January 27th, 2026 SUSD Board Meeting at 4:00 pm

001ah hey Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. testing, testing. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey. You got me. Hey, hey, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Good evening everyone. We will go ahead and get started. I'll call the meeting to order at 4:01. Evet will read the language under public comment. Thank you, Madam President. In order to help assure compliance with the Brown Act and in order to make our board meetings more effective and more efficient, trustees will speak only when recognized and trustees who speak on a topic other than the agenda item currently under consideration will be out of order. Board meeting protocols. The safety and decorum of schoolboard meetings are important to Stockton Unified School District and the community. SUSD promotes the right to free speech and we want to make

002sure that all community members, parents, and students are able to participate in a safe environment. We want to ensure all community members have a seat during the board meeting. We will have the maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code, which is 132. We ask that members of the public do not stand along the side of walls or block the walkway. Anyone standing up during the meeting will be asked to take a seat. If they do not comply, they will be asked to leave. Any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible. There is a podium positioned in front of the first row of chairs. No one other than the person who is speaking may be at the podium except for a guardian, administrator, or translator. For safety, people

003may not line up behind the person waiting to speak. We want to give that person at the podium the time and respect they deserve. Each speaker will be allowed 3 minutes. Attendees are not allowed to enter the area past the table where board members are sitting. No profanity or obscinity. During the board meeting, if there is a disruption, the board president or designate will give a verbal warning to the person or persons causing the disruption. If the disruption continues after the verbal warning, the individual will be asked to leave or be removed from the premises for the remainder of the board meeting. After the meeting is concluded, we ask community to clear the lobby area in a respectful manner. Back to you, Madam President. Thank you. We'll move on to item 1.2, roll call, taken

004by Iette. >> President Sophia Colon, >> present. Vice President Priest >> present. >> Clerk Martin, >> it's just running late. >> Trustee Daire >> also running late. >> Trusty Perez, >> present. >> Trustee Stevens, >> present. >> Trustee Silva, >> present. >> Student Representative Kiana Labou, >> present. >> Student representative Jackson Brooks, >> present. >> Thank you. Back to you, Madam President. Thank you. We'll move on to item 1.3, student board representative report by Miss Kiana Labau, Stag High School, 12th grade, and Mr. Jackson Brooks, Pacific Law Academy, also 12th grade. Good evening, everyone. ASB is continuing to show our spirit with a door decorating contest for classes and clubs to have a chance to showcase their creativity skills. We're also having a club rush called Sugar Rush for clubs to fund raise for their

005clubs and for students to enjoy yummy foods and for to look at clubs they're interested in. And within the next few weeks, we're gearing up for eighth grade tours to showcase all that STAC has to offer. And on January 29th, Stag will be welcoming eighth graders for the class of 2030 senior night. Parent night, sorry, parent night. And for academic team just went on our first competition and have another one this Saturday. So, they want to wish our team good luck. Stag Athletics Boosters is hosting a crab feed on February 14th and the tickets are $80 a person. And students at Stag will be able to help and serve our community at the crab feed. They will be having a silent auction and there will be prizes auctioned off. Our counseling team are also holding

006numerous presentations and workshops for students to attend to get more information about college life. And for FFA in December, citizens took field trips to CSU Fresno to the tour the college and a facilities whole of California and their diesel technician program and completed community service hours at the annual Sanwaqing County Festival of Trees hosted by the Sanwaqing Historical Society. In January, 12 junior and sophomore students attended the MEL made for Excellent Made for Excellence and Advanced Leadership Academy leadership conferences in Sacramento with other FFA members across the state. The members the week of the 23rd will be submitting their FFA state degrees, the highest honor an FFA member can be awarded in the state and one that only 5% of members achieve. On January 31st, we'll be hosting our second annual stag floor contest invitational

007where schools across the state will come compete in various components of floor design. And in February, in midFebruary, our floor pathway students will be competing in a floor deveil contest put on by florists from the US and Canada and San Jose. This is a contest where professional florists from all over create essentially flower fashion show using only flowers as a medium for still displays. High school students generally do not compete and were specifically invited to the competition. A great honor and testimony to the quality of our program. And on February 4th, we will have FA members competing at the mother low technical public speaking contest at Lynn High School in the areas of Creed Spanish impromptu and extraneous prepared and job interview. Also throughout February, our students livestock projects for San King County Afest 2026

008will begin arriving on campus. We will soon have pigs, sheep, goats, and turkey in the barn. There are studentowned and operated enterprises where they personally earn all proceeds from auctioning their animals off on June 20th at the San King County Fairgrounds. Thank you. PLA and SECA's academic decathlon teams competed in an academic speech and interview competition. Pacific Law Academy, SECAS and Weber's mock trial teams are competing in the Stockton courthouse tonight. Uh and then Pacific Law Academy, they hosted a parent coffee hour and Merllo is selling Kenny Grahams and roses for Valentine's Day. Thank you. >> Okay, great. Thank you so much for sharing that uh information with us and I'm sure we'll look forward to hearing more about um the awards. Um let's see. We'll move on to our item 1.4 student honore Miss

009Garcia Card Cardinz and presented by Mr. Brett Tolliver, principal of St High School. >> Good afternoon, Superintendent Rodriguez and distinguished board members. I'd like to introduce our Stag High School's ASB president, four-year ASB person, and our commissioner of information through social media, Miss Alexis Cardennas. >> Good afternoon, board members, and Michelle Rodriguez. My name is Alexis Garcia Cardinz. While I have been at Stag, I've had many opportunities through multiple programs my schools had to offer. I've been able to excel in and out of school through academics and extracurriculars. Through academic help from teachers working overtime, and access to my academic decathlon team, I've been able to expand my learning from outside school hours with the help of public speaking skills and more. As I am a senior now heading off to college soon, I've been

010admitted to UOP, Chico, Merrced, and many others with the help of Stag to guide me there. Through my ASB team, I've been able to find my love and passion for helping others while creating community amongst our students and staff. While being president of my student body, I've been offered an internship and becoming my school's social media manager, covering all aspects STAG, like student involvement, student and family resources, and helping everyone keep up with Stags daily. Although STAG has had some ups and downs, our school climate has had an overwhelming change. With the help of the student advisory, our superintendent has heard our students voices and made a positive change on campus. While STAG may not have a good reputation, our school climate and pathways have changed and excelled with our leadership team holding events showcasing

011stag pride and our CTE pathways have prepared students for college and career readiness. In all, Almost Alonzo Stag High School has been a home to me and many others. While me and Kiana have not highlighted everything stag has to offer, it has been such a great school to me and has offered so much. And with these the updates of the other comprehensive high schools, Chavez Chavez CWE team celebrated classes with the best attendance. I want to say Frank and Nataline from Wrestling Wrestling just placed high in some major wrestling competition. Miss Harden just got a bunch of students OSHA certified. A community focused student who has celebrated another at lunch has gone viral. We have had about 100 students complete and turn in their chaveis way activities at lunchtime in all four classes in the

012first week of the school's term. Not a huge number of schoolwide, but a huge number to follow through the whole process. Boys soccer is the first in their league at the moment. And for Franklin, the district specialty fair hosted by Franklin has well attended. CTE students and Brown issue kids were recognized at the last board meeting. Girls soccer team is still undefeated and coach Gaitton is the new head football coach at Franklin. 14 Franklin BSU students will be going to Washington DC during spring break. and Franklin brought back winter formals since COVID and it was a success for Edison. Over the course of this school year, ASB and Plus members have played a significant role in building a more positive and inclusive school culture, consistent collaboration of student leadership, and campuswide engagement. From daily lunchtime

013activities early in the year to supporting major events such as orientations, family nights, cultural awareness, and community incentives, students have reminded highly visible and active. Plus, leaders have also taken on leadership roles through forums, peer support efforts, service projects, and representing students voices in PBIS while continuing to assist, welcoming in new students, demonstrating a strong commitment to connection, service, and student advocacy. Our Viking Theater Company production of Disney's Little Mermaid is February 26th to the 28th at 700 p.m. with a matey at 1 and the 28th. This will be the last show to be produced in the current theater as it will undergo a remodel. Thank you. Thank you so much for not only sharing about yourself and your school, but also our other high schools as well. So, thank you so much. Um, and

014if you can come back up if you have any family with you as well, we'd like to present you with your certificate. together. We got All right, thank you. We'll move on to item 1.5, oral suggestions. Abby will announce the number of public comments and request each person to provide their public comment in the order they were received. Christina will be the time cap keeper. >> Trustees, we do not have any comment cards for item 1.5. Thank you. >> Okay. Item 1.6, public employee discipline dismissal release. Um, do we have any cases? We do not. >> Okay, great. Thank you. Item 1.7, the board will consider in close session items listed in close session by Vice President Shauna Priest. >> Okay. Item 2.1, public employee employee appointment certificated government code section 54957 resignation retirement resend

015employment offer appointment closed positions. Item 2.2 2 public employee appointment classified government code section 54957 resignation retirement resent employment offer appointment item 2.3 public employee discipline dismissal release item 2.4 Four, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, significant exposure to litigation under subsections D-2 and E-3 of government code section 54956.9, three claims. One, claim number 113023. Two, claim number 657865. And three, claim number 666151. 2.5 Conference with legal counsel existing litigation government code 54956.9 section D1 D and section 1 name of case OAH number 202501 0195. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you. Item 1.8, we will now recess to close session at uh 4:16. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Oh, hey. Hey. aha. A a Oh, hey. Here we go. Oh. Oh. Oh. Hey, hey,

016hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hello. Oh. Hey. Hello. up. Pop. Hello. Heat. She fell for the world. Heat. Heat. Oh. Hey. Good evening everyone. We will now call the meeting to order. will reconvene to public session at 554 and Evette will read the language under public content. Thank you, Madam President. In order to help assure compliance with the Brown Act and in order to make our board meetings more effective and more efficient, trustees will speak only when recognized. Trustees who speak on a topic other than the agenda item currently under consideration will be out of order. Board meeting protocols. The safety and decorum of the school board meetings are important to Stockton Unified School District and the community. SUSD promotes the public's

017right to free speech and we want to make sure that all community members, parents, and students are able to participate in a safe environment. We want to ensure all community members have a seat during the board meeting. We will have the maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code, which is 132. We ask that members of the public do not stand along the side of walls or block the walkway. Anyone standing up during the meeting will be asked to take a seat. If they do not comply, they will be asked to leave. Any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible. There is a podium positioned in front of the first row of chairs. No one other than the person who is speaking may be at the podium except

018for a guardian, an administrator, or translator. For safety, people may not line up behind the speaker to wait their turn. We want to give the person at the podium the time and respect they deserve. Each speaker will be allowed 3 minutes. Attendees are not allowed to enter the area past the table where the board members are sitting. no profanity or obscinity. During the board meeting, if there is a disruption, the board president or designate will give a verbal warning to the person or persons causing the disruption. If the disruption continues after the verbal warning, the individuals will be asked to leave or be removed from the premises for the remainder of the board meeting. After the meeting is concluded, we ask community to clear the lobby area in a respectful manner. Back to you, Madame

019President. Thank you. We'll move on to item 4.1, pledge of allegiance, led by project seed participants. May everyone please place your right hand over your heart. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And thank you. If you could please just share a little bit about your project. Uh let us know who you are and which schools you're coming from. >> My name is Gabby Marino and I'm from Seeka High School and I'm a senior. >> My name is Arty Palmer. I attend Edison High School as a senior as well. Over the summer, we had the opportunity to work under American Chemical Society's project seed, which allowed us to intern at

020UOP under Professor Skyler Carlson, where we were able to research uh microorganisms competition between aquatic and fungal uh strains and examine what pathways they exhibited. Um, a little bit about my experience. Um, basically involves uh the this being my first internship that I've had over the summer. Um, I'd like to say that this experience was extremely meaningful meaningful in the sense that it provided not only knowledge but also experience that I could get that was hands-on which definitely is important towards the career that I want to pursue in the future which is bio engineering. Would you like to share about your experience? I also was really grateful for this opportunity because it was my first lab experience in my entire life and I do plan on furthering the research field within pharmaceuticals and medicine in

021the future with my chemical engineering degree. Thank you both so much. Let's give them a round of applause. Sounds like an amazing project. And we do have certificates for you both. Um and if you have any family with you or or representatives from from your high schools to join us up at the podium, we have um certificate for Edison and for Seka All right. Thank you. We'll move on to item 4.2, action taken in close session by Vice President Shauna Priest. Item 2.1 public employee appointment certificated government code section resignation retirement resent employment offer appointment closed positions. Uh motion to approve unanimous. Item 2.2 public employee appointment classified government code section 54957 resignation retirement resend employment offer appointment. Motion to approve unanimous. Item 2.3, public employee discipline dismissal release. Motion to approve unanimous. Item 2.3,

022public employee discipline dismissal release. Motion to approve unanimous. Item 2.3, public employee discipline dismissal release. Motion to approve unanimous. Unanimous. Item 2.4 4 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure to a litigation under subsections D2 and E3 of government code section 54956.9 no reportable action item 2.4 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation under subsections D.2 2 and E-3 of government code section 54956.9. Motion to approve unanimous item 2.4 Four, conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation under subsections D-2 and E-3 of government code section 54956.9 no reportable action and item 2.5 conference with legal counsel existing litigation government code 54956.9 no reportable action Okay. Item 2.4, claim number 657865. Uh, there's a motion to approve unanimous. And item 2.4, claim number 666151, no reportable action. Thank you.

