October 17th, 2023 1:00pm Regular Board Meeting

001scapegoated to have your identity weaponized by people who feel they have something to gain from your hurt and it's a terrible experience and I cannot sit here and watch us do it again I see what is happening around our country already people turning their anger on Palestinians and Muslims anyone Brown anyone too different from them or against Jewish people or Israeli immigrants or in at synagogues we've so seen recently that we are not immune here in Los Angeles and we must nip that anger and hate in the bud and reject it so my plea is this move forward through this pain in the spirit of love and understanding and empathy support not just the people in your group but in all groups and when you see anyone summoning fear and hatred you speak up and

002reject it and most important the things we can control here in this room in this district is what we do for our children and our employees all of our students and employees are important and hate and anger about any faith any group will not be tolerated by this District we have a responsibility to the many thousands of children who come to our schools every day we have Jewish students some who have family who were hurt or killed in the violence we have Arab students and Palestinian students specifically who may also have had loved ones who have been killed or being denied medical or essential services in Gaza we have a responsibility to all our students and all our employees to ensure their well-being and we must teach the history about current events in a way

003that helps them understand the world today we are all here to do a great job for them let's Channel our pain anger and grief into renewed passion and commitment to the children who depend on us to guide them along their journey into adulthood and so in that Spirit we will go back to our work thank you very much board president's report labor Partners I didn't see any but I want to make sure they up oh come on down I didn't see why I'm sorry I apologize I didn't see you good afternoon board members Georgia flow Le United teers Los Angeles we are proud to declare that labor union stood together to ensure ongoing Health Care coverage for tens of thousands of LAUSD employees families and retirees we are excited and proud of our newest article

004that commits the district to looking into finding ways to support all of our members including our lgbtqia plus communities this may look like family formation gender affirming care more mental health support and overall Wellness utla is committed to continue working collaboratively within the HBC labor partners and and the district to advocate for fully funded health care for all we urge you the school board to approve our tentative agreement regarding prop 39 Charter collocations First we'd like to thank board president Goldberg and board member Rivas for developing and sponsoring the important resolution to protect our schools from the negative impacts of prop 39 9 collocations we'd also like to thank board member schmon and board member McKenna for supporting the resolution on September 26th this school board approved a resolution directing superintendent carvalo to develop a

005policy designed to protect our district schools from the negative impacts of Charter collocation within 45 days I think I speak for most of us when I say that we were absolutely dismayed to learn during Schoolboard deliberations that LAUSD has been for years misleading the public and directly lying to the school board members and District staff about the legal obligations under prop 39 it was made absolutely clear that there is no specific definition of an empty classroom under prop 39 but the Charter School Division decided to ident identify as empty any classroom spaces that did not have a roster carrying teacher permanently assigned to that space in other words for years LAUSD has been giving away critical programmatic spaces to collocating Charters when it was not obligated to do so our kids have had classrooms in

006libraries and cafeterias our counselors have been meeting with students outside on lunch tables in hallways and stairwells the growth of magnet programs have been compromised to make room for a charter some of our neighborhood schools have had waiting lists of students not allowed to enroll because classroom spaces have been gifted to Charters the list goes on and on this is an opportunity for the district to correct the wrongs and harm caused by La usd's Charter School Division leadership past and current school board members and superintendents who have given away critical programmatic spaces to collocating charters for years we expect that superintendent carvalo and his staff will do their due diligence in developing a strong policy that fulfills the spirit of the resolution in addition today we demand that the district conduct an audit of all

007alternative agreements made in The Last 5 Years we also demand determination of Jose Cole Gutierrez and all other staff responsible for lying to the school board and misleading the public thank you very much good afternoon board president Goldberg members of the Board of Education superintendent staff members of the public thanks for having me I'm Andrew Thomas uh director of The Independent analysis unit the mission of our unit is to uh support the the board in its uh fiscal stewardship and governance functions and as as part of that mission sometimes we make recommendations and sometimes we make recommendations that you may have already heard before if you hear recommendations uh from me it it's because we've DED of them independently and we think they're good ideas even if uh they're recommendations that you've heard from others

008and in this case uh I'm making a recommendation that you've heard before and that you've even mentioned yourself in public and um I'm adding my voice to that recommendation and that is that I recommend that the board consider scheduling two budget workshops uh into the schedule one in the fall and one in the spring to discuss I'm talking about next year's budget so the 24 25 um budget uh there's precedence for this and I've I've heard it mentioned in in a number of different places but you may ask why I'm making the recommendation now and why I'm recommending to there's long been a discussion in this District of how the board can use the budget process to review spending plans at a time before the budget is is finished during budget development uh now it's

009not easy because the budget of this district is is complex it's big but there's been notable progress in the last few years and the IU is committed to supporting that process and to uh moving it forward as much as we can I know it's only October and it feels that the school year has just begun in some ways but last month for instance for example in discussion of the UN audited uh actuals Mr melvoy acknowledged that the finance team had included a timeline in their budget presentation that called for stakeholder engagement now in October and I'll remind you that last year around this time and at the committee of the whole of October 18th 2022 Mr hartt and the finance team gave an excellent excellent presentation to the board that discussed the this year's budget

010and budget priorities and then looking at the calendar a little bit farther out in December we're going to get the first interum so we'll know how much spending is happening this year January we'll have the governor's budget and that will tell us about State spending either more or less of it than than we expect by February and this is what I want to emphasize we'll know the School site carryover budgets will be released to schools this happens in February and Central budget development will begin so I'm suggesting two budget work shops one before the end of the school year this year the calendar year and one in March I think March would be a good time after we know a lot of the numbers but before the budget's been finalized by April central office budget

011development is over and School site development is over by budget by by April and then the May Revis is just too late for the board to to make any decisions so that's why I recommend to that's why I recommend it now the next question is what to do in budget workshops now budget workshops are very common in school district around the state and around the country um they're not necessarily well attended I don't want to oversell them uh and most school districts are much smaller than La unified so those those meetings are more like School site Council meetings than they will be uh like the meeting that we'll have here but I'm recommending two big uh topics to discuss in in any budget Workshop that may be held one is fiscal stability and again this

012is stuff that you've heard from the finance team or what I call the fundamentals there are two big issues under fiscal stability right now that the that the district this district and other districts are considering one is Esser and the fact that all the Esser money is going away as of this time next year and a lot of school districts are worried about that the evidence is this district has done a very good job of spending down that money as of June 65% of all of our money was spent more of it is spent by now that's the best of any of the large California districts San Diego's close to 63% we've also been doing what uh Mr Hart has has characterized several times as protecting the general fund and that's a very good thing

013meaning that we probably won't have much of or any of a fiscal cliff uh and then we'll be able to move spending seamlessly into the general fund that's something to ask about the next thing of course is enrollment again it's something you've heard a lot a lot about our enrollment has decreased 24% since 134 our staffing has fluctuated but is at about the same level as it was in 20134 so something to consider now beyond the fundamentals I think the board wants to ask is the financial plan a comprehensive education Improv Improvement plan so is the budget a comprehensive education Improvement plan is the Strategic plan and the budget aligned and very particularly I think specifically the board may want to look at the four powerful goals and how well the Investments that have been

014made are doing toward Meeting those goals and particularly I think literacy and numeracy where we're trying to move up 30 points and 40 points on average for students how well do the Investments look we're about halfway through it how well are we doing at Meeting those goals and then there are two other board priorities that have come up quite a bit in the last year I think the budget you should ask about how the budget is advancing those goals and those are one is going to be discussed today Greening and um transportation electrification and one is school climate and culture how well are the Investments that we're planning for next school year doing uh toward Meeting those board goals so those are my recommendations thank you very much thank you very much uh now we're

015going to hear from Mr melin on a facilities and procurement committee report thank you Miss Goldberg let me just pull up my notes here um let's see thank you so on Tuesday um October 3rd the facilities and procurement meeting had its first meeting of the Year procurement committee had its first meeting of the year we had three items on the agenda um first we heard from the bond oversight committee with an overview of their role to ensure the appropriate expenditures of the district's Bond dollars um they also shared some current areas of discussion such as Greening and strategies for district perimeter fencing um next we heard from an external expert Mr Steve Newton about the possibility of using certain types of streamlined Contracting including the California multiple Awards schedule or Cass which pre-approves and guarantees

016a price for certain products the committee discussed that the district should continue to look more closely at these opportunities to save time and money uh in Contracting finally we an update from Miss toes on two new Bond projects that are slated to begin the board in uh come to begin coming to the board in coming months the first is a classroom upgrade program for approximately half of our middle schools the second is a program for larger projects to remove and replace Bungalows with new classroom buildings and a handful of schools the committee asked questions about both projects and in particular the need to look closely at why certain Bungalows will be removed and replaced uh the opportunities for more greenace space and what impact this will have on uh students our next meeting uh will

017be held on November 28th we're still finalizing the agenda but we do expect that the presentation will include a report back from District staff on a few broad recommendations that I previously shared with the board from last spring including one to review and revise phasing policies to seed up speed up projects one of the reasons um facilities projects can get so expensive is because we have to do them over many years because students are on our campuses and so we want to look at some other options uh around phasing uh to to speed projects up and reduce the cost two was to review policies and practices that may be driving costs up including review of the Cass contracts I just mentioned to ensure that we're getting the best deals for all of our schools three

018to review and identify new Revenue options for supporting facilities projects indeed uh and four and finally determine how to uh maintain an appropriate level of Maintenance and Repair funding so that we're not waiting for things uh to need replacement to the detriment of students so productive meetings um and we'll report back after our November 28th meeting thank you thank you does sound very productive can people see your meeting now they can I that's a question from Mr McAn but I believe it should be for those who weren't uh able to join us in person or online at the time it should be online on the district's website that's accurate okay so you can go to achieve. lausd.net and ask for committee report and you'll find an actual video of the entire meeting okay if I

019can make a small correction on that what you would do is you'd go to our website and then look using the calendar for the date on which the meeting occurred you click on that meeting and boom you'll have the materials you might even have some notes and you'll also have a link to the meeting that was recorded and post say that one more time since I said it wrong okay so you would go to uh bo. lausd.net um you would go to the date on which the event occurred that you were looking for so in this example it would be for the facilities in procurement committee uh last week you'd click on it and up Pops all the information you could ever want on that particular meeting and just a final thank you Miss goldber

020I want to thank Mr smarson and Mr or Franklin who are on the committee with me and we're also joined at the de for these meetings by Miss toes and Mr Mount our new procurement officer and they were helpful and active in the discussion as well so excellent excellent something I've wanted to have happen for a very long time now and I'm very glad you're doing this uh next we're going to quickly go through the consent calendar we're only going to say whether something will be off consent or on consent if you have comments that you wish to make uh Mr McLean will note that so that when we get to it even if it uh is on consent we will call on you for those comments so item one adoption of compensation proposal for

021District representative consent uh item two approval of procurement actions but anyone not it not on consent okay so we have questions from Mr schl son Dr Rivas Jackie Goldberg Mr melin maybe others well we'll see okay item three approval of facility contracts consent consent item four Define and approve new Chatsworth Early Education Center project consent item five the definition of five Outdoor Learning projects and amend their uh program and I'll have a question on that one item six uh Define and approve for projects to create uh provide critical Replacements and upgrades the school building sites item seven toine and approve seven Board District priority region priorities consent item eight authorization to enter into an agreement with LA Department of Water and Power for funding electri Transportation electrification projects consent item nine report of cash dist

022burs consent item 10 donation of money to the district item 11 emergency closure of all district schools and programs request for allowance of attendance due to emergency conditions and payment of employees item 12 routine Personnel actions item 14 we can't do 13 on consent uh item 14 adoption of textbooks for utk and 56 English language arts uh item 15 early literacy School block grant literacy action plan updates item 16 go ahead on which one Dr M 15 okay uh item 16 approval of English language learner healthc care pathway Grant item 17 2023 comprehensive coordinated early intervening Services abbreviated compliance Improvement monitoring action plan all right item 18 approval of community advisory committee slow down I got I'm sorry Dr McKenna which one was that hand up 17 I want to ask some questions on 17

023McKenna consent but I have some questions okay item 18 approval of the community advisory committee member the CAC oh discussion discussion okay not on consent item 29 the health care benefits agreement consent item 30 Amendment to board rule 131 and 135 consent I have uh maybe a question okay item 8 19 which is a uh a motion a resolution for at 3 pm consent item 20 celebrating October as Filipino Heritage Month consent on the Motions I will call on the makers even though they're on consent uh item 21 this Lexia Awareness Month item 22 uh recognizing a Latina Trailblazer to rename gridly Elementary that is a Time certain as well consent uh we have initial announcements which we don't take action questions about number 22 about 22 okay and item 27 report of Correspondence cons

024item 28 minutes of board approval I don't have 29 and 30 on this page 29 and 30 29 is the uh health benefits agreement yeah yeah we we already did that yeah oh I see it's on the previous page n30 is too all right let me explain what we just did before I go to superintendent's reports every board member receives all the board materials a week or so in advance we get an opportunity to ask senior staff all our question questions and yet sometimes you saw some of us saying we still had some questions yet but the reason things are on consent is because after having had those meetings with senior staff they really believe we should pass the item only an item that is called for discussion like item 8 uh 18 is uh

025will not be on consent everything else on our agenda today will be on consent that means after we've taken the questions from uh board members who've said yes on consent but I have questions in one vote we will vote on a huge number of items and people have always asked me well how can you vote on 20 items in one vote it's because we have done our dual diligence we have asked our questions we have gone to senior staff we want to find out what this all means and so when we're ready to vote rather than you hear me call them one at a time and then we have to move and second each of them one at a time we get it all over in one vote so I wanted to explain the consent

026calendar because I get questions about it on a fairly regular basis bis now we're going to turn to our superintendent who's going to start with a green schoolyards for all plan and make a presentation to us indeed we are thank you very much uh Madam president um and thank you very much for your comments at the beginning of our meeting considering conditions and situations are heartbreaking but are happening around us and impacting our children and their families I deeply appreciate it um The Greening of our school schoolyards for all plan has been a priority of this District at has been championed by the board itself it originated actually with a resolution by board member gones and uh she has been a fighter in this space for the benefit of our students and our Workforce it

027is clear particularly considering the climatic changes around us which cannot be denied they are observed attested to by scientific observation and are having a deep impact in our community more so than other parts of the country and even within our community there are certain areas that feel it more than other areas it is as a result of those realities that we have moved forward based on board guidance uh with today's plan uh presentation this is not the first and last this is an ongoing conversation that will provide you some uh level of information specific to the systems that we currently have in place to measure to prioritize on a basis of need and to monitor the implementation of green and natural spaces our school sites hopefully as a result of this presentation you will understand

028not only the board but the public the rationale behind the priorization of projects in our school system timelines associated with execution and implementation and the way we will be monitoring that work secondly we will detail uh to uh to uh to a certain extent uh at an aggressive level of detail the projects that are uh currently underway the programs the specific design standards that align with the goals of green schools for all resolution thirdly uh you will get some degree of information regarding opportunities ongoing opportunities current and future opportunities for Partnerships uh that we envision as a school system to accelerate uh the deployment of green spaces uh in our schools uh we will speak about uh collaboration with with stakeholders with partners and the experts continue to advise us in this important work uh

029obviously we cannot have this discussion without uh detailing uh the funding that has been earmarked appropriated used currently uh budgeted for these efforts but also ultimately the funding that will be required to continue and complete all Greening efforts across Los Angeles Unified and then last but not least as we identify new capital projects whether they are modernizations or School construction the necessary funding for the Long Haul for uh the upgrading of schoolyards and construction of new schoolyards with that said let me introduce to you someone who is well known to you um one of the best darn Chief facilities officers in America Christina [Music] toes thank you for that generous introduction Christina toes Chief facilities executive excited here to give a presentation on the green schoolyards for all plan as you know the resolution passed

030by the board um asked for a robust plan um for the staff to provide back to the board essentially asking us to develop a plan to ensure that 30% of schoolyards are greened um to prioritize those schools that have the least amount of green space but also look at communities that are impacted by heat and also consider environmental justice that we focus particularly on TK through five our youngest students um who have are in schools that have less than 10% of green space in their schoolyards and that we also develop this plan in collaboration with our community stakeholders ERS and parents so with that let me share with you the details of this plan as I mentioned before when I gave um the update several months ago we have very sophisticated data of all of

031our district sites schoolyards that we were able to use to come up with metrics of what we need big picture right now as of today we know that approximately um 600 schools that's 80% of all of our SCH schools do not meet this 30% goal if we were to take how much was needed we know and we ran these numbers at each of our schools that it would require approximately 15 million square feet that's 350 Acres would have to be upgraded into green and natural space and the big ticket number is this is a $4 billion uh ask but we know that you know we never achieved anything all at once we're going to make big impactful um uh steps towards meeting this goal and that's what I'm going to detail for you now as

032I mentioned the resolution asked us to look specifically at our youngest students in elementary schools early Ed and primary centers of that group we know that 205 elementary schools so that's 27% of all of our schools do not meet this Greening goal that would be approximately 1.5 billion that would' be needed to take all of these schools to that 30% goal and hopefully the slides will come back so I'll just talk to you verbally um we also were asked to prioritize schools to consider Calen virro screen and also heat temperatures um so I'm going to walk through the prioritization of how we looked at the prioritization for these schools let me first talk big picture so you understand when I talk about $4 billion and approximately 634 School sites this is exactly um the numbers

033that I was referring to and you could see that really our elementary schools have the greatest need so it makes uh absolute sense that we focus our attention at the elementary school level we're going to fold into early Ed and primary as well but the greatest need for Greening our schoolyards is at the elementary and middle school level if we focus a little more on the elementary school level this is just how the 205 schools distribute throughout um our regions and Board District with regions south and east having the highest number followed by regions north and west when we talk about then how do we prioritize this 205 number um the resolution asks that we include other metrics that really address um extreme heat and climate change and the pollution that our kids face at

034many of our school sites so we did apply the Kalen virro um screening this identifies communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution um and it also looks at the stressors in those communities at all as well considering such things as pollutants in the air the water and the soil um and then we were also to address um as to address heat we use something called the extr heat temperature tool this is information that we got from the county which basically shows the um extreme heat days that census tracks has that data is from 1976 to 2005 when things were exstensively a little cooler but we know proportionately the hotter areas are getting hotter um and that's what this information does so using these two tools we eventually came up with a prioritization

035list that we think is very comprehensive and holistic essentially what it does is it takes the exact percentage of green space and uh asphalt on a schoolyard so we're not including the front lawn that students don't have access to during the school day we're not including the parking lot this is the areas that students have access to that are within the secure perimeter of the school and then we layer on a kind of this assumption that all 205 are kind of subpar are let's say an f- level and then we layer on the Kalen virro screen and the extreme heat temperature tool essentially we waited Kalen virro at 75% and extreme temperature at 25% and the reason for that is just the Kalen virro is a much more robust metric it includes a lot of

036data sets that we thought were very meaningful and so this is uh an list of the top 50 this is the list of the top 10 and when you receive the final report you will get a list of all of our schools with this ranking we also engaged in a robust Community stakeholder process we held meetings in every region as well as separate meetings for our um environmental stakeholders community-based Partners as well as experts um on top of these meetings we also sent out surveys and received approximately 570 5 uh responses so let me walk you through just at a very high level the big picture takeaway from this engagement process the most important one and you'll hear me emphasize this over and over again is that really adding more trees and adding shade to

037our schoolyards almost came across as a fundamental right this is not a we'd like you to add more trees but that they just should have trees and we need to start that as our Baseline um other kind of takeaways from our schoolyards is we saw some differentiation between our elementary middle schools and high schools as we would expect and we think that this is going to help us scope our projects differently at elementary middle schools and high schools so you'll see at our elementary schools there is an emphasis on wanting natural glass grass playfields um which is not as important in our middle schools and high schools um and then you'll also see obviously at our high schools an emphasis on providing athletic fields and competitive Fields I also want to say we asked this

038question of when it comes to climate related concerns which are the most important and what this really did is it um emphasize that importance of adding the Kalen virus uh metric to our prioritization as well as the heat index the most important thing we heard not surprisingly is excessive heat on the schoolyard is the number one concern but also concerns around air quality as well because we know that our kids health is impacted by not just the schoolyards they play in but other pollutants and stressors as well so with that we are recommending a green schoolyards initiative to address exactly the components of this resolution the goal of this is to Green schoolyards by 30% we added a layer of this which is that we also want to have 20% of that schoolyard be shaded

039and the reason for that is we realized you can have a green Playfield with not a single tree and meet that requirement but you would you would have no shade so we now have the data to be able to map the shade on our schoolyards and we'll be able to prove up that we're meeting this 20% shade when those trees are at maturity and this again taking from the input that we heard this scoping criteria again I just want to emphasize that this is a large scale initiative and a program projects that we have not undertaken before so we know we're going to be learning as we initiate our first kind of several pilot projects um but we really see these as providing not only shade and Greening but we also included that we would

040be able to in the budgets for these projects include spaces to gather potentially shade shelters access to all of our students under the assumption that no student should be left behind and all should be able to experience um kind of these greed and shaded schoolyards and we also know as a lesson learned from all of our um repair projects and schoolyards that we are going to run into infrastructure that is probably going to be broken and need repaired so there's a contingency that we have to include in these projects as we run into pipes irrigation lines that will need to be repaired and upgraded so these projects um are probably estimated to be depending on the size of the site anywhere between 5 million to 8 million um again those project budgets would be developed

041on a site-by-site basis but those budgets are larger than what we've seen at our smaller Greening projects because of the work that we want to undertake as part of meeting the goals of this resolution so I want to focus just specifically on um the funding component as our superintendent said before we are already undertaking a robust Greening um programs and projects throughout the district about a quarter I mean sorry a half of a billion dollars is currently being funded on Greening today what we are recommending is that we initiate the first start of this Greening schoolyards initiative with approximately $50 million of non-bond fund sources to address those schools that have that highest need that I um are come out of this prioritization plan with the intent that future funds get identified and that we

042continue down through that list but that we always start with the worst first um additional Greening programs that we have underway um which I've talked to you about before is we have $300 million for playground and campus exterior upgrades that will also meet that 30% goal those were not prioritized with that tool that was prioritized by unsafe Paving conditions we also continue continue to invest in seeds we have $50 million for Outdoor Learning environment projects we're included in this board um as a board item in today's meeting and we also continue to invest in our youngest kids at the Early Education Centers we also have $40 million of smaller Greening projects that is also funded by non-bond fund sources those with the objective that they complete by June of 2024 so they are smaller in

043scale so they do not trigger a DSA requirement and we can get them done um in time for the budget requirements we continue to pursue thirdparty Greening grants I know that's something that our new ecos sustainability office is going to be spearheading we know that we have Partners who have um were granted up to $55 million under the calire grant to also undertake Greening at our sites and we continue to pursue other grants as well we were also asked in this resolution to look at for those projects that are underway that are in our schoolyards how are they getting close to achieving this goal we ran that analysis and we found much to our um happiness is that we were uh able to get close 22 to 30% at our schoolyards when we were replacing

044classrooms with Portables or undertaking major mods or comprehensive modernizations so we're making good progress and already folding in that goal into our existing programs and then when we look at middle schools and high schools and this is the difference between elementary schools when we include play fields and athletic fields we've already met that goal so in conclusion we now have the systems in place to measure prioritize and monitor green and natural School site spaces um we have aligned our district guidelines and specifications so that we can meet that 30% goal in ex existing projects um we continue to pursue Partnerships as the calfire grant exhibits funding is in place to continue our Greening efforts and initiate this new Greening schoolyards program um and we will continue to seek to identify new funding opportunities as we

