001call the march 8 2022 regular meeting to order with all board members present via zoom webinar we have with us this evening shannador marie bozen a third grade student council member at hoffman elementary school who will lead us into the pledge of allegiance please stand yourself shenador please unmute yourself okay thank you you're ready to leave us please okay jenna dawg we're ready for the pledge now can i be yeah there's one person show their heads [Music] we're ready oh uh shenandoah are you ready is our principal available can you hear us yes now we hear you yes all right please begin now she needs to know the pledge she's gonna do her presentation miss robinson can you do the pledge of allegiance first please absolutely please gonna do the pledge for us okay thank
002you you may be seated please would like a motion to adopt today's agenda mr barrera and seconded by dr macquarie please vote trustee patterson aye trustee barrera aye trustee basel aye trustee biser aye trustee macquarie aye and yours truly i that passes unanimously with the student board member concurring the public speakers today's meeting of the board of education is a business meeting that is conducted in public to reduce the chance of coronavirus exposure the board of education is accepting public testimony via zoom webinar for the march 8 2022 meeting board bylaw 1025 sets the time limit for public comment on agenda items at 10 minutes per side pro and con or 20 minutes total speakers will be able to provide public testimony at the beginning of the appropriate agenda item or at the end of
003the meeting for non-agenda public comment the list of public speakers is attached to agenda item b2 please listen for your name to be called speakers are listed and called in the order received when your name is called you will be allowed to speak please unmute yourself at that time if you hear your name called and are unable to unmute yourself we will call the next speaker once all speakers have been called for the item your name will be called again please unmute yourself zoom does not allow staff to access your personal device to unmute a speaker please follow along with the agenda so that you know when your item is coming up for discussion and we actually we actually have someone who has signed up to speak about b2 which is this item b2 okay
004alisa titus she's up to speak now three minutes okay she's not available thank you then we will move on to item c student presentations recognitions and resolutions and earlier hawthorne school gerania gonzalez sandoval will introduce a student presentation with assistance from principal lauren robinson thank you my name is hello my name is gerani gonzalez sandoval and i'm one of the fifth grade representatives on foxborne student council tonight we are here with principal robinson and on the behalf of our advisor miss wright who cannot be here with us this evening at hawthorne student council's purpose this year has been to celebrate the pillars of the husky way and plan events that will bring the husky community together student council is a place where we can build our leadership skills by planning and hosting school events the
005stu the students of student council meet about once a week during our lunch time to make this happen i want to show you what we have accomplished so far first we will talk about some fun events that we have hosted october was our busiest month we took over red ribbon week for the first time we planned and prepared all spirit days and activities you can see it that each day had a theme complete with the recipe and classroom activity these include dress like your future self brainstorming healthy habits always showing your our husky pride and pledging to be our best to be our best and stay as healthy as possible because of volvid we have not been able to have our annual halloween carnival for two years we knew our friends were missing this tradition
006so we asked principal robinson if there was any way we could try to bring it back we were able to have each class come out and play games throughout the day even though it wasn't as big as the nighttime carnival it was still fun doing something we had been missing one of our favorite parts of the carnival is the haunted house let our principal take you on a quick tour of what we are able to set up for the school okay thank you [Music] all our our third annual pumpkin drop this is a stem activity that we started a few years ago where each class gets to create contraptions that are supposed to save a pumpkin from a 30-foot drop we loved watching over 20 pumpkins be dropped even though we only do this once
007a year our contractions are getting better and better and our success rate is improving it is always exciting when our pumpkin survives with no grass oh [Music] traditions like drama day and husky but we also tried some new ones like no judging mistakes where we encourage everyone to be themselves and be proud of their differences in february we hosted our second stem event the second annual heavenly hearts lunch any student came designed a heart-shaped object as long as it's between 5 inches and 12 inches wide and high and weighs less than five pounds each car is launched from our expertly designed heart launcher again we learned a lot about which heart flu the furthest last year and applied to that learning to new hearts this year's winner flew way over 200 yards learned that weight
008and size ratios are really important we do have control hearts and we make sure you control as many variables during the science experiment it was really fun to have the whole school outside watching the watches here is a quick view of the heavenly hard launch redemption wow decided to an council against holiday grants during the year members of student council get to school early and stay after school to tell grants students staff and family members are able to write special budget messages to their author and husband student council members do everything for these grant sales we run the cash box out the money prepare the grams organize them for delivery delivery and then passed them out to classes they hosted digital attitude grounds in november using the private this year we noticed that teachers were
009wanting to sell grounds for the whole crack so we offered a special pricing for them it is fun to see how excited everyone gets when they get delivered the grounds each sale has broken our credits well we really use the grounds of spread positivity and kindness these are also our major fundraisers so we can do things like that equipment for the drop com for to drop pumpkins from um and built giant catapults what's next what is an extras if we are able to host our generation dance this year we will this is an invitation for all generations to get together and dance to all different kinds of music we are also planning an art contest for earth day and a fun way to celebrate the end of the year of course of course we are
010gonna going to sell more grams too thank you i was waiting for that spring to go forward i just want to say uh thank you very much for letting us present tonight i am very proud of our student council when i tell you that this is leadership in action it is very principle hands off uh their their advisor alyssa wright is a student council advisor extraordinaire but really this is about the kids doing everything i'm so proud of the hard work out of leadership skills and that they are really recognizing um our philosophy of service leadership and they give up their own time before school after school and at lunch to run our student council and i cannot be any prouder than i am right now thank you very much does anybody have any questions
011no thank you but i think i may have come up with an assignment for them yesterday that i'm sure some of the students later will be talking to you about this but thank you for sharing today with us we enjoy student presentations believe it or not we really do that's what it's all about and with that i would like for us to move on to item c1 c2 i'm sorry the proclamation and honor of dr dorothy l w smith like a motion on this item please some of you um barrera's hand was up before yours but i'll allow you to be second kevin uh to second it if that's okay so we have the motion on the floor let me just uh say right now that earlier we had a 30 minute session for her
012that was going beautifully until the end but staff is working to put that up so that we cut out the part that wasn't good at the end from some of some unfriendly folks if you will but i do want to thank everyone who participated this is the first time we've done an honor like this before board meeting on on zoom and just period normally we don't do one like this but i really felt strongly that we needed to really honor and recognize her and i do want to thank staff in particular andrew sharp and his team and pam king for this and uh it's okay we did do it we got it done and it will be on the web you can go to the website click on the link and you will find the
013presentation there with the music from scpa so i want to say thank you to that and for those of you who don't know who she is or who she was she was the first african-american female elected to public office here in san diego county so all of us stand on her shoulders followed initially by reverend smith and then by dr dorothy smith they were not related but they seemed like they were good friends and i just want to say thank you to her to her family for lending her to us and we have tonight a proclamation that we're voting on that was what i just asked for a vote for folks to at least give us a motion but a couple of things on here we'll maybe take a picture and put it on the
014web so that folks can see it later also but a couple of things that i just wanted to say we've noted her being the first african a woman african-american woman to be elected to public office in san diego as a board member she pushed to revamp high school courses in san diego unified and she was always concerned about the quality of instruction that's what for all children she wasn't happy with 99 percent she wanted 100 percent and she would find ways to make it happen literature was her interest and she really pushed for folks to do that i just want to say to her family and friends and those who worked with her thank you for allowing dr smith to be a part of san diego unified because if she was elected initially she was
015appointed but then she was elected and that took some support from community members and i want to say thank you because she was truly a gym and i don't know anybody to be honest who had a negative word to say about her ever she supported all of us if we were running for office or whatever she evenly distributed to all of us and to every school board member i'm sure she had something to do with your getting elected and even beyond it and i just want to say thank you i'm not sure if her her son dr carlton smith or her daughter sherian smith lot or her her husband on dr carl smith are here but they'll be able to go back and look at it on the district's website and i just want to
016say thank you does anybody else want to say anything or yes sabrina vice president um thank you president whitehurst payne yeah i just wanted to share that i didn't hadn't didn't have the honor to meet um mrs smith but i read about her in the ut article and did some research and she did seem like an amazing educator and uh would have liked to have been able to meet her but she was a public health educator around the same time that my parents were both in public i'm sorry public health um public education and um they shared a lot of the same vision that they my parents and handed down to me so um i think that she would have been a friend of theirs i think that that way they were in the same
017i guess time frame um what they were trying to do so and when i was reading about her it also reminded me a little bit of the leader in me program where she was trying to bring out the excellence in all students and find the good in all students and what they excelled at which is now what we call leader in me so it was almost like she was ahead of her time in terms of bringing this out in students and now we have names for the programs but she was already doing this and all the people that follow in her footsteps um it's very impressive so i appreciate being able to be a part of the the earlier program and thank you for bringing this to us and bringing it to our attention so
018we could have that awareness of this amazing woman thank you for that yes yeah thank you president whitehurst payne and i especially thank president whitehurst payne for bringing together our our session earlier today and honoring dr smith one of the um comments that struck me most i think came from uh susan davis which was when we talk about equity and focusing on all students today i think we mostly talk about the challenges of turning that vision into reality but with some exceptions we don't debate the vision anymore dr smith served the school board at a time where in advocating for a vision of equity um she wasn't universally supported uh in the in the in the community and so she had to fight uh for a vision that is now our responsibility to move forward
019and implement and so incredible courage and incredible service and i know dr smith went on to serve this community in so many different ways after leaving the school board but but to get a focus on equity at a time when that was not universally accepted took tremendous courage and vision yes i'm just going to say this when we started the intern program that our superintendent is a part of uh she went in with me to talk to san diego state about whether or not they would allow us to have the program and we were rejected at that time so that was when we went to what was called using then and then later on san diego state came in with cal state usa marco so she was blazing that trail even then she sat down
020with me and worked with me to figure out a way to make it happen so thank you and um thanks to all of you so if we can now vote trustee patterson hi and if i can can i just add one thing yes certainly yeah i just wanted to say that one of the things i really appreciate about serving on this school board is understanding the history of where we came from just as you both just touched on you know i walked into when i when i walked into this environment i knew the word equity from day one i knew what the achievement gap was because i just kept hearing these words over and over again and it's easy to come in and think this is this is the way it's always been this is
021what public education is about but that doesn't that doesn't tell me the story of segregated schools in san diego unified school district that doesn't that doesn't match the narrative that we think of when we think of the state of california and i so appreciate all of you how when you bring these forward and you educate me you educate students in the community on the fact that to understand where we're going we have to understand where we came from and that the work we keep harping on and going over and over again to where people feel like we're beating a dead horse to some extent it's we're doing this because of the fact that we've we've seen what's happened in the past and we've seen the people that have fought to change that and i so
022appreciate you bringing this forth whether it be um the reverend george walker smith which you brought up in the past and i got to learn so much about or ms smith today that i get to learn more about all of these trailblazers that have been so fundamental to forming our school district and making us who we are but are easily easily able to blend in and say this is what the district has always been about when in reality they made it what it was so i just wanted to say from a student perspective it's really meaningful to get to see this history in action and see what it means in our district today thank you for that trustee patterson beautiful thank you trustee barrera aye trustee vicer aye trustee dr mccarran aye vice president fossum
023aye and i from yours truly which means it passes unanimously with the student board member concurring thank you all of all of you for allowing me to do this and coming together to recognize this because you're right we take things for granted now but didn't always happen that way so thank you and as we move into our reports from closed session superintendent's report and the asb president i want to thank my colleagues vice president bazo trustee barrera and our superintendent for being here with me on the dais tonight we're here we're all in the house so we're looking for our colleagues to join us soon i know zach you haven't been here but you'll get to come back before the year is over okay thank you let us move on now to general counsel green
024are there any reportable actions from today's closed session there are president bankers paying thank you we've got several items uh first the board voted by a vote of 5-0 to release all temporary certificated central i'm sorry temporary certificated employees and all certificated central office non-represented managers and vice principals the board also voted by a vote of five to one to approve an appeal in the civil court case entitled grossmont union high school district versus julian union school district and that is case number 37-2015-33720 and that concludes my report thank you and we have no speakers on that item d2 superintendent jackson are there any administrative assignments to report out thank you president whitehurst payne we have two it is my pleasure to announce the program manager for our early childhood special education program michelle spence
025congratulations we look forward to your continued work and program managers special education for area 2 shannon dearborn congratulations i know you'll do great work in area 2. thank you and congratulations to them we will now move on to our associated student body presidents reports and we have two of them here tonight we have cara templin from kearney high schools asb followed by julianne was from scripps ranch but she's reporting on the president of the council of asb presidents so in that order please kara templin good evening superintendent jackson members of the board district employees and guests my name is kara templin and i'm the associated student body president at kearney high school while nobody needs to be reminded of the challenges that we have all faced over the past two years i would like to
026share some of the unique ways that kearney high school has fostered community and supported our students as we return to in-person instruction two weeks before school started we invited incoming 9th and 10th graders to participate in our summer bridge program throughout this week staff and students collaborated to welcome students answer their questions and provide educational and bonding activities to familiarize students with the kearney way at the end of the week asb hosted a mini pep rally in our football stadium and a club fair to show our incoming students some of the opportunities that they would have to engage on campus in addition to our summer bridge program the kearney high school asp has planned and hosted numerous on-campus events such as a homecoming pep rally in our stadium an outdoor homecoming event spirit weeks a
027club expo interactive lunch activities every friday coven 19 vaccine clinics and more our asp students are passionate about boosting school spirit moral especially amidst the uncertainty of the ongoing pandemic i believe that kearney has something special to offer both our kearney mesa and land of st and linda vista communities as well as the san diego unified school district at kearney students are able to choose what we call a small school with the discipline they are most interested in i go to the school of college connections here our curriculum is built around a college preparatory class known as avid starting in our sophomore year students from all small schools are able to take college classes at our neighboring mesa community college the students at the school of biomedical sciences and technology get the chance to intern
028at rady children's hospital in their senior year our school of engineering innovation and design gives students access to a state-of-the-art industry standard engineering and machine lab to create projects that benefit our neighboring community our fourth small school the school of digital media and design gives students the opportunity to work with community stakeholders through project-based learning using industry standard programs and technology to create digital media and 3d printed products i can attest that kearney high school is unlike any other school i have attended i have never had this many opportunities to excel in both my classroom learning and peer and mentor connections from my experience in asb to my time in interscholastic sports to my 46 college credits i know i will have a great foundation and a head start for when i attend the university
029of tulsa in the fall thank you congratulations wow a lot of credits and now oh by the way have you decided were you going to school yet yes i will be going to the university of tulsa in oklahoma also okay i'm sorry oh sorry all right i'll turn off fine sorry kara um how how much have you knocked off about a year of college so far how many how much of your uh your degree are you already moving moving towards the program that i'm going into is already an accelerated program for college but it will lighten my semesters from 17 credit hours to probably about 14 15. wow fantastic congratulations yeah thank you yes indeed congratulations thank you and now i think that tornadoes are the only things you have to worry about in tulsa