023>> This one is >> Okay. Claim number 66151. Motion to reject. Uh, unanimous. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. We'll move on to item number 4.3, order of agenda. And I would like to call out that we do have a correction for agenda item 8.1 correction to subject line consideration and action on KIP Stockton High School new charter petition including proposed board resolution number 25-40 to deny the petition to establish Kip Stockton High School new charter school. So at this time uh Abby will read the oral announcement. This is the opportunity for the board of trustees to make any changes to the order of the agenda. Otherwise, the order of the agenda will be as published. I like to make a motion to uh move item 13.1 up. Do you have a um place you'd

024like to move it up to? Just after the consent calendar. Uh I second Okay. So, the motion is to approve the consent calendar with the exception of 13.1 moving it up to >> No, the motion is we're on order of the agenda. So, we would move it up to um right before 7.1 before the presentation of the KPI. Yes. >> Okay. We have um a first and a second. Any discussion? Uh, roll call vote, please. >> President Colon, >> yes. Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin, >> yes. >> Trusty Daire, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trusty Stevens, >> yes. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. >> Motion passes unanimously. Okay, moving on to item 5.1, oral suggestions and comments from the community regarding open session agenda items. Abby will announce the

025number of public comments and request each person to provide their public comment in the order there they were received. Christina will be the timekeeper. Individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board. The board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. Trustees, we currently have 13 comment cards for item 8.1 and we will address those comment cards when we get to that item. Okay, first comment card for item 5.1 is from Sarah Waters regarding item 13.1. Thank you so much. Hello. Good evening, trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. My name is Sarah Waters. I'm a school psychologist in the district. This is my 28th year in the district. Um, I want to say I'm I'm not here to beg that you approve SPA's TA tonight because to be

026honest, I think it's um a little bit insulting, but I do respect my union and I know there was an overwhelming majority vote, the 134 to 53 to to pass the TA. Um I also request that before you vote on the issue, you are very aware of some facts. Um there's a very very important issue um that I want you to be aware of with respect to the TA and um a previous side letter that the board approved in January of 2025. Um, in that side letter, um, the a new salary schedule was created only for SLPs, and I hope other unions might be here to listen because they received raises ranging from 8% to 25%. Um, I'm a data person. So, what you have in front of you is the salary schedule. Um, that's

027online. The first page I highlighted is the psychologist. I'm a psychologist. That's the only reason I chose that one. But that's the same box that SLPs were formerly in. Um and um before they were moved onto their very own schedule with two added steps. So the SLP schedules on the second page. So you will see that it ranges. I did the percentages on the right column. I'm not going to waste time reading them, but you can see the percentages go from 8% to 25%. I'm sure no other disciplines anywhere in any union have ever received this raise and a $10,000 bonus that they received last year. Um, I think it's unfortunate that our union is polarized. We're supposed to all be in this together. It's disheartening to me because I've worked with so many of

028these SLPs over the last 27 years and we all have the kids' best interest at heart. Um, I just think the inequality is glaring um on that new salary schedule. And um you can also look at that side letter. It might be hard to find. I could not find it anywhere online. It's not posted. It's not noted anywhere. It's not an addendum to our contract. I had to ask uh an SPA board member for it. Um because I actually didn't even know it existed, which is I didn't know it existed until about a month ago. Um it seemed like a very secret thing that was done, but I understand it was approved. Um I just really really am asking that you consider consider this pay schedule that was created before making your vote. Thank you

029so much. Thank you. Next common card is from Scott Fry regarding item 13.1. Good evening, trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. I'm the chairperson of psychological services and I'm here to take talk tonight about item 13.1 or whatever the new number is on it. uh the ratification of the tenative agreement between SUSD and Stockton Pupil Personnel Association. Um our our last contract was ratified by the board on 72324. So it's been about 17 months since we've seen an update to our contract. Um the tenative agreement was presented to the membership and passed by 72% of those who voted. the recent one that ca came to us. At the last board meeting, three members complained to the board about the tenative agreement and it was voted down four nos to three yeses by this board. I can tell

030you in talking to folks, nobody feels like this is a perfect contract. Rarely do do all sides feel like it's perfect for them. I believe that the hard work of our SPA negotiations team and the district negotiators should be honored. What might have been shared at last board meeting um may not be telling the whole story. speech and language pathologists and the chairperson through a side letter received substantial and unprecedented raises and and stipens in January of 2025 that no other group within SPA received. And I have to say I'm not upset that they got those raises happy for them. I just think there needs to be some equality. The eight to% to over 20% salary increases plus a $10,000 stipen is unprecedented. Two additional steps were added to the SLP salary. Some people at

031the top end of the salary make $20,000 a year more than they did a year ago. 20,000 more than what other people in their same tier are making. No other group was ra got that that raise during this same time period. And in a perfect world, we wouldn't be standing here fighting over money. Um, and we would have received the same generous contract back in January 2025. Maybe not the same percentages increase, but something to combat the cost of inflation. The district presented an offer of 1.75 salary increase and would would redistribute this money that would have been given to SLPs to the remaining groups with SP within SPA. I believe that tenative agreement that you're talking about tonight was an attempt to bring things in into alignment for the union. Please consider voting yes.

032Next common card is from Robin Gorilla. You next comment card is from Jennifer Robas. >> Hello everybody. Good evening. President Cologne, superintendent, trustees. I'm Jennifer Robles. This is my 29th year in Stockton Unified, a very proud school counselor program specialist. I am speaking tonight as the SPA negotiations vice chair. And so, um, I want to thank the board for taking the time last meeting at January 20th to listen to the concerns of our speech and language pathologists. We really appreciate your attention to those concerns and your commitment to equity for all employees. Our SLPs are under significant strain. There is a local, state, and national shortage in this profession, and our district has experienced vacancies for several years. SPBA has been working closely with special education and human resources on recruitment to bring in more

033of these SLPs and to identify supports and solutions, and we are very grateful for that collaboration. These supports include the use of contractors, SLP assistance, and active monitoring of case loads. Through this work, the SLPs received a rebalance a rebench salary schedule, which you've heard about um that went into effect this school year. It started in 2025 2026, as well as a onetime lumpsum bonus of $10,000. Because of these prior negotiated adjustments, it is accurate to say that the SLPs were not included in the $5,000 bonus included in the tenative agreement today, nor the COLA on their base salary, as they had already received both a significant financial adjustment and compensation through the rebenching agreement. The tenative agreement before you does include newly added stipens for the SLPs that will help the ones who have

034case loads above the district average. SLPs are the only profession within SPA that will receive these case load um based stipens. In addition, SLPs will receive the COLA increase on longevity stipens and on degree stipens under this agreement. I'd also like to clarify the makeup of our negotiations team. SPA bylaws require one elected representative from each um profession. This team did include a speech language pathologist um who was elected by their peers and who did participate fully in negotiations. We know concerns remain and we are committed to continuing this work. At the same time, SPA represents multiple professions and for that reason we took a balanced approach rather than giving one group two raises in one year. So, uh we were really focused on trying to have equity across our bargaining unit in mind. This

035tenative agreement was pro approved by a strong majority of our members. As you heard, 72% voted in favor. And once approved, we are ready. Um we're working with the district negotiations team to move forward and work on the salary studies for our other professions within our unit. So, we're really eager to get back to that work and um look at what are the salaries um for school nurses, for elementary counselors, for school psychologists, and continuing the work to support our speech and language pathologists. We respectfully ask for you to approve this tenative agreement. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next comment card is from Rachel Green. Good evening, President Cologne, trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, and members of the board. My name is Rachel Green, and I am one of your speech language pathologists. I am speaking

036this evening regarding action item 13.1, the TA between SPA in the district. I'm here tonight again because the TA before you is the same agreement this board declined to approve last week, and the concerns raised at that time remain unresolved. I am also speaking on behalf of SLPs across the district who share the concerns about the fairness and long-term implications of this agreement. We appreciated the thoughtful questions raised at the prior meeting which reflected the board's commitment to understanding those concerns. We respectfully asked the board to vote no on ratifying the TAS written. Returning the same agreement without revision or clarification undermines the purpose of the board's prior vote. Without discussion or direction regarding what changes were needed for approval, the issues that led to last week's decision remain unressed. We recognize that internal disagreement

037with the employee groups cannot always be prevented. However, the current division did not occur organically. Language in this TA excludes SLPs and the district allowed and supported contract language that redistri redistributed resources away from SLPs. While the district did not originate this proposal, no action was taken to prevent or correct the exclusion. This TA also conflicts with the January 2025 side letter which was established to address the critical shortage of SLPs this district is facing and it explicitly states that SLPs would not be excluded from future salary negotiations. SLP representation raised concerns at that time and agreed to the side letter based on assurances that the district gave us that that exclusion would not occur. Approving this agreement disregards that intent and sets a concerning precedent. We want to be clear that our concerns are

038not about money. SLPs have been portrayed as selfish for voicing our concerns when in reality we are advocating for fairness and consistency. This agreement treats one subgroup differently in a way that cannot be justified by workload, credentials, or student need. And it reallocates funds intended for the entire unit while excluding us. Equity within a bargaining unit means that no subgroup is sacrificed for the benefit of everyone. This creates uncertainty about whether similar exclusions will continue in future negotiations. SLPs are already in critical short critically short supply. Recruitment and retention remain ongoing challenges for this district. As stated last week, SUSD's reputation matters. Agreements that exclude and marginalize SLPs undermine recruitment efforts and ultimately place student services at risk. We respectfully ask the board to vote no and to provide clear direction to district negotiations. Thank

039you. >> Thank you. Next comment card is from Yara Far. Hello. Thank you for letting me speak tonight. Um I want to speak regarding item 13.1 of course the SPATA. Uh while attending the meeting last week, several board members asked uh various clarifying questions and uh I do want to mention that uh one trustee uh asked the district representative uh district negotiation representative what the consequences would be if the tenative agreement didn't pass. And at that time uh Mr. Hurley replied that it would go back to negotiations. Uh but it it didn't go back to negotiations. um nor did we have the chance to negotiate and work this out with our SLP negotiations rep and SPA. Uh we've been told that the negotiations team, our bargaining unit, and our representative agreed to this TA, but

040we're here to tell you tonight that we don't. Um the SLPs do not agree with it. Uh the school board should consider how it looks when a group any group of the school district asks you to disregard how how you voted. I understand that there are more uh people in another group than there are of you as there are of us. Uh we are we are the minority number. You are the minority number and I feel that that might be part of why we are here today. Um there's a lot of issues around that. Um but during the schoolboard meeting last week uh bylaws were followed. No one was under duress. The vote occurred would allow us uh to a chance to advocate for changes that would impact us personally in the TA. uh during

041the board meeting uh various trustees um did you know they allowed us to be be heard and and made comments and asked other questions and you know in in clarifying that we were a minority group um Mr. Dr. Jay Curley did did verify that. And um in addition, I feel it's important to note that uh in our SPA meeting weeks ago, an SPA representative made an off-handed comment uh that the tenative agreement as is only affects 60 people. Uh we were not referred to as members. Uh we were not considered members. And this shows that we are a minority that doesn't matter to our own representation. And I find that very concerning and disheartening. Uh, if we're not members and we're only a number to be mentioned casually, how can SPA say that they're representing

042us? Uh, thank you for your time. Please vote no. Trustees, this concludes comment cards for item 5.1. Thank you. Thank you. We'll move on to item 5.2, oral suggestions and comments from the community regarding non-aggenda items. Abby will announce the number of non-aggenda item public comments and request each person to provide their public comment in the order they were received. Christina will be the timekeeper. Individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board. The board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. Trustees, we currently have four comment cards for item 5.2. The first three cards are regarding Franklin Sipsa. First common card is from Lorena Duran. Okay, I'm going to go ahead. How you doing, members of the school board? Uh today I want to go

043ahead and talk to you of something that happened to me at the Franklin High School schoolside council. I'm coming from there today during the Franklin High School schoolside council uh meeting. Mrs. Sally Forga, Franklin High School staff and schoolside council memberly attacked me while I was speaking up during public comment. During my time, I was um I was yell I was speaking about uh those documents that you have in front of you. I was passing them around. Uh those are official documents, nothing made up. Um she literally very agitated and very loudly um said, "It is enough. You get out of here." She was demanding me to get out of the the schools I council meeting and solely because I was sharing official documents because I was speaking up with the truth and only asking

044for the truth. This is unacceptable. No parent should go through what I went through today just because I want transparency. Just because I'm bringing up what is happening at Franklin High School, just because the administration is not doing their job, this is unacceptable. This should never happen to me or any other parent. This is very alarming. This type of person should not be able to work at a school at any school. This is happening to me to a mother who is very vocal. Imagine what can happen to our students. Thank you. Next comment card is from Anelles Cortez. Good evening, members of the board and madam president. >> My feelings are a little bit uh difficult with this one. >> Okay. Lately the uh the parent meetings at at Franklin have become uh kind of

045violent and aggressive. Does it mean the parents you know could you know feel you know feel uh you know anger >> and they want to react. Okay. I I last two weeks ago I received aggressions against me at the last meeting. I haven't shared a mine but I'm going to do it now. Okay. During my my anger, you know, I I I I I pressured my my finger. I heard it >> just from the frustration not be able to express you know my my my truth here's the consequence today I I saw the aggression of another member of the of the Franklin Okay. My my petition is that we need to talk about this. We need to recognize what's going on, our >> our faults and errors, but no more aggressiveness and it affects us