045look work with our cfo's office and superintendent office in regards to the next step you'll be um we are in the process of finalizing and you will receive The Greening schoolyards P plan formally it's about a 40-page document we continue to refine the data and Data Systems really at our middle schools and high schools um so that in our complicated uh world of data management we can outline specifically what the schoolyard is at middle schools and high schools we're going to continue to pursue funding it's an active conversation that we have um with our team in budget and continue to do our due diligence and planning on this first set of Greening schoolyards projects so with that I'm available for any questions um I know that everybody has questions and we only have 30 minutes

046so here's what I'm going to do I'm going to take us to 229 we'll do the uh item that is scheduled at 2:30 and then we will come back so everybody will get their questions uh raised and answered don't worry about it we're just going to have an interruption so that we can meet that other requirement I saw Dr McKenna hands first go ahead I wanted to ask uh I didn't notice any Board District One schools in the top 50 and we have long as I've been in Los Angeles worked in that neighborhood and we have more concrete asphalt and uh and pavement than anybody I know so maybe I don't know everybody else but but I don't know enough but I do know we are bound by little some schools have no grass at

047all yes so uh board member McKenna you do not have any schools in bd1 in the top 150 but your schools soon Trail after that so you're in board district one of the 205 schools 16% of those are in Board District 1 um same as in Board District 5 has 16% Board District 2 has 19 and board district 7 has 24 so you're tied in uh third place so again the need is great um this is not to say that there is one Board District that is proportionately much higher what we do see that is on the west side and in the north uh valley Northwest Valley that there is less need um but definitely in board districts 1 7 5 and two um we see overall a very high need yeah uh so so

048to be to be coming to be coming absolutely okay thank you uh next questions all right Miss gones um thank you Miss toes for the presentation um it's really helpful to get this update and obviously you know the magnitude of the work cannot be understated it is very significant the amount of work that needs to be done and at the same time it's not a surprise to those of us who know our school sites very well and have seen you know the conditions that Dr McKenna alluded to just asphalt and a lack of shade on so many of our campuses um so I I'm really grateful that we have this first initial step and we know that to get to that 30% goal for all schools by 2035 it's going to take a lot of

049focus creativity Partnerships and additional Revenue um to be able to to get there um and it highlights the urgency of the problem we know that extreme heat is only getting worse I know that the data tool you reference only goes to 2005 and we know that the hottest what the hottest 10 years on record have been in the last 15 years or so um and the the challenges and the immediate impacts on our students are so significant we know that their young bodies are deeply impacted by extreme hate so this work is really important um a few questions for me I was wondering if you could share um just you mentioned that the next step is the finalization and distribution of the plan um what's the timeline for for getting that um to the board

050and to the public um we anticipate getting that to the board within the next several weeks yeah and can you share if um because I know you you referenced just to be able to get to the full um the full goal by 2035 it's an additional $4 billion that this would cost does the plan speak to revenue opportunities that that we might pursue to be able to get better it does and those you know are to no surprise you know it would require probably pursuing another Bond at some point in time um that is generally how we have made our biggest impacts to Greening um and I mean I think there's other um Revenue sources that aren't specifically limited to schools that you referenced you know the measure W possibility um and I think that

051there are State bonds as well that we can also be looking to in the next year or so absolutely so whenever we look at and I should say um whether it's Bond funded we also look at whether we can get matching State funds um and then also pursue um as this topic is um of high priority at the state level and at the federal level any additional uh sources of revenue that may be coming out would yield for one second on just that item I did write a letter a personal letter not from the board uh requesting that the new uh School bonds include money specifically identified for Greening uh I did that on my own so I'm just want to let you know that that was done it was wasn't on behalf of the

052board maybe we can I think Dr revas joined me in that letter actually because she was chair of The Greening committee so we just sent a letter that's okay um I was wondering just on the on the list of the 205 schools if you could just clarify the the difference between this list and the the original Greening index that was published what in the summer of last year sure um the difference really was uh that list the or schoolyards was the first time the district had embarked on categorizing uh a greening need and what we did is we identified at the campus level the percentage of asphalt versus Green Space we excluded parking areas and we excluded competitive fields at the high school and middle school what we didn't have is the definition of a

053schoolyard so we didn't have in a basic to get technical cfam file um the areas that students had access to that were secure versus not so we would count uh the front of a school lawn because we hadn't yet delineated in a border that that wasn't part of a school yard um we also picked up walkways that were less than that were 10 ft wide also not considered part of a schoolyard so over the last several months what we have is we've now delineated exactly what a schoolyard is and I'll give you the definition that we used is essentially exterior areas of the school site to which students have General unrestricted and secure access within the school fence line including open space between permanent buildings wider than 20 ft so we're able to capture quad

054areas lunch dining eating areas as well as what we imagine like the handball cords Etc so that really gives us a much more Surgical and uh accurate representation of schoolyard which is what the resolution called for at the time we had not delineated that in our cffm because we had never had the need to and then it further it's it is further refined in that it includes the Cen virro screen and the correct we did not have that previously we had used the data at the time was um the county access to Parks right which also gives data around uh neighborhoods being in Park poort area but um the Kalen virro one really speaks to the issue of impacts of pollutants and the stresses that those cause also um typically resulting in health impacts to

055our students so we thought it was very pertinent to include that forther resolution absolutely um and I mean I think it is right that there is a major focus on elementary schools just given I mean I think the data is pretty clear the elementary schools have um are in very poor shape when it comes to access to Green Space the resolution also mentioned the prioritization of Early Education Centers and primary centers um I know that those don't appear to be on this list can you just speak to how we will be prioritizing work at those sites yeah and I I should um uh just Nuance that we did include that in our calculations what we found out is um the early Ed and we're addressing those through the nature Explorer um is really moving in

056that 30% Direction and then we also included all of our primary centers in this database as well so that has been Incorporated so when it comes to you know where where this work will be undertaken first the early ad Cent like the completion of nature explores for example at all of our early Ed centers that will also be in this maybe first trch of work okay great um and then um I wanted to see just in terms of the external Partnerships because we know that that's um that's an area where work is being done to Green our schoolyards now um do we are we providing prioritized lists of school sites to Partners to be able to ensure they are aligned in which schools they are they are prioritizing for these grants um we are so

057we did that with the um calfire list um we provided our you know it was basically I'm calling it The Greening index 1.0 um where we uh targeted them or encourage them to apply at those schools that we did not currently have funded Greening projects are um so that they were aligned with the district focusing on those schools with the highest need okay yeah um and then when it comes to the shading component which I think is great I know I mean tree canopy is is a high priority and very necessary how did we land on the 20% figure you know that's a good question um it is I want to say somewhat arbitrary we have data that showed what percentage of shading um our schools have at the elementary school level and what we

058found found that it was really you know at a very low level we thought boosting that up to 20% would be quite aggressive um but there is no perfect math or guideline that we refer to to get to that 20% I might advocate for higher um yeah I mean I've seen elementary schools that have just one tree on their Playard so I with no Tre yeah it's um but 20% is better than zero but uh but if this is our one opportunity to to plant those trees we know it takes years for to mature um that would be great um and then just uh last question I think for me is just the the integration of storm water capture as part of these projects I know that you know when we talk about Greening some

059of the push back we might hear is well both on the maintenance side and also um in terms of irrigation of of plants and of trees have we contemplated uh how storm water capture might fit into this or an overall strategy related to water when it comes to Greening projects yes so that is part of the um uh assumptions around our scoping criteria and why it's built into the budget is that there will be a storm water retention uh component to these and it also is required by DSA if we're over a certain size that we have to include that storm water element so it's part of our best practices I thought of one more true anybody else anybody else doc uh Mr shurson yes just a a quick question I read that we did

060um five zooms correct right I'm just curious were these zooms done by uh board districts how we Bo um we did them by region they were done through our facilities community outreach through North southeast west northsouth east west correct okay okay fair enough okay thank you thank you thank you thank you Miss toes um and thanks to you and the team and also congratulations to our new Chief sustainability ability officer Christos who's in the audience um as well um yeah no there we go we can do um yeah the um CL yes we we're all about clapping um you know few questions mostly about time and cost unsurprisingly I guess one question um you know to Dr McKenna's point I do get and thank you for clarifying The Greening index cuz I think there are

061schools it is a complicated by Design index um that includes shade cover as well but I know you know um families have reached out saying we have not one little patch of grass or turf but they're may be lower on the index because of a few tree Wells and so I just appreciate for all of us that clarification that this is about Greening which is including a lot of those different things and not just grass and turf which I know that when my consists reach out there's definitely the shade which I'll get too but also just green Greening in terms of play um activity and I guess to that point I know that the resolution calls for 30% have you had discussions internally about schools that are small enough that 30% might be like a

062few patches and that in those instance maybe we want a minimum square footage for grass I mean I have some campuses including ones on the top 50 that are huge 30% would be great they would love like 10% % but then that 10% at that school would really be like you know like 50% or you know at another school and so curious if there's like a minimum square footage threshold we I mean our goal was to get to 30% per the definition of schoolyard um the list what it shows you and if you look at um the column around the percentage what you'll really see is that that we're addressing schools that have very little percentage of existing Green Space 1% 2% 3% um so it's not to get to necessarily a school that has

06325% Green Space and bring them up to 30 um it's you the purpose is to get to those students who really have the least amount of green space and also are in the communities that are most impacted by you know environmental impacts as well as have the highest heat yeah I guess just to miss gon's question about the 20% one of the things I know the district needs to decide is the breadth versus depth because the time and money and I'm just thinking even schools within Board District 4 to get to 30% like it we might decide that we actually would rather it be a little lower which I I'm not trying to contravene the resolution but ensure that every school has some um whereas the 30 you know we R run out again some

064of these huge you know SC board members meron in my district as well the valley there are some bigger footprints that I'd love to get to 30% and 20% but I think actually in those instances we might even say 20% and 15% so that we can stretch our our dollars so I hope that's part of the conversation and then that does lead to my next question which is I know you said the plan will come in a few weeks what's the realistic timeline for these top 50 schools because knowing that the seeds projects are taking three to four years you know like just what what as we're having a public meeting can we realistically expect will be the timeline for say these first 50 schools yeah um so we are um finalizing um that list

065now we believe we can do six to eight we did want to present to um the board and provide you with the plan before we Outreach to any of the schools and set expectations um we believe these projects will take three to four years to complete given the DSA requirement and the amount of work that would be undertaken including the testing Etc um but the plan is to start these right away as soon as um this presentation was done and the plan is to you we have been having meetings with budget that funding is available for us now so the plan is to start immediately so just to clarify I'm not trying to be critical I'm just trying to increase awareness of some of the community support and state support and maybe federal support we

066need so if we're doing six to eight this year and then cascading and they're each taking three to four years we're talking the first 50 like 12 to 15 years well and I think that speaks to what is that future funding you know the commitment is is if there are um significant sources of investment very soon on the horizon that we would be undertaking more than seven right we have the capacity and we can always develop the Staffing plan so that we can get to something that is you know more similar to what we do on the uh critical repairs Etc where we're bringing 50 projects a year and not six to seven yeah and I get I mean I don't think any of us would would agree that this is happening fast enough um

067and so you know as we make choices around our budget thinking how we can allocate more dollars I know there's going to be talk in the future about either going back out to to the voters or what have you I also superintendent and M O would encourage us to look at given that this is such a priority of the board looking at things like uh hiring more Landscape Architects I know that that's held up a lot of these projects looking at expanding bench contracts for these uh I know that one of the things we've explored in our facilities and procurement committee is the scale here and if we're going to do 6 to8 might actually make more sense to do 12 to 16 knowing that we can get a contractor to say hey we're going

068to do the same square footage of grass so I know I mean I'm I'm preaching to not only the choir the expert but um I would just encourage us to look it seems like discreetly in more District 4 the holdup are those spe we don't have enough landscape architect so in addition to funding I hope that as we're making this a priority that we're Staffing appropriately um I don't know if you want to speak to that at all absolutely and I think that's something that we're also planning to bring to uh the facilities and procurement committee is coming up with what is that uh most effective procurement strategy so that we can deliver these uh uh projects and initiatives quicker um we have already undertaken um a plan to um switch to using jock contracts

069instead of District in-house staff because we see high vacancies within our M trades um and being able to utilize Jock's contracts will kind of help us augment our existing resources um same with how do we bundle these projects so that we can attract more um uh um participation from our contractors who typically go after larger projects so that is all part of as we come up with a new initiative is also what is that procurement and execution strategy so that we're not just talking concept but we're also talking implementation and my last request I know we're about a time um you know is just I was thrilled to see the governor sign the district's shade structure legislation um and I know yeah that is definitely a round of applause and thank you to the parents

070and community members who who support us in encouraging the government to sign that you know I think we would all agree that in a perfect world we would have trees that's the best form of shade but uh it's easier and now hope F in some ways more cost effective to get these shade structures so I'd love an update on how this legislation can be translated into action for the district but I'd also encourage us all you know when we run up I think for a lot my tenure we've been told oh we can't do this because the state it makes it difficult or the but we've shown that we can actually work with legislators and change the state law to expedite some of these projects in that case cutting off potentially years months if not

071years and cost on the shade structure so when it comes to Greening I heard you talk about DSA and other things I'd love to know what are the barriers that reasonably we may think about trying to amend to get these projects uh done more quickly so thank you and also I just like to add that I would hope we would get some idea of how many schools we can have some kind of shade in uh before school starts uh next fall thank you but we are now going to go to item number 22 times certain recognition of a Latina Trailblazer reaming Gridley Elementary School to honor Cindy monz and I'd love to move the resolution with the board rule 72 waiver there a second to that second by Mr schmon call the rle on the

072removal of the board rule 72 waiver of it not removal and I actually don't think we need to what she's saying is she wants to do it all once all at once okay we'll include it go ahead take your speakers or Whatever item we can start with speakers if there are speakers that are on I'm sorry we can start with speakers okay we're going to go straight to the speakers for tab 22 and then come the um for discussion or intro whatever you want to do okay we have one speaker uh David arano are you on the line or in here in person David Ariano I see you're signed up to speak remotely uh but you are not online so there is one speaker that concludes the speaker for tab 22 all right if he

073comes back on we'll give him a chance yes I'm sure they're in the middle of their um their faculty meeting so hopefully he'll come back um well it's my honor to present this resolution to rename Gridley Street Elementary School in honor of Cindy MZ this resolution carries immense significance for our school and our broader community in the city of San Fernando and the northeast San Fernando Valley the board honored Cindy at our September meeting as part of Latino heritage month and I will just briefly share her background as we are considering the name change today Cindy's story as a Latina a daughter of immigrants and committed advocate for representation and recognition can resonate with many of the students that we serve she's been a Trailblazer who has paved the way for other young Latinas during

074her undergraduate years at UCLA she participated in a 14-day hunger strike leading to the creation of the sesar Chavez Department of chano and Central American studies she became the youngest ever woman ever person elected to the San Fernado City council at 25 its youngest mayor and then the youngest woman ever elected to the California state legislature at age 28 in her current role as the CEO of tree people she has championed environmental justice and push for the expansion of green spaces across our cities including in our schools she has also served as a member of the San Fernado city council where she actively Works to enhance quality of life and Foster Community engagement she is truly a Trailblazer in every sense of the word Cindy's dedication to advoc advocacy leadership and public service is inspiring

075and we are so excited to see her name incorporated as part of Gridley Mont dual Language Academy Gridley Street Elementary School currently serves about 460 students in San Fernando including through their Spanish dual language program over the past month they have engaged with their school Community to consider this name change very thoroughly I have been present for much of it so I can attest to that they have had 10 meetings on this topic with parents certificated and classified staff and students to get input about a potential name name change excuse me it was through those meetings that the idea of combining the gridle name with montz grew um so we took that suggestion from the school itself more than 250 parents teachers School staff and students voted on the name change and 74% voted in

076support of honoring Cindy in the school's new name the overwhelming favorite was Gridley Montan dual Language Academy which is what appears before you today um I just want to take take a moment to thank the entire Gridley School Community for their authentic engagement in this process for their questions and feedback and for coming together in creating a name that honors their past and starts a bright new future I had the chance to sit with some amazing fourth and fifth graders at Gridley to talk about Cindy MZ and um and they were really inspired by the idea of having her name as part of their school I also want to thank our wonderful staff at Gridley as well as the wonderful principal um principal Roman for her leadership and her support of her community through this

077process we are excited to transition to Gridley Mon's dual Language Academy in the coming school year and I know that this new name will be just such an inspiration for our students and the broader community and happy to answer any questions thank you post sponsor yes please me too yes I served with her as you know in the legislature yes and she's watching right now and those of you who have gotten your cars taken care of through problems that you've had you can thank her I was there when she led that fight I have a question I've been raising my hand yes you had I think it may have been answered but I still want to bring to the reminder of the board this is not the process for naming a school the naming of

078a school is brought by the school not the board member I raised the same issue when Madam chair uh referenced James Lawson someone I've known for almost 50 years and said that we should name a school but the school has not come forward and so symbolically we said we'll name a school when it comes available the M Gores did bring up that the school was involved in the process of selecting the person I just want to remind us that we are not to I said we're not to do we want to do but that's not the process the process is that the community gets the signatures uh certain signatures must be there in order for the school to be named or renamed It's a Brand New School you name it or you can rename it

079if it's a existing school and so if the school has been if you touched all the bases which it sounds like you said you did um the process that requires that somebody from the school be here to bring it before us and then we all vote on it but I'm not nitpicking it because I have no objection to the naming of this person but the process still I want to talk about is is what our process has been there before we became board members and there's a a very distinct process that is required to name a school but I think that you have satisfied my concerns about did the community get involved or we saying to the community this is what we ought to be doing he said let the students and the staff and

080the community seem to be uh enthusiastic about it so I don't withdraw I have no objection to the naming but the process I still it's it's an awareness that that the process is different than what we're doing here now but I will Noto give put an opposition to it at all thank you yes and I guess I will just say um my understanding is that our policies allow for an expedited process and given that miss monz is facing terminal cancer that that was the reason for the expedited process um but we to take the time thanks to principal Tran um to really have a a deep engagement during over the last month or so um with staff families and students and the fact that the name is combined probably made those po people who were

081most strongly for gridle satisfied as well as those who wanted mon we wanted a way to both honor Cindy's Legacy and also maintain the spirit of Gridley which has existed since I think 1954 as the students told me um so it was a it was a Grassroots suggestion to be able to to combine the two names okay any other questions or comments from board members did we try and see if the person calling in is available yet let me give me one more shot I don't have the the person here now so then and that was our chapter chair from Gridley but please know he's very supportive that's why he was calling okay I understand it's probably a meeting or teaching it's 240 yeah okay uh so uh the motion before us is to um

082wave board rule 72 and to adopt the uh motion that is under tab 22 listed as on pages 310 and 311 we have a motion from uh the maker of the Motion Kelly gones a seconder was Mr schmon myself and Mr schmon added to be uh added to these as well as uh others as well I'll not that in fact if there anyone who doesn't wish to be added it we add us all then all right call the roll please okay Dr McKenna yes Dr Ras yes Mr Schon yes Mr mne yes Miss gonz yes Miss Ortiz Franklin yes board president Goldberg yes student board member Ramirez yes all right all right that motion is point of point of procedure I was not here when the original roll call was made so please put me

083present I have not been absent all this time you sir thank you very good toes I don't know if you want to come back up and join us thank you um I think we'll be quick we just have a few more board members um I love our goal of 30% and I know the board has been talking about that for a while but I wondered if we had looked at or if we could the amount of square foot per student that might mean because I think it depends on each school I have many schools with with large yards and so it is going to be really hard to get to 30% um so do we have a number like every student deserves a square foot two square feet five square I don't know what it

084is we didn't approach it that way just um given that we have elementary schools that have 150 kids to schools that have almost a thousand kids and once you start to apply that type of metrics it leads to um you know some schoolyards getting 5% of their schoolyards green and others getting 70% green so we really thought the 30% goal um was a more I think pragmatic approach um we also know not entirely but our populations change over time we've had elementary schools that change from a K5 to a K8 eight with the expansion of utk um we're also seeing populations change um so we didn't we internally considered that but when we tried to apply it um on a you know at specific School sites it didn't kind of yield the kind of planning

085that we had anticipated or hoped to achieve yeah I can appreciate this is very complicated I was just thinking the original list I had a lot of schools in Carson that were high up because we have such huge PL of land at schools now I have more in South La and Watts which makes sense just given the the need and the additions of the indicators in this index I appreciate that for sure um but I also noticed one of my schools on this list on the top 50 has the cooling yard um and so if we invested in that direction would we then you know turn around and put grass on top of that and then not be able to do another school that is still you know further down the list so I realize

086there are so many layers here but but um I guess can you speak a little bit to how like the cooling yards or other efforts that are not Greening kind of interact with this so we didn't um we didn't consider and this was a question that came up previously of whether or not cool coating asphalt counts as a green space um and we didn't where we consider is cool coating is a mechanism where we have asphalt to reduce the temperatures but it doesn't count as green space I agree it's not green right so so that's why you don't see it in that calculation of um you know did we factor in if schools already have cool coding were they considered in a different way um and one of the the impacts or the feedback that

087we got in our community meetings and it was a little less intangible that we could follow in a survey data but it is that what is that feeling to be in a schoolyard that is more parklike where when you look out at your sight lines you're seeing something besides fences that you're seeing different canopies different types of landscaping um so we really wanted to focus on providing that at our school sites and not necessarily um investing in in cool coating I hope Absol I guess the question is so if my school that's on the the top 50 list has a lot of its asphalt covered with this cool coating and then they're going to get a green space on top of it whereas another school would say we didn't get Greening we didn't get cool

088coating how come we can't get moved up and I so I guess the wondering is you know should board offices make you aware of these things or have conversations if if this might come up absolutely and one of I mean the other thing that we are considering is um you know if there has been a significant investment um and let's say they're at though they probably wouldn't um show up on the highest list should that school be skipped over because they already received you know a major investment not might not have gotten them towards 30% % but you know receive more than maybe the next school on their list so that's a it's a very worthwhile consideration thanks and then my last question I see that trees is the number one request which is great

089and I also know sometimes we have to remove trees can you speak a little bit to that yes what we uh have uh very much a lesson learned in all of our projects is that we know that um many of our trees are at the end of their life we don't consider trees having ends of lives but uh they definitely do given especially when um our schools were built and then we also know with climate change that we're seeing um trees that had thrived before not thriving now and they need to be removed for safety um consideration so we do have a policy where we have to replace it at least one to one and we try to do it much more one to two or one to one point 1.5 so that we're always

090giving schools back at least what they had and oftentimes um double what they had because of that issue it does well let me preface that if it's a routine maintenance and we get a call that let's say a eucalyptus tree is dropping its boughs and it has to be taken down our M folks don't come back at that immediate time and replace that tree um sometimes it's just an urgent kind of repair we do have an inventory of where all of our empty tree Wells are and we do have Partnerships with nonprofits that Christos has worked on where we're looking to identify um putting trees back in those tree Wells as part of a larger District initiative I generally just have some comments um about you know just your work and your uh all the