030but that's okay i understand it's a good school congratulations let us now hear from julianne sue is going to bring us up to speed on what's happening throughout the district thank you so much hello everybody thank you for having me tonight my name is julianne soon asb president at scripps and also president of our senior unified council of asu presidents two weeks ago 17 of our presidents attended the 65th annual laurels for leaders luncheon at san diego state university following the presentation by u.s bank and sos entertainment we were able to meet one another for the very first time in person and interesting about this was that the conference wasn't only us 17 students but we had students from all over san diego county and so students from both public private traditional and also atypical
031schools and so we were able to hear some very different perspectives but still bonds together over our similar experiences as asb presidents i think that we have we have so much unseen pressure on our backs and so it was really great to be inspired and to be motivated in a room full of other students who not only understand those same pressures but are equally as motivated to serve our schools and do the best for our communities we're moving forward in our action towards voter registration drives expanding opportunity and providing resources are two key responsibilities that we have as asbs especially in the time that we are in right now it's more important than ever to not only encourage students to learn more about our society but also encourage them to exercise their voices we really
032hope that our work as leaders on campus will help to motivate others to also take initiative and action in the future and speaking of initiative in action i'm really excited to share that all of our asps have been working towards positive and continuous social media presence many students have shared that social media is such a big component of their everyday routines and so publicity shoutouts surveys through platforms like instagram tik tok and and even snapchat are really effective ways to keep our students involved and also informed about all of the events that we're hosting for them our march council meeting is coming up very soon next wednesday march 16th and so as the president i'm currently planning our meeting agenda and taking suggestions from students on discussion topics schools are beginning to transition towards the
03322-23 school year and so this includes new elections and planning for back-to-school events like homecoming already with this in mind we as the council are looking to possibly host an end of the year encouragement event for our leaders just so they have the opportunity to meet and to hear from other students that were in their positions this year i'll be sure to follow through with this idea and i'm really excited to have another opportunity to encourage inspiration amongst all of our student leaders in san diego unified and that concludes my report thank you so much and i have a question for you do you have something on your agenda next week about climate control oh i'm sorry you can send me a note an email about it okay just wondering if that's on your agenda
034anyway thank you very good report you guys are active and busy and uh we're excited about that thank you superintendent jackson thank you president whitehurst payne jillian it was great to see you at the laurels for leaders congratulations and also at the student forum you all showed up and showed out it was my favorite part of the interview process so thank you our students are amazing and you represent uh the best and the brightest of all of our students thank you so very much this evening it is my honor to share with you my first official superintendent report thank you all so very much to the entire community thank you for entrusting me and trusting we with our beautiful school district as you know we are committed to having our parents as partners and we've
035been working to bring more parents uh into our school community and um the one of the ways we do this is by making sure that we have information for our parents on our website and i am so pleased to share that discover.san diegounified.org the website that we have will be recognized for the excellence in communications and congratulations to the entire communications department along with our better san diego or a better sd weekly e-blast this has been work that the department has been working on and the discover san diego unified website reflects our commitment to ensuring that we provide every san diego unified school district student with the type of school experience that will help them achieve their goals and their full potential i do encourage everyone to go to the website visit discover san diego
036discover.san diegounified.org for more information uh speaking of awards uh this is an opportunity and and julianne you gotta listen up here because i'm gonna i'm gonna give some shout outs to scripps ranch i'd like to celebrate the hard work of our student athletes for their exceptional work during these challenging times we have some incredible champions to celebrate these are outstanding young women and young men who have won their division and in some cases have gone on to compete for state championships i want to recognize the scripps ranch high school field hockey team the boys basketball program they're actually planned this evening and i think they're going to tip off in about 15 minutes as they move towards uh a state championship bid so congratulations to them uh girls tennis and keana glossner from the girls
037golf program patrick henry high school and their football program and preston bolds in cross country trustee patterson uh you'll appreciate appreciate that and at point loma we want to celebrate taylor riley in girls golf and sophie compton in girls cross country again another cross-country bid for trustee patterson and if you didn't know trustee patterson is a avid runner and competitor we want to also recognize from la jolla high school charlotte cantoness in girls golf and all the young women of the state champion girls water polo team at la jolla high school and i know university city is proud of their girls tennis program and crawford is extremely proud of their boys soccer team finally uh we have to give a shout out to mira mesa high school who won their division in the traditional competitive
038large non-tumbling cheer so a shout out to cheerleaders out there we're so proud of you congratulations to all the winners and thank you to the san diego unified athletes for your hard work and dedication to your school and your sport whatever that may be i want to make sure that we recognize the athletics department for launching our middle school intramurals program thank you all so much i know this is a big moment for you and you represent san diego unified very well and we are very proud of you i'm proud of you you should be proud of yourselves thank you very much and that ends my report thank you dr jackson for your first official report to the board and shout out to the community and i too i just want to say we do
039lift up all of the winners and even those who were in the competition if you played you got out there during this time of pandemic we say congratulations for just just persevering and sticking to it so thank you and congratulations to all of you now we're going to move on to board reports and we will start with our student trustee trustee patterson thank you board president whitehurst spain first of all a happy international women's day to all of the women who have made me the person i am my mother my sister my grandmothers who i'm so fortunate to have in my life and be my support system my accountability and my friends in this district i recognize our fearless president and vice president of the school board two trailblazing females who are leading our district
040through this pandemic and getting us through the other side and finally miss stacy ciders as well who i work with so dearly and i appreciate so much so nice round of applause for all of them um secondly on a more on a more serious note i want to publicly make known how saddened and upset i am today about the florida state legislators bill that would forbid instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms not teaching a child about gender identity does not mean that gender identity doesn't exist and i hope this is understood that this does nothing to change that this does nothing to change someone's sexual orientation and all it does is exacerbate the challenges of lgbtq students in san diego unified in california we understand that we understand the basic premise of
041how this scientifically works and we understand that being a member of the lgbtq community is a natural part of our world and of humanity and it disgusts me to see that we choose to put children in this situation and it chatters me deeply and i hope that we can find a way to take a stand and say that that is truly unacceptable and then finally three different topics in my third one i wanted to just as dr jackson mentioned or superintendent jackson i wanted to i wanted to also emphasize how incredibly impressed i was with the superintendent's selection event at wilson and what it means for us as students to have that formal say and to be able to come together as a group having a universal discussion not just on the two candidates that
042we interviewed for the superintendent position but a community discussion on the challenges that we face and how we effectively shape our district this is this was an incredibly challenging district event to put together especially on the student side and i know i'm excited about new leadership and processes that will allow us to continue hosting these events as we embark on a new chapter in our school district one where we invest in our students so much that we have a role for it in our district staff thank you thank you and now let us move to trustee barrera thank you president whitehurst payne um yeah i just want to pick up where trustee patterson left off and i know we've said it in other venues but uh i just can't express uh my gratitude enough to
043chris wilson and the entire superintendent search committee for the work that you did both designing a process to really bring the voices of our community into our decision making and then and then carrying it out and and i i think the culmination was the day at wilson uh last week with our uh or two weeks ago with with our uh student forums and then with our community forum um and it is really setting our entire district and of course superintendent jackson up for success when we have that level of community engagement and when we as a board look to the community as we go about making the big decisions as president whitehurst payne said yesterday there is no bigger decision for a school board to make than the appointment of the superintendent and we did
044it together as a community and i think it um uh it uh sets up the opportunity as we go through other big decisions that we have during the year the budget the lcap the superintendent evaluation we've got when we when we come to these big decisions we know that we now have the ability to reach out to our community get different perspectives and i know that all of us as board members can tell you that the what we heard back from the students and back from the community as a whole very much went into our uh our ability to make the right decision in appointing the superintendent so thank you so much and then just uh i know uh president whitehurst payne will talk about this a shout out to the vappa department for bringing
045us together on saturday night at lincoln for our honors choir concert as we talked about at that event it was two years ago at lincoln at the honors choir concert that we really started to get uh uh you know the guidance uh that we were gonna need to shut our entire school system down uh uh and to see everybody come back and then to see you know the incredibly beautiful performance from our students elementary middle and high school students uh was it was so inspiring and it just felt like felt a little bit like us again and it was it was just great and so thank you to everybody who made that happen thank you for reporting on that we did so much i that was down on my list but that's a good report
046thank you let us hear from our our vice president sabrina passo thank you president waiters payne and i am excited this evening i have a short slideshow to present and i think there's going to be some slides coming up here while those are coming up i also wanted to just say how proud and excited i am to be able to uh work with dr jackson and just also something i didn't mention yesterday just the um grace and humility i think that you've shown over this last year i mean because it's i mean not only did you have cova to deal with but you were running for superintendent and i would forget i would just think of you being the superintendent i'd forget at times that you were still running for the office but you were
047always so maybe not underneath but you always seemed very calm and um you know poised and um you know you were already doing the job and it would it you know just seemed so natural and so i'm excited to finally have this official have you appointed so we can move forward thank you so um okay with that i have two items to i'd like to celebrate this evening and thank you for giving me some of your time dr jackson the first is wagenheim middle school where we have matt fallon as president as principal vice principal is susan kent and i want to share some information about an amazing physical education program that they have put together they invited me over to see this program and uh i've never seen a pe program where kids are
048so involved i'm so excited to be there my experiences with pe were not we're not this and i was a fitness instructor back in the 80s 90s so i got excited about physical activity but not when i was younger um you know it just wasn't fun and this program has really made it fun and so i just wanted to highlight that and share a little bit about the program they literally challenge the students to take healthy risks they push themselves to become the greatest versions of themselves and um have just done an amazing job with that like said and they're pushing each other um you know i'm watching them encouraging each other and the pe teacher alex can who has helped improve their fitness gram scores by 40 percent in just eight years so um
049i was just really impressed with the program and um i'd like to see this at other middle schools across the and the girls too i mean right here i think i mostly have boys in the picture i should have gotten more of the girls in there but the girls were there too and they were doing weight training and um it was really exciting to see so that's my first uh area to celebrate and then we're gonna go over to claremont oh there we are um so we have here uh ethan williams is the principal on the right hand side the tall guy and then we have john golias hopefully i'm saying that right the marston middle school principal and liz rush who is the vice principal at claremont and unfortunately i don't didn't get her
050in the picture but there's also a really amazing intern coordinator at claremont that basically helps to run this program so this is a spring intern interview fair and it's at clermont high and i just want to share a little bit of information about it we can go to the next slide there we go so what they do is they bring in industry and community partners and they ask to have interns at their different organizations they register with the high school and then they're screened and then the students are allowed in are allowed to interview for internships and then the supervisors select and rank their candidates so this guy right here i was talking to he did work at uc san diego now he owns um or doesn't own but is part of a medical lab
051and they actually have the students do experiments and get really involved um you know a lot of hands-on interactive type of uh experience so um apparently it's one of their you know more successful programs that are more popular i should say and uh just he was saying that he's had students that are like i didn't really know what i wanted to do and after they were involved with the program they just had more of a focus they had more of an idea because they had more visual because they you know it's it's hard sometimes if unless you have that i you know actual experience with the program to know that it's maybe something you would want to do and we can go to the next slide so the claremont staff makes final matches during the
052intern interview the students get to complete over 70 plus hours of work over it's over a 10 to 12 week period it's either some of them are actually paid which i didn't know that most are unpaid but the interviews the intern supervisors train and mentor and evaluate their interns so um and they're they started with the just you know a very few choices and now i mean the whole library was filled with different people there interviewing people all kinds of areas um the vapa coordinator visual and performing arts was there john golias from the middle school he was actually interviewing people that are actually going to help at the middle schools that want to go into teaching so i thought that was amazing that he was actually having interns from the high school coming over
053to the middle school to work with those students and they had business they had the you know biomedical all different areas so again as i was saying i just think this is an amazing program to help build up their resumes first of all their real their actual skills and just make these students stronger candidates for jobs after graduation so uh you can go to the last slide these are just a couple of the students that we're uh interviewing so i just wanted to give fair warning to dr jackson and that i want really would like to push to both of these programs i think we're just so impressive and um i'd like to see more of them at uh other schools throughout the district so thank you that's gonna do me thank you vice president
054baso thank you and now i believe we have a joint presentation between dr macquarie and uh trustee weiser yeah that's correct yeah thank you president wider spain before i hand it over to dr mike i wanted to just say congratulations superintendent jackson thrilled to make it official thank you terrific i i also congratulate you dr jackson and also acknowledge chris and staff for the outstanding uh process that that resulted in these excellent outcomes so welcome aboard in your new position as superintendent of san diego unified school district i also want to thank the comments that have been made by our previous board members i learned a great deal uh from listening to your reports uh and they are very informative and and want to acknowledge trustee patterson for continuing to raise the bar on board
055member reports the uh and i i want to thank um uh julian sue and kara templin for re representing their schools uh and and providing such excellent student reports and congratulations cara on earning 46 college credits wow trustee advisor and i are collaborating on this report it will include a video so as we get ready for a new summer experience we want to look back and share the successful experience from last year's program summer of learning and joy which had a very positive impact on the students and the staff who participated resulting in a significant increase in student attendance during the fall semester thank you dr jennifer roberson principal villanueva and the students at crawford high school for the successful program and this video documentation so let's play the video please imagine a learning environment
056in which all of our students voices are heard students feel seen and they feel empowered throughout their educational journey [Music] when i came into crawford freshman year it was kind of this keep to yourself mindset i'm usually a shy person in school i don't really talk much like at first i thought i was like a quite like a quiet student i'm kind of like not opening myself to other people as diverse as crawford is it makes it hard to connect with others because of how different we are our students need to feel reconnected not only to the school environment but to their educators to their peers san diego unified partnered with franklin covey's leader in me to really focus and hone in on building the social emotional learning of our students staff and our families
057our community is a community that we're very diverse and i thought something that we could have that would be like a pillar for our students during the 2021 summer of learning and joy over 156 high school students and nearly a thousand educators participated in a leadership institute in which they learned not only about themselves and about others through the lens of seven habits for highly effective teams but they really focused and honed in on their sphere of influence so that they could then become mentors to incoming ninth graders at each of their school sites i was really shy when talking to others to other people so i think like i was thinking that being my mentor is really bad for me because i couldn't talk to them so but after the second habit i changed