046physically and and morally. I had to go to the the hospital last week for that reason. >> That those types of feelings what makes you frustrated. Please take action and let's come up with a solution quickly. >> That's all I ask. >> Thank you. Next common card is from Monica Olivates. Hi, good evening Stockton school board members. My name is Monica Olivarez and I'm here also to speak about Franklin High School. I have two students that attend there and I am asking the board members to review Franklin High School IB program. I know that Primary Years Academy has added sixth to 8th grade and now Franklin High School is also talking about the middle years expansion program to expose more high school Franklin students to the IB program. Um the Franklin principal needs to promote

047the IB program throughout the school year. Primary Years Academy is doing a great job getting students ready for high school, but Franklin Principal is not promoting the IB program. As a parent, I can tell you that there is a decline in students that enroll at Franklin IB program. The Franklin High School needs more IB teachers if you're going to be doing the expansion middle years program. Um, the school board should be concerned that parents will not be enrolling their students or children at Franklin High School IB program. As a parent, we should have access to data, to statistics so that the community can make an informed decision about sending their children to Franklin High School to attend the IB program. If the school board does not understand that the IB program is a smaller unit

048but can be made accessible to more Franklin High School students by promoting by making more, you know, announcements and giving the students the opportunity to get to know about the program, hire more teachers, make this a need for Franklin High Because I can tell you right now, Primary Years Academy is located on this side of Stockton. And I can guarantee you no parent is going to drive their children to the east side of Stockton to take them to Franklin High School because it is unbelievable how the parents right now that are committed to the IB program in the elementary um school are not going to be able to take their children across the Stockton and enjoy the and continue the IB program. So it is it would be a waste and the teachers in the

049IB primary years academy are going to be so discouraged when there is no students going to the IB program in Franklin and it's all because of the administration the principal that does not support the IB program. Next comment card is from Tony Selena regarding facilities funding grant. All right. Good evening, Superintendent Rodriguez, uh Board President Cologne, distinguished members of the board. Uh my name is Tony Selena and I speak on behalf of the Stockton Charter Collaborative. It's a group of charter schools serving 6200 um scholars here in the boundaries of Stockton Unified and beyond. I'm also the executive director for Aspire Public Schools. I'm also the member council rep for CCSA. I'm also a public school parent. I'm also a lifelong stocktonian. So I'm here to ensure that the SDUsd uh board members are aware

050of an escalatory pattern of action against um that potentially destabilizes stock unified authorized charters. The action causes real disruption to our operations and our ability to serve our scholars. We ask for your support in helping direct staff to work with charter schools to help resolve this issue. The district's actions depart from established procedures and previous um previous modes of approving our grant that is through the state that publicly funds charter school facilities here in Stockton. Specifically, district staff has taken action to withhold access to SB740 facilities grant funding. The district communicated to the state that three charter organizations, Aspire, KIP, and Stockton Collegiate, were non-compliant with their charters or were not communicative in replying or non-responsive. SB740 state facilities grant funding is designated for charter schools helps offset the cost that we have for facilities

051rent. This pool of money is a state grant and cannot be allocated to the district and goes away if it is unclaimed. Using the district authority to block this funding is unprecedented. In the two decades that we've had schools here in the area, schools have operated have not had any question and have not had any hinder to their ability to serve students until now. If left unchallenged, the resulting financial impact costs will directly impact our students and staff at the tune for a spiral alone of $1.7 million. And it appears to be a direct attack against our local charter schools. Not only are these actions impeding the ability of our charters to operate, but if carried out would limit the economic growth that our schools have provided. While elected officials and myself and everybody talk

052frequently about improving downtown Stockton, improving South Stockton when to re support redevelopment as a core goal, the district now is actively blocking major investment opportunities within our community on multiple occasions. Both in the context of FCB 740 and in charter renewal. Practically, these schools have already missed have already invested over hund00 million in redevelopment, and the grant help pays down those costs that have brought jobs and vibrancy to the communities they serve. Together, these actions divert critical resources away from our classrooms to pay for facilities costs that the state has already had made available to us. We urge the the board to act in the interest of all students and families who rely in schools, both district and charter. We urge to ensure that the district immediately reaches out to the state to release those

053funds which is within their power. It is critical that our affected charter schools have these funds and please continue to support the schools you've already authorized. And with that, you also have a letter that was prepared by CCSA that was provided to you I think Monday of last week, but I wanted you to have a paper copy today. Thank you trustees. This concludes comment cards for item 5.2. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. We'll move on to item 6.1, approval of consent items. Abby will read the oral announcement. >> Does any trustee have any item they would like removed for separate consideration as an action item? After any items are removed for separate consideration, there will be a vote on the consent items without any discussion. Okay, hearing none. Can we get a motion to

054approve the consent items? A motion to approve the item 6.1, consent calendar Stevens. >> A second. >> Okay, we have a first and a second. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none. Roll call vote, please. President Colon, yes. Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin, >> yes. >> Trusty Daenire, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trusty Stevens, >> yes. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. >> Motion passes unanimously. Okay. Thank you. And we did make a change to move up item 13.1. So, we will do that now. Ratification of the tentative agreement between Stockton Unified School District District and the Stockton Pupil Personnel Association Incorporated, SPA, for the 2025 2028 successor negotiations and approval of the required public financial disclosure forms assessing the agreement's financial impact. We get a a motion. >> Motion to approve.

055I'll second Stevens. >> We have a first and a second. Any discussion? >> Yeah, I do. Um, so I was actually one of the ones who voted no, but I do thank you all for the understanding of what happened when it came to this vote looking at the um 72% of those collectively and the um their union wanting to move the TA forward. So, I do support that action. Uh I also just want to add that um after taking a deeper dive of the material along with carefully um considering emails and conversations um I gained a clearer understanding. Um I want to thank everyone who came and spoke on this item today. Um uh for me um I'm I'm hoping that SPA can can continue to negotiate fair contract, one that is fair to all

056its members. Um I am going to be, you know, I am in favor of the agreement. Um but I am going to be doing that in good faith that there that what's happening internally um is going to get better. Um, so thank you again. >> Okay, any further discussion? >> Okay, hearing none. Roll call vote, please. >> President Colon, >> yes. >> Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin, >> yes. >> Trusty Daire, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trusty Stevens, yes. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. Motion passes unanimously. Okay, we'll move on to um our agenda back to 7.1 presentation. our KPI our um chronic on chronic absenteeism presented by Mr. Ryan Hessie, director, department of admissions, child welfare and attendance. If you like, we can take a quick moment while

057the room clears out. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Thank you. >> Uh, President Cologne, uh, Vice President Priest, board trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, thank you for having me tonight. Uh, Ryan Hessie, director of admissions, child welfare and attendance. Uh tonight, this key performance indicator I will be speaking on is chronic absenteeism for the 2526 school year. There we go. Um before I get into the details, I wanted to just highlight um definition of chronic absenteeism. Um chronic absenteeism is defined education code. um as a pupil who is absent 10% or more of the school days in the school year and that's when their total number of school days that a pupil is absent is divided by the total number of days that they're enrolled. And just also to clarify this is for students who are enrolled 31

058days or more in our district. So those are the students that we count students who are 31 days or more enrolled. And then school days that actually do count for chronic absenteeism. um pretty much almost everything under the sun. Uh we have excused absences, unexcused absences, out of school suspensions and nonAD generating independent study. For us in a district, we do uh generate ADA for our independent study. So that's not something that we have to worry about. But the other three are definitely um items that we focus on. So, for our school sites, um you should have a handout um that was provided to you and there are four columns and I kind of wanted to give you an overall picture of like what the last three years looked like um at the end of

059the year and then where we're at halfway through this year. So, this includes 52 of our schools that we count for chronic absenteeism. >> Do we have the handout? We're good. Okay. I have copies if you need them. >> Yeah, absolutely. Um so in this handout you'll see uh there are 52 52 of our schools we account for in chronic absenteeism and there are four columns. So the first column we have is our 2223 end of the school year in May. That's the first column. Uh the second one is the end of the school year for the 2324 school year. The third column 2425 end of the school year and where we're at right now mid year for 2526. Now these are all in-house numbers. So at the top of the first column um district

060over overall with our chronic absentee uh report back in 2023 22.3 we're at 35.88%. The next year we dropped down to 32.73%. Last year we're at 30.94% and we're currently halfway through this year at 27.29%. So, we're look we're we're trending downward in a good in a good angle. And then on your handout, we have 44 schools who are marked with an asterisk. And with that, those 44 schools have reduced their chronic absentee rate from last school year. So in May of last year, we had 22 schools who fell in the high chronic absenteeism category. So that's 30% or higher. We had 22 schools that fell into the medium 20 to 29% chronic absenteeism. And we had eight schools that fell in the 19 to 0% chronic absenteeism. And just give you perspective, um the

061state average is about 19 to 20%. So that kind of gives you an idea of where those schools fell last year. Now this year, halfway through, um our schools that were in the over 30% has been reduced down to 14 schools. So we reduced it by eight schools. Those eight schools went down into the medium category. We have 26 schools in that category now that are in the 20 to 29%. And then we had an additional four schools from the medium uh yellow area that fell down into the green. So we have 12 schools now that are in the 0 to 19% for chronic absenteeism that are under the state average. So you can see out of 40 44 out of 52 schools, we're at 85% of our schools have reduced our chronic absentee rate

062from last year in May. So we're moving in the right direction. Another thing that I'm focusing on with our school sites, we know that our school site leaders have a huge impact on their schools and also have a huge impact on their chronic absenteeism and chronic absentee rate. And um what I've been doing, I'm about halfway through uh I've been meeting with our school site leaders um on one-on-one meetings uh this year. and I've been basically conducting a qualitative and quantitative study to see, you know, what their magic recipe is to reduce their chronic absentee rate. So, I've been meeting with our high-erforming schools who have reduced their chronic absentee rate this year. Talked with those principles on a qualitative level. Really seeing what kind of high-end achieving leadership characteristics they're promoting at their school

063sites, what they're doing with their teams to reduce their chronic absentee rate from last year. I'm collecting all of their responses and I'll be sharing those with um at the principal professional development meetings really so we can have our principles um share best practices with each other. Um they can see what some of their other um co-workers are doing at their other school sites. They'll kind of motivate and inspire um principles at other sites that might be struggling with their chronic absentee rate. Um and then so that's the idea of meeting with them because they are the um they are the big movers at their at their school site. So definitely want to see what are they doing, how are they doing it, and some of them um I'm just about I'm halfway through right

064now uh meeting with them and I've met with all of our high performers right now and it's it's great to see that's not just one thing, it's multiple um interventions and strategies that that they're using and that is still reflecting it's reflecting in our student subgroups as well. So if you take a look at this um the uh the blue column is May of 2025. So those are our subgroups and that's where they their percentages of those subgroups who were chronically absent at the end of last year. And the yellow column is our December 2025 where we're at now. And if any of those uh groups have a blue number that shows a decrease in their chronic absenteeism. So right now we have 15 of our 16 subgroups who have reduced their chronic absenteeism from

065May of last year to halfway through this year. And to give you a perspective on those percentages, when you look at the the blue numbers, um if the percentage is 8% or higher, that's an exceptional improvement to be at halfway through the school year. If you are in the four to 7%, that's a very strong improvement halfway through the school year. And uh 2 to 3% is still a solid improvement halfway through the school year. And so we can see that we have some some groups that are standing out. We have um students with 504s, homeless, uh special ed, black or African-American students, and another one of our uh special ed groups that are all somewhere between the 4 to 11% that have reduced their chronic absentee rate uh from this last uh May. And

066where are we going from here? Because we're not done yet. We know that our chronic absentee rate is still high and we still need to get it down. So the our future endeavors right now is uh we are planning to pilot a chronic absenteeism monitoring software. So, with this um typically our our principles will will get um their chronic absentee report twice a month, but we're hoping uh with board approval on this that this monitoring software and this pilot program um it's in real time numbers. So, we don't have to always wait for our reports to come out. But, um our principles can monitor their chronic absentee rate in real time. they can really see and they can really focus on their students. They can break it down by subgroups. They can look at it

067overall by student groups. Um they can um built in messaging to parents. They can um send out attendancebased encouragement letters and posters and messaging to families. Um, even kind of like a reminder of things like if a student triggers a certain number of absences that could trigger uh, you know, a positive message from the school site, you know, and it can help automate things, letting the student know, hey, the school's reaching out, the school wants or the school uh, notices that you're gone and then has like contact information to please contact if you need resources or or um, additional contact or different additional support, excuse Um the second thing we're looking at um Saturday home visits and our staff in CWA, we do home visits and we have groups that do home visits on a

068weekly and a daily basis. But with this um it'll be more targeted intervention and we'll be working with our student support services team. So we can really see those students who are in high need who might need additional um support whether uh say for example a student might have um might begin mental health support at the school site and then they fall off um and they stop coming to school and they're they're chronic. So, we're not just um knocking at their door, but we're also bringing representatives who support that type of intervention to to help um those students and and their families. And and and it's a Saturday as well. So, we're hoping that our our rate of interacting with with parents and students is much higher on Saturdays. And the last one I'm really

069excited about is the attendance recovery. And I know it says program, but we're kind of looking at as a process. instead because um it's a statewide initiative that the CDE put out just this last year and um what it incorporates it involves uh three of our departments. So it involves ELOP with our um amazing Mary Rogers, our TI department with our fantastic Dr. P Lee and our CWA uh department with myself and we're collaborating together on this uh project statewide initiative from CDE. They just put it out and I actually talked to a couple principles um this week and they said they saw the governor's uh budget proposal and that this was actually mentioned in the proposal. Um, what it looks like is a student would attend ELOP after school and they would be in

070like an AR class and that class would have to have a credentialed teacher from our district. That's required and district aligned curriculum which is required which we're getting support by our um our curriculum department for that. And students can recover up to 10 days of attendance for the year. And that would look like 4 hours of AR instructional time cuz we're going by the minimum daily requirements for minutes for students. So 4 hours of AR instruction would equal one day of recovered attendance. And thinking about our students, if a student came all year long, uh, missed 2 days a month, that would be 18 days in their their chronic for the year. But even recovering a few days would get them under that chronic absentee list and rate. And the bonus about this is that

071they are receiving um, instructional tutoring from a credentialed teacher in our district. So, not only are they getting academic support, helping them get back on track, but they're also recovering attendance days as well. So, we're very excited about that. And just to kind of give you another perspective, um I was just at a conference in San Diego. Um and Trusty Daire, you know, it's a great conference with AXA and I was in a session and there was a number of uh CWA administrators and CWA directors in this meeting. and there's a presenter talking about various subjects that kind of interest us and he mentioned this AR program and he mentioned it and the pretty much the whole crowd kind of went oh wow like they had heard it for the first time and like it

072was brand new to them but our team has been working since the summer and we are going to pilot this program next month with four of our schools Rio um Bush, Van Beern, and Roosevelt. And so we're going to test this out and this is I believe it's going to be big down the road and we're excited to um pilot it right away because I think uh you know Stockton Unifi is very innovative and we want to be a part of that. So >> thank you. Appreciate it. >> Thank you, Mr. Hessie. Are there any questions? >> Can I have the floor, Madam President? >> Yes. >> So, can we talk about um I had a question that was evading me. I do apologize. >> I apologize, but I I do have a second question.