091efforts we've been making and terms in the green committee and U making this plan um manifested or making fruition but first I want to thank um B member Kelly gones for bringing this resolution um thank you for bringing it forth because it is something that um our community our cities and our and our city and our schools need right greeting our schools so thank you for that and um and also I want to welcome uh Christos um help help I'm not mispronouncing your name chilio um as um uh Chief sustainability officer um I really am looking forward to working with you and also Christina toes um in making um you know Greening our schools and electrifying our schools and everything that we can to really address um you know the issues that our schools are

092going through in terms of climate resiliency and climate change and all of that so just a few comments that I want to make um as chair of the green Greening schools and climate resiliency committee I'm really more than excited that we are moving forward with this important work as I mentioned that was spearheaded by board member gones and and developing campus Greening plan uh we all know that due to the Past policies and the looming climate crisis our campuses are outdated covered in concrete lacking shade and welcoming spaces uh to students in play and socialize which have all been mentioned here by our board members the presentation points to the enormous size of this problem uh about 350 Acres or 260 260 uh football fields worth of Paving and outdates structures that need to be

093converted and modernized and the 4 billion price tag should give us something uh to really Ponder and think about and these are the issues that we have been um discussing in our in our committee uh along with board member Goldberg as well but we owe it to our students and our families to think creatively and think big and reach out of out of all our state federal and local Partners to identify resources it's not lost on me that schools with the greatest need for Greening are in the south and east um uh Los Angeles and also in the valley with high heat uh these are lowest uh income areas of Los Angeles with the oldest schools that are most impacted by enal environmental factors so what we're really addressing here in The Greening committee is

094the issue of environmental Equity uh 4 billion is a lot of money but this number represents the ecological burden uh of climate change born by most vulnerable students in areas with the worst Health outcomes uh students need to have schools that are welcoming green cool healthy for our bodies and Minds uh Green Schools are healing schools we cannot accomplish this transformation on our own that that is why this isn't just an LUSD problem but a regional and really a national issue that needs national attention and resources and for the district to be embarking on this plan I I really feel that the district will be number one um in in our nation and and making um making this an uh a manifestation in our school district so thank you again miss toes and I'm looking

095forward to again again working with you Mr Christos so thanks thank you one more talking about trees as you did um today in today's world with climate change um people should not Overlook trees as just a a tree because I am Telling You for you school-based people trees are very important on our campus there are students who adopt trees on the campus it's almost like having a pet so be very careful if you're going to do any construction or doing modernization be careful don't harm the trees because you'll be sorry okay thank you that's already come up in one of my schools uh I heard that board member uh Ramirez wanted to say some things too yeah hi Miss does thank you for being here um I'm really excited to see everything happening with Greening

096but I did have a small clarification question I'm sorry if I'm making you repeat yourself but um I know we were talking about the 20% with the trees and I've heard a lot about trees talking talking out here with the board members but when we have the 30% like the green and natural schoolyards is there more specifics into what that looks like cuz when I look when I look at my school I'm thinking like Gardens or I'm thinking like small little patches of uh grass but is there more specifics into what that looks like Beyond trees sure so what we've characterized and it uh it's a great question Greening is essentially anything that is not a paved surface so that it's not concrete it's not asphalt so that could be a combination of you know

097what we are doing in our projects is trees um Landscaping elements lawn um decomposed Granite including spaces where kids can gather under trees or unders shade shelters um passive play um just shaded areas active play areas outdoor classrooms the uh raised um planters for uh Hands-On learning so there's a wide variety of kind of ways that we program Green Space sure I'm G to try to get him in before our next uh on time uh notion on on on slide two the executive summary does the uh facilities consider cool coding to be part of The Greening of campuses under this resolution no it does not I just get this question all the time I wanted to hear you say it in public no it does not no thank you uh item number on slide three

098it looks to me because of money that we don't really think we can get to this done by 2035 it's implied but it's not clear and is it basically that if we can't get the money it will be take longer that's usually the nature of how things work okay um and at this point in time I cannot guarantee a I don't have a $4 billion funding source well I just think we need to keep telling the public that that we have to find the money exactly and we have some of it we have that 400 million and we have others but we don't have all of it so okay item number slide six I got three quick questions on slide six uh can you describe why you decided to make the Kalen virro 75 and

099extreme heat 25 yes uh the Kalen virro is a uh very robust um tool that includes many different data sources right so it looks at um exposures to traffic in high Corridor Lanes pesticides use uh polluted water sources um asthma rates so we thought it was um a very comprehensive tool um the heat index is what it is it tells you kind of which areas are hotter than others and for that reason we put more weight on the Kalen virro just because it is really a compilation of many different data sources uh does this new ranking mean that we're really not using the old Greening index as a tool to prioritize schools not for this program okay not but we are using it for some other ways well we we continue to use it um

100because we have other programs um that use that one as a tool so we kind of are comparing but at the end what we'll essentially have is this tool and we'll be able to identif if y all of the projects that go towards screening and will be able to measure their progress towards meeting the 30% okay um how many schools in these top 50 are Title One or do we know I don't have that information off I I'm just curious so I would like to know if you will let us know that because we seem to see that there's an awful lot of overlap between underserved communities and I'm curious about that no rush just when you get a moment and I don't think you have a moment uh slid 16 I think my last

101question let me make sure here yeah slide 16 it says current funding efforts and it's 400 million measure RR can the board move bond funds from other priorities into Greening I'm not asking if you recommend we do it I just want to know if we have that kind of leeway if we revisit this yes the board has the discretion to take what your recommendation is but it's something that has come up actually a couple of times to me why don't you do this instead of that okay okay and oh I'm sorry slide 17 I was wrong uh you mentioned 30% includes athletic fields but our resolution asks for more than athletic fields the resolution is explicit that you should do Greening with students spend time not all students go to athletic fields um so how

102how is this affecting and and Fields don't have tree canopy and in shade and we certainly don't want them running through trees on the football field there uh so how does this how do you respond to the concern of people who say why are you using any athletic fields at all so that is uh a a great point which is why we think we need to um tailor the definition of schoolyards between elementary schools and middle schools and high schools to something different to your point you could have a school that has um robust amount of athletic fields but not a single tree or shade in the quad area um so as part of our plan what we will differentiate is that there will be schoolyard definition at the elementary school and that at the

103middle school and high school we really focus on that quad area but when we did our analysis and tried to achieve 30% Greening at a high school quad what we found is you really quickly run out of space for over a thousand or 2,000 students to gather and eat lunch and so maybe we focus more on shape in those quads than at removing concrete and providing Landscaping yeah last question on slide 18 under conclusions you say Partnerships are encouraged not much detail on how to do that but my question is is are there things facilities can do to make Partnerships easier and are we doing them and how can we increase schools capacity to work without outside Partners on Greening projects and maintenance so two parts to that question um you know the first one

104and again wanted to recognize Christos Chu for the incredible work that he and his team has done to um encourage and work with our third-party f um Partners on our school sites we have 55 um uh projects that are going to be undertaken by uh third parties um who got calfire grants and we'll be working closely with them um many of them have done work with the district before there's always a learning curve when we bring in new partners that they have to meet DSA they have to use our inspectors just because there are requirements of doing work at a school site many of these partners are familiar with those and we expect that learning curve has already been addressed um and then we are always things though that we could do that we're not

105doing to make it easier yeah I think um twofold is always meeting with them initially to explain everything up front so that there are no surprises along the way especially as they set expectations and budgets are tight and we don't want to surprise them with oh did you know you have to pay for this or pay for that when they've already worked on designs or set expectations within their community so we really need to do that upfront also with that is um you know making sure that internally as we do more Greening um and this to board member Melville point that we also internally have the resources Landscape Architects Etc to do this work as we increase Partnerships um and our own District executed work all right well thank you very much for all that

106let me say to you I do not want your job ever under any set of circumstances I think with the enormous range of differences that our schools are in this is an extraordin complicated thing to do and I appreciate all the work of you and all of your staff and our new uh member of all of this team as our Echo uh I don't even know what it's called environmentalist Chief or whatever sustainability I'll learn it I'll learn it but I really mean that I know that this is a daunting task yet I know that you know how important it is to our kids and to our faculties and to all of the people who work at schools so thank you very much thank you all right we will now now move to item number

107hold on where's my little list here 19 item 19 at 3:00 October is National principal month this is resolution on number 19 for those of you who have Pages it starts on uh page 306 and you are recognized Mr scharon board member Schon thank you so much uh I bring to the board this resolution October as National principal month because well for a lot of reasons being a principal is not easy and it is met with much pressure from within the school and outside of the school however I look around the entire district and see many principles who excel in this position not just as administrators Who oversee a school but as leaders in their respective communities who strive for academic Excellence within a safe environment principles who have stood in teacher shoes can empathize

108with their difficult situations principles who also Mentor the students with professionalism and good character and whether the principal has been there for years or just starting in the role L USD is committed to helping them through ongoing professional development and ensuring that they have a seat at theable table we thank our labor Partners [Music] AA associ of well and ACs let me go let me go acsa for helping ensure that there is quality talent and Leadership voicing the concerns of administrative staff now I'd like to pass it on to Mr ner P the president of AA who would like to say a few words on this resolution good afternoon my name is ner P I'm the president of uh Associated administrators of Los Angeles good to see everyone I'm somewhat conflicted by this wonderful the

109purpose of this resolution and I'll tell you why we we do believe in the in the resolution and and we stand behind it 100% as a Associated administrators we do believe in Partnership and collaborating with uh h r and all the programs that they offer to help Advance the work of our administrators of our School Employees we stand with AXA the association of California school administrators and all the work that they do on networking PD and also the advocacy behind their work in Sacramento and uh I know we work with Martha Alvarez as well from government relations but now I need to tell you I applaud uh board members morson for bringing this resolution as one of only four members of the board and sitting on the Horseshoe who know and understand the job and

110challenges of a school administrator let's show appreciation to administrators by slowing down on how much is added to administrators plates without removing any other tasks or mandates members want clarification from the district on dealing with students fighting and the role of staff at schools do they intervene are they safe from parents who make false claims after suffering injuries in the process three Middle School principles in the last three weeks have recently been forced to break up fights girl fights and sustain injuries in the process now they're on their own to deal with their injuries workman's comp Etc we proposed policy to protect members but it was soundly rejected by the district schools need safety back and I think we know what that means from earlier uh accounts of parents and other staff members who believe

111in police not to come police but to add that layer of safety that they do add when they are allowed to be part of the team at schools give the administrators the choice permanently to have or not to have safety for themselves the community and the students more importantly thank you Mr Schon for this wonderful resolution and thank you Mr P how about board members anything board members would like to comment on well I'd like well thank you thank you so much okay me too okay yeah everybody okay we have the whole gang okay very very good thank you so much comments board memb members I have a comment go ahead Dr McKenna first I want to thank you Mr smon for uh the resolution and for board members and for the community and for

112the staff of this District it is not just my opinion it is my experience there is no single most important more important position than the principal ship of a school they are as important to an airline as the pilots would fly the planes no matter how much the the stock is worth no matter what it is on the stock market in terms of value of an airline or commercial airline billions of dollars worth of Revenue the the passengers are not safe without a pilot who is not only qualified but willing to sacrifice everything and anything to make sure that plane lands safely in the case of emergencies and if we we believe that we should be willing to say to principles we give you the authority and the responsibility of keeping your schools safe and

113the decision-making Authority as opposed to looking at them and saying we can override you because we are the board We are the world we are not the world we are policy makers but we're not principles of schools unless you're in their shoes and it goes from kindergarten through high school we must empower the principles everybody else including the superintendent is here to serve the schools and you serve the schools by making sure that the principles have all the resources they need and the training they need and there's no such thing as a weak principle they don't go together they can be weakened by the politics of the community around it they can be weakened by decisions made by us the board or other people in the in the community but we should not assign principle

114ships to people who are not ready for it and haven't been trained and having the experience preferably of being assistant principles under other principles and if they can make those decision we hold them accountable you should be able to hold accountable anyone who has been given the responsibility then how can you hold them accountable if you don't give them the responsibility and the authority without the authority you can't hold people accountable you shouldn't try the principal is responsible for everything on that campus nobody is responsible for the principal that doesn't make them Superior it doesn't make them a better person it just means to have a greater burden on them I used to tell my faculty when I was a principal in the beginning they didn't like it because they didn't know me they said

115well you you act like you know more about teaching than I do I said no I don't one told me I've been teaching longer than you've been alive that's probably true I can't tell you what I said to them but I did openly and I felt that that was an embarrassment to say I've been teaching as long as you've been alive I've been alive but I don't know if you've been teaching I know you've been drawing a paycheck but you may not have been teaching so the principal ship is not only a burden it's a responsibility I read somewhere I didn't make this up several years ago that a high school principal at that time may still be that way had the second highest divorce rate of any other profession in America second only to

116undercover vice squad officers in urban police departments their families broke up cuz they weren't home enough if you're a high school principal you rarely get home I know what that felt like I wasn't fortunate enough to have a family so I had nobody waiting for me or even cooking for me so I could eat fast food or not eat at all but that was me well High School principal is a tough but I applaud all the principles who are not here all the principles that I worked under all the principles that have served us in the district all the challenges that they have and I just hope that we can get to the point where we can differentiate through salary those principles that are exceptional and offer them an incentive to stay at the school

117if they wanted to rather than being promoted for a higher salary I would rather see a principal have a higher salary than the director that supervises them rather than become the director and move away from the school having been a principal at a high school I can tell you that I had no more No Greater influence on the lives of children than when I was on that campus every day you influence their lives and finally I went to a 40-year reunion last week from 1983 at the high school where I worked and all these people are now senior citizens they're grandparents and we all belong to AARP and we had a good laugh over that and I knew them when they were teenagers I wasn't much older than they were so if they're in their

11850s you know where I am but the point is they still remember and they specifically invited me to be there so they could celebrate their 40th reunion with me and I was humbled I was grateful and that's when I knew I was a rich man I always thought I was wealthy but I know I am when I see their responses and how they appreciated what we as a faculty not just myself were able to do for their lives shape their Futures so I appreciate Mr schmon recognizing principles they're more than just ordinary people they keep this District afloat because without the principal the schools don't work if the schools don't work the district isn't unified if the planes don't fly you don't have an airline you just have a business that builds planes but you

119can't fly them because there's nobody there capable of doing that so thank you Mr Smur and I app I appre I like to be a coign thank you thank you Dr McKenna thank you so much any other comments any other comments Mr superintendent oh we're Duo okay and cor is very ni nice uh thank you very much uh uh there is not much more to add other than the fact that you know those who actually walk the Journey of being a school leader um know that it's challenging but is impactful a principal a good principal a data data instructional leader who is community connected Can in fact lift a school's performance regardless they will compose a great team they will leverage Community Resources they will bring stakeholders in they will inspire teachers they will monitor

120curricular implementation they are fair they fight for their kids and that's exactly what I observed here in Los Angeles Unified we have terrific principles uh best in the country having been a principal at all levels elementary middle and Senior uh having been an administrator and a Career Technical Center I know the journey and uh anytime you get to have a job where your boss does not live with with you it's a great job and uh the principle is one of those uh you really have the ability the power the immediacy with which uh to transform communities one student one school at a time so thank you for uh your celebration of our remarkable principles board memb SCH Merle thank you and thank you to all of our principles and thank you ner for your kind

121words thank you so much uh just just echoing the the chorus hard to follow Dr McKenna as always but thank you Mr smon for bringing this thanks for accepting my co-sponsorship you know I think um spend time this summer talking to principal saying I look forward to a precedented school year for the first time in maybe five and then after a very smooth first week we had a hurricane um so I don't know that there's such thing as a precedented school year or precedented school day I'll just say I have so much respect for our school leaders and administrators who even on weeks like today are having to deal with really um tough times for kids and families as M Goldberg so um heart-wrenchingly articulated earlier and our principles are the ones who are there

122every day seeing those children come in um to their classrooms you know I will just acknowledge the in incredibly difficult task of our principles and I think one of the pieces of feedback I've got on from the field is well they are um you know Mr P has mentioned there's so much piling up on their plate and nothing's getting taken off I think that's true um I think they're they are um they're not complaining they're just finding ways to be Solutions oriented and lead and I do think that we can find ways as a district to maybe just acknowledge um some of the communication and and even if something's been communicated to principles maybe they haven't had a chance to fully embrace it because of all that they're doing and so one of the requests

123I know I get from the field is just that Grace from from us from the district leadership around um communication uh seeking first to understand and just Prim really presuming positive intentions of our principles I think as procedures have changed across the board and as we're um you know have have new leadership at the district uh I think some of those messages um are um are getting to principles but maybe they don't have time to process it so I would say in spirit with this resolution I hope we can also just show some Grace as Central Administration and understand that if principles are seeking support or maybe not following protocols perfectly initially it's just it's not because they're not trying it's because they are trying to balance so many different things and just are seeking

124some support at a time when people are stretched really thin so I hope we can kind of show that Grace to our principles going forward thank you let me just say that in 1985 when I was first on the board I brought a resolution that did not pass that said we should have two principles at a school one that does curriculum professional development teacher support and evaluation so that we're making sure that we're doing what is ever necessary to help the academic outcomes for kids and one for all of the other things including all the events and all of the bookkeeping recordkeeping and things that are required by principles it didn't get anywhere I may bring it up again I don't know but I do I do know that the job is so difficult because

125it has so many different things that it has to do and I'm not sure how we deal with that but uh I think it's something that we may want to look at it again because we are in a very complicated time and sometimes that means that we need to do things that we haven't done before okay without any further comments being required call for the vote was it moved no it was not moved so I Mr schmon moves and Dr McKenna seconds call the roll please uh Dr McKenna yes Dr Ras yes Mr schmon yes Mr meloy yes M gonz yes Mr Franklin yes for president Goldberg yes student board member Ramirez yes okay we are now going to go back to the consent calendar until 3:30 when we have another item that is uh

126coming up at 3:30 so let's look at item number one which is on consent I didn't see anybody asking oh oh sorry sorry sorry never mind I got ahead of myself we have the smarter balance assessment presentation I'm sorry Mr superintendent okay that's okay too many pieces of paper on my Des I understand thank you very much Madam president uh so today will be the the first conversation that we will have about the 2223 Smarter Balance assessment results I want the the public the listening public to understand that from my vantage point the release of this data is already very late it's actually quite confusing to try to wrap one's mind around the fact that we're looking at data that should have informed Master scheduling uh homogeneous grouping of students curricular decisions intervention assign assment

127of students to uh to uh tutoring programs but for districts that don't have necessarily a good cohort of interim assessments from which they would generate data to make those decisions then this data is too late after all we're now in you know halfway through October uh the school year began in August and we're just now getting data that should have informed the placement of students for this school year so I'd like to begin this presentation by informing the board that we will ramp up efforts uh to have the state release assessment data much earlier than it currently does ideally the assessment data would be released before students are dismissed from last school year so that that data can be used to actually make curricular decisions that are strategic in terms of addressing the critical needs

128of our students with that said uh the board understands that uh as is our articulated in our strategic plan uh we as a school system are hyperfocused uh on student excellence and Equity every decision we make is based on what's in the best interest academically speaking uh of our students and no doubt one of the best uh measures of both objectives is the Smart Balance assessment um the first conclusion is that we are making progress particularly in mathematics uh with ex ction of one grade level grade eight uh math numbers show uh Improvement across all grades uh with exception of 8th grade equally important is that these improvements uh are being revealed not just across the board but when you disaggregate the data by subgroups English language Learners students with disabilities lowincome students latinx students

129black students they all demonstrated gains as as we recently discussed with the board there is a significant outlier children in foster care are not learning are not learning at the rate they should and we understand the the cause for that I mean these are the students who are suffering The Compound Effect of all of the detriments that impact our kids living with poverty alone is impactful living with poverty and the disability is uh it brings an additional burden now consider in some cases all of these factors on one single student and that is the reason why foster kids continue to struggle so data the appropriateness of data is not to judge teachers not to judge schools not to judge students is actually to be analyzed to improve performance to ask the question what else must

130we do with what groups of students at what pace at what rate and that's exactly how we use the data in this District where we uh where the story is not so compelling is in English language arts as opposed to mathematics where again across all grade levels with exception of 8th grade we see the needle moving in a right direction not only districtwide but also based on the disaggregated subgroup performance in English language arts um it is a mixed bag certainly when you look at third and fourth grade the needle is moving in the right direction but then you have to jump to 11th grade to see positive Improvement in the upper grades of Elementary education so fifth grade and all of Middle School um our students not performing as they should in fact there

131is a loss of ground in terms of distance from standard and certainly a loss of ground in terms of percentage of students demonstrating proficiency uh in English language arts in accordance with their grade level expectations uh what we'll have an opportunity to delve deeper into these matters at our retreat but suffice to suffice it to say at this point that there are probably some systemic elements that we detected last year and have already made decisions to recalibrate the board recalls our robust conversations about uh interventions so specific strategies to address reading proficiency needs of students small group instruction high dosage tutoring uh the problem that we detect however is that those strategies work you know J John hady will tell you anything you would do with kids will result in some degree of improvement the

132question is are you doing sufficiently with the students targeted in those grade levels second question is do you have a longitudinal plan that provides that consistent intervention support as kids go from kindergarten first 2 grade on to third fourth fifth all the way to 11th grade if you stop that intervention at some point because he decided to singularly concentrate the assistance the intervention then in many cases because students are facing so many challenges the residual effect of that intervention will not be carried over to the subsequent years and I believe we see that that is why we made a conscious decision as a school system to expand intervention particularly in literacy across all great levels rather than just focusing in K through 2 grade the third graders fourth graders particularly middle school kids many of

133whom are reading at grade levels equivalent to Elementary level performance what I'm saying to you is not unique to Los Angeles Unified in fact as a result of the pandemic and these are residual effects of the pandemic as a result of the pandemic across the state and across the country whether you're looking at State assessment ments or national assessments not like the nape the national assessment of educational progress the nation as a whole has lost years of performance in fact on the basis of long-term Trend nationally students based on the last assessment are performing par with a performance going back three decades in mathematics and close to three three decades in reading it merits being mentioned also that our focus on mathematics as we were struggling to evolve a new policy and practice specific to

134reading and English language arts has paid off and the decision why we decided last year to to advance more aggressively in mathematics was because our students performance on all grade levels was actually worse in math than English language arts so we needed to focus where the need was greatest with the coming together of I ready districtwide implementation of a support and assessment system aggressive professional development on the science of reading which was conducted during the summer and will continue to happen and the hiring of in excess of 1100 interventionists across all grade levels we believe that this will be a year of explosive English language arts literacy Improvement all of the ingredients are there with that said let me turn the rest of the presentation now over to Dr Bill Johnston executive director of The

135Office of data and accountability and Dr Francis Bas our chief academic officer U let me just first say that this may be interrupted at some point for the 3:30 special but I'll let you get started okay thank you thank you superintendent Caro greeetings uh board members uh my name is William Johnston I'm the executive director of The Office of data and accountability um here to present on the 2223 Smarter Balance assessment results um as you may know the smarter balance assessment is a part of a larger assessment system that California administers the Casp or the California assessment of student performance and progress which includes um various other assessments of California science test the elpac um is a companion to this as well as a California alternate assessment and a couple others um this has been

136in place since 2014 um and SBA is the comprehensive end ofe assessment for students in grades 3 through 8 and grade 11 um and it is aligned with state standards and the point is to assess student achievement and progress towards College and Career Readiness benchmarks and then one piece uh that superintendent carvalo alluded to is one of the one of the main measuring uh ways that we measure uh students is how close are they to to uh uh the grade the relative grade level Benchmark for their for their grade and so this is termed distance from standard or DFS and DFS is is something that is used as a way of making sure all students are counted in the calculation of these assessment results so we're not just focusing on students in a in a