058my mind i wanted to experience new things leader in me has helped me you know kind of find that i was meant to be a leader you know i was always shy and wasn't able to come up here and talk or anything so i think it'll help and give people you know help that there is more well the seven habits teach you how to be a better leader a better you works on yourself and gives you better skills to work as a community or as a whole and i believe crawford really meets this sense most of our students don't seek out higher education but if we give them the required skills then i'm sure they'll see greatness in better education the students understand that it is it is them it is it is their responsibility
059it's their initiative it's their agency that moves us forward leader in me is not just another initiative within san diego unified leader in me is powerful and the seven habits allows for us to tap into those potentials and really allow a student to see their true inner genius i'd really like to change how kids view academics i feel like a lot of kids in crawford um especially the early on in high school they don't really take education seriously and they feel like uh maybe it's just something to put on the back burner but i feel like it should be turned around to something that they should really look forward to getting done and succeeding in so they can further succeed in life the legacy i would like to leave here at crawford is to be
060able to see our community as a whole united being able to speak without fear or nervous or shyness at all my main focus is hopefully empowering crawford i believe that coming from a first generation many of us low-income [Music] higher education isn't really like in the field for us but it's my goal to change that you're in charge of your own destiny you can't just sit around and wait for somebody to tell you this is how you're going to succeed it's really important that our students not only have access and opportunity but that we make an impact on on our students lives the goal for the use of leader in me is to really empower our students so that they not only lead themselves but that they lead others and they are able to identify
061and create their own path and journey in their in their life [Music] thank you that's my school crap you guys you know that it's my school yes thank you for that presentation uh my report i just want to quickly note that i was invited to i think all of us may have been invited to spend the day with the trace program and i took them up on the challenge so believe it or not i got on a bus with them at 9 30 in the morning and we rode all over san diego and actually took us three buses to get to our first stop some of you are probably wondering what the tr trace program is it's for special education students who are between the ages of 18 and 22 and it helps them with
062life skills and employment if necessary and so forth and so we rode the bus around to the san diego blood bank where some of them were working we went to costco and had lunch and then we moved on to memorial and we took another two buses to get from costco to memorial and then from there we went home and we only had to take one bus and a second one to so we wouldn't have to walk so far but that's a long detailed report students are being trained so that they can survive and there are 500 students in that program the coordination of that program is unreal so in general they seem to be very happy and i was very proud to meet nate jj and some of the other students there as we rode
063around san diego for the day and followed them with all of their activities and then i did the reading program with because as you know this week was the national day of reading and so i was at horton there meeting with some students and you'll see a picture of that i did not put one in here of baker but we will get one in in the future about baker and the wonderful program that they had with the uh city council chair sean ilo rivera and i were both there for the day i mean for this activity and it was beautiful to see they had office there etc and then richard mr barrera thank you for reporting on lincoln and the music the choir program i'm still pushing for all of our schools to get involved
064it was us we had about 700 people there it was packed and it was a wonderful event to see the children to come back alive after being shut down for two years so we're ready dr jackson we're ready to move out okay and with that let us move on to item e student instructional matters we're going to get an update on el capital three and we'll hear from our speaker right after you make the presentation our staff great thank you uh president whitehurst payne and tonight we actually have two uh reports on our local control accountability plan the first one e1 will focus on a goal three accelerating learning with high expectations and just a reminder to everyone the entire local control accountability plan document can be found on our website so i'd like to
065invite uh dr stephanie ceminski our program director and she will be uh speaking on universal uh transitional kindergarten universal transitional kindergarten stephanie are you here oh there you are i see you thank you board of education and superintendent jackson for having me i'm very honored to be here we can put up the slides thank you as superintendent jackson stated we are celebrating goal three accelerating learning with high expectations for all universal transitional kindergarten has been a major victory as assembly member kevin mccarty stated it's the biggest thing we've ever done and it was three years ago where we dreamed big in what we wanted to achieve in san diego unified developed a way to allow our four-year-old children universally to be on the developmental trajectory towards kindergarten readiness and through the district's long-term investment in
066strategic planning local state and federal partners supported our efforts an intentional curriculum effective teaching supports and promising pathways to guide the acceleration of learning next slide san diego unified continues to lead the way our program has been recognized as a program model for the state of california for its dynamic integration presentations with our statewide partners such as early edge california education trust west california school boards association and air american institutes for research has been some of the vehicles to share various aspects of our program we've highlighted the benefits of co-teaching built university pipelines to support our workforce and advocated program importance at the state level ultimately leading to over a 1.5 million dollar planning grant allocation next slide our promise is to design an implementation plan which ensures students and families across the district have
067the opportunity to enroll and participate in meaningful and joyful utk experiences next slide the dynamic integration of our program actions align with our district's lcap early learning programs ensures equity and access through our high quality programs it leverages expertise through its co-teaching model our curriculum integrates learning through developmental domains while cultivating leadership through our career pipelines and professional development focused on early literacy writing strategies and beginning math concepts as well as most importantly creating a partnership for our families to explore their child's learning together next slide student-to-teacher ratio has always been an important aspect in every early learning setting but what san diego unified did was elevate this component it drew on the strengths of both the ece and general education tk teacher in one classroom teachers co-plan co-instruct and co-assess for positive student outcomes
068these teachers know the content the pacing of delivery and the developmental needs of our students next slide early learning provides a classroom environment that embraces the perfect blend it's a blend of the california preschool learning foundations and the state standards children participate in learning that's joyful active challenging and process oriented utk is not preschool but it's not yet kindergarten its uniqueness provides the conditions to bridge the learning while promoting confidence and creativity next slide the investment the district has made also includes our workforce we have embraced the teach lead pipeline pathway forged multiple partnerships with universities created ccte pathway held hiring events and developed professional development series specifically for principals and educators in addition early learning will host throughout next year an early writing plc cohort for educators and a peer collaboration network model for
069principals where a system is developed to support each other and share best practice next slide as we move into the third year of implementation can you believe it we are extremely proud of our program we have prioritized early learning in 55 title 1 schools across 10 clusters we offer a full day program for our families with an easy application pro process at the site early learning supports an inclusion model with the least restrictive environment along with dual language immersion programs vary throughout sites we've designed professional development for positive behavior supports to address ineffective disciplinary practices and provided professional development through the literacy acceleration plan educator trainings and site support next slide when we talk to our families parents enthusiastically acknowledge how quickly their child has learned everything is changing they're becoming more independent as a
070learner and kids for real really say they want to come to school on the weekends i was in earlier this evening i was in a early edge california presentation of the new launch for the tk california website and there was a parent that spoke and she said something that just stuck with me the moment i heard it and i wanted to share it she said learning starts when they're born and as a parent you want your child to have this experience and you want them to soak it all up and i thought that was so beautiful how she said that and she said that utk experience is critical for the children of the community and so i'm going to pass it to marceline to highlight our planning for expansion in an enrollment this spring thank
071you dr siminsky marceline marquez operations support officer overseeing neighborhood schools and enrollment options and i just have to say how exciting it has been to partner with dr siminsky and her team in the early learning department for the last couple of years on this road to be able to expand our offerings for our early learners we are mobilizing right now a pre-enrollment plan that will begin in early may and we're going to focus first on resident enrollment in all of our elementary schools in the event a school has excess space then we'll be able to offer enrollment also uh from their choice list and if a site is full we will have a centralized process by which we can identify space availability at other schools and be able to accommodate as many families as we
072possibly can we're going to provide intensive training for all of our enrollment clerks including customer service training around enrollment in utk and the communications office is going to be supporting us with an extremely robust informational campaign so we can make sure that all of our families with age qualifying children will be able to pre-enroll to get in and for parents who are not as interested in a full day program we will still have our part day program available for four-year-olds as well and it looks like the the slide that i thought was coming up next is not here but i'll just explain it was a beautiful visual of the map of san diego unified and all of our element all 118 of our elementary schools across the district in all 16 clusters will have utk
073and that is the most exciting news that we have so thank you and i'll pass it back to dr siminsky thank you marceline if we could go back to the presentation there's a video on the last slide that i would like to share and i want to point out that our utk program supports the whole child and that's what this video will share with you is that no one says it better than the students themselves [Music] hi i am maki and i am utk i am oli and i am from utk hi i'm jackson and i'm ptk [Music] first i go to school and then i say hi to my friends and teachers and then i hang my backpack and then i get to do my journey i like writing all kinds of letters i
074like trees logs and sidewalls sight words wow [Music] i love to read books the first thing you have to do is the book time you need to get ready to read and after reading you have to talk about the things you read read [Music] i like to do math you like to build numbers yes i count them and i get to break them apart break numbers apart yes and what do you use in math time i use [Music] cubes and ten frames and counters we are utk [Music] you're having a lot of fun this year good for you i'm proud of you [Music] thank you again i wanted to say to the board of education and superintendent jackson that leading this department has been surreal so um it's an honor for me to be part
075of it and share the experience thank you thank you we have one speaker franzia the nils are you here [Music] good evening hello host my hostess from the trace program yeah from trade school that's me hi um hello superintendent board members and trustees tonight i'm participating as my intersectionality as a san diego unified employee and as a parent on the board meeting held on on february 22nd it was shared that the enrollment for utk would begin on march 1st because i'm a resident of another district i need to petition the release of my home district to enroll my child at san diego unified so on march 1st i filed and was approved quickly for the release and i applied for the utk program at zamorano later that day i received a phone call from mr
076carlos garcia to inform me that my request had been denied because staff was not secured but tonight's plan states opening 118 of these programs he also shared that i was not the only employee to receive this kind of phone call because these spots were going to be reserved for sdsu i'm sorry sdusd residents i have followed the honest protocol to access this program for my child and no part of the board member policy 5117a states any reason for the denial of my application the choice application window was not opened during the opportunity to enroll my child in utk as this now is being stated it will open up in may 2020 i mean sorry 2022. i hope that the employees that receive those phone calls like i did will be approved i have resubmitted the
077inter-district attendance permit for my child as of this evening and i want to thank you for your time and i look forward to my child participating in utk congratulations dr jackson i am so happy you are our new superintendent ubuntu thank you very much and thank you for hosting me that day anybody else wants to go on a tour she's the one who will take you all around very good is there are there any other comments from board members yes trustee pereira thank you president whitehurst payne and thank you so much stephanie and marceline for that report and i i really appreciate the way that both of you and both departments are working closely together so you know it's the question that we always ask with something that we believe deeply in and it's where
078are we in terms of scaling so how close are we to meeting all of the demands across the district for every family who wants to enroll in utk both at the district level and at this and at the site level at the school level i guess uh superintendent jackson thank you very much uh our plan to go to skelon uh i thank you stephanie and marceline uh what a great presentation uh our plan is to have at least one utk classroom at all of our schools some may have two and in a few cases there may even be three obviously and we're talking about this at the state level we run into a capacity manner in terms of our our physical space and stephanie and marceline can uh you know discuss uh what enrollment looks
079like but that's where we are and uh i know that uh president whitehurst payne spoke to me about uh our our enrollment issue matter uh of the the last speaker and we can certainly look into that but uh that's the the general uh outlook of expansion and we're very excited and uh stephanie has been instrumental and uh a beacon and a voice for us at the state level in partnership with marceline anything the two of you would like to add i think i what i could say is that part of the reason that we're having the pre-enrollment process in early may is that so we can gauge the interest level we feel very confident that we will be able to accommodate all of our district residents and it is our legal obligation to accommodate district
080residents first before we offer enrollment to anybody who's outside of our district it's also important i think to remember that to my knowledge we are the only district in san diego county that will be offering utk across the board and so there may be quite a bit about a district interest but our obligation first is to our our resident students and so um after the pre-enrollment process we'll be able to look at that data and um gauge our next steps thank you marcin i'll just add that i think this upcoming year is a good indicator and to get a baseline of our enrollment trends um tk4 and utk in the past two years have held steady which is a good indicator and success for the upcoming year um but you know talking with the state
081and talking with different projections and birth rate data like marceline said we will get a good indicator of our enrollment and we project that we'll be able to um to um include all of our district residents in our program thank you and we have vice president yes i also wanted to say thank you to uh marceline and stephanie this sounds like an amazing program i wish it was around when my kids were that age to take advantage of it um as a mom and i think this might be a question that a lot of moms out there might have especially when you're dealing with three-year-olds do they have to be completely potty trained for this program because we know that well i can only speak for my own experience that's not always the case when
082students are three and i know that could take up a lot of time for staff to um be on top of that in addition to um you know learning time okay i'll i'll uh deal with that one we have had inquiries about potty training and so we highly encourage uh parents to make sure that their children are potty trained before enrolling them in school but there is no requirement for potty training in tk or kindergarten and being a mom myself and also having taught kindergarten and having had children in my class who were not fully potty trained that is part of the developmental process and research indicates that i believe it's 98 percent of 44 year old hopefully 40 year olds 98 of 4 year olds are potty trained so we might be looking at
083a few kids here and there and if i was principal at that school and i was the teacher with that child i would put together a team and put together a plan to support that child to get them potty trained yes we hope 40 year olds are trustee patterson do i see your head perfect just had a few technical questions the first one was so you just talked about how we're the only district in the county offering this and are we likely to have a utk spike that will increase our numbers temporarily for a smaller period of time and then see a level off as other districts begin to open up or are you saying that we're intentionally only choosing to have a pretty a smaller program in order to account for that um i
084can talk i can talk to that um the the difference of san diego unified in other counties is we have ex we have this is our going to be our third year of implementation and we have expanded across the district and across the community some school districts may implement it because the law has changed and so students the tk age has expanded and will expand it to february 2nd for all districts but what's different is no other district may be adding adding 118 sites maybe they're adding two classrooms or 10 classrooms and in some cases some districts are only offering a half day model because they don't have the facilities to expand for a full day model so different very different districts based on their facilities and space and resources that they have their programs
085may look different but san diego unified has um you know succeeded at this program and succeeded with the challenge um and it's evident in our expansion um and success of our program with our families we don't see it that there would be a potential decrease in let's say i don't believe so um because of the trend you know i've watched the trends over the last six years and with each innovation or each diff every year we've improved our program um we've always helped steady in enrollment and people want to come to our district because of the uniqueness and the and the resources that we offer so i don't foresee that this is going to be a spike i think it's going to grow even from here moving forward perfect thank you um my next question