073What's the profile of the students? Well, my my original question, I got it. What is the number one reason that we see that our kiddos are not showing up? >> Like, what's the number one barrier? Well, it's it's tough and right now we're trying to collect that specific data because Synergy um isn't collecting that specifically. So, I'm working with my team to actually manually collect that data so we can review it. So, right now, I wish I had a specific reason say, "Oh, it's this." But we're collecting that right now. just off the top of my head, you know, people could give reasons for transportation or for um it could be bullying or things like that, but those are just some of the things that we're measuring right now. I don't have all the numbers

074yet for that. >> Okay. And then how does the toss team support currently? And then what is the um alignment looks like once a toss member would knock on the door versus that kiddoing showing up uh to school um after the visit? Oh, like if they knock at the door, >> meet up engage with a parent. I'm sorry, not just knock, but engage with an adult or a guardian. >> Yeah. So, um we have our our TOSS team is of 10 members. Um we have 41 um staff that can do home visits as well and uh but our TOSS do it on a daily basis. Um, the other 31 do it maybe weekly or or multiple times a week. And when they when they go and they they engage with the the parent, they're coming

075in with um all the information ahead of time. So, they plan out um you could say that like their route. Um they they have their list of of where they're going to do home visits. They have their student profiles. Um it's kind of like doing like a a check on interventions for the students. um they can make phone calls and check typically they'll they'll work with one of our CWA case managers who's working directly at the site. So say like um I I mentioned Rio. So we have a case manager there. They will work with the toss and say these are the students we need to focus on. Here's their information. Here's some background on it. We've had attendance team meetings. We've had SART meetings with these families. And then they will take that information

076and have that information with them when they go out and and talk to those families. And then so then they know like what interventions have been offered. they know um what maybe interventions or resources they can um they can share with the family and encourage them and they usually have like a list of interventions you know that they could share with the families as well. >> The part of that question was what's the likelihood of that kid then showing up? So you meet with me as a guardian >> am I coming to school or do we still continue to see the same barriers? >> It it just it depends case on case by case really. Um, some students and families respond well to the home visits. Uh, we do have some that are high-f flyers

077and they have extreme chronic absenteeism and and some of them are like, "Oh, hey, good, you know, good to see you again." kind of thing and you're you're here at my door and they say they come and they might come for a day and then they might not. But it just it's kind it just depends um on the family and the case and and what kind of needs that they need and and what they share in those needs cuz sometimes it takes a couple home visits to kind of really kind of break through the ice and kind of see what what you know what's kind of the root cause. Yeah. Okay. Um me again, um I know through previous conversation it was suggested that our students with chronic absenteeism, they're just not showing up, right?

078And I challenged us to change that mind frame into what are we doing, right, to make our schools a place for those students to want to come? >> What are we doing for individual school sites to to help them besides leading a conversation? >> Besides leading the conversation, what are we doing on the school sites? Well, a number of our school sites um when I've been talking with them um making sure that their strong leadership voice um gets their whole team now not just the teachers but the counselors this the front office staff everybody on board needs to be talking about attendance needs to be encouraging every student on attendance and every parent that comes in they need to be talking about attendance and I've seen um strong leaders who have focused on that um

079and have rallied their their staff to really make that like a model. Like when you talk to somebody, you're also going to mention attendance and and it's brought up in all their meetings, staff meetings, parent meetings, um school site council meetings, um whatever kind of meetings they have, they're focusing on attendance. Um I know a number of school sites that have a lot of visuals. So you go to their site and you can see the visuals of um like the goal setting uh for the school or for students individually. I know one of the school sites talked about that they um they have kind of like a online assembly and so then they announce like um which school or which class you know won attendance for you know for the week or for the month

080and they reward not only the the students who got the best attendance in that class but the class itself and they get a trophy and they get a they get to have like a little plush stuffed animal um for that, you know, for that month. So, >> what? >> Yes. >> Thank you. And also our community specialists um at the school site, they're talking attendance. They're meeting with our families as well. They're they're they're kind of just like another another branch of what what we're doing as well is focusing on attendance, making sure families have those resources. Dr. Rodriguez, you're Ramirez, I'm sorry. >> Um, thank you, Ryan. I will say that, um, that's a really good question. What are we doing specifically to support our school sites? aside from professional development um and going

081back to Trusty Steven's question around how do we re-engage um and sometimes it is our most vulnerable students and families a lot of it is around trust and so it does take 1 2 10 20 times to go out to the home um to connect them to make referrals um especially right now with our political climate because that is real, right? Um, and so, uh, our community school specialists have been definitely an asset, but we do have some school sites that have our parent liaison. Um it's making sure that we're bring coming from that strength perspective exactly what President Priest mentioned earlier that um we come from the lens of they are assets and we miss you and if you come to school you haven't been here all month and um actually this was a

082conversation we were having the other day and um a good point um to uh Glenda Lee that uh when our kids show up it's not punitive. because if it feels punitive to the family, they're not going to come. So, the outreach is very important. It's also professional development with our truency outreach specialist um because they are the boots on the ground folks and how do we um and I we never mean to minimize the home visit because it is critical to the re-engagement of our students. But what are they coming back to, right? What is that um eccentric um like what is that validation? What does that look like? Because our families do um uh some of our families have a variety of needs and it could be just as you know could be transportation.

083It could be um how they feel when they come to school. And there are times where we aren't able to um bridge that gap, but it's that connection with some of our nonprofits because they can be a little bit more flexible and nimble in what they do with their resources because the reality is some of our kids don't come to school because they don't have clean clothes. They're hungry. They don't have the basic supplies. So we've done a lot of that outreach in the district, but a big piece of it is building the trust that this is a safe and good place for them that we connect them with caring adults and our schools are instrumental with that like working with the principles to make sure that the new staff that we have around community

084schools understands and is aware um and they have that it's a soft skill but it's a very important skill Okay, >> thank you for expanding on that. I really appreciate that. Um, more information. Donald, did you have a question? Trusty Daire? No. Oh, Trusty Silva. >> What is the percentage of students that actually return to school after the Saturday home visits? Is it proving positive? I mean, >> after the Saturday home visits. Um, I I can let you know because we're doing those this spring. Um, so I can definitely look at the before and after. I could even put that in a B2B. >> Um Dr. Ramirez had mentioned um you know the political climate. I'm looking at Jane Frederick and um Stockton High School. These are you know our one of our most impacted

085students. >> I do see that there is like a 15% jump for Jane Frederick. >> Was that is that related to what's going on >> or is it something else? What's the context there? From what I know, it's something else because it's more of a clerical thing that we've discovered. Um, they have a new um, uh, attendance person and um, they're also on a positive uh, attendance. They they record positive attendance. So, we're helping them clean up that attendance and I really think that will help the percentage there. Yeah, because I know it's it's a big jump there. >> You said a clerical thing. Clarify. training >> training. >> So, we have an attendance person who's inaccurately reporting attendance. I think um not knowing all the parameters and I think like specifically I know um

086to be um specific like um parent view when parents um message and have their attendance um excused um not being not knowing >> oh please come on up. So, so Mr. Heresy is correct. We our team is being with his team on how to codify uh some of those attendance codes so that they would transfer over nicely neatly into the LCAP system. And so a lot of it once again is is training our new staff on how to do that. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and keep in mind this is positive attendance. And so if the child is there, they have to mark it versus the you know the absence. Yeah. Just to clarify then that's because for example Stockton High is virtual so there's a way is that what you're talking about there's a

087way that they would mark themselves at uh present >> correct yes >> so the data looks pretty I guess there's more questions and answers we can follow up later with regarding uh yeah okay thank you okay thank you so much for the information if there's no further discuss passion. Well, thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Okay, moving on to item 8.1, consideration and action. Actually, I'm going to read Okay. Um, agenda item 8.1, consideration and action on Kip Stockton High School new charter petition, including proposed board resolution number 2540 to deny the petition to establish the Kip Stockton High School new charter school. We will now open and convene a public hearing. >> Okay. Uh for the record, I'm recusing myself from item 8.1. >> Madame President, there's a entire script that you

088are to read. Uh please >> I will start. that. Now, we will now open and convene a public hearing on the petition that was submitted to the Stockton Unified School District to establish the Kip Stockton High School charter for a 5-year term beginning on July 1st, 2026 and ending on June 30th, 2031. As required by law, the board received a detailed staff report that includes an evaluation of the petition, supporting documents, and other information. Staff in consultation with legal counsel analyze the legal requirements set forth in the education code to determine whether the petition meets the minimum standards for approval. The staff report includes the review the review team's proposed findings of fact and determination that the petition does not meet the minimum requirements to be eligible for approval for a 5-year term. The staff

089report was posted on the district's website and provided to KIP at least 15 days prior to this meeting as required under the education code. This public hearing is required to be held before the board may take action on the petition. As part of this public hearing, the board will provide district staff and representatives of KIP with equal time and procedures to address the staff report, including the proposed findings and any recommendations included in that document. As for procedure, district staff and KIP representatives will each have 10 minutes to address the board and present or respond to any information concerning the proposed findings included in the staff report. Following such presentations, the board will receive comments from any members of the public, including on the admissions preferences. Then the board will have the opportunity to ask

090questions or make any comments, deliberate, and take action on the petition. We will now turn to the presentations or statements by the district and Kip. First, we will receive a statement from Tai Paffford on behalf of the district. Good evening, Board President Cologne, trustees, and Dr. Rodriguez. Thank you for having me tonight. As you know, Kip currently operates two classroombased charter schools under the authorization of the district, including Kip Stockton K8 and University Park and Kip Stockton K12 in South Stockton. The board recently renewed Kip Stockton K12's charter for a 5-year term at its December 16th, 2025 meeting. Following the initial public hearing on the renewal petition, the district published its staff report, which includes its findings of fact and recommendation to deny the petition to establish Kip Stockton High School. These findings are based

091on district staff's determination that the petition does not meet the minimum standards for approval under the education code. The staff report provides an extensive summary of the proposed findings, and I will highlight those that district staff found to be the most significant for the board's consideration. These include district staff's determination that the petitioners are demonstrabably unlikely to successfully implement the proposed high school program set forth in the petition and the proposed charter school is demonstrabably unlikely to serve the interests of the entire community in which Kip desires to operate. First, and important to the board's consideration of the findings that petitioners are demonstrabably unlikely to successful successfully implement the proposed program is the fact that KIP just secured a renewal of its charter for Kip Stockton K12, which already includes a high school program. Prior

092to this board's action on the renewal petition, however, Kip had submitted the instant petition to establish a separate charter school to serve students in high school. Yet, the petition did not describe a high school program that was distinct or substantively different from its existing charter program. In fact, the petition reflects Kip's intention to recruit and reserve stockton students from the same population as those students who are currently enrolled in Kip Stockton K12. In addition, the facilities described in the petition are identical to those that Kip had added in the Kip Stockton K12 renewal petition, which the board did not approve as part of the reauthorization. Following the publication of the staff report, KIP provided a written response to the district and incorrectly asserted the district staff blocked Kip's attempt to establish a permanent location for

093its high school program when it submitted its material revision request back in April 2025. While district staff was not supportive of the request, KIP unilaterally chose to withdraw its material revision request to add the high school facilities before the public hearing during which the board would take action on the request. In addition, Kip expressed that if the board approves the high school petition at its meeting this evening, Kip will quote, "mmediately submit a material revision to revise Kip's doctrine's grade span to K8, reflecting our intention to operate a single high school that serves as a feeder for our two K8 campuses." KIP representatives concluded by saying that they hope such a move will strengthen and repair its partnership with the district. However, this conduct does the opposite. The district has been unequivocal in its position