137certain achievement band or trying to get kids from just below standard to just above standard we're able to aggregate all students uh achievement and look at them so every student is count and not just the quote unquote bubble kits and so it's a real Equity uh movement to to really focus on DFS here um and again this represents the distance um between that student's score and the and the threshold for what would take you to level three or the standard met for that respective grade level and so we have an example here at the bottom of the slide um for a third grade student in ela this student received a score of 2420 on the on the U on the scale for for Smarter Balance um the threshold for reading level three is uh 2432

138so doing the subtraction there that's students uh DFS score is -12 and and we a we can aggregate these up uh to a School level to to to get the DFS there and so our district goals um track along the DFS scale um but so we're going to really be focusing on that here but we will also be presenting on the percentage of students who meet and exceed standards as well which is a more traditional way of looking at uh achievement levels and so without further Ado let's jump right into the district goals so the Strategic plan uh that we're all familiar with has a literacy uh one of our four District goals is on literacy and this targets third grade uh English language arts performance and our goal from the 2122 school year moving

139forward to the 25 26 school year is to raise the the the DFS on average by 30 points over across those four years and so again this is looking at at third graders and so we see um for third graders as superintendent Carval mentioned we have positive movement um in 2223 our average distance from standard is negative - 28.3 points on the scale um this is an improvement of 4.47 uh uh points as well and so um and then we have the the targeted student subgroups following below that um these are the the student subgroups that are that are called out in the Strategic plan as well and she'll point out for for in the Strategic plan for these student groups the goal is to go up 40 points on the DFS scale to move

14040 points closer to Proficiency in four years and so um we see there that all of these students all these student groups did did have positive movement moving closer to proficiency this past year compared to the previous year um but certainly still work to go for the the long-term goal for 25 26 school year um and then just some some general highlights on English language arts so again um grades three four and 11 saw improved distance from standard scores um while grades five six seven and eight moved further for from proficiency um and then as I mentioned the on the the district goal for grade three we did move forward by 4.4 4 seven points if we look at the achievement levels and so what percentage of students reach the meets or exceeds standards it's

141a similar pattern for our grade levels grades three four and 11 had a higher percentage of students meeting and exceeding standard compared to last year whereas grades five six seven and eight did not they they had fewer students meeting standard or exceeding standard uh here's a summary of of that same information um for our grade levels again uh 3 41 moving up five six seven and eight moving down then all grades combined in the aggregate in the bottom row there um result in moving uh moving further from proficiency if you think about DFS on the left side of the table and then on the right side of the table it's showing 41.1 7% of our students in tested grades are meeting or exceeding standard in English language arts which is down U by half a

142percentage point from last year looking at um a subset of our targeted student groups again these are the groups that are um elevated in the Strategic plan um on distance from standard and this is again all grades combined but for these particular student groups um on the distance from standard scale all all these student groups moved further Pro from proficiency this year compared to last year um whereas uh students with disabilities and Foster students actually had a slight increase in the um uh percentage that are meeting or exceeding standard but but in general the a the overall narrative here is a slight decline um in performance compared to last year in English language arts in the aggregate for all grades jumping to math uh so we also have a district goal for numeracy um there's

143a two two parts to the district goal for numeracy we look at third through fifth grade combined and then we looked at sixth through 8th grade combined for the uh the numeracy goal and and the goal here is to move up 40 points on the DFS scale so 40 points closer to Proficiency in four years and we see there in the top row when we look at third through fifth grade combined we move we we move 7.2 points closer to proficiency so um moving in the right direction just about on Pace with the the pace needed for the district goal by the 25 26 school year so very encouraging here and also the superintendent mentioned students with disabilities English lers low-income students latinx students and black students all saw more movement towards profession compared to

144last year as well for 6th through 8th grade um positive movement not quite to the magnitude that we see for third through fifth grade students so um combined sixth through eighth graders moved 0.96 points closer to proficiency on the DFS scale um with positive movements for students with disabilities low-income students and latinx students and in all of these you see the magnitude of the movement is is is is pretty small close you know plus or minus close but relatively closer to zero than we see for third through fifth grade and then again just the highlights the distance from standard um in the first section is um what what we already saw above every every grade improved except for grade eight um and on average you know we we did we did move up for math

145um on the achievement levels we also saw Improvement there in math um the percentage of students that meet or exceed standard um increase to 30.5% which is up about 2 percentage points from the 2122 school year um and then all grades saw Improvement in the in their achievement levels meaning you know again the percentage meeting or exceeding standard compared to last year and here is that information in table form you see everything except grade eight had saw improvements in uh the distance from standard measure and in when we look at it in terms of uh the percentage of students that meet or exceed standard um we went up um across all grade levels and then in the aggregate two percentage points higher this year compared to last year and percentage of students meeting or exceeding

146standard and then uh at the bottom of the table is a is um the same information about our our two numeracy District goals for easy access student subgroups um as superintendent carbal mentioned students with disabilities English Learners low-income F uh latinx and black students when we look at all across all grades not just the target grades for the numerous goal um saw improvements compared to last year as well and then uh last piece um just quickly pivoting to um the uh the English language proficiency assessment for California um the elpac as it's known um since this this data is being released by the state this week as well I just want to give you a couple quick um points on the lpac results um there's two lpac exams there's one at the very beginning of

147the school year which was an assessment given to all potential English uh students who may be an English learner this is an assessment to determine if they are going to be classified as an English learner or not um we had a 99.83% of them were were class if as an English learner upon entry to La unified and then finally the summit of lpac is given at the end of the year and this is to determine if students um are uh are possibly able to reclassify as a as a reclassified English learner um and uh and this is again done at the end of the year um 98.34% uh participation rate and the the goal here is to achieve that highest level of of performance level four which is the threshold for English learner reclassification 16.26%

148of test takers reached that level in 2223 which was an increase of 1.7% from the previous year so good news there a lot of data coming at you um I appreciate your your attention um I will hand it over to Dr Bas unless we want to pause now for questions okay this is a good pause [Music] Point great all right thank you now let me get my item number 20 celebrating October as Filipino heritage month and that is uh item number 20 yes thank you Mr schmon you are on thank you Miss Goldberg um introducing Filipino heritage month and what an honor uh for me so I should say to everyone mandang haon and kumaka I worked at Virgil Middle School in the heart of Filipino town and I said I got to do some

149more for my kids than just teach them so I went to LACC and I took Tagalog 101 and I got an A so yeah so I I I tried to avocate for my kids well it is my pleasure to introduce this resolution to celebr Filipino heritage month asian-americans are the fastest growing demographic in the nation and 34% of that group are Filipino or Filipino origin inclus inclusivity is part of lausd's guiding principles providing a welcoming and safe environment for all staff for all students and for all families and this resolution recognizes the historic Filipino town right near here a culturally Rich part of the city of Los Angeles where Filipinos founded many businesses churches and community centers during the 20th century in addition to this recognition it asks the superintendent's office to the possible exploration

150of establishing a lesson plan on the history of Filipino town important Filipino figures and their roles in shaping Los Angeles as well as the possibility of establishing a dual language program in Filipino language and before I introduce someone very important um I have to tell you uh the nicest person that I know who happens to be Filipino Filipina rather is my Administrative Assistant on the 24th floor Cynthia Rono the nicest sweetest most wonderful administrative assistant and wonderful Filipina lady who's so proud of her culture so at this moment is Francis uh going to be on Zoom no she's here oh you're hiding Francis is hiding she used to sit right next to me when she was the student board member at this moment I'd like to introduce Francis wavio a former student board member and

151one of the primary authors when this was first introduced a couple of years ago she is here to speak in support of the resolution and to remind us why it is essential to continue to celebrate Philipino Heritage Month go ahead Francis good afternoon superintendent kvajo esteemed board members and La USD Community my name is Francis silio I was the former student board member for the 2019 2020 school year I'm a proud Carson High School graduate and more recently a proud Stanford University [Applause] graduate when I first moved to the United States from the Philippines in 2010 I was terrified and truth be told I was so sad to have to leave my family and my community behind but I was overjoyed when I found out that there is a thriving Filipino ameran community in the

152city that I moved to Carson California when I was elected to be student board member I knew that I wanted to do something for the community so I authored the first version of the resolution that's in front of all of you here today this resolution talks a lot about our history and our past but the present achievements of Filipino Americans both throughout the country and within our district are just as Rich this resolution celebrates the past the present and the future of Filipino American students teachers administrators staff members and Community within our district this resolution ensures that our culture including one of our languages will be taught and moved forward by Filipino Americans for far too long Filipino and Filipino American contributions have been looked over but this resolution has the power to change that

153no longer will Filipino and Filipino American students have to look beyond their classrooms to learn about the contributions of our people instead they will have the opportunity to learn to grow and to be inspired by the ones who came before them and pave the way for those who will come after them while I'll always miss my family in Manila I'm very thankful that I have a family and support system here thank you board member scharon for bringing this resolution forward and I am so eternally grateful that I am a part of a district that will celebrate my identity and I hope the day will come where other people's identities cultures history and Heritage are celebrated like mine is today or in English thank you very much to you all thank you so much Francis we're

154going to have some board members comment but I just want to say that this resolution is an honor to all of our Filipino students faculty staff and parents who work so hard to make sure that their students study and get a good education so thank you Jackie uh thank you very much uh have you moved your I move it I'll second it okay and uh do we have comments and S I'd like to be added as a uh co-sponsor okay two two two yesan we have the whole group okay thank you so much comments board members go ahead Kelly go ahead Kelly um well first it's just so wonderful to see Francis um congratulations on all your accomplishments not at all surprised um but uh it's wonderful that you're back and I thought you spoke

155so eloquently um but thank you Mr schmon for authoring this resolution and I'm excited to co-sponsor and would just encourage us if there are ways to accelerate the establishment of our tagala dual language program I know there's a lot of desire in the community we thankfully represent um a wonderfully vibrant Filipino community in the San Fernando Valley and um I really think that there's a great opportunity to uplift the language um of our Filipino students um and I also think how how we can integrate their um their history and culture as part of our ethnic studies work you know there is a specific unit on AI community and we should be uplifting the diversity within the aapi community especially the specific contributions of Filipinos um especially here in the LA area so I think that

156that's another opportunity to really make this resolution beyond the celebration of Filipino History Month um really living in our classrooms um so thank you so much for the opportunity salamat who is next well then I guess I'll be next go ahead Jackie so I did a little looking up and coming in with this we we have the earliest uh Filipinos Landing in Morrow Bay California in 1587 I had no idea it was that early we also I think any of us who have looked at the United Farm Workers have to understand that the Filipino American Farm Workers were a very big part of that and for example Larry e Leong recruited over a thousand Filipino Farm Workers into the agricultural workings committee which led to the deleno grape strike and there are others in that

157group as well including Philip Vera Cruz but I think that the one I want to mention today is Cedric arua in 2016 as a senior at Lincoln High School he became one of 12 people in the world to achieve a perfect score on the notorious challenging AP Calculus test so I just wanted to mention as I was doing a little look up in this for this day I wanted to say I can't believe it 12 people in the world he was one of them in 2016 so we have a lot to be thankful for in this community as it contributes to our schools and to our communities and I agree with my colleague that if we look at this as we're looking at uh the whole issue of uh different studies that we have under

158ethnic studies I hope that some of this information will come forward as well if there are no other com oh I'm sorry I usually try to go last I thought you were done go ahead no worries well I also too I'm very proud of Francis and a bd7 graduate so glad to see you back here and what a great representative of what's possible for all of our students to go off to Stanford and come back and share your remarks with the board um you know in board district 7 like Francis lived in Carson we represent over 2,000 Filipino students so also proud to co-sponsor if you'll accept it Mr scharon there's a lot of of pride in our neighborhoods um for our Filipino students and families and Miss Goldberg when you were talking about the

159Farm Workers it just reminded me of my first RJ teacher in La unified was a Filipino American woman who's amazing she was at Roosevelt High School for several years and when we would close our circles she would remind us to do the unity clap which were started by our Mexican-American Farm Workers but end with one final clap together with the tagalag um isan bakak one down we are all down for each other and so thank you for reminding me of that beautiful memory and I hope we have more memories like that with our ethnic studies with our Filipino Heritage celebrations um and history all year long so thank you for the resolution proud to be a part of itead thank you I won't mess up or pass up the opportunity to um dot on on

160Francis and thank Mr smarson my talag is not up to Snuff so we're gonna hold on that but um I I want to thank you echo my colleagues I appreciate that these resolutions also are asking to do go beyond your symbol ISM and whether it's the creation of dual language programs or lessons around historic Filipino town I do drive through that Arch on my way to this building every time I come in um and would love myself to learn more about it I'll also just you know in response to a comment that was made earlier um today by a public speaker who seem to suggest that these weeks or these studies somehow detract from the work that's happening in our classrooms I just want to really push back on that I think resolutions like this

161uh efforts like this uh enhance the learning that is happening in our classrooms uh and I'm proud to support this as I am to support everyone pretty much of our resolutions that looking at elevating the culture and Heritage of our community um this is what what makes lean takes learning deeper and connects our students and staff and all of us with the community so I I just want to take this opportunity to push back against any assumption that this is taking away from the holistic education this is uh critical to that education here at La unified so thanks for the opportunity yeah thank you I I won't be long at all first of it was good to see Francis come back student board member and went into came out in four years everybody can't do

162that uh I appreciate the contribution of our Filipino Americans who Filipino Americans make up the second largest Asian-American population in the United States and many people may not know that I know there are certain parts of the country country where they're not heavily populated but they are in other parts and we know who they are we have a lot of them here in Los Angeles and we are as M much of a Melting Pot as there is in the country we PA today to highlight the community and I appreciate Mr schmon uh bringing it up as a a resolution to recognize Filipino heritage month month which is a proud Heritage of the people who came here in the early 1900s so thank you all for helping us to celebr celebrate this thank you Mr schur

163and I didn't know you were also trilingual now you I know you speak Spanish and English Mato oh you left me you left me on that one I believe you thank you all right Dr Rosas just a few words um I I am elated um to to co-sponsor um this resolution and in our district our diversity is our strength not only in our classrooms our teachers but also employees we have a lot of employees um Filipino employees who have dedicated their lives to the district for many generations uh I'm honored also to represent schools and communities in historic Filipino town as we all are in our own uh distinct uh board districts and uplifting the incredible contributions and um experiences of the Filipino Community is essential um um and of course as was mentioned by

164board member Goldberg the legacy of the Filipino American labor leader Larry itong is Alive and Well in um in the city and also uh La USD as we continue to advocate for the Dignity of all workers for the Pino workers and in our district in our wider community so thank you um Francis for um also spearheading this resolution when you were here and as has been echoed by our board members so proud um of all your accomplishments and your future accomplishments because I know you will represent your community very well and we look forward to seeing you uh in a position that will bring honor and pride to the Filipino community so thank you I think of course yes Ramirez thank you um but know just reiterating what every board member here said I think

165we're all really just in awe of Francis I know definitely I am but she's really such a role model for the Filipino community and not only the Filipino Community but those who come from similar first gen and immigrant backgrounds I know for me she's someone that I really look up to but I think um Francis with this resolution has set an example for what student board members can do in the district and she's really set an amazing Legacy for all of us and I'm really humbled to serve in this position and hope to live up that amazing Legacy that she's um put up for all of us but I'm really excited with this resolution because I know we just had Hispanic Heritage Month where we were able to learn and share about I know from

166a culture that's very close to my as my identity and I know we can do that too with Filipino heritage month so I'm just excited to see what all these schools do and I really hope to see so much progress with the Dual language and um to Galo so I'm excited but thank you Francis thank you thank youbody else go ahead anybody else ah superintendent just very briefly thank you very much uh Mr scharon for once again uh recognizing the contributions and the representation of uh this the extremely strong uh community of Filipino members uh here in Los Angeles um I'm just going to uh you know since you decided to announce who your favorite uh representation of the Filipino Community is mine is just sitting a couple of seats behind our very own d'vorah

167readed our our general Council so the best of the best represented that's one of the many many beautiful things about our communities and our school system is that we are all for all with a sprinkling of everyone so thank thank you very much and Francis I've forgiven you for not being a cal bear go Bears thank you but it was close it was close but I do forgive you for that I do want to just add finally before we vote that I think it's extremely important that we end up with a dual language program great it's been something this community has advocated for years and I hope that this year is the time to finally get it done but Jackie there's one thing that everyone forgot except me of course and that is Filipino food

168what would we do without ponit yes lean and Leon what would we do so thank you for the Wonder wonderful food thank you so much go ahead ja I think pet actually financed my first run in 1982 Pon did yeah yeah I did I had at that time uh the largest Filipino Community which was along Western and um Santa Monica boulevards in the east Hollywood area and it just blossomed with immigration in the 80s just huge numbers and I watched them work for each other and I watched them open buildings and open housing and open support for each other and start community- based organizations it was really quite an extraordinary thing I saw sea form the search to involve pilipino Americans we work closely with them with youth groups so this has been an ongoing

169issue in our district and I'm proud to say that we've taken it on although I will say that my first year in 1983 when I got elected I did get a lot of complaints from schools that had kids transported from my area out to the valley when they were automatically put into Spanish English bilingual classes when they didn't speak either language but we fixed that we got that taken care of so thank you very much for bringing this forward it's been moved and seconded call the rule Dr McKenna Dr Ras Mr schmon yes Mr meloy yes M gz yes Mr Ortiz Franklin yes board president Goldberg yes student board member Ramirez yes thank you very much we will you and uh I know we have four o'clock but we're going to put it off a

170little bit 4 o'clock will be 4:30 sorry I just we've got to finish these things Dr bias okay good afternoon board president Goldberg board member superintendent carvalo and Deputy superintendent my name is Francis B Chief academic officer I will present the evidence-based practices we are implementing to improve students uh literacy and numeracy as measured by the smarter balanced assessment and the English language proficiency assessments for California the strategies are based on the California math and English language arts English language development uh standards and Frameworks achieve the core uh what works Clearing House a meta analysis by John hatti uh doc Jeff z uh Goldie Muhammad and evidence-based approaches for months we've been realigning our efforts to the LAUSD strategic plan pillars our goal is to reach coherence across the system in assessing teaching supporting and

171providing students with enriching learning experiences teachers Implement stand standards aligned curricula and supplemental materials I presented the curricula we use at the August 22nd board meeting we launched I ready the diagnostic assessment to identify the strengths and areas of improvement in language arts and math this predictive assessment is helping us group students and provide targeted small group instruction teachers received professional development in language arts and math during the summer and in Late July we began an interventionist Academy to prepare literacy and numerous interventionist to work with students and small groups and so I will speak a little bit about that initiative uh momentarily we also offer students enrichment opportunities such as Robotics and participation in competitions performing arts and advanced coursework in literacy we align our practices to the science of reading so that students

172have access to a structured reading program that means students are applying their reading vocabulary development comprehension speaking and writing skills throughout the day English Learners dual language Learners and Standard English Learners access learning through culturally relevant and responsive and linguistically sustaining instruction in numeracy the goal is for students to engage in conceptual understanding procedural fluency and real world application an example of conceptual understanding and multiplication is using the array model to show how students use a distributive property rather than just an algorithm procedural fluency is knowing when to apply procedures to a problem students need to know when to apply addition subtraction multiplication division uh or additional math formulas to solve a problem real world application focuses on solving problems that are encountered in everyday life such as managing money balancing a checkbook creating a

173budget for a construction project that requires measurement and unit cost or creating sheet music to name a few a multi-tiered system of support begins with strong core classroom instruction the teacher looks at data and design standards aligned instructional lessons through a Universal Design for Learning that meets the whole group and individualized needs of students while promoting critical thinking English Learners participate in designated English language development and integrated English language development Standard English Learners engage in mainstream English language development tier two is after students receive their tier one instruction they get an additional dose so students receive that additional no through the intervention uh which is delivered through interventionist the general education teacher or other trade Personnel another tier 2 approach is something like the winter Academy which we're going to be offering December 18th through

174the 20th and we really hope that parents androll their students in that three days of instruction that is a way to get that additional dose tier three consists of intensive individualized intervention and the use of supplemental curriculum students in the tier uh in this tier receive tier one tier two and tier three so there's three different opportunities for students to get that additional support so these three are done with frequency and intensity teachers play a vital role in in supporting student achievement which one do I have to lower change teacher Collective efficacy has the strongest effect size at 1.34 professional development and support are critical to teacher efficacy the teaching and learning framework based on the work of Charlotte Danielson and the California standards for the teaching profession are the Cornerstone of good first instruction

175these elements have a strong effect size based on the meta analysis from John Hattie ongoing professional development feedback coaching and support are delivered in the priority elements and consist of understanding student capital and performance level this is referred to as knowledge of students teachers analyze data and also build on students background knowledge to develop lessons teachers and parents or caregivers have ongoing communication about the students level of performance and the parents or caregivers receive resources provided by the school or District to help the students improve a positive academic classroom climate relates to establishing a culturally relevant and responsive environment where students feel a sense of belonging students have access to academic vocabulary in order to engage in discussion and build upon one another's thinking the use of academic language means that students expand their vocabulary

176and can have Rich discourse using the vocabulary of the discipline they are learning whether it's uh math social study science literature or other subjects discussion techniques and student participation are ways for students to express their thinking through debate collaborative discourse or a presentation standards align projects and assignments give students the opportunity to solve complex problems purpose purposeful and productive instructional groups are ined to personalize learning to the needs of the students and then finally feedback to students Is frequent and and includes positive and constructive feedback to help the student improve an addition to the teaching and learning framework principles receive professional development based on the school leadership framework to support teachers and principal supervisors receive professional development based on the principal supervisor leadership framework this approach supports our efforts to reach coherence across the system

177so that we're all leading monitoring and supporting the same initiatives the same topics the same practices that are research-based in July we launched the literacy and numeracy interventionist model which consists of a foundation of strong teaching and learning in every classroom direct support to students who need additional instruction expanding professional development to all teachers and aligned family engagement and empowerment professional development is ongoing for interventionists through the interventionist Academy teachers also receive professional development in the implementation of small group instruction the interventionist acad was launched in July and is ongoing the topics include data analysis student grouping the use of highquality instructional materials progress monitoring and collaboration with the teacher of record we created an elementary and secondary school interventionist implementation guide to ensure coherence across the district and a common approach to implementing evidence-based

178intervention programs personalized plans have been developed and small group instruction is taking place lastly we have presented language arts math and diagnostic assessment topics to parents during parent workshops andies and we're continuing to uh provide parent workshops across the board with different uh with different divisions and different um groups this concludes my presentation on the overview of the evidence-based practices we are implementing to improve student literacy and numeracy as measured by the smarter balanced assessment and the lpac thank you very much so madam president last uh the last thing I will say is that obviously uh data beyond our district is still embargoed um it will be released tomorrow so tomorrow we will have eyes not only on other districts uh performance in English language arts math but also science um in addition to Statewide

179data so we will be able to reach some conclusions number one I think the most important questions that to contemplate are how did our performance in English language arts match up against the state not in terms of static performance but in terms of movement so if the state uh increased in language arts and we decreased there's something to be learned there however if uh our rate of loss is par with the state then maybe there's a systemic element that we ought to understand a little bit better uh same is true for mathematics uh so we put a lot of resources and effort in mathematics tomorrow we will learn uh comparatively speaking with the state right now all we know is how we did right by grade level uh compared to last year but it will