086i wanted to get an understanding does the state what is the state stance on funding 1 to 12 as the ratio and can you talk a little bit about if that's not the ratio that they're specifying where is the funding coming from in our general operating budget to be able to fund one to twelve so all this i'll talk about this as best i can um for the one to twelve and is they have increased the base grant um in the concentration grant funds to um support the one to twelve ratio and that's just for this upcoming school year 2223. what's contingent on additional funding is a one to ten ratio moving forward wow okay and the planning grant the 1.5 million dollar planning grant allocation also supports the resources that we offer in the
087classroom in small ratios so it's a work in progress stephanie at the state to get this funding secured to keep that ratio exactly advocacy is very important and we're very good at it perfect and then my last one can you reiterate one more time the specifically on our tk curriculum as this is a new endeavor i wanted to get an understanding on if this is people in our district that drafted this curriculum and kind of you could talk about one more time just those key experts that we were consulting in that um thank you that's a great question so the preschool california preschool learning foundations has always been in effect and it has always helped guide the tk curriculum or tk standards and the standard the state standards that they use for the kindergarten that's
088how utk kind of came to be there was a gap so you have the preschool learning foundations but you have kindergarten standards what's what's in the middle what's the alignment um on the state website or state resources there have been crosswalks in the past um but not they haven't found to be very beneficial so this new tk launch new california tk website has highlighted and used san diego unified as an example of how we've developed that perfect blend where we take purposeful play where we take a movement where we take steam where we take early literacy you know learning the behaviors and assessments if you look even at curriculum that you can purchase a lot of times they leave out early learners they start at kindergarten through 12. but what san diego unified has done
089is we've highlighted and elevated those skills and those foundational skills but we overlapped it with the developmental domains so the social emotional skills the oral language the peer inquiry the adult to student conversation that's a key piece of early learning that the students need to have those skills to be kindergarten ready and that's something that sandy that's unique to san diego as the leader in the field perfect thank you very good thank you dr macquarie yeah thank you so thank you dr samitsky and marceline for an excellent program absolutely love the video with the students saying who they are and and and describing their program it's very impressive it speaks to what we want to do in our system which is to get students ready for school and as we do that with this utk
090program uh we will meet our our goal of having students with literacy by by the third grade and numeral c is well um what i'm wondering is the number the 3 hundred uh seats how did how how did we arrive at that and and what is the capacity what could we do if we had full funding for this program so right now we are in 70 classrooms so um some like superintendent jackson said some schools have two classrooms some have three and some have one and when we looked for the expansion of additional 62 sites we allocated one classroom per site so that's how the and then times the number of seats that's how we came up with the it's a little over 3 200 seats that are um right now built into the system
091that we can enroll for yes thank you dr mccrary there are no other comments this is a program that's near and dear to me it's the focus of the deep program we had a speaker to come on gina came and talked about the deep program but bottom line is we want children to begin learning early because it doesn't just happen at six years old and all of five six years old it's happening before then i have a three-year-old great nephew and he's learning already that he has fingers and you know they're learning things and we need to do everything we can to accelerate that so thank you thank you superintendent yes thank you uh the next uh just uh one more question so as the speaker talked about do we need to take any action
092or where are we on so legally we have to give first uh priority to the san diego unified residents but can we take some sort of action to give next priority to our employees we do have a priority structure in place right now it will start with school of residence so resident students will have top priority then by date of birth then children of sight employees and following that siblings of choice enrollees i'm sorry siblings of resident students and then siblings of choice students so it is possible that we could fill all of our seats and have some excess seats available in which case we would then look at choice possibly out of district but yes under our choice legislation we have to give priority to our district residents before we offer seats to out
093of district children yeah i'm just when we get to out of district children i think it i it would it would be good if we could prioritize our own employees first right and we do have the employee priority in the list perfect perfect thank you very good thank you let us move now to item f2 and i believe we do have a list of we're going to do e2 is that i'm sorry e2 but don't we have some speakers yes e2 okay thank you very much as i said we had two uh this is another update on our lcap uh goals two and three regarding on track to graduation uh thank you stephanie and marceline and next we're going to have staff present on on track to graduation data and we also will ask the
094board for approval here on the a through g improvement grant these are funds that will address the areas in our a through g access and learning loss mitigation i would ask that executive director of leadership and learning nicole dewitt and leadership and learning instructional support officer jen roberson an area superintendent of high schools aaron richardson join us and present on this item all right thank you so much uh superintendent jackson very excited to say that officially i know my daughter is very excited about that as well so thank you for this opportunity to update the board um on our uh progress towards goal two and goal three of the lcap to ensure that students have access to broad and challenging curriculum while also giving opportunities to accelerate learning with high expectations for all so for
095goal two we are preparing students to be college and career ready by implementing standards-based assessments and grading that more accurately reflect mastery of standards in our grade reporting this year there have been clear distinctions between what is included in the academic mark versus the citizenship park and we've also collaborated throughout the year with educators and administrators on the use of priority standards and proficiency skills that incorporate more feedback for students which more closely aligns to their progress towards demonstration of mastery for goal three we continue to focus on targeted supports for our students receiving special education services multilingual learners and black youth while also extending learning through our extensive level up sd summer programming as well as extended day learning opportunities throughout the academic year i will now turn it over to dr jennifer roberson
096who will share the progress our district has made in graduation rates and uc csu a3g completion thank you nicole i'd first like to begin by giving a big shout out to our high school principals and counselors for wrapping their hands around and supporting our students to graduation it's not only their unwavering commitment to our students but also san diego unified's commitment to our students let us pause on this slide and see how san diego unified compares in graduation rates to other large california districts and in this moment we celebrate the success of our students and our district as our graduation rates continue to steadily increase the next few slides highlight the success of our district our high schools our educators and our students next slide please this slide shows the percent of graduates who met
097uc csu a3 requirements take a moment to see how san diego unified compares to the state higher what an accomplishment while we do see a slight decrease from 2020 to 2021 san diego unified is committed to providing extended learning opportunities to our students and in partnering with our high schools our students and families our educators and our counselors on understanding a3 requirements and preparing our students for college and career next slide please we have good news to report on two student groups who have been at the center of our call to actions our students with disabilities have shown an increase of 1.5 percent and an increase since 2019. african american students have shown an increase of 2.7 percent and a 3.1 increase since 2019. while our english learners show slight decrease of a 0.9 percent
098from 20 to 21 it's important to note that our el graduation our graduation rate is generally influenced by two important factors one an accurate assessment of reclassification two effective implementation of academic language development which is inclusive of integrated and designated instruction and it's important to note that because of our unusual circumstances around covid it is possible that the typical reclassification processes aligned to effective implementation of academic designated instruction were not as effective in online learning as compared with in-person learning next slide please and on this slide i'd like us to pause and while we recognize the site slight decrease for most student groups later in our presentation we will share our next steps for improvement in areas such as access and successful completion of a through g courses and now i would like to turn
099it over to area superintendent dr aaron richardson who will review on track graduation status for our high school students thank you dr roberson in the next three slides you will see the report projects graduation rates for june 2022 this is under the assumption that our students pass all of their required coursework and the slide that you're looking at right now is for our schools that are on a six-period day and the data is reported a little bit differently here to give more information about how our students are meeting graduation we've disaggregated the data by graduates into three separate categories graduates who met that or will meet i should say sdusd graduation requirements by june 22 that's the light blue bar that you're looking at students who will meet graduation meeting california's ab104 requirements is the
100dark blue bar and our anticipated summer graduates is the orange bar the fourth bar in green is the potential percentage of non-graduates which is inclusive of our students who are on a certificate of completion in this um in the next slide we're going to take a look at our schools that are on a 4x4 schedule again noting that the light blue bar is our projected percentage for june 2022 and the dark blue bar is meaning the ab-104 with the orange is our students we are anticipating completing during our summer program sorry erin can you just please explain the ab-104 sure the ab-104 is the graduation minimum california graduation requirements that went into effect during cobid does that help yes thank you so in other words they may not meet the san diego unified requirements for
101graduation but they meet the california california requirements yeah okay thank you yes so a good example of that is that california requires three years of english and yet our graduation requirements is four years of english so that would be a good example of students who may just miss the mark by a semester could still graduate as uh not penalizing them because of the pandemic got it thank you sure no problem thank you for stopping me with questions the last slide that's going to look like this is taking a look at our atypical schools this includes our middle colleges east village the met sdscpa and our home school mount everest academy are in here also in here though are our alternative schools so garfield and twain are in this data which are our options for students
102who are doing a fifth year in order to graduate the next slide we're going to take a look at is looking at our 22 projected data next to our 2021. so the dark blue bar on the right are the projected june baby are like june graduates ab-104 and summer graduates and on the left bar you'll see our 2021 graduates which include all of them as well so the june the ab-104 and our summer graduates and across the board you will see we are projected to make improvements in all of our student groups overall a five-year growth overall for all of our students if you take a look at our native american students with the twenty percent growth nine percent for our latinx students six percent growth for our black students and our special education students
103two different groups four percent for our english language learners and this growth is really attributed to the extensive summer program that we invested in and implemented in in summer so while these slides focused on our seniors in the next slides miss dewitt is going to share how all of our secondary students in grades 9 through 12 are doing and our middle middle school students thank you so much so as dr richardson mentioned our projected graduation rates hinge on the success of our students and their current coursework so here you can see the percentage of students grades 9 through 12 received a d or f in the first semester overall our rates have decreased from this time last year and are returning to pre-pandemic levels our educators have worked tirelessly to ensure students have opportunities for
104revision and reassessment and have really embraced the removal of non-academic factors from the academic grade which is evident and it decreases over the past year our students journey towards graduating college and career ready starts much earlier than high school we know that trends that develop from elementary and middle school tend to mirror those trends in high school as well so here you can see that our middle school grade data has returned to almost identical pre-pandemic levels with one group our students receiving special education services being nearly two percent lower than in 2019. in a future presentation to the board around our literacy acceleration plan elementary grade data for the e-2 reporting period which just recently closed will be shared for further analysis and discussion i would now like to welcome back dr jen roberson to
105discuss an exciting opportunity to increase our college and career readiness through the a through g completion grant jen thank you very much as superintendent dr jackson shared with the board san diego unified is uh blessed to receive the ath completion gra grant and in slide seven i briefly shared our percentage of graduates meeting uc csu requirements and i want to share that this grant positions our district and our high schools to further support our students with access and successful completion of the a through g requirements in the next few slides we'll be reviewing the a three plan and asking the board to accept the grant funds and approve the use of the grant funds next slide please so san diego unified will receive two grants within the a through g completion improvement grant umbrella one
106is the a3g access grant and the other is the a through g learning loss mitigation grant both have varying components it was really important to note that the input and voice of our collective matters so we engaged our educational partners such as our high school leaders our high school counselors our high school students and central office staff supporting our high schools to provide input in the development of this plan before you this slide represents a high level overview of the supports needed for the success of our students so the purpose of the a through g access grant is really to expand the access to a through g course work for our students across the board it also will provide for our students tutoring mentorship and internship programs across each of our high schools and then
107also to really provide professional learning for our educators continued professional learning for our educators with regards to our standards-based learning and grading and then the purpose of the a through g learning loss mitigation grant it's really important to note that in order to be you csu compliant and college ready students need to earn a grade of c or higher so this is very responsive to our students who may have earned a grade of a d f fail in a through g approved course and the these opportunities will be afforded to our students to begin retaking courses this very spring in the month of april our team will continuously monitor data through the use of our credit recovery program and make the necessary adjustments with input from our team through 2025. next slide please as shared
108through the a3g access grant we are proposing to do the following we are proposing to extend the learning and provide tutoring mentorship and internship opportunities to our students we are proposing that we offer recovery and acceleration courses for our students that are culturally relevant and provide real-world experiences we are also proposing the expansion and development development of our who knew it dashboard which will provide on track to graduation monitoring it will provide early identification of students who need credit recovery and also provide opportunities for acceleration additionally we'll provide professional learning for our staff for our educators for our leaders to really support our most vulnerable learners and meeting grade level standards and a3g courses next slide please addition uh through the a through g learning loss mitigation grant we propose the following we would like
109to propose implementing extended day afternoon evening classes at our high schools for credit recovery to be implemented as early as april of this school year we also are proposing to expand online opportunities for our students to recover their a through g courses as well next slide please so at this time our team would appreciate that uh would appreciate the approval of the acceptance of the a through g grant funds both strands the a through g access grant and the a3g learning loss mitigation as well as the approval of the use of funds for the following areas the plan is developed around professional learning who knew it on track dashboard credit recovery and acceleration as well as extended learning opportunities for all of our students district wise okay [Music] thank you and no those speakers were
110for f2 and not e2 so do we have some board members who'd like to first i'll move the action that is being recommended okay thank you and the second by okay trustee baza vice president thank you and then i've got a couple of questions okay thank you president waters paints so uh extraordinary report and um if we could actually bring the powerpoint back up and i want to go to the slide with our projected graduation rates for 2022 uh yes okay so first of all i just wanted us to take a moment as i think uh jen was doing with us earlier on acknowledging the progress we've made so far but if we could take a moment we're projecting a 94.5 graduation rate for this class is that correct that is extraordinary and i i
111assume part of that is the um you know ab104 so that's included in this graduation rate i'm i'm assuming um that that is correct but as dr richardson mentioned our class of 2021 graduation data was also inclusive of av 104. so last year's class of 2021 also benefited from the av-104 this year senior will be the last class that has access to the av 104 graduation requirements no it really is amazing nicole thank you and one of the key metrics when we talk about closing the achievement gap is this it's our graduation rates and so if we're at an overall 94 and a half percent and if we go across you know some of our categories of students are black students 92 percent our latinx students 92 these are really amazing uh numbers and if
112we were to take this back five years ten years i think what we would see is a dramatic closing of that of that gap what my question is is are we already um able to project our a to g completion rates for the class of 2022. um that uh not at this time only because there are so many courses that are in progress that do align uh to a through g and we would have to drill down to the c or better portion of the a through g so we typically do determine that after final grades have been reported now thank you nicole and and and of course that is um that has been you know for really um since the implementation of the adg for all uh graduation requirement that has been one of
