001good morning seeing that board members are now president brooks would you please call the role to establish a quorum member banaca present member here president darling hammond here members here remember glover woods here member mcquillen here member patillo brownson here remember rodriguez here member rucker president vice president strauss here member son president all members present accounted for excellent i hereby call the january 2022 meeting of the state board of education to order at 8 31 a.m and let's commence by saluting the flag member rodriguez will you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance absolutely please stand i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you um we'll now be a
002journey into closed session board members please disconnect from this link and go to the closed session zoom link and during the closed session the board will take action or discuss the following cases ee versus state and californians for equal rights foundation versus state see you in a moment all right uh we are back and seeing that the board members are all present uh brooks will you please call the roll to establish a quorum number son sorry here vice president strauss here number rucker remember rodriguez here member patilla brownson here member mcquillen here member glover woods here number escabado here president darling hammond here member here remember here everyone's present terrific um item one is our state board projects and priorities item to take up the annual election of officers only uh and uh we will
003hold an election for office of president vice president for 2022 the bylaws require that the state superintendent preside over the election of the president and other such businesses the state board may direct and i will turn the gavel over to state superintendent tony thurman thank you president darling hammond members of the board in keeping with article four of the stanford's bylaws i would like to call for the nominations for the office of president no member may nominate or second the nomination of him or herself six votes are necessary to elect an officer and each officer elected shall serve for one year until his or her successor is elected now open the floor for nomination nominations for the office of president are there any nominations i'd like to nominate linda darling hammond for the office of
004president second that i will second that we have a nomination in a second we'll now open the phone line for a public comment members of the public wishing to provide comment on this item may do so by calling seven one two four three two zero zero seven five and entering the code the access code six five one nine zero five pound again seven one two four three two zero zero seven five entering the access code six five one nine zero five pound i'll ask mr executive director is there any public comment at this time just one moment state superintendent i believe we need to correct the call-in phone number i apologize can we put the slide up please with the appropriate phone number and we do have usually a slight lag here so we're just
005going to give people a couple seconds to see if we have any callers thank you sir we'll stand by in case anyone calls in for a public comment uh looks like there are currently no people signed up for public comment for this item thank you as there is no uh public comment mr executive director would you please uh call the role member son i vice president strauss yes member rucker yes absolutely remember rodriguez yes member patilla brownson yes enthusiastically [Laughter] remember mcquillen yes remember glover woods yes remember ask a battle yes member burr hi remember hi remember darling hammond do i vote on this congratulations you passed it unanimously thank you executive director alan and board members and uh by a unanimous uh vote of the board uh congratulations president darling hammond uh who has
006been elected to serve as president of the board for 2022 uh it's an honor we enthusiastically uh look forward to serving with you again for another year and i'll turn it back to you uh president darling hammond for the vice president election thank you so much and thanks to all i mean this is um in these fractious political times it's uh wonderful to have some common purpose and i feel like we have accomplished so much on this board and i'm very honored to work with each of you over the coming year to continue that momentum and it's now uh my pleasure to uh in keeping with article four of the state board's bylaws to call for nominations for the office of vice president uh no member may nominate or second the nomination for himself or
007herself six votes are necessary to elect an officer and each officer elected she'll serve for one year or until his or her successor is elected and i'll now open the floor for nominations for the office of vice president are there any nominations i would like to make a nomination um as i end my nine years as vice president i um it is my honor and pleasure to nominate dr cynthia glover woods uh who to serve as the vice president of state board for 2022. thank you is there a second for that nomination second i will second back okay are there any other nominations all right i think we need to then call for a roll call vote oh we have to i guess that's for any public comments so do we have a public kind
008of slide that's going up it is one moment we will open the phone line for the public comment queue members of the public wishing to provide comment on this item may do so by calling the telephone number and using the access code on the slide that is showing now and we'll give a little moment of wait time to see if there is any public comment president darlene hammond there are currently no there's currently no one signed up for public comment all right very good brooks can you please call the roll yes member son yay i yes member rucker yeah remember rodriguez yes member patilla brownson yes member mcquillen yes remember glover wood yes yes president darling hammond i like the vote yay i i'll take that one remember hi member banaca hi unanimously terrific it
009is my pleasure to announce cynthia glover woods as vice president for 2022 congratulations cynthia and now we're going to move yay we're going to move to uh general announcements as you know governor newsome released the 2022-23 budget on monday referred to as the california blueprint governor newsome's bold blueprint not only builds on the groundbreaking pest investments in california students and schools but hits yet another historic milestone in funding focused on early learning literacy for all pathways to 21st century college and careers and much more generations of students that come will benefit from this vision and i'll say more about the exciting details of the budget in my president's report later this morning there is one item on the agenda that has an addendum item one the state board screening committee recommendations for appointments to the
010advisory commission on special education and the instructional quality commission in terms of the consent calendars the proposed waiver items are w1 through w10 and the proposed regular consent items are items 5 through ten members of the public wishing to call in for public comment should view the live stream of the meeting to know at what point public comment will occur for each item public comment may be provided by dialing the phone number entering our participant access code and then following each of the operators prompts upon dialing in colors will be added to a caller queue the operator will notify callers when it is their turn to provide public comment we will also ask callers to please turn down the speaker volume of their computers if they are following the live webcast to avoid an echoing
011effect public comment will be limited to one minute for each speaker item 13 is the general public comment item during which members of the public may provide comment on matters that are not specifically listed on the board agenda board members please mute your microphones when not speaking and keep your cameras on at all times except during the schedule breaks to ensure that we maintain a quorum throughout today's meeting for each item on the agenda there's an opportunity for you to raise your hand using the zoom participant window if you'd like to ask a question or make a comment we'd like to begin with this part of the meeting with the bittersweet opportunity to make farewell tributes to some of our long-standing historically important board members member burr member rucker remember strauss member sun and we
012want to invite some speakers from outside of our team here internally to to do so and i will start off and then recognize several other folks who are here for this purpose uh we will give an opportunity at the end of the meeting also for board members uh each to weigh in and uh so we'll anticipate uh some more celebration uh throughout the day i want to recognize that this set of board members have been really the foundation they've been instrumental in transforming education in the state of california and it is indeed a historic moment as they transitioned from the board they helped to bring this school system back from the brink of collapse develop the infrastructure for the local control funding formula and the local control accountability plan they redesigned the accountability system so
013it now focuses on broader measures of educational opportunity as well as educational attainment looked at in many different ways what they had developed led to sweeping changes in the federal law and in the efforts of other states around the country it has been the foundation on which we are building the next stage of california's journey to demonstrate what a 21st century education for all can be what i'd like to say about each of them myself could feel many hours but i am charged with keeping us on time during the day so i will try to be succinct starting with member burr sue i feel that everything we've been able to do on this board builds on your vision and your legacy your courage and creativity in developing the work that governor brown's administration launched has
014led to the transformation of california schools so that they offer more equitable and empowering education for all of our students you constantly remind us of the history and rationale for our deliberations you act with concern and empathy for every part of the education system from students and educators to school district and county leaders recognizing that we must all support one another if any of us is to accomplish our goals your thoughtful voice will be missed on the board but i hope you will be still available for consultation so we can continue to benefit from your wisdom patricia rucker it has been a pleasure and a privilege to serve with you on this board i've appreciated your passion your eloquence your deep curriculum knowledge your sense of humor and like all of my colleagues your recipes
015among many other things you two have been a knowledgeable and faithful historian for us you put the issues we confront into perspective and like the statue of liberty you hold the beacon of equity ever before us we will miss your voice at this table and we will reach out often ting it is a true honor for me to serve with you first on the teacher credentialing commission and then on the state board your deep knowledge about education and teaching your commitment to excellence for schools and educators your deep concern for all of our kids has truly made a difference not only in your school but in the state as a whole you never hesitate to ask the hard questions about how we can reach further and do better and you insist on finding the tools
016that will help educators to do their difficult jobs i have learned so much from you and look forward to continuing to tap your knowledge and last and perhaps shortest but certainly not least member strauss eileen i have been so lucky and so privileged to work with you you have been a spectacular vice president so knowledgeable thoughtful insightful and committed to the welfare of all of our children and educators in the state you know so much about so many issues you study and you probe to understand all the angles you explain so well how the pieces fit in the grand scheme of the work to build a better system you honor the work of the staff here at cde and state board and of all the practitioners who are working together in the field you delight
017in every step forward in a way that is truly contagious i hesitate to use that word in the current context but i mean it in the best sense of the word and you raise your hand enthusiastically for every task so i am quite confident we will find ways to work together in the future so i just want to acknowledge all of our members as we invite others to also say a few words and we are honored to be joined by governor jerry brown uh it is wonderful to see you governor and uh please uh take the mic okay well thank you you know i like the mic and i may not give it up uh but i will uh anyway well i've heard these uh wonderful words uh to uh my appointees sue byrne pat
018rucker and king sun and eileen strauss um what a great job and i know each of these women some better than others but they've made a hell of a contribution to a very complex system i've learned to appreciate uh going back as chairman of the charter school that i started in oakland at the oakland in the ins oakland military institute that schooling is complex it's challenging but so profoundly important so the board and it's very important work uh is something that i don't know that californians really appreciate but increasingly i've come to understand it and appreciate it particularly through my appointees that i've gotten to know uh over over the years so more than that i just want to say congratulations i i don't like to see all this talent uh just going nowhere so
019i hope that you call upon them and we find new ways to put them to work because this is these four people have an accumulation of knowledge and i have to tell you as someone who's governor for 16 years i have a bias toward experience when i started i thought experience was bunk and we didn't need it at all now my theme is there is no substitute for experience and no one has more experience than the four people that uh you're honoring this morning so good luck and happy travels please rejoin the official family in some form because we need you and the school system needs you very much awesome totally agree thank you governor and thank you for your service at turning this school system in the right direction we're going to go to
020state superintendent tony thurman thank you madam president um thank you governor brown um it's good to see president uh curse uh mr and staff walters uh just want to echo the thanks for the service and the incredible service of the board members who we are honoring today i would also echo those words that with the incredible knowledge that each of you has and has contributed to um i know that you will continue to support what we do for california six million students we need you quite frankly we cannot afford to be without your institutional memory and your knowledge given all that you've done whether it's to support the uh lcff or to support the history of social science frameworks the health frameworks ethnic studies um even what you've contributed so far in a conversation about
021the math frameworks we don't want to lose what you continue to contribute and we look forward to your incredible partnership education is a difficult job and people don't realize how difficult it is and you all have tackled the toughest issues i never thought that the toughest issues we'd experience would be curricular discussions um they generate an incredible kind of intensity because people have a great deal of care and interest over who tells the perspective and what perspective is told and you all have contributed to an incredible legacy of what we do for california students thank you suburb for all your conversations about lcff about charter schools and how we create balanced charter school reform thank you for your work and the cce thank you member sun and rucker for always talking about equity the importance
022of putting equity first and what we do for our students we talk about critical thinking uh board member rutger i think you've demonstrated in the questions that you asked in this board meeting that we have to role model critical thinking for our students i'm grateful to you uh for that incredible incredible uh contribution uh that you have made and that i know that you will continue to make uh board member strauss uh you're the only vice president that i've known this board it's been an honor to serve with you uh thank you for continuing to raise important issues the work that you've done around reading by third grade your work with ccee um always asking great questions and supporting the work of our students i know that there are many others who want to share
023and congratulate you and so i'm hopeful that what we're just saying is see you later for now uh but looking forward to your service in another iteration in another form because california needs you and uh but we are a state that is grateful for your incredible service thank you and congratulations terrific thank you uh former president mike perst and before i hand you the mic i just need to say that i did not have the opportunity to say anything when you left the board because we passed like ships in the night so to speak so i want to take this opportunity also to just say uh all of the amazing work that was done in that period of time which we you know build on every day is you know a product of your thinking
024your efforts your hard work over those times and we should be acknowledging you too so i'm thrilled that you're here to um speak to all of your colleagues well it's an honor and a privilege to make some comments i thought i'd make some vignettes about each of these members from the past uh starting alphabetically with sue burr i don't know anybody that was better prepared for the state board than sue burr who worked many many years in the legislature with crucial legislation she was deputy secretary of education under governor davis and she was head of the staff of the county superintendents i think one of the the biggest things about sue is that she was our first really executive director and the major change that has made the board more effective is when governor brown
025moved the state board into his office i think people don't understand how important it is for the board to be in the office and sue was the first executive director and special adviser to the governor uh in that role and then governor brown appointed her to the board uh in that regard so a vignette i'll uh sue it reads the agendas um incredible i mean she would point out something in the third paragraph of page 38 of a 50-page document about what is a wrong or an issue with that and that's really so tenacious in terms of her work and she chaired the steering screening committee for many years hours and hours picking our advisory council members and she was the chair of the california commission on educational excellence and led that through its crucial
026formative years so but moving from the executive job for the board to the board membership really uh supercharged i think her contributions uh patricia rucker uh she brought the classroom teacher experience her uh she's talked from that we really needed that uh in terms of her grasp of what was the realities of what our programs were doing to teachers in classrooms she also taught mathematics and was crucial in thinking about mathematics and forming the board working on she worked on all the frameworks and and this is really important and detailed work one thing about pat that patricia that i would always remember is her interrogation of witnesses uh she would it was an excellent interrogator she would start off with a bunch of questions and i'd sort of sit there and say where is she
027going with this and then she'd hone in tighter and tighter and finally unearth and bring out a significant issue so she was perhaps our uh one a really good interrogator and got to the bottom of things eileen strauss uh brought to the board her background in curriculum and instruction we really needed that she had been the head of educational services or head of curriculum for school districts uh and she understood how that worked and how to translate it into the local level she was a related liaison to the california teacher commission uh she brought the perspective of it really stressed this of southern california to the board uh she was deeply involved in la area of education and we really needed that perspective from that part of the state and lastly she understood the need
028for capacity building of educators you can't get anything done without strong educators and ting son a credit to stanford is our program there uh she brought in the the incredible of experience of running a school so to have a board member who's running a single school seeing how that works working with the charter context helping us understand that context so she her her insights were really tremendously valuable to the board she had a big background as well worked for the california department of education so we had so much different experience from all these people from outside that they brought in and lastly i'll say all of us had a terrific camaraderie we just enjoyed each other it was a lot of fun and i'll always treasure my experience with these four members what a wonderful
029uh vision of the sort of way in which this board has added up and you know it is really true that a board is a distributed set of capacities right and we see that in um in this group and in the group we now have and i'm thrilled to see karen steph walters who is back here also to say a few words our former executive director now over at sister karen welcome uh and please take the mic thank you well you know listening to mike talk about the background of the four of you makes me realize wow really quite extraordinary and you're right mike we had a great camaraderie and i know that continues on the board even today despite the fact that you have to do these virtual meetings for who knows how much
030longer we had the pleasure of spending most of our time together and i think that helped build that camaraderie but all of you brought in a really unique perspective and as i was reflecting on it patricia i realized that you and i have known each other for a very long time in different roles as advocates and lobbyists and then we you were on the board and i was here at the state board as executive director so your dedication to this work has been extraordinary um eileen i knew of you in my previous world at accent but then i got to work with you directly um and i would agree with tony you're the only you know vice president i ever worked with and so thank you for that and your great knowledge about secondary schools
031was invaluable to us in keeping us on track and ting i remember the time you and i went to lunch when i had to convince you that this was going to be a great opportunity for you to serve and you were pretty darn skeptical i will say that at that particular moment my powers of persuasion obviously were quite good because you said yes and you've been there ever since so thank you for that and sue i would never have been in this executive director position and worked with all this incredible talent if it hadn't been for several phone calls from suburb trying to convince me that i should say yes to this opportunity so thank you sue for your persistence and i see i feel like i follow you around soon in maybe different orders
032but i was at the state board and now i'm at successor in your previous role so thank you for having that kind of confidence in me because you were an amazing mentor and role model for me and um mike while you're on the phone it was an extraordinary pleasure working with you and linda the same i can't imagine having had two different presidents of the board of the caliber of the two of you and the knowledge and experience you bring and governor brown thank you for your confidence in me after having that great working relationship i knew you had the sue and then taking me on as a stranger and saying well if sue thinks you're good you must be good that was an extraordinary leap that you made so thank you for that and
033congratulations to all of you your service has been extraordinary oh my thank you for all being here i'm going to read some recognitions from members of the legislature for each of you and then because our initial speakers have been succinct and i intend to continue that thread i will open it up to board members now and we can continue to honor our our guests i think we have time for that before we uh have to move to the next item and uh it's appropriate that we all have this opportunity in the morning where we can in recognition of their service the legislature honored each of the outgoing board members with a legislative resolution the resolutions importantly note that during their decade of service the state board ushered in a sweeping overhaul of what students learn
034how their learning is assessed and how schools and districts are evaluated and supported the board approved new learning standards new curriculum frameworks and instructional materials new online state assessments and a new multiple measures school dashboard that shines a light on inequities and helps communities track school progress the resolution for member burr from senator pan honored her work on the adoption of implementing regulations for the online california school dashboard and the template for the local control and accountability plan noting that these tools have strengthened transparency and empowered communities to invest in people and programs that improve student outcomes for member rucker the resolution from assembly member o'donnell honors her efforts on the adoption of the history social science curriculum framework in 2016. this framework set out guidelines for k-12 schools to implement content standards for history
035and social science instruction that included the contributions of the lgbtqi community a first for california and to find the reasoning skills of history that students of history should learn to become curious and knowledgeable scholars the resolution from senator allen honoring member strauss notes her significant contributions to support the adoption of the ethnic studies model curriculum that will assist local high schools in developing local ethnic studies courses classes that researchers say can improve at graduation and college growing rates among all students and especially teens of color and members son is honored by assembly member mccarty for her decades of service in educational policy as a teacher administrator and charter school operator including efforts to develop and support policies and initiatives to improve the quality of learning so we want to thank assembly members of donald mccarty
036and senators alan and pan and their staffs for helping us recognize the significant contributions that member rucker strauss and son have made during their lifetime of service which will continue including their service to the state board to the schools and students of california i want to add a plus one to governor jerry brown's comments about the value of experience i think that what we have been able to accomplish in the last decade or more is really a function of that experience joined with commitment and we will continue to tap yours and hope that you will say yes as we continue that process of learning together and moving the state forward at this point we actually have time for me to open it up to other board members i'm thrilled that we can hear from others
037who would like to make their comments at this point and who will start us off see remember rucker would usually be the first person whose hand goes up but [Music] this is this is turning up the table uh remember escobado let's start with you and then remember rodriguez well being the i think i'm the newest member of this board and and i just feel like taking language from the community schools at the four pillars of the state board of education are leaving us and i just i'm so impressed with hearing the what you've done historically in in this position and you know my only regret i didn't get to meet you personally but i look forward to hopefully in the future to do so and i just hope i can continue building upon your legacy
038and hopefully looking forward to again connecting with you and helping me continue the path that you set forth for this great state of california thank you awesome member rodriguez thank you that was beautiful the four pillars member escobedo i just want to say as thank you so much as a teacher a teacher who works with students uh who has also worked for equity the work that you have done um and especially the lcff that i have benefited from my students from and the community and that includes you professor kurst i just want to say thank you so much for all of that and as a historian i am so saddened um that you'll be leaving uh and saddened from the bottom of my heart because i love your historical memory what you know when you
039uh the four of you when you open your mouth to say something i feel like yeah this is this is taking us back to you know this pillar or that so um thank you so much and it is with a heavy heart that i say goodbye thank you thanks uh member patio bronson and the member bananka i'll add to the chorus of thank yous for for the many years of service and having watched so many of you um as an advocate previously um always having been in awe of both the courage and the tenacity that you all brought to building a system that really didn't exist elsewhere i remember going to washington um earlier in your tenure and talking to other education advocates and being really just very proud to be a californian for the
040creation of a california way that looked different than so many other places and and was not really shrinking from um a spirit of innovation that put equity at the center um and that launched lcff and the lcap process um in a way that was very uniquely californian so i i think for so many of us thinking about building on your foundation in these next couple of years we thank you again for your service um and are excited to think about what the next phase holds that's great member banaca and then remember glover woods thank you um well although i only could serve the past six months with you all you all have been just the most amazing role models and have taught me so much about what it means to be pragmatic what it means
041to be an advocate and what it means to be a board member your passion is always palpable and you all never fail to stand up for what you believe in i know that all of the students of california have so so so much to thank you all for and it was truly such an honor to serve with you all remember glover woods um i also with the heavy heart and just hate to see the four of you go i can remember watching you when i was a practitioner in the field even having the opportunity to speak in front of you at public hearings and just always being an admiration for the conversations that took place at the table the inquiries and various thoughts that went into a lot of the policies and practices that we
042now work with and when i had the opportunity to actually sit on zoom side by side with you um it was just it was just almost um i'm without words it was definitely a dream come true and um i'll say sue i always think of you as the quiet storm when you speak everything you say resonates so strongly and i appreciate the thoughtfulness that you've brought to this work over the years and the questions you continue to ask to make us connect and probe deeper um patricia just again loving the comments that you make and i have to say on a personal level thank you for all of the delicious recipes i'd like to blame the extra five to seven pounds i've gained on you but i just appreciate having the opportunity to work with
043you and ting and eileen our time together on the screening committee it will forever be etched in my heart and i just thank you for being great mentors and thank you to all of you for leading the way and hope to continue your legacy as we continue serving the students of california thank you so much i remember mcquillen yes i just want to say ditto to what's been said so far and thank all of you for your services i've learned so much in my short time on the board from all of you and you you're leaving us with a challenge to try to fill your shoes and and continue the efforts here the yurok people would say walk thou walk out a heartfelt thank you for your your work and your service thank you uh
044and there's more to come at the end of the day we wish we were having a big party in sacramento at uh one of the hotels and you know really fedding you and i hope that maybe um a crown will recede enough for us to do that at some point but we will return to some additional goodies and some public comment at the end of the day we appreciate you so much thank you governor brown president kirst executive director walters and state superintendent for your participation and comments as well we're all for clint if any of you would like to make a comment please feel free and then we'll move on to our items oh member well i don't really know what your plans are for later but i did at least want to express
045my gratitude um for all of the guests here especially governor brown and um president cursed and executive director walters it's just been an amazing opportunity and i'll say more at the end of the day but i did want to be able to express my thanks and gratitude for those guests who joined us thank you any other give a moment ah remember rucker and then remember stress and then remember son uh you know when first of all i want to thank everyone on the board who for your very generous and kind thoughts and i especially would like to thank governor brown for considering me and making this appointment taking a risk on somebody who basically just is a very strong advocate and has very passionate views about education when he when i first met him and
046i was introduced to him i just said i'm just a little color girl from warren county mississippi the daughter of a air force sergeant but in those two sentences it says a lot not only about my background but for the reasons and the shoulders that i stood on to sit in this room and to sit on this panel if anyone had ever told me i would be doing this work before now i'd say oh you got jokes but i'm so grateful for the opportunity to for the smart people i had a chance to work with i'm so grateful for the mentoring and the opportunity to work with dr michael curse and to sit and talk with him about the possibilities of serving with him on the board i'm so grateful to get to know karen
047staff walters better and to deepen our relationship and our working time together i'm so glad i had a chance to work more with linda darling hammond we worked together a lot on projects at the california teachers association so i'm so glad we had a chance to do this and i'm very grateful for the two superintendents i had the chance to work with both tony thurman as well as tom torlakson that's a relationship that i hope will continue to deepen and move forward but again i have to return to the appreciation i have not only for governor brown but also for governor newsom who agreed for that reappointment to that third term because this has been a wonderful opportunity to do the work we've done and to make the accomplishments we've made i have admired this
048governor for a very very long time and the opportunity to be counted as one of uh in his circle of p of advisors and at policy folks i am so grateful to be counted in that number and to just simply be remembered for the work that we've done so thank you so very much and i'm so deeply honored and humbled by the opportunity that was given to me and for the work that i was allowed to do so just thank you thank you thank you remember son yeah so i'm a little overwhelmed with all the folks and with all of the comments thank you so much um i i you know i hearken on um a lot of the comments that that um president uh mike hurst said about the collegiality that is what i
049will always remember i know that um you know one can be kind of cynical about policy boards and how much they can accomplish and do i think um in the time that i have served with all of the wonderful board members um past and current we've had some wonderful discussions and the critical thinking part that was mentioned i think by superintendent thurman that is what um we have brought in and i remember specifically a long discussion i don't even remember the topic but at the end of which um president curse sat back in his chair and he says i'm really proud of us because we had such a deep conversation um and it brought up all of our perspectives we we sometimes did not agree um right patricia however i think we all have a
050very very deep respect for each other and appreciation for the different perspectives that we have brought and it makes our policy it makes our work in california for our students much richer and and better so thank you all and thank you i'm so glad that um karen persuaded me to um serve on the board it has been an absolute honor so um and and thank you again all um oh and the last thing is i do want to also recognize the state department of education staff past and present who have supported the work of the state board of education i've also met some wonderful smart smart people um through the department and um in their work that has enhanced and brought to our policies to fruition thank you and member strauss so um i have
051to say 11 years is an amazing opportunity and a chapter such a significant chapter in my educational leadership career and i just have to thank first governor brown for the three appointments for the opportunity to serve and michael curse who i didn't know before i joined the board and we got to be great partners and collaborators i've gotten so much to appreciate his thought and his perspectives um on things and then governor newsome's fourth appointment and working with dr linda darling hammond it's been an amazing opportunity to inform policy to practice and i would say when mike was leaving the board he said look at we changed just about everything like standards and frameworks and curriculum materials and assessment and accountability and systems of support like everything and when mike said to me so what
052else do we have to do and i said now we have to implement all that work and that's what linda has done and continues to do and along with governor brown and governor newsom's budgets they continue to support the building of capacity of teachers and leaders and i just so appreciate the honor to be the voice of theory to practice and to gain a whole group of friends and colleagues so mike said that i brought in the southern california perspective but now like we have friends all over the state and truly we can consider ourselves and i know cynthia we haven't met in person but i'm driving out to riverside really um but we are going to have a reunion in person because after 11 years i think we all feel like we can't end
053just on zoom and when it's safe we want to really hug and raise a glass and really toast the work but i feel so fortunate to have made to work with colleagues in the state board staff cd staff all of our partner organizations and advocacy groups who sat with us to inform the science standards and the science framework and ela eld and all of our frameworks and rollouts and capacity building it takes a village and this community has worked together and under mike and jerry brown's leadership they really did bring all the groups together around a common purpose of rethinking our funding and our capacity and our vision going forward and i feel so honored and i know this is only one chapter and i know we'll have some time at the end of the
054meeting but i think to have brought all the forces together to make a difference over the last 11 years is a huge significant time and i know under linda darlingham is leadership and the board members going forward this work will continue i'm excited as i look at funding that will now continue to support all the work we have held so close to us but for our kids for our grandkids going forward i feel like we are laying such an important foundation and i count you all as friends and colleagues and know that our past will continue to cross because we know it's another chapter's coming and i just want to thank you again for the opportunity and for the friendship and for all the wonderful thoughtful work in the hearings and all the preparation and
