violence prevention a priority in supporting the mental health safety and well-being of the district students staff and Community as a whole um not only does your website not reflect that but neither do the policies and procedures at the school level no concrete consequences for specific things like sexual harassment or Firearms threats no specific protections that are immediately put into place for families and victims of these specific

133um threats like the sexual harassment and the Firearms when there is a lack of logical and effective consequences this is what happens I could find nothing anywhere not in the school policies the school websites this parent handbooks anything I could find on your website I found nothing that made me feel like my child was definitely protected After experiencing this firsthand as Ryan spoke to you I have learned how we actually handle these things uh how we handle Firearms threats and students with chronic bad behavior and honestly it is no wonder it's like this light bulb went off and I realized this is why our kids are getting slaughtered in schools because we're all focused on this far-off thing oh federal gun bans and blah blah blah and we're not talking about what am I doing

134right here right now when I tell my kids you want privileges this weekend you make your bed and if you don't make it all five days of the week you have no privileges you know what that's a consequence and you know what I get I get great Behavior I get great kids but as long as we don't have good consequences effective consequences clear-cut consequences for bad behavior you are not protecting the kids and their parents thank you thank you are you Stacy okay you have three minutes for both items three minutes total thank you I'm here tonight as a concerned parent I have four students in the San Diego unified school district one of my children attends Korea Middle School in Point Loma on August 29th she and at least three other students reported seeing

135a male student with a gun on campus he was also making verbal and non-verbal threats of violence in addition that boy and another boy were identified by over 14 girls on campus as participants in sexual harassment and sexual assault as you heard Mr Burger talk about this District continues to tell the reporting students and the parents that these claims are unsubstantiated and I quote about 15 times from Mr Kyle Cooper they are they're told that they are not enough for the district to take action to keep our children safe from threats and violence this is unacceptable Mr Jackson 100 unsuccessful unacceptable as the largest District in the state of California all of you and our administrators are supposed to be keeping our children safe instead you're hiding behind policy that promotes a rape culture and

136a violent culture and we are asking for change at the district level we are here tonight to work with you to enact this change in any way that's possible today it's been about an hour talking about enrollment and money so let me break this down in a way that you might care about a little bit more because the safety of our children Mr Peterson this is your District over five children have already left Korea middle middle school permanently and left the Point Loma cluster half of the school was absent the days following these incidents a third of the school was absent the following day and students continue to be absent you want Ada Mr Jackson as you talk about keep our students safe threats of violence should be taken seriously sexual assault should be taken

137seriously the bar is set so high for expulsions that there are almost zero and those people are offered chance after chance after chance to return to campus at the expense of our children the victims who are traumatized over and over and over the current policies don't work this is not an isolated incident I promise you I'm not the first parent who's come forward this year in 2023 because there are more sitting in the audience what's being done nothing our children are being victimized and traumatized Often by the same individuals who are given chance after chance after chance our children are told begged see something say something police our campus for us children and then what they're not believed they're not listened to and nothing changes Cody are you listening because I voted for you I

138want you to help us we want to help we need to work together this can't be ignored any longer thank you Stacy and uh see we are going to move on now to non-agenda um public testimony to vote on I'll vote on this one okay sorry yeah all right let's we already have our motion and our our second let's start with uh trustee catoriano hi thank you trustee lavender Williams hi okay all other board members go ahead and vote okay thank you um that passes unanimously with student board members concurring sorry I was trying to jump ahead there now we will receive public testimony on non-agenda items and currently it looks like we have nine Quests for non-agenda Testimony each speaker is given two minutes each and um we will go ahead let's see I'm

139gonna just uh read off the names and then you can go in whatever in whatever order you'd like but Cameron Lilly Ryan Berger Stacey mcclory Devin Cadet Jennifer palmiano Nate Treadwell Ryan Bray Amy Mullins boy Chuck and Katie Sanders and if you're all if you're all not always already there please come to the front of the um Auditorium so you're all the same place together and uh let's go ahead and start is Cameron Lily here available no yes I'm sorry I thought you said whatever yeah no that's fine sorry I was just trying to kind of get the process started yes and you have two minutes thank you my I'm Katie Sanders so I was the last on the list so I'm here as a concerned parent my daughter is a nine-year-old fourth grade student