113the north star metrics for our district our a to g completion rate because what we're saying is students who graduate having completed the a-g coursework are in position to go to the cal state system the uc system are are in position to succeed moving forward and the number that we saw for class of 2021 roughly 72 percent again it still lags you know our overall graduation rate but it's important to remember that when we started with a to g for all uh i think the class of 2016 was the um first uh class that had that graduation requirement but we really started that journey back in 2009 and i want to say in 2009 our a to g completion rate um was about 45 so the fact that we've gone up from 45 to 72
114percent and then those numbers among latino students african-american students those were in the mid-20s you know when we started this process in um in 2009 and you know if if we look at uh i do do we have those numbers for our uh in the earlier slide broken down by our groups of students uh yeah so here we are so um thank you so uh black student 62 percent uh latinx student 62 percent uh english learners you know now at uh 54.6 those increases over the past decade have been extraordinary and so when we you know are able to look at the class of 2022 and see where we're at um it's you know i'm encouraged by just looking at our overall graduation rates that we'll see increases in those numbers as well so i
115just think it's important that as um as jen was having us do that we've got work to do in front of us and this is you know the point that uh the superintendent jackson has been making but there's so much um uh progress that has been made that we're building on top of and particularly when we think about the impacts you know from the pandemic and the fact that our numbers our graduation rates were holding pretty steady and our atg completion rates were holdings pretty steady through the uh through the pandemic when i don't think that has been the case you know in some of the other large urbans you know that we're looking at again just goes to the extraordinary work of the educators in in our in our district uh to to be
116not letting even a pandemic get in the way of you know uh something that we just think is so critical in terms of holding ourselves accountable as a district so i just want to thank you know everybody in this district and our our principals and our and our educators at the school sites for the work that they've done uh to get us there thank you uh trustee barrera and a few things uh one you bring up a very good point uh we are seeing growth we have a ways to go and i i think thank you nicole and aaron and jennifer for putting together a presentation that shows the growth but also shows our gaps and aligns a plan to meet those challenges and i think that's going to be critical work and and as
117uh was stated early on uh i want to thank our high school principals uh and this team for um looking at the data working together uh getting the data more accurate and and really paying attention to how do we report on these uh these data numbers uh very critical i know uh president whitehurst payne you've been talking about this and this team is really leaning towards that and as we think about our next steps you'll see some things and strategies that we want to do to even grow the a to g requirements for specific uh groups that have been most marginalized and our call to actions will align to this so thank you to the team and and i know there are more comments but i just wanted to share that before we get to
118our colleague i i would just like to comment that i think that our credit recovery program has really helped us tremendously being able to identify those students and that's something it was based on individuals and not just a group so whether we were in a pandemic or not we really had to focus on individuals so that's why i don't think we saw a dip because if you're only focusing on well the class did this no we want to focus on individuals and by doing that you would know who's on track and who's not on track and how many students need and find ways to identify how they can recover those units my only comment related to that was on page six how did you make that um if i came in from mars and i
119looked at these data about blacks how did you make that difference there and that increase and i think your explanation about special education and the reclassification process for english learners and so forth resonates but you've made an increase there for on for blacks for african americans how did you do it just think about the narrative as you're going through because that's how we improve we look at the data we find out what's going on and we figure out if it's something that's working then we extrapolate it to all groups that might help and if it's not working we toss it and move on to something else that will work that's just me now my colleagues does anybody else want to dr macquarie yeah thank you so here again an outstanding report i want to thank
120you for that um and i i just want to acknowledge the outstanding report that shows outstanding results uh and especially uh during very challenging times um this is very extremely impressive uh being able to match and exceed outcomes pre pandemic outcomes with post uh what we'll call post pandemic uh uh results so a very exciting so and and they indicate that we are on the right path for closing achievement gap as trustee basera was talking about um that uh the um if we looked at uh i think it was uh slide 11. we can take a look at that while we're making improved uh outcomes for all of our uh all of our groups uh we are also the outcomes of for our um uh for our our black students um has uh have have
121a greater point increase than the outcomes overall which is what we're attempting to do with closing the achievement gap and i also want to call attention to our native american outcomes i mean this would be the first time that a group has achieved 100 graduation i think that's absolutely incredible uh and and and we're doing extremely well there as with our other groups but as uh superintendent jackson says we still have lots of work ahead of us and we we need to continue to make making progress based on data and then data being utilized by people who are experts in in curriculum and instruction and then hiring uh quality teachers support staff and administrators to make that happen so these are impressive graduation rates and they are higher than the state uh average and other
122large urban school districts and were higher than they are while we have higher graduation standards that are required by the state so not only we are getting better results and outcomes where we are expecting more from our students so that great that diploma has added value um extending uh president whitehurst payne's comments on focusing on the individual i'm wondering as i listen to your report that it sounds like just like our special ed students have individual education plans and iep i'm wondering if we aren't moving towards having individual graduation plans like an igp love it gold might go uh nicole or jen you want to talk about that your thoughts yeah so that's actually part of the a through g grant proposal and building the who knew it on track dashboard that would be real-time
123data that is accessible to our counselors that's successful to our site administrators but they can participate in that four-year planning at a much earlier age so you know not waiting until senior year or junior year to figure out how to recover credits but really using that on track dashboard to guide conversations right when they enter into high school and trying to find ways for them to access early credit recovery uh in those early years as opposed to waiting until the later years thank you on trustee also oh i'm sorry were you finished trustee macquarie okay thank you yes thank you these are fantastic numbers and um great job to the staff for putting this together and and the all the hard work that's been done over such an unusual time period um i wanted to
124make a statement about the tutoring you had mentioned um i think that's something that has gained more traction since kovid and virtual learning has become more common and i know that we are doing some work in the area of tutoring as you know i have a special interest in that i've started up a tutoring program during covid in the mirror mesa community but i'd love to see like dr whitehurst paine and dr macquarie were saying the individual [Music] the the methods that are being used and what's working like for example is the tutoring for those students that are getting tutored can we see a cohort of that group and see if that's what's really helping um because i've been looking at more and more data is showing that that's a really can be a really
125comprehensive piece to to help students and president biden mentioned tutoring in his state of the union address so that that the importance of that so i thought that that was interesting and and for future um reports would be nice to see if we can somehow break down to see if things like tutoring and other methods what's been what's been most effective and i also wanted to ask i was looking at the summer data and was just interested if the level up i know that program has helped it look like in some schools there was a you know pretty well say five percent of the students graduate at the end of summer others not so much i was wondering if the level up program last year the first year that launched if that has helped to
126really impact the graduation rates it seems that it has at least at some schools maybe not at others if you could speak to that a little bit yeah absolutely so i know earlier um this year back in september dr roberson did present some data around the number of credits that were recovered during our level of summer opportunities so it was a huge increase in what we've seen in past years and particularly because we did have two different sessions and we had such an extensive summer program that was offered at many more sites than it's been offered in the past and so since we saw that success and we do see that reflected in our graduation rates we do plan to offer the same level of access and coursework going into this current summer thank you
127if there are trustee patterson thank you uh my first question had to do with what we were just just the graph that we were looking at before the bar graph i wanted to get a better understanding i know that the last time we were given this presentation we were i recall we were told that native american students were not statistically significant to put a set of bar graph on in a set of data and i do notice the well-rounded numbers of 80 to 100 percent so i did want to know what is our actual population of native american students uh just so i can get an understanding on kind of to contextualize that number so i would need to get back to you on that just because i want to make sure that i'm very
128accurate and with the data information i think what was reported in the past is that per the cde uh they do put an asterisk um on the information when there's not like a significant subgroup when we're talking about purposes for the california school dashboard but we still do internally track that data to make sure that we're being inclusive of all of our student groups and not just the ones that are indicated through the dashboard perfect thank you for that thank you for that clarification yeah i'd love that information if you're able to find that for me at a later time i wanted to hear a little bit more as well about some of the internship programs that you just mentioned and just maybe not specifics but just kind of a general vision i know i
129was lucky enough to be able to give feedback for what we were looking at for this grant that is going forth and you know one of the things that i mentioned was talking about this importance of a student being able to find their passion right trustee whitehurst payne you talked a lot about in the past something that i think kind of really focused my efforts on is the idea of knowing what you want to do and having a vision for what you want to do and how that sets you forth in achievement in trying to get somewhere when i when i know where i'm going i have a stronger ability to work to get there and i wanted to hear kind of how this how what we've heard tonight ties into that idea definitely so
130we've always had very strong partnerships with industry locally in regards to our ccte pathways so we've had a number of internship opportunities through our ccte pathways but i think again this past summer opened up even more opportunities for students to find career exploration through the job fair that we held to help support our level of sd summer enrichment programs and so that has continued on into the current academic year of exploring opportunities for students to engage in career and employment experiences prior to graduation so we really just want to build upon some of the existing successes with both our ccte and our summer programming and carry that throughout the year versus just incremental times do we have anything where students meet with an advisor at all or any program like that do counseling staff ever
131talk to students about you know what where do you where do you want to be in 10 years from now or something like that as far as college and career planning we actually um just implemented a new partnership with zello it's actually sponsored through the k-12 strong workforce partnership and that tool actually gives a lot of access for career exploration for our students for our secondary students and all the way down into lower grade levels as well so our counselors have been trained on how to utilize that tool and how to go out into classrooms and to give those supports to students so that is currently happening this school year perfect that's super super exciting here i know zella was just from putting my student hat on zillow was definitely a bit challenging for this
132first year i know students struggled to connect that to the common application and what that looks like in the actual implementation of it so i think it's a great program from what i've seen and i'm excited to see how we move forward again this data really is really incredible so great work to the team and thank you thank you and now we'll vote if you will and we'll start with trustee patterson aye trustee barrera aye trustee biser aye trustee mcquarrie trustee vice president baso aye an eye for me so that passes unanimously with the student concurring it's fine zero thank you for that and thank you staff for that report keeping us abreast of what's going on and yes we'd love to see numbers and how we can tease it all out so thank you
133i'm going to handle f because we have several speakers on three items so i'd like a a motion to deal with f1 and f4 because we have no speakers so someone would give me a motion on that okay we have uh barrera and the second second from baza uh if there are no comments from the board members then let's vote on that so we'll start with trustee patterson did they want to introduce that resolution for in support of ukraine that was f4 right resolution sport ukraine uh certainly i we're gonna go we're to take f2 after this because we have eight speakers on that and vote on that one then we'll go to f3 and deal with those speakers and then vote on that one and then we'll deal with f5 okay and you may
134be presented yeah okay so for f1 and f4 as consent items we have uh herrera and bozo and i'd like patterson to start the vote okay we'll go with barrera i i will move to visor i uh dr macquarie aye vice president bazo hi and yours truly i so those two items um mr stultz passed unanimously with the student board member concurring now let's go back up to f2 which is the resolution in the matter of imminent risk of harm to attendees of public meetings during the covet 19 pandemic we have eight speakers we will give each speaker two minutes we will call your name staff will let us know if they're there there's a tlc parent april gia romante ronda beckes bonnie jimenez paloma in paloma rather kelly hayes melissa grace and shannon volley
135so in that order or any of them if they're there two minutes each uh yes uh tlc pair okay we'll hear from her or him or whomever dlc parent is still on mute please unmute yourself and speak you're listed as tlc parent please unmute yourself okay we'll come back to you april giaramante do we have not here okay what about random um that case yes okay rhonda would you unmute yourself and speak please unmute okay hello yes we're listening okay hi my name is rhonda beckes that's our rhonda with an h beckus with a b as in bravo i am a matter of i have i am a mother of two elementary students currently enrolled in your district i am curious and wonder know along with hundreds of other parents why are you continuing to
136have zoom meetings instead of in-person meetings is it so you can have people call in as a shield for your ridiculous and far overreached agendas and propaganda in addition we also want to know why this district keeps moving the goal post on mass removal for our children our children not yours is it because the teachers union and people in office such as yourselves are trying to get more funding and in doing it so attempting to hold our kids hostage with mass mandates and vaccines your choice your chance for better funding was lost at your mandating coping testing and for students which which caused false positives that cost our children a lot of time in school that cost your district empty desks in schools don't ask parents for school funding because you've already wasted that on
137mass funding as well it is this why you are all preparing to hand out covent tests for students returning from spring break and here we go again all of a sudden another spike of cases and students has erupted and you have found yet another reason to try and muzzle our kids these cova tests are bogus and we know it you know it these tests come back positive even for the slightest bit of a cold parents like myself are taking notice that our kids in your district are still wearing masks outdoors why is this i was just informed by faculty and my children's school that if you don't make the teachers aware that you don't want maths on your children while outside for sports or even lunch they will still make them wear them parents make
138sure you tell your children school teachers no math for my kids when they are outside and another thing what is really great is i love how 90 of these meetings are a circle jerk of your egos very disgusting because it has nothing to do with the students the school or education issues you're just doing indoctrination and manipulation thank you next speaker bonnie commend this no bonnie paloma in no paloma yes she's here okay please unmute yourself can you hear me yes we can hear you good evening their board members and parents who are here tonight um it's i'm calling today to say that it's time to open our board meetings to the public and allow parents to participate in regular meetings again there's no more excuses to keep the public out of in-person meetings we
139have all we have all the evidence we need to state that the imminent risk of harm to attendees is not there right that's what you guys said that harm is not we don't have evidence for that harm there's no uh risk to attending public school meetings from every or public board meetings from everything everything that we've seen so i i really want you guys to understand that keeping parents out of the meeting and not allowing us to actually come and participate as the law states that we are entitled to participation in your meetings that you are shutting us out and we want more we want to just we deserve more and we want to demand more right so let me remind you that you work for us and you're here to serve our kids so
140you need to like without further delay open up the meetings in person and um there's no more excuses to this that's what i wanted to say tonight thank you kelly hayes kelly unmute yourself and speak please can you hear me yes we can thank you good evening i am a parent here to voice my opinion on several items for tonight's meeting f2 f5 and a non-agenda listed item first it is time to resume in person meetings these zoom meetings are impersonal and completely disconnected from the public and parents and our ability to express our opinions and concerns thoroughly additionally i oppose sdusd's desire to continue unnecessary masking of our kids i am asking for this district to align with california state guidelines and move up the date for mass choice to march 11th it is
141long overdue to begin reassessing our children's needs first they need their normal back our children are in crisis and is not because they are at risk of dying from coveted they are in crisis because of the impact this pandemic and its policies have had on their overall well-being studies are showing a significant decline in adequate reading and speech skills along with emotional and social struggles increases in mental health concerns and suicidal ideations our children and their futures are in crisis as our state the entire country and the world moves forward with giving families and individuals their god-given rights back a free choice sdusd continues to put our children last dragging them along for an additional three weeks of masking and further pushing for vaccine mandates on the population that is least vulnerable to this virus