180be interesting to see if we are narrowing the gap between L USD and the state of California uh if in fact that happens then what we're doing here is paying off so those are the two big conclusions that once that that embargo is lifted we'll be able to look at uh thank you very much uh Madam president members of the board uh this is probably one of the most important conversations we can have and it's one that will continue uh in weeks and months to come come in addition to the practices now that we have data to recalibrate uh our approach on the basis of uh of this very fresh State data Marson Francis let me just say from your visual um good attendance an excellent first instruction that's the secret that is the secret

181going to school every single day well of your will going to school every single day of your will and paying attention and good first instruction that's how we conquer this so thank you thank you Francis anybody else I have yeah go ahead okay start um thank you for this and and it was helpful to get the board informative yesterday to start to wrap our heads around looking forward to the retreat and digging in more um you know I think this isn't unexpected we had heard you know the loss of learning over the pandemic um was obviously going to be felt deeply and it's great to see some green and and some growth but we have a long way to go to meet our board goals in three short years and so I think the ultimate

182question that I have that I look forward to you know touching on today but exploring more in our Retreat and as we work together over the next few years is given how far away our kids are from being on standard and from closing the 30 40 and in some groups 50 point gap that we're aiming to close in our strategic plan um sort of what can we say are are the big things we're doing differently now that give us confidence that we're going in the right direction I know you spoke to several strategies but maybe there's like a top one to three that again gives us confidence that we're closing those gaps that we know our kids really need us to focus on absolutely so it's the the I ready assessment which is predictive and

183has already allowed us to group students so that's number one we know who the students are we know what their needs are and we can group them and also our interventionist model is already um has launched and we can already see that teachers are planning personalized lessons we have access to the lessons and we can actually look and monitor and ensure that the teachers are using those uh evidence-based practices we're able to observe we have over a thousand interventionists what's new and different is that now the PD is centralized where before it was not so that everyone is getting the same professional development and of applying the same practices in the classroom so we're able to address the fact that the students are below grade level but we're also addressing the other end and the

184good first instruction so that was um the key the key piece here was the professional development over the summer on good first instruction so we have a balanced approach where we're providing PD on an intervention model but also first good instructions so those are the two ways that we're approaching this and of course incorporating that parent engagement piece so parents are also reinforcing The Learning in the home I would just add one more if we lift the performance of 40,000 students if in fact those 40,000 students represent the lowest performing 10% in our district and I'm using that 10% 40,000 because those are the number of students enrolled in the 100 priority schools the performance of this district will explode why um statistics will predict that the lowest performers have the greatest chance of more

185rapid Improvement right and by the way that is the right thing to do that's Equity right so our uh in addition to uh S and S Plus in addition s High in addition to heat and Bap the concentration of resource accountability monitoring and support devoted to uh through the educational transformation office under the leadership of uh of um of uh Dr Whitman Dr Whitman thank you um will be a very strong contributing factor to in fact reaching that goal uh the kids who are the greatest distance from standard or the kids who are in those schools those are the same kids that have the greatest potential for greatest growth in a short period of time if we do it right so she's right it's systemic implementation of intervention driven by professional development on science of

186reading it's the implementation of acceleration remediation and systemic assessment through IR ready uh it's our focus on disproportionate support strategic support specific to Performance and then the other things that you're used to hearing right high dosage tutoring before and after school programming and uh in intense ofies what's winter break spring break and and summer I appreciate that particularly on um our historically lowest performing students because the next question I was going to ask is sort of the flip is there anything we're stopping doing or we're not doing that we have traditionally done and this was a while ago but when I was in the classroom I remember we would focus on the students that were right on the cusp so how could we get them over over the hump to help our numbers um which

187is a culture of wanting to be reflective of the accurate information and like we're working with our students who are so close and let's just get them there but then it would often leave our our most vulnerable students really far behind so that that is um uplifting and then I guess I would just ask you know if there is anything that we could name that we're not doing and maybe it's the different or the I don't know how you would describe the opposite of centralized PD but maybe the disperate um PD in the past is is something that we're we're not doing as much this year or is there anything you would say we're doing we're not doing that we were doing we reduced the variability um the professional development so that everyone is getting

188the same so principles supervisors are getting the same the principles are getting the same PD um the teachers receive the same PD we have look Force so we have a common understanding of what to look for and then also uh what practices to implement in the classroom and definitely we're always supporting our classrooms so that we decrease uh the the whole group instruction and we promote small group instruction and that was the focus of small group instruction so you should see less whole group and more small group instruction and that's our goal if I may also I I think this is where our regions have been excellent helpers to know where to differentiate for schools based on their data so what you'll see is central Office Division of instruction other departments are making sure that

189we are being systematic about what we're offering but then they allow the regions to then be able to look at their school based data I ready day and say what do you need uniquely based on what your students um potentially may need so that's where you'll see the differentiation is at that region level and at a school-based lens I appreciate that and it speaks to the resolution around principles month where we just keep adding adding adding but we're not necessarily just adding adding we're replacing with better practices and more informed decisions so that's really heartening um and I definitely look forward to seeing more ongoing data throughout the year that I am excited that I already allows for us to have that we didn't have as a district before I know I would go into

190executive dashboard and see only a small percentage of uh participants in our common District assessments so this platform is a big win for me um and I'm really looking forward to the opportunity to adjust throughout the year to see really different results this coming spring so I know we'll dig in more um but I know we have a long way to go and I just appreciate the teams especially our School site team that are really helping our students achieve in levels we we know that we need them too and that they absolutely can so thank you uh thank you for the presentation and yes I'm still digging in through the board informative there's a lot of information and I'm really grateful that the uh the data is very disaggregated in terms of the students that

191we're focusing on so I'm really grateful for that um and I want to know or I'm curious to understand um in terms of the social emotional factors of our students right of course we're we're providing all of these elements um tutoring and intervention and PD and all of that but how are we integrating the social emotional factor of that and also we can do as much work we as we can to our students but if they're if they're not motivated and if they're not actually Partners in in their own learning then you know we're we're going to encounter a lot of challenges so I would you know love to understand more the integration of social emotional learning and how we're motivating and also integrating the students in their own learning so the first question about

192social emotional learning and that was also a topic in the summer professional development is integrating social emotional learning in math for example so we begin with having a a growth mindset in math and and ensuring that our students see themselves as mathematicians and that teachers see themselves as mathematicians and so that's one example we've Incorporated multiple cell umal components into the professional development we had literacy numeracy uh our PE teachers our health teachers had cell uh last year we had the um micro credential for our teachers we also uh students developed a planned and organized a stal symposium so students actually studied a problem of practice at their high school and they presented and featured their um their piece and they presented to their peers um so that was the very Grassroots type ofal that

193was happening there's lots of professional development there are tools that we use uh and curriculum that we use in the classroom foral so we can see usage reports to see thatal instruction is happening in the classrooms uh so that se is happening to to ensure that our students are able to self-regulate to have a growth mindset and to um to capture all of the castle competencies uh in addition to that uh your second question was about uh students uh feeling a sense of ownership so that's part of the the teaching and learning framework and the elements there is um students having a sense of ownership and belonging is the culture and climate that the teacher and the principal are created creating so that students understand their level of performance and are able to establish goals

194and know how to reach those goals so developing those mindsets and the students is also part of what we what we aim to do and it's part of what um the standards for the teaching profession and the teaching and learning framework really calls us out to do and in terms of our parents how are we working with our parents and supporting their child at home um are we working with our community uh reps or parent centers to provide those workshops or how we be working with our parents there's various ways so we have been providing acmis and we will we have a scope and sequence ahead so that the academies continue to incorporate the science of reading to incorporate numeracy to incorporate graduation to this point we've already presented on all those topics but we

195will continue to present to the parents we also have a plan for um partnering with outside organizations to bring uh professional development and workshops pardon not professional development workshops to the school sites and to train our our community rep so they know how to do this at the school sites as well um in addition to that there's um organiz vendors or or providers such as springboard that works with the parents so they work with the teacher teachers providing the the tutoring but then they also work with the parents and helping the parents understand how to implement some of those practices in the at the home so that there's that homeschool connection I'm sorry you mentioned springboard this is the first time I've heard of spr that's one of the the tutoring companies that that Tut

196companies okay and so they incorporate um a um an aspect of parent engagement um and I know that the familyies are mainly through zoom and are we thinking of maybe transferring that out of zooms and making it more integrated into the sites or maybe through regions that's definitely the goal is to get to the school site level but um through the family and Community engagement office we've seen that we've had the most participation through those webinars there's also been a hybrid approach so you can actually go face to face and in addition to that webinar so we've done a hybrid approach that we'll continue to offer those sessions so they could do both and provide um that experience but we know we need to do more to get to the local level and that's our

197next that's next the next um phase that we're going to be entering into and just one last comment I know when I've you know visit my schools um a lot of the schools I've noticed a a big um a change in the school culture right in terms of um uh learning and you know moving as a school uh rather than just as a class and I think that is um more if anything more motivational and it helps students to sort of you know um encourage one another and right work together so I really love to see that our schools are also changing their environment and their culture to be more academic and more supportive right rather than just you know focusing on students that are not you know meet meeting the standard but you know

198working at conjunction so I really do appreciate seeing that in the schools that I visit thank you that's theal in place thank you thank you um thanks for the presentation I know this is you know late or rather latebreaking news um you mentioned superintendent science or someone mentioned science have we we haven't seen the science data is that correct we have got it got it um and uh I think that's great well um you know I just Echo not only my well my colleagues and the superintendent and and knowing that we have to do better um I appreciate superintendent to your elevation of foster youth in particular and some of the supports that we can put in place and I'd be curious as a followup um for specifics I know it's one of the categories

199in the outc cap that needs to be addressed specifically and I think we've blended it in the past with other programs I wonder in light of the data if that's working and would like us to maybe have a deeper dive specifically into that population I also you know to miss Dr Rose um rias's questions about springboard I do think that and I know we're going to be previewing and rolling out the iaps the individualized acceleration plan soon that will translate some of this jargon to to parents but I again I think when we see things like tier one tier 2 tier three it's just it's very high level language that when it comes to parents but also teachers and even board members quite frankly it's hard for us to actually translate okay we have data

200what are we doing to address that and so I know that that some of that will be addressed through the iip but I just want to call out our ability to speak in more um accessible language uh and also just will Echo the call I know some of our schools got individualized data over the summer to plan but definitely think we need this earlier I remember when I was teaching we'd get the um student data back then this the CST like months after the kids I taught middle school so they were already in high school and you could try to track down some students to say you need to work on the standard but it was a feudal effort I guess two um questions I'm curious if we have looked or if we can look

201at growth data what this Compares is you know last year's fourth graders to this year's fourth graders and it would do that consistently I think cohort data particularly these few years because the pandemic we know like especially for our kids who were in those early literacy cohorts so during the pandemic that they're going to have higher needs than others and so it' be really interesting especially in these few years to look at that cohort data so I'm curious if you can talk a little bit about that absolutely and and some of that analysis is is being done currently and that can be integrated to what we talk about at the board at The Retreat as well um uh we're we're doing some growth modeling it's it's ideally you have multiple years of it so you

202so it Smooths out any idiosyncrasies of of especially for smaller schools or smaller GRS of students um so you have multiple years of data to really track growth um you have you have a lot of pre- dat to properly predict this year's data to see who who went above or below their prediction is is the idea and so what C testing for two years grow doing growth modeling has been a little bit of a challenge we we now have as you said two years of data and then for our 11th graders we have data from back when they were in eth grade seventh grade that we can look into incorporating as well it's not perfect perfect but we can we can do our best with it and then the cohort analysis like you're saying so

203how did last year's you know based on you know how did last year's third graders do in fourth grade moving forward and how how to movement go there so we we've been doing some of that analysis it's it's a part of some of the conversations we have with the priority schools currently right thank you and then my final question superintendent I know you know we have been um talking about the need to condense you know to to to condens the pandemic learning recovery in just a couple years given how many years students lost and I'm curious I know we've only had this for a few in the board's case hours maybe yours a few days but how realistic is that goal of ours to still over the course of maybe the next year a year

204and a half Can U make up for you know three or four years of learning loss yes thank you for the question um so when I first arrived and I looked the data profile for the district um the reason why I said in two years we would overcome come the pandemic effects meaning minimally we would restore districtwide performance particularly in English language arts and Mathematics at that time I thought graduation as well but because of State action graduation didn't really suffer right um we knew that we would not be able to do it in one year I am very confident we're able to do it in two years and you may not necessarily see it particularly now as far as language arts but mathematics gives me a great deal of Hope because we put efforts

205we really put aggressive strategy in terms of models that we deployed and it worked again tomorrow we will learn to what extent did it really work by comparing ourselves to the state if our rate of improvement in math significantly exceeds the rates the stage rate of improvement then uh I'm almost certain that we will be able to reach that goal within two years and then we have two additional years right uh to to deliver on the board's goals uh um language arts a little tougher because of the trend that we're seeing which again is not just a local issue it's a state and national issue um but I am fairly confident if we continue to implement the strategies that France has detailed whe whether it's uh the professional development science of reading uh I ready

206high dosage tutoring if we continue to do that at a high level of efficacy with a prescribed amount of time on task then it is predictable that we will get to that point again we look forward to examining the state data to see how our data Compares right I'll be very concerned if we are significantly below we know there was a rate of loss if we're significantly below the state if we are within the ballpark then something tells me that we did not lose ground Vis the state then our rate of improvement if we have good engineering and strategy will will be almost guaranteed great that's promising and we look forward to a deeper dive at our Retreat as well so thank you all yes I'll try to be quick um thank you so much

207for the update um it's great to be able to really dig into the data as well as the strategies um and I think you know while we're noting that our vulnerable students continue to face those largest gaps in literacy and numeracy definitely the math Improvement is a bright spot I know that's been a historic area of difficulty um and math in this day and age does also include a lot of literacy so it's it's helpful to to see that Improvement um I do have a few specific questions um I was wondering if you could speak at all about kind of our results for eighth graders um I think it it represents an area of concern um just they're the only group not to make Improvement on distance from standard in math and then they're the

208furthest from standard in ela to to what might we attribute that so this could be attributed to um the fact that they were the ones who were impacted one of the groups that were impacted the most with the pandemic um and so I think that those those are some of the factors um we're still continuing to uh examine exactly uh what has been impacting their their performance because we do see progress monitoring data uh and our eighth graders um have been affected by the pandemic and so those that's where a lot of our interventionists um have been um now deployed so we have uh as you know with the new interventionist model we did assign interventionist to the middle school grades so because we had been monitoring data and seeing that there was a decline

209there uh and so um that's what we're doing to support but we we we um we predict that that's one of the causes for the decline but it it's it's good to know be reminded of the interventionist deployment strategy and I mean I think in general the Middle School results um are you know there's greater struggle there maybe than the elementary results and the high school results so it's good to know that they're having they have additional supports maybe also the professional development for our teachers in those and we do plan to do a lot more we were planning to um as we're looking at the research and looking at wraparound supports to really provide our principles in middle and high school in particular middle school because that's the Gap where our students are having

210the most difficulty as they're transitioning from elementary to to middle and then high school that middle school age level developmentally is really challenging for them and so we're um going to provide schools guidance working with uh multiple divisions in our district to provide a more comprehensive approach to meet the students where they are today given everything they've experienced to think about a new way of delivering um instruction to our middle school students that is more engaging and more connected to students understanding where they are developmentally absolutely I mean I think Dr R's piece around socio emotional learning is very pertinent in the middle school years um so it's good to hear that that that that is on the horizon um I also wanted to dig in a little bit more on the Foster youth you

211know we know that our uh youth in foster care are historically some of our lowest performing students and we know that they have trauma and a lot of challenges High Mobility to deal with um I seconded Mr melo's inquiry around you know a couple of years ago there was an effort to restructure how we provided supports to Foster youth we previously had a dedicated Foster youth achievement uh program where Foster youth were given um access to counselors who were really experts I would say in um the unique circumstances of our youth in foster care and who could provide dedicated supports we now provide more of a generalist support to um you know our chronically absent students students experiencing homelessness Foster youth those involved in the Juvenile Justice System Etc um and I just wonder you

212know obviously there A lot has happened in the intervening time but I think it may be worth um an evaluation of some sort as to how effective the current model is in terms of serving our youth in care and what more we could be doing to help accelerate their success um I will also at this time go ahead and lift up um a resolution that the board passed which I brought um back in 2019 which was focused on on our foster Youth and it called for kind of a comprehensive report on specific data relating to Foster youth not just their academic data but also their Mobility data um to what extent our foster youth are staying in their schools of origin how many different placements they've had um any interaction with the juvenile justice system

213or homelessness um those who are eligible for commercial sexual exploitation of children resources so we know there's a lot of different um issues that arise for this population so I think it's really important as we think about dedicated and tailored supports for our foster youth that we really dig into the underlying causes here um and and accelerate the work that we're doing and deepen it so that we are really reaching those who most need it thank you oh I had one more sorry um and just wanted to make uh to Second the data requests around the cohort growth data and also request that we look at data disaggregated by school type um it would be great I mean the 100 priority schools as well as our community schools dual language programs Etc to see um

214if there are different significant differences in performance um as well as looking at high and low Flyers so our our schools that are beating the odds for servicing um high high needs students um but really experiencing high levels of academic achievement thank you anybody else I just had uh two requests of Dr Johnston um I have a lot of schools that have pretty good scores but when I ask them where how many students do you have that are not not below basic but far below far from distance they say 20 or 30% so I'm sing saying what's happening in some of those tier 2 schools and even a few tier one schools is the high Achievers make the school look okay and not getting a lot of extra help I'd like you to see if

215you can identify some schools in every Board District that have 20 to 30% far uh from from standard even though their overall school scores look pretty good con concerning schools in our district so we have some idea of where there is a kind of a dual school system almost within that school and we can talk about what we might do differently for that group of schools Absol well just just a quick comment on that too one piece that we're going to be able to look at a lot and uh is schools with with multiple programs on their campus and is the story you the average but this was a school that didn't okay and I've actually been to two or three principls in the last week who said you know we're doing pretty well but

216we have and so I would say to them just give me a ballpark estimate and some would say 5% or 10% where they're far away but several of them said 20 or 30% and I was shocked because their scores were pretty good it's because the ones doing well are doing really well and everybody else was kind of not in that that lck group so that's of my first requests and my second request is we did have some few middle schools that didn't have downward Trend in ela I'd like you to identify them and see what we can learn from them for other middle schools thank you those are my only two requests Mr superintendent then we're going to take uh comments from the public all right thank you very much very briefly so we were

217bracing ourselves considering all that's happened across the country significant uh declines in sat performance act performance nape performance in Reading language arts fourth eth graders uh all states the as a whole here in state of California so we were bracing ourselves for probably significant declines decreases in performance both in uh English language arts and Mathematics uh it's not that we were surprised by math we were hoping that math performance would outpace language arts we're very pleased with that obviously uh English language arts is a uh it's it's a it's a huge concern for for us uh I think you heard the strategy uh what I do know and I appreciated the comments made both by board member Rivas and um and schmon that cultural shifts in schools always precede academic improvements the culture shifts first

218and that Improvement follows and I think we're seeing that on a basis of coherent systemic approach to professional development and uh implementation of distri Assessments that provide both for acceleration remediation and predictive ability so that's all good news but I don't want anybody walking away from today's meeting feeling that oh my God we we've reached nirvana we're not there we're still reeling from the pandemic but where we are is with a solid foundation for math instruction that's now proven to be effective and uh year one of a very rapid implementation of the strategies and systems that we know will work so a year from today we hope to be even in a better position in English language ARs and we are in math right now the last thing is you know we often hear a

219lot about um the role of parents and and we've heard today and we will hear again um you know the voice of parents is one that needs to be respected um just like the voice of teachers and the voice of support Personnel uh I want to be very clear about something that I think folks misunderstand the work of our communities is not substitutable by anything else the Family Academy The Parent Academy is not a substitute for that the parent Academy is coursework alongside the equivalent of adult education on key issues that is a system We Believe parents need to learn it is not a substitute for the very important leadership and policy work and advice and representation that the Committees bring and often I hear both of them discussed as if they were the same

220thing they're not uh but the point that was made and I've heard it from parents is we do need to transition more to face-to-face and interactive Family Academy coursework rather than just webinar style it is that type of work that produces the biggest results last Point uh board member melvoin addressed it uh the the individualized personalized data reporting and support system is going to be applicable to students and parents alike in a multitude of languages that will speak at the literacy level of the parent so through IAP and Trust we're very very close we have terrific Partners we at a point now of gamification really making it appealing but the system is built it will speak to the parent and the student in a way that will be understood it's not in terms of tier

221one two three parents will understand exactly where their children are and what they must do to actually Elevate their performance uh and that's a a future reality that's not not too far into the distant future Madame President there's no more important conversation the conversation we' just had about where our kids are and what we must do to elevate their performance I appreciate your time and your focus on that which matters I'll move immediately to the um uh public comment section and I'm going to ask that we take the people who are in the room first since you've been sitting here for a while and the people who are calling in will take second okay here we go so I'm going to call Four folks so the first person come up to the podium and then

222the other three please line up to the right side of the room which is over there so Maria Louisa Palma are you here coming up to the podium uh and then someone identified simply as Elizabeth please come up and stand to the right side of the room eloisa Galindo also please step up to the right side of the room and lastly Juan Jose mangandi if you're here in person please step up to the right side of the room room after a little bit of shuffling I'll give you the go ahead I just want things to settle down a little bit okay please go ahead you have three minutes where is the line between the social science curriculum and sexual education this is a question parents are asking your administrators but we've received no clear answers

223good afternoon my name is Maria Lisa Palma and I am here speaking on behalf of olada Inc a nonprofit organization chairperson Goldberg I ask you to recall what you said to the public in this room on June 6th of this year during a regular board meeting and I will play this but I say to all of you nobody in this district will ever ever sexualize any kid for any reason in any classroom in any way shape or form and those of you who believe that this might happen are allowed to read the curriculum materials read the curriculum are invited into the assemblies with your children inv to invited not to have your children go to the have your children go I do not believe in forcing a parent to have a child attend assembly that

224they feel would be violating their values that's fine with me that's fine with me too we don't all have to agree in fact none of us all agree but we are going to stand up and say to people shouting outside of a school and to the media that when you broadcast this in the way that you did you frightened lgbtq kids and adults in every school in this district and in this city and we must take much more care about how we Elevate an assembly reading a book with one line one sentence one sentence that said also there are families that have two mommies and two daddies that was was the terror outside of s satco thank you for indulging that chair pron Goldberg is it just one line in one book no last week's

225quiet roll out of the National Coming Out day curriculum includes requirements for elementary students to draw an identity map where they are asked to disclose intimate details of who they are for later posting on a schoolwide quilt plus a pledge of allyship for a minor student an elementary age student to pledge to conforming with a set of behaviors this is not just one line in one book I heard you inviting parents to opt out their children from the gender identity curriculum but we have no transparency out here to the parents no consistent answer some parents have been issued disruptive person letters when they've presented their questions at their schools some parents have been told it's the law or take it up with the district's board most parents don't have leure time to protest outside of