140and Barnard Magnet Elementary School there is a transgender student in her class and last week the school allowed that classmate to give a presentation that they claimed was sanctioned by the district I believe the intention was good and it was an attempt to Foster inclusion but that unfortunately was not the result instead my daughter came home upset believing that she must identify as gender fluid because she likes both girl activities as well as traditionally boy activities example Legos and baseball this was her takeaway from the presentation this goes against everything I want to instill in my daughter as a biological female lawyer in a traditionally major male field I see how hard it is for women to succeed in a man's world women have had an uphill battle to obtain equality and the fight is

141not over my daughter is a mixed-race African-American biological female and has struggled with her racial identity but has always believed that girls can do anything she has been raised to be inclusive and kind to everybody we stand as an ally to the LBGTQ community and I understand the importance of including everybody however I do not support advancing one group by marginalizing another women and girls need a space to thrive without feeling that they cannot be a girl and do order traditionally male activities women have come a long way from the 1950s and the result of this presentation took us back where only boys and those who identify as such can do fun things I'm sure this was not the intended message but gender identity is a complex message issue especially for fourth graders to comprehend

142the topic is better taught by parents and not a nine-year-old classmate as a parent I expect to know what my daughter is being taught even if it's just to be prepared to field questions when she gets home this was kept a secret from me and I learned because my daughter came home upset because she doesn't want to be a boy in order to play with Legos thank you I just want to know what the board is going to do to correct what is being taught to our children thank you hi my name is Ryan Brad um thank you for the time um yeah actually I'll start with the last line I wanted to say going off that enrollment news and the budget news and seeing you know this District isn't bleeding it's hemorrhaging right 180

143million dollars in a couple years that's horrible to be facing and I love San Diego I love our teachers and I love our school at Barnard Elementary uh I'm not giving up that's why I'm here to talk to you guys and I want to talk about like well first off I don't want to be here I don't want to have to talk about this but like as a parent I feel like we have to shine light into this and make sure that the content that's being shown to our kids is like processed by families before it gets presented in class and I'm talking about the same incident that's fourth grade class um my wife and I have two kids at Barnard Elementary School last Friday a man from the district office named Michael Rabin show

144uh this was his email picture I don't know who this person is but this is when he replied to me what his Avatar is uh so he came to my daughters our daughter's fourth grade class to facilitate a student presentation on gender identity uh Mr Raven Mrs Brown the school counselor and Mr Reyes the classroom teacher were the adults in the room uh the parents were not notified uh and he is about the presentation or the ensuing discussion the only reason I find out I found out is because my daughter Gabby she's nine years old told me that she learned about trans at school so that conversation is that I had with her is like revealed that this presentation happened to me um I asked Mr Reyes principal Chao and Mr Raven directly multiple times

145over the last couple days what happened in that session like what was discussed um nobody has told me anything Mr Raven's last email states that I will receive a response from leadership in his Division I don't know what that means uh principal ciao said that we do not notify parents due to student confidentiality and a statement about gender identity and sexual education are not related it's not true that's not what's happening thank you gender identity is success Board of Education and superintendent Jackson my name is Cameron Lilly and I'm here to voice my concerns about the current discipline policy and how it's being enforced we've recently experienced a terrifying event within the point limit cluster on the Korea Middle School campus the incident was sparked by two students bringing a gun to school bragging about