142i oppose continuing mass mandates even a second longer on our children and i oppose the vaccine mandate thank you thank you melissa grace please unmute yourself melissa please unmute yourself hi yeah i'm here hi uh sorry about that this is melissa grace founder of san diego rise up this this issue that i just had technical issue of even knowing how to participate in the zoo meeting how to get myself unmuted to make sure that my public comment is is clearly communicated is part of the issue here and i'm a tech savvy uh millennial and if i can't if i have a hard time figuring this out how do you expect the general public to be able to do so my my question and and maybe this is just for f2 i hope that i get
143two minutes to speak on on the other agenda items also the the the question that i have here guys is how can you possibly justify having teleconference meetings when the county board of supervisor chair nathan fletcher is going to the garth brooks concert around 55 000 people there is no stretch of the imagination of the definition of imminent and proximate threat that determines this quote-unquote emergency that we're in richard barrera i would love to face you in person so that i could tell you that that n95 virtue signaling mask that you're wearing is not properly fit tested in this completely ineffective whatever charade you guys are running through right now to keep the public uh away so that you don't have to face the music that sdusd parents are not going to tolerate this kind
144of a behavior one more week you need to know that we are watching you and we will not back down return to in-person meetings thank you shannon valley not here okay let's see did tlc parent unmute finally go tlc okay ts tlc uh unmute please where's your hand can you hear me yes that's good okay great we currently have schools in person theater in person concerts in person sports in person shopping in person and even the superintendent selection meeting ten days days ago was in person in the same room but somehow you keep passing resolutions every month among yourselves that we cannot have a board meeting in person because meeting in person would quote present imminent risk to the health or safety of attendees the absurdity here is through the roof if attendees do not
145want to be in person they always have the option to call into the meeting you are elected officials who are supposed to listen to the parents and community but you run and hide by not having in-person meetings this way you can select who you will hear from never have to face the parents take two hours at the beginning of the meeting to pat yourselves on the back limit any time parents have to speak on zoom or exclude them all together and carrying on with these tyrannical decisions that you make without any input from the parents we are the largest possibly the only really large school district in the united states that it is not meeting in person your rationale in the resolution this resolution makes your lives completely transparent to us all i demand that
146you all vote no on this resolution for all future meetings and open it up to the public as per the law thank you and the others did not come on so uh who's going to give me a motion in a second on this f2 looking at you right here okay let's vote um hi um hi uh i'm sorry i didn't get patterson first alright i for you okay uh visor i am a query hi okay that passes unanimously with i for me with this student board member concurring and now we need to do thank you f3 we have four speakers let's do three minutes each and this is the resolution in support of participation in earth day 2022 events this was presented by our own trustee patterson and herrera do you want to make that
147motion again now okay we'll have barrera to do it this time and will you second it oh i shouldn't be i will second that no worries you already did that's all i got on there okay and now we have uh four speakers giala mina koi negan phelps theo martian zoe jello geller alpher yes theo is here theo would you unmute yourself and you have three minutes up to three minutes to speak yes hello uh my name is theo martin and i'm a junior at mount everest academy and an intern with san diego 350s youth for climate and i'm here to speak in support of the earth day event resolution it's vital that we encourage you to take action and this encouragement starts in schools and requires support from advisors which this resolution would guarantee our
148eco club coalition is working to unite activists throughout san diego and the district's support of our ambitions shows their continued support both of student advocacy and the importance of teaching climate literacy in schools uh thank you have a nice evening and thank you is zoe here yes you met her yes would you unmute yourself and speak can you hear me yes we hear you now perfect hi everyone my name is zoe geller alford i'm a junior at point loma high school i work with san diego 350 youth for climate and i appreciate you all taking the time to review and support our resolution this is really rooted in passion for advocating for ourselves as young people as the people who are inheriting this planet and making sure that all aspects of our community have the
149knowledge power and awareness to be able to understand the science of climate change and the importance of taking a stand and so we're hoping this is a foundation for that especially in this district full of complex and wonderful people who really need to be at the forefront of this movement for climate justice so thank you so much thank you and the other two speakers were not here so let us would you unmute yourself and speak please hello everyone i'm kielem nacho and i'm a sophomore i am a volunteer and an intern with cinderella 350z for climate and i just want to express how important it is for this resolution to not only be introduced on docket but to hopefully have you all passed this because this resolution is specifically created by youth as a need
150for taking climate action and a recognition of the importance of climate change and how it impacts the future of youth this is completely written by youth for youth and is designed so that we can help encourage more climate action specifically in earth day events for san diego unified students thank you thank you and did megan come in okay thank you and i want to thank the students for their advocacy and i think times right now are demonstrating that we really should be listening to them about fossil fuel and all these other things right now as prices skyrocket i want to thank them for their participation let us vote uh patterson aye barrera aye bye sir i macquarie yeah i will vote for i but i also want to thank zoe and the students representing the
151successor chavez service clubs for meeting with me and advocating for this very important resolution thank you hi and um i i for me that's unanimously done with the student concurring student trustee we have f5 to get through and i'd like a motion on that one if you will uh it's barrera and second by patterson and we have 24 speakers and we're allowed 20 minutes so we will go through the top 20. some of them are not here we'll go through the next four first five quilla june number two concerned parent ten three my child my choice four adrian greenland greelen five julia weinstein number four the first one okay number four is here please unmute yourself adrian grielan hi can you hear me yes thank you you have one minute on january 6th of this
152year due to a foyer request u.s district judge mark pittman forced pfizer to release its coven 19 vaccine clinical trial data the first release of data on march 1st describes 1291 different adverse events including acute kidney injury cardiac arrest cardiac failure cardiogenic shock the list goes on for eight pages this means that anyone coerced into taking this experimental vaccine could not have given informed consent because the vaccine trial information was not available a statistically certain number of children will die or be permanently injured from this never-before-tested genetic experiment when the legal boomerang comes back around you will be left holding the bag it won't be your medical advisors your superintendent or your lawyers during the nuremberg trials it was the decision makers with no one left to blame who met the most severe legal justice
153thank you let us move on to julia weinstein or no more b shoot nicole rye whiskey april giaramante christine youngs any of these i believe julia is here but there's no last name but i believe that weinstein okay unmute yourself and please speak hi yes your mask rules have no have made no sense cotton masks the kids with cotton masks filtration efficiency of 26 procedure masks 38 source the epa you all have been okay with this absurdity so probably the same goes with the vaxxes well we can cherry pick two march one san diego ut page a6 pfizer shot less effective for ages five to eleven twelve percent efficacy fda's threshold is fifty percent wellenskay now says the science is gray that sometimes it takes years to work out the science go compare cdc's numbers
154of child hospitalizations and deaths from flu before 2020 versus covet numbers there's no comparison israel's research on natural immunity check it out risk benefit ratio of covet facts teen boys and myocarditis after vax uc davis hong kong uk's jcvi boston children's john mccarthyology baylor public health ontario 75 years to see the pfizer data and zach it is not my job to teach gender identity to the elementary kids thanks thank you child my choice um number three okay my child my choice please unmute yourself and you may speak for one minute thank you everything please unmute yourself that was my child my choice not there nicole nicole you may speak for one minute please unmute yourself hi can you hear me yes thank you hi thank you um i'm both a teacher and a parent in
155san diego unified hello hello we can hear you there's some noise in the background sorry there's can you okay hi i'm okay so i think that um that you are muted both of us so i'm just gonna go ahead and keep going i'm both a teacher and a parent in san diego unified my concern with stepping forward with these vaccine mandates is twofold first of all our understanding of the pandemic has changed two years ago we were disinfecting our groceries and wearing gloves to go shopping a year and a half ago we were wearing cloth masks a year ago we were introduced to vaccines and told that it would give us immunity things have changed now we know that washing our groceries does not stop an airborne virus cloth masks do not block the virus
156and getting vaccinated does not stop us from getting or transmitting covid19 in fact we now know that natural antibodies afford superior protection than these vaccines do our district policy is supposed to be science based and yet there is no mention of antibody tests in lieu of vaccination my second concern is that the board states that this proposal has no financial impact and yet last meeting only around 42 of children in the age group of 5 to 11 have had even one dose even in the district now we'll go to my child my choice hello hello good evening i'm a parent with the child in san diego unified school district this agenda item confirms again that san diego unified have been coercing students to get a non-fda approved vaccine for over a year and san diego
157unified continues to ramp up the vaccine clinics on school grounds this year i mean for over a year now while they're saying they will then approve it once it's fda approved so what are you saying you've been giving a children and coercing children to get a vaccine that is still an experimental stage and once again san diego unified illegally barks that the school commanded back schools cannot legally mandate a facts you just had a court hearing about this with judge meyer who ruled that a school cannot mandate a vaccine health and safety codes one two zero three three five b one eleven states that you cannot schools cannot mandate a vaccine it has to go through state legislation thank you thank you let us move on was apra april gram monte available no christine youngs
158becky hoff seth les leslie huffmeister citizen three eight seven three gina smith carly okay becky uh becky we see you can you un mute yourself and speak for one minute please um i have a question first are you able to answer that question under a public comments like this we're not able to engage so if you could just give us your comment and uh we'll have staff to respond or see what is still an experimental vaccine on children is based on a tired and false narrative that is ripened and spoiled yet some of you still can't smell the rising stench then superintendent barrera falsely stated last october quote we've got complete consensus from around the state and nation that covet 19 is of course a serious risk for young people and the best thing that
159can happen for parents with young students is to get them vaccinated unquote there was never clear consensus on that claim in fact radius children the cdc and fda indicated the exact opposite radius reported the risk of complications for healthy children is higher for flu compared to covet 19 the cdc reported children ages 5-11 represented 0.1 of the total cova fatalities and those weren't children with previous conditions doctors from the fda admitted we simply don't know what the side effects are going to be we're never going to learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it that's just the way it goes paul alexander phd warned we are playing a dangerous game and we can inform you let us move on uh leslie hofmeister we called citizen 3873 gina smith carly carr bonnie
160jimenez carla milan jeff etzler paloma inn kelly hayes magdalena montevano montovani melissa grace shannon valley marta cosbiel and emily mamu too jeff would you un mute yourself please and speak my name is jeff and i'm the father of two i've already explained to this board on a prior occasion that you all have been duped you have fallen for and taken part in a global genocidal scam you are actively participating in felony child abuse as it relates to the forced masking of children in schools not to mention their coercion to take these deadly unnecessary unsafe shots it's not going to happen as fast as we parents would like but all will be held accountable remember my words from eczema on kids faces to the psychological damage caused to bacterial pneumonia and even lung cancer if you
161still don't realize your criminal contempt related to force masking yet i promise you will the neurological damage blood clotting and myocarditis caused by the shots is way beyond crimes against humanity in short the pcr tests are a purposeful complete thank you did any of the other speakers come in i believe number 18. paloma in yes please unmute yourself aloma yes can you hear me yes hi i just wanted to come on here to say that these technical issues that we're experiencing is exactly why we should go back into in-person meetings this is exactly what happens when you guys don't let parents in and invite them into the conversation at the table we can't be having technical issues and parents being shut down in the middle of trying to say something this is not okay and
162parents i'm gonna turn i'm gonna speak to you there's two bills in the legislature right now in the california legislature that you need to be of hosting sb871 and sb 866 look it up online and send your letters in opposition these bills are really dangerous and we need to stop them thank you and were there any others kelly hayes would you unmute yourself please kelly hayes please unmute yourself you have 60 seconds kelly hayes is there anyone else uh magdalena montevani would you unmute yourself not sure if you can hear me magdalena yes can you hear me yes great good evening i'd like to say i am opposed to the implementation of the cova vaccine i'd also like to call attention to the study recently released by the new york state department of health it
163shows efficacy dropping to 12 percent in the 5 to 11 year olds age group how can you implement an injection with such low efficacy and in this age group particularly yet has a growing adverse reaction list daily your policies have alienated families created divisiveness among the students and staff cost hundreds of jobs thousands of students leaving your district we have watched countless school boards across california compromise and allow parents to have a voice create inclusive plans of action creating a true inclusive transparent collaborative community we are seeking that tonight thank you and none of the others melissa grace please unmute yourself and speak hi this is melissa grace founder of san diego rise up i'm also a parent of uh a child in sdusd sub district d richard barrera that means you're my representative i
164want to remind you all that on december 20th uh judge john meyer struck down the student code 19 vaccine mandate from sdusd citing that it contradicts state law and thus is not valid says that the statutory scheme leaves no room for each of the over a thousand individual school districts to impose a patchwork of additional vaccine mandates including those like the road map that lack a personal belief exemption and therefore even stricter than what the dph could itself impose upon learned consideration what i want to know is why are you spending my hard-earned taxpayers to appeal a ruling which has already been decided thus going further to try to continue to implement this to trick parents into getting the shop for their kids this is absolutely absurd ridiculous and disgusting and thank you any of
165the others uh martha colesbiel please unmute yourself marta let it unmute yourself please marta okay then that finishes that section [Music] uh yes hello can you hear me yes thank you hi uh thank you um i was having some problems i really wish you would open these meetings up in person i just don't really understand the point of this mandate because of the fact that there's a lot of new data around natural immunity the kids have a high vaccination rate at san diego unified as you presented last or two weeks ago and then the natural immunity data is really high for san diego county in this age group it makes no sense i also wonder what does this look like down the road if they're talking about coming out with an omicron vaccine you're just
166going to pass another resolution are you going to make kids get a vaccination that's you know the old the old outdated one i mean i just don't know that this is well thought through and it honestly seems like it's just trying to make a nod to the to a political nod honestly um it's not rooted in science and that's what you said that you would follow so i would ask you to reconsider and table this for another time after there's thank you and that is it and we will now move to votes trustee patterson hi uh pereira aye let's see macquarie i visor i an eye for me so that passes unanimously with the student concurring thank you all that was not a consent this time was it item g uh california 2022 california school
167boards association csba region 17 delegate assembly election and let's get a motion on this first and then we would like to hear from trustee dr macquarie pereira i i think so uh the motion i'm sorry president waters mean the the motion that i would make is that we vote to appoint the seven incumbents and then i would move that the two new representatives that we would um recommend would be michelle gates from national uh city and um lucy ugadi from chula vista elementary school thank you and i was i'm sorry dr mike because i think you were supposed to make your list first but richard's done that that's good let's hear what your list is well i think i i did send out the list to all board members it's basically the same recommendation of
168the motion that richard is making what we've done in the past with delegates voting for the california school board association um and it's uh our past practice has been that we we vote for the incumbents these are board members who have already experienced a year um and they've uh are have a sense of the of a very large organization of a thousand school districts or five thousand school board members uh that meets um at two regular meetings a year and then there are multiple multiple committees that that our board members serve on and we have a california school board association group here in san diego county and we have the 22 members that represent this region 17. so it's this 22 member board that we are filling a very large school districts like ours we
169get three members automatically so we're not up for a vote we select those and i think we did that in our december meeting and our three members are richard barrera and um and sharon you were recently added i believe is that true and and boso is finishing uh starting her year as well so those are our three so we're really involved in an election of board members from our smaller school districts we have 42 school districts in in the san diego county area which is our region 17. so the seven we then also tend to do these incumbents so there are seven of those there are nine open seats so there are two more as uh trustee barreras mentioned and it's a matter of selecting the two out of the possible one two three four
170five in the past we've tried to balance those out in terms of not getting too many members from a single school district as well as to balance out the uh county itself so that we get members from the northern part of the county the eastern southern and and western side so the uh so the question and it comes down to a slight adjustment in what i was suggesting and i'm um definitely not a hard uh and a hard position on the on the two out of the five uh but i did uh in what we sent out so the south bay is marco um and uh the vista is julie uh and then national city is michelle and racina and then we have another uh lucy from chula vista so if i heard you correct