055and the influence we'll have for the next generation of students in california thank you and thanks for mentioning the grandchildren that you and i share our concerns for so with that we're going to acknowledge these wonderful board members thank our guests for joining us uh we really appreciate you taking time this morning and we'll move on with the agenda thank you i'm going to now turn it over to state superintendent tony thurman for his report tony thank you president darling hammond thank you again board members uh and to all the guests who came to acknowledge um our outgoing board members and we look forward to again your service and of course we're grateful to uh our current board and we're looking forward to what is a new year as this is the first time many
056of us are seeing each other let me uh also wish you a happy new year um it's a time for new beginnings even though we continue to deal with the challenges that the coronavirus pandemic have provided us while it's been a difficult start to a new year for many of our schools our schools in california are in fact open they recognize the importance of providing in-person instruction to our students and offsetting some of the social emotional and academic difficulties that many of our students experienced during a time when we had no choice but to be in remote learning our schools continue to do what i call working to overcome nearly impossible obstacles but they're doing it in spite of challenges like against the backdrop of omicron against bush of resources like covetes and ppe and
057and of course against the backdrop of staff shortages again we have to commend teachers and classified staff and administrators and others continue to step up substitutes and paras and everyone doing everything that they can we have to support and commend our students and our families for their resilience and for their persistence in the face of these very difficult uh obstacles that we all face we are literally fighting for survival as many we've lost loved ones and many continue to be challenged but we recognize the importance providing important education for our students thank you to the governor the department of public health and others for what's now 13 million cova tests sent to schools since the beginning of december i want to also acknowledge so many people working to try and navigate all of the challenges
058that exist at every single term our county health officers our county health departments our first responders people working in hospitals we've seen that the spike in cases is so dramatic we have to acknowledge all the folks who are doing this incredible work i want to acknowledge the california department of education staff at state board staff who are you know doing yeoman's work to answer questions about j-13a waivers and school closures and you know how to get resources to schools in spite of challenges that exist that cannot be controlled and so i want to acknowledge all the educational uh partners in administration our educator groups all of them working together to find a way to help us get through these difficult moments i want to acknowledge the governor's budget address that we saw earlier this week
059that triples education spending beyond what we've seen in the last decade in many cases make some of the highest investments in education that we've ever seen in california history and not the least of which is an important cost a living adjustment to help schools as they continue to address high costs to deliver education to help them address what are we going to do about compensation for educators every single workforce in this nation is experienced a shortage right now no one can find folks and that includes in our education sector what the governor has proposed with the cola uh it provides great opportunities and i want to acknowledge the work of dr darling hammond and the governor in this year's budget to bring forward examples of ways to support educators and educator training and of course
060to support students and important things like reading and reading coaches and the acknowledgement that there is that we must invest in these skills so that we can help our students for from the challenges that they've experienced during the pandemic and build skills that will carry them forward in every type of learning that they will ever encounter again in their life as we talk about the governor's budget proposal i want to hearken to last year's budget which we're excited to implement in a way that we think is going to help us transform what happens in california schools and again acknowledging that staff at the department of education for important programs that we are working to help implement as we speak community schools which is on the agenda for discussion later today with our framework of universal
061tk i have to say so much about what's happening in our early learning and care division and for educators across the state who are envisioning an opportunity for all young people every four-year-old to get you know universal tk for us to say that we're going to create more opportunities that this is a pre-k through 12 environment and that we're going to support our students going forward universal meals that every student who wants a meal will get two meals regardless of background or paperwork never let these things get in the way of supporting our students during the since the beginning of the pandemic our schools have provided upwards of 800 million meals to hungry kids school is truly the center and i want to acknowledge all that you all do for our students when we make
062sure kids have a meal when we make sure they have access to services and healthcare we're removing barriers that sometimes complicate their learning experience and we want to make sure that we give that to every single one of our students of course this last year's budget also includes anti-racism grants we must talk about the impacts of race we must talk about how we close the achievement gap we must talk about the historical impact that racial bias has played and created negative experiences for many of our students and our families but we can overcome that including with the professional development and the training opportunities that this budget provides for uh helping us to address the issues of race and to recruit and retain new staff who will work in ours as we turn to what's a
063new legislative year you will hear me talking about some of the priorities i've named for us to focus on including a new legislative proposal that will help us get to 10 000 mental health clinicians we've got lots of work to do to help our students in their learning recovery but if we can't address the trauma that they they have experienced that we all have experience the trauma associated with pandemic i can't think of a more important issue for us to do as it relates to addressing that trauma by building out the workforce of available counselors to be there to support our students you'll hear me talking about a proposal that will allow us to maybe retain 15 000 teachers keep them in our classrooms by supporting them in their induction programs and you'll hear me
064talking about programs that i think can really help us lead the way as our students continue to learn to recover in their learning dual language programs an opportunity to recognize that learning a second language supports brain development that it creates global thinkers of the world you'll hear me talking about our reading by third grade initiative where we're putting out some recommendations in just a matter of days and weeks about ways to help support that important milestone and i want to acknowledge that more than a million and a half students have already downloaded books through the free book offer that we've made available to them with our partner through the my on program and also want to acknowledge that before we're done we're going to be putting a million books in the hands of students to
065help aid and support them and those who do not have access to books you'll hear us talk about the importance of supporting by literacy environmental learning and for us to be intentional about how we support students who've been suspended and pushed out and students who've experienced the impacts of race in our schools and in our communities we have big challenges ahead not the least of which is keeping everyone safe in our schools how do we keep our communities safe how do we keep our businesses open how do we support those who are working to keep us safe in our hospitals and in our healthcare systems we have to address the trauma that our students are experiencing we have to find ways to help our students recover in their learning and academically and of course we
066have to set a foundation that will help our students thrive we can do all these things together and i'm grateful for the resources that we have by our legislature and our uh in our state board of education we look forward to working with you on these priorities and initiatives in 2022 and going forward on behalf of our six million students madam president this concludes my report thank you so very much and thank you for all that you've been doing i know it's been around the clock for everyone at the department state board staff as well as you know all of our educators in our schools so i'll just build on those remarks in mind to start with a shout out of love and support to all of our students and families and educators who are
067forging ahead valiantly and diligently in the face of the challenges of the latest coven 19 variant we see you and we hear you these are incredibly difficult days the exhaustion is real our workforce and our and our communities are strained but i want our education community to know that we're pulling out all the stops to supply you with the resources necessary to keep our schools as safe as possible keep students in school to the greatest extent possible and slow the spread of covid since the start of the pandemic california has invested 11 billion dollars in the fight against copenhagen and has saved tens of thousands of lives through the programs of testing and vaccination and support throughout most of the fall we were the safest state in the nation and we continue to be one
068of the states that is most able to handle the vicissitudes of the pandemic because of the commitments and the investments that we're making on friday governor newsom announced a 2.7 billion dollar covet emergency response package that bolsters testing accelerates vaccinations and booster efforts uh it supports frontline workers it battles misinformation we've administered more than 66 million vaccinations and boosters uh the plan announced friday will actually increase that number through in-home vaccination and testing programs to me california's where they are and support their health we will be providing free transportation to vaccination appointments throughout the state to help get more california's vaccinated and boosted i know you're aware that for those who have been vaccinated fully even if they contract omicron the likelihood of severe illness is very very low and most of the challenges we
069have are getting people to be in that much safer space we've also ramped up testing capacity and provided no cost testing at 4400 sites um and as superintendent thurman noted um the state has delivered approximately 13 million take-home tests to school since early december the cal office of emergency services is working with county offices of education to deliver adults and 95 masks to schools both to manage the surge and the county offices are dealing not only with their own schools but with helping the schools within their counties and yesterday the governor did sign an executive order that will be in place through march 31st to provide staffing flexibility for schools to support continued safe in-person instruction for students by cutting through the red tape to allow qualified substitute teachers to help maintain safe learning environments
070to have their assignments extended to provide additional flexibility to support retired teachers who've returned to the classroom and eliminate barriers that may prevent additional retired teachers from attorney the governor's long-term strategy to address staffing shortages as you know included the 2.9 billion dollars in last year's budget to recruit more teachers and classified staff by underwriting preparation supporting teacher residencies and grow your own programs which many districts have said have been critically important to them in the pandemic year and many more are building for the future additional compensation especially for national board certified teachers who can mentor and serve in high needs schools and providing professional development and training and so while our focus is on addressing code we also need to look ahead to uh covert recovery and beyond that to support schools uh after
071this pandemic ends and it it may continue in various forms but uh there are once we have uh helped everyone to be um as safe as they can be through vaccination and boosters we should be able to return to a kind of living that we're all yearning for i know the budget released on monday built on last year's remarkable investments to further develop a bold vision for re-envisioning public schools as local centers of whole child education the california blueprint outlines how we can move forward on a whole child's whole school whole community vision that strengthens california for all we're going to be working on that through the community schools initiatives and other things we talk about today and into the the future just to give you a few highlights um the state's investment of 119
072billion dollars in tk-12 education including the highest level of prop 98 funding in state history more than doubled what it was 10 years ago includes the large increase in the local control funding formula that state superintendent mentioned earlier 3.3 billion dollars and protections against declining enrollment as the number of school-aged children in california has been decreasing for a number of years and is projected to continue to decline in some communities there's another 3.4 billion for expanded learning opportunities before and after school summer school instruction and integrating arts and music programming isn't that nice to hear that come back schools will be supported with universal meals support for two meals a day to any student who wants them and also resources to build up the kitchen infrastructure to enable fresh meals and support healthy eating and
073expand the farm to school program we have major investments in early childhood care and education that expand access to pre-car kindergarten education we've got our first steps this year towards universal tk by expanding age eligibility uh for um another portion of the four-year-olds aiming for all of them by 2025. uh we've got additional staff members to reduce pupil student people-teacher ratios in those tk classes to provide additional funds for access to inclusive preschool for three and four-year-olds with a focus on providing high quality supports for students with disabilities dual language learners increased funding for state preschool and expanded access to child care up and down the state some of the teachers for this expanded early childhood program can be launched in their careers through the new funding for college and career pathways 1.5 billion dollars
074plus another 500 million for dual credit opportunities to support the development of high school pathway programs focused on education for the first time as well as technology healthcare and climate-related fields we can launch new educators from teaching career pathways that will extend with their initial early childhood permits if they're going that route into community college and college and begin to build the workforce immediately we have investments in early literacy including grants to high need schools to train and hire literacy coaches and reading specialists to guide productive classroom instruction and offer one-on-one and small group intervention for struggling students we know a lot about the virtues of high-intensity tutoring and how to accomplish it and we need to make that possible in the places that have the greatest need a funding for books in the home
075through first five california and multilingual school and classroom libraries to support reading instruction as the state superintendent mentioned his literacy task force will be adding to the whole of the framework for literacy by third grade in california expanded investments in special education paired with program improvements training for educators related to early identification for learning disabilities uh and then um something that we will get to later not in this meeting but in a future meeting a lot of investment in climate uh protection and remediation including a billion plus to support school transportation programs focused on greening school bus fleets so that districts can both save money and help save the environment and meanwhile of course we are working hard to implement the major investments from the last budget for community schools for mental health services for
076educator workforce development for learning recovery we all know these are the right investments at the right time they are not only investments in our tk through 12 system or i should say pre-k through 12 system but they are investments that will improve the long-term health of communities across our state and bring into close view the california for all that we've all been working toward i know that you're well aware that much of the implementation of these ambitious plans is squarely on our plate so without further ado i will move us into our agenda so that we can get down to that business and i'm going to do that by giving you a break before we launch into the community schools discussion so it is 10 18 now we will recon convene at 10 30. so
077you get a 12-minute break now and we will see you again soon just turn off your camera and mic but don't leave the room all right welcome back board members we need to re-establish a quorum so brooks is going to call the roll number son present member strauss here member rucker here remember rodriguez here member patilla brownson here member mcquillen here vice president glover woods here member escabado here president darling hammond here member here humber banaca here everyone's present terrific we are now going to turn to item two which is on our community schools uh planning and the item will be presented by steve zimmer of the department with deanna neighbor pete kalas and lisa borrego available for questions and superintendent thurman will kick off the presentation for the team superintendent please begin thank you
078madam president and members of the board it's our pleasure to present to you california community schools partnership program framework we've been talking about community schools for quite some time i know that each of you knows what it is and i want to thank you for all the ideas you've provided and that you'll continue to provide uh just a reminder that there's a nationwide conversation taking place about community schools and california is leading the way in this conversation three billion dollars a three billion dollar investment of resources to support california schools there will be planning grants implementation grants there'll be technical assistance and there'll be resources to support our schools as we continue to try and recover from what is probably the most difficult experience that we're going to ever encounter in our lifetime dealing with
079the pandemic there will be the opportunity for health resources mental health resources social service supports all kinds of wraparound supports largely coordinated by a community schools coordinator who will help to direct how those resources get connected to families but community schools is more than just supports it gives us a way to transform california schools to help our schools move away from punishment and to look for restorative practices to support our students to help us close learning gaps that have impacted students of color and low income students and to create bright futures for our students and families going before the framework that is before you um has had the contribution of many many partners there have been dozens of meetings there have been town halls there have been briefings there have been conversations there have been
080consultations everyone has an interest in community schools everyone sees it as an opportunity to help us to recover from this difficult moment and to make a difference for all of our schools whether they be urban suburban rural frontier you name it community schools offer something for everyone the community school proves that the school is the center for what we do in many of our communities and it gives us a way to enhance both teaching and learning and to support the whole child needs of many of our students and so we hope that you will appreciate the words in the framework we look forward to the feedback that you will give us for how to strengthen and enhance it but we also hope that we will have your approval to move it forward it gives us
081a way to create a set of shared understanding of what community schools are there are definitions there are examples there are pillars and commitments that schools are expected to share in common but we know that at the end of every single day every community school will look different according to the community that it is built upon to serve and so we ask for your feedback today we ask for your guidance and how we build this framework further and then how we move it forward but more importantly how we get on to making it more than just a document that someone will read but getting to the delivery of the important work that will support 6 million students across the state i'm pleased to present to you a number member of our team as you've heard
082from president darling hammond who will help you and answer any questions that you have i also want to report on our follow through on the guidance that you have provided us at the previous board meeting to give thought to how community schools integrates with the systems of support how does it impact with what we ask schools to do around lcap how do we give it thought so that it is connected to all of the frameworks we've decided that it has to be implemented in a way that it connects to all of the important programs to support our six million students so we thank you for the feedback we look forward to the feedback that you'll provide today without further ado allow me to turn uh the microphone over to steve zimmer who will take you
083through the remarks in the presentation thank you very much and look forward to your feedback thank you so much superintendent and uh i am speaking to you good morning everyone it's an honor to be here um i'm speaking to you from our state diagnostic center um in uh adjacent to cal state university um i apologize for some of the lighting and technical issues we couldn't get quite quite right this morning but um it is a it's a great honor to uh speak with you today uh to bring this this item for or recommendation i will be presenting a few brief slides i am joined by pete kalis who is our director of high school and transitions division high school career transitions division in the department deanna nieber who is our community schools coordinator and lisa
084borrego who is our family engagement coordinator um and again it's great honor to uh to be able to present this work today um our recommendation is that the state the board of education approve uh the proposed california community schools partnership program framework and the amendment to the administrative plan next slide please let me talk to you mostly today uh about the framework and when we presented in november we told you that we would begin an engagement process we'll talk about a little bit in a later slide but we have been able to meet with over 500 interest holders all throughout the state students families community members educators school staff who share their stories with us share their dreams and aspirations or community schools share their experiences in the current system and why community schools are
085so important to them and we tried to bring them with us today we tried to bring them with us to every word in the framework and there's one other thing that i'd like us to do as we begin to look at the framework today i'd like us to think about our own schooling experience our own schools what did those schools feel like what was our relationships there how were we embraced and welcomed how were our assets elevated or what were the ways in which we wish that they were and i want us to take it even a step further i want us to think not only about our own schools our own experience in schools but who brought us to school our families our parents our guardians our grandparents how were they welcomed to that
086school how were they viewed as a partner what opportunity did they have to be a decision maker what opportunity do we wish that they would have and so i ask that we hold them with us today as we look at that framework and think about the families of today in the moment that we're in and how we might be able to transform those relationships and through transforming those relationships how might we be able to transform the experience of school the experience of learning and most importantly through an equity lens are outcomes so in this framework we will present four pillars of community schools the key conditions for learning the story the cornerstone commitments that we are hoping everyone who engages in this journey will make the proven practices in the key roles move to the
087next slide so the four pillars or community schools are recognized throughout the state and nationally they involve integrated student supports family and community engagement collaborative leadership practices for educators and administrators and extended or expanded learning time and opportunities these are pillars that are recognized through quality community school programs here in the state and throughout the nation next slide please we also want to focus and we focus on the framework and key conditions for learning after all this is about learning and so we lean heavily on the science of learning development when we outline that what we expect in our community schools are supportive learning environments that foster strong relationships a sense of belonging and purpose instructional strategies that motivate to increase competence social and emotional learning that fosters skills and habits and mindsets that enable
088academic progress but also a sense of agency systems of support that enable healthy development that are responsive to student needs that understand and address learning barriers next slide please here's where we focused a lot of our time what are the cornerstone commitments that we hope that all california community schools will make that we expect they will make we expect that they will commit to being assets driven and strength-based school that values and draws on the collective wisdom of students and families in the community we expect they will be they will have racially just and restorative school clients the nurture and support all students in the totality of school interactions we expect that instruction will be powerful it will be culturally proficient and that it will be relevant they'll be centered in the wisdom and the
089history and the culture of the community and that is it will be rooted in practices inspiring it's inquiry oriented it's project based informed by the ideals of co-learning and finally we expect that there will be authentic shared decision making and participatory practices in all aspects of school government governance and that these practices will genuinely engage students families staff and community members real decision making about school climate about instruction about the delivery of services next slide please what are some proven practices we outline this in in our framework community asset mapping and gap gap analysis i want to point out here how different this is the needs of assessment we want to focus on assets we want we want our community schools to elevate assets so we engaged school and community interest holders in a coherent
090process of identifying and curating those assets what are those wisdoms throughout the community and then once we identify the assets only then do we look at the gaps rather than starting with the assumption that there are only needs and gaps it's the best practice to have as a community school coordinator there are many staffing models for this but we have seen in california and throughout the nation successful community schools have a discrete position is responsible for the community school processes programs the partnerships and the implementation strategies we've also seen the successful program successful community schools have both site-based and lea-based advisory councils that meaningfully engage the community the whole of the community staff families and students in determining the focus and the direction of the community school's effort and we see that successful programs are
091integrated and aligned with other relevant and important programs as we talk about many times existing efforts around restorative practice and racially just schools our multi-tiered systems of support our statewide systems of support our new initiatives around delivery of mental health services expanding learning time universal tk and the statewide literacy initiative just to mention a few next slide we outline key roles in the framework for our lease for our county offices of education as service coordinators whether or not they apply to be technical assistance centers convening our local government agencies and making sure those supports can be integrated at the school site technical assistance centers and we'll talk a little bit about that that uh rfa process these will be the the key there will be a statewide uh lead ta center and we'll talk about
092that in a later slide but our regional ta centers will deliver content in a way that is coherent uh they will offer coaching and professional development and miles of practice but they will also be attuned to and and adjusting this coaching to their understanding of the vast diversity both geographically and diversity in every way the rich diversity that is california to ensure that the ta that is offered regionally is appropriate to the many different types of leas that will be grantees as part of this process and finally our department california department of education we're setting up and evaluating a coherent implementation plan but also effective assessments as as we move forward in this effort next slide please so we're going to move on to the framework to one significant amendment to the administrative plan that
093you approve in november and that is to have a lead technical assistance center rfa and this lead technical assistance center will be responsible for building content and overarching methodology for the technical assistance across the state uh will be responsible for building an implementation rubric to articulate the benchmarks for community schools implementation facilitate a community of practices i think this is particularly important uh a community practice amongst the regional technical assistance centers and coordinate and maximize expertise amongst these regional technical assistance centers this is a transformational process there will be areas of our state there will be communities leas and particular schools that are are able to establish expertise that can then be shared and explored exported so that it could be part of uh accelerating the transformation process through uh through community schools the rfa
094for for this for the technical assistance of regional technical assistance centers will follow this rfa for a lead technical assistance next slide please a couple of updates for you uh we told you that planning grant rfa and the implementation grant the initial implementation grant rfa the first round for each of these would be in the winter uh we're in the winter right now it will be during the month of february if these will be completed next slide please um we were asked to also do some breakdowns in terms of um when we get to implementation grant uh you know just ranges for uh for funding so we're in alignment with other previous grant programs we've developed this uh kind of breakdown of small schools small to medium schools medium to large schools and large schools
095going to the next side please we talked about i talked about a little bit uh about our regional forums um again we we've been able to complete these during the month of november and december uh six virtual forums throughout the state encompassing many regions from uh from rural and tribal communities to our urban centers um and again we were able to hear from over 500 interest holders directly and we're able to great collaboration and process to break out into small groups and really hear from each participant directly um about their vision and priority for community schools in their own neighborhood or region we are in the process of scheduling office hours and i want to be very open to say we we have we had scheduled during the month of january site visits or i
096i hope for everybody here would be understandable reasons we have postponed those uh we we do not want schools uh to be distracted by anything even positive things uh other than keeping um their their students and staff and families safe right now and continuing uh to be open to continue the learning process so those two parts of our engagement strategy will really be um you know through the the month of february next slide please so here are some additional updates and we want to be very open with you that this is a ongoing process when we we left you in november we said we would report back here in january um but that that everything would not be done and everything is not done um so here are some things that we are still working
097on they're still in process we are still gathering uh information we are still listening and co-learning um prior to the release of the rfa the rfa process is still in development um specific uh decisions around grant and implement brand allocations and the specific timeline is still under discussion of course we are very very conscious of the pressures on leas in in this moment um accountability plan strategy your those conversations are ongoing um we are as i mentioned in november we are in the process uh the superintendent is in the process of determining a state community schools advisory board the membership for that board and the scope and cadence of their of their meetings we are formalizing we are committed to but we are still formalizing what our youth engagement component will be and we are
098still um as mentioned in previous slides formalizing our ta content infrastructure and the functioning of that ta delivery next slide please we mentioned alignment and i want to share with you that these discussions um have begun within cde and we plan to continue these discussions and continue to have them become even more robust as we move forward this is not an exhaustive list but we want you to know our thinking that we know that that this transformational effort around community schools will only have transformational outcomes we'll only have the equity outcomes that the superintendent has charged us with has has has articulated his vision for community schools as not only a school transformation initiative but as a school transfer as a as a equity initiative that transforms outcomes for students who for far too long
099have had outcomes that have lagged behind it so these areas of alignment will help to support that we are exploring alignment with our state system of support statewide system of support our multi-tiered systems of support our universal tk initiative our expanding learning initiatives our our special education programs our college and career readiness programs our multilingual support programs school climate transformation efforts efforts to expand student mental health and our educator professional development programs including the efforts that the superintendent outlined in his introduction around our initiatives around expanding uh educators of color educators which share shared experience but also expanding our school mental health providers these are all areas in which we hope to align and build coherence between this california community schools partnership program and the other essential transformational programs uh in our in our our
100state last slide please so again our recommendation is that the state board approve the proposed california community schools partnership program framework and this amendment to the administrative plan i thank the superintendent for his vision for his leadership i thank our board president and uh and the state board staff for their amazing partnership uh with us uh i think everybody who has participated in our forums and especially our team at cde uh i may have been presenting today but they have done just round the clock remarkable work to pull this presentation together um it's pretty amazing that we've never met each other in person it's an honor to work with them um and they have helped our students our families very close to to everything that we've done as as we've as we've done our level
101best to meet the assignments that you have given us last uh in november and to really honor the aspiration and dreams that we believe can come come true through the implementation of this program thank you uh madam president and we're happy to respond to questions from the board thank you mr zimmer uh madame uh president darling hammond we're turning it back to you but wanted to also acknowledge you for being such a champion for community schools in our state nationwide it's been helpful and grateful to have the almost weekly meetings with you and our other board liaison for community schools dr escobado thank you for uh your incredible insights in those conversations we want to thank our partnership with the stewart foundation they've expressed deep interest in supporting this work and they've supported a number
102of the staff who are helping us and to do this work and of course steve zimmer who you just heard from uh who's living this day and night and deanna nieber um together who've helped to uh provide for you uh lisa brey pete kalas uh state board staff uh sorrow and brook stalin and of course our chief deputy superintendent mary nicely all of whom are all available to answer any questions that you might have to get back to you madam president thank you so much and thanks to all of the staff who have been working night and day on this at the department there's a lot of work going on over the break i i know and we really appreciate it um we're going to put the public comments slide up so that we can
103see if people can get in the queue and members of the public who want to provide comment on this item to do so by calling the telephone number and using the access code provided on the slide that's shown now while we're waiting for members of the public to call in i'll ask member escobado if he has any initial comments before i make my comments as liaisons to this item and then we'll see if there are clarifying questions before we go to public comment and save our discussion for after the public comment um remember escobado yes thank you and i would like to again thank the staff for just the amazing work in drafting this framework and i want to stress that a good student support system cannot compensate for a weak um instructional program and
104what this framework has is that has created that symbiotic relationship between goods a good support system and a solid uh instructional program and i just am very impressed with with the amount of dedication the research embedded in this framework that i know we will be able to create excellent decisions on on not only which organizations will be receiving this grant but it we will be a research site that many other states will learn from and i do believe we are in the verge of transforming education through this this process i totally agree and just want to also both reinforce the point that you made about the integration between the core of schooling and the support services that wrap around and the integration of those around a relationship-centered student-centered thoughtful approach to education generally and also
105just commend the state department staff for all of the attention that they've paid to the feedback that they've gotten in all of those many many sessions i know how seriously uh that has informed the thinking and the writing of the framework and i also am just thrilled about the decision that the department is taking to really try to infuse and integrate the many programs that get piled up as policy is made into a coherent integrated approach that's hard hard work to do we know will not be all that easy perhaps but it is really really important work and we appreciate you taking that on uh with that are there clarifying questions at this point from any of the board members that we need to answer just about the presentation and and framework and i am