146it threatening other students that if they snitched they would be shot later that day at pickup two students witnessed them brandishing the weapon 9-1-1 was called campus police and San Diego PD responded they worked diligently to find the suspects but never recovered a gun as the brave students and Witnesses came forward to write statements and file reports administrators and dedicated parents Unearthed 14 complaints of sexual harassment and one sexual assault complaint against these same students I am deeply Disturbed to learn that despite the multitude of reports and Witnesses the claims remained unsubstantiated in the eyes of the administration and that they weren't deemed in expellable offense if the San Diego Unified School District's goal is truly to lift up our children and our students voices then why aren't we allowing the victims voices to be

147the loudest the slogan adopted in our district is see something say something but the message the current protocol is sending is don't bother we don't believe you how many students must come forward to substantiate a threat although these students have been identified at previous schools as repeat offenders the consequences they received this time for these behaviors did not escalate them through our own discipline Matrix why why do multiple suspensions for sexual harassment not indicate that the consequences are not deterring the child from repeating the same crime our current discipline policy is not in fact Zero Tolerance unless our administrators are willing to advocate for the protection of all students and enforce that Zero Tolerance around sexual harassment assault and gun violence We Trust our teachers staff administrators and all of you with our most precious

148gifts on a daily basis we trust that you will protect them at all cost Correa Middle School had 387 students that were too scared and traumatized to return to school after this an incident thousands of educational hours have been lost thank you hello I'm also here about the Korea incident that so many people have spoken about and since Cameron just said something about see something do some or see something say something I'm going to ask you guys to feel something do something can you state your name oh I'm Jenny palmiano thank you um and you know I could see the passion and commitment in this room I could also see the fatigue instead of two minutes uh is gonna go by quickly um you know you guys have heard the interactions um what we haven't

149really heard about as a community is the actual steps by the leaders by the people within the school and outside of the school the key players we need a formal review of Mr Cooper's actions Ms Shear the interim vice principal and any other decision makers who deemed that these people are still safe students I'm asking for this review because I believe that there were steps and missteps by this Administration that are far outside the district policy feelings aside when policy and procedure are not followed and it results in poorer outcomes for our students our community needs to know and have available action items and you guys are the leaders here you know perhaps after this review maybe more training you know we don't know maybe termination who knows um edcode is clear sexual harassment is

150not okay a school minister is tasked with investigating and resolving sexual harassment complaints Chris response was an inadequate and rushed the educational effect of those 14 students the victims of those sexual harassment by one student is still unfolding you talked about District dollars for for absenteeism these students are highly effective increased absenteeism decreased mental Wellness distrust in adults distrust in adults that are shaping these children's life we all know that sexual harassment is not okay there's also gender protections within this within California all 15 students that reported sexual harassment also are from the same gender they were females targeted by a male they need to be protected we have countless we've heard countless times from these leaders from Mr Cooper thank you all that time down thank you thank you hi I'm Devin gaude uh

151thank you for taking time to listen to the parents of your community we need you to do more than listen we need you to take action we need you to make changes and policies that protect the wrong individuals we need you to listen to the student students following your rules saying something when they see something we need you to change policies they ignore what our students are telling you to the students that are elected to the board please hear us out and give your perspective an input you are students to the entire board put yourself in the place of the students of Korea that have come forward asking for help telling you they feel unsafe put yourself in the place of that child that was told by another student I have a gun put yourself

152in place of the child that was shown inappropriate pictures and videos and told Unthinkable things of what that boy was going to do to them now as that victimized student you tell your parent your teacher your principal your school's administrators your school district what has happened to you they tell you it's not bad enough to discipline this boy he hasn't hurt you enough he had to take action he hasn't scared you enough with a gun threat to believe what you say is true he hasn't raped someone on campus yet he hasn't killed someone on campus yet so we need to protect this boy and if he does leave we'll use restorative discipline and will work with him to bring him back to your school this is what you're saying to your community this is what

153you're saying to your students and the families of the district you're saying you would rather protect the few individuals while threatening the safety of hundreds of students at one school and this is District policy so hundreds of thousands of students in the district you would rather protect those few students because of politics and keep all the hundreds of thousands safe and on that note you're even follow you're even not following your own policy you send them you send home to each district family a zero tolerance policy with regards to firearms and sexual misconduct you aren't following your own rules you're saying it's okay if student has 17 disciplinary actions against him from a previous school it's okay that some of them aren't violent it's okay that he showed a gun to students it's okay he's