171uh richard what uh what are you recommending sorry mike and i should have uh let you go first but i was re recommending michelle gates from national and lucille godzilla chula vista okay michelle and lucy was it was my recommendation and and what i do notice is um i think of the seven incumbents correct me if i'm wrong uh dr macquarie but i think maria is the only representative from one of the south bay districts um well let's see um uh maria yeah let's uh let's see del mar carlsbad encinitas right so um yeah so that would that would balance that out thank you i think you are correct so i i confer with rich's recommendation okay so you second it uh any more discussion on it if not then let us vote and we'll
172start with uh trustee patterson thank you for this being so organized this year by the way this was really great to have a clear recommendation and i bought my i okay um uh i vote i and thank you to everybody for your service uh having been a representative and delegate for over six years i know it's a lot of work and thank you for everybody who's stepping up trustee pereira i and dr mike vice president basel i i for me it passes unanimously with the student concurring thank you all for that and now let us move on to item h1 the legislative update and that goes to your superintendent thank you president whitehurst payne this evening we have a brief update on the advocacy work that we have been engaged in in sacramento as well
173as in d.c i'm honored to be here with dr raucho who will be joining me for this presentation he is the director of government relations and learned so much this advocacy work builds on the adoption of our policies and priorities and it's also a product of many conversations that we've had with elected officials at the state and the federal levels this past couple weeks we've had the opportunity to meet with pro tem of the state senate tony atkins as well as the chair of the assembly budget subcommittee of education finance and that has been kevin mccarty and the chair of the senate budget subcommittee on education finance john laird along with members of the legislative delegation and so dr rajo will join me this evening in presenting our updates thank you for being here sir
174and i'll turn over to you well thank you very much superintendent superintendent jackson um good evening trustees and and as i get started i'll just uh open up by saying you know this evening uh governor newsom had his state of the state address at five o'clock so i was doing a little bit of multitasking and listening to his speech and one of the things he talked about his speech was the california way and his definition of the california way is that it includes when it comes to education it includes having a whole new grade which is transitional kindergarten for all it also includes nine hours of enrichment a day as well as expanded summer school and universal nutritious meals so i mentioned that because you know what i would put forward in terms of the
175california way is that san diego unified is the model and and helping lead in in terms of what the california way looks like and i know you've heard about some of these programs this evening already and and so i know superintendent jackson can speak uh extensively about what those programs have looked like in san diego unified so with that i'll get started with our legislative update if we can move on to the next slide we'll cover the legislative calendar sponsored legislation what our fiscal advocacy looks like in terms of bills also we'll provide a brief federal update and a look ahead next slide so as we head into march the legislature is beginning to schedule policy hearings on many of the bills that were introduced by the february 18 deadline which totaled over 2000 bills
176and on this note i should say that today i'll cover only the bills that san diego unified is sponsoring and that also speak to our fiscal advocacy and so before i continue i'd like to share two things the first is that this year san diego unified is a sponsor of three legislative proposals these proposals focus on improving learning conditions for students by addressing the teacher shortage as well as helping helping us respond to covet 19 the ongoing pandemic and to ensure that we're able to provide resources in response uh to covet more effectively and so what i would say is that this sponsored legislation is a reflection of your bold advocacy as a board as board members for san diego unified students and school communities the second i will use the following frame to discuss
177legislative proposals which is first to highlight the problem that the bill addresses second highlight the solution and third highlight how the solution supports students so that's the frame i'll be using next slide san diego unified is uniquely positioned because of our close ties to the military community was that what this means for us is that there are many educators who are military spouses in our community oftentimes however these individuals forego continuing their teaching career when they move to san diego because california's credentialing process is so onerous and so this contributes to the problem of the ongoing teacher shortage in conversations with the department of defense who are also working with us on this proposal they informed us that the second highest perfection profession among military spouses is being a teacher and so when i first
178began at san diego unified our very own chief human resources officer acadia deity raised this problem and offered a specific solution as a result san diego unified is the sponsor of ab1675 which is authored by assembly member chris ward ab 1675 would streamline existing requirements so that the commission on teacher credentialing quickly issues a clear credential uh in a preliminary credential to military spouses with out-of-state teaching credentials the pandemic has only increased the need for more teachers in california and across the nation and so more teachers will allow for students to receive more time and attention with educators as we help students recover from the pandemic next slide as you know san diego unified has been a leader in responding to the pandemic and ensuring the health and safety of students educators and staff senator
179pan even joined you during a board hearing to underscore this message when you first adopted a vaccine mandate however a problem that remains is that the state is not enforcing a uniform and statewide vaccine mandate which we know is critical because the covet virus impacts all of us regardless of where we live as a result senator pan has introduced senate bill 871 which would add coven 19 to the existing list of vaccines that are required for students to attend school and would repeal the personal belief requirement that is made available through the regulatory process so sb 871 will ensure that our schools remain safe and healthy places for our students to learn along with our educators and staff next slide a problem that we learned once our students started getting vaccinated was that school districts
180have limited access to the immunization registry the reason is because state law limits access to the registry for vaccines that are required for students to enroll in school as a result assembly member dr akila weber introduced ab1797 after meeting with members of the san diego unified team and superintendent jackson ab 1797 would ensure that school districts have access to the immunization registry including in future public health emergencies access to the immunization registry will help students because it will allow us to target resources and access more effectively to students who may not have access when they need it next slide now i'll shift over to our fiscal advocacy as you all know we work very closely with our colleagues in urban school districts across california and in december dr jackson and the rest of the urban
181superintendents met to discuss what joint advocacy could look like what came out of that discussion were the key points that you see on the slide which consists of attendance relief both in the form of a hold harmless and a three-year ada rolling average which is a longer term strategy to soften the impact of declining enrollment the letter also called for lcff base increase of 5 billion a cola and 1 billion for special education which i'll note that the governor's proposed budget actually includes 500 million so you know we have a 500 million dollar win there in addition the governor's proposed budget does include a proposal for a three-year ada rolling average the other areas of advocacy in the letter included a pension buy down and a shift towards enrollment-based funding next slide as i highlighted
182the the letter from urban superintendents identified how the pandemic has impacted overall attendance specifically the letter stated that and i'm quoting from the letter here quote without extension of the hold harmless many districts would face an unsustainable loss of core funding at the very time the state is allocating massive amounts of additional targeted resources close quote so with those problems in mind we also shared the urban letter with key elected officials and as a result we have ab1607 as you see on the side by assemblymember marasucci which will allow for a three-year rolling average this methodology would turn the fiscal cliff into a fiscal slope which is how declining enrollment is softened and this as i mentioned it is a similar proposal with some slight variation as what the governor includes in the governor's proposed
183budget and ab1609 is also authored by assemblymember marisucci and also senator allen has his home his own sb these bills would allow san diego unified to seek 1920 funding levels for the 22-23 school year these are not proposals that are in the governor's proposed budget and so we'll have to continue doing advocacy on these senator jackson has mentioned this issue as well as in our in our meetings with key um officials so we will continue to make a push on this specific issue as well and so these proposals are important because though they'll allow us as a district to support our students and educators by ensuring that we have ongoing resources next slide another point that was raised in the urban letter is that the state has not meaningfully raised lcff levels outside of a
184cola and so in the ins in the 1819 state budget lcff was fully funded two years ahead of schedule through an infusion of three billion dollars in youth funding however at full implementation california still retained below average per student funding rates compared to the rest of the nation so ab1614 would add 4.2 billion into the lcff above the statutory cola for the 2223 budget year and the bill also includes language that states that it is the intent of the legislature to strive to reach the top 10 states in the country and per student spending this last point was something that i know i raised specifically in in those meetings with assembly member mayor sujin hista as well to make sure that the legislature is articulating this point as well next sba 30 is authored by
185senator portino and is co-sponsored by lausd and csea a problem that was identified in the urban letter is that the state funding system is based on average daily attendance rather than actual enrollment which means that we do not receive funding for all the students who enroll in our schools sba 30 proposes a supplemental allocation that would provide districts with gaap funding for the difference between enrollment-based funding and average daily attendance sba 30 would also require that 50 of the supplemental allocation be spent only on reducing chronic absences while we support the concept of enrollment-based funding we are working with the author and sponsors of the bill on amendments to improve the bill as currently written sba 30 would require school districts as i mentioned to spend that 50 percent of their allocation to reduce chronic
186absences even if chronic absences are reduced or eliminated and so we just want some flexibility in that if we're reducing chronic absences then we should be rewarded for that as well and so we will continue to work on sba 30 and we anticipate some amendments being made to the bill as well next slide now i'll shift over to provide a brief fertile update first i will begin with community schools much like california the federal government also plans to invest in community schools in preparation the u.s department of education solicited input on their proposed priorities and selection criteria for full service community schools program san diego unified submitted recommendations and we worked in partnership with sea and the san diego community schools coalition and so we will continue tracking the development of the federal community schools
187program to ensure that we maximize federal funds as well second our work at the federal level has consisted of advocating for our most vulnerable students to this end we submitted recommendations to the u.s department of education and the office of management and budget at the white house which consisted of asking to race title 1 title 2 title 3 title 4a funds along with fully funding special education and impact aid much like our state advocacy members of congress are also introducing bills and areas related to our advocacy to fully fund ida we have senate bill 3313 and house bill 5984 and to fully fund impact aid we have house bill 5255 next slide a few final points as i wrap up our federal update there is a lot of activity happening at the federal level as
188we speak for example negotiations on the buildback better act remain ongoing and we are still hopeful that portions related to universal pre-k will eventually move forward on on friday uh this coming friday on march 11 the continuing resolution is set to expire and so congress is working as we speak on an agreement to continue funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year we are optimistic that there will be some increases on key federal funding sources for education such as title one and as soon as those details are available i know our federal team will make sure to communicate that as well an issue that did come up over the weekend and that we engaged last night is the need to extend school nutrition waivers into the into the summer and next school year
189these nutrition waivers have allowed our team to adapt the way we serve meals to our students and allowed us to be more flexible and responsive to the needs of students amid the pandemic to make sure that they have access to food and a school meal we know senator mitch mcconnell opposes the extension of the nutrition waivers and so i want you to know that our federal team is engaged on this issue and we submitted a letter last night to the congressional leadership urging that these waivers be included in the final omnibus spending bill we will continue our advocacy on these waivers and urge senator mcconnell to support the extension of the waivers as well finally we expect the president to issue his proposed fiscal year 2023 budget soon probably next week i would say as
190i mentioned in the last slide we have been advocating for increases to education during the president's state of the union speech the president provided a preview which i included here he's talked about increasing funding as i mentioned for community schools more than doubling title 1 funds an additional 3.3 billion dollar increase for ida and ida part c and he also mentioned hiring more mental health professionals in schools and so we look forward to examining what those details look like for san diego unified next slide uh and as i conclude my presentation you know we always like to take a moment to look ahead and there are some critical pending decisions as i mentioned in dc and sacramento one of the most critical decisions will be in november when we have midterm elections ahead of that
191we're also waiting on full fda approval of covet-19 vaccines as well as the governor's pending use of the regulatory process to enact a statewide vaccine mandate and we're optimistic with the net with the economy although we are seeing some challenges as the president has highlighted with inflation uh but i know the lao has has estimated the prospect of more revenues and so have economic trends hold you know we may see a much better may revise and so with that i'll if we can go to the next slide i'll conclude my presentation and just say that this advocacy work is a reflection of your own work and your own representation of your communities and so i'll hand it over to superintendent jackson thank you sir uh very thorough and i will just simply ask the board
192if you have any questions uh let's see vice president awesome yeah thank you enrique that was a great summary and you're doing great work i just had a question this is more just to make sure i understand so you talked about the difference between attendance-based funding and actual ada i i wasn't clear what you meant by that yes so the current funding system is based on attendance through lcff so we get money based on the number of students that show up to class which is different than getting funding that is based on enrollment so the actual number of kids that were required to serve in a community so as you know you know not every kid necessarily shows up to class although historically san diego unified has had very high attendance rates uh and and
193the pandemic has challenged that in some ways uh and and so that's the main difference between enrollment and attendance thank you mr pereira for steve oh thank you president whitehouse spain i just want to thank enrique fantastic clear presentation and reflects uh the work that you do i know that you actually are a leader in the conference in the conversation around education advocacy in sacramento and i and i know you're also very uh focused on where we need to uh put our voice into the conversation at the federal level so um enrique just terrific work and um we're thankful to to have you in both capitals advocating for us i concur that we are grateful for the work you're doing for us uh trustee patterson yeah thank you i wanted to piggyback off of what
194christie baza was saying ask a question so just something i think i've always been confused about so the funding if we have a 95 attendance rate that remaining 5 the funding was allocated i assume because you can't just offer a certain amount of funding you don't have in the first place what happens to that five percent currently does that just go back into the general fund is it where does it just sit there i don't really understand that yes uh that's a good question i you know i think i would want to defer that question to my finance colleagues if you're talking about the district i know at the state level uh this the department of finance will true up attendance rate over over the year so that is reflected in the apportionments that a
195school district receives you know we receive two apportionments one in the fall and another one later in the spring if i remember correctly uh and so they are adjusting based on attendance and our reporting numbers okay oh yeah okay so did you want to answer that christie barrera yeah i just wanted to back up um trustee patterson's question because i think i think the question that i'm hearing you ask is if the state allocates a certain amount of money for schools based on you know but then a school district comes in at 95 percent or 93 percent or 98 percent not a hundred percent what happens to that money that the state has allocated for schools and i think um correct me if i'm wrong enrique that the uh analysis around sb 830 is that
196if we actually move to an enrollment based system in california as opposed to ada that would free up an additional 3 billion dollars for for public schools so yes i'm understanding your question now so there's two parts to it um in terms of sba 30 i do want to draw the distinction that sba 30 is not shifting the existing funding system to an enrollment-based funding system what it's doing is it's keeping the existing ada funding system but then providing a supplemental allocation so it's it we're being given the gap between what we would have gotten if it was just based on overall enrollment but to trustee patterson's question i mean the state budget process really is a three-year budget process so the governor is always adjusting uh prior year current year and budget year and
197so that's where the adjustments are made based on attendance it's it's uh done automatically uh through statute and even prop 98 is based you know adjusted based on attendance so you know to answer your question you know money moves in and out depending on what the numbers are when the department of finance crunches those got it and it really is based off of what we've had in the past so they're probably going to allocate 92 93 let's say for san diego unified if that's our attendance rate and it's not like that eight percent is just sitting there rather it wasn't allocated in the first place and if we surprise them somehow they'll find the funds but generally that's the way it works okay thank you for that clarification never understood that you're welcome yes that's