106not seeing any at the moment so we're going to go to public comment and then we'll come back for our discussion do we have public comment uh yes we do i will open up the public comment line now for item number two uh good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now hi my name is asher kai i'm a youth organizer with californians for good justice president darling hammond and state board of education members my name is ashley kai i'm a youth organizer with californians for justice a statewide youth organization and i've come to learn that students are being left out of the decision making process yet again one of the community schools pillars is called family and community engagement so we propose adding
107students to that pillar and if we can't change the pillar then we have to define family engagement as including students when i was a student myself at edison high school several years ago cfj ran a campaign called the student voice campaign and during that entire process students were seemingly left out of the decision-making process around lcfs which essentially contradicted the main objective of students feeling as though they had a voice to make a difference and be the difference in their schools and communities the truth is students need to be able to utilize their voices thank you color your time is up transformative next caller you have one minute your time starts now andre spearman parent leader with faith in action east bay pico california and the california partnership for the future of learning we strongly
108support the framework's emphasis on shared governance and decision-making power the commitment to ensuring that school and district multi-stakeholder bodies demonstrate support from all stakeholders in each step of the process must be a condition of receiving grant funding these bodies deal with essential ensuring that students and fans of color are equal and respected co-leaders to co-create the transformational vision for community schools this means that students and families have to be involved in co-creating and multi-stakeholder decision making bodies along with educators and community partners these teams must be empowered and supported to lead together to reimagine and improve schools and districts nothing less will result in desired transformation vision is at the heart of the community school partnership i thank you and congratulate you on the work being done thus far thank you next caller you have
109one minute your time starts now next caller you have one minute your time starts now my name is marita benmus i am community organizer with ocopico education for liberation and anchor member of the california partnership of virtual learning we appreciate the strong equity focus on the proposed framework and recommend recommend that before adopting the board strengthen the language of the four pillars of community schools by adding shared power to the collaborative leadership and practice pillar shared power and authentic partnership between students family educators and community partners at every level school district and state is essential for true racial equity and inclusion shared governance has also been proven to deepen the level of involvement for from students families educators as well as foster greater ownership of schools transformation additionally black indigenous people of color and other
110directly impacted low-income students and families including students with disabilities must not only be consulted for information and perspective but their input must actually impact decision on how dollars are invested thank you for considering adding shared power to the collaborative leadership and practices pillar of the framework thank you good morning caller uh please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good morning my name is terry sapahan i am a crew tribal member and executive director of the true north organizing network we are a multi-faith multi-race social justice organization organizing the tribes native americans latinx black and white people throughout humboldt del norte and tribal lands we appreciate the community engagement done by cde just to date including hosting the six regional forums that our organizations supported i appreciate particularly the superintendent's
111comments this morning when he said that schools are the center of our communities we believe that as well we look forward to having ongoing opportunity for impacted community members to provide meaningful input on program implementation and first of all we are pleased to see the clear focus of equity on the framework and secondly impacted community should be able to comment on the upcoming rfas in its process to ensure that the community schools program remains grounded in the expertise of people who live and work in their communities thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good morning eric morrison smith policy associate with policy link in the alliance of boys and men of color we appreciate the strong equity focus on the proposed framework and recommend
112the board make the following amendments to further strengthen before adoption community disciplinary practices and the criminalization of students are inconsistent with the cornerstone commitment to a racially just and to school climate we recommend explicitly prohibiting the use of community school funds for police and school resource officers school hardening measures or any practices that criminalize students and instead allocate these resources for much needed student services the alliance boys men of color works to expand access to opportunity health and well-being and transform systems that are failing boys men of color their families and communities creating safe schools for all students where they are not criminalized and instead of providing support as a foundational component of racially just schools thank you for considering our framework amendment which is rooted in direct engagement of impacts of students families and
113educators who the community schools program is intended to serve thank you thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now erin after on behalf of the california partnership for the future of learning we urge you to approve the proposed amendment to the administrative plan to add a statewide leed technical assistance center and recommend adding the lead ta center to the framework's key role having a lead ta center design content develop delivery models and facilitate a community of practice will ensure that regional t providers use best practice models for meaningful and transformative student and family engagement and while we support the general approach of connecting implementation grant awards to school size we believe that a minimum threshold amount is needed to do community schools transformation work well
114regardless of school enrollment for example whether you're an elementary school with 400 students or a comprehensive high school with 1500 many of the basic costs of doing asset in needs mapping and planning that authentically engages students families educators and community partners would be the same as with the salary for community school coordinator we appreciate the cdu is continuing to solicit input and urge them to have conversations with folks engaged in this work before finalizing the implementation grant amount tiers in the rfa thank you thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good morning my name is michael juba and i am representing the california teachers association cta has outlined many recommendations in our letter but would like to highlight some now we support the approach
115outlined in the revised plan to identify elite ta center and we believe that requiring letters of interest from interested parties would be a beneficial addition to the plan we believe that there is a lack of information regarding how much leas with existing community schools can access and for how long this seems unfair to the leas that are ahead of the curve in implementing transformational community schools such as lausd oakland unified san diego unified and others and lastly cta recommends a stronger language regarding the democratic decision-making process at the site and the la level for community schools as well as bargaining unit sign off on the grant applications to help ensure collaboration thank you good morning uh please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now dr hayen kimner with the california
116community schools learning exchange good morning we appreciate cde's inclusive process and the continued development of the ccspp framework and for delineating the key system level roles and responsibilities that are part of successful implementation at the state level to ensure sustainable and transformative system behaviors we encourage you to very explicitly incentivize opportunities for coordination with and within the system of support technical assistance should not be another competing initiative among many for funding or a siloed programmatic effort instead it must demonstrate and model coherence and alignment across existing and new improvement efforts including the community engagement initiative california mtss 21st century school leadership academy a b 2083 system of care universal tk and elop among others thank you so much thank you good morning please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now
117good morning caller ending in zero five six four your time starts now please begin good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now hi good morning my name is leticia garcia on behalf of riverside county superintendent of schools i just wanted to take this opportunity to thank staff for their work on the equity focus proposed framework with a goal on getting these critical funds out to the field as soon as possible and for prioritizing the first round of implementation grants to be available to existing community school programs to begin meeting the student needs we also appreciate and support a streamline application process that recognizes that the field is overwhelmed with the day-to-day challenges of staying open for kids we look forward to continuing to be part of this
118conversation and lastly to the board members retiring thank you for your invaluable service over the years and to the 2022 board leadership congratulations on your appointment thank you thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good morning jessica sacco on behalf of children now if i'd like to start by appreciating all the work that has gone into the development of this framework we support the focus on first selecting a statewide lead for the technical center and with that the statewide lead then having an active role in shaping the other technical centers including the and appreciate the acknowledgement for technical assistance providers and the need to focus on inclusion of expanded learning mental and physical health mtss et cetera across the state to connect and integrate
119this work it will take a concerted effort at the state district and school level to ensure that planning and implementation for community schools actively engages community partners and is effectively integrated with the lcap process the sipsa the comprehensive school improvement plans and 12 other major district plans added over the last year it is especially important that el capis of lcff's supplemental and concentration grant funds are well aligned with the planning of community schools thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good morning lucero chavez on behalf of the parent institute for quality education and a member of the lcf equity coalition we would like to thank the board for developing the community schools framework and maintaining that equity lens throughout we're also very thankful for
120including the input of more than 500 families in the process uh pika is an organization that serves more than 18 000 families annually across california many of whom come from disadvantaged backgrounds so we truly believe in the effectiveness of community schools to coordinate resources and opportunities uh we also wanted to echo the lgbt coalition's letter and urgency board to include early education the framework to support language affirming practices for english learners including hiring multilingual staff and support and to align community schools with funding streams like the lcf and lcap thank you so much for your work and we look forward to continue being part of this great conversation thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now hello my name is this is dr kendra fair
121with the california community schools learning exchange in collaboration with pa with policy analysis for california education at stanford and the consensus and collaboration program at sacramento state cslx is facilitating a transparent and inclusive process to engage school community family and youth stakeholders and identifying the cultures systems and practices that are foundational to effective community school implementation our process aligns with and complements the department's community schools framework by continuing to lift up the wisdom of community school practitioners across the state we applaud the department's framework and process in centering strength based practices racially just school climates culturally proficient instruction and participatory practices the framework offers a north star and in our work to deepen community school systems and practices cslx and our collaborators aim to help elaborate the how thank you so much for this important
122work thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good morning brianna bruns on behalf of the california county superintendent's educational services association representing the 58 county superintendents of schools we believe county offices of education can and should play an essential role in successfully implementing ccstp as technical assistance centers within a coherent system of supporting school districts as proposed in this item the roles and responsibilities of the statewide lead technical assistance center and regional technical assistance centers reflect a framework for systems change that county offices are deeply familiar with we look forward to the upcoming rfas and thank you for your time thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now caller ending in 3582 you are
123live you may start your public comment now okay next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good morning uh president darling hammond and board members this is liz gien for public advocates we support the four cornerstone commitments in the framework that were outlined by deputy superintendent zimmer this morning these commitments though need to be realized and we urge you to make them corners make the cornerstone commitment conditions of receiving grant funding by embedding them in the rfas for lea in schools and lead and regional technical assistance providers we also recommend providing field guidance as part of the forthcoming implementation rubric to help grantees understand how components of the framework including the cornerstone commitment should be reflected at each stage of the planning and implementation process lastly we recommend
124that the ta lead prioritize capacity building to support grantees in executing these commitments i'll close by thanking all the outgoing board members for their demonstrated commitment to equity and racial justice thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now my name is dr anya hurwitz and i'm the executive director of seal sobrado early academic language we have been working for well over a decade to center the assets and needs of our state's youngest multilingual learners the work to align and integrate early learning and k-12 systems and approaches is critical to move us towards educational equity therefore i urge the state board of education and cde to thread the early learning focus more fully across this framework this investment is an opportunity to do the complicated and
125necessary work to redesign our systems in ever more thoughtful and intentional ways by threading the focus of early learning throughout the framework we will be setting a clear vision for the role of early learning within our educational ecosystems in california furthermore this p12 alignment must elevate and build upon the cultural and linguistic assets of our communities and children this framework is a prime space to move this forward in powerful ways thank you thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good morning president donaham and members of the board lee angela reed on behalf of the small school districts association i'd like to thank the cde and state board staff for incorporating the feedback that came in in november and we are particularly appreciative of the
126recognition of the what we call the super smalls in the enrollment categories and uh the um to the streamlined process with everything going on for leas we greatly appreciate the awareness of what they're facing in for our small districts um the staff shortages hitting particularly hard so we look forward to the technical assistance i think that will be very helpful in getting these community schools out there to serve our family so we thank you for that like to congratulate the leadership of the board for their election and i will say my comments for our retiring member our leading members for later on but want to thank you all for your service thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now hello i'm shelley kirf on behalf
127of the small school district association it is vitally important that the department explicitly address and support the present realities of small and rural districts and charters in effect traditional competitive grant processes historically write off small leas especially given the current mandated planning and reporting associated with items like ab130 utk elop lcap sr3 on top of our coveted responses ssda members request that you consider all of the ways that plans and processes can be simplified and consolidated for small and rural districts and charters we recognize that these are really important and transformative opportunities and we really need your support and guidance thank you thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now i'm marc hernandez with californians together and speak in strong support of the community schools
128framework with a recommendation that it be augmented to align with the california english learner roadmap policy a recommendation necessary for community schools to be the powerful model they can be by inclusively speaking to the needs of and embracing english learner and immigrant students and families and uplifting issues of language and by literacy you have been provided with a recently developed crosswalk by californians together between the four pillars of the traditional community schools model the el road map and the racial equity transformational framework taking aspects of all three together they provide a strong framework for community schools that can powerfully and inclusively serve linguistically and culturally diverse communities we strongly urge the state board of education to incorporate this crosswalk language into the framework and i also extend a big thanks to the outgoing board members
129thank you very much thank you good morning caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good morning uh my name is enrique and i'm here representing the san diego unified school district we thank the board and the department for the work to develop the grant program for community schools san diego unified deeply believes in the mission of community schools and we are working on a plan to transform several of our schools into community schools and we are doing this in partnership with community members and labor representatives we appreciate the grant amount recommendations and we just urge the board to maximize funding for school sites as our analysis shows that the average cost can range anywhere from four hundred thousand to five hundred thousand thank you very much thank you
130that concludes public comment for item number two thank you very much to all the public commenters i know we are listening closely and taking it all in both for this moment and for all of the work that's going to unfold over the coming months i want to now open up for a board discussion and let me see who's ready to kick that off remember rucker why am i not surprised that your hand went up first i know you're like so that people know the cue go ahead i actually think my colleagues waited to see if i was going [Music] [Laughter] probably true i do need to commend and thank the superintendent as well as the team that he put together to do this work i'm going to say frankly in november when i saw not
131the write-up i was immersed in the detail of the attention that was paid in the write-up but i was also concerned about the elements that were not there it's kind of yeah at the start of an issue of a major undertaking like this you are concerned not only about how you're going to do the work but also understanding and then articulating to everyone else what the scope of the work is going to be and while it's tempting for me to want to see everything done and everything in place at the outset what i appreciate most from what i heard from steve zimmer and his team was the learning curve that they are on as well as the fact that the documents they are creating are intended to live in this process and grow in scope
132dimension and aspect over the course of this implementation so the only things that i'm going to comment on or at least leave some advice for you to consider are these as i heard superintendent thurman say there is a context within which this is going to be implemented and that is paying attention to the initiatives and the planning that is already in place and continuing and ongoing at the school sites so paying attention to how to lay this over as part of the template with the lcap planning and other school improvement initiatives are very important and it's very important to have heard that stated today my recommendation is the conversation with the other divisions in your department um have to be ongoing and continuous and they need to start working in a vacuum and thinking among
133yourselves is great because you'll agree with everything you think about but the perspective of hearing from other folks who have done this work already and are deeply immersed in supporting and working with the schools will give some context to some of the elements you are considering and the guidance that you are offering the second piece that i would like you to think about is coherence in over the scope of time there's going to naturally be this mission drift there's naturally going to be some things that will be tempting to take on or some issues or actions that you were asked to contemplate and to figure out in some way how to bring under the umbrella of the community school my advice and recommendation is to stay pure not only with the legislative intent but just
134to look at and always define the scope of your work by the four c by the four pillars that you have articulated in this plan they are all encompassing but at the same time they are very distinctive and very purposeful and very pointed in the reasons why those pillars serve as the foundational elements for this program and then finally the last piece of advice i want to offer you is to continue learning you don't know all the answers and i appreciate your humility in saying that today but the fact is you're never going to know all the answers and this is the question about what is in the best needs of the students and how is this community school fostering the outcomes and the goals that we have laid out here those need to be
135the questions you continue to live with and not simply go strive for the day when you can stand in front of the board and say we have the definitive answer we know everything because if you ever arrive at the moment where you believe you know everything about this program and you have figured it all out you will ultimately fail this program so i want to thank you for what you've done thank you for your expressions of your commitments to collaboration and collegiality but most important i want to thank you for the exploration that you are take undertaking with doing this work and your willingness to humble yourself to live with the questions and to say i don't know but this is something worth talking about in exploring thank you and i know that is the
136framework that everyone is bringing to this process i have member mcquillen glover woods straussberg and sun in that order so um remember mcquillen thank you man well said member rucker i it's hard to follow that up you said it all but i just want to say my appreciation for this presentation and this overall effort you know it does seem like it's right on time with what our schools are dealing with right now and the pandemic and trying to trying attempting to come out of it it seems to be well in order to help our students and our families our staff deal with the mental health issues i'm i'm also thankful for this entire initiative that it be based in from the community uh with culture in mind and the technical assistance centers and i'm thankful
137for that and that we uh and hopeful that we uh take into consideration the diversity of our state the different sizes of our lease districts throughout the state keeping that in mind and the stress that our staff and our schools are under right now i'm so thankful that we're kind of expanding out the opportunities for applying over the next couple of years because of that stress so many of our schools are dealing with the shortages of staff and positive tests right now and there's a lot coming at our schools right now and very stressed out so we need to definitely consider that thank you great thank you so much member glover woods thank you president darling hammond um first would like just to underscore the gratitude and the thanks for all of the staff that
138have worked so diligently on getting this framework developed as well as my fellow board members and our state superintendent this was definitely not an easy task to undertake a very important one but one that was not easy so thank you for all the work that has gone into developing the framework and future thanks for all the work that's going to go into taking it to the next step i do applaud the addition of the lead technical assistance center that was a critical piece to ensure that we have continuity as this model is implemented throughout our state and also thanks to really listening to so many educational partners throughout our state and incorporating their feedback in what has happened just a couple of thoughts as we move forward and these may be thoughts that have already
139been discussed so please understand um i know that there's quite a bit that happens in conversations and meetings that we may not always get to hear all of um during our meetings one of the first pieces i just want to encourage is to really try to nail down base amounts for the implementation grants because there's a matching requirement i do feel that anyone who is going to want to implement at the lea level would need to have some dollar figure to be able to work off of and it may also impact whether they decide to apply for a planning grant to move forward so as quickly as we can at least determine some type of a base amount for the implementation grants be them tiered by some of the suggestions that have come out in
140the item by size of school or otherwise that will be really critical for the field to have another point of encouragement and thought is around the technical assistance aspect of things i just can't emphasize enough how helpful graphics and visuals are as we move forward in the process so if there is a way to develop and publicize a graphic related to the timeline for the rfa process for both the planning and implementation grant i think that could be helpful to the field and to our communities also some type of graphic that can give a visual on the interconnectedness we've been talking about this morning kind of the interconnectedness of the pillars and the commitments to our existing processes for the lcap to the system of support entities having something that is able to visually represent
141that as well as in a written format will be very very helpful lastly i just encourage everyone to continue working with our educational partners that have provided feedback for the framework um also keeping in mind some of the feedback we've gotten on incorporating language around the students as educational partners language and early education and incorporating that language as appropriate to our pillars and commitments and even language in the rfa document so again applause applause for all of the hard work i think this is going to be another one of those california way implementations quite excited about that as we uh continue to lead work in education thank you so much for allowing me to comment i'm going to encourage um cde staff to keep track of points that they may want to respond to uh
142and we will come back uh and after we've heard from everyone uh and i know that they're keeping track of all the suggestions as well and i have uh in the queue uh member strauss member burr member son member granica and member rodriguez i remember patio bronson uh so member strauss thank you so i know uh first of all this is a huge investment three billion dollars a huge transformational opportunity i know it's supported by governor newsom president darling hammond and state superintendent thurman and i know everybody's been working really really hard to get this developed i just would say the opportunity is huge the timing right now for the field is challenging and i think we heard that from our comments both from board members and from the public that the field right now
143is trying to hold on and just keep schools open with the huge pandemic surge and what's happening so i want to be thoughtful about going slow to go fast this is a lot of money over time that could make a significant difference what um we heard also from our board members and from the public is the need to build a coherent align program so that this is not another categorical layer that sits on top and what i heard deputy superintendent zimmer said is we hope to align and build coherence i think we all hope that it doesn't feel there yet it doesn't feel ready it feels hopeful and it feels thoughtful but my worry is that we need to take the time as it evolves as member rucker says as we learn to develop this
144so that when we get to our dream of full implementation of community schools surrounding and wrapping around kit students and community and families it is well thought out well organized and layered and connected appropriately so again i support what member governor woods talked about about the technical assistance center as the first to try to think this through but i think we need to be very very thoughtful i think the words are there it right now it doesn't feel clear to me how it's going to actually work right now i think the intent is there i see the pillars i see the stakeholder engagement i hear the models of existing schools but this is transformational and i think we learned in our last decade this is going to take time to be thoughtful and i want
145to use three billion dollars thoughtfully to make the impact that was intended for this program so again um we need to connect to the system of support to our lcap and not make this another separate categorical we need to have alignment and coherence and i'm trusting the team i know you're leading meeting weekly day and night over the weekends to try to get this rolled out and i just would encourage us to go slow so we can get what we need and our hope for transformation really is um achieved so thank you very much thank you and um i i'm sure there are things that the staff will want to share about some of the planning that were you know not in the succinct presentation so we'll we will come back around for that um
146i don't know steve if you feel uh like there's anything you want to clarify at this moment or shall we wait until we hear all the no only to to express appreciation and to reiterate what you said okay great um and you know we do have five with five years um to implement this actually seven because for those many many districts that will uh look for planning grants which can last for as much as two years they'll have another five years after that to apply for and receive an implementation grant and and execute it so uh thankfully we do have a a framework uh with some places ready to roll in others that are going to take their time and a process that needs to figure out how to support both we have next in
147the queue member burn member son member bananka member rodriguez and member patil bronson thank you president darlingham and i greatly appreciate the ability to go after uh eileen strauss and cynthia glover woods because they hit on a lot of the topics that i wanted to to bring to your attention and i appreciated them i will mod the modeling that member rucker provided which is to give you some advice since we won't be here going forward um but so let me just frame what i want to say because you've heard a lot of the the tightening of of um the requirements here with the the lcap especially the dashboard and those kinds of things but i want to do a couple of specific things and just first start out by saying i really appreciated what superintendent
148thurman led with of community schools put the school at the center of services provided to students and to their families but i think it's also important and this is where i struggle a little bit with where we are the school is nested in a system it's part of a district it's part of a county it's part of a state system and our history being the historian here with school-centered reforms has not been it's been kind of jagged up and down and i'm sure that mr zimmer especially will appreciate this having gone through many of these in los angeles county so i just think it's important to sort of think about that again that schools don't exist in isolation they exist in this much bigger universe if you will so i just and and to that
149end right the system that the district has is being held accountable for by the state and ultimately by the federal government is our local control accountability plan the all of the dashboard indicators etc so i really encourage us not to to be very cautious about deviating from that except in those instances where it might be critical and and necessary for the school but still keeping in mind the additional burden that might be putting on the lea and there's just a couple of things i know we're talking about the framework and i i will add my voice to the chorus of people who congratulate the staff both the department staff and the board staff on the progress we've made from our first conversation but there are still there are a couple things in the actual item
150that really kind of caught my attention one of them has to do with the accountability piece um i'm not on the wrong piece of paper here but i'm going to model what mike curse said about me i do read every every word and every page it's actually in the item itself where there's an accountability piece and it talks about school outcomes and my concern again is that you we don't want to set up a system where we're setting up different outcomes for community schools or additional outcomes which are burdensome potentially on community schools that don't exist and don't provide comparable information across the system so i would just encourage you to look carefully at that and think about that and how that works um there's also i guess there's a there's a comment in the
151framework which also caught my attention and for all of my colleagues here who work so diligently on the instructional quality commission that says that community schools will design their own curricula and that made me go whoa because again our system has been built for many years on consistent standards on consistent frameworks on consistent curriculum guidance so if if it's necessary again for the community school to be successful i think we need to think carefully about that and again how does that fit into the bigger system as it relates to what our expectations are for all schools and districts in california and i would just say this is my advice to board members if i were still going to be here i would really want to have a tight connection between the board approval even potentially
152of the rfa or at a minimum board memos that are describing it because as everyone said and i commend folks who are working their best to learn this this is a very new endeavor and nobody has all the answers yet as member rucker articulately said but i think the board has an important role to keep on top of this as you go along so i just want to be clear about where where's the board touch points is it on the rfa is it only on the grant awards um and and just be thoughtful about that as you move forward thank you um member son hey so i'm going to continue picking at many of the points that have been brought up that maybe just add a little bit more layering to it um one is
153it's also want to thank the um the staff for fleshing out the framework and the design of the community schools i think that was really really well done and appreciate the work that went into it i want to pick up on the point of coherence having governor brown and mike cursed here earlier today reminds us of the work that was started and the promise to continue that work and therefore everything for coherence sake to be grounded in the lcf else cap process that we've developed where there is the community input parent student teachers the results analysis strategic planning continuous improvement all those pieces um need to be the the grounding from which any initiative including this community schools initiative should begin and um just a little bit kind of a lessons learned from the charter
154world a couple of things is as you embark on this this wonderful vision of creating these these schools um to attend to the organizational legal and regulatory barriers that you may very well run into in designing kind of new brand new schools and it could be anywhere from a archaic ed code that does not is no longer relevant or regulation that had unintended consequences for blood bearing uh barriers or blockage to to um creating something different and innovative so and and because of this i really um encourage some kind of a research documentation process as we embark on this initiative um and not just in uh tracking what worked but what did not work um i think those that's part of that continuous improvement process and in whether this this technical assistance center or what
155it might be but that um there'd be a research and a real kind of analysis um portion of this initiative and the last two piece that has also been brought up is around the goals and the outcomes and um we know from having reviewed lots of charters and charters coming up for renewal and all that five years is a charter and so we're we seem to like to set that five year mark but we also know that um without clarity of outcomes and what the expectations are when that fifth year comes up well we're not quite sure what to do where to go so i think um you know attending that and again kind of learn lessons learned from um looking at the what we've done with with charter schools could help with uh making
156this initiative successful okay thank you remember menanka thank you um first of all i of course want to thank the cd staff and superintendent thurman for all of the work put into this framework in particular i really appreciate the continued effort to involve the input of educational partners in the development of this framework especially in terms of student input as i've said before i think that making sure that there is significant emphasis placed on student engagement is crucial because students at the end of the day are going to be most affected by these decisions and so it only makes sense that their voices should be heard accordingly and so i trust that we will continue to meaningfully engage students in every step of the decision making process my only suggestion for the framework lies in
157the second pillar of the four pillars of community schools i would like to see student engagement explicitly mentioned um in this pillar i think that unless we're really explicit about student voice and actually listening to that student voice i worry that students can easily be brushed over especially in conversations and meetings that are mostly led and populated by adults i know that i've experienced this many times at the personal level and i'm sure many many other student leaders um share that same experience and so i just think being more explicit will just help emphasize the importance that students will play in shaping their own education and i think we can all agree on the importance of this but all in all i'm really excited to see this investment play out i know that it really