226their schools just to get clarity on this issue the question remains will you allow parents to opt out of this invasive gender identity curriculum you continue to roll out and if not why not what law are you citing as evidence of your requirement for your specific curriculum as posted on the so's District website we deserve clear consistent answers across all schools otherwise you will leave as parents no choice we will continue to protest thank you thank you for your time Elizabeth are you here Elizabeth come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin hello my name is Elizabeth Hernandez I'm an organizer with uh Ace um also a part of reclaimer schools and a parent of uh two children in the AL USD so first of all we want to thank board

227members McKenna Rivas mson and pres president Jackie go for standing uh with us last month and taking as much Neer step to protect our public schools and voting in favor of the resolution creating a charter school collocation policy to mitigate impacts caused by prop 39 uh so we understand that the problem you know it's been that so many within so many years we've been lied to right about what an empty classroom means so now we come with few demands uh and as a matter of fact it's three demands so we are asking to audit all the agreements you know under the definition what an empty classroom is because it isn't fair that we were losing so many classrooms in our in our in our schools you know that were collocated uh termination uh the termination

228of Jose Co Gutierrez because he was one of the persons who was you know misleading us with the information as well as all other staff responsible for giving us misleading information and our third demand is to meet with superintendent carvalo to discuss the potential remedies to this problem and I'll give the rest of my time to my son thank you my name my name is Joy Mendes and I am a former LC student I am a member of both Ace and reclaim our schools I stand here with my mom Elizabeth Hernandez I want to thank the board members Jackie Goldberg Rosio Riva McKenna sherlon and for taking the step to protect our public schools and boarding in favor of the resolution creating a charter school collocation policy to M mitigate impacts caused by prop 39

229I said before we have three demands as followup from what we learned during vote meeting about the misinformation of what an empty classroom is we want an audit in all agreements made this definition of what an empty classroom is we want the termination of Jose Co Gutierrez and all of other staff responsible for giving misin misinformation we asked for a meeting with superintendent carvalo to disc discuss this potential to could discuss potential remedies to this problem thank you thank you for your time eloisa Galindo are you here com on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin uh and so folks uh Miss gindo is goingon to speak in Spanish and if you'd like to hear what she's saying in English as she is speaking Spanish please put your hands up and we'll

230hand out these headphones to you so that you can experience simultaneous translation so we'll just take a moment to do that so everybody can hear clearly what she's trying to communicate to us good afternoon to everyone I am eloisa Galindo I'm part of of reclaims our schools for LA and part of parents against privacy and I am here once again I am here to demand democracy and we are demanding and asking and saying that they shouldn't stay like this Jose Gutierrez should leave he should this is a this is a laugh he removed a lot of teachers and we also want to ask him to be held responsible for everything he's done and we asked for a meeting for a meeting with the superintendent so we can disc discuss the solutions based on this problem

231I I've been here for a long time I I also believe the responsible one is Monica Garcia and she's making the Ura which is part of the privacy and you know that this the movement Charters and the billionaires are in L USD red casting and walson the plan for these rich people is to create more schools more charter schools for Los Angeles remove spaces and move students from public schools to Charter Schools Charter California Association has a lot of money for public campaigns as we've seen before and they protect public education to be able to pass the resolution we also saw Kelly go and they were financed by Charter Association of California and this is why we asked for answers the board members also Monica Garcia is a responsible one red Rodriguez was I was

232here when red Rodriguez was in and let Le obtain $75 million to be able to be with the other superintendent this is a laugh is not right that this is our money this is our public money and this is something that we should do we Public Schools should grow more the result of this influence based on people who sell themselves to Charter associations they should also have be able to be accountable and it's important that our children's education and schools are managed as a business and I've seen how members are moved and I've seen how members from Charter Schools manag what they want to do is they want to destroy public education and remove the ability of teachers and you know that many teachers this year and next year uh they teachers won't have a

233job next year and there were 591 million of teachers removed and the code of the code of Education change and it requires for district to give but we also J that were lying to us and mon Garcia for your time we appreciate your time who can pass this us as parents we've been censored through by Monica Garcia and thank you for your time we appreciate it okay I'll pass those out thank you very much we appreciate it gracias okay uh Juan Jose Mandi are you here Mr Juan mandhi are you here I don't see you okay okay so I'm GNA read off the next four folks who are here in person that listed this are this is self-identified information and stuff that when you signed up online to speak you either identified as being in

234person or um call in so I'm I'm going by the list uh let's see so the next four folks sylvest Anie can you come up to the podium Sylvester Anie Jr are you here in person uh Michael emau Michael &ow or Michael E okay di guen Dian guen are you here I think I've seen some of these folks here okay there's missen please come on up missen and uh Matos kadan or MAA I apologize for any mispronunciation so uh Miss Guan will speak first and then uh Mr kadani if you could just wait over to the right when she's done uh it'll be your time we're going to do the simultaneous translation again if anyone is interested okay and once she begins good afternoon members of the board my name is Dien and I've been

235chairperson of deac for the last four years we have seen there were some information presented and yes we had low numbers and minus uh an amount and there should be a b like the superintendent 40 as the superintendent said and the California law said that there should be an elac in every school where there's more than 21 English Learners and well these committees are not functioning the way that they should be thanks to many times they aren't given the information adequately in the language that is appropriate and I don't mean Spanish I mean the the wording because there is a technicality and there are ways that they're being talked to in a technical way and as if they were employees and they're not parents are not employees so superintendent I am agreement with you with

236saying that you need to respect parents and in doing so I think you should get rid of Antonio like when pack was formed it was formed for three things right for the English learners for foster students and lwi income and these categories only three to five parents arrived so this cannot keep happening this is mediocrity also I know there's an agenda point where they want to minimize the public comment if in 3 minutes we can't even say what we want to say and share imagine if you lower it to two so I think you should vote against that I'm not sure who brought that to the table so three minutes is not sufficient but it's okay and I think you shouldn't minimize the time for public comment so in if you want more people to

237speak why don't you allow 20 people to speak and not dissuade the ones that aren't being listened to and also the parents that are very concerned with the privatization like the previous mother spoke about and what we want is for the public schools to work you haven't allowed a lot of uh parents go to the Charter Schools why because in public school there isn't a control there isn't sanctioning for different employees when they're not treating parents well so in my school for example imagine they were assisting the parents of grade school outside and they were filling the application for the school in on the street what kind of assistance is that they don't open the door and it's almost like they had their time counted as as employees we know there's unions and protection so

238I don't understand why they behave this way if you're going to a charter school they treat the parents very well there's a lot of security or at least that's the perception so let's learn from them and change because I'm in agreement in public education and that it continue that way because we want the our funds the ones that us contributors invest are from the public and not a private for your okay Matias or Matos please come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin good afternoon board my name is maio kidana with the stop LAPD spine Coalition I'm here to talk about the Los Angeles schools Anonymous reporting app also called lasar touted as a safety app the app pretends to be a new tool to address substance abuse mental health problems

239or other suspicious behaviors by providing anyone literally anyone can download this app in the community um and Report youth to laspd Los Angeles school police this is not a new model lasar replicates every mechanism of an earlier LAPD app called IAT la which popularized the phrase if you see something say something part of the suspicious activity reporting program orar the eyewatch LA app allowed the public to report quote unquote suspicious Behavior directly to LAPD the office of the inspector General's own audit of these programs showed that black community members were disproportionately reported and most reports on black and brown angelinos were done in affluent white neighborhoods lasar will inevitably replicate these same racist outcomes this app cultivates a culture of paranoia a culture of Suspicion and that leads to violence we've seen how that culture

240of paranoia culture of Suspicion tied to anti-muslim racism led to the recent stabbing of a six-year-old Palestinian boy we know that there's been explicit targeting of queer and trans youth within La USD and Glendale Unified School District this app will surely be weaponized against queer and trans youth also this app can be used to bully students students we've spoken to have already brought up how this can be used to mass report students that are disliked it's ineffective at keeping our students safe and it's dangerous one thing we know about this app is that the mechanisms seem to uh say that these reports go directly to lpd's watch Commander we know that through lapd's IAT La app and the suspicious activity reporting program the data doesn't stop just at LAPD right it's shared outward to uh

241fusion centers as we understand them the local one being the joint Regional Intelligence Center where Beyond local departments like the LAPD Federal institutions the Department of Homeland Security ice have access to this data that endangers undocumented students and not just the students themselves right students can be identified as entry points to access whole communities whole families of undocumented community members this app is incredibly dangerous we can't say that again you know LUSD needs to immediately discontinue it I invite you all to learn more about it we have a Zen written in collaboration with LUSD students you can find it at stop lapd.org lasar l i yield the rest of my time thank you thank you for your time we're now going to go to the folks who uh registered themselves as calling oh I'm sorry

242what was your name Michael did I yeah you said Okay Michael what em oh got it oh outstanding all right come on up Mr emo I apologize for the mispronunciation go if you pronounce my name right you're the first person ever there you go hi everybody uh my sorry about that my name is Michael Lemo I'm the director of learning operations for the K piano music Learning Foundation our mission is simple is to increase the life changing benefits that the act that giving piano lessons to students they can receive uh we do this by installing in K piano steam Labs or 25 to 30 pianos and we give Group piano encoding lessons for the eth 3rd through 8th grade plus we do a little fingers program where we give the fundamentals of music for K

243through two uh and I'm here today to thank the LA USD you may not not know this we are already in 12 of your schools uh and our goal is to get to 25 by the end of the year and we have also already provided $85,000 in grant funding through our foundation uh recently we've getting more and more more feedback from principles about increased anxiety and stress amongst our early our early Learners and we know that music lessons can be part of the solution and since our program has began we've been showing a consistency to improve both academics and social emotional uh learning for our students so we want to add impact in sustainability to your version of steam learning and currently we are growing in LD La USD on a Class by class school

244by school basis it's very time consuming and we're asking you today to uh officially partner with us uh by using a district bench contract so I'm going to be here after this meeting today if any you of any questions about our work how we're achieving these goals and uh I want to thank you for your time and one last thought just remember we used to think it was the smart kids that were taking music lessons but the music lessons were making those kids smarter uh so thank you for your time uh we cannot respond because this is public comment but someone will contact you K piano. org we make people happy okay thank you for your time all right now we're going to go to the folks who identified themselves as speaking remotely uh Yolanda

245Rosas has signed up to speak remotely but are you here in person by chance no okay Alicia balazar you're signed up to speak remotely uh but you are not online in front of me are you in the room miss baltazar all right antoneta Garcia I see you're signed up to call in but are you in the room here in person no you are not okay Karina Lopez you're signed up to speak remotely but oh here you are in person come on up you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin and Miss Lopez is going to speak in Spanish uh as she speaks in Spanish if you want you can hear what she's saying simultaneously in English if you put on these headphones that we're passing out hello good afternoon okay okay listos graas good

246afternoon I'm Karina Lopez thank you for the opportunity about this written Theory it's gorgeous more than 100% spectacular but the implementation and the practice is where we have our true our true character displayed like Miss Francis B said it's confirmed that there was never parent inclusion because it's not there is no interest I just wanted to comment what happened in East Los Angeles uh as a mother of a special education student if you can fix this and not take my time because there's P people that are listening and they're saying that they can see a black screen and they can't hear me okay three minutes that were taken okay I know you love me but okay they say um Big Essences are in small jars so okay [Music] anyway I invite Mr aguil I believe

247I said I said hello to him that we should be working together in unison for special education dyslexia is not becoming a priority in any of the ways we need school police we need to increase the officers since the attendance is being strongly impacted but we are not having security we have we need Security in the streets this is Los Angeles nobody can uh can help us we are we are our identity we need additional accredited interpreters the schools are not functioning because there is a very clear conflict of interest it's very important imperative we cannot play around with this like in the IP meetings to the conferences that are done so quickly it is imperative also in the virtual school for business in the San Fernando Valley there is a mother with very serious

248concerns about how they are treating her as well as her son how is a child going to participate academically if they're being muted blocked taken out and with the excuse that the system is failing like like now but with her there is evidence and I genuinely invite parents that when they're living these situations and their children are being harmed in their participation and education they need to report it before the disciplinary offices because we cannot permit that they be making fun of students this way only this way will they be paying attention another thing and I think this is with Mr Mel melb I know you can intercept here because this is something that is very serious there's been a lot of reports done with this family we're talking about a student a boy with

249autism and I would like to recover my two minutes and the other thing how are we going to teach students we want professional students we don't want students to become graduates with illnesses why do I say that because Mr V I think when a word leaves his mouth I truly believe it Mr AA has many Fridays saying he been going to email because I reported the air the contaminated water the different contaminants are obviously not going to be the same in a home because there is no obligation by law they don't receive public funds but lastly my activist friends that I appreciate very much that speak of cocation I invite them to please instead go to the schools that are not implementing regulations for students and the model K as a school is great thank

250you thank you for your time Marcela Garcia are you here Marcel Garcia I see you're also signed up to speak remotely but are you in the room just in case you are not okay Norma Gonzalez I see that you're signed up to speak are you here in person there you are come on up and you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin once again she's going to speak in Spanish so if you'd like to hear what she's saying in English please put on these headphones and hear to hear what she's saying bu good afternoon members of the board my name is Norma Gonzalez and I am a mother of two students with special needs that attend this Los Angeles UniFi School District I feel honored to be elected as a member of the CAC

251committee but this selection fills me with a bitter taste in my mouth with a lack of I don't know how to explain it because in that Committee just like I stated this morning there are a lot of irregularities the irregularities I will continue to State them will continue will state them and will continue to State them there is no transparency there no transparency or democracy for parents I am my parents a mother a Latina mother who has had struggles to learn the system and to live with this all the time due to my children's needs to have to learn laws to have to learn codes to have to learn all of this I do feel thankful because it has helped me grow but also it has also filled me with obstacles of stuttering of truncated

252and retaliation a lot of retaliation why because I am a parent who has raised my voice why is there no transparency why as a Latina mother who does not speak English who does not I speak English because I do not have time to continue my learning my two of my children have autism one more severe than the other but because I don't speak English maybe that is the way that I have been rejected three times from that committee three times of course since I don't have friends with the members of PCS I am not a friend of anyone I don't go asking for favors either I am a mother who fights who has learned to fight for her children's rights and for other children as well but since I'm not friendly I have been rejected

253and now that I've been accepted they tell me first I told they told me it was a two-year term in this committee and all of a sudden now it's just one saying that I have one more year to do my duty as a member of the cic when I have never been accepted until today I was very excited because finally I had been accepted but what happened so I have one year two years what is it I don't know and truly I repeat again I don't I'm not friends with anybody I am a friend who I'm a parent who fights it will continue fighting for my students rights of the 880,000 that this district has a special education I will continue doing so and you will not um quiet my voice I am within the

254committee and I will try to do everything I can I hope that you can uh have uh trust in me that I will have trust in you thank you thank you for your time okay we have Elizabeth robbles I see you're signed up to speak remotely and there you are ready to speak remotely please press press star six to unmute yourself and you have three minutes to speak once you begin Elizabeth Ro blaz National Coming Out week held by L USD for schools if you look at the L USD offerings they have a queer all year calendar which shows how many different events they have the events were too numerous so I actually had to write them down the LAUSD calendar in September there is BU visibility day in October there is National Coming Out

255week which we're about to enter there's also National pronoun day there is also intersex awareness day in November there is solidarity week with the lgbtq community in November there is also transgender awareness week as well as a separate transgender Remembrance Day in March there's transgender visibility day in April there's lesbian visibility Day in May there is the International Day against homophobia and transphobia and finally June the entire month of June is pride month this is coming from a gay man I didn't have any of this when I was going to school I think this is excessive unnecessary and I'm asking myself what exactly is the underlying reason for this and what are moving towards also L USD you have schools like West Hollywood Elementary School where the math Proficiency in the fifth grade is 60%

256in the same district Sunland Elementary School you have fifth grade math proficiency that is 20% if you have two separate schools in the same district that already have these disparities West Hollywood Elementary a predominantly white school and Sunland Elementary a predominantly Hispanic school if you have this large disparity developing already by the age of 10 for these students do you really need this many weeks months taken away from bread and butter curriculum to teach them things that are arguably Superfluous and unnecessary what about basic algebra week what about financial literacy week what about basic grammar and punctuation week you are not educating these children to the minimum degree you are not preparing them to glide into the world and be productive competitive workers yet you are indoctrinating them with what is arguably an excessive amount

257of time to things that even a gay person think are not required and I cope just fine without it thank you for your time uh this concludes public comp general public comment yes sorry okay my colleague is telling me that there's two folks online waiting to speak but I do not I do not have them uh just so folks understand that when you call in to the zoom you can't use your computer to access the meeting and share you need to call in using the telephone number provided in the order of business which is also available on the website and is the same number for every single uh meeting that we do here for for calling in to to speak on zoom and then you use the meeting ID that's also printed uh in the

258order of business every week uh and is on the website uh uh perpetually and also to ease things we now use the same link and same meeting ID for every single uh meeting of the same type so for every closed session meeting at 9:00 a.m. it's always the same phone number always the same meeting ID and so on and so forth so that we can um relieve any confusion in that way and once you do sign up on online you will receive an uh an email from us directly from the district saying you have been registered to speak so at that moment you have perfect clarity that you have signed up in the right way and that you have access to publicly share at the meeting which is incredibly important and has to be adhered

259to under the law so with that we're done with general public comment and I'll turn the meeting back over to uh board president Goldberg all right we go through uh questions uh by board members on uh issues on the consent calendar uh adoption of the compensation proposal for District representative non-representative classifications I didn't have anybody asking to speak is that still true and we do have one public comment on on that so I take that now sure go ahead yes okay so under tab one so this is for adoption of compensation proposal for district represented and non-represented classifications uh we have KY a ky I see you're on the line please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin a ky I see you are with us

260you've been on the line for quite a long time it would be a near tragedy if you didn't get to speak right now so please uh press star six to unmute yourself uh KY and you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin otherwise we will we will have to move on Andrea KY are you there are you with us okay Miss KY we are going to uh move on that that's uh all the public comment for tab one on the consent calendar all right we're on tab two now and several people asked have questions so want to start with them uh okay Mr mle I have board member Schmelson uh with a comment or a question on tab two that was for the approval of um procurement actions yes that's correct yeah so I'm

261just curious about uh the implementation strategy for the community schools that going to be do we have a representative here uh to speak to this item yes we have uh Dr Bas and I believe cor here but for sure Dr Bas thank you okay what letter uh tab to item a contract with unite la oh very good there I heard part of the question I heard Community Schools but I didn't hear the rest of yeah the um the school Implement implementation strategy and and the measures for Success the measure for success for Community Schools yes that has to do um we're looking at the at the frame at the pillars and the pillars talk to speak to um the aspects um that we're looking for in terms of providing wraparound supports to schools uh implementation

262of um of instruction uh parent engagement collaboration uh with stakeholders uh and so we look at those elements uh we also have Baseline data and we have um uh we have Baseline and we also have goals measurable goals at at the Comm Med the whole will be going into detail about those aspects but the goals uh are established we follow the um the pillars and we have a annual evaluation the schools conduct um A needs assessment and based on the needs assessment a a plan is develop them according to what the needs of the schools are at that particular school and they measure their their success based on their ability to improve in the areas that they have found uh a uh needs needs Improvement based on the assets mapping okay thank you thank you

263Francis okay yes there's a question also from Dr Ras have two I had a question on Item B are we asking yes your questions now before we vote on this I don't know if we were in particular item items under tab two this is the executive Search Services um my question was um is this a new need that we have um for these uh search services or is there an extension of ongoing Services we always have access to Robin Warren um Deputy Personnel director um that is for a a bench contract um we had one for 5 Years and we're going we're asking again for another bench contract cont ract so that when we have a need to recruit at the executive level we have somebody or somebody's uh that we can um rely on

264right away um rather than having to go out and do an RFP at that particular time so we're going to before we have the need we want to get this Ben and then if we have the need it's like we have somebody to there yes and we've already gone through the whole process at that point okay great thank you thank you anybody else I have additional questions from uh Mr mvo and also you yeah thank you just yeah two questions one on k um which is the bodri um upkeep maintenance and so I know the superintendent and Miss toes was pull was pulled to reevaluate I'm confident that you all think it's the right contract so I plan to support it my question is more broad I know that uh back in 2021 the board

265authorized up to 4 million dollars to explore opportunities to realign administrative Services um and potentially offload this building at some point I also have questions about the building's capacity uh and and where we're at I know just when we had a fire drill here months ago I went down I think maybe to the 20th floor and it was empty um so I'm just curious if you can speak a little bit um about and and I appreciate to miss OES you all clarifying that this is a contract that we can terminate at any time unilaterally but just if you can give a quick update on the building's utilization and maybe some conversations going forward as we're just thinking about the best use of space and remote work and all that absolutely the current capacity of this

266building is approximately 3,800 um the occupancy that we currently have is approximately 3,000 so we have about 850 spaces spread throughout all of the floors and then in regards to your kind of General big picture uh question about um where we're moving towards the super superintendent has asked us to look at um other opportunities given you know um how we are conducting business currently and how we may conduct it in the future that is something that we have just initiated um and will be reporting back to the deputy superintendent superintendent with and then subsequently the board and just from my knowledge how is how do we determine the capacity is that like a State Building Code thing or is it just based on like work spaces or parking like how that 3,800 number where does

267that come from so it's it's um based on kind of a standard for office Bas capacity assuming a certain amount of square p square footage per person we know that that ranges from you know certain larger office spaces to smaller cubicle spaces but it is a kind of industry standard used of square footage and amount of space per worker got it yeah that's well thanks for the update I would be curious to see you know how we're utilizing our Workforce but also I know I've suggested over over the years that when we look at Partners whether those you know nonprofit Partners after school providers if we have excess capacity and they're looking for office space I know some of them are downtown there's also maybe an opportunity there to get some Revenue get some rent

268but also utilize you know the those 800 existing workspaces too so I just think there's still a lot of untapped potential for this building thank you um that's my question there and then um I think for for um so Mr Catal um item uh s um so one thank you for your explanations last board meeting and also subsequently in our meetings around some of the work that around CCTV and cameras and you know help finding ways to reduce the cost I guess in part because of our conversation at the board committee two week weeks ago I'm curious for this entity which is or for this item which is up to $257 million in um audio visual conferencing devices projectors etc for schools in the district if we considered using Cass to create this bench or

269if you have any sense of like you know because this is a fixed good like a price per projector um just give us some com context in terms of how we can have confidence that we're getting the best price per projector and some of the things and Mr Mount was here for that committee meeting that we learned around like purchasing can you just you know see let me know how we've utilized stuff those strategies for an item like this sure yeah actually uh we do do comparisons for large Goods purchases such as this one and this actually illustrates our size also being to our advantage we actually exceeded the pricing provided by Cass on all of the items on this list so to clarify because I know even this was very technical for the committee

270so our the price we're getting per item so like a headset or a document camera is cheaper than the federal bench of like what other big public institutions would pay per item that's correct great good to know okay thank you both okay I have uh several on item two on the item c um it seems to me that this is the same decision this enacts what we decided to do in May is that correct for curriculum Associates so this is on um curriculum Associates this is the implementation I've ready I just want to make sure because it's the same price and it's the same contract we y okay the other question I had is has there been any piloting or testing of this technology since we approved this in May I ready I already has

271been in our system uh in schools um that are U uh implementing the black student achievement plan so that's been in our system uh and then since then we we began the implementation so do we have any results from this piloting and testing I don't have the results um at this time but we can get that for you thank you uh item F under this is hold on let me find it on page um 32 32 thank you uh on item f it supports the goal of getting to zero emissions by 2040 uh do these grants work in support with the transportation services division oh I'm sorry that's r f is I'm sorry FSA for total administr Services uh oh I'm sorry I'm in the wrong line excuse me okay on F I wanted to