198what happens to president whiter's pain yes i just want to thank that's a phenomenal report amazing job as as you are well aware in the past the state used to offer a credit to fund smaller class sizes in kindergarten through third grade because we know research proves that smaller class sizes result in higher levels of learning for students and uh third grade literacy being so critical in that um is there any effort or partnerships afoot to try to allocate any surplus funds to incentivize or to help get those k3 class sizes back down yes trustee visor thank you for your question so i you know i would point you to two areas and actually now that you asked a question it reminds me i know dr siminsky earlier talked about her utk program and and
199trustee patterson asked a question about ratios about moving 12-1 the governor's proposed budget as he presented it in january he's actually adding an additional 383 million in the utk space to ensure that our earliest learners can benefit from a shift of 12 to 1 as far as a class ratio and to help support the transition in the future for 10 to 1. so there is some support there in terms of early education beyond that you know i'm still reviewing many of the proposals that ent that were introduced i want to say i think there is one that assembly member patrick o'donnell i know that's a topic that he has raised in the assembly budget education finance committee and i and superintendent jackson and i met with him as well so i'll have to review the
200proposals and get back to you on on that specifically thank you if memory serves it was a local san diego assembly in a way back in the day was the champion and advocated and got that class k-3 class size reduction grant approved in sacramento so maybe we could bet ward or yes we'll definitely keep it in mind yes thank you uh if there is no more discussion i want to say thank you on enrique for all of your hard work and it's good to know that we have an advocate there who's looking out for our interest and who's meeting with folks to bring to their attention things that i'm sure they're not familiar with so i just want to say thank you and with that we will move to item h2 the fiscal year 22
201second interim financial report mr lieutenant thank you president whitehurst payne and this evening as required with ab 1200 local educational agencies must share and file interim reports [Music] of our annual budgets and uh this is done uh as of october 31st and january 31st and uh districts must collect information financial data during these reporting periods and prepare the appropriate interim reports and this evening we have drew rollins and i believe he may turn it over to the experts but um i think he's going to give our finance team an opportunity to present this evening for our second interim thank you good evening thank you dr jackson um tonight ms mcallis and i will present the second interim financial report oh i'm sorry brent can you please start the presentation yeah i'm getting ahead of myself
202as the superintendent mentioned uh this is a report that is uh required to be approved by the board by march 15th of the year thank you brent stay there for a moment please um this is the budget timeline that we show with each of our present budget presentations and as you can see the process continues as we draw uh closer to the end of the fiscal year after tonight and the start of the new one the new fiscal year we have three key events that you'd see here the may revision to the governor's budget passage of the state budget by june 15th and then the district's budget aligned with our lcap and approved by june 30. next slide please please thank you and again superintendent touched on it but the superintendent i'm sorry the second
203interim is based on our activity this year july 1st through january 31st and what we project to happen through june 30th it's the governor's proposed budget we take aboard the guidance that's provided to us by the county and again it's current year in the next two years 21 22 22 23 and 23 24. next please and we've touched on this some a little bit before but the governor presented his proposed budget in january and in particular the revisions to calculating ada which which we all just talked about and providing the use of the rolling three-year average is a big help to us as we have revised our budget planning to help to us and frankly many districts across the state so you'll see that play through the the second room as jody helps me present
204tonight additionally while there are a lot of bright spots with the budget the number of new investments are specific categorical funds that have restrictions on their use and have varying calculations on how the funds are allocated to the districts and then again [Music] we look at the federal funding and just the idea that in the out years we know that there will be a decline in that one-time money with that i'm going to hand the presentation over to ms jody mcallis our executive director of finance to provide more details regarding our second interim report so jody please thank you drew next slide please this slide depicts the revenue assumptions that we used for building the multi-year projections and on the slide you'll note that we are projecting a slight increase in enrollment for fiscal year
2052223 as a result as we continue to recover from the pandemic along with the expansion of our utk program in addition we are projecting a 5.33 cola cost of living adjustment for fiscal year 2223 which is proposed by the governor and a 3.61 cost of living adjustment for 23.24 next slide please on this slide we're providing you with a graphical picture of our enrollment which shows that we are in a downward sloping trend and from fiscal year 2223 to 23 24 it is an average decline of 1.5 percent next slide please uh this slide shows the expenditure assumptions that are used for the multi-year projections for next year there is an increase in the employer contributions for both stirs and pers which is based on current guidance and we will continue to adjust as we
206receive updated information for fiscal year 2223 we are projecting a balanced budget due to the proposed additional state investment in lcff however for fiscal year 23 24 we still have a small balance of 19.1 million that will require solution next slide please although our second interim is based on our state funding the next couple of slides provides you with information on the federal funding or the federal relief funding that the district has received and it also shows um how much how much we're expecting to receive um what when the funds expire and the uses of the fund and on this slide we're talking about our sr1 and our gear money next slide please here is some additional sources of the federal relief funds and as you can see the sr2 funds expire in september of
2072023 and the sr3 funds expire in september of 2024 and again it shows the dollar amounts that we are expecting to receive and the uses of those dollars next slide please in addition to federal funding we have the district has also received additional state funding and similar to the federal funds these funding sources have expiration dates and are considered one time in nature and with that i will turn it back over to drew thank you jody and next slide friend so we're attempting here with this graphic to just take a moment and highlight our budget development process and alignment with our lcap the lcap remains our foundation and drives what we do some of the highlights of our budgeting and federal funds planned uses are shown here aligned with our six l-cap goals for example
208you see things like continued covet testing and safety measures which you know hopefully we don't have to do much more of but it's there mental health supports it supports as shown in goal one and as a matter of fact you can see that there are components of mental health that are connected to goal one and goal four and you see that same type of thing in many of the items you'll see literacy acceleration captured in uh goals three in goal four you'll see professional development nearly throughout the uh the lcap goals so it's it's just a reminder that we know where we're going with this that we're aligning to our lcap as we continue to proceed our developing our budget the work we're doing now to bring you a budget back uh in june next
209slide please a few reminders of of um where we are the second interim is based on the best information at this time we have more to play out with the state's budget and other things like i said hopefully we're seeing uh the pandemic becoming an endemic and it continuing to diminish but we will be prepared in case it does change we also have many ongoing discussions with our collective bargaining units that may impact our future budgets and finally as we typically do we will fine-tune the organization by eliminating vacant positions as needed next please so as you've heard we are in a much better position than what we was presented at the first interim in december we have a balanced budget for next year and show just a very small shortfall for the 23-24 school
210year then we also as we must we we put a final reminder we need to keep it balanced in the financial planning and execute and execution targeting one-time dollars to one-time expenses and being just being mindful of the impact of recurring costs and now i'd like to hand the presentation over to superintendent jackson sure it's nice to say that without that word interim in front of it to provide his commentary on advocacy and kind of connect with what a little bit of what we heard from dr rocho in the previous presentation thank you jody and thank you drew if we can go to the next slide please so um here what what this slide is really uh what we really wanted to do is uh share a little bit about why our advocacy is so
211critical and um when we talk about advocating for an increase of the lcff base what we're really saying is uh supporting uh ab61614 is really an estimated or approximately 75 million dollars that we would see this is uh 1.8 of the 4.2 billion dollars that would exist that's a great deal of money that we could see into our general fund and so this is an important bit of advocacy that enrique is doing that our work with our electeds are so critical in our conversations uh with the pro tems office because as we advocate and we talk about the alignment to the governor's california way we are a model as as started early in the presentation by stephanie and marceline we are leading the way uh we are a model for many things in the state
212and leading as an advocate for an increase in the base is going to potentially bring 75 million more dollars to us an additional point to make here is the special education ida full funding at the federal government now we know that's the start and it could really reduce from there but we are also expecting additional state revenue for special education but just to note our current general fund contribution to serving our students with disabilities is 246 million dollars if we were to get most of that or all of that fully funded we would see 246 million plus the 75 million we're looking at about 321 million dollars into our general fund that could do so much of what we have uh set as goals in our lcap and what i hope will be in our
213vision 2030. so this is why our advocacy is so critical and i want to thank the finance team for uh really developing a second interim that as jody says and it's good to say a very small uh deficit in the out years of 19 million so our advocacy will continue and we hope to see uh many more millions come into our general fund uh next slide please this evening we are asking the board to approve our fiscal year 21 22 second interim financial report and resolution with a positive certification and identification of the amount of the budget solutions needed for the fiscal year of 23 24 and we will need to identify budget solutions later this year uh in the winter thank you and i'd like a motion on this please so i'll move thank
214you thank you mcgrary and second was from is that patterson dr mike uh you did the second one patrick okay dr mike gave the motion and patterson ii okay of no discussion i think we all know this piece now patterson i i thank you pereira aye unanimously with the student trustee concurring and that takes us to the thank you staff for that for those reports i think we've been getting the reports in this fashion now for a while and we kind of understand it much better can flow with it without a lot of questions so thank you for that section i the superintendent's consent agenda i would like a motion on that you know that item 32 was withdrawn by staff so has anything else been removed nope okay emotion please on this consent uh
215agenda i'll move items i one through thirty one is that right uh yes thank you trustee patterson and the second on this is vice president bazo let's go down the list uh patterson aye barrera aye buzzo hi visor hi macquarie hi yours truly i passes unanimously with the student trustee concurring thank you all and that takes us to public participation the public agenda and we have a list of names for that this is stultz uh thank you all for this so far let's go through these names in groups of fives janet brown one minute each uh janet brown darlene proeno uh deanna carlock caitlyn godfriedson justina wearick the first one that's in at number five all right uh that would be justina please unmute yourself and you have one minute hello can you hear me
216yes hi um so it seems that this board wants to be at odds with parents and that you don't consider what we're saying and to the new superintendent i'm asking why do you want to start out this way it's time to do the right thing and end the mass mandate on the 11th and let parents decide what's best for their children how am i supposed to logically explain to my child that his sister's preschool which is two blocks away it's safe to unmask but his school isn't the only logic is politics san diego has moved to the low tier for community spread and even the cdc agrees people to give people a mass break when rates are low you were right when you said our children were watching they are watching they're watching the school
217say they're following science until it no longer fits their agenda adults who can't admit that they were wrong to extend the mass mandate in the first place thank you and there's on christa christa maria ormsby marta kobaziel adrian freeland judith lohulset quella june high number eight number eight marta kosbial one minute please unmute yourself marta please unmute yourself you have one minute still there she's in the room martyr we see you would you please unmute yourself we will come back to you adrian freeland judith le josette cuella june concerned parent 10 namaskey nine is available adrian freeland please unmute yourself okay she's gone uh let's see where did i leave off mel norman dates uh no mandates i guess is what he wants to be we want freedom raquel hall is available would you please
218unmute yourself ms hall yes i'm here thank you i'm not an anti-vaxxer i have all my shots i live in point loma community and unlike you all i'm not receiving compensation to push the masks to the tests and the shots for pay i'm not going to speak and now i'm going to speak on facts the fda was forced to release clinical data on the cover vaccines january 22nd so 55 000 pages out of thousands of documents was released the fda had originally wanted to hide the data but for 75 years but of course and not until 2096 but why because the fda engaged in criminal activity to profit for health and expense so that you all the fda sorry um the fda engaged in criminal activity for profit at our health expense and so are
219all of you doing the same you're all knowingly pushing the code test masks and shots for profit we know because reports show that schools get paid exit for every vaccinated child as long as you push those three things the vaccine should have never been approved none of them this was obvious because in the very beginning animal testings were were skipped and the very few that were tested thank you my child my choice alma venegas vanessa please alma please unmute yourself alma venegas we will come back to you again okay you're here okay okay good um good evening my name is alma venegas and the reason i'm here is and i'm here to request reinstatement as a special education teacher after resigning last year while i was sick and it was during a lapse of judgment
220i have 20 years experience in teaching i have a special education as well as a multiple education multiple subject credential and i also have a master's degree and i'm also bilingual i'm dedicated to my work and i miss working with students and staff and again i'm requesting reinstatement as a special education teacher thank you vanessa verissimo courtney vignuli jenna baldly carly carr leslie rulink jason prieto bonnie jimenez lauren springer becky nelson shane nelson number 21 please unmute yourself jenna yes yes hi there is no logical reason to continue the mask mandates on students for another full month the state of california no longer requires masks after march 11th waiting until april the unmasked students just feel spiteful open your eyes and take a look around mask mandates are over go to disneyland if you don't
221believe me go to your local grocery store movie theater or any busy restaurant on a saturday night you need to stop dictating health mandates we should be allowed to make all health decisions for our kids not you not the cdc you're pushing a non-fda approved vaccine with only a 12 success rate on our young kids all vaccinate my kids if and when i feel it's beneficial to do so until then i won't be pressured i believe in science but you're not following it stop using my kids as pawns in a political game and infringing on our rights and freedoms thank you carly kerr number 23 is available okay leslie rulevink please unmute yourself you have one minute hello can you hear me hello thank you for listening to an sd usd parent um i strongly
222support mass choice as the physical social and emotional harm to masking children for almost two years does not does not outweigh the benefits regarding the potential small risk of covid which for the majority of children adults presents now as a common cold masking is not only unscientifically unsound but it is psychologically emotionally and socially harmful creating unprecedented anxieties and depression in our children female teenage suicide is up by 50 50 percent the chd the california health department just published an article about how masked mandates have stunted children's language development please please let those who choose to go mask free breathe freely and enjoy their common humanity by seeing one another's beautiful faces thank you thank you jason prieto bonnie jimenez 27 becky nelson please unmute yourself one minute please hello mass mandate should be moved
223to choice effective immediately if the president of the united states can hug and kiss people at the state of the union unmasked and our governor can unmask at the nfc football game what are you board members doing the board members get their guidance from the cdc correct well the cdc states mass mandates can be removed when the covered numbers are in the medium or low tier san diego county is now in the lower tier each person should choose what's best for their family mass mandates need to be removed now not in a month the board members continue to advocate for the kovid shot but fail to admit why they don't trust the shot and boosters if the people that are vaccinated and also choose to mask are protected enough then why are we mandating it
224please admit that the shot is not a vaccine otherwise you would be protected the shot is to minimize the symptoms of covet just as the flu shot is to minimize the symptoms of the flu this shot is still in the trial phases and exactly why our children shouldn't be mandated to be part of an experiment thank you shane nelson yes please unmute yourself shane nelson okay you have what number 29 29 rita carlene please unmute yourself rita yes hi can you hear me yes we can thank you i um i had an entire speech written but it's obvious that our concerns as parents are falling on deaf ears so i'll just say this like all the other parents tonight please remove your mask mandate on our children with the state's timeline march 11th please stop
225playing politics with our children there is no public health emergency there is no reason to continue this through 4-4 thank you melissa grace don ganz katherine walton and audrey hillman okay catherine walton please unmute yourself you have one minute catherine walton please unmute yourself don ganz sorry you're number 31 the first 31 don gans don ganz please unmute yourself thank you hi this is dawn gans yes we hear you thank you i just wanted to state that i was in opposition to the mandates whether it's the covid vaccine mandate or the masking mandate thank you for your time tonight thank you catherine walton and audrey hillman neither okay with that we want to thank you this concludes the agendas business of the board the next regular meeting will be held on tuesday march 22 2022
226at 5 pm a special joint meeting of the san diego unified school board and the san diego community college board is scheduled for tuesday march 15 2022 at 5 pm we look forward to seeing you thank you have a great evening thank you you