158directly addresses so many of the concerns that i've heard from students about the achievement gap and so i'm really excited to see it see it all play out thank you member rodriguez yes thank you um and i also want to acknowledge uh superintendent thurman cde for all of the work that has been done since our last meeting there i would have would have liked to have seen a little more information more detailed information about the rfa at this point only because we do have one more meeting before right when we start looking at approving this according to what we spoke about in october and i just feel with everything that's happening at school sites right now we are under a lot of pressure and everybody uh you know one day we're counting on somebody the
159next day uh they're out uh quarantining right because maybe they tested positive and so we're we just have a lot of there there's a lot of unknown right now so as uh as quickly as uh this could be done i would appreciate it because it'll be less pressure for for our sites and for it to be successful um and also you know i'm not going to repeat what everybody else said because the comments were wonderful uh and i just want to uh acknowledge our the people who called in and wrote our our partners our educational partners because there were some very valid points regarding making sure that there there are clauses or or caveats in place that uh community schools won't be won't have a punitive component and uh for policing or things of that
160nature for our students right we want to make sure that it's a place where our students are are built up and where their um the resources are there to support them also as a teacher with a very active bargaining unit i like the idea of having there be an mou and have input where applicable right that would be where applicable because not all school sites have bargaining units but i think that that's very important for the buy-in and especially for the teacher voice if there isn't uh a union within the school site um and i also want to uh acknowledge the work um that you know uh our caller martha agnondis mentioned right which was the the crosswalk that they created for the um language right especially with our focus on by literacy and perhaps
161uh taking another look at that as we're going through this process um and and i just want to acknowledge um sue i uh chuckled a little bit when you were talking about the curriculum because that is something that stood out for me but in a different way because of my experience at east palo alto high school where we created curriculum using you know college prep standards for uh students based on the community that they were in right so their freshman year they were studying psychology sociology uh political philosophy but they were using the lens within their community so they were examining their community and that's what stood out for me when i saw that because i thought this is so much of what i like to do with my students have them learn the content
162and be able to examine their community and where they are and how it affects them so anyway with that thank you thank you and member patel bronson well join the chorus of thank yous to the superintendent um for all of the clear thought and work that has gone into this and progress as well as to steve zimmer for the presentation i think um i'll just align myself with a number of the comments i think that were made earlier um i'll start with the student engagement piece that board member banaca lifted up i'm i'm thinking about this piece of lifting up student engagement also in the context of some of our prior conversations around civic engagement and civic learning and there's few better opportunities for students to actually engage in shaping what their lives look like
163than affecting what their schools look like um and i think this is a a real opportunity to lift up student voice to invite student voice and and to center it in a different sort of way um in addition i'll also align myself with the comments earlier from board or board vice chair glover woods it has a fun ring to it [Music] around the importance of bi-literacy um integrating the el road map and lastly and this will be no surprise to any anyone here early education being integrated i think community schools around the country have done really exciting work in terms of getting ahead of achievement gaps by building in community-based partnerships for the full of zero to five not necessarily always school districts offering it directly but really making sure that that early education pipeline
164is a part of the community schools offer offering i think steve mentioned or offered the this idea that this is ultimately an equity initiative that is aiming to transform outcomes i think all of that would bolster that process whether that goes into the rfa guidance document i think is something to in the tbd category um but it needs i think to be part of what school districts are encouraged to think through as they start to tailor the programming thanks so uh i think we've heard from everyone who had their hand raised i'm just double checking i want to just add a small comment as i pass the ball back to um steve zimmer and superintendent thurman for any uh clarifications that you'd like to make before we take up the motion um one of them
165is i think uh probably uh many of us assume that families include students but there's been a lot of recognition that we want to be sure that the student voice is understood to be included in that in that context the other just small comment is i'm thinking about the many ways in which the term curriculum is used at sort of one level there are sort of curriculum goals and curriculum frameworks which we do adopt at the state and then at the level of the school and classroom teacher there are curriculum decisions being made all the time of the sort that remember rodriguez was talking about is used at many levels i understood it in your framework to be really the decisions that are made appropriately within of our curriculum frameworks etc at the school and
166classroom level to bring the curriculum to the child and the child to the curriculum so to speak as john dewey putting so you may want to clarify if that is if if we've understood things in the way that you intended them and i'll turn it back to you for any further clarifications uh and comments before we take up a motion thank you so much uh to to all the board members i deeply appreciate the comments and uh and i'll start uh president darlingham and you're absolutely right uh it has to do with those with that um you know that those decisions those those instructional decisions um the relevance at the the school the at the school site in the school community within the context of the framework um why i reference uh board member rodriguez's
167comments um about how you know really with with listening and shared decision making we we you know through that listening and co-learning we're able to to create classrooms within the context of the state curricular frameworks that really honor and uplift the the experience of our students and their families and their community um but also you know helped to include our students in the process of of building that learning environment and ensuring that relevance so thank you for that clarification um and i just again um you know as i said at the beginning we really do see ourselves as co-learners in this process um and this has been this is like advanced placement co-learning for me um with all with all of you and i and i i really um i i really i know our
168whole team uh uh pete diana lisa and myself and all the rest of our team really um appreciate all the comments and the feedback and the wisdom that you've shared i just want to highlight and clarify uh a couple of things and then turn it back to the super superintendent um one is that we we really do appreciate um the coherence and alignment uh points and conversations that that uh points and feedback that that has been given and want to continue i think to to address uh board member strauss's you know comment and honesty yes we need to bring this from hope into action and make sure that um these conversations that i i referenced um solidifying the ways that it was very clear that that board members expect that and that we are that
169is our priority i'm building into this because we don't want this to be something that's layered on top or siloed we see this as fully aligned and integrated and we'll take the necessary steps to continue to to to elevate it and make it you know from hope to real um and uh i also just want to um to highlight i think the board president you know did a great job of this we do need to uh continue to emphasize student voice and to call out student voice specifically we did see that um you know both as encompassed in in in family um and there are many points in the framework where students are in that that you know that that communal list i really appreciate board member monaca and board member patrilla brunson elevating that
170and and that that has been where our heart has been that just needs to to be again uh elevated and and actualized and i'll i'll just you know i'll i'll just stop there and say that all of these comments and and all of this input on is is greatly appreciated um we will we will communicate back on certain specific points um and i know that um you know these these key elements that you brought up um will help to guide us moving forward with that i want to hand it back to the superintendent again with our great thanks for the learning and wisdom that you shared thank you mr zimmer thank you uh madam president members of the board for what i call gifts you've given us gifts of thought uh or as uh it
171was placed today uh advice and we thank you for that uh board member rucker and uh and uh uh son and others who have given advice uh for how this might move forward i think as president darling hammond has suggested community schools is not completely new it is it is uh something that california has a very rich and robust tradition in history in implementing it is true we are looking at how it is implemented in schools in some new ways in ways that it can have more transformative effects it is not in any way intended to replace what exists and we are actually are very appreciative of the call for looking for continuity for cohesion there have been many conversations that have taken place in earnest amongst the various divisions and branches at the department
172of education about how does community schools connect to the important work that's been established by the systems of support in lcap and we will continue to have those conversations with school leaders about how do we um help to make those connections i also want to acknowledge that we have heard the feedback that many of you heard you pointed out board member burr and others that um schools feel uh like everything is just falling down on them in terms of opportunities and requirements and it is difficult to balance and we've given a great deal of thought to how community schools can um be a resource and how do we implement it in a way where it it doesn't feel like one more thing that they have to do because it's more more than that it is
173a powerful resource as someone who's had a chance to work for community schools and help start schools full service community schools districts like our board president we know that it is actually a critically desired resource that our school districts want and so we have been in conversations with school leaders about how it gets implemented um to not feel like it's just a laundry list of things that they now have to carry out and if we have it available there is a graphic that i'd like to share with the board um that shows how we've been thinking about community schools in relation to many of the other programs that are coming to our schools like universal tk and universal meals and if uh if uh if we have the graphic i'd like to show it but
174just know that that is how we're thinking about community schools as yes we see it as a centerpiece to helping students to heal and to recover and to thrive but we also see us connected to many of the important programs that have been laid out and we will continue to have those conversations about how we uh support the implementation of community schools and i also just want to say thank you a board member bananka and patil bronson for lifting up the importance of student voice we will continue to ensure that there is meaningful student voice and participation at every level we have some meetings that are scheduled where there will be a high level student low participation we know that the rfa will speak to many of the concerns that we heard from some of
175the callers and we agree that community schools should never be used to support any hardening kind of resources or use of law enforcement there'll be clarity in many ways in the rfa about things that really um are not intended to be part of community schools and clarity about what community schools the fact is and you are helping us on that very first step with today's framework conversation so with that we want to say thank you for the feedback um as board member rutgers says it's always a chance to learn new information but we're going to be working to build off of california's very robust uh tradition that already exists in community schools and how to use this opportunity for this very challenging moment that our california schools are in as we speak so thank you
176madam board president and members of the board we respectfully ask for your i vote on this framework and moving much more thank you um i did not see that uh very wonderful graphics show up but if we don't aren't in a position to show that this morning we'll make sure it goes out perhaps in one of the next board members that that goes out as we're you know continuing to inform the board about all the details that are going to unfold over the coming months we do need to put up the resolution if we can again if someone is personing the uh video um and then we need a motion can i can i get a motion to approve the framework and the amendment to the um previous administrative plan there we go i would
177like to make a motion to approve the recommendation that the state board of education approved the proposed ccspp framework and the amendment to the administrative plan could i get a second account a second thank you very much uh brooks will you call the roll for the vote number son hi member strauss yes number rucker yeah remember rodriguez yes member of patilla brownson yes member mcquillen aye vice president glover woods yes president darling hammond yes member i remember banaca i passes unanimously all right terrific this is a wonderful start thank you so much uh we have earned ourselves lunch and uh we can take actually until about uh 12 45 so we'll see you back in however many minutes that is see you at 12 45 thank you and remember don't leave the meeting just turn
178off your camera on your microphone all right board members welcome back we need to re-establish a quorum so brooks is going to call the role member strauss present member rucker present member rodriguez here member patillo brownson here member mcquillen dear vice president glover woods here number escabado here president darling hamilton here member all right we're going to move ahead with item three item three is the california assessment of student performance and progress and the english language proficiency assessments for california approval of the proposed contract amendment extension within the university of california santa cruz for the california educator reporting system approval of revisions to the student score reports for the california assessment of student performance in progress and the english language proficiency assessments for california and an update on program activities and we are encouraged to
179approve those amendments and the item will be presented by sheryl cotton and malvang of the cde uh cheryl and mal please begin thank you and good morning getting our slide up yep thank you i will be uh putting this light up now do any assistance thank you superintendent thurman president darling hammond and board members i'm cheryl cotton deputy superintendent of instruction measurement and administration branch the item before you today is an action and an information item next slide today's presentation will cover the following topics we will provide provide an overview of cde's recommendation for approval as well as background information on the two requested action items for today then we will give you some casts and elpac updates and finally we will return to the cde cde's recommendation for sbe action now we'll hand the
180presentation over to malvang director of the assessment development and administration division now thank you cheryl um i will begin uh superintendent thurman president darling hammond and esteem board members thank you cheryl for uh as you have mentioned i'm malvin the director for the assessment development and administration division at the california department of education i just want to let you all know that we also have marianne arcella who is the executive director of k12 assessments at ets our contractor for the our assessments and tony albert who is the executive director from the smarter balanced assessment consortium here to assist with uh should they arise so i will move on to our next slide i'm not sure why it's not smoothing which is the recommendation for approval so [Music] the california department here is our recommendation for
181approval the california department of education or cde has uh is recommending that the california state board of education or sbe approve the following an amendment extending the contract uh contract number cn1702 which would be amendment three that includes the current california department of education and the university of california santa cruz or ucsc interagency agreement as well as the customization configuration and implementation of the california educator reporting system or which we also call sirs as found in attachments 2 2a and 2b and in addition the california also recommend that the um sbe authorized the cde and sbe staff to make any technical edits to the amendment as needed prior to its execution the second action is the revisions to the 2021-22 student score reports uh or ssr's for for the california assessment of student performance in
182progress or cast and the english language proficiency assessments for california or alpac as found in the samples in attachment 3. moving on i will provide some background information on the cdes recommendations for approval the um beginning with the the background on california's or cdes and also the university of sorry excuse me i'm just going to see if i can move this over a little bit um background on the cde and you and the uc um santa cruz contract amendment the california membership in the smarter balanced assessment consortium does include or or includes the use of the consortium's educator reporting system the house results from the smarter balanced uh interim assessments and summative assessments for english language arts and literacy and uh mathematics so in november 2018 the sbe approved an amendment to that interagency agreement
183with the uc or the university of california santa cruz to include the customization configuration and implementation of the educator reporting system for all cast results as well as the summative lpac results so at that time um it was done in that way so the reporting system is now um as we call it the california educator reporting system and this uh this current contract which includes it along with the interagency agreement is is set to expire on june 30 so this contract has really strengthened california's online assessment system by providing this one single source for local educational agency staff to access individual and aggregate student results from not only the smarter balanced interim assessments as i mentioned for english and math and also the summative assessments for english and math but also our california science test
184the california alternate assessments for english math and science and the california spanish assessment as well as the summative alpac so approval of the scope of work within this amendment will allow for the extension of the california department of education and university of california santa cruz interagency agreement as well as that ongoing customization configuration and implementation of the california educator reporting system through june 30 2027. my computer is a little sticky so excuse the delay somehow it's not so please note that um there is a credit from the um university of santa cruz uh contract in the amount of 3.9 million that is being applied to this amendment the consortium membership credit was due largely to the summative testing being suspended in the 2019-20 school year due to the cova the impact of the covicon pandemic
185and the sbe approval of the adjusted version of the test in the 2021 to be used so the proposed amendment will increase the overall contract with the university of california santa cruz by 51 million 733 335 dollars from fiscal years 2022 through uh 2022-23 through june 30 2027. so the total amount um would be the the 102 million 555 as found in the details in attachment b so any funding or the funding for the 2022-23 school year and beyond or fiscal years and beyond will be contingent on an annual appropriation being made available from the legislature next i will transition to the second action provided and provide background on the revisions to the student score reports or ssrs for each state assessment and on an annual basis they are reviewed by the the state board
186of education and approved by the state board of education so the the proposed revisions although minor they are necessary to reflect the most recent updates that um to test administration as well as to ensure that the key information regarding student performance is communicated clearly to parents and guardians i'll start with the cast student score report revisions so in order to reflect those recent changes and communicate clearly to parents we found that some things may be confusing given the changes so we're proposing the following uh revisions uh to the 2020 oh from the 2021 uh 2021 uh ssrs so it is worth recommending that um the school and state averages be removed from each of the casp ssrs these averages were really historically uh have been based on a rolling average from the previous three years
187so the suspension of testing in the 20 20 20 19 20 school year and with the low testing volumes in the 20 20 21 school year that really impacted the calculation of these three-year rolling averages to the extent that it would not provide parents and guardians in for in information or informative reference um to compare 2021-22 student performance i mean 20 20 21 student performance so um due to the use of the adjusted blueprint again for the smarter balanced assessments uh another thing is that the student claim levels a claim claim uh reporting categories or results will not be available on the student school report so the link language here indicate um there's language indicating that this has been updated to remove reference to that year the 2019-2020 school year so um and then in
188addition one year of score history has been added to the california spanish assessment report an additional technical edit has also been made to the location of uh what we would call an asterisk or a footnote to add more clarity um to improve the clarity on that four note so that these are the revisions to the cast uh reports and then for the alpaca the california english language proficiency assessments for california the revisions are technical in nature and these are proposed uh for the 2021-22 school a summative alpac and which we are in right now so um because the alternate alpac is now operational there is um there was a footnote and ref indicating on the summary of alpaca ssrs that a local alternate assessment was administered um as such that asterisk and the footnote um
189will be removed from those uh student score report specifications another technical edit um is proposed to update there is a double asterisk indicating the use of an in unlisted resource um because the asterisk and the footnote regarding that administration of the local assessment above uh would not um be applicable the double asterisk um should only be one so we're making that change as well so um next were um the city proposes the addition of a couple um um uh tax sections we're proposing the addition of the of adding a little blurb about the incomplete tests uh notes were available and eligible but not tested in the score history section really to provide clarity and specificity for parents and guardians regarding y is for is not indicated in their child's alpac history so previously this section
190indicated only no score available which did not provide parents and guardians with sufficient information so finally um other than the school year there are no proposed changes to the initial alpac as a student score report or the alternate alpac student score report for 2021-22 the initial alpaca student school report um received approval from the the state board of education in january and the alternate alpaca student score report received approval in november of 2020. so samples of the student score reports for each california assessment with all the proposed revisions where applicable are are included in attachments free this includes the sample lexile quantile measures reports as well uh other than the year um they were first released in the spring of 2021 and other than the year we're not proposing any changes at this time and
191now i would like to share some um program updates with you uh regarding the california assessment of student performance and progress as well as the english language proficiency assessments for california starting with um the casp or statewide testing windows so as we sit here the window opened yesterday for the majority of the casp assessments it opens on january 1st this is the statewide testing window and it goes through july 15 2022 for the majority of the test components that are under cast with the smarter balance summative assessments for english and math the california science test the california alternate assessments for english and math and i have a little note on the science test and then the california spanish assessment and for the california alternate assessment for science its testing window really opened on september 2021
192through the last day of instruction for a particular local educational agency or july 15 2022 whichever comes first so local educational agencies have the majority of the school year to administer the california alternate assessment for science oh okay so another um key program updated like to share with you is that we are in the process of um working on a smarter balanced demonstration a concept study and this is a partnership really with smarter balanced as well as the new teacher center and we are conducting a demonstration of concept study to examine how the performance tasks can be incorporated into classroom instruction to support student and learning students and learning so some of the key components of the study um include embedded professional learning for teachers and administrators uh administration of the smarter balanced summative oh
193no interim assessment performance tasks or key ones which include classroom support activities and then we will gather data and information and analyze insights from teachers and students to better understand their experiences using these performance tasks as part of the study so a team of cde's assessment development and administration staff contributed to the development of the materials along with the smarter balanced and the new teacher center and the professional learning sessions are really for the participation of the participating local educational agencies and that will start this month and um just to recap there was a little bit of an update since our item went out the two count there we will now only have two california local educational agencies participating in this study and those are val verde unified school district and upper lake unified school
194district as well as the state of hawaii and they have a school district participating remember we are part of a larger consortium so initially the state of washington was expected to participate as well but at this time they cannot do so so we will bring forward any updated activities to you later this spring and then um some updates about the to highlight for you about the california science test um as i mentioned earlier the window for um the science test also opened yesterday um a key update that i wanted to share with you is really the revised blueprint is being implemented this year the cast revised blueprint the sbe approved it in january 2020 but due to the covet pandemic and and we had um brought to you that previous forms were being continued to
195use because it wasn't um the best to switch um test forms in the middle of a pandemic so with the revised blueprint students are now receiving fewer test questions overall and they are receiving a minimum of three performance tasks covering the three science domains which are earth and space sciences life sciences and physical sciences so we also have training and practice tests along with scoring guides and annotated examples are also available on the casper website to support students and teachers um continuing with science the science instructional resources development and and placing them in the calif the tools for teachers um the update on that is that in we continue to work with california science educators to develop these uh instructional resources and in total currently we have the 55 science resources that we have been
196um sharing with local educational agencies and they're really focused on kindergarten through grade five so the list of the science resources was added to this item in attachment four for your reference um in fall of 2021 um the cde worked with a small group of california science educators to develop seven new resources um and the focus of that is really for middle and high school resources and they will also be added to the um tools for teachers website so um moving on we i'm gonna share the alpac statewide testing windows this a little just some lpac updates for you uh first is the initial alpac that really opened then july uh it was specifically um july 6 but really that week of the first through on july and june 30 2022 um it's available um
197students as students enroll and they have they have a home language um survey other and that they have a language other than english they are to be administered the initial alpac within the first 30 calendar days and it's used for that initial identification process then we do have the alternate all pack that our first operational field test remember we could not do this last year and we postponed it to this year so the window is open from november 1 uh 2021 through february 15 2022 and then our summit eval pack the window will open on february 1st and it will open until may 31st for that administration um as uh in terms of the summa develop update uh in in preparation really for the opening of the window because that's where the majority of our
198eos will be taking the test um we have the training certification in our training site called the moodle training site and it we have made some um adjustments and it really opened last fall on october 8th with a whole new look and feel and it's really based on feedback from the local educational agencies or educators from the field they are there are a number of key features here but um in terms of um making things a little bit easier to use for the field but all of these updates have been made to assist examiners in passing the speaking calibration quizzes in order to accurately score students speaking responses on the summative english language professions proficiency assessments for california and then the alternate all pack um i wanted to highlight a couple of things about the
199alternate alpac for you so we um opened the window up and it is anticipated that we will collect uh sufficient data for the standard setting process which is really a key part of test development it is set for february 24th through um the 22nd through 24th for grades kindergarten through uh grades two for kindergarten through grade two and then um the uh february 28th through march 2nd will be for the upper grades grades three through 12. we will have a standard setting planned um to you in april probably in the form of uh sbe memorandum or information memorandum and then in may we will come back to you and bring the proposed threshold scores for your review and consideration and with that um i'm towards the end of my presentation just want to remind people
200that they could follow us on at cde assessments and um um be uh they could get some of the latest updates following us on the twitter and then uh before i go and turn this over back to you board president i wanted to mention the revisions to the iadom uh we did have some um typos in attachment four that we updated and uh the first version that we did upload was not accessible for some of the contract documents so we did do revisions to that as well just to recall and capture that for the public and our board members here and with that i'm going to stop sharing and turn it over to you thank you uh we want to put up the public comment slide if you can do that i apologize that's okay
201yeah so we'll open the phone line for public comment queue and members of the public who wish to provide comment on this item can do so by calling the telephone number and using the access code provided on the slide that is shown now perfect timing uh thank you and you might want to put it in full wide mode there we go and while we're waiting for members of the public to call it i want to ask member son if she has any initial comments before i make my comments and then we'll see if there are clarifying questions before we go to public comment uh member son i guess she may not be back yet she had something that came up [Music] okay i'm gonna then go ahead and make my comments and we'll see if
202there's any clarifying questions before we go to public comment um first of all i just wanna thank you for all the work that has been going on to you know make all of these pieces um line up you know in relation to what we've had to do during the pandemic and so on i do want to call out for board members attention the um demonstration of concept that you talked about because it is really part of a broader set of concerns that have come about uh both in california and across the country about how to think about the role of state testing uh we did shorten the smarter balanced portion of the smarter balance test the casp uh and also the cast to make it more plausible to do end-of-year testing there's been of course
203a lot of concern about how to manage testing during these times and in the course of that there have been conversations both here and across the country about how can we develop assessments that are giving information along the way not just waiting for a very long set of tests at the end of the year which is what our current compilation of assessments end up when you add them all together end up providing and so this idea of taking the performance tasks which are the longest portions of the smarter balance tests and letting them be used in the classroom embedded in an instructional context setting that teachers learn to do making that possible so that the end of the year assessment is shorter but also so that there's more engagement with the measurement of the standards
204throughout the year so the teachers know more about what the tasks are that students are being asked to undertake and so that they get information along the way about how students are doing is something that um you know a number of states have been very interested in doing and there are a number of states that also have iada grants innovation authority demonstration act grants from the federal department of education to build curriculum uh connected assessments that are often called through course assessments that happen during the year but are part of the ultimate scoring for the um state assessment system so this is just want to put that in context this is part of a conversation that's going on both in california i do want to clarify that we have not annexed hawaii it is it
205is still its own state but it is also engaged in this work along with the districts in california that are doing this i know there's great interest in washington state and we've heard from other states as well that they will be trying to take up this um uh evaluation of possibilities uh in the coming year when we're not in the middle of the all the challenges that we're in the middle of right now i'm very grateful that there are two districts that are so committed to this that they are willing to hang in there and they do have um quite a large number of classrooms and teachers involved so we'll want to hear back about the results of that uh effort to see what is possible to get the pros and cons and the evaluation
206of that um and when we did work through our contract with uh educational testing service i know there was also conversation about the possibilities of some of the performance tasks from the science assessment uh also potentially being used during the school year so this is something we'll be coming back to i just wanted to flag it for folks so that we know that this is the beginning of an ongoing um conversation and appreciate all the work that you and others have done in that regard um are there any clarifying questions from the board before we turn to public comment and let me just make sure that i'm not missing anyone uh i'm not seeing any clarifying questions so i think we can go to public comment do we have public commenters uh yes we do
207there are currently nine people signed up for public comment i will open the phone line now good afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record hi this is christina salazar with californians together we appreciate the work of the board and the department to provide a stacked version of cast in spanish for by literacy programs and military students this board item presents some important valuable new resources to enhance the assessment and new support for students being assessed and for teachers to prepare their students we would like the board to advise the department to begin the process for developing these resources in spanish and if needed seek funding to support the work we're requesting that the department submit
208the budget request for assessments that bc embedded in the request from the department without these equal supports it puts these students taking the cast in spanish at a disadvantage to those taking the assessment english thank you very much thank you good afternoon please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good morning ruth barajas or good afternoon rather good ruth barajas from californians together in the spring of 2021 a valuable professional learning opportunity was offered for coordinators and teachers on the use of the lexile framework for reading and the lexile and quantile hub tools we urge the department to conduct this session for bilingual teachers administering the california spanish assessment and provide the tools and resources in spanish to support the use of spanish literature rated lexile levels and so what
209we along with this um uh along with our letter we've attached a sample list of resource lists for your reference we also noticed that for all different assessments and the first question on the student report form is the definition for parents like what is the elpac that question helps parents understand the content and purpose of the assessments however on the initial elpac uh that question is not included and we brought this the attention of cde staff and we understand that this could be a technical change after the approval of the item so we ask that you please support this technical change and approval of this item um before thank you colin your time is up report form thank you thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts
210now caller with the last four digits 3582 you're you are live and you may start your public comment now oh hello my name is diana thompson and i'm an elementary public school teacher and a member of case science must be on the dashboard right along beside ela and math this year in my experience science is not taught in the elementary classroom the priority is ela and math since they are on the dashboard it is critical for science education to be valued and taught in grades tk through 16 so we can prepare our students for jobs of the future medical technology and engineering assessment is critical but if the assessment data is not visible to all then it will not be valued nor recognized educators parents and students need the data on the dashboard so they
211can ensure equity for all students clients must be on the dashboard so there's accountability and a system of support and better planning and better results for our kids thank you for allowing my comments and all that you do to support science education for students thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon president darlene hammond and board this is liv guillen with public advocates i want to underscore a concern from the comments by the ltf equity coalition we are concerned with the loss of some of the information in the cast assessment reports we think it will be more difficult for students and parents to put a student's scores in context about some of the comparison information we think that there has um well that information
212is really useful and we expect that in the upcoming testing we're going to it will be even more relevant because there will be uh some declines um we also want to underscore i want to underscore reinforce what my colleagues in california together just testified to by adding the the lexile and quantile score to the report and also by making clear on the student report forms the purposes thank you colley your time is up next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now next colleague please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon jessica sacco calling in on behalf of children now specifically relative to the student score report these student report students and parents and guardians are seeking context to better understand how
213their students are doing unfortunately the proposed reports take a step in the wrong direction specifically the planned reports would eliminate two key reference points for the students scores school average and state average in addition there is a missed opportunity to report at the same time on a student's lexile and quantile scores adding additional context as well as access to resources relative to these combined reference points we recommend that the board restore the school and state averages as well as incorporate lexile and quantile scores to these reports further in september the board took action to shorten the language arts and math assessments for the spring 2022 administration to date there have been mixed messages that we have received about whether this is a one-time uh change or a permanent shift because the shortened tests are less
214precise thank you colleagues verifying the length of the test thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now caller with the last four digits of the phone number 5085 you are live you may start your public comment now okay next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now i'm hope oliver a scientist turned secondary educator and working with kate i teach in earth space life and physical sciences since the 1990s days of integrated science instruction that now reached their fullest expression in the ngss and i first stand experiences as an early adopter of ngss compel me to advocate for action by the board for a science placeholder on the dashboard so every district will plan now to consistently direct resources towards
215staff training and classroom tools supporting improved performance for all students across california secondary best items with performance tasks integrating earth space life and physical science so cast measures developments of the habits of mind to ask questions and apply skills in ways connecting the three just as practiced by me and all who work in stem fields thank you so much for considering my comments thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now hello this is doug mcrae a retired educational measurement specialist for monterey i'd like to alert you that the attachment number two was not did not arrive in the public access to the public until this morning i would suggest that any action that you take regarding the financial aspects and of the relationship with the smarter
216balanced consortium that you put off this item until the next board meeting thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon president darling hammond and members of the board of education this is manuel bonrostro with californians together we want to call your attention to the opportunity presented in a testament one that is focused on outreach and professional development there's an opportunity here to provide needed support for teachers and analyzing student responses and informing implications for teaching and learning we suggest that part of this professional learning include is our responses is from an el student and at what proficiency level the discourse in the response should be looked at not only for content knowledge but also for english language proficiency therefore we urge the inclusion of
217this professional learning to include an analysis of the discourse of second language learners in addition to the content knowledge when enhanced querying constructed responses items we also urge the department to conduct this this session for bilingual teachers and also to provide tools and resources to support the use of spanish literature rated by lexile thank you for calling the letter submitted uh we have enough thank you carla your next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon members and members of the public my name is mrs arias and i wish to bring to your attention any injustice that are happening and occurring in this special education department i have first-hand experience on how selpas and district school districts are denying a special education services especially needs children law
218firms are making profit in taking students into due process and many times when they decide to litigate rather than provide services or assessments i wish to a request that you suggest let's help us be audited so you can learn how much of our tax payer dollars are being spent on litigation please follow us at the youtube movement less thank you caller sorry to interrupt i think you would like to speak towards item number four we are currently taking public comment for item number three if you don't mind calling back later on in the afternoon certainly i will do okay thank you so much next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now i'm peter ahern president of the california association of educators i want to congratulate president darling hammond
219on her re-election i also want to thank the outgoing board members for their service and especially eileen strauss for being a friend of science education i thank cde for adding science to the tools for teachers resources and for exploring embedded performance tasks since cast results will be on the dashboard in 2023 it's important that districts know that this is uh know this as they develop their lcat plans otherwise they won't plan for ngss and science instruction in advance we have strong evidence that most california teachers do not have ngss aligned curriculum and haven't had adequate professional development even though the ngss were approved in 2013. the implementation of ngss exposed deep inequities in which many students do not have access to the science skills that set the foundation for stem careers we advocate for a
220science placeholder on the dashboard to let districts know that science results are coming a letter detailing the suggestion was sent to the board by a coalition of california science education leaders thank you thank you that concludes public comment for item number three perfect thank you and remember sun has returned and so before we get going into full board discussion i want to give you an opportunity to offer your thoughts about this item yes thank you so much and i do apologize for coming a bit late in the into this item and uh so first of all i did catch the um your comments um president lenny uh darling hammett around the nationally the movement to look at assessments in a different way and how we assess student learning in a more holistic way and differently
221than how we have done so in the past so i'm very excited to hear about that and hope to track um that work moving forward um the other piece on um this assessment item as you see uh the assessment division continues to do a lot of work during this time and there have been a number of leadership changes um and great people who have um come and gone and i just appreciate mao and her team and the continued work that they have done in this area um and recognizing carrick ashley and michelle mcintosh and rachel mays for what they have done in their contributions in the past and now for your work moving this team forward um and when after the board has a chance to have a discussion i will be ready to um
222move forward cd's recommendations thank you very much um there are a couple of points of clarification that um emerged in the course of the caller comments and i wonder if we could just ask mao or cheryl to address the plans for getting science on the dashboard and getting the test in spanish those were two questions that came up um in terms of science on the dashboard i mean that would have to be um we should probably have cindy kazanas on the okay meeting that's a good point i'm addressing the questions of the wrong division i i think we were waiting until we had at least two years of data to consider that and we are not yet at that point where we have two years of data we may be soon do you address the
223question about whether there are plans to put the tests into spanish um the science test or which one i think the color was referring to the science well we have in the science we do have the stack translations for student of the science um in the item it is one of the resource or designated supports if a student should need uh stack translations they could have that as a designated support it doesn't change the construct of the test or anything like that so they could access it through that so if you have an english learner who may not and may need have that designated support they can have it even today thank you last last clarification i think there was a question about why we're not reporting district and state average with scores this year
224and my understanding was that because we did not have a representative sample of students in sufficient numbers taking uh any given test the smarter balance test in this case that it would be inappropriate to put averages for the state or the district in in the uh report that is that the correct understanding yes um you understand it correctly we'll have two very lonely years you know the 2019-20 there was nothing there and then even the low participation in the 2021 as we just released the results um was it only last friday linda it wasn't it feels like movie years ago but it was yes um night 2018-19 would be kind of lonely by themselves and they're really rolling years of uh three previous years so it doesn't even include the current of the most recent
225year so we thought that would not be a very informative for the families they could also look at the public web reporting that has you know for as many years as they are available if they should want to look at compared to their own school their own district county or state and even grade levels so um the reference point they should be looking at in comparison was would be the public web reports all right thank you i think those are the clarification points that came to me as we were listening let me open up the floor to discussion from the board and and went member strauss then remember escobado the member um so mal thank you and the team for all the work as this process continues to evolve um i just wanted to make
226a couple of comments um first i recognize that last year i think we had a 24 student um if i read last week correctly that took it so i recognize that it isn't a fully reflective of really what um assessment happened last year so this year i know um we're looking closely i appreciate the effort by the leadership to continue to look at innovative opportunities to not just do a one-time test but throughout the year and i appreciate president darling hammond's comments about our performance tasks and use of them during the year i want to um reflect um quickly on science since i'm the outgoing second liaison to science and i know all the liaison responsibilities will be reassigned once the new board members come on but let me just say as our science colleagues
227said you know we adopted in 2013 the standards as we all know the state process takes a while so first you adopt the standards we started with an expert panel we had standards took us a year and a half to do the framework and then another year and a half or so to get aligned materials and just as districts were piloting and looking for materials that would best meet their students needs based on our state process covet hit and so many districts never did do the final adoption and are just barely thinking about it now with all the other things that districts are thinking about and so i don't want us to lose sight of the fact that science we all are committed to it we know these standards are 20 years from the last
228set of standards we need them we know a lot more about science now and i don't want us to lose sight of how important supporting teachers and leaders and understanding the shifts in next generation science are so what the board made a commitment under uh president kirst that when we had valid and reliable data for two years we would put it on the dashboard but that it would be valid and reliable which is really important to remember because we don't want to misrepresent what we're learning as we do these assessments but i do want to remind everybody that we need to support districts as they gain back their transition which now we're hoping will be this fall to remembering that we need to support teachers who don't even necessarily have aligned materials to next generation
229science and they are administering these assessments but our students haven't had the ongoing experience that they deserve and need to have going forward so i just want to raise the awareness that the materials then the training of teachers and the implementation over time before we just test them to see what kids know and that our commitment is when we have valid and reliable data i know there's some proposals in the letters and i trust that the cde team with state board staff will look at that but i want to remember that we did make that commitment going forward when we were ready and again i want to thank everybody i know it's been really really tough and i know we haven't paid attention because we haven't been able to but as we gain more bandwidth
230in the next months and you and in the fall i would like everyone to remember that that's still really an important uh element of our system thank you and i remember us making that commitment and um we will return to it in the coming year um as we approach those conditions uh member escobedo yes well there was only 24 uh participation rate in in cass there was over 40 percent i believe in the spanish assessment and i'm my wondering is right now the lexel framework is only provided in english and wonder what the plans are to provide the same a those those important tools in spanish now are you able to yes um in terms of planning for the work of course we're always open and willing to work with our interest holders and our
231local educational agency staff when they're our needs as as you know just as someone just mentioned about the adopting the science standards years ago and were not even having materials in students hands yet um we tried to develop things as and embedded into the system as much as possible so if that is a need that we can make some adjustments to um a scope or do a study conduct a study and be able to learn from that and see how we can embed it that's something that we're open to explore remember escobar did you have any other questions or no that that would be it and i i want to add that it is a great need especially when you look at the number of dual immersion programs um increasing significantly throughout the years yeah
232and we have intentions to increase them further so member rucker and then member patio so bronson you very much i want to uh first of all thank all the participants and um interest holders and community partners who uh chimed in in the public comment because there are so many things that are going on especially as we go through this transition and we see these important shifts taking place i want to acknowledge in particular the comments we heard from californians together in the write-up and in the attachments the department has acknowledged the need to do some developmental work in responding to the need for enhancing the assessment tools as examples on and looking at what we provide translation for and where the tools are being developed and for what purpose but also in creating new professional
233learning opportunities as they negotiate new contracts to implement and as uh dr strauss pointed out expand our bandwidth and our understandings and the conversations we have about assessments um mal i'm going to ask you a question about the three-year timeline for the new etf contract and it's okay if you can't give the answer today but in future presentations i think it would be helpful for us to see where we are on the timeline of implementing that three-year agreement because that's a long arc of work and funding for the assessment process and for the changes that are contemplated in this contract i think would be good to have some kind of timeline in front of us so we can see where we are on the implementation mandates that were written into that contract and i know
234that's not something you can give us today but in the future i would appreciate if that's something you could consider as part of your presentation thank you member patel brownson and that was actually the primary gist of what one of the questions i want to ask around the three year time frame and when is the opportune moment to actually um raise up some of those issues around lexile professional development opportunities um one additional point of call uh clarification i just wanted to make sure that i heard correctly we're not including the statewide average or the district-wide averages because of not having the three years running but we're only today we are voting to remove that from this particular not to remove that moving forward on an ongoing basis i think one of the public comment
235speakers raised the question of whether this is a now situation based on data or if this is a this is how we're setting the stage for the future right now do you want to respond to that yes this is a now situation um because uh we don't want to we looked at the um reports and we just want to remove things that could be confusing to parents because this is not available thank you welcome all right um i see no other hands raised so with that um is there a motion yes uh so first i have to correct myself i think i said michelle mcintosh and i met michelle center i appreciate michelle mcintosh but in a different area and then the um so yes i would like to go ahead and move the two
236recommendations if there's no one who objects to me moving both at the same time all right i had to go ahead and move both recommendations the first one the amendment extending the contract that includes the current cde us ucsc interagency agreement um as well as the customization configuration implementation etc and then the second one the minor but necessary revisions to the 20 21 22 ssrs for the casp and the lpac and and i know that this item does come up every year so the board has annually been approving these student reports so it will definitely come up again next year perfect we have a second i'll second it thank you any further discussion hearing none brooks could you call the rule for vote member son hi member strauss hi member rucker yes remember rodriguez yes
237member patillo bronson yes member mcquillen yes vice president glover woods yes president darling hammond yes member i remember monaco hi motion passes unanimously okay thank you very much sheryl and mao we appreciate you um and we're going to move on to that i might just say a word um before i leave i wanted to um i know that you have the the celebration earlier you probably have more but um i wanted to i thank um uh vice president strauss our member song member burr and member rucker for all of their service and and the opportunity to work with you all throughout the years i will really miss all of you and your thoughtfulness in all of our conversations and congratulations linda on your continuing role i look forward to continue to work with you thank
238you i'm sure everyone appreciates the good good wishes uh and with that we'll move to item four um item four is the state annual performance report for part b of the individuals with disabilities education act of 2004 covering program year 2020 the cde recommends that we review and approve the executive summary of the fy 2020 annual report performance report for part b of idea covering program year 2020 20-21 the item will be presented by heather calamis of cde and heather will be joined by jamie parsons rhonda marriott and lauren duran from the orange county department of education and randy duvall from the butte county office of education who will be presenting on the california scale-up mtss statewide initiative as part of the state systemic improvement plan so heather i think i see you please begin
239absolutely um good afternoon um and before we begin today's presentation i would like to um also thank uh the board members um super uh patricia rucker ting son and eileen strauss for your leadership and partnership regarding how to best improve outcomes for our students with ieps across the state of california um your again guidance and leadership has been critical for our division so again um thank you and we look forward to you know our past crossing in the future as well um during today's presentation you will have a chance to hear how california has performed on a few key indicators of our annual performance report and we'll also have an update from our partners in orange and butte county california the california mtss and as a reminder once this item is approved the annual performance
240report will be submitted to osep next month and will conclude our formal reporting cycle to osep for this year next slide in terms of a philosophy and approach to special education i'm often reminded of a quote um or an excerpt from a book by dr tom hare and this year more than any other year i've often thought about what is our purpose in special education what are we ultimately trying to accomplish and so dr hare's message is one that doesn't spend time pathologizing disability but one that acknowledges the barriers yet ultimately seeks ways for students to realize their potential as a human being and so our approach within the special education division is to ensure that our students receive those right supports high quality instruction in a placement that is challenging yet supportive next slide
241grounding ourselves in a few numbers that you may or may not have seen before we have seen the total population of students with disabilities has steadily a steady growth rate over time over the past 10 years i think what's interesting about um sort of seeing the trajectory of enrollment for our students across the state is the the fact that while we have a population of students with disabilities that is growing meaning more students are identified are being identified for receiving special education supports and services we do see a decline in overall enrollment enrollment of students in california in general so i'm just an interesting tidbit in fact and certainly something that we will be keeping our eye on um and also um you know determining better ways to again support uh identify our students that
242are being identified for special education next slide you've seen this slide before i think a couple or maybe three times now um and this this slide again as you see um is is highlighting students with ieps and the lcff um and you see with within each of the pie charts um you know are the representation of our students um in each of those of those categories so again um 13 of our students are also identified as being socially economically disadvantaged um being identified as a foster youth with an iep and then uh finally there are roughly 17 percent of our students are duly identified as both um receiving special education supports and also being identified as an english learner as well next slide this one as well you have seen before and again this is
243noting that in all of the categories in terms of lcff the percentage of students with ieps that are in one or more of those categories as well so again a pretty good chunk of our students are also being identified in that in the lcff as well and again just to briefly run through um the annual performance report is um prepared again using the instructions that have been provided by osap at the u.s department of education this is an item that must be approved by the state board of education um and again the targets that we discussed in november run from 2020 to 2025 and those were approved at the previous state board meeting in november as well i'm now going to pass it over to shiloh duck and bessario who will run through some of
244the some of our highlights and some of our key performance compliance indicators and then we'll take it from there good afternoon board members it's so lovely to virtually see you again um i'm going to i have to i control the slides so i have to make sure they move in the right direction um so i'm going to be talking a little bit about the compliance indicators at first and then some of the performance indicators and the data surrounding it um keep in mind that the majority of the data we're going to be talking about today comes from 2020 21 school year there are a couple of indicators that are also 2019-20 i will point them out as we go through them i'm going to start with the compliance indicators in our previous discussions of the
245state performance plan we didn't cover the compliance indicators in too much depth in part because the targets for those indicators are set by the us department of education we do have a number about six compliance indicators i will not be going through each one of them today but i will be going through a number um a couple of them to highlight they are all presented inside of the actual item itself the first one i wanted to go over is the disproportionality which is an indicator with a set of indicators that we look at that is tied to something called significant disproportionality disproportionality is identified within the individual disabilities education act and it is a required element that states must evaluate to determine if leas have disproportionality and if it is consistent over a number of
246years it is considered significant disproportionality what we presented in the board item today is just the one-year disproportionality rate and that requires districts to be identified for a number of elements and then also to be to look at their policies practices and procedures if a district is disproportionate over three years they will become significantly disproportionate what that looks like is that you have leas who are identified for the first year they should be doing a root cause analysis to determine what's happening with their disproportionality rates the second year they should be changing their practices but if nothing changes in those two years they would become um significantly disproportionate meaning there is a fiscal penalty associated with that where we hold 15 percent of their individuals with disabilities education act funds and we set it aside
247so that they can develop a coordinated early intervening services plan so i did want to kind of go over that those items are presented in we were not at the zero or a hundred percent which is the requirement for any of those indicators but they they are part of the item you will be able to look at them one indicator that i did want to go over today is the indicator 12. 12 and that is the early childhood transition so these are children who are in our infant and toddler program which is often referred to as part c and then they are transitioning into the preschool program and that's often referred to as the part b program and so this indicator is the part c to part b transition the requirement in law is that
248those students make that transition by the time they're three years old unfortunately due to a lot of reasons we did have a um a dip in this data from the previous year so in 2019 so this is the 1920 data you'll find that we had 86 percent of students who made that transition by their third birthday and unfortunately in 2020 21 only 72 percent made that transition um heather do you want to talk a little bit about what we're seeing in that data and sort of what we sort of have learned about what we know from that um sort of that change from year to year sure um and thank you shiloh um in terms of this particular indicator um you know obviously you can see that we did not meet um that indicator and
249so um you know one thing i think to note and mention um in in context to indicator 12 and those transition um is that while those transitions were delayed um the three-year-olds in the part c program were continued to receive those part c services um in part thank you to the to the extension of the provisional services um in the 2021 budget act so um it wasn't as if um you know students who were sort of caught um transitioning between cmb um were not receiving services they were in fact receiving an extension of those part c services as we recognized um some of the challenges and strains on the system as well um i think we're also pleased that the current uh proposed uh 2223 budget act support cd cde's efforts to strengthen the transition
250process of young children with disabilities from that part c program provided by the regional centers to the federal part b programs um provided by the leas and in addition the budget provides funding to ensure that parents are fully empowered and engaged to participate in the process as well and i'm going to talk a little bit about the performance indicators i won't go into depth too much into these indicators you have heard about them over several board meetings and i know it's getting late in the afternoon so we don't want to go over the things that you've heard before but i will talk about briefly but i mostly will focus on the actual data that we're seeing from this year as you know the pathway of success measured by the annual performance report we see as
251our preschool lre our school age lre leading into fewer rates of discipline higher levels of statewide assessments graduation and better outcomes for our students with disabilities um and that sort of leads to our theory of action i know you all saw this in the previous uh year um but our pillars around the work that we do in special education is around um oh my slides are not advancing how about now there we go there's always one technical difficulty let me go back and show you sort of our pathway of success that we had already talked about so as you can see um success starts with um getting students in the right placements um getting the supports they need to reduce discipline increase access to education increase the outcomes we want to see this is further
252evidenced in and inside of our theory of action that if we get students in the right placements with the right supports exposed to the high quality instruction that exists in a general education classroom we will see a reduction in behavior problems and increased access to learning that's exhibited through our statewide assessments and then ultimately graduation and post school outcomes that we want to see so let's talk about what we see now for our students with disabilities in california there are a number of performance indicators we will not be going through every single one of them probably um to your great relief um we have selected some of them so that you can see but they are all represented in the items so if you would like to review them they are there as well um
253one thing to note we are there it is noted here that there are various number of uh performance indicators for indicator three i believe there's a about a hundred of them that's one of the reasons we will not be specifically going over indicator 3 today but they are all in the item let's start with where our path begins which is indicator 6. this is the number of students who are served and received the majority of their special education and related services inside a regular childhood program one thing to note that's very important is this is the first year we're going to see data that does not include five-year-olds in kindergarten in previous years this included five-year-olds in kindergarten and in some ways inflated this number so as you can see from the 2019 to the
2542020 number there is quite a bit of drop in both indicators 6a and 6b and that is in part because of what we are seeing there's also a new indicator indicator 6c which is the students who are served um in the home setting indicator five um has not changed with the exception that now five-year-old kindergarteners are part of this indicator um as you can see we did not make the um we did see a small incremental um decrease in these indicators what we would want to see is we'd want to see indicators that move downward so we're 5a so fewer or i'm sorry 5a we're going to go up and then 5b and c we're going to go downward meaning we want to see more kids in a general education placement and fewer kids in
255a separate placement or um in a lesser in a more restrictive environment so as you can see 5a and 5b and c we did see um in 5 b it go down that's not the direction we want to go and 5b and 5c it did go down but less than what we've seen in previous years indicator 4a i did remember to tell you that there are some in these indicators that come from 2019 20 and this is one of them um so this is 2019 20 data and what we see here is the 2019 data we see about two and a half percent um in 2020 we saw 0.5 of students who are suspended greater than 10 days in the school year do keep in mind 2019-20 was a truncated data year meaning most students
256were sent home and there was not adequate data tracked during that period of time to identify students who were suspended or expelled um the joke always made us i couldn't suspend my students when they were home with me um so that is one of the reasons we're not seeing that data we do expect some changes to exist over um the next couple of years graduation um indicator one graduation is also a 2019-20 data set so one of the things you'll see is you see a very large increase of students who are graduating i do want to note that there was a change in this calculation in previous years we included students who were part of the four-year adjusted cohort rate which i believe you all are very familiar with the us department of education changed
257this indicator and now it is a singular one-year rate so it does take into account students who took five or six years to graduate but it only looks at the one year that's one of the reasons you see a pretty significant change in that set of data indicator 14 is sort of a three-parter it looks at students who were enrolled within a higher education within one year leaving school students who were in higher education and in competitive and or competitively employed within one year of leaving high school and then 14c is students who had any post-secondary education enrollment or employment um one year after high school it's kind of a rolling indicator so all the ones who are in 14a are also in 14b all the ones who are in 14 14 a and b
258are also in c it's a rolling indicator um one thing to keep in mind is that this is a survey so we sort of um ask leas to survey students who left the previous year so these would have been students who left in 2019-20 who and then surveyed in 2021 to see if they had been enrolled in higher education they were competitively employed if they were um had any employment or education now there's a lot of different ways that lease go about this some of them will um actually send a paper survey some will use an online survey process some will call the students on the phone they've used social media to identify students there's a lot of ways that leas will go through this but it is about the number of students who responded
259as opposed to the number of students who left so that's something to keep in mind so in 2020 um 20 we did see um uh so the target is 54 in 2020 we are below that and we are also below um what we saw in 2018 um 20. meaning that there were fewer students who were enrolled in a higher education enrollment than in previous in the previous year in addition that we also saw a drop in students who were competitively employed and or um who were um enrolled in a post-secondary education um and i know we can sort of have a lot of discussion about that but a lot and you know there is a drop that we are seeing here and then 14c competitively employed enrolled in any type of post-secondary education or both
260we did see um again a decrease in this number from the previous year we did meet our 14c result but we did not meet our 14 a and b result um and heather do you want to talk a bit more about our systemic improvement plan this is our indicator 17. in the past this indicator has been a separate indicator that was presented in march that is no longer the time frame that we need to submit it to the usr education they would like it all submitted by february 1. so we're presenting here as well right next slide please and so indicator 17 um which is our essep um as we call it um and again i think the the s again was developed in in phases and is um designed to support our statewide accountability
261system of system of support and again the goal of our state summit state systemic improvement plan is to achieve alignment and coherence across our sort of state and federal systems to really uh address those needs of our students with disabilities and so um the outcome data for the s up is also assessment data um and so it would be similarly impacted as indicator three for this year so again you know we're we're seeing a little bit of the impact here from the s because it is largely comprised of assessment data and again the process data was delayed since the the evidence-based practices um that are part of the state systemic improvement plan could not be fully implemented by our technical assistance providers because we were not able to uh physically visit some of the leas
262and school sites as well next slide this one you've seen before just in terms of our overall monitoring and support for our students and so um you know our goal here really is to um as um lease are identified um in in their annual determinations as universal uh supports targeted or intensive supports um the level of support from the california department of education um increases um from the special education department and our ta providers so here you see the shakeout of numbers um in terms of our lease across across the state and then in the bottom right hand corner you see the leas that have been identified for uh differentiated assistance for students with disabilities outcomes as well next slide in terms of um how we you know our our goal and approach in a
263pathway to continue improvement um upon our indicators in terms of our performance in both compliance and results uh we continue to build um the statewide system of support in an effort to support our lease with addressing some of the challenges um within uh for in in terms of addressing the outcomes for our students with disabilities um our highlights of that system really include the special education local plan area our selfa system improvement leads and our self a content leads over the past year i think what uh kova 19 really did highlight is is really how vital a lifeline our system of support improvement leads and our content leads have been um during this time and continue to be to supporting our lease the number of workshops and webinars and outreach and touch points continue to
264grow as we continue to address some of the challenges that are surfacing and our ta providers and partners have been right there with us and right there with leas to provide i think critical and needed supports as well next slide and to just run down and provide you an overview of who um those content leads um are um uh they vary um in terms of topic and subject and in geographic location across the state and while i won't uh describe what each of them do you see here um you know our content needs and sort of what their focus is on and so again we work very closely with them again to be responsive to the needs of our lease especially during this time and really adapt our our programming and our intent and our