154threatened them during class it's okay to send harassing photos and make inconceivable comments to a 12 year old girl how is that no tolerance Amy Mullins boy Chuck I know you know my name it's unfortunate that we're having to have this conversation again their incidents their the words coming out of their mouth are verbatim identical to exactly the same incidents that I brought to your attention in March of 2023. I brought the media with me you told them that you were going to look into this policy you were going to look at changes you were gonna make make some difference right I haven't heard one whisper from you nothing you've not responded to any of my emails none of my inquiries nothing there's been zero changes Mrs Ann you looked straight in my son's face

155and lied to his face you told him that you were concerned and you were going to make changes you've done nothing and now you have a whole nother set of parents that are traumatized and devastated by the experiences that their children their children are getting at school they're supposed to be safe in Locos parentis right that's what you operate under until an incident occurs and then we're going to pass the buck on to everybody else and zero responsibility or accountability nothing nothing for the victims you don't believe them you don't want to listen to them and these parents why don't you just be honest with them and tell them that what they're saying is falling on deaf ears because you're not going to do a damn thing you adopted this policy October 27 2020. next

156month is three years did you get enough research and data did you find out that these behaviors are getting out of control and it's getting worse every single day is getting worse you you were pseudo implementing this policy before you adopted it did you have enough funding for training did you have enough funding for a restorative counselor on every single campus every single day before you implemented it no thank you so I'll keep this brief I don't want to be here also like this other gentleman um I'm not as well prepared um I tried to send some emails um Cody I'm hoping we might be able to get a chance to talk at some point um uh Lamont Jackson and Michelle Irwin were copied in of course Kyle um I'm just looking for some help

157a device of who to talk to next um I I want to follow uh Authority you know that's in me to please people I have a hard time being up here these women are more courageous than I am uh but as a as a father I can't I can't just turn my back on what happened I I hope you can understand that thank you I'll read I'll be brief because I signed up for two things um Mr Jackson I know you received multiple emails multiple emails from parents of the Korea community and the larger Point Loma cluster over the last week I know you did you were copied on all of them you were copied on the ones that I sent I received nothing back from you Cody Peterson we've been reaching out to you

158as well we just wanted we just want some change we want our students to feel safe if it happened in La Jolla or Tory Pines if it was one of your children Mr Peterson would you feel differently all of the rest of you who have children your child was shown a gun and told that she was going to be shot she was grabbed and told that she was going to be raped would you feel differently would you only feel differently if it's your own child because it is our children that we're talking about here today and these policies are not working they need to be changed we need real consequences for inappropriate actions that does two things it teaches the offender that these aren't okay and hopefully makes that a better person and it keeps

159our children safe these these children these these little kids they're being traumatized at school over and over by the actions of the other students and by the actions of the administrators who fail to take action all we're asking for is that you keep our children safe on campus so maybe you'll get that ADA you want maybe you'll get that at five extra students for a researcher if that's your priority you certainly won't be losing as many students because there's an exodus out of Korea right now and it's going to follow in The Point Loma cluster there's a Nexus nobody nobody wants to send their kids to school to be sexually harassed and threatened with a gun I'm sure you wouldn't want your students to feel that way students on the board I'm sure you wouldn't

160want to feel that way in your schools so please listen to us when we speak up we're not coming here with lies we're coming here with concerns our children are traumatized and they're traumatized by you all unless you take action thank you okay thank you everyone and we appreciate you uh being here to speak this evening and please know that this matter is being directed to our superintendent and I would like to thank you all for providing your comments to the board and superintendent today we appreciate your input we know that your perspectives help us to better serve our students our parents and the community and with that we are going to conclude this the agenda's business of the board and the next meeting will be held on September 26 2023 this meeting is now

161adjourned