094that if Kip sought to operate additional facilities for the high school program of Kip Stockton K12, it needed to submit a material revision request to the district. Instead, Kip submitted a completely new petition to the district with no acknowledgement that the proposed high school program would effectively replace the high school program in the Kip Stockton K12 charter. Kip remained silent on the issue, never addressed its intentions in the new petition, waited for the staff report to be published, and then decided to share it strategy with district and Stockton community. And now Kip expects the district to dedicate further staff resources and time to processing a material revision to request to reduce its grade level offerings for a charter school that the board renewed just over a month ago. It's clear to district staff that KIP

095specifically chose this path of submitting a new petition because it knew it would have a right to appeal any potential denial decision to the county board of education. By contrast, Kip would not have a right to appeal if it had submitted a material revision request to the district and that request was denied by the board. If the county board of education ultimately approved the high school petition on appeal, KIP would be able to strip the district of its local oversight and control and establish its desired facilities in University Park. This certainly does not reflect a spirit of cooperation or an attempt to rebuild a relationship. This issue is further exacerbated when considering that KIP submitted its KIP Stockton K12 renewal petition over a year early in an apparent attempt to secure renewal before the California

096Department of Education released the updated performance tier designation for charter schools based on the 2025 dashboard data. Earlier this month, CDE moved Kip Stockton K12 from a middle performing to a low performing tier which would have resulted in a presumption of denial of the renewal petition or at most a two-year term. had kept correctly submitted its renewal petition in the 2627 school year. Now rather than work to improve the low student performance with his existing charter schools in Stockton, it is seeking to establish another charter school. Again, this lack of transparency is what continued to erode the district's trust. The district also would like to draw attention to another proposed staff finding report in which staff concluded that the proposed charter school is demonstrabably unlikely to serve the interests of the entire community in which

097Kip intends to locate the charter school. The law provides a school district governing board with the ability to deny a charter position based on what has been described as the community impact finding. Analysis of this finding requires the board to consider the fiscal impact of the proposed charter school. This finding addresses the extent to which the school would substantially undermine existing services, academic offerings, or programmatic offerings. Whether it would duplicate a program currently offered within the district and whether the existing program has sufficient capacity for the students proposed to be served within reasonable proximity to where the charter school intends to locate. Here, Kip proposes a charter high school program that includes duplicative and similar educational pathways and local partnerships that would limit the work-based learning opportunities, including job shadows, internships, ex externships, and community

098service for current district students. Rather than remain true to its original commitment of building out a full K12 program in the South Stockton neighborhood, KIP has made clear that it has no intention of continuing to pursue facility options for families in that region of Stockton. Instead, Kip has focused on University Park, which is in with the same neighborhood as several other district secondary programs, including Health Careers Academy and Stockton Early College Academy. Both of these schools are located less than 0.1 miles away from the proposed campus location for Kip High School. The district has built successful programs with specialized pathways and other opportunities for its students, including long-standing community partnerships with higher education institutions and organizations. Pathway options such as those provided by the district's secondary schools within the area require hands-on regulated experience that

099rely on a finite number of local partners and instructors. Consequently, if KIP was able to establish another high school program within the same vicinity as the district secondary schools, this would directly undermine the access to these important opportunities for district students. Further, district staff anticipates that the addition of Kip High School Stockton High School would have an appreciable and adverse fiscal impact on the district resulting from the diversion of students who would otherwise enroll in a district high school. This reduction in revenue would result restrict the district's ability to sustain and expand its current educational programs for high school students, including its current dual enrollment and special program offerings. For these reasons and those detailed in the staff report, district staff recommends that the board deny the petition to establish the Kip Stockton High School.

100Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Pepper. Uh representatives from Kip will now have a total of 10 minutes to address the board and make a presentation. Please feel free to proceed. Your time will begin um when you approach the the podium. Good evening, President Cologne, members of the board, and Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez. My name is Michelle Marquez, and I'm the principal of Kip Stockton K12's high school program, which currently operates a 9th grade class. I'm honored to share more about our program, what this school means for the South Stockton community, and why this high school charter petition needs to be approved so we can continue the work we have started this year. First, I want to speak to some of the programmatic elements mentioned in the district findings, which I directly oversee as principal. Our

101team wrote a detailed response to the findings, which we share with board members and have printed in front of you today. In summary, 100% of future and current Kip Stockton High School teachers meet California Education Code credentiing requirements. KIP along with all charters submit our credentiing information to the district annually as part of the oversight process. Additionally, each student scheduled is tailored to the additional support they need. For example, if a student needs math intervention, their schedule reflects that individual need. Our enrollment projections are realistic and we meet enrollment goals for our nth grade class and roughly 85% of our eighth grade students metriculated to our nth grade. Lastly, Kip Stockton High School is not an early college program and does not specialize in a single pathway unlike the district programs referenced in the staff

102report. Additionally, the student population we serve, particularly our higher proportion of students with disabilities, differs significantly from the specialized program cited, which historically serve fewer than 5% of students with disabilities. While this year, we have more than 20% of students with IEPs at Kiptocken High School. While the district report alleged these early college programs have plenty of space to accommodate our students, our parents have found this to be untrue. As you heard from 9th grade parent and Conway home resident Pandora Crowder, her daughter was denied admission to Health Careers Academy last spring and is now thriving as a ninth grader at Kiptocken High School. As we've shared with the board, we made a commitment to our families to operate a highquality TK12 program serving South Stockton families. In order to do this, we need an

103approved location to operate our high school program. Currently, our 9th graders are colllocated with our elementary school and it does not have space for 9th and 10th grades next year. Under Prop 39, approved by California voters, local school districts are required to provide equivalent space to charter schools, which often means contentious collocations. KIP has utilized Prop 39 across the majority of our schools in the Bay Area. When our charters were approved in 2019, we shared with the district that we would be building our own facilities, thereby relieving the district of this legal legal obligation and avoiding challenging collocations. We are prepared to invest an additional $30 million to build the high school facility. Investment the South Stockton community deserves. This is a win-win for everybody. We have searched high and low throughout South Stockton to

104secure a site for this high school and we have found a viable solution within University Park. Now we need your approval to locate there. We have attempted three times now to gain that approval through all legal channels. A material revision in April, a charter renewal in October, and now a new high school charter petition. All with the same goal, serving our high school students. Each time district staff have recommended denial or refuse to consider the address. We ask that the SUSD board allow us to fulfill our promise and deliver on this critical investment and the South Stockton community. The progress we have made with Conway and South Stockton students is on the line. As we've shared, we feel wellprepared to operate an excellent high school given our track record across the Bay Area. Some of

105the stats are shared here where 71% of our students metriculate to a 4-year college compared to 22% of socioeconomically disadvantaged students across California. I previously served an assistant as an assistant principal at C Kip Espironza High School located in East PaloAlto and learned firsthand how KIP operates high performing high schools supporting first generation college students to achieve their goals through college career and beyond. As we've shared, we are ensuring our Conway Homes middle school students continue to access our high school by providing transportation. And this high school is designed for our diverse population of K8 students within Conway Homes and University Park. I'm asking you to tonight to ensure we can continue the work we started serving our current and future families. Hello, my name is Laura Knight Wheatley and I'm the managing director of

106schools with Kip Stockton. I oversee the academic programming across all our schools, grades K through 12 and I spend time in classrooms analyzing data and working directly with staff and families to support our students growth. From this vantage point, I can clearly say that our work in Stockton to ensure students are prepared for college career and beyond is best realized with a KIP high school. The foundation we build in K8 through early literacy, strong community partnerships, and high expectations is designed to carry students all the way through graduation and beyond. A KIP high Stockton High School is a natural and necessary continuation of this work, ensuring that students do not lose the momentum at the moment it matters most. This school exists to serve South Stockton families who have entrusted us with their children years

107ago and our commitment to them is long-term and unwavering. With that in mind, I want to reference education code 47605, which states that the chartering authority shall make reasonable efforts to accommodate the growth of the charter school and not take any action to impede the charter school from an expanding enrollment to meet pupil demand. Our charter as a reminder was authorized to serve all the students K12. We respectfully ask the board to uphold both the letter and the spirit of the law and not in impede our charter growth. We ask the board to make a motion to approve the Kip Stockton High School charter petition and reject the resolution 25-40 which would result in denial. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you for your presentation and and your comments. The board will now

108receive comments from members of the public who desire to address this matter. So we have received comments cards from how many people? >> Yes. Yes, we have trustees. We have 13 comment cards regarding item 8.1. >> Okay, >> thank you. The total Oh, sorry. >> Go ahead, President. Go on. >> The total time limit for each speaker will be the maximum time of three minutes for each speaker. >> Okay. First comment card is from Kayla Dixon. Hello, my name is Kayla Dixon. I have one fourth grader at KIP and this is our first year here. What I appreciate most about Kip is the small class sizes. It truly feels like a personalized learning environment where my daughter is seen and supported. The academic material is rigorous and I've noticed how much it pushes her to

109grow. I know that the small learning environment plays a big part in that success. Every point of contact I've had with the school has been positive. The communication is consistent and honest. I always know both the good and the challenging parts of my daughter's day. That strong communication between school and family is exactly what brought me to Kip in the first place. As a community member of Conway Homes, I also want to uplift the importance of having a high performing K through2 school serving communities like Conway Homes, a community that has historically been overlooked. The presence of a strong K to2 option creates real community mobility, not just for individual students, but for families and neighbors as a whole. When children can stay in a stable, highquality school from elementary through high school, it changes

110what's possible for their future. As a parent, I'm hoping for continuity in my daughter's education. I want her to stay at Kip for middle school and high school because I see how well she is thriving here and I want that opportunity to continue. Thank you. And I respectfully ask that you approve Kip High School tonight. Next comment card is from Isaac Dhorte. Just want to clarify we have the 20 minute overall limit for the public comment. Hello, my name is Isaac Dwarte and I am an eighth grader and the student body president at Kip Stockton Middle School at Conway Homes. I have been at Kip since fifth grade and I have truly enjoyed my experience. I've made many friends, met strong leaders, and learned so much during my time here. The teachers are really nice

111and they make learning easy to understand from me, my peers and me. I felt motivated to run for student body president because so many people encouraged me. I ran for office and was elected by my community who celebrated me with so much love and support. That experience meant a lot to me and showed that my voice matters. After high school, I am interested in pursuing culinary arts to become professional chef or possibly going to college back home at San Francisco. I also dream of becoming a children's book illustrator and author because I want kids to feel the joy you get from reading, reminiscing, and loving art. I hope to continue my education at Kip High School next year. Please approve KIP tonight for my communities and for students like me. Thank you. Next comment card

112is from Ray Louise Thomas. Hello, my name is Ray Reelius Thomas and I I am a ninth grader at Kip High School. Before coming to Kip, I was a um bad student and spend a lot of my time in detention due to my behavior. Um but when I started high school made a choice to take school seriously changed my life. Um and all my uh teachers and friends especially my biology teacher motivated me to um um motivate motivated me to uh change my life around and make better choices. The teachers I kept are really nice and they go above and beyond to support students like me. um our counselor um is also nice to me and also has been there with me during hard times. Because of the support from all my friends and teachers,

113my grades have gotten better and finally um I really feel good about KIP and I'm now interested in going to college to study aerodynamics for like F1 or maybe uh pursue music. And that's something I didn't think was possible um before coming to school. I didn't really think about it uh too much. Um, I ask you that you please approve Kip High School and I would love to see our school grow in a bigger location and maybe even have a music room someday. Um, thank you. >> Next common card is from Amina Lambert. Hello, my name is Amina Lambert and I am in fourth grade at Kip. I love the people that work at Kip because they are really nice. I don't have a favorite teacher because I love them all. This is my first

114year at Kip and I like getting to experience new things. My favorite subject is math, especially because we get to do a lot of math word problems and I also love writing. One memory that stands out to me was when I fell at the park after an accident with another student. I got hurt but the student apologized. My friend Somaya walked me to the office and everyone was so nice to me. Moments like that make Kip feel like a caring place. I hope to stay with Kip for middle school and high school. My dreams are to be a rapper, singer, and rapper one day because it looks fun. I also want to go to college just like my parents. Thank you. And I ask that you approve of Kip High School. Next common card is

115from Jacob Bell. Okay, good job, papa. Remember, >> good job, papa. Here's your words. >> Hello, my name is Jel. Hello, my name is Jacob Bell. I am in fourth grade at camp. >> I love my school because I feel loved. I want to go to Camp Stockton High School one day. Please vote yes today. >> Good job. Say say thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next common card is from Michael Poris. Hello, my name is Michael Poris. I have the honor of representing the staff of Kip Stockton High School as a PAR educator. However, I am much more than just a member of the staff like many other families here tonight. My family is a KIP family. Jacob, the young student you just heard from, is my son. and I couldn't be prouder of

116him that I am tonight. Next year also, our youngest son, Joseph or Jojo, will be joining Kip and TK. I was first introduced to Kip when Jacob was struggling, especially during COVID years. The first time I was able to step into his classroom was in the fourth grade at Kip. And that moment meant everything to our family. We heard about Kip through our church and we instantly fell in love with the community and the mission. Kip has inspired me to do something big. I am currently pursuing another college degree to join the KIP staff as a full-time teacher. I share this journey with my students. I model transparency, accountability by showing them my coach, my coursework, my grades, and even let them ask me if my homework is done. Letting them know that I'm not