272say we're trying to improve the utilization of fsas the report says that only 3,900 employees use it and 700 for daycare something like 75,000 District employees what are we doing to increase that number of people who know about f FSA and use it and take advantage of it Don Watkins Chief risk officer we have if you go to our website we now have a video that explains the benefits of an SF FSA there is also an FSA calculator that is very simple to use and we will be sending a communication to all employees okay concurrently with open enrollment thank you Jackie may I T on to that one ahead uh is it increase or decrease in the FSA use do you think an increase or a decrease it's been stable over several years we haven't

273had any change and it's just slow a low number and I keep wondering why it's so low and you told me now we're going to do more to aggressively tell people about it okay item R is next on page 55 two contracts for B bus electrification grant writing and it supports our goals um are we are these grants for uh that transportation services has in mind or or is this other contracts Daniel Kang director of Transportation these grants uh writing is for both uh Transportation electric school buses and infrastructure projects okay so this is is basically around bus transportation correct okay um keep uh us in mind as board members okay because sometimes we can help with letters of support or we can connect gr Grant Riders to specific administ ators and help with grants

274so please call on us that's all I wanted to say on that one thank you very much my last one on this is W on page uh 65 uh and it says that looks like this is a great development these buses are 180 out of uh 3500 or about 5% but my question is how will they be deployed is this specifically to that Sun Valley busard or there other places as well correct these 180 are for Sun Valley busard okay thank you that's all I have on two okay go ahead Scott okay hey item D for college preparedness so my question would be um uh how is uh is Success measured is it by how many students fill out the applications or how many are accepted into certain programs how do you measure success for

275d for letter D College preparedness good afternoon my name is hesia Ceno Castilla I'm the coordinator for Gear Up Programs in the district and uh the way that we measure success uh is longitudinally so we have we are required to have external evaluation in the district as part of the gear of grants that we have uh and as part of that evaluation one of the indicators that we have from classes of 2020 and 2021 is that approximately two-thirds of students from both Gear Up cohorts enrolled in four-year colleges about 65% compared with 57% of non-gear up comparison group students that's one indicator the other indicator is persistence persistence in postsecondary education which is measured as um students who were still enrolled in the the second year after they arrived in college and in that instance

276our class of 2020 students persisted at 66% compared to 61% for non-gear up students let me just mention that um when our students uh reclassify we follow them for two years afterwards to make sure that they're doing okay and I always wonder we ought to do the same thing for our students going into college follow them for two years with a college counselor see if they're doing okay so I think that's an excellent idea so thank you thank you I have more Jackie okay go ahead okay uh item e uh AO n Consulting Inc and it's benefits so I know we have a health benefits committee so I was wondering why do we have an AO n Consulting Inc I'm just curious joh Watkins Chief risk officer Aon is our Consulting for calculation of our

277opep other post employment benefits which is done annually as well as they provide other Consulting Services uh to The District in the area of health benefits but not with the health dental medical dental and and uh vision Services right they do not directly interact with the health benefit committee okay I'm just curious thank you okay I Jackie you did f with me um item G I think it's still you again item G Minnesota Life Insurance company so I remember that when I was active you got $20,000 if you croaked before you retired right and you still get $20,000 now here's my question and I I retired and I didn't croak and I didn't get the 20,000 but I'm happy not to have it I just want you to know that uh what do you mean

278by active employees does that mean full-time and part-time or do you have to be full-time you have to be an active employee full-time or part-time fulltime or parttime part yes that's good to know okay I didn't know that either okay let me see stay there item n Vision Service Plan we still have two right we still have two vision service plans okay very good good I think that's it thank you item J the trust for Children's Health uh training and professional development okay director of secondary instruction yes sir I know you okay how are staff and students selected for this program so we're going to begin with the priority schools the uh 28 priority schools we already have um eight schools who are um who already have the program in place this will allow the

279remaining uh priority schools to be serviced for the first year all priority schools all I'm sorry all secondary all middle and Senior High Schools middle and Senior okay okay very good thank you okay um okay thank you item P fulcrum Management Solutions that's on page 51 that's with the thought exchange I love that name the thought exchange okay so when will data be available uh to see the success rate of this uh uh we um use the we use thought exchange throughout the year um different offices at least a dozen different offices including all the regions utilize it to gather information um from their teams as well but we do an annual lcap survey as well that we present and include in the l cap as well okay so I was going to ask you

280next how many are using it and is it increasing and you said yes all different offices are using many different offices use it and uh we one of our strategic plan goals is to increase usage through throughout the program this year thank you thank you quick question on goad sorry before you leave um Can board members can we have access to this absolutely application that's something that we could uh set up a training for your teams to use as well because we have a lot of meetings with you know constituents and it'll be great to use this um this app absolutely students uh students love it and we use it with a lot of our student advisory groups as well parents love it and parents parents do enjoy it too especially on the virtual virtual

281meetings as well yep okay just two more two more just two more uh I guess this is for Mr Mount the Toshiba business system for 28,2 40,500 you know when I was principal at cochr Middle School the parents said you don't need a copy machine you should just go over to Kinkos and make copies for all the teachers I said okay I'll take that under consideration thank you very much so there was another company I asked you I guess on our meeting and you said Xerox was another competitor right but they came out cheaper or more more efficient Toshiba correct and you know I told you before people have lots of complaints all the time at least in my schools maybe not in your schools but in my schools with Toshiba and I guess it's

282the quality of the machine they last so long and then they start going downhill and I know that they will eventually replace them they have some kind of a a formula to figure out how old the machine is and how many copies were made and uh the machines are usually refurbished right they're not brand new machines uh actually the the machines for replacement are new and then if a machine has a high repair record or a high incidence of of issues they will replace it earlier than that where a refurbish machine if if a machine seems particularly problematic okay one of the problems I have is when I go to the schools and they complain about that machine and I put an order in and the office tells me that uh there was no uh

283requests for service so I said why don't you make requests for service and they said well we fix it ourselves you know they bang it or they close it but they should actually make a report to have on record how many times it's breaking down correct yes and and as you experienced previously uh our our person internally that coordinates the repairs with tashiba is very efficient she get them right out there yeah V Mones is her name I have no problem with her she's excellent okay thank you thank you very much and my last one item s Troxel Communications doing business as Bloom um when can we expect offices to receive updated technology for I guess is it you oh it's Mr Catal you know Mr K we have the best best computers for our

284kids we really do they're modern they're great but we have the worst computers for our offices those computers are so old they really are and if they want a new one you have to buy it yourself at the school correct you have anything in mind about in the future helping our poor saas to do payroll and everybody else to do attendance to make sure that uh we have modern machines definitely right now um uh we are working on the next refresh program uh post 2024 uh that's post Sr fund fing ECF funding and all of the federal funding that is uh sunsetting and the goal is to come up with the full refresh plan we working with the budget services and all finance and groups to be able to come up with the proper strategy

285around device deployment either is offices employees teachers and as well as the uh students well well that's great news we take care of our students right away we take care of our teachers next we really do they get refreshed but it's the offices that sometimes we forget about and that's how you get the school working is through the offices so thank you thank you for that and that's it for me Jackie yeah um item H which is a power school group um oh well okay my question is is this system replacing the whole child integrated system platform or is it adding to it or how how are both systems being it's replacing and it's adding both uh there's a combination as you know the whole old child uh Services uh that we created on the

286Legacy platform we call it on premise um we are transitioning from current vendor to the new platform it's going to be Cloud uh implementation which is more secure and more available and scalable uh but at the same time there are additional modules added to the implementation one of them is mtss which is part of this contract which allows a school to be able to um record the wraparound service for the student and track those through the reporting system that built into the new whole childart platform so this new system is going to be compatible with Wellen and msis and schoolagy just like the whole child yes it is a data warehouse that we capture all the data that we took from hch and we're going to implement it onto this one we going are we

287having to retrain um our school staff on this or how they're going to be some retraining we are working with our partner um actually uh Veronica right go oh yeah up to your right okay so um yes there is there are plans to not only retrain it's actually uh it's going to be a lot more um easier to navigate than whole child so the training that we are doing with whole child will transfer um over to the new system um it will also be replacing some of the views that people see with executive dashboard as well so it's a comprehensive refresh but be more interactive more responsive uh aligned to our strategic plan and aligned to uh the current um assessments and systems that we have and it'll actually incorporate a lot of what the

288feedback was has been from the field and on our existing dashboards so it's going to be an improvement and it'll actually work faster which is the biggest complaint that we've had in from our previous folks is you you see that things full okay that's that's going to be one of the things that'll be fixed and um is this the same company um then we have the whole child is it two different companies or different company different compan uh we did an a former RFP and then this company um came on top so the contract with the previous company like ended and then we started this one and how how how are we phasing in these two new contracts um we're I don't um so some of the question maybe if General councel you have any

289comment on that uh previous contract was terminated uh is terminating by December District doesn't want to continue on that although there are years in the contract there are no appetite for the district but if you want more detail maybe in the close session discussion we can have more detailed discussion okay then yeah we'll ask more questions in terms of that I'm very curious um that is all all my question oh um the other question is um will who will have access to um this new system and in terms of the data teachers staff all levels or is a certain nurses or so the data that's at the teacher level will be for the student students that they have in front of them um as well as the staff at the school for example those that

290need to have access to that data will have the access to the data the way that whole child is functioning right now principal will have access to their schools data be able to desegregate it in different ways and then it'll level up to the director to the region and to central office folks uh again access will be based on um you know following our our policies when it comes to student level data the executive dashboard will be more uh in alignment with what the not only senior leaders and District leaders but also board members will have access to that and it'll give the aggregated data that you'll need in order to be able to do not only what you are able to do now but better and more and last question and with this new

291contract do we have um services for tubble shooting or any challenges that we that we may face in terms of the the um the integration of the new system it is um essentially included integration Services everything is included with the contract but the new product that we purchased we decided to be more self-sufficient rather than previous contract we were more relied on the vendor so it's going to be more District staff that they're going to take over the enhancement but there's a offthe shelf product that we're going to adopt it the way it is the other part that we're going to enhance and we added our so we do we have professional development for the IT staff and employees to from this company to provide Yes actually they right both groups under Veronica and my

292team they are under training with this new initiative great I would love to have as we progress with this a board informative in in terms of the implementation and any challenges or grow anything that you know will be pertinent for us to um understand and and we will definitely as soon as it's uh launches we will be setting up um training sessions for your offices as well okay great thank you that's all okay Mr toosi want don't you come up and say your peace we have one question I'll say my peace I'm speaking here on the anemia in the school system um and hoping that the superintendent can spread his espresso to other people and kick a little bit more because your energy is very very valuable uh let me just start out by saying

293I'm here on item four $5.5 million for I think 30 children uh by that rate at about a billion three we might have 40,000 foury olds um and so it's good that you've set a standard of 10,000 and the glass will might be half full but we need to get that pipeline of three-year-olds and four-year olds moving a lot faster when we implemented full day kindergarten we did it in three and a quarter years across every room and that's when we had Bungalows everywhere we had multi-track schools but it came from the top and the superintendent made it happen so I I would say the anemia and early Ed needs a little bit of espresso secondly the board has been warned that The Greening initiative is roughly $4 billion that was this morning it's now

294$4.5 billion doar with the price of things if you want these things if you want Sports complexes if you want early Ed buildings if you want Bungalows if you want outdoor reading sections if you want uh Greening of the campuses and early Ed you need to start planning that bond that bond is November of 24 that means you need to start packaging things or you're putting it to the governor's uh election two years from now the amount of money that you get from a partial tax is anemic compared to a bond absolutely and if you do one of those citizens initiatives that's like as impossible as you can possibly think you'd have to gather somewhere around three 3 250,000 signatures that'll take uh a little bit of time and on the early aded startop M

295Goblin was right on about going out to the parks and getting people give 40 college kids an an iPad with an immediate enrollment and go out to the parks and unroll them right there in the Parks I mean it's just absurd how slow we're moving uh similarly on a Affiliated Charters I don't know what the brain problem is going on here you could have 5,8 ,000 10,000 more kids in this school system if you had more than one person out of 50s something in Mr Cole gutierre office working on Affiliated Charters Affiliated Charters are all on the West Valley what about the urban Corridor running next to school districts whose test scores tomorrow on science math and English we'll see in paramont Lynwood Compton Englewood and 15 other districts are far lower than our district

296where's the pride not the spin where's the pride get those kids into this School District they could come on the on the Metro Link from Palmdale and and Lancaster in 23 minutes and be in unfilled Cleveland and Chatsworth and the North Valley Schools where is the problem it's anemia spread that cappuccino espresso around Mr superintendent thank you four four you had a question yeah okay so um just to add on to Mr takowsky if you have not visited a school that has a utk or early ad centers you will be amazed to see these kids and how bright they are and how socialized they are with that's how our scores are going to go up Mr carv I'm telling you these kids when they get to elementary school it's going to be just fantastic they're

297just so brilliant um question number four about the Chatsworth early Ed Center I don't know if you can answer this but you can try you can try will high school students have priority for their children high school students children to be enrolled at this school I know has nothing to do with building um I actually should defer that to I hear that's fine and I'll wait that's that's fine that's fine one request on item five which is the board report mentions our resolution requiring campuses to be 30% green please include each campus's progress as a result of the projects when you report on those projects so we know that okay they were at 2% and the project got them to 22% didn't get to so we just know where it is that's all I'm asking

298thank you let let me ask Christina before you said D I'm so sorry will there be another round of this kind of funding for projects in the future do you uh guess I'm hopeful that there is at this point in time this kind of expends the total 50 million we brought 13 projects to the board this is the last five um and we're hopeful that when future funds are identified we'll be able to we'll try for another round okay thank you okay all right uh we have no questions on six we had no questions on seven on eight we had a speaker yes uh Candace Young Blood are you here Candace Young Blood come on up thank you for your patience and this is on Tab 8 uh the DWP um itead thank you go

299ahead good evening my name is Candace Youngblood and I'm an attorney at Earth Justice I'm here today on behalf of Earth Justice and the Los Angeles County Electric truck and bus Coalition our Coalition would like to express strong support for three agenda items numbers eight R and W which will all have a profound positive impact on reducing air air pollution for students traveling to school and the Los Angeles Community First We enthusiastically support item W which would approve the purchase of 180 electric school buses to replace the current Aging bus fleet including those with expiring CNG tanks purchasing 180 electric school buses will have a very significant positive impact on reducing air pollution for LAUSD students this single large purchase makes up about 14% of the district owned school bus fleet making this the biggest

300electric School Bus purchase yet second we also strongly support item eight the district's request to enter into an agreement with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to establish program funding of up to $ 4,845 th000 to support the district's Transportation electrification projects a tangible well-funded partnership between DWP and L USD is absolutely critical to the success of the district's electrification efforts given that the revenue for this investment has come from the low carbon fuel standard we would like to work with LUSD to advocate for changes to that program that will provide an even larger boost to Transportation electrification efforts our Coalition commends DWP and LUSD for their continued commitment to school bus fleet electrification finally we would like to express strong support from item R approving two grant writer contracts totaling up to

301300 $1,000 to support electric school bus transportation services bus yard locations bus equipment and charging infrastructure this is a tangible commitment by the board that shows the district is eager to take advantage of record amounts of funding available for electric school buses we applaud staff and the board on all of these efforts we look forward to continuing to work with the superintendent the board and staff to Electrify La usd's school buses by 2035 and to use the US employment plan in bus procurement decisions thank you thank you can I ask you to restate the Coalition I want we wanted to write that down yes it is the Los Angeles County Electric truck and bus Coalition got it thank you thank you Jackie is Mr Kang still here from Transportation yeah let me just ask you

302a question of all the companies that we can buy school buses from only one of them is nonunion and that's lion right correct so do we try to buy Union as hard as we can correct so we provide a spec and uh and unfortunately there's only six main bus manufacturers out there and we try to diversify our Fleet as much as we can I hear for the sake of redundancy and yes we do try to aim for our Union bu equipment good thank you thank you from the board till we get to item 18 15 I'm Sor item 15 EXC Mna 15 Dr McKenna on item 15 Mr schmon I've been asked I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I didn't know you were finished go ahead came back to add clarification for my

303uh answer earlier yeah um we provide a specs for a knife be and the labor requirement is not um part of that spec okay well I hear you just to just to clarify and add a little bit of gradation for an ifb currently Ed code says that we are required as a district when we're buying large quantities of items such as Goods like school buses it has to go to the lowest bidder that meets 100% of the specs so we are not allowed to say whether it's Union or not in an ifb situation which includes school buses they tend to be lower because they are competing in that environment and so we have been able to buy from them I hear you okay okay thank you thank you all right Dr McKenna item 18 tab

30415 I'm I'm tab 15 no I'm sorry I I have two that I requested 15 and 17 yes we're doing 15 now I did not request um which talks about the expenditure of 4,777 th000 for grant for the literacy AC plans do we have any data or test scores to demonstrate any Improvement and learning outcome to support the continued plan implementation yes we have the in the attachments uh you will see the U Dynamic indicators for um basic early literacy skills that is attached so for every school uh that has participated in this uh Grant um you'll see do we show do we show measurable improvements we show a decrease of students who are below uh Benchmark and well below Benchmark and more students entering into the Benchmark so we do see an improvement in

305that aspect we we see fewer students below yes fewer students below the Benchmark yes and some above correct an increase above correct okay are there other modifications that we can Implement to improve student achievement is this the one that we focus on as this an exclusive these schools are the ones participating in the early literacy School block grant which is sun setting this upcoming school year but our literacy strategy is is comprehensive and it involves a lot more than what is um what is included here uh as I mentioned earlier was the it's the interventionists it's the uh standards based curriculum it's um the coaching it's professional development and a number of other strategies that we're using to improve outcomes for students it's uh what superintendent mentioned with our um priority schools and ensuring that

306they get the supports the neediest schools get the supports um so there's it's a multifaceted approach to ensure that our um our students are are are reaching those literacy literacy goals this this program is it renewed annually or has it been there and just automatically keeps how long has it been in place it's been in our um system I want to see this is uh the fourth year of implementation and this is when it's going to be sunsetting so it's a grant that is ending the four now yes this is the last year and 3 years previously yes I I want to just challenge our thinking about the programs that we purchase that they show a measurable significant Improvement in the student achievement as opposed to Rolling it over because it exists and we can

307afford to pay whatever we pay the prices always go up student achievement does not always go up and I just want us to be aware of the concern that we want bang for our buck and the bang is in student outcomes the academic part which is what this is the most important thing we do is outcomes in academic this is a literacy plan and the other would be mathematic but this is a literacy plan that's correct and if I may clarify so this is a came this is a state requirement because this came out of a lawsuit so we're participating as required by identified schools that didn't that were included in the Statewide lawsuit so this that's the reason we're participating but it is aligned to the instructional strategies we're taking I wasn't questioning whether

308we weren't required is the is the product we're using the one that we select oh no they they outline what those types of PD and training and support look like the state does that yes and then we align it to our own work as we work with the schools but it is aligned to science of reading curriculum things like that one of the goals in the state is provide consistent and explicit instruction and foundational SK skills K through3 so the state has goals and then we align our strategies with which um are uh based on the science of reading and evidence-based strategies according to the goals that the state has put forward okay thank you madam president thank you I've got Dr McKenna and a board member orti Franklin so after Dr McKenna we can

309hear from uh board member orti Franklin um the compliance Improvement monitoring action plan um to address significant disproportionality for black students what's the data showing us right now or do we have enough time to get data I have some some okay go ahead good afternoon board good afternoon Deputy superintendent HTO executive director special ed um so we've seen over the last in the course of the last three years positive increase and overall attendance and our promising scholars in the cesa sites uh for the 22 23 school year there's been a 2.7% gain in individual student attendance as of October 16 2023 6 66% of our promy Scholars have basic or proficient attendance in comparison to last year where 50% had chronic absenteeism wait wait give me wait you went right went right passing with that

310data go back tell me about that those percentages again so so we've seen an uh Improvement in attendance for the 2223 school year this current school year there's been a 2.17% gain in individual student attendance as of October 16 20123 66% of our promising Scholars have basic or proficient attendance as compared to last year where 50% of them had chronic absenteeism okay that's that's good data yeah um the school experience survey from promising Scholars reported a positive increase in overall rating of 5.7% uh in connectedness to school school climate participation and Leadership opportunities there's been an increase in staff participation uh in the CIS provided professional development which covers social emotional learning cultureal proficiency trauma inform resilient care Universal Design for Learning uh parent workshops on parent empowerment creating parent leaders at CA School sites

311increased staff participation uh and professional development total number of Staff participation from CIS sites was 87 72 School staff participants attend various C CIS trainings and we have another 287 participants registered for this upcoming training uh there was a 5% reduction from Baseline level and suspension rate of promising Scholars during in-person instruction between August 2022 to June 2023 uh overall cea schools experience a 35% decline in discipline referrals decline in what disciplinary referrals okay uhhuh and a 10% decline in all suspension types for the 2021 22 to the 2022 23 school years okay good thank you thank you I just I just want well just in general my my comment around that is that I want to be sure that we as just was I said in the other previous question that we're getting results

312for our investment not just working hard and we can't really show but you're saying that we are showing some improvement yes thank you thank you a board member orti Franklin I believe has a a question thanks yeah hi team um really appreciate the updates I know this has been ongoing for a while and I guess for the board's understanding but also the public can you share how CIS and Bap interact or don't should I be visualizing like aent diagram or are these completely separate approaches to supporting black students in particular thank you for your question so just just by the Numbers we have a total of 77 CIS School sites uh 52 of them are in region South 25 are in West uh of that we have 30 schools which are priority schools and 49

313are Bap schools uh we have been collaborating with the etto office and supporting this work one of the changes that we've implemented to this plan for the 2023 20 to 25 plan is we are going to be creating a core Implement implementation team which will be partnering with DOI and our etto office so that they can also be part of the implementation of the cus plan so the $20 million here is that included is that a part of the 140 BP or is that completely separate it's separate it's a set aside uh 15% from our special ed budget okay and can you just share a little bit more about what we're doing for Early Education because maybe we haven't talked enough about that in Bap but I feel like that was a big highlight of

314this last report for CIS I'm gonna pass it off to uh director deuts who's uh supporting our work in CIS hi good afternoon board Dixon de uh I work with I have the pleasure of working with Dr Soto as a director in the division of special education so when it comes to Early Childhood um we have been guided over the last one to two years by our technical assistance facilitator who's somebody who works closely between us and the California Department of Education to really focus in on Early Childhood um for a variety of reasons not least of which uh when it comes to L literacy and literacy acquisition uh but also uh suspension Behavior events things like that so it is a focus in the plan um and when you review the plan it does

315uh articulate more clearly those Early Childhood Early Education experiences that we're not only going to provide our students but also provide uh our families and uh District staff as well as Dr Soto mentioned we are solidifying that partnership with the early Ed office uh because that is such a strong component to our um plan and then in this plan we're actually adding 12 new Early Education Centers which increases the number of uh students by about 400 or so um because we do want to cast out a little bit wider to ensure that we're uh impacting the most number of students that we can great thank you so much team item 18 because it is not on consent there were no questions on 19 on 29 rather and on 30 uh I just wanted to mention