265supports oftentimes based on the needs of the field at any given moment in time next slide and once again um so just in terms of next steps um for uh you know the state and our system of support um really wanting us to um align everything that we do um to to really get to the classroom right and so we know that there are multiple systems um between a state education agency and the classroom and so it really requires a coordinated effort of our system of support partners our technical assistance partners um legislative investments as well to ensure that our efforts are reaching the classroom level which is our intention in order to again um make those uh make those gains as we all desire as well and at this point in time i would
266like to transition over to our uh multi-tier system of support partners uh california mtss and they will walk us through an overview of the critical work that they're doing again to improve outcomes for for all students and students with disabilities as well and have succeed i think some really good success in terms of various leas who are adopting an mtss system and an mtss approach and philosophy on how they support students across the state so i will hand it over to our partners in orange and butte county and you will hear from them at this point in time good afternoon state board and cde partners we are pleased to be invited to be here today to provide an overview and an update on the work that we are doing with california mtss next slide please
267go ahead and move to next slide as part of the california state system of support and the california mtss lead we do have representatives here today from the orange county department of education and the butte county office of education i'd like to introduce myself and my colleagues i'm jamie parsons and i'm the director of learning support services at the orange county department of ed with me today i have rhonda marriott spencer and lauren duran who is our grant evaluator and we have our colleague from butte county randy duvall who is the director of rural california mtss next slide can you hear me okay uh today we would like to share with you our california mtss overview uh defining exactly what is california mtss we'd also like to share our journey which started in 2016 talk
268about phases one and two briefly we'd like to share our outcomes so far from phases one and two and then talk about our next step with phase three which starts in march with that i would like to turn it over to my colleague rhonda marriott and if you could move to next slide thank you jamie happy to be here with everybody today so yes i will briefly share an overview of california mtss so if we can move to the next slide please and we would like to share the definition of california mtss which is a general education initiative and as i read the definition i encourage you to determine words or phrases that resonate with you california's multi-tiered system of support is a comprehensive framework that aligns academic behavioral social emotional learning and mental health
269in a fully integrated system of support for the benefit of all students california mtss offers the potential to create needed systemic change through intentional design and redesign of services and supports to quickly identify and match to the needs of all students this comprehensive framework is designed to provide effective supports for districts and schools to meet the needs of each and every student in the most inclusive and equitable learning environment so as you advance to the next slide you will see a visual and i'll briefly unpack the framework that supports the implementation of a multi-tiered system of support the california mtss framework aligns academic behavioral social emotional learning and mental health supports in a fully integrated system of support for the benefit of all students the five evidence-based domains and features of the california mtss framework
270serve as a supportive structure to develop the whole child in the most inclusive and equitable learning environment thus closing the equity gaps for all students the five domains of the framework include the whole child domain which includes the features inclusive academic inclusive behavior inclusive transformative social emotional instruction and mental health support in order for the needs of the whole child to be met the essential supporting domains must also be in place and these include the administrative leadership to ensure there is strong and engaged site leadership and strong educator support the integrated supports domain to enhance a fully integrated organizational structure and strong and positive school climate the family and community engagement domain which leads to trusting family and community partners and the inclusive policy structures and practices domain that contributes to strong district and school
271relationships and lea or district policy framework we emphasize through the california mtss framework the importance of the inclusion of all stakeholders involved at all levels of support within each domain and if we go to uh the next slide we have a visual of the the whole child domain each domain of the framework includes descriptions and links to evidence-based resources to support a school site and a school district with the implementation of a multi-tiered system of support so this image is of the whole child domain and the additional four essential domains are also designed in this format our schools and districts really find this valuable to get a full understanding and also to have access to those evidence-based practices and if you advance thank you on the next slide a multi-tiered system of support is dependent
272on a continuum of support california mtss emphasizes the necessity that universal structures must be provided to all students regardless of eligibility for other services and supports while recognizing of course that some students need supplemental support at times and a few students may occasionally require more intensified supports to be successful the continuum of support is grounded and universally designed for learning differentiated instruction culturally relevant and responsive teaching integrated and implemented at all levels of support through california mtss there is an emphasis on the fact that the students are not in the tears on the contract on the contrary the supports necessary to meet the needs of students are in the tiers so the next slide will share a visual of our journey with california mtss thank you so in phase one looking over at the left
273the california mtss journey began in 2016 through the partnership between the california department of education state board of education orange county and butte county offices of education the capacity of all 58 county offices and over 600 districts was enhanced through the california mtss foundational training in 2019 and 20 additional funding was received to support a pilot focused on leveraging california mtss to improve school conditions and climate in 2020 to continue to support our pilot schools we pivoted to create an online training course for california mtss pathway certification and 21 in 2021 the state allocated additional funding to support phase 3 a larger grant program to allow school teams consortium partners and county offices to build capacity uh using the certification course and a coaching model to implement effective school-based multi-tiered system of support the next
274slide is a a different visual but also provides information and represents our journey through california mtss we have emphasized the importance of whole system engagement building capacity at the county and local education agency level to better support school site efforts which ultimately impacts our students families and communities who are of course the purpose of our work and finally for my portion on the next slide we would like to highlight the reach and impact of our california mtss efforts so on row one phase one offered funding professional learning and support throughout the state of california in phase 2 those 49 school sites engaged in the california mtss efforts via the support of an assigned coach working directly with the school site principal and the leadership team and now we're ready to embark on phase three of
275california mtss and that begins this year jamie will elaborate on that coming up shortly in this section and again they will engage in california mtss and receive support of an assigned coach so my colleague randy duvall from butte county office will now share information on successes and outcomes as well as our rural schools thank you rhonda good afternoon the california rural ed network as the rural arm of california mtss was launched in response to requests from educators across california during the first cohort of districts engaging in california mtss implementation our colleagues in rural areas urged the butte county office of education to solidify our commitment to california mtss in rural california by becoming the amplifier of their voices since then our highest achievement in the network has been to create environments that connect rural educators
276to each other across the state through virtual formats we've discussed and strategized continuous improvement practices and serving the whole child in the unique ways in which rural educators excel having the opportunity to share the successes of implementing the california mtiss framework our rural colleagues are becoming more and more empowered and successful even as the historical challenges of living and working in rural california continue new county office of education's partnership in california mtss and the system of support has helped the california rural ed network to gain recognition as a hub for folks to engage in essential conversations about racial and social equity tailored resources and support for california mtss and the ongoing advocacy for our rural educators students and their families i'm so grateful to be able to introduce the california roulette network to all of
277you this afternoon um and then and i'd like to share some successes of california mtss implementation as well thank you and and we'll go to the next slide also i think so our expected outcomes for california mtss include those reductions in rates of suspension and expulsion incidence of bullying and harassment discipline referrals referrals to special education chronic absenteeism dropout rates while we're also at the same time trying to improve in graduation rates academic achievement specifically in english language arts and math um in addition to all academic achievement that's specifically highlighting those as well as the positive school climate and those perceptions of school i'm sorry climate thanks so much go ahead we'll show you some highlights we'd like to highlight from phase one of the implementation of california mtss framework by the final year of
278phase one schools and leas were implementing or sustaining implementation as signified by green and orange those areas in those horizontal bars on more practices of the california mtss framework as compared to their baseline so you'll notice the blue and yellow um where their base is our baseline data and um we were into implementing and sustaining implementation thank you next slide great some phase one student outcome highlights so cohorts one and two during phase one had a decrease in suspensions by one percentage point let's go ahead next five thanks and in phase one also our cohorts wanted to decrease the number of students referred for special education by 93 percent also um all three cohorts in phase one showed increases in positive school engagement and supports see that graph there and now with phase two uh
279wrapping up phase two our implementation of california mtss framework our schools in phase 2a are making progress toward implementing or sustaining implementation again with those green and orange bars on more practices of the california mtss framework but remain at the installing level on most items and we will continue to monitor their product progress as well through year five which is in 2023 and hope to see those trends continue i believe that you were to receive a handout or you may receive a handout in the future with more of this detailed data we we have it on on print as well i think because of time we decided to just verbally show you some of the highlights and so that's it for my section and i think i'll turn it back to jamie for phase three
280yes thank you randy appreciate that so our next steps we'd like to share with you what we have planned for phase 3 which will run from 2022 to 2026. you can move to the next line you can see our california mtss journey graphic again if you move all the way to the right in the purple as of 2022 we are now in phase three of our statewide work which is now wide scale school-based implementation of california mtss in phase one if you recall we focused on the lea implementation and making sure supports were in place at the district level in phases two and three we've moved to school-based implementation this time in phase three we have special emphasis on the social and emotional well-being of our students next slide with phase three we had funding
281and training opportunities for three different types of awardees we had opportunities for individual schools to apply and we focused on an opportunity for both small school and large school focusing on student enrollment and different funding levels applied to those applications we also had an opportunity for consortia of between two to six partners and that could include schools as partners or leas as partners and county offices could also partner as well the third opportunity is for county offices we want to really focus on our county office colleagues this grant opportunity provides them with an option to increase their capacity and increase the training of staff to become certified california mpss coaches next slide please so our grant goals with phase three is to build capacity uh through virtual professional learning using the california mtss pathway certification
282course and coaching and if we can go back to the next slide if you can move forward two slides there we go the grant goals building school staff capacity through virtual professional learning using the california mtss pathway certification course and pairing that with a coaching model which is very important we did allow for schools and consortia to self-select the cohort that match their readiness to engage in this work so they have the opportunity to start with us right away in march of 2022 september next year to start the school year or the following march and again we would like to offer the opportunity to our county office colleagues to increase the number of staff in their offices who can become those certified coaches for schools in their area and regions next slide please you go
283back one like to talk go back one we'd like to talk about the coaching model thank you there we are so the important component of our phase two and phase three is that coaching model and each administrator will be assigned a certified california mtss coach and that coach may be from their local county office or from their lea or it could be from our state team and administrators and coaches will meet regularly to plan implementation of california mtss based on their school's specific needs and then of course technical assistance will be provided as needed they can just pick up the phone and call and you can see some of our outcomes there we hope to increase capacity for all staff based on the role they play in their school and of course build overall understanding
284and working knowledge of california mtss improve fidelity of implementation as you saw on some of those slides that rindy showed you we use various measures to ensure that schools are using fidelity in the implementation of this work and improve overall outcomes for our students related to academics behavior social emotional learning and mental health next slide both the coaching and our professional learning through our course incorporate evidence-based practices such as those high leverage practices in special education trauma informed instructional practices universal design for learning the whole child whole school whole community model as well as culturally linguistically relevant and responsive teaching practices and technical assistance is provided on an ongoing basis by the coach as it applies to the schools next slide please rhonda mentioned this earlier we use this course this california mtss pathway certificate
285certification course for schools in phase 2 with our schools as we pivoted in 2020 this course is a competency based course and includes badging opportunities in three areas introduction to california mtss or getting started foundational elements of mtss and role specific pathways the course includes eight modules it is an interactive course it takes approximately 50 to 60 hours to complete the course for individual staff members it can be done synchronously or asynchronously as a team the responses that individual participants provide are scored and sent back to the participant and successful completion of the course results in both certification as a california mtss educator and in your role specific pathway next slide please and here are some examples of our role specific pathways the course was built to support we have pathways for teachers administrators school
286counselors school psychologists school-based mental health clinicians parent educators coaches and those are specifically for our county office colleagues and higher education for our university partners who are beginning to embed california mtss into pre-service education courses next slide please our next steps are to meet with our awardees next month in february we'll meet with our county offices on february the 2nd our school's in consortia mid month on the 17th and coaching and course enrollment will begin by march 1st for those schools who selected cohort a next slide and then finally i'd like to highlight that we will be hosting our fifth annual california mtss professional learning institute in july 12th through the 14th our theme this year is hear me together we rise and we intend to have a hybrid model we will be in person
287in anaheim but also streaming and provided recorded content in the past we have been proud to have between three to four thousand educators in attendance at this conference uh from all across the state and from other states in in the united states so we really are excited to host this again this year with that i'm going to turn it over to heather thank you so much for the opportunity to share our content today great thank you so much um jamie rhonda lauren and rindy for um an overview and stepping us through um the mtss framework um your your plans your scaling um and your performance over over the past um year or so um i think what's interesting to note um and just sort of thinking and looking and hearing your presentation as well is
288really an mtss system really touches upon some of the indicators that you have seen um in in this uh previous presentation um just a little bit ago as well and so um again a strong mtss system um implemented with fidelity can really really have a significant impact on student outcomes and student performance as well and so we look forward to the partnership ahead and continue to work together again to address the needs of all of our students in california so again many thanks to to all of you and at this point in time there is a request for action and we would request that this item the apr including the essa covering the program years 2021 2022 be considered for approval by the state board of education um for a february submission to to osap
289as well thank you very much uh very appreciate the very thorough review the public comments slide is up and so we will encourage people who want to comment to queue up now i will open the phone line members of the public wishing to provide comment on this item may do so by calling the telephone number and using the access code provided on the slide that is shown now while we're waiting for members of the public to call in i want to ask vice president strauss if she has any initial comments and then we will see if there are any clarifying questions before we go to public comment vice president of member strauss thank you president thank you i'm heather and shiloh and the whole team um for presenting um i recognize this is a requirement
290that's um actually led by the federal government that we all have to align and do the analysis for i understand this goes through 21. i don't think it goes through 22 yet right that's it for federal fiscal year so school year 2021. yeah so let me just say i appreciated you highlighting several areas i know as the liaison or the advisory commission on special ed the department uses this process to actually kind of focus their work going forward and try to use it as a growth opportunity i appreciate that the data the last couple years is not showing the same that we were seeing before but it is a guidance and i would say the whole idea of disproportionality that you talked about early in the in the presentation is one that i know districts
291have paid a lot of attention to and have used it um so i appreciate that you dealt with the compliance and also the performance indicators because these are things as we go forward we need to pay attention to as to how are we improving opportunities for our students with special needs um i i do want to say that i appreciate the mtss presentation mtss is something we talk about in all of our work and literacy and mathematics for everybody not just students with disabilities i know we have a giant department i think 1500 employees and i know heather's managing mtss and that work with special ed but as i reflect on this morning's conversation about the community schools i think this is everybody should be in the same room talking about this because as you
292talk about social emotional learning and mental health supports and supports in the least restrictive environment that's absolutely what we want to be talking about in the community school so this i think a good example of what we need to think about and would ask the board and cde and state board staff to continue to benefit connecting rather these projects rather than keeping them in separate separate buckets i know it's challenging the other thing that um i know um the governor newsom with president darling hammond's guidance has put a lot of money in the last couple years this year and last year into professional learning for um staff so i appreciated the coaching model that the mtss talked about we know all teachers need that support and i appreciate the coaching for the administrators that was
293highlighted in the mtss model and i think the professional development to help everybody understand this system as we connect all of our work and build coherence will be important so i just want to thank some of the highlights that um heather calamis and her team presented and recognized that this is about a required report for the federal government on students with disabilities but it totally impacts our practice in our schools for all of our students and heather when we go back to you you may want to make a few more comments about how you're using this to guide the work and then i would hope that the cde and state board team could continue to remember that this all needs to be in the same room talking about because it's really important opportunities to improve
294our practice for all kids thank you very much i'll recommend approval when we get to that point thank you thanks uh are there any clarifying questions i'm not seeing any hands raised and seeing none let's go to public comment well we have the phone line open for public comment is there any reason you have callers president we just have an issue with one of the mics here just one moment okay great um while we're waiting on that i did want to uh give the opportunity to say thank you to um um member sun emma rucker remember strauss um and all a member of her who've been so supportive of the work that we've done in special education i've been around the department for about 10 years and you all have always been so kind to
295us when we've come to the board in support of our work and willing to sit in on very long presentations around data and loosen intently and provide amazing feedback i remember when i was just like a little baby coming to the board like so scared but you all were always so kind and so i just really really appreciate it and it'll be sad not to see your faces even virtually going forward but you have still an amazing board but it will be sad not to see you on every meeting but thank you so much for all of your dedication and support to all students with disabilities in california okay president donald hammond i believe we're ready to take public comment now okay all right we uh it looks like we have six people signed up
296for public comment i will open the phone lines up now uh good afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record uh you have one minute your time starts now we have two members here speaking i'll let the first one go first thank you thank you this is the daniel an 11 year old student i want to let you know that school districts are suing children to deny services rather than providing education i want to request that you mandate in an audit but for selfless to learn how much money is spent on mitigation please support the youtube movement more education less litigation thank you thank you yes this is mrs arias representing the youtube movement i wish uh to bring to the light into your attention the many unjustice that are occurring in
297special education parents in my local area are being sued to deny them assessments and a proper education i'm an active community member and i see firsthand and how districts are following due process against the special education children [Music] our family was sued to deny a simple assessment that we require for one of our children so i asked if there is any way you can request uh audits to be completed against help us to learn how money is being spent on education and litigation and this will bring light on how districts are are using the funds that are supposed to go to education so please find more information about this on our local website the youtube women more education less litigation thank you very much next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record
298you have one minute your time starts now good afternoon my name is scott turner and i'm speaking on behalf of the self administrators of california our association is appreciative of the continued focus on improved outcomes for students with disabilities we continue to work closely with cde and other agency partners on this priority and we are encouraged to see the amount of detail in this report and today's presentation on the role of selpas including the self is serving as system improvement leads and content leads for students with disabilities in the statewide system of support our association is also excited for the soon to be released annual assurances support plan enacted in 2018 by ab-1808 by july 1 of 2023 and annually thereafter this new plan will become section c of all local plans and will provide
299details about how the governing board of the selpa has determined that the selpa will one support lease in achieving goals actions and services within their lcaps two connect member lease in need of technical assistance to the statewide system of support and three support lease in meeting all required assurances under the idea this additional section of our local plans will be another big step in providing a more coherent accountability system increasing transportation for the decisions being made in each cell but through local control and furthering our collective goal for improving our disabilities thank you for your time next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon my name is jessica martinez and i am a member of the alta loma school district in the west end sopa i
300wanted to share my concerns with the lack of accountability and special education in my district despite many many objections due process cases are not presented for approval to the school board as the brown act requires the decisions are made outside of the public view and even i as a board member am not included in how the decisions are made lawyers are paid millions of dollars in the western soca to litigate against students i asked the state board to please look into these issues thank you thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now hello state board of education i wanted to share concerns regarding special education it has been the experience of many families that special education students and families are not treated
301fairly it is important that the lease are provided with guidance and assistance so that all students with ieps are in classes with the gen ed students and not segregated in a separate special day class i would like to ask that your board request that the california department of education conduct an audit to find out if local school boards are approving litigation as required by the brown act a lot of money is being spent on litigation and many times the school boards are not even made aware that their special education students are are being sued with our educational dollars thank you thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now hello i'm a parent that has dealt with the special education system for almost
30215 years i wanted to comment on performance indicator number 13 for which the target has not been made or met regarding secondary transition and share my story of how broken the special education system is in the west end selpa i am in the upland unified school district and since 2016 upland unified and we selpa have refused to provide my child with any secondary services whatsoever instead the district has decided to tie up these services in court and their attorneys of the law firm of fake and freeman in full frost have made hundreds of thousands of dollars by litigating this is a great injustice and in the west end self the vast majority of students affected are minority students please ask for an audit of how selpas in california are using education dollars to litigate to
303deny service to children with disabilities thank you thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now hello brianna bruns on behalf of the california county superintendent's educational services association representing the 58 county superintendents of schools we applaud the state's continued efforts and focus on increasing access inclusion and positive outcomes for students with disabilities in california collectively county offices of education can support and cultivate more inclusive environments where every student feels a deep sense of belonging within their school community and has provided all of the support and services they need to achieve we recognize that today's item is a status report that will be submitted to the u.s department of education and we see this as a reminder to remain dead fast in our
304pursuit of equity and improved outcomes for all students thank you for your time thank you and we have one more public comment that was submitted this afternoon in writing this person unfortunately was unable to call in this afternoon and would like us to read their public comment so i will do that now quote mediations are not working in california this is in part due to parents being told they cannot bring advocates to mediation only which is not the law oah administrative law judges are prohibiting advocates from attending or not allowing advocates to speak this is a gross violation of children's rights judge kamarov would not allow my advocate to speak and made and made me have an attorney at mediation costing me thousands of dollars which did not result in a resolution oah is biased
305against parents and is interfering with the resolution process end quote and that concludes public comment for item number four and just to clarify the last comment was provided by staff as a reasonable accommodation requested by the caller thank you so much to all the callers thank you to all the presenters lots to chew on here i want to open this up for any board discussion uh and that we may need before we make a motion is there any i see i remember burp get myself off mute um thank you first i just want to express my appreciation to all of the presenters excuse me i've had the opportunity to hear a lot about mtss through my work at the collaborative because the collaborative helps to organize the self content leads and the other work around
306mtss so i appreciate you being there and as always heather and um shiloh's presentations are incredibly helpful and illuminating about how our children are doing um i just i wanted to kind of tag on to what eileen strauss said about mtss being part of the regular education system we say that we've been saying that for many years and yet the presentation i don't know this is going to sound derogatory i don't mean it to be but it sort of gets pigeonholed with special education presentation on how a specific category of students are doing so i would just reinforce that i hope that it gets a bigger exposure and maybe a different venue or in addition to heather's presentation in future uh opportunities the other thing that just occurred to me was having heard the conversation
307this morning about community schools and then hearing the presentation about mtss right on top of it they seem so similar so i maybe somebody could help me understand both where that what the differences might be and the similarities and and how the community schools are going to build on mtss or it's the other way around but anyway it just it just struck me how consistent they were thank you yeah i would i would just like to comment that i think they are intended to build on each other and it relates to a question i'd like to ask which is we saw the numbers of schools that were being supported in this you know phase one and phase two and so on it's a relatively small number of of schools and districts um and i wonder
308what your estimate is of i mean i know it's much more expansive in the state than those numbers might suggest so i just wondered if you have an estimate around that i can unmute and answer um for phase one those numbers may be buried because we had an impact on over 600 districts which represents multiple schools so those numbers may sound lower than they really are and in terms of the work we're doing now with the school-based work we have about 88 i'm trying to recall the number of consortia but it represents uh over 200 schools in the consortia and about 100 schools in the single schools so we will continue to grow that number and we expect to continue this work down the road so this was an optional and voluntary application for our
309grant so schools who were ready to engage in this work did apply and of course we continue to spread the word gotcha thank you and i think to remember burr's point there is a lot of similarity we you know we saw that actually even in the framework for community schools that it's meeting kids where they are and helping them get what they need um and so um we want we want them to be hand in glove are there other questions or comments i see member rucker and then i'm going to encourage us to get to a motion because we are running a little behind our anticipated schedule to get you to dinner uh thank you i just wanted to thank the staff uh for this report i do look forward to it each year and
310in fact i started looking forward to it after hearing fred balcom make the report for the first time because i was interested in what the numbers behind the significant disproportionality report actually mean and uh for me that particular segment of the report because it does represent the over-represent of the referral of students of color particularly african-american boys for special education programs and so for me though what lives behind those numbers is not just simply the numbers that were reported but i i wanted to take this moment to commend the staff for the work group on significant disproportionality that shiloh had created not only to study what the numbers mean but to understand how the reporting was going to change based on the shift in the federal mandate and what i'm very excited about is this
311work group now has shifted its focus to really start thinking about problem solving and how to provide the professional development and our program supports to districts to help them understand what reducing the numbers would look like and what are the appropriate practices in their programs and across the scope of their student support practices that can ameliorate this problem significant disproportionality is not an intractable problem it's not insurmountable it requires a reframing of the understanding of what the purposes of a referral to the iep or the student study process is actually for but also understanding what is missing in providing support and understanding what it means to provide real instructional support that has meaning and context for students of color particularly for teachers who work with african-american boys so i really do want to commend the
312department and shiloh and heather for undertaking this work because these are some very tough and hard conversations to have with districts but they are very important because they bleed out into and have a rippling effect on the rest of the programs and in fact the educational experience for these students so i wanted to make sure i called that out right are there any other questions or comments at this point uh looks like jamie wants to maybe make a response to something yes i did i wanted to comment that i did want to comment that um to your point about the community schools uh the state california mtss team has already begun the work of doing a crosswalk between the principles of community schools and the principles of california mtss and we're beginning to look at
313how we can support that effort across the state and of course one of the things community schools funding will do is give people the resources to implement some of the mtss practices that do overlap yes it's it is nice partnership between the two uh remember stress did you just put your hand up i did to make a motion if you're ready terrific thank you yes okay so um i move approval of the executive summary of the federal fiscal year 2020 annual performance report for part b of the idea individuals of disabilities education act covering the program year 2021 as prepared by the special education division drive a second i will sign it back in thank you we have a second and a third and maybe even a fourth um is there any further discussion uh
314brooks can you please call the roll for the vote member son i remember strauss yes member rucker yes remember rodriguez yes member patilla brownson yes member mcquillen yes vice president glover woods yes remember escabelo yes president darling hammond yes member i remember monaka hi motion passes unanimously terrific thank you uh we're going to take a 10 minute break first i'd like to be sure that the public comments slide goes back up so that we can get people queued up for public comment on the waiver items that we're going to handle when we return from the break it is 304 we'll give you an extra minute and go till 3 15. president darling hammond yes i wanted to just make a one brief comment before we transition off to the break um just in response to
315some of the public comments today i did want to let everyone know that the special education department does have a complaints department we have monitoring staff so if there are parents that are wishing to contact the cde directly and discuss anything that may be of concern to you you may access our contact information on the cde website and we do have a team that stands ready to assist parents across the state as well so just wanted to add that in there as well appreciate that very much thank you very much heather uh and with that uh we will take a break but please put the public klamath side up uh whoever's in charge of that so that we can have people queuing up for the waiver comments terrific see you at 3 15. okay welcome