117just committed to their education, but I'm also committed to mine and growing for them, demonstrating Kip's core value of being a lifelong learner. This example I provide is especially important because I work with students with mild to moderate special needs and I make sure that they know that barriers do not define them. We do not allow negative selft talk. We practice positive framing and belief. I ask my students if they want to go to college and every hand goes up. I ask what they want to be and they proudly share their dreams. I am reminding them that every moment right now matters for their future pathway. This is why I show up every day. I respectfully ask that you approve this petition and allow KIP families in Stockton to continue on a pathway to an

118excellent high school education, especially for disadvantaged learners. Thank you. Next common card is from Omar Mononttoya. Hello and good evening. My name is Omar Mononttoya. Mhm. Uh I'm an eighth grade student at Kip University Park Middle School. I've been with Kip since the beginning of my middle school years. I've had an amazing experience at Kip because I receive a lot of personalized attention. With one-on-one support, I have improved in many subjects, especially math and literacy. My teachers go above and beyond to help me when I need support. And because of that, I leave the classroom feeling accomplished and confident. I also really appreciate the kindness and respect from our staff. They don't just teach us, they truly take the time to get to know us as people. Over the last 3 years at GIP, I've

119seen a big change in myself. Previously, I wasn't really interested in school subjects or PE. Now, PE is one of my favorite subjects. My teacher, Coach Johnson, made PE easier to understand by explaining everything step by step. Now, I can honestly say that I love physical activity and that I have a love for learning that has spread to all parts of school for me. I hope to continue my Kip education by attending Kip High School at University Park next year. I respectfully ask that you approve Kip High School for our entire Kip community. Thank you. Next comment card is from Jose Rodriguez. Good evening, Dr. Rodriguez, President Cologne, and members of the Unified School Board. My name is Jose Rodriguez and I am the president and CEO of Belconilio California where I have had the

120privilege of serving Stockton families for more than 30 years. Through my work, I have focused on expanding opportunities for low-income, historically marginalized communities, particularly when it comes to accessing quality education. As a first generation college graduate, I know how important college education is. As a former member of KIP Northern California Board of Directors, serving from 2021 to 2024, I saw firsthand how seriously KIP takes its responsibility to students and families. Across its schools, decisions are grounded in long-term impact, community partnership, and doing what is right for students, not what is convenient. That organization has been intentional about listening to families and investing in neighborhoods like Conway Homes that too often have been overlooked. Kip's commitment to Stockton is not theoretical. It is demonstrated through sustained community partnership, promising academic growth metrics, and a significant financial

121investment of $91 million to build safe, permanent school facilities that benefit students, families, and the broader city. This kind of stability and follow-through is what our community needs. Tonight, I am here with a specific request. I specifically urged the board to approve Kip High School petition so that the students who began their education with KIPP can continue on a clear path to graduation and college. Approving this school allows KIP to deliver the promise it made to Stockton families and ensures continuity for the students who are already thriving in their schools. Thank you for your time and your consideration. Next comment card is from Megan Rafferty. Good evening members of the board, Dr. Rodriguez. My name is Megan Rafferty. I'm a former educator, longtime Sanwaqin County resident, and I currently work with AirTutors. We at AirTutors,

122we partner to provide high impact academic support to students. I'm here tonight because of my direct work with Kip Stockton. And what I've seen is not just a school, but a true community hub designed to serve students from transitional kindergarten through graduation. Kip is doing the hard behindthescenes work of bringing organizations together, coordinating services, and staying focused on the real barriers students face. One of those barriers is chronic absenteeism. At Kip Stockton, 91 students live in Conway homes just steps away from campus. And yet nearly half of those students who were chronically absent last year or already are this year. Far higher than the overall the overall Kip Stockton average. The lack of attendance has real consequences. Lower literacy rates, lower math proficiency, and fewer opportunities for long-term success. From being on the ground with

123staff and interacting with students and families, I can share the level of need in stock South Stockton is astounding. In response to persistent challenges facing Conway home residents, KIP took coordinated action together with the housing authority of Sanwaqin County, Conway Homes residential county, community partnerships for Sanwaqin County, the city of Stockton, and air tutors. They launched the Conway scholar hub. This effort is meeting families where they are, coordinating tutoring, attendance support, family outreach, community engagement in one aligned strategy. Since launching in October, we've paired over 35 Conway residents with tutors, securing a competitive grant, creating a Conway liazison role, and begun weekly monitoring of attendance and academic progress. This is what it looks like when a school takes responsibility not just for academics but the whole child and the whole community. Approving Kip Stockton High

124School allows this work to continue through graduation. It gives students stability, continuity, and a school that is already deeply invested in their success. I respectfully urge you to approve the Kip Stockton High School charter and a sport a model that is clearly working for South Stockton families. Thank you. Next comment card is from Par Veronia. Good evening everybody. My name is Paruna. I'm the mom of two kids in high school. One is Ethan is a special kid is a part of a special program and my daughter Abby is in the ninth grade. Begin journey with Kip in the middle school and overall has been great experience for our family even during adjustment period when everything was new to us throughout her her time at Kib. She earned strong grades in academic awards every year which

125has made us very proud and keep my daughter truly feel successful. She has been able to participate in valuable making new friends feel confidence in herself both academically and socially. One special memory that stands out to me is when her C middle school teacher asked me what I hope for my daughter. I share that I want her to reach the GPA of 4.0. They look at me and said yes, she can do it. Today I'm happy to say that she's very close to reach that goal and I could be proud prouder. As a parents, I hope my children can continue their education at Kip for the rest of their high school where they feel supported, challenged, and believed. I respectfully ask that you approve Ga High School tonight. Thank you. Next common card is from

126Yadira Gonzalez. Miss Yadira Gonzalez, she's still present. All right. Next common card is from Jana Ellison. Hello, my name is Jon Ellison and I am a ninth grade student at Kip High School. This is my first year at Kip. When I first started, I was very nervous, but now I've made kind and supportive friends and I truly feel like I belong. My academic at Kip has been great and I'm excited about the future for our school. One of my biggest hopes is for us to move into our new high school building. Right now, our space is very limited and because of that, we don't have the capacity to offer certain opportunities like drama club, which is something I'm very passionate about. Drama is something I I love deeply. I hope to attend college after Kip

127and pursue my dream of becoming an actress. Having a larger permanent school building would allow students like me to explore our passions, grow our talents, and fully prepare for our experiences, futures. All of my teachers are the reason I want to pursue my dream, especially my English teacher. I respectfully ask that you vote yes tonight for Kip High School so our school can grow into the space we need and continue helping students reach their dreams. Thank you. Next common card is from Ben J. Hello. I wanted to uh thank the board uh of trustees for attending tonight. I want to commend all the students who have shown up in support of the community that they have found at Kip and to uh extend that appreciation to the teachers and the support staff at these schools

128who have helped develop that community. My daughter goes to KIP and from everything that I've seen in her, it has been an excellent experience for her. I would also like to commend the district staff and legal council who put together this report tonight. I think that we've heard a lot about how this community appreciates the work that the staff and teachers have done at these schools. However, I do not feel that Kip tonight addressed concerns that I found in the staff report. Most namely um two points. Why after denial through the official channels outlined by staff and set forth by the legislature did Kip attempt to uh get the approval of the high school outside of those clearly defined channels as was stated in the uh facts? And as well I do not feel that

129KIP uh appropriately satisfied the question of how they will satisfy enrollment targets for both locations uh that they are intending to operate if the new location is intending to pick up the students who are graduating from the current uh location in South Stockton. Um, to me it feels like Kip has been looking for a way to operate in uh, more central Stockton and started in South Stockton as a way to get their foot in the door. And it does not feel like I have seen commitment to stay there and serve that community when central Stockton has already been very well served as outlined in the report. And I would like the board to consider that and focus on the specifics that were outlined in that report about why this right now might not be the

130right move while still recognizing the great work that they have done in the schools that exist already. And I'd like to see Kip work with the uh staff to find a way to satisfy both of these requirements to continue to stay in South Stockton and serve this community that values them so much without sideststepping the rules that have been set forth that they've agreed to. Thank you trustees. This concludes comment cards for item 8.1. Okay. Thank you all for your comments. Are there any questions or comments from any members of the board at this time? >> Um okay. Thank you all for coming out. Uh and I just want to um thank the students for being able to come up and speak. I know this is not easy, but we just thank you all. Um

131I have two questions. is how are you classifying students with disabilities? >> And I'd like to uh call up uh Kip to answer the question. Yes. Thank you. >> Um I think regarding your question, thank you for asking it. uh students with disabilities. Um the way we are classifying them is based on their IEP. Um so we have both students that are mild to mod disabilities and then students who have mod to severe disabilities. Um many of our students who have mod to severe disabilities are in our specialized teaching program which primarily focuses on students with severe autism or intellectual disability. Does that answer your question? >> Yes. And another question is how are you classifying students with disabilities first behaviors? >> Uh so we are very specific in how we go through a process.

132So many of the students who come to us because we take students in all grades um would already have an IEP. Those who do not already have an IEP um we but we have concerns about you know what it their academic progress uh would be assessed through an assessment process. So if it is the school that has these concerns, it might they would go through an SST. We have a coordinated um a cost program where we identify kids who are currently not being successful in tier 1, which is our generalized instruction. And when that happens, we would put interventions in place. Tier 2 interventions might be tutoring, uh might be small group. Um, and if that continues not to be successful, there may be a referral to an SST where there's a more focused and

133concentrated um, kind of data collection and effort on remediation. So, we do not put kids into special education based on behavior. That's not the purpose of special education. Um, and certainly not something that we do. for legal counsel. >> I have a question for our legal counsel. Thank you. >> I'd like to call up uh Leslie for the question. >> Maybe you can help debunk some things for me. Okay. So, it's been uh brought to our attention that uh Kip Stockton High School is not a duplicative of what we already offer. Um, so from my understanding it still duplicates uh general comprehensive high school services, uh, credit recovery, college prep programming, counseling, and special education services. So I guess the question is not necessarily its uniqueness, but whether it will pull students in funding away

134from our district programs that are currently serve the same population. >> Yes. And so you'll notice in the staff report on page 13, finding a fact number seven addresses the proposed charter school is demonstrabably unlikely to serve the interests of the entire community in which the petitioner proposes to locate the charter school. and it addresses the statutory section that speaks to uh duplication of existing programs and whether the district can serve the students who would otherwise be interested to attend the charter school in their own high school programs or for the grade levels that are being proposed to be served. And so this is a uh unique finding that is available to the board for consideration for new petitions or for material revisions to expand grade level offerings or sites. Um so it's not available

135if it were a renewal petition. And so the concern here is that there is a duplication. And in fact, as um one of the u members of the public commented, the petition itself um didn't address the issue of enrollment in terms of being able to support high school enrollment with the new petition as well as the existing K12 enrollment that was just renewed by this board on December 16th. And so there was a concern there. And I do understand that there was a communication that was provided to the board regarding this from KIP. Um and they indicated that if the Kip Stockton High School petition was approved by this board that they would thereafter submit a material revision request to remove 9 through 12 from their existing Kip Stockton K12 uh charter that was again

136just reauthorized by the board that was not addressed in the in the new petition. Can you can can I can explain what what you're attempting to say? I'm sorry. So, they're removing it for what reason? Why was it? >> I know it's a bit complicated. So, as you know, the board reauthorized Kip Stockton K12's charter on December 16th. That is for a buildout of a K12 program. Then we had we had a submission of the new petition while that process was pending. But before the board took action on the renewal, they submitted a new petition for a high school program for grades 9 through 12. But nowhere in there was there any indication that they were going to essentially take the K12 program and take the enrollment of of for high school grades and put

137them over into this new high school in University Park. There was no no mention of it. It wasn't until after staff issued its staff report and a communication was issued to the board by KIP that indicated that if they get approved for the new high school, they wouldn't be duplicating programs in that way that they would essentially just serve high school students for both the K8 University Park feeder and then the Stockton K12 feeder. And then they would request this that this board in a subsequent material revision request remove grades 9 through 12 from their existing authorized charter. Does that help to answer? I know it's very complicated, a lot of moving parts, but I just wanted to break that down for you. >> Okay, I have another one. So they also mentioned that um

138like hey we you guys already approved this in 2019 and then from my understanding from I was able to research that like a past conceptual commitment doesn't override what's currently happening right so our current enrollment and realities current fiscal conditions updated district strategic plans priorities our current legal discretion so can you speak to that a little bit more because I think we're leaning more on like this was already approved in 2019. So, it should automatically be approved now. >> No. So, I think and and again, as I shared at the prior meeting, um I didn't represent the district at the time that that petition was approved in in in charters. However, based on the four corners of that document and the commitment that was made in that document in terms of where the program was

139going to be located, it specifically addressed serving the students in South Stockton in the Conway homes division and building out facilities for that purpose. And so that is what we are carrying forward to the board in terms of this was your commitment. If you want to change your commitment, there's a legal process for which you can do that. If you want to add facilities that are not otherwise defined or set forth in the approved charter approved by the board of trustees at the time, you have to go through a statutory process. And I want to remind the board because there was a statement that was made that they had come back through three legal processes to try to secure these facilities. But when the material revision request was submitted back in April or in the

140spring, they eventually withdrew that request to add the new high school site. So the board never acted on that. So the only two avenues by which they tried to add the facilities for the high school program in University Park was through the renewal petition that was submitted over a year early. And that included facilities that were not otherwise described in their original petition and for which staff very quickly within I believe a week of reviewing that document said, "Hey, if you want to do this, there is a process. You followed the process before. We expect you to follow it again." They did not do that. And so the board at the time on December 16th reauthorized the renewal but with the exclusion of the additional facilities that were identified in University Park for the high