316that it was happening so that nobody missed it uh 27 there were no questions is that correct 28 there were no questions okay uh and I don't see anything on 29 either okay so we will now uh take a board vote a motion I'm sorry we have we have questions on I mean we don't have questions we have I have speakers on 21 right exactly okay call them up please okay all right uh Maria Daisy Ortiz there you are come on up you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin um Miss Ortiz is going to speak in Spanish and if you would like to hear what she's saying in English while she's speaking in Spanish please put on these headphones to experience simultaneous translation good afternoon dear members I am Maria Daisy Ortiz I'm

317a mother of a child who has dyslexia I am here well in front of you first and foremost I want to tell you that from now till from 2017 till now children are still suffering because of the lack of appropriate accommodations because of the learning I know that since 2007 there was a resolution made and I want to ask Mr Scott if the resolution that he is putting forward will continue will replace the other one what will happen because honestly dyslexia is a condition uh a learning condition and this has to do with cognitive one out of five children have this learning and the district has a program called IDC this is a program that's aligned to help the children with dyslexia knowing that they have a mythology known ortha Willingham but this program is

318very limited and I've never seen in your budgets and in your strategic plan that this will be expanded these Services only exist in 19 of the schools and I believe now they exist in 24 students but it's only in elementary and middle schools I want to let you know that at high school level our children suffer because of the lack of AC appropriate accommodations and as a I've been working with you all to be to better this and now I'm worried because everyone is new this means that we will re have we will have to re accommodate or re-educate these people and it seems like we're going backwards but honestly I'm worried about the resolution because Mr Scott is emphasizing that the parent center before finishing in October they will have a workshop for parents

319first of all I want to let you know that parent centers are they there's a lack of parents that are attending with dyslexia because when we were working this wasn't being promoted this is why I want to I bring you resources especially for Spanish speakers Spanish speaking parents because you need to know that the identification of Early Education is crucial and structural literacy doesn't just help students of Dyslexia because our brain is not conditioned to learn how to read therefore when you don't have a method as the one you have now which is literature and that the children read based on the pictures that they see and they have to guess this doesn't help because in fourth grade students don't have pictures in their books the science of reading allow helps all students and the

320district fills 54% of the students that are not reading at their grade level in fourth grade this means that we have to make effective practices and I leave this information for the Spanish speaking parents and also I'm a mother who gives workshops in regards to dyslexia I educate myself thank you very much for your time Latino parents don't know about this condition thank you and have a great afternoon thank you very much okay we have Pamela Cohen on the line Pamela Cohen please press star six to unmute yourself and you have 3 minutes to speak once you begin Pamela Cohen on Tab 21 dyslexia awareness month this Coen you've been on the line for quite some time again I would hate to not hear your voice uh as you've been waiting patiently please press star

321six to unmute yourself Miss Cohen and you have three minutes to speak once you begin Pamela Cohen okay she's on the line but not joining us um is sunshine Garcia here in the room by Chance sunshine Garcia okay one more time for uh Pamela Cohen Pamela Cohen okay all right well I guess we will move on that's all the public comment for um tab 21 um she did not press star six to unmute herself okay all of the uh speakers on the consent calendar a motion is now in order for the consent calendar moved by Mr Melvin seconded by um board member Scott hello wait oh hello Miss Pamela Cen is that you yes oh go ahead Pamela we're waiting for you go ahead we'll wait thank you thank you board member yes I'm sorry

322I've had had technical difficulties okay uh my name is Pamela Cohen I'm the mother of a former Laos student with dyslexia I was one of the initiators of the first dyslexia awareness board resolution in 2016 which board member schmon sponsored I've also been a member of the LAUSD dyslexia work group for five years I'm speaking in support of this resolution and thank board member schmon for taking the lead in dyslexia awareness in La USD for all these last seven years but today I would like to say that while dyslexia awareness has increased in this time period and important resources have been created and trainings have occurred many students with dyslexia are still not getting the support they need there is much work to be done here are things that can happen to achieve that support

323one resource teachers need the same intensive training in intervention that IDC teachers have resource teachers are only this year receiving six hours only six hours of mandatory training there's never been mandatory training before it's always been optional for our resource teachers who are the first line of support for our specialed students with reading disabilities proper dyslexia intervention requires a minimum of 100 hours of training most IDC teachers have that and we need that level of training for our students with dyslexia two parent Outreach and education and dyslexia awareness must be much more vigorous and intentional previous parent dyslexia meetings have been sparsely attended because of poor Outreach on the part of the district three LAUSD needs to properly prepare teachers to do early screening for risk of reading struggles and dyslexia it's mandated by the

324state as of 2526 and train them in effective intervention so students can overcome these struggles four and this is the last one the district needs to hold all School administrators and teachers accountable for supporting students with dyslexia and provide all the needed support as allaha had mentioned today the administrators and the teachers need that support it's been 16 years since I began this journey with my son he's now 23 years old it's been a long haul I look forward to the day when we no longer need dyslexia awareness months because all of students all of the students um because this with students need uh what because what I'm sorry uh we won't need these awareness months because all students have the support they need and deserve to thrive thank you very much thank you very

325much I know that uh board member smon would like to at least introduce his resolution uh 20 yes one one and I'm so sorry I skipped 21 because it was on consent and I skipped 29 cuz it's on consent so if you would allow me I'll be fast okay okay dyslexia as a strong advocate for special education I am happy to introduce this resolution today because as a district we must continue to offer the best possible services for the students who struggle with the difficulties of Dyslexia in July 2023 Governor Gavin Newsome signed into law sb14 wherein chapter 15.5 mandates that all California students to be screened for dyslexia and apply early intervention methods for any student who may be diagnosed with dyslexia in the year 2017 the LAUSD passed a resolution my resolution recognizing

326and addressing the educational implications of Dyslexia in LAUSD schools since then the district has expanded on helping more students with dyslexia through professional development for our teachers and staff more pheic awareness programs and advancing lesson plans that cover stud students of all ages for any parents listening the district has a dedicated website for dyslexia at lusd.org dyslexia and lusd.org slss sped where you can find announcements on Virtual parent workshops you can also find resources on assisted technology early childhood special education Positive Behavior Support parent counseling and training called PCT and many other resources I encourage all of you to visit this website because this information is constantly evolving LUSD is happy to work with external Partners in addressing this issue as there are many misconceptions about dyslexia many parents who have children with dyslexia sometimes

327have issues with understanding it and I don't blame blame them because it's very very complex this is why this resolution also calls for every parent Center to dedicate this month to explaining more about the signs stigma and procedures of Dyslexia we want to give helpful information and be a good resource for parents and students reminding them that they are not alone and while dyslexia is complicated it does not mean that these students will do poorly in their education it only serves to redouble our District's effort to fulfill the academic Excellence pillar of our strategic plan helping prepare our students for college and careers and reducing opportunity gaps I know that the topic of Dyslexia is frustrating to some but the more we inform ourselves and use our resources the better the outcome and at this

328time if my colleagues would like to say a few words they may I don't have much to add thank you Mr smarson um I'm um appreciate your consistency and bring this issue forward appreciate the district in taking heed and the state in in moving in this right direction um and bringing awareness to this um challenge in the month of October Beyond um and so you know would love to co-sponsor and uh you know eager to support this work going forward so thank you Dr McKenna yeah just briefly um I don't know as much about this leg as I should know but I've read as much as I can but I was never a reading teacher but I know it's a common condition that many people live with successfully if they have support programs there are

329a number of tools and techniques that allow allow children and adults to thrive academically and professionally so the information about it is power pardon me the earlier we were able to diagnose and support our students the better we'll be able to offer support for positive learning outcomes I'm supportive of this resolution and look forward to the district making strides in how we expand resources for theel dyslectic students and the parents who support them at home thank you very much for that awareness uh thank you very much I'd like to co-sponsor let me just say that you know the more I think about this when this resolution first came out we were so gungho to defeat dyslexia I remember that the parent centers had a workshop that invited parents to come and see these are possible

330possible symptoms of Dyslexia their parents weren't supposed to be diagnosticians no they were supposed to see these are possible ways to refer your children and I think we have to uh rev up the motor again and I appreciate the reminder thank you now I understand doc uh Mr schmon you also wanted to talk about item 29 the health benefits yes I'm so sorry I was so excited it just slipped by I'm also sorry because I Believe Miss gones has think I'll wait I didn't know I didn't see it Miss gones no worries um I just wanted to also co-sponsor the resolution and appreciate Mr schls and all of the strong parents who have been advocating for us to do more around dyslexia for so many years um I think that we should really heed their

331voices and sorry evaluate um what strides we have made in the interven time and what more we could do to get effective supports to all students and more training to our staff anybody else all right uh we will now ask you for your comments on the health benefits agreement 29 thank you and it has been um uh approved with the consent calendar so not yet we Haven not yet it will be I hopefully it will be yes I am so pleased that our district leadership accepted the recommendation of our health benefits committee and I want to thank you board president and the rest of the board for the opportunity to observe the health benefits committee which I have been doing for three and a half years I'm not on the health benefits committee but I

332go into their Zoom every month just to see what they're doing just to listen to what they're doing and I know how hard the health benefits committee works I have observed how efficiently they get the best prices for health care for dental care and Vision Care they put those companies on the grill to make sure they get the best prices for the district I watch it done and I appreciate this hard work because as a longtime educator I know the challenges that teachers and staff and administrators face on a daily basis and I know how important health benefits are for our employees I know that many employees stay with the district just for the health benefits that we offer actually I know employees who make more in their health benefits and they do in their

333salary and that's why they stay with the district because the health benefits are so great it's important for their family when they have two three four kids they need these health benefits so retaining our employees not only benefits them it reduces Recruitment and training cost for the district it offers stability in our classrooms in our schools and in our our communities and many people don't know that the health benefits committee functions democratically each of our labor Partners has a vote and so does the district as well they work hard they all work hard the negotiations for a package that we approved took months and months and months of dedicated work and a spirit of collaboration so I also want to thank our district reps who listened carefully to our labor Partners during the negotiation process

334proc and attended to their concerns and I'm so grateful for everyone's work and I hope they can continue working strategically and with a positive outlook as they have been doing over these years so LAUSD can continue being known as a great place to work so today we'll also see a few procurement items regarding health benefits and I'm happy to say that I will be supporting these contracts and the health benefit agreement thank you miss goldber all right we will now take a vote on the consent calendar which includes all remaining items on the agenda except for item 13 and item 18 here we go Dr McKenna yes Dr Ras yes Mr schmon yes Mr melvoin yes Miss gonz yes Miss Ortiz Franklin yes Miss Goldberg yes student board member Ramirez yes pass we will now

335go thank you we now go to item 13 provisional internship per permits starting on page uh 225 for those of you who are looking at those numbers a motion is in order to adopt the uh provisional internship permits move move by uh Mr Melo seconded by Mr schmon any questions or comments and there's no public comment uh shall I I just have one one question on it um I'm looking looking at uh mathematics and science teachers all through the district I'm wondering if we have any special or new efforts to recruit Science and Math teachers so that they aren't on permits so recruitment is not all right well I'll take it up later then but I do want an answer to that question because I think I think we're gonna have to do more than

336we're doing now and I think it's getting desperate in some places all right so a motion has been made and seconded on provisional internships call the RO Dr McKenna yes Dr IAS yes Mr Schon yes Mel yes Miss gonz yes Miss Ortiz Franklin yes uh board president Goldberg yes student board member Ramirez yes passes okay our last item is the approval of the community advisory committee and we have a speaker uh John Baron single because I have limited time I'm going to skip the niceties um I'm asking you to approve this today but not the retroactive part of it please strike that um I'd like to see a motion in second to strike the retroactive aspect of it but we needed the CAC so I I do want you to approve if if there is

337no uh extreme conflict of interest because right now as you know from my letter that uh there is an open case investigation with the Department of Education now that's it's my family I didn't file it it's my family so this is person personal and I'm going to read a little bit for the record here the letter that I did send oh thank you yes having trouble hearing I'm used to having both mics here um okay the request for approval contains inappropriate inaccurate and unsupported references which appear to conflict with state regulations law and District policy and I just mentioned that I I'd like to see all appropriate measures to ensure that you do not take any action or choose any option that will attempt to claim retroactive status as of July 1st 2023 for the

338requested CAC membership sanctions may already have been earned and deserved based on non-compliance according to the language within the agenda item materials themselves um the board approval of the community advisory committee list of prospective members is needed to allow the CAC at last to be convened and continue its important work on behalf of in students with exceptional needs in their families because we haven't convened yet this year the officers still hold their position until the positions are vacated and new officers are elected so I'm the chairman of that committee and they won't let me meet they won't let me gather with the other officers nor have they allowed for a special meeting which is called for in our BW specifically and and it actually says for reasons such as to review bylaws so when they

339the they're asking the expected outcomes will enable the CAC to remain compliant they're not compliant they would become compliant by convening um and in the language itself if not approved the district will be out of compliance with state requirements and sanctions may be issued they're already out of compliance and so the sface I still just refer to him as PCS because it's those PCS people who caused this to happen they attempted to form an appointment committee which in the SOA is under the CAC section B and we were supposed to form the appointment committee we weren't involved the first time that they set out to do this no so that means the district the district formed the appointment committee under the brown act obviously because it's not a CAC committee or subcommittee therefore it is

340not part of the Omnibus Bill that Exempted cac's from the brown act so they had meetings we weren't allowed press wasn't noticed these were secret meetings and worse than that there's supposed to be nine District employees six parents zero zero division of Education people showed up for the meetings to do the scoring the evaluations nobody from Pace all that showed up there three PCS employees and two parents ended up doing almost every single scoring of other parents our be our bylaws call for a double blind study if I may I finish or should I stop go ahead thank you they failed to explain that they didn't have the members to have an appointment committee they didn't let anybody know and I know for an absolute fact that you were told that everything was hunky dory

341I know you were I know that superintendent carvalo was misinformed half-truths falsehoods lies to cover it up and you know I don't ever come up before you and sit here and complain you know for absolute fact the amount of respect that I have shown for this District this board these students the families and I fight like hell my wife says I I'm King leonitis from the Spartans to 300 and and I say no actually I'm I'm like Sparticus but guess what they didn't have very good ending to those movies okay so I'm I'm still here to fight I'm not walking away I wanted to leave today knowing I didn't have to come back because I told you last year if I'm lucky enough to come before you next year it will be because I'm the

342CAC chairman again but in the interim my wife has been appointed chair for two uh commissions an international councel this is her time this is supposed to be my sabatical this is supposed to be for my wife and my family and I'm still here fighting and it's crazy I feel like a spectre like I'm haunted and I can't leave until a happy family comes back together this is absolutely outrageous right now the district has to wonder if PCS put you guys in danger of brown act violations because the the Department of Education is going to look at all of this stuff does anybody know that okay my wife's an attorney that's nothing that's nothing I was a federal whistleblower for for government fraud working with the Department of Justice they joined my case Okay so

343I've been fighting Fair I've been fighting for something not fighting against you at all I understand thank you you said at the beginning you wanted some retroactive piece if you if you I don't see any retroactive piece okay I'll read it he said he wanted to have the retroactivity removed I don't that I don't know what that means I'll read the language right here okay uh under the request for approval oh I see I board options and consequences July 1 no because there has been no activity how can you be retroactive without activity retroactivity means going back to a certain point of time it doesn't mean Let's Pretend We're going to pretend we were active no we haven't met we have not met we have been not allowed even a office space or conference room

344for the officers to talk about the need for the bylaws changed because we never they were supposed to train us about the change from Brown act to Green act in my opinion the foxes were in the hen house because they're sitting there if they want to do the work of the CAC they need to do it right okay we were not allowed to do the work of the CAC so far this year only me you've all been getting my Chairman's reports chairman report protest with all du respect time time has expired no I just wanted to know you want you want to see that this says that staff proposes La unified Board of Education approve the following candidates without the retroactive language absolutely please do that bring the the committee back to L so Jackie

345does that mean that if we it be as of today that means they can go back it means that this will be approved as of today but not as of July 1st 2020 CAC can go back to work every that's that that yeah have a question for our staff is there any reason why we can should not take out those languages R retroactive to duty July 1st 2023 Miss Goldberg yes if I may yes so the local plan for CAC the term is for 2324 regardless of whether we use the term retroactive or not the term is 42324 there we go so if we take out that language it won't change anything the language could say that the term is for 23 20 for but it's for the June 30th 2023 24 that if that's

346what they're calling the term I'm going to move that the uh page 303 say staff proposes that the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education approve the following candidates for the 23 24 school year thank you so much and they did follow a second to that okay uh education F following candidates for the 20 2 2324 school year M Madam chair yes do we need to hear from staff you asked for staff and then you kept talking and said back down yeah well uh okay you heard from D'Or who said as long as it's clear that it's for the full okay all right so now a motion is an order well Jackie we don't have to vote to remove the retroactivity we just did we need to well we have a motion in a second to

347approve that language now we need to vote on the language to change it and then we vote on the amended on the amended deal so we've got a mo a move it was moved by Jackie seconded by Rosio I'll call the vote on the CH on the revised language as Jackie has read it uh Dr McKenna yes Dr Ras yes Mr schmon yes Mr Mel yes Miss gonz yes Miss Ortiz Franklin MTI Franklin uh board president Goldberg yes student member Ramirez not here okay well it on the uh as amended uh tab 18 okay and as amended we we'll still need the um a motion move in a second mooved by Mr schmon seconded by Dr Rivas let's go okay Dr McKenna yes Dr Rivas yes Mr schmon yes Mr melwin yes Miss gones yes

348Mr Franklin yes did you want to vote on the previous Amendment as well or not somebody didn't vote on that one didn't they that's all right doesn't matter uh Miss Goldberg yes and the student member is not here so that item passes with the revised language are there any adjourning motions from anyone Dr McKenna thank you I'd like to uh adjourn in memory of u a long-term longtime employee thma Walker served as a dedicated dedicated educator with our district for 33 years th Walker tly and unselfishly gave her time and talents to serve in the fullest capacity to execute a job in a caring and nurturing manner she was a devoted teacher at Grape Street in 1973 km grav Street Elementary School in 1973 Kena Elementary School in 1976 and Rosewood Elementary School in 1980

349on until her retirement June 20th 2003 she served as an active member of the 10th District steering committee women committee women's organization and was very active and a number of other organizations she was also a panel member in dispe resolution and in HR in the office of Staff relations from 2004 to 2007 her Legacy will live through her family and the many students that are touched by her memory I knew who she was I didn't know her very personally but I was aware of her contribution and she will be missed thank you for the time thank you and M go I just want to thank you again for your powerful words at the start of our meeting um I would like to adjourn today's meeting in honor of Venice High School student Orion Chu who

350was tragically killed in a car accident on October 8th Orion attended Westside Global awareness magnet before starting his freshman year at Venice High just a couple months ago he was an honor rooll student a beloved Son an amazing brother and twin an uncle and a friend Orion was passionate about the things he loved which included football basketball and creating new games his family described him as a quiet caring loving and funny kid they will miss him tremendously and we send our deepest condolences to all his loved ones and join the Venice community in mourning this tragic and profound loss I have one Jackie too and I'd like to adjourn in memory of Mike O Sullivan Mike O Sullivan was the principal at Fairfax High School and he was president of AA for many many years

351he was a fantastic guy a great singer a choir director I knew him when I was at Virgil Middle School and he was at barendo Middle School uh he leaves his wife Judy O Sullivan uh a wonderful wonderful funny guy that everybody loved Mike O Sullivan so rest in peace please include me in that as well all right that means that we are about to adjourn at 6:36 PM this meeting but we have to stay because we have the LUSD Financial Corporation and the LUSD administration building Finance Corporation meetings which will follow immediately okay so don't go away so this meeting is officially adjourned at 6:36 we're going to take a brief pause and The Time Is Now 6:37 as soon as this thing goes up we will begin the finance meetings let me remind

352everybody who's hearing this that we are a part of these financing financing corporations and building financing corporations because they help us Finance the various things that we do through Bond projects and non-bond projects and so we're a part of these organizations we have to have an annual meeting and this will be the annual meeting for each of those as soon as we can start let's start sorry that's all right don't go away that's what we're telling everybody don't go away okay uh the time is now 6:37 welcome to the October 17th 2023 meeting of the Los Angeles ified School District financing Corporation annual meeting I'm going to take role Dr McKenna here Dr Reas present Mr Schon present Mr melin here miss gones here miss Ortiz Franklin pres board president Goldberg here okay so I

353need a motion to approve prior minutes so move moved by Jackie second by Dr McKenna okay we will take the vote on approving the prior minutes Dr McKenna yes Dr Ras yes Mr Schon yes Mr melne yes Miss gz yes Miss Ortiz Franklin yes and Miss Goldberg yes okay the executive officer of the board that's me uh the point of this is to assist in the district certificates of participation you'll hear them as cops financing the role of the corporation is ministerial in nature there is no other significant business undertaken by this board of directors um the next order of business is the election of the officers by the board of directors as require as required under the corporation's bylaws I will indicate that the officers are to be as follows the president of the

354corporation shall be the current president of the Board of Education that's Jackie Goldberg the vice president of the corporation shall be the current vice president of the Board of Education that is board member shlon the treasur of the corporation shall be the current chief business officer of the district that's Mr David Hart and the secretary of the corporation shall be the current chief business officer Finance of the district Mr no noberto delgadio uh may I have a motion from the board of directors to approve the officers move it second okay I'm just going to write that down you're you're all board you're on the board of directors okay so I'm gonna call the vote on that uh Dr McKenna Dr M I'm sorry heing he's making me laugh I sorry yes I get my yes

355okay Dr McKenna that is a that is a laughable yes Dr Reas yes Mr schmon yes Mr melvoin here yes getting late Miss gonz uh Miss orti Franklin yes or president Goldberg yes okay uh it is now my opportunity to call this meeting to be adjourned are there any objections no okay fantastic this meeting is adjourned at 6:40 don't go anywhere we're going to start right back up for the next thing it's going to feel remarkably similar to the thing we just did all right let's call it order oh we're not quite ready now we are hello the time is now 640 on October 17th 2023 welcome to the administrated the LA us USD administration building Finance Corporation annual meeting I'm going to call this meeting to order and take role Dr McKenna here Dr

356Ras present Mr schmon pres Mr melne here miss gones miss o Franklin President board president Goldberg and I heard Miss gonz as well so everyone is and I'm here is here uh um there was just a note on the prior meeting there was no public comment signed up for on this meeting also no public comment signed up for just so everyone is aware um okay there no public comments so now we're going to adopt the minutes is there a motion to adopt the minutes from the prior meeting okay we'll vote on it now Dr McKenna yes Dr Ras yes Mr Schon yes Mr melne here yes Miss Miss GES yes uh Miss Ortiz Franklin yes board president Goldberg yes okay the minutes have been approved so the next order of business for this meeting is

357the election of the officers of by the board of directors who are SE seated at the DS now um as required under the corporation's bylaws um the officers are to be as follows the president of the corporation shall be the current president of the board Mr Jackie Goldberg the vice president of the corporation shall be the current vice president of the Board of Education that is Mr Scott Schmelson the treasurer of the corporation shall be the current chief business officer of the district that's Mr David Hart and the secretary of the corporation shall be the current deputy chief business officer Finance of the district that's Mr Delo may have a motion to approve um these officers second why break with tradition okay Dr McKenna yes Dr Reas yes Mr schmon yes Mr melne yes Miss

358gones yes uh Miss Ortiz Franklin yes board president Goldberg yes okay and I would like to call for this meeting to be adjourned so the meeting is Jed thank you for your time 6:43 thank you very [Music] much