316back board members may need to reestablish a quorum so brooks is going to call the role remember son here remember strauss here member rucker here linda rodriguez here member patilla brownson here member mcquillen your vice president glover woods here remember escabado i'd like to take up our waiver consent calendar which includes waiver items w1 through w10 remember escobado would be recusing himself and maybe that's why he's not back here at this moment and so we'll welcome him back for the next consideration of the regular waivers we did open the public comment line before the break i hope that slide is still up there can we replace that slide in case anybody needs it as they're calling in and we'll see if there are any public comments on this waiver terrific we encourage you to please
317state your name and affiliation for the record and the district name to which you're speaking please remember to turn down the speaker volume of your computers if you're following the live feed and speakers are limited to one minute each is there any public comment uh yes there are two people signed up for public comment i will open the phone line now great good afternoon please say your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon caller oh it looks like they just hung up okay good afternoon color please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now uh the phone number ending in zero five one four you are live and please go ahead and say your public comment okay it looks like they are not there all right
318um [Music] good afternoon please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now hello go ahead caller are you there you are live you can go ahead and give your comment caller good afternoon please say your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now um yes good afternoon this is liz guiana public advocates for the lcss equity coalition um i'm speaking to item five this board approval of the comprehensive school improvement plans in item five this isn't item five oh i'm sorry i thought these were the waivers no we're taking up yes they are they're they're the waivers we're taking up consent waiver items right now w01 to 10. that's okay thank you and it looks like that concludes public comment well that was the most
319interesting public comment we've had for a while um hearing no further public comment i will ask for a motion on waivers w1 through w10 do i have a motion i move that we approve of waivers w1 to w10 thank you um so with that uh we'll hold a roll call vote uh books please call the roll number son yes remember strauss yes member rucker yeah remember rodriguez yes remember patilla brownson yes member mcquillen yes vice president clever woods yes nebraska president darling hammond yes remember aye number bananka aye motion passes and i'll just note that remember escobado was not here and is recused from this uh vote and now we're going to go to and now he's back that's perfect perfect timing thank you good to see you we're going to take up regular consent
320items 5 through 10 and we'll now open the phone line for the q for public comment on con sent items five through ten um and the public comment card is still up there please call that number use that access code if you have a comment are there is there a public comment um we may have one public comment i will open the phone line now good afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now yes oh am i muted no are you calling in for regular consent items caller you are live do you have a public comment okay it looks like that concludes public comment i'm wondering we had heard from someone who was going to call back but we'll move ahead if we don't have anyone on the
321line remember strauss yeah i just want to make one comment on item 7 which is emergency regulation on the physical fitness test just to make it clear based on some of the letters we got this is an emergency regulation for 120 days that's all so it affects the testing starting february 1st and the superintendent will be working with interest and input to bring this back by november for an update to the board so i just want to make it clear that's temporary short term for this testing window thank you appreciate that um seeing that there are no public comments um and i'll ask for a motion on consent items five through ten president president yes i apologize because of the lag it appears that we now have some callers in the queue so we'd like
322to reopen public comment i think there's a little bit of lag in the video stream okay all right let's hear our public comment okay we have four people in the queue i'm not sure if they want to speak towards the consent items but we will see um caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now uh good afternoon jessica sacco on behalf of children now calling in regards to consent item number five the csi plans the board is being asked to approve almost all of the state's csi plans without the plans being effectively reviewed federal law requires the state education agency to approve csi plans these plans are for the continuous improvement of the lowest uh performing five percent of schools in the state across multiple measures it is not
323a responsibility that the board should take lightly unfortunately the current process does exactly that school sites develop their plans with their school districts the district writes a sort summary of these plans for all of the schools in the district in their lcap the ceos approve the lcaps which is interpreted as approving the csi plans thus the board is being asked to rubber stamp the csi plans it is not sufficient oversight of the csi plans as required by federal law we recommend the board to delay action of approve of these plans to require the districts to submit the plans to the state to be reviewed formally thank you thank you good afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon my name is michael juba and i am
324a classroom teacher representing cta cta would like to express our continued concerns with item 10 the funding determination process for non-classroom based charters this process is broken and does not provide the level of transparency that we believe is needed for the commissioners of the accs nor the members of the state board to provide appropriate public oversight on these funding determinations the moratorium on the new ncb's has been extended until 2025 and we believe that this is the time for the cde and the sbe to begin to renew and update the regulations that govern this process and there are specific questions raised in our letter regarding the lack of transparency on the data within the fdf this is a systematic issue within the ncb process cta looks forward to working with the cde sbe and accs
325to fix this broken process thank you very much thank you good afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now color go ahead good afternoon my name my name is margali kinkade and i'm a parent um with several students that attend the san juan unified school district and i'm calling in regards to the item for the district in regards to their waiver and i'm as a parent who has lived in the arden arcade area i am not looking forward to their waiver request um not having a representative in the most disadvantaged area of the district and the worst performing schools it's not fair that we don't have a representative planned for until 2024 when all of the other new trustee areas with the vacancies will be getting theirs this
326year so i'm calling to pose that thank you thank you afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now hello my name is chris gentry and i'm a physical education professor at california state university san bernardino calling about item number seven the reason for me calling isn't is to express my concern about changing the pft by removing body composition component of the test although i know this is not permanent the purpose of the body composition portion of the test is to provide students and physical education teachers with the current measurement of this component of fitness to assist students with health improvements this information is extremely valuable to assist students in making appropriate choices and supports a proactive approach by providing students with important information about their health as a
327former elementary physical education teacher i recall the impo the impact fitness information provided through physical education had for my students it is important that students learn about body composition from a young age to make wise choices so please consider removing changes to the body composition section of the pft thank you very much for your time thank you good afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now hi this is christina salazar with californians together i'm calling regarding item six uh we support the change being requested in this item and understand the need for more flexibility we do ask that in talking to cde staff there could be a process for field input before the final approval of implementation we request that as a as part of the motion to
328approve this item that the board requests a process to develop feel input before implementation thank you thank you good afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now thank you my name is hilary walters and i'm calling for pacific valley school uh we are on item nine we are facing a lap station and we would like to have our students speak up on their feelings about what it means to them here's our first student my name is ivani i'm calling for item nine i'm a ninth grade student at pacific valley school and my mom was here when she was my age one reason why pacific valley school needs to have the last station waiver is because online school is not an option for kids who live in big sur
329tony thurman tried to give children fast internet during covid with the california teleconnect fund however big sur's current infrastructure will not support the best service nor is it cost-effective for companies to install being online also can make you feel isolated and cut off from your community and loved ones the isolation of big sur and the communities like this make it necessary for children to interact with their peers in a healthy and constructive environment such as the classroom being in the classroom environment helps me focus and helps me get into a productive state of mind please consider how important this school is to the kids of the big sur community and the positive impact it has on our president and our future successes thank you are there any other callers next hi my name is alexandra
330yes they are hi hi my name is hannah my name is hannah and i'm calling for item nine and i'm a ninth grade high school student at pacific valley pacific valley school needs to have a permanent lab station waiver because the kids in the u.s should have the right to a free public education without hardship according to the forging amendment they should have equal education no matter the race ethnic background religion or gender or if they're rich or poor it's more difficult for children to succeed in life without a proper education the amendment states nor shall any state deprive any person of life liberty or property without due process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws might my goal is to go to college and run a
331business someday and without our school you will be taking my right of life liberty and property and his decision for brown versus board of education chief justice earl chief justice earl warren stated that the education is very foundations of good citizenship make sure kids fix your kids are doing their part to be good citizens will you do yours thank you are there any other students who would like to speak there are two more students okay thank you hi my name is alexander i'm from item nine and i am a freshman at pv i have lived through floods mudslides and wildfires it's true our school is expensive to run it's about a million bucks a year however even though it's expensive we need the school to remain open you cannot put a price on a young
332person's education it is a necessary right your own california ed code six six zero one zero one two part a states that you must provide access to educate and an opportunity for educational success for all qualified californians especially for those who are not represented in both graduating rates from high schools and their attendance at california college that's me i'll be the first jed mexican american in my family and i want an education thank you all right i hello my name is samantha and i'm calling for item nine i was born and raised in big sur my mother graduated from tv there has been a school in big sur for as long as there have been people pacific valley school has been in school since 1953. before that big sur students were taught in the redwood
333schoolhouse living here is challenging between all the fires landslides and road closures even getting groceries is an all-day task nevertheless we are resilient the people of big sur are the only ones that fully understand the unique hardships that we face on a daily basis the idea of letting our school go into lab stations or to bring in an outside course to dictate our education is disregarding the unique these unique challenges that we face for these reasons pacific valley school must be granted a lab station waiver if the school ended in the last station we would have to drive more than 110 miles a day that is over four hours every day and 20 hours a week according to the national center for education statistics the average school day in california is a little over six
334hours or 30 hours a week 66 of the time dedicated to school would be spent traveling thank you are there any more students or does that conclude your call that concludes our call but as you can tell we have excellent students and we really need this school open okay thank you very much good afternoon please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon dr darling hammond and board members diana zoo on behalf of the association of california school administrators actually would like to comment on item six we support the continued use of remote administration for the cast and elpac and appreciate the flexibility especially during these unprecedented times currently the proposed amendments to the regulations are written broadly and we suggest the language to be clarified to ensure that
335the option for remote test sessions are at the leas discretion depending on student needs further instruction is also needed to avoid confusion on how to pursue remote administration of assessments for these reasons access suggests the regulations explicitly reference the test administration manual for guidance thank you thank you good afternoon color please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now hello my name is lorraine richards and i am a classroom teacher representing california teachers association i'm calling regarding item 7. cta strongly supports efforts to eliminate gender bias and ableism from state testing and our schools in general and we support cde's proposal to modify the california physical fitness test by eliminating the body composition sub test and the related body composition healthy fitness zone additionally cta strongly supports eliminating practices which negatively
336impacts students personal body perception and endorses practices that support students emotional and mental well-being physical fitness is an important aspect of students growth and development and should lead to lifelong learning habits not feelings of shame isolation or inadequacy thank you thank you good afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now my name is denise hopple i'm a physical educator and an mbct teacher in lausd i'm calling regarding item 7. the pft scoring information the healthy fitness zone is used immediately in the classroom as science-based individual information teachers provide meaning for each student about their current health-related fitness status and assist in the formation of their personal goals and their actions both at school and at home this provides each student with the individual support that they need equity
337further i recommend that the state board and the cde work directly with state physical education leaders to further examine and address the gaps in implementation practices of this significant policy change thank you thank you good afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now my name is scott rafferty i called earlier to address weber 8. i represent minority voters from arden arcade who petitioned san juan to comply with the cbra by creating seven trustee areas this waiver denies them representation appointed or elected for almost five years after that petition which was filed in february 2020 and cbra requires that minority areas have a priority in scheduling remedial elections the district fails will point to the new seats and the county superintendent is able to call
338a special election when they did not this waiver excuses all those duties some minority neighborhoods unrepresented for decades will not elect until 2024. the matter is in court and this board should not change law in the middle of litigation to circumvent the remedial jurisdiction of that court thank you very much thank you that concludes public comment thank you very much um given that there is no further public comment i will ask for a motion on consent items five through ten do i have a motion i will move approval of consent items five through ten is there a second second thank you um we'll now hold a roll call vote brooks can you please call the roll member son i remember strauss yes member rucker yes remember rodriguez yes member patilla brownson yes member mcquillen yes
339vice president glover woods yes president darling hammond yes remember i remember motion passes unanimously thank you um we are going to move on to item 11 which is the 2022 united senate youth program which recognizes california's selected student delegates and alternates and the cde recommends that we uh that i and the sspi the state superintendent recognized the selected u.s senate youth program delegates and alternates what a joyful task and this item will be presented by dina fong of the cde gina thank you good afternoon president darling hammond state superintendent thurman honorable board members and chief deputy nicely i'm dina fong the united states senate youth coordinator for the california department of education it's my pleasure to be here today to introduce and recognize our 2022 u.s senate youth students the u.s senate youth program is
340sponsored by the u.s senate and funded and administered by the william randolph hearst foundation now in its 60th year the program provides an opportunity to selected students to gain an in-depth view of the senate and the federal government as well as provide a foundation for those considering a future in public service on the local state or national level high school juniors and seniors are nominated by their principal to apply for this highly competitive merit-based program to qualify students must currently be serving in an elected or appointed leadership position in student government or a civic or educational organization representing constituency and serving others for the entire school year our students have gone through a rigorous application process and were selected based upon their leadership qualities academic achievement school and community involvement and commitment to public service
341the last phase of the program is to formally present our 2022 senate youth delegates and alternates these students are among the best of the best in their school community and the state there's no doubt they will succeed in whatever they do and will serve their communities with passion our two delegates will represent california during a virtual conference from march 5th through 10th where they will participate in a comprehensive public service leadership and education experience including speakers from the three branches of government and the national media the delegates will each receive a ten thousand dollar college scholarship for undergraduate studies with encouragement to study coursework in political science or history now i'd like to take a few minutes to introduce each student and give them each time to say a few words our first delegate is
342jolene bakalova a junior at citrus valley high school in redlands she has been described as enthusiastic diligent and creative as well as a remarkable person who enhances the world around she currently serves as chair of the california high school democrats where she is the highest ranking high school student and the youngest statewide leader in the california democratic party leading 900-plus activists and 55-plus chapters across the state she has interned for especially majority leader eloise gomez and u.n women campaigns a rising leader with the pacific american alliance and also president of her school's award-winning vocal department where the choir has performed at all and attained prestigious honors she was one of 24 high school students selected worldwide to participate in columbia university's social science summer program where she conducted cross-cultural research on adolescents views of government
343surveillance in china and the u.s during the pandemic in order to meet the needs of the community and the desires of students who wanted to volunteer she founded a region-wide organization called inland teens respond to connect students with volunteer opportunities that could be accomplished with both digitally and in person since many typical service opportunities for teens had been shut down jolene desires to improve lives for disadvantaged families in different areas of the world with an emphasis on girls education she would like to major in global affairs and public international law learn a security language like arabic and someday work for the foreign service in the state department congratulations jillian thank you mistina it goes without being said that i am so honored and grateful to have been selected as a delegate i'd like to thank
344the california department of education selection committee the hearst foundation and of course the u.s senate for this once in a lifetime opportunity growing up as the daughter of immigrants i've always felt that those with the privilege of opportunities and resources have an inherent responsibility to improve the world so i've been working adjacent to government policy to impact meaningful change since i was 13 years old and from the beginning of my journey to now i've been so lucky and blessed to have amazing mentors and supporters along the way like my family and friends my piano teacher my school teachers like mrs mckenzie and miss moon the administration at my high school and so many others i could not have gone here without them in the future i'll definitely be working in public service but i hope
345with the experience of this program that i can work in u.s foreign policy and like miss dean mentioned um impacting girls education around the world thank you thank you jolene uh next we have our second delegate sneha webinar a senior at evergreen valley high school in san jose she has been described as capable and passionate possessing a wisdom and maturity far beyond her years and someone who will make substantial and lasting contributions to our society as a civic leader and public thinker she serves as a student member of the santa clara county office of education youth advisory group core advocacy team where she represents her peers in mental health related policy discussions through town halls brainstorming legislation research and consulting with stakeholders she is the founder and president of encode justice a youth-led organization mobilizing
346300-plus students in 25 countries for human rights in the age of artificial intelligence and a criminal justice lead of the high school democrats of america's national issue advocacy committee as editor-in-chief of students against voter suppression's youth digest sneha focuses on political journalism writing and editing articles and tracking bills she is one of only two high school students with the systemic justice project at harvard law school's justice justice initiative a partnership between harvard and howard university to elevate social justice and legal education her awards include the prince princeton prize in race relations and an american voices mental nomination from scholastic sneha plans to pursue political science in college followed by law school with the desire to create a branch of civil rights litigation dedicated to redressing algorithm-driven discrimination and eventually running for office focusing on a
347platform that empowers the working class and advances racial social and economic justice congratulations neha thank you so much hi my name is neha revenue and i'm a senior at evergreen valley high school in san jose i'm honored to have been selected as one of california's delegates 2022 u.s senate youth program and i just want to thank all of you here at the state board of education for making this program a possibility this opportunity will accelerate my journey in public service one day i hope to attend law school and work at the intersection of technology and equity i might litigate 20 percent free civil rights violations that result from automated discrimination my work could usher in a new era that of the algorithmic justice lawyer fighting tooth and nail to uphold the public interest i'd also
348love to someday run for public office through the senate youth program i'll have the opportunity to work to converse their nation's highest leaders to enrich my understanding of political affairs and to bring my goals closer to reality i can't wait to see what this program brings and once again thank you all for your commitment to civic engagement i'm so honored to be honored here today thank you if jolene or sneha should be unable to participate in washington week then one of our alternates will take their place our first alternate is zachary patterson a senior at university city high school in san diego he has been described as a dedicated elected official who shows the passion and intention of a leader ready to fight for the success of his community zachary serves as the very first
349student member of the san diego unified school board a position he helped advocate for as the student voice and has held for two years um he represents over 100 000 students in california's second largest school district one of the key policies he's worked on was creating critical board policy protecting the mental health of students as well as a policy requiring mental health education to be part of a core curriculum for all students zachary may look familiar to you because he was a recent finalist for the california state student board member position he is the founder and president of the california student board member association which brings together and provides training to elected student school board members who collectively represent 1.9 million students statewide in addition he is the first student member on the san diego
350unified council of ptas and a student member on the chief justice part power of democracy steering committee a passionate advocate who desires to make change zachary plans to major in political science with the focus on education policy and research he desires to become an education policy leader and study underlying disparities in an effort to improve educational outcomes and close the opportunity gap congratulations zachary thank you good afternoon everyone i'm honored to have been a finalist for the u.s senate youth program and to be considered for this as i look to the future i hope to work in a similar field to all of you similar to what you are all discussing with the goals of community schools in one of our previous items i'd like to more deeply discuss the outcomes to close the achievement
351gap as we know one size does not fit all as i move into college i hope to study political science and education and gain and gain a stronger understanding of the state of education nationwide working in government challenges you to think analytically and in my own experience as a member of a school board this work is incredibly meaningful one day i would love to be able to serve as a member of the state legislator and pursue a passion of mine of expanding school boards to include full voting rights for student board members just like we have on the state board of education it's a tall order but if you will it's no dream i'm super honored to be in here to be in this meeting today and to be able to be recognized for my
352work in education and i'd like to thank everybody who helped put this program together thank you zachary our second alternate is jaden stewart a senior at north hollywood high school in north hollywood he has been described as a passionate and assertive communicator and attentive listener who gets along with everyone because he listens and genuinely wants what's best not just in this moment but for all of our futures he is a member of the los angeles unified school district's superintendent's student advisory council where he serves as civic engagement committee chair taking the lead to introduce and implement the california state seal of civic engagement within the district he also serves as the inaugural student spokesperson for the lausd student empowerment unit and is currently co-hosting the first district student-run podcast education empowered he is also the
353captain of his school's speech and debate team a model united nations delegate and mentor and a first year tenor saxophonist and part of the herbie hancock jazz in the classroom combo jaden too may be a familiar face since he was a top three finalist for the state board of education student board member position as well as a runner-up for the lausd student board member position jaden plans to pursue a double major in political science and public policy with possible minors in history or rhetoric followed by law school his career goals include constitutional or civil rights law focusing on public service and improving international policy congratulations jayden thank you miss fong superintendent thurman dr darling hammond esteemed board and distinguished guests it is a privilege to be here today i am grateful to have been selected
354for this honor and inspired to continue the work of representing my community as our world becomes increasingly tumultuous and complex it will take compassionate leaders and public servants driven by empathy and determined to meet these unprecedented challenges head on the greatest leaders are defined by how they respond during immense challenges the ability to create hope in the direst of circumstances when it seems the most impossible is truly remarkable i will continually work to achieve this ideal whether it be as a public servant in the courtroom or in congress and will strive to always use truth and wisdom to enhance the lives of others i'm excited to see where the next step in my journey leads as i continue to do the arduous work of creating positive change for all people thank you congratulations jaden thank
355you very much um once again congratulations to all four of our students uh what i've shared is a small sampling of all that they've accomplished and i just want to add that all the students have been described by their teacher advisor or colleague as somebody who stands out from the rest of the group as evidence um from what you've heard today so i think we can feel confident of um what they're going to accomplish in the future so i will turn this back to president darling hammond and state superintendent thurman and the other board members to offer congratulations thank you so much i'll start off by offering congratulations and it's very inspiring to think about the roles that you will step into and provide leadership for in the future so we're excited about both your
356current situations and opportunities and for what you will bring to the rest of us in the future i'm going to open the public comment line in a moment and i'd like to get the public comments slide up but i will pass the ball in the meantime to state superintendent tony thurman thank you president darlingham uh wow uh to say that our future looks bright is an understatement uh i could not have more confidence and where things are going to go for us in the future with the representation that we have seen and heard today senator baklava uh baklova sorry senator uh revenue and senator alternate patterson uh and stewart uh incredible comments uh you're very distinguished we can't wait for the day when you actually are representing us in the respective places in government and
357public service that you choose to head to it is inspiring to hear about the intersection of law and technology and public service and of course the way you all have engaged other young voices to be involved in the decision-making process thank you for what each and every one of you is doing uh congratulations it was an honor to talk with you at the time of your selection it's an honor to speak with you now and to hear the wonderful things you're doing we are in your court in any way that we can be helpful to you please call on us congratulations again young senators and we look forward to the day when you become senators and represent all of us well done congratulations uh and i think we're going to open up the phone line
358for public comment if there are any members of the public wishing to provide comment can do so by calling the telephone number and using the access code provided on the slide that's shown now and so let's see if we have any public comment uh we do have one person signed up for public comment i will open the phone line now good afternoon caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now yeah my name is brian adams i'm with abacus education partners um i'm a financial consultant for eagle collegiate academy and uh i'm sorry dinner um i believe you want to speak towards the next item item number 12. we would ask that you please call back in okay okay okay thank you so much bye-bye thank
359you all right any other public comment um there may be one more uh just one moment good afternoon caller please say your name and affiliation for the record do you have one minute your time starts now hello my name is adriana um good afternoon state board of education i am a special education parent i wanted to thank i'm telling you i'm sorry caller i have to interrupt um we are currently on item number 11 senate youth delegates and alternates if you don't mind calling back in for a general public comment that's item number 13. thank you so much yes sorry okay president darling hammond that concludes public comment for this item yeah i think we're running a little behind our planned schedule so people are anxious to get their comments and meanwhile i do want
360to open up the floor if there are any comments from board members as we conclude this item and i will start with member bananka and then member strauss member mcquillen member rucker and member glover woods thank you president darling hammond i just have to give such a huge congratulations to all of the students selected for this program um you all are so incredible and talented and accomplished and you have truly demonstrated an incredible commitment to serving your community i've personally had the pleasure of getting to know two of the four students here and as superintendent thurman stated these students give me full confidence that our future is in the best of hands and so i know that these students are not only going to be the future leaders of our state but also the future
361leaders of our nation once again congratulations to all the students selected and the next person in the queue is member strauss and then member mcquillen member rucker member club so i just want to thank um the four students who are here and you're for your articulate comments for your commitment and for what the future holds for you and for the representation that you have of students in our high schools for our future it is so hopeful to listen to how articulate you are how hopeful you are your motivation for equity and social justice and i look forward to your being our elected officials and your voice both in your post-secondary opportunity and in your career after that i think we will hear a lot from you and i have to say as a member of
362the board we are so appreciative of everything you do to empower student voice and decision making at in your local and at the state level so thank you it just makes me proud and hopeful for the future thank you remember mcclellan yes i just want to echo what i heard from the other board members and our superintendent just so proud of all of you it's great to see you again i saw some of you as finalists in the student conference a couple months back so and you would have my vote if you're running for office after what i've heard and or i would hire you when you become that attorney so thank you very much very impressed awesome uh member rucker then member glover woods member rodriguez number one well good afternoon i want to
363add my congratulations to what you've already heard you've probably been very accustomed to hearing praises peeped upon you but i'm very excited about the future that you have laid out in plans for yourself and i just like board member mcquillen i would vote for you or i would hire you as my attorney because i appreciate the confidence that you express not only about the work that you want to do but what you know can be accomplished and i truly appreciate that i also want to give appreciation to the community of family and friends that and your school that definitely supported you and collaborated with you on helping you to get to this moment and to support your dream i hope you i know that your parents are quite proud but i want to let your
364parents know how proud i am as a former classroom teacher of what it meant for them to do the work to support you as well so they they participate in winning these accolades along with you and i want to make sure you know i'll be cheering for you from the side and i hope you continue to do well and continue to look forward to a bright and wonderful future thank you member glover woods and then member rodriguez well again i say congratulations and thank you for sharing your ideas your vision and your dreams with us this afternoon as i listen to each and every one of you my heart just got full on just hearing 21st century leaders now and knowing how you will be leading in the decades to come our world is in
365some very good and capable hands and i just wish you all the best as you move forward in your representation in the conference but also um as you move forward in life and i look forward to hearing more about the wonderful things you are doing and about the wonderful way you'll be impacting our world thank you so much for sharing yourselves today thank you and remember rodriguez yes i just want to echo the congratulations and let you know how inspired i feel by you and your leadership and i love that you are uh leading with um inclusion and compassion that just shines through and thinking about others so i wish you all the best and i can't wait to read more about all that you're doing and um the grandchildren of our board members that
366were mentioned this morning i think are in good hands if you're going to be leading our future so i'm i'm hopeful as well i'm particularly invested in that in that aspiration thank you so with that we really want to thank you all we want to applaud you uh and uh thank you dina for presenting the item thank you very much uh and with that we're going to move ahead to item number 12. um and i will just plug that we are behind the schedule that people were anticipating so some of the callers for the next several items i think are waiting anxiously to call back in agenda item 12 regarding uh eagle collegiate academy uh consider issuing a notice of violation pursuant to california education code section 47607g is the item that's before us it
367will be presented by stephanie farland of the cde and stephanie i'll let you explain it go ahead and begin great thank you good afternoon president darling hammond state board members uh state superintendent thurman and chief deputy mary nicely it's good to be here today um i apologize in advance for my voice i'm a little under the weather and it sounds a little froggy um if it's annoying if it's too annoying i can have another one of my staff members jump in um before i jump into the item i just want to give my own thank you to members burr son rucker and strauss for all the wisdom and guidance that you have provided um for the many years you've been on the board but also just specifically for me the last two years i've i've
368been with the department it's been invaluable so i appreciate it thank you so much so today we are coming before the board um uh to ask the board to issue a notice of violation if we can move on the slide please for eagle collegiate academy an eagle collegiate academy is a currently authorized charter school authorized by the state board of education they were authorized in in july of 2020. pursuant to education code section 47607g before revocation as the charter school authorizer the state board shall notify the school of any violation and provide the school a reasonable opportunity to remedy the violations um today we are going to list out some of those violations and at the end ask for uh the board to issue a notice of violation which is um a letter and it