141school. So they came before the sport again and actually again they submitted while that process was pending and that's what's before you tonight. And then this staff report of course uh reflects staff's recommendation and the proposed findings um that they believe justifies a denial for the reasons stated therein. >> What are the county level what happens next? So um the district has them up for a denial. >> Um Tai made a comment about um it strips the district of its oversight. Can you speak some more like what does that look like? like what are the repercussions? What happens with numbers of enrolled students or students within um the area? >> Sure, that's a very good question. So, the board has a couple options tonight. Um the first is to align with staff's recommendation to deny

142the petition to establish the Kip Stockton High School program. That le would leave intact their existing K12. I want to make that very clear because that is what the board authorized on December 16th is the K12. If the board were to deny that petition, then KIP would have 30 days to appeal the denial to the county board of education and then it would start a pro statutory process by which that board would consider the petition denovo as we call it or brand new. So they would do their own independent review of that petition and if they decided to approve it, then they would become the authorizer of Kip Stockton High School and they would have full oversight authority over the charter school, not the district. But then that leaves of course open the question of

143they're stating their enrollment projections in this petition that they're going to serve these high school students through a buildout. Where does that leave us with the existing program? Are they going to find new students or are they going to draw from their existing population which as we all know has a ripple effect on budget, on staffing, on operations, on the program. So those are just some considerations to keep in mind. Mhm. >> Um, so I I do have a few concerns um amongst kids. I don't have a question for you. Yeah, these are >> I I have a few concerns. >> Um, the suspension rates amongst African-American students have increased from 9.1% to 13.2%. Um, you have 31.1% which has increased to 5.7%. uh chronic absenteeism for students with disabilities uh that have increased to

1449.2% and it has took the percentage from uh 35.3% to 44.4%. Um ELA 67.5% below standard and has declined 14.3% amongst African-American students. For ELA you all are negative 96.3 points away from state standards. And for students with disabilities, you are negative 130.9 points away from state standards. So my thing is you all have come up and you've expressed on how you feel KIP has been an amazing school to the community, but you all are declining in numbers and I don't believe in somebody telling me that it's cloudy. It's sunny outside, but it's really cloudy. So that's those are my concerns with Kip. I don't feel like you all have outlets for students with special ed. uh nor African-American students. Me being an African-American male who have come up in um certain conditions and didn't

145have too many resources, we need resources and real numbers. So that those are my concerns. Thank you. >> Um would Kip like to respond? Um I'll call up uh Laura Nightwley. Okay. I apologize. I I took that as a question. So, that was a comment. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, clerk Martin, are there any any other questions for either either Keip or our legal counsel? Okay. So, um, is there a motion on this item? Motion to deny. >> Second. >> So, we have a motion um by Vice President Priest and seconded by Clerk Martin. >> May I interject quickly? Sorry. Um, I think we have to actually adopt the resolution as well. So, you may want to consider amending the motion to include the resolution adoption. The motion to adopt resolution number 2540. Correct.

146To deny the petition. You want to amend your your motion to state this motion to deny the adoption resolution of number 2520 25-40. >> Is that what you're asking? >> I think actually you're you're moving to approve the resolution to deny the petition. Motion to adopt to deny. Am on the >> We'll just read it word for word. >> Approve motion 8.1. You just want to approve it. Yeah, that's the resolution. >> Motion to approve 8.1. Okay. >> Okay. So, just to clarify, motion to adopt resolution number 2540 to deny the petition. And we have a first from a vice president priest, seconded by clerk Martin. Any discussion? >> I do just one other question. So regarding the kiddos, right? So how does this open us up? Yeah, come on up. How does this So

147what happens to our kiddos, right? So we deny the motion, they go to the county, whatever happens to the county. I mean, all of our kiddos are they have access to all kids, right? At that point. >> Yeah. Well, because the the Kip Stockton K12 charter is still intact, right? So, and and they're they're building out that program, but of course, we were talking about the expectation regarding facilities, but yes, keeps it intact. Got it. Okay, that's what needs to know. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you. So, we have a motion in a second and we will now vote. So, roll call vote, please. >> President Colon, >> yes. Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin, >> yes. >> Trusty Daenire, >> no. >> Trusty Perez has recused herself. Trustee Stevens, >> no. >>

148Trustee Silva, >> no. Motion fails with three yeses, one recusal from Trusty Perez, and three nos from Trusty Daire, Trustee Stevens, and Trusty Silva. >> Okay, >> so Leslie, please. >> Oh, there we go. So, in light of that, um, you may call for an alternative motion if you'd like. >> Can you please explain the impact of having a basically a three-3 vote? >> It results in inaction by the board. Um so that would be something where we we have the board has 90 days to to make a decision and due to the inaction um they neither approve nor deny. Um so if there's not an alternative motion that would just be a matter that we would um confer with senior leadership on and resolve at a different date. I have a question about that

149because at as it as it is with um trustee Perez abstension, it's 33. So if we make another motion, >> it it might still be correct. That is a possibility as well. I don't want to insert my judgment for the board and and any potential voting scenario, but as of now there is an action and and another motion it might still be considered in action because the abstension >> that's a possibility but I just want to ensure that the board knows that it has that ability to make an alternative motion if it so chooses if it does not then tonight there is no action being taken on the petition >> would it be able to come back to the next board meeting >> only within the 90 days unless an extension were granted in which

150case the the charter school will just have to decide what it wants to do um if it or to desire to appeal the inaction to the county board, then the county board can decide how it wants to handle that. The law does not speak to the specific type of situation. >> Am I is it within legal do I have the legal ability to ask Trustee Perez if she wants to come back in for the vote? >> I mean, I don't know if that's legal or not. That's why I'm asking you. Well, >> since she's already recused herself, I think she's made that decision. >> Yeah. Yes. just bring it back to to have further discussion on the item. I'd hate well >> my my thoughts on that is I think um for for time and

151for the sake of making a making a decision um I think we need to make the decision um >> you know what I mean we need >> and that's the hard >> yeah the issue is that we're there's only six of us right so it would be could poss possibly be a 33 again. That would be the thing. So if we tonight this is an indecision. If we don't bring it back to board within the 90 days, it remains indecision and the next step would be >> inaction. Right. >> Inaction is what I mean. Yeah. In action. >> The board in order to deny a petition has to make written factual findings to support one or more grounds, legal grounds articulated in the education code to support that denial. By f by virtue of the

152inaction tonight, it wouldn't be actually making a denial, nor would it be making an approval. And so that would open the door for the charter school to decide what it wants to do if the timelines have exhausted. And then that would be the prerogative of the county or whomever you know uh the appellet body so to speak to to decide whether to consider that. >> So then at this time that's where that's where we're at. That's where we're going to stand with this um the inaction. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. So, I'd like to just echo Clerk Martin um and I'm sure um everyone appreciates the the children coming in to speak, our students um sharing their their experiences. So, at this time, we'll we will move on to item uh

153number 9.1. Okay, thank you so much. Um, for those of you in the room here, we'll go ahead and continue on to item number 9.1, discussion and approval of second reading of proposed amendments to board bylaw 9121. President, do we have a motion? >> Motion to approve. Second. >> Okay, we have a first and a second. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none. Roll call vote, please. >> President Colon, >> yes. >> Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin, >> yes. >> Trusty Daire, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trusty Stevens, >> no. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. >> Motion passes. 61 with one no from trustee Stevens. >> Okay. Thank you. Item 10.1, brief reports on trustee activities. Abby will read the oral announcement. Christina will be the timekeeper. >> This is the

154opportunity for each trustee to make a brief announcement or to give a brief report on their own recent activities at the district pursuant to the Brown Act Government Code section 54954.283. There will be a threeminut limit per report. >> Okay, thank you. I'll go ahead and start on my left here with Trustee Silva. >> Regrettably, I have nothing to report at this time. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you. Trusty Donald Donaire. >> Hello everyone. Just going to say Trusty Silva is lying because I um just started the masters in governance. I think he wanted he forgot but it's okay. But it's Trusty Silva, myself, uh, President Cologne, and Clerk Martin who is doing the masters in governance course um, with the California School Boards Association. Um, this is a training that happens every year. Um,

155and it's to get trustees to understand governance better um, and the ins and outs of how the district works. So, I'm really excited to learn with them and to be a part of um, that cohort. Um, I'm also just wanted to shout out to President Cologne too for um not putting on uh this the our school website, our district website whether we've gotten that training or not. And it shows um you know it it's I'm hoping that this incentivizes um everyone here on the dis um to get trained and to get the most updated information. So um that's all that I did this last week. Thanks. >> Thank you, Trusty Daire. Trusty Perez. Good evening all. Um, let's see. I'm continuing with friendly site visits um at schools in my area. So, last week I

156visited with Mckenley Elementary and met with principal to Alba where I was introduced to staff and observed their impactful food distribution program serving families. I also visited with uh Taylor Leadership Academy and met with principal Yang and the assistant principal. I truly appreciate the warm welcome and the great conversation. I commend both sides for their amazing heartfelt work. Lastly, to all of our teachers and staff, thank you for the heart, commitment, and care you pour into our students each day. Your work does not go unnoticed, and I'm grateful for all of you. Thanks. Thank you, Trusty Perez, Vice President Priest. Good evening, everyone. Uh, all schools in area 4 are enjoying the opportunity to celebrate and uplift one another during the great kindness challenge. It has been inspiring to see students and staff showing what

157kindness looks like on their campuses, and we encourage our community to continue sharing what kindness means to you during this week. Um, area 4 is full of important work, meaningful progress, and community pride. Uh Hoover is preparing for Saturday school on February 21st. Uh families who are interested are encouraged to contact the Hoover office for more information. Uh Hoover is also getting ready for an upcoming math lesson presentation highlighting strong instructional practices. Uh Primary Years Academy is enjoying spirit week while also embracing the message of kindness through the kindness uh challenge. Victory is busy hosting academic conferences and preparing for two important captain's visi visits. Uh they got visited by Dr. Rodriguez today and later this week I believe on Thursday they're going to be uh visited by the San King County Office of Education

158superintendent. Uh finally I did want to share this clearly with our parents, community members and our employees. Uh, no one should ever feel feel fear, hesitation, or experience retaliation of any kind about speaking at a board meeting. We want to hear from you. Your voice matters, and we are here to serve and support you. Please continue to reach out to your trustees, talk at board meetings, and let us know what's on your mind. Whether it's celebrations, concerns, or ideas for strengthening our schools, we look forward to hearing from you. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, so I just want to um just recap um what's happened in this past week. For me, I was able to have a a really good discussion with Mr. Bivvens, president of the NAACP Stockton chapter. Um I reached

159out to clarify uh the miscommunication from last week and um I I always enjoy talking with him. uh I learned so much and we you know the conversation uh goes on and we were able to talk about history and the importance of knowing one's history and learning the history of others. Um and I was excited to know that it kind of kind of tied in with the uh Stockton Teachers Association PD day. We had our um our ethnic study studies team uh providing PD offerings on on just that uh going over the the programming that we offer our students but giving that to our teachers. Um we also t talked about the importance of our educators learning about our history and our culture. So kudos to uh program specialist Aldrich Aldrich Sabach and all of

160our ethnic studies teachers. Um, also want to give a shout out to uh Chavez High School. I was able to attend their eighth grade uh family night and um it was a a chance for families to see what does high school look like. Um and it's so it's always so cute because the kids are kind of nervous but the parents are really excited. Um and they really um did a wonderful job. It was a whole team effort. There were um the administrators were there. You had student leadership plus the CTE programs, athletics, counselors. Um we had the Chinese program students, we had yearbook, ELOP, um CWA, health office was and there was so many different tables out and families going around just learning more about what their child could expect in high school. And of

161course, we had uh jazz and mariachi bands uh welcoming in parents as they as they walk through the gates. Um we there will be more high school um 8th grade family nights. So um STAG is next on the 29th, so be looking out for that. So want to echo um trustee daire um shared a bit about the masters in governance training um that we're a part of now in um with C CSBA. So it's one of four that the board did agree to completing every two years. So we made this agreement and this promise as part of the response during the AB 139 audit which you might remember as the Fikmat the extraordinary audit. So our promise or our commitment was that we would complete the masters in governance or a governance type training that

162we would um complete our ethics training, conflict of interest and brown act training. So we wrote this letter March 1st of 2023 to our county office of ed making that commitment and so re doing this every two years is just reaffirming that commitment to good governance. So again just excited to be a part. It's several months long. Um, but it's it's wonderful information. Okay. Right on time. Pass it over to Clerk Martin. >> All right. One thing about our president, she's going to use her three minutes. >> No. Um, yes. So, we did start our governance training last night and it it was very informative and I was um I was very happy to be in the class with my fellow trustees and I also um went to pastries with Panthers at Vanerian in my

163area and we had an amazing time. We were meeting with parents and having uh danishes and coffee just uh letting the parents know that we thank them for getting their children to school on time and we just appreciate them. So it was amazing to be out there with our parents at Vanerian. And then I also went to Mazuma. I love reading to the kids so I went to Mazuma and I read to one of the kindergarten classes and I will continue to do my site visits. Thank you. >> Okay, great. Thank you, Trusty. Last but not least. Okay. So, um I'm so I'm looking forward to doing some different things uh this year. So, I made in my mind this this particular uh year for me was really about um stepping up my game, making

164sure that there's more actionable items, making sure that there is a plethora of community support. So, I will have a booth at the Native American Powow on February the 7th. I will be providing books by Native authors um out to our families. I think is always amazing and I think it's also in alignment with our district to um make sure there's added value that our kiddos get to see themselves in literacy that they receive. So at the pow-wow it's important for those families to see native um authors. So that'll be happening. I'm also partnering with BEA um SUSD Black Employees Association of Stockton Unified School District and Msada for their Black History event. I will have a portion. I will be doing a um Black History trivia night. So, look forward to that event on

165the 17th at 5:00 p.m. Also had the opportunity to hang out with Pacific Law Academy this Saturday. This past Saturday um at the game our at the game our kiddos were performing out there. So, it's really great to see our teens um because they're the ones that are usually shy. they won't step up to the plate to do certain things, especially in front of a large audience. So, our kiddos were at the game performing and look forward to more opportunities to support um Stockton Unified and SUSD forward. Okay, wonderful. Thank you. Okay, moving on to item 10.2, Two, approval of expenditure for three Stockton Unified School District board members to attend the the California School Board Association, CSBA, Coast to Coast Federal Advocacy Trip in Washington, DC, April 13 through 15, 2026. Is there a

166motion? I motion to approve item 10.2. >> I second. >> Okay, we have first and a second. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote, please. >> President Colon, >> yes. Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk uh Martin, >> yes. >> Trusty Daener, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trusty Stevens, >> yes. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. >> Motion passes unanimously. >> Okay. Item 10.3, approval of an outofstate conference for five board member board trustees and superintendent of schools to attend the SUSD student performance at a music festival in Schulmet Louisiana. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. April 9th through 13, 2026. Is there a motion? >> I motion to approve item 10.3 Stevens. >> A second. >> Okay, we have a first and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote,

167please. President Colon, >> yes. >> Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin, >> yes. >> Trusty Daenire, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trusty Stevens, >> yes. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. >> Motion passes unanimously. >> Okay. Item 10.4, discussion and appointment of trustees to board subcommittees. So, last uh board meeting um I received um input from all of our trustees. So, we have um so on my paper here, I'm starting with the parks and wreck and it should match up with the agenda item. I'm just going to double check myself. The item's not listed. It doesn't have the attachment. um under under analysis. So starting with number one, parks and recreation appoint. I'm appointing uh trustee Donaire for the Sanwaq King County School Boards Association Executive Committee. I'm appointing trustee Donaire

168for the special education committee. I'm appointing uh Vice President Priest, Clerk Martin, and Trustee Silva, and making Vice President Priest chair. For Black Students Thrive, we have uh Clerk Martin, Vice President Priest, and Trustee Daire. And I'm appointing uh clerk Martin as chair for inter agency Stockton Unified School District governing boards Stockton City Council joint committee. Um I'm uh required to be a part of the committee. I'm appointing vice president priest and trustee daire and I will be the chair of this committee for the 1852 committee 1852 foundation committee I'm appointing trustee daire trustee or clerk Martin and trustee Perez and appointing trustee daire as chair for the board policy committee I'm appointing vice president priest myself and trustee Daener and appointing vice president priest as chair for the budget oversight committee um appointing vice

169president priest myself and trustee daire and I will be the chair of this committee for the curriculum English learner and student outcomes committee I'm appointing vice president priest trustee daire and Trusty Silva and Vice President Priest will be chair for the equity diversity committee. I'm appointing Trustee Perez, Clerk Martin, and Vice President Priest. And I'm appointing Trustee Perez as chair for the transformative justice committee slashsafety and student outcome student conduct. I'm appointing Trustee Perez, Clerk Martin, and Trustee Silva. >> Can you can you repeat that one? That last one? >> Yeah. TR uh transformative justice committee slashsafety and student conduct. So, appointing trustee Perez, clerk Martin, and trustee Silva and making uh appointing Trusty Perez as chair. And so these committees um were um appointed based on your interests. Um I think pretty much it

170was filled on on the day except we had a couple that had you know four and more and what have you. And so, um, the only one that we I wanted to return to and and and ask a little bit more about Oh, okay. Is the last one is the Workforce Housing Committee. So, before we um before we discuss that one, uh could we um I'd like to know if we could get a motion to approve the appointments for the uh committees ex with the exception of workforce housing committee. >> A motion to approve the committees with the exception of the workforce. >> I'll second Okay. All right. So, um motioned by clerk Martin, seconded by Is that Trusty Silva? >> Okay. >> All right. So, so let's go ahead and have the discussion on

171the workforce housing committee. So, um as it stands right now, only one person, um volunteered, and I think that was Trusty Daener said, "Sign me up for everything." So, we had a couple of thoughts. um on how we can move forward for the workforce housing committee or discussion. So, there's a couple different ways we um think if we um present it now, would anyone be interested in stepping up? >> I would be interested. Is anyone else interested? >> Okay. >> I'd be interested. >> Oh, yes. after all. Okay. Okay. So that that then um we have three al together and that fulfills for the the number four committee. So we have trustee priest um sorry vice president priest clerk Martin and trustee daire >> and um >> do you want them to amend their motion

172then? Yeah, I guess we can go ahead and just amend the motion. But first, let me let me um look at the who I will appoint as chair. Yeah, because I was trying to do this like um you know fairly. So I will go ahead and appoint um >> Yeah, he's the one he only has one so far. Um, so we have clerk Martin as chair, pre uh vice president priest as member and trustee donaire as member. So we have a full committee for workforce housing. Um, so would anyone like to then clerk Martin would you like to amend your motion? >> I'll amend my motion. my motion. >> And I'll approve all committees >> as appointed. >> I'll second. >> Yes, I'll second that. >> Okay, great. Thank you. Any further discussion? >> Just

173wanted to make sure we didn't skip additional discussion if there was a desire for that. Okay. So, we have a first and a second. And if there's no further discussion or question, then we will call for the roll call vote. >> President Colon, >> yes. >> Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin, >> yes. >> Trusty Daire, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trusty Stevens, >> yes. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. >> Motion passes unanimously. Okay, great. All right, moving on to item 11.1, superintendence report, board leadership, proud Franklin alums. Yeah, so before I get to that special part, um we are going to So something that cabinet does um once a month um during our cabinet meeting is we go out to celebrate our staff. So, if you go on my

174um superintendent's website, then you'll see it. Um so, they're supposed to be putting it up now. So, we're ready. Okay, here we go. Um so, we support um one administrator, one classified, and one certificated. So, this um this month we um went and um surprised Brandy Dalba, the principal at McKinley, um for just all the great work that she did. Um, so we want to recognize her. Um, then you'll see we always try to do it with staff around. Um, then we So there you go. And then we went and saw Mr. David Bow. So he is a teacher at El Dorado. We not only gave him in front of his students the great news that he was um our teacher of the month, but he also is one of the finalists for the county

175for teacher of the year. So um Mr. Mr. David Dau. Um and then um so there's us and then we for our classified staff we went to Polium Elementary and we went with um we provided it to Ms. Iris Brown and she is the community school specialist. Um and one thing as we were leaving this is just kind of representative of how um collaborative and love she is. as we were leaving that office, all the office staff that was there with her um they were doing one giant circle hug as we were leaving um because um as soon as we said we were looking for her and that we had a surprise for her, they started cheering right then. So um thank you to all of our over 5,000 staff that we have. We know

176that we wish we could um do many many more, but um we we always look forward to recognizing the staff. Um and so let's give a hand for all of our staff members. And if you go on the website, you'll see um previous months as well. Um then um as you know um because we had a resolution at the last board meeting, this month is um board appreciation month. So, I know that I personally know how many hours you put in because you're at events with me. You're at events I'm not even at um working with me um doing our one- on-ones um working with other community members, doing your visits, all the things that you um talk about in your trustee um reports. So, but we have something pretty special in the leadership this

177time because we have all three of them are Franklin alums. And so, so our um incredible our incredible communications department um put together um this video. I do want to say because um we are not forgetting the other four. So, our other four board members, we're going to be releasing we're going to be working with you and releasing short clips with you as well. Um, so after you um see this, don't worry, we're going to be showcasing the four of you as well. But here we go. Um, here is the video. >> When you're walking the halls here in Franklin, does it feel the same? Feels so different. >> H, it brings back so many memories. SUSD board president Sophia Cologne grew up in Stockton and is a proud alum of Franklin High School where

178she was class president. >> Thank you so much. Um we do have awards for you so if you can come up. >> Now she's board president of the Stockton Unified School District. She says she is proud to be a graduate of Franklin along with her mother, husband, family members, and SUSD board leadership. We should all feel proud that not only are we leaders at the district, but we have so many leaders that have come out of Franklin throughout the years. >> Her experience at Franklin High helped lead her to where she is today. >> Because of my experience here at Franklin, I was familiar with going to board meetings even as as early as, you know, being a sophomore and a junior. But it I guess that that never left me. I always knew that

179there was this system, you know, out there that's that's working. Um, and it made me think about my children's education. So, as my children got a little older and placed into school and I started to see that system again, there were things that I thought um I still appreciated, but also there were a lot of improvements that I thought we need to look at this. It's really a great um experience to be back at my old stomping ground as they say. >> Board Vice President Shauna Priest is also a graduate of Franklin High School where she played basketball. >> I was pretty good long long long time ago. >> After graduating from Franklin, she went to H.B.CU and then came back to Stockton where she has been an educator for more than a decade. and

180I realized that the students needed to see someone like me to make that difference and being able to advocate for the same community that I came from was truly important to me. >> Now, Priest is vice president on a school board for a district that is the seventh largest in the state. >> It's really important for me for our students to see themselves reflected uh in our board and I think now we have the opportunity to do that. serving and advocating for students. >> Even being able to give that example of coming from Stockton, going to a H.B.CU, and now being able to pour back into my community, um, I really hope that students in the district realize that is something that they can strive for. >> So, here you're in the gym. >> Yeah.

181>> What comes to your mind here in the gym? >> Uh, this is home. >> Board Clerk Patrick Martin. >> Yeah. I thought I was the next LeBron James, but that ain't >> also a graduate of Franklin High School. >> Franklin is is a family school. um all of my friends, uh my my teachers. >> Martin grew up in South Stockton and invest in the youth. >> I wanted to just be an example of showing them, hey, I went through this these things. I went through I had a troubled youth and u by the grace of God, I was able to get out of that and uh pursue what I'm doing now. making SUSD board leadership, board president, >> alumni, go jackets, >> board vice president, >> the yellow jackets are in the house and

182we're here to stay. >> And board clerk >> Franklin produces greatness. >> Yellow jackets for life. >> Go yellow jackets >> in Stockton. Melinda Mesa for the Stockton Unified School District. who are >> I didn't I didn't see Brian Beerman with the Edison hat over there. I didn't I >> Well, thank you so much for helping us to to capture that those memories and our our passion and our drive for why we're here. And I can't wait to see the rest of the trustees. highlighted. So, thank you so much for for working on that. Um, we will go ahead and move on to item 11.2, approval of expenditure for Stockton Unified School District Superintendent of Schools to attend the AASA, the School Superintendent Association National Conference in Nashville, Tennessee on February 11th through 14th, 2026.

183Is there a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> I'll second. Thank you. Uh, do we have any discussion? Okay, hearing none. Roll call vote, please. >> President Colon, >> yes. >> Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin, >> yes. >> Trusty Daenire, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trusty Stevens, >> yes. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. >> Motion passes unanimously. >> Okay. Thank you. Item 2.1, approval to use the cooperative purchasing program. Omnia Partners to purchase supplies, equipment, and other needs for the arts programs across the district. Is there a motion? >> A motion to approve 12.1. >> A second. >> Okay, we have a first and a second. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none. Roll call vote, please. >> President Colon, >> yes. >> Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin,

184>> yes. >> Trusty Daire, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trustee Stevens, >> yes. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. Item 12.2, approval of the cooperative purchasing cooperative purchasing program source well to purchase supplies, equipment, and other needs for arts programs across the district. Is there a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> I second. Thank you. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none. Roll call vote, please. President Colon, >> yes. Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin, >> yes. >> Trusty Daire, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trusty Stevens, >> yes. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. >> Motion passes unanimously. >> Okay. Item number 12.4, approval of the 2025 2026 school plan for student achievement, SIPA, for SUSD schools receiving Title One funding. Is there a motion? >> A

185motion to approve item 12.4. for >> a second. >> Any discussion? >> I I had a question, Dr. Rodriguez. I noticed that Franklin's was here. Is this just a summary given to Franklin and we're not approving their SIPs at this time? >> Yes, you are right. So, we um it was pulled. So, this is only for Kennedy Elementary. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Any other discussion? Okay, hearing none. Roll call vote, please. President Colon, >> yes. >> Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin, >> yes. >> Trusty Daire, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trustee Stevens, >> yes. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. >> Motion passes unanimously. Item 12.5, approval to purchase In Novamat thinking math manipulative kits for our K through fifth grade piloting teachers. Is there a motion? >> Motion

186to approve. >> I'll second. Stevens. Okay, any discussion? Okay, no discussion. Roll call vote, please. President Cologne, >> yes. Vice President Priest, >> yes. >> Clerk Martin, >> yes. Trusty Daener, >> yes. >> Trusty Perez, >> yes. >> Trusty Stevens, >> yes. >> Trusty Silva, >> yes. >> Motion passes unanimously. >> Okay. And we had moved item 13.1 earlier. So I will move down to item 17. Is that right? 17.1 adjournment. So I will adjourn the meeting at 8:47. Thank you. Trustees, we'd like to request that all trustees remain in their seats for signatures. Thank you.