369is in your attachment there are many reasons why the board uh can't why a charter can be revoked by the authority that granted the charter which in this case is the state board of ed um the following reasons are committed a material violation of any of the conditions standards or procedures set forth in the charter failed to meet or pursue any of the people outcomes identified in the charter failed to meet generally accepted count accounting principles or engaged in fiscal mismanagement or violated any provision of law next slide there is substantial evidence that eagle collegiate academy has engaged in the following fiscal mismanagement material violations of the charter petition and violations of provisions of law so our recommendation today will be that the state board of ed consider issuing a notice of violation to eagle
370collegiate academy pursuant to edco section 47607 just to give you a little background on the revocation process i know many of you have not gone through that before um this first step of the of the revocation process is this notice of violation um it does not mean that the school will eventually be revoked what the notice of violation is um is it allows the charter school to prevent present evidence that refutes remedies or proposes to remedy the alleged violations they will do this at the february 8th advisory commission on charter schools meeting the accs will make a recommendation we'll take action and make a recommendation to the state board that will be either to continue or discontinue the revocation process so this first step is just to give them the opportunity to respond to um
371to our to our uh notice of violation if the recommendation is to continue with the revocation process this action will be presented to the state board of ed at its march 9th and 10th meeting and it is at that meeting that the state board will decide if it should uh issue a notice of intent to revoke and then take action to revoke the charter petition so it's actually a two items that you will you will hear if it goes to the march meeting uh an issue a notice of intent to revoke and then you will come back um the next day and vote to either revoke or not um so just today we're only asking that the board issued the notice of violation okay um i think we went too far we need to go
372back one thank you uh the state board of ed approved the eagle collegiate academy charter petition at its july 2020 meeting to establish a new school within the boundaries of the acton agua dulce unified school district it was la it was approved in july of 2020 but slated to open at the beginning of the current year 2122. it was it is it was approved to offer a classroom based international baccalaureate program it was to serve 168 students in tk kindergarten through grade 3 in its first year of operation so the current year uh that we are in 21 22 is their first year of operation and then they were uh they were to grow to serve 438 students um through grade 8 by 2024 25. next slide so the instances of violation that um are
373outlined in your item and in the notice of violation as part of the attachments to this item the school has engaged in fiscal mismanagement pursuant to ed code 47607 f3 their budget is based on unrealistic enrollment and they are projected to have fiscal insolvency by by the end of this school year they have committed material violations of the approved charter petition um specifically failure to acquire appropriate facilities prior to the start of the 21-22 school year and failure to maintain adequate budget reserves and they have committed a violation of law pursuant to encode section 47607 f4 in that they are um non-compliant in their independent study uh written agreements and policies so the fiscal mismanagement the east the eca eagle collegiate academy has based and continues to base its budget on unrealistic enrollment creating a
374large anticipated deficit in its first year of operation eca's charter petition which was approved in july 2020 included a prospective enrollment of 168 students eca has never had more than 15 students enrolled at any one time during the 21-22 school year which we are in the middle of uh they currently have 12 students enrolled um here's just a little uh a timeline of of their enrollment projections so in may of 2021 they reported a prospective enrollment of 131 students what they had projected when they were approved in 2020 july 2020 was 168. so in july 2021 they estimated they reported an estimated enrollment of 168 students via the pensec in september 2021 they communicated that school began with an enrollment of 131 students they communicated that to the department in november of 2021 they reported
375a total enrollment count of 12 students via the charter school 20 day attendance report and in december 2021 when asked to give us an accounting of the number of students every month of the fall semester they reported serving 13 students in september 14 in october 12 in november and 12 in december so based on the information it reported in its pensec and again pensec is pupil estimates for new or significantly expanding charters and it's it's the it's the means by which a new charter school gets funded it's a special advance apportionment for new charters and so they they estimate how many students they'll have enrolled and then that's what they're funded for um so based on the information reported in the in its penn sec eca received an apportionment of six hundred and eleven thousand
376seven hundred and twenty nine dollars in the first special advance apportionment for charter schools based on the information it reported in its 20-day report attendance report it actually qualified for a hundred and nineteen thousand 000 in state aid so they were grossly overpaid by an estimated 492 396 dollars you'll see an email or a letter that was sent to them from the school fiscal services division of the department of ed um that states that those lcff funds will likely be due back to the state and they probably will not receive any more principal apportionment payments eca is not fiscally sustainable we did send them a letter of concern prior to this notice of violation so they did get a letter of concern in november and part of that letter of concern asked them to submit
377a new budget um projection based on the number of kids they currently had um they didn't do that they sent us a budget projection saying that their estimated enrollment through the end of this particular school year would be around 58 students um and so we went back and actually had our fiscal analysis go through their numbers and and uh estimate what their budget would be with 12 students because that's how many they have currently um we're not we're not uh certain that they could actually get to the 68 much less the 131 or 168 that they had projected before um so their budget their budget that they sent back to us based on the letter of concern um was overestimated and unrealistic in enrollment and includes an overall negative ending fund balance of 1.2 million
378dollars for the school year um also as part of the narrative that they sent um they uh claimed that they would be raising a hundred and thousand hundred thousand dollars to help pay for salaries and retirement um benefits uh but as you know and as we've said many times to foreign charter items that the reliance on soft funding fundraising and donations um is not uh is not reliable so as far as we know now they have not raised any money but we even if they had we don't necessarily rely on soft funding in our budget estimations um they also had um in their budget projections the public charter school grant program on the startup subgrant funds which uh if you noticed in your item attachments um that grants will has been um has been paused
379um as part of the grant program and this is for any charter school they have to meet minimum enrollment requirements and those minimum enrollment requirements are at least 75 students so you as you see with 12 they're they're very far below that so they will not as of now start receive any more funding under the public charter school grant program and they also in the budget that they sent us the new budget that they sent us understated the repayment of lcff funds if you remember a slide back i had said that they were more likely going to have to pay back a big portion of their lcff to the state of california and they did not include that in their budget projections in terms of material violations of the charter petition um eca failed to
380open a facility as a classroom-based charter school by the sbe approved date or before the start of the 21-22 school year um on september 7th which was their start date and in accordance with the accordance with the charter petition approve approved by the state board of ed now remember they were approved in july of 2020 so they did have a year to uh to um obtain a facility um and when they were approved they said they had a facility and that it would be ready to go by the opening day that that facility fell through and so they did not obtain a facility on december 6 last month um 2021 they did inform the department that the school had finally obtained a short-term lease at the temporary facility um i know they wanted to start
381bringing kids in right away but obviously the department has to inspect the facility and we found the facility non-compliant and those the the notes from our cde facility division are in your attachments but some of the most pressing issues are number one they did not have a fire marshal report which is required no e-occupancy certification as required by the mou was not ada compliant um and fourth there's actually a person living there um which is unusual and and for safety reasons and i'm sure you can think of lots of other reasons um not not ideal for a school um so at the moment their facility is non-compliant obviously they have the opportunity to bring it up to compliance and we will do another visit um if they if they do um to go out to
382see if they if they have made all the appropriate improvements which again all of those uh notes are in your attachment um eca's charter petition is approved by the state board outlines a classroom based ib program it does not include 100 non-classroom-based programs so they are only receiving the students at eca are only receiving online instruction currently and they don't have a funding determination for that which you know um as you've heard many uh funding determination items in the past um if you're 100 online you would need a funding determination um so that's an issue as well um so so they're 100 online which was not what they were approved for next slide please due to the lcf repayment and discontinuing pcs gp funding the cde projects eca to have a negative ending fund balance
383of 1.2 million and for section 3.5 of the memorandum of understanding the mou between the sbe and eca eca is expected to main reserves at five percent of expenditures or seventy one thousand dollars which they will they will not have next slide please in terms of the violations of law uh they are non-compliant in their independent study written agreements uh ab-130 and ab-167 have um uh sorry my dayquil is starting to go out a little bit um included new new provisions and requirements for schools who offer independent study um we did a we did a review of their independent study written agreements and their board policies we also had our independent study group at the department um review those as well to make sure that you know we had uh the proper um the proper
384folks reviewing it and we found that they are not in compliant with edco section 51747 g14 and five um and for for a lot of reasons and all of those if you um look are also outlined in in the attachments other concerns on december 1 2021 the el dorado charter special education local plan area which we call selfa um issued a formal notice of concern about eca's ability to function as an ally eca had at the time not set up a child fine process the cell phone was concerned that students with disabilities were not receiving their due services and i believe that letter is also in your attachments so for the four more mentioned reasons the cde recommends that the state board consider issuing a notice of violation to eca pursuant to ed code section
38547607g the issuance of a notice of violation to eagle collegiate in the form of a letter to eagle collegiate's board is the first step towards possible revocation of the charter school the eca board will be afforded the opportunity to remedy the violations and provide a letter of response addressing each identified violation pursuant to the notice of violation the submitted information will be reviewed by the department and presented it to the accs at its february 8 2022 meeting the saccs will take action on a recommendation to the state board that will either be to dis to continue or discontinue the revocation process if the recommendation is to continue with revocation this action will be presented to the state board at its march 9th 10th 2022 meeting so again the cde recommends that the state board of
386education consider issuing a notice of violation to eagle collegiate academy pursuant to encode section 47607 g and that concludes my presentation thank you very much uh stephanie at this point we'll put the public comments slide up and invite people to queue up for public comment um by calling the telephone number and access code all provided on the slide that is shown now and while we're waiting for any members of the public to call in i want to ask members burr and son if they have any initial comments remember well i think that the department has done a very good job of laying out the difficulties of the school it's always a sad day when we have to take an action like this but i do think the evidence is fairly compelling and i just want
387to reiterate what stephanie said a number of times this is really the first step it doesn't mean that necessarily the board will vote to revoke the charter but it does set in motion the necessary notifications and also the opportunity for the school to respond especially at accs i just wanted to ask one clarifying question um stephanie about the recommendation i i think the recommendation is that the board authorized a letter of violation the the wording says the board shall consider it which is a little softer but anyway we can just clarify that when we get to it and then i'll see if um remember sun has any other comments okay yeah thank you i i agree and um that this is the first step on in a process um does not mean that the school
388will be revoked necessarily but um did the information the facts are um concerning enough that i think we need to start the process especially given that there's such a low um enrollment and i we knew that starting a school in the middle of all this chaos in the pandemic was going to be a very difficult task and while the language because this way it's worded in law is um very harsh it's fiscal mismanagement mismanagement violation of a b and c i i want to emphasize that we're not um assigning intent that the school intended to not have the full enrollment didn't intend to do any of these things nevertheless the situation is where the situation is and it is just non-sustainable to operate a school based on 12 students thank you if there are clarifying
389questions we'll take those and then i'm going to allow some time for the school's leaders to address us and then we'll go to public comment are there any clarifying questions at the moment i am not seeing any there's a very thorough um presentation so um with that i want to allow three minutes of time for ogo okoye uh johnson and ken higginbotham the school's leaders to address the state board members and then we'll go to public comment good afternoon honorable about president darlene harmon honorable state board members and cde staff my name is dr ogo and i am the founder and chief executive officer of eagle collegiate academy we are a k-8 public charter school currently serving grades k through third other first and only international baccalaureate primary years program candidate school serving the antelope
390valley and the santa clarita valley communities as many of you remember the state board approved eagle college's childhood petition with conditions on july 8 2020 the best day of our lives with a one-year delayed opening to begin instruction between july 1 2021 and september 30 2021. the entire igloo collegiate academy community thanks you for that below since july 2020 eco collegiate has faced innumerable challenges in opening various facilities in agodosa which has of course impacted enrollment and our budget a global collegiate has and will continue to work diligently to remedy the cde's concerns because that's our goal for these reasons ego college respectfully requires that the state board declined to issue the proposed notice of violation again it will collegiate has and will continue to work diligently to remedy the cde's concerns because we are
391concerned as well to date we have remedied or substantially remedied the cde's concerns as follows are still facilities despite earlier facilities challenges echo collegiate has secured a facility in the heart of agodosi that is near ready to begin families and students we have been working with cde staff to meet their concerns about the facility and are tirelessly preparing for our students arrival on site as soon as cde approves their site as to enrollment eagle collegiate's law enrollment has been directly related to earlier challenges and securing a facility we have shared with cd its staff it will collegiate recent acquisition of the school site and proving preparation for in-person instruction which has led to a substantial increase in news and enrollment commitments as evidenced by the many written comments submitted by families to the state board
392as to fiscal sustainability with with a three steady 2021 projected enrollment reasonable projections for 2022-23 and 2023-24 and a robust enrollment and development campaign on the way it will collegiate in conjunction with its back office provider is working together to put up budgets that reflect a fiscal sustainability plan which includes if necessary a repayment plan for any overstated lcf advanced acquisition for more than four years and we will walk diligently with cde staff to me so as a result we are asking the state board to please decline to issue the proposed notice of violation pursuant to education code i'm sorry and allow my students to start it thanks and for approving thank you we'll move to public comment now is there any public uh yes we do have public comment um i'm going to start
393with uh ken higginbotham from uca good afternoon uh the approval of the requests to keep eagle collegiate academy operational is paramount high quality of education individual growth academic achievement and community enrichment make eca a top of the line learning events institution of learning as board president this is that i am well versed in executive oversight and operations i believe the foundation for success is evident and strong eca has really accomplished many tasks and actions taken in moving this effort forward the parents the families the students the community are in high thought thank you that concludes your one minute thank you caller that concludes your one minute uh the uh community good afternoon please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon caller ending in 1685 you are live and
394you may start your public comment now yes hi i just wanted to say that i'm very grateful for the approval of eagle collegiate academy and i definitely support the mission and vision of eca and its leadership and its staff are just top notch and they have overcome truly unique odds uh in the past uh you know a couple years and i definitely think that eagle collegiate academy is a great school for our children and it's great for the community and it provides a great instructional program and has uh you know of staff that's very experienced and takes great care of the students and family so that's my comment thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now hi good afternoon my name is don hakeem and i
395work with eagle collegiate academy and i really urge you to work with us we are so dedicated and passionate to make this school a success we are the only school offering in our community a primary years international baccalaureate program our team works tirelessly to provide a bet the best education possible for the students we have and we are working so hard to grow our student base and to get our facility approved and up and running we really are on the cusp of doing great things so please consider instead of giving a violation let's work together let's make this happen we can do it behind all of these things that you're talking about is a team of people that are that care so much about the students thank you color that's your time is up the
396best thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon my name is michael juba speaking on behalf of the more than 300 000 teachers of the california teachers association cta supports the cde's recommendation that the state board of education issue a notice of violation the issues outlined by the cde in the item today should come as no surprise given that when eagle collegiate's original appeal was heard by the spe in july of 2020 and the cde at that time recommended to deny the petition for the same exact reasons in july 2020 the cde found that the eca petition was not consistent with the sound educational practice and they were demonstrably unlikely to implement the program due to an unrealistic financial and operational plan cta recommends
397that the sbe approve the cde's recommendation and issue a notice of violation thank you for your time thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now caller ending in zero three nine five you are live please start your comment now hi my name is ashley cusell i am a teacher at eagle collegiate academy and i just wanted to call to show my support for this wonderful staff wonderful team wonderful administration this school has tried so hard to meet every student's needs and myself as a teacher know the importance of giving each of these students every chance to succeed and i know for myself working with these students they have grown so much already since the beginning of the school year with small class
398sizes we were able to do so much for these students and i know our school is wanting to grow and will continue to grow but i'm just so excited to be working in a community in a school where these students education is so important and is looked at as the highest priority and i'm just happy to be a part of it and i continue to hope to be a part of it and hope that eagle collegiate academy is given the support it needs thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now hi my name is alice kennedy i am also a teacher at eagle collegiate academy i'm also very dedicated to my students i'm very dedicated to the school and i really want
399to see the school grow and continue and i ask that you would hear our voices and know that we are extremely dedicated to this school and to our students and we want to provide them with the best education possible and we work really hard every single day to provide an education for those students thank you so much for hearing what i have to say thank you [Music] next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now caller ending in 3856 you are live please start your public comment hi this is jeffrey forrest i am a board member with eagle collegiate academy the purpose of my communications to offer my support and endorsement for eca pandemic has exposed inequities in the delivery of quality education especially for students of color since
400its except inception eca has been committed to ensuring that students such as this from all backgrounds in fact receive an educational experience and prepares them to achieve success in these uncertain times therefore i'm asking you to give eca generous consideration to continue its efforts to provide a solid foundation of education and learning to the community it serves thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now this is katelyn o'halleran with the charter schools development center we've been in regular communication with eagle collegiate since their inception in july of 2020 well we don't disagree with any of the facts presented by the department of ed today and we recognize that there are problems we also recognize and commend dr johnson and her team for
401all of their dedication and hard work they've really had a rough go with some bad luck and opening during a pandemic and we absolutely know that their hearts are all in the right places and they've been trying to do right by their students we will continue to work with eca through this process and to provide support as they continue thank you thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now hello my name is isabella and i'm excited for my children to be a part of eagle collegiate academy in addition to their excellent instructional programs such as the international baccalaureate primary year program candidacy i believe and the strong core values and mission i see how caring and dedicated the eca staff is to
402one another especially to your students and families and i know my children will receive a quality education at eagle collegiate academy thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now my name is paulina goldstein and i'm calling to express my support academy i believe in the mission and vision of the school and its leadership and i support the continuation of eca for parents to use our right to school choice to provide the best fit for our children thank you thank you caller caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now caller with the number ending in three three zero two you are live please start your public comment hi my name is dj michael
403uh i support the experience mission and academy leadership of the staff of eagle college and it's a great school for my children they are perfect to go to school i am the parents of two children in kindergarten and second grade who intended to involve my children at the ego korean academy for the demanding of the 2021-2022 school year as soon as the school starts open thank you caller do you have more are you finished with the public comment i should have continued the education at the lego college in the year to come thank you so much thank you very much next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now caller ending in the number 8862 you are live please start your comment now hi my
404name is alice kennedy and i am a teacher at eagle collegiate academy and i already made my public statement that i am in support and favor of this school and i really want to see the school succeed and i really want to see the school continue into the future so that we can continue to meet those needs of our students in the community and work with our students we are working really hard to provide an excellent education for our students and i'm just appreciate you listening to me thank you thank you so much next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now caller ending with the number ending in eight one three eight you are live please start your public comment now hi my name
405is johanna chavez and i'm calling to support a epa and as a parent i would like you to support our school that because i see my kid that is going to be integrated he has been improved a lot and i see that his um with the kids he have been so familiar enough to just take care of him like there are others so i would like you to support school thanks thank you color next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record do you have one minute your time starts now hi my name is ruth posey tk and kindergarten teacher for eca um i definitely support the mission and vision of eagle collegiate academy and its leadership teachers and staff it is a great school for the children that we serve we have
406an excellent instructional program and we take very good care of the students and i hope we can continue to support them and provide our services for these students who really we've gotten comfortable with and attached to and i think we're doing a great job so please support our school thank you thank you caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now hi my name is brandi irvin and i'm a parent of eca my daughter is in a pre-k class here bca is a a school that the santa clarita valley has not seen it is an amazing structured program for students and i feel like the academics are amazing as well as the teachers and the staff they provide our kids loving support and really being able
407to go the distance and let them know that they can do all things um also you know being able to provide also children of color a place to be able to express themselves and feel wanted and feel uh like they have a place in this world especially that starts in school so i'd love for you guys to support this school and all the teachers and administration is doing it and support us as parents for our kids to continue to be supported thank you thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now hi my name is brian adams with abacus education partners i'm a financial consultant back office service provider for eagle collegiate academy and i've assisted them in developing a fiscal sustainability plan
408i continue to monitor the finances of evil collegiate academy and help them update the fiscal sustainability plan thank you very much thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now caller ending in the number 8758 you are live please start your public comment um you you just unioned me before brian adams again oh okay i'm sorry about that thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now oh hi my name is mobala gilipede i'm a parent my children are part of the eagle collegiate academy and i'm calling to show my support and endorsement for eca to be in full capacity for the benefits of our children i've seen and watched um how dedicated the staff
409and the administration has been to making sure that our children achieve excellent top-notch you know education they have supported in in many ways given structural academic programs um keeping the kids involved in all levels and up to like the physical activities and teaching them great independence for the kids of santa clarita the school will be a great asset to the community and to our children of color in this in this part of town so please support us when my daughter would like to say something come on thank you colleen my daughter says something or something okay all right thank you thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now good evening board members my name is janelle goolie i'm an attorney with the
410law offices of young marine corps i'm here today in support of eagle collegiate i do also want to express deep gratitude for board members sir sorry burr sun rucker strauss for your years of support tough love and spirited discussion around charter school matters as the eagle collegiate we asked that the board today hold off on issuing the notice of violation eagle collegiate has had a has had particularly tough flooding trying to open during a pandemic in an area where local politics have undermined multiple attempts to secure a viable facility as you've heard eca is about to turn the corner tacking on a notice of violation right now would divert needed resources away from uh from getting the school site open which is of course counterproductive and makes opening even more difficult eagle collegiate has shown
411that the enrollment is there that the facility is imminently ready and that the combination of both of those will stabilize the financial picture please allow eagle collegiate to continue working with cde staff outside of the formal framework of a notice of violation thank you thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now hello my name is kristen and i am a parent of children who attend uca thank you for approving eagle collegiate academy eca has a great educational program including their ibu primary years candidate program i look forward to my chil my children and many others continuing their education at uca thank you thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now hello go ahead
412do you have our lives okay yes um my name is eliana howe and i'm one of the teachers there and i would like to strongly support the school as well as the fact that many parents have um asked for this kind of school in this community and we are looking forward to offering specialized academic instruction to the students as well as common core standards and we have an excellent curriculum ready for the students to be able to to learn how to in the future you know how to um do business in this world economy so we just want to be sure that we have this kind of education in our community thank you so much thank you president darling hammond that concludes public comment for item number 12. thank you very much appreciate all of
413the public comment and the report from the cde and at this point we're open for full more discussion uh prior to emotion is there any more discussion i'm not seeing any hands raised do i have a motion i would move the department's recommendation that the board issue a letter of violation to a notice of violation to the evil collegiate academy per the issues that are raised in the item is there a second i will second all right um we'll now hold a roll call vote folks please call them all remember son aye amber strauss yes member rucker yes remember rodriguez yes member patillo brownson yes member mcquillen yes vice president glover woods yes members yes president darling hammond yes amber burr aye member bananka hi motion passes unanimously thank you and we'll just uh note
414again for the uh record that this is not a decision about what will happen in the future but it does seem warranted at this time and we should look forward to seeing if any of these things can be remediated in the coming months and i'm going to press ahead to reopen item one i know it's been a long day i appreciate everyone hanging in there uh for the what will be our last item well almost our last item before the public public comment the general public comment so i will reopen item one to take up the state board screening committee recommendations regarding appointments to acse and iqc uh we'll take action on the preliminary report of actions draft november 2021 meeting minutes report on our liaison assignments and give final reflections and appreciations for our
415outgoing board members so i do want to ask member strauss as chair of the state board screening committee to present the committee's recommendations and while we're waiting for any members of the public to call in uh do i have a motion from a board member to um approve the state board screening committee recommendations do you want me to make the recommendations yeah why don't you make them make recommendations too and also i don't in my script i don't have the public comments so why don't you make the recommendations we'll have public comments and let me just say i would like to it's a little funny and slip there i think so i would like to thank my screening committee um vice president glover woods and member sung and myself and i would just say we
416had amazing candidates a large number to interview for the advisory commission on special ed and the instructional quality commission very very thoughtful we interviewed um before the holidays so we have a recommendation for for the commission on special ed for a two-year term barbara sorter administrator and special ed voc ed unit with riverside county office of education her term goes from january 1st 2022 to december 31st 2023 we're also recommending two appointments to the instructional quality commission um neil mccaffrey he's principal at discovery charter school he represents the charter school leadership category on iqc from january 1st 2022 to december 31st 2025 and nicole reyna guerra she's a differentiation specialist with davis union high school district she represents teachers of public school her term also goes from january 1st 22 to december 31st 2025 and
417i recommend the board approve these appointments to advise your commission on special ed and the instructional quality commission thank you and now we will see if there's any public comment um it looks like there may be one person signed up i will open the phone line uh caller please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good evening state board of education this is jessica sacco from children now on behalf of the entire education team uh including rob manwering samantha tran stephen blake hostessina ramirez and vincent stewart and myself thanking all of the outgoing board members um patricia rucker ting member ting suber and eileen strauss the students of california may not know of the thousands of combined volunteer hours that the four of you have contributed to this work they
418may not even know your name yet your work has made their educational opportunities significantly better through your leadership on lcfs implementation accountability building a system of continuous improvement system of support your leadership in areas such as assessment stem education charter schools curriculum instruction instructional quality commission accountability your institutional knowledge will be missed the joy and enthusiasm that you have brought to this work will be missed thank you and we wish you the best of luck on your future endeavors thank you all right and with that i think any other i think we may have one more caller um just one moment uh color please state your name and affiliation for the record your time starts now good afternoon dr darling hammond and board members dianaboo on behalf of the association of california school administrators i
419would like to thank the outgoing board members for their leadership during these unprecedented times and continuous dedication to california's 6 million students thank you so much dr strauss board member burr board member rucker and dr sun for service to improving california's public education system and congratulations to the 2022 board thank you thank you okay it looks like that concludes public comment for this portion of item one and just for anybody who is uh monitoring the meeting uh virtually we just wanted to clarify that that was public comment actually on the recommendations and there will still be an opportunity to call in to thank and celebrate our members in a moment right yeah we were getting to that but we hadn't quite gotten there yet but we have a lot of things in it one so
420it's a logical mistake so uh with that is there any other discussion about this item before we take a motion seeing none i will happily take a motion so i move approval of the appointments from the advisory commission for the screening committee to advise your commission on special ed and instructional quality commission and do i have a second and i i will second unless second and third thank you very much we'll hold a roll call vote brooks can you please call it all number son aye amber strauss yes member rucker yes member rodriguez yes member patilla brownson yes member mcquillen yes vice president clever woods yes president darling hammond unanimously thank you uh and um we will also have an opportunity for public comment on the um state board of education draft preliminary report of
421action and meeting minutes so we're going to keep that public comment slide up there and while we're waiting for any members of the public to call in do i have a motion from a board member to approve the november 2021 state board of education draft preliminary report of action meeting minutes i will move to approve thank you uh do i have a second second thank you very much uh now are there any public comments there are no public comments all right any further discussion we will hold a roll call vote brooks please call the roll number son hi member strauss yes number rucker yeah remember rodriguez yes member patilla brownson yes member mcquillen yes vice president glover woods yes members cabello yes president darling hammond yes remember i am burbanka hi listen carries unanimously thank
422you we have arrived at board member liaison reports and i want to invite the board members to report on any liaison activities that are not related to items on our january agenda following that we are going to have any final appreciations through public comment for our departing board members and a little announcement about what else is coming to you and then we will get to general public comment so that's the order of operations and let's begin by calling on our board members in reverse or alphabetical order to give their board liaison reports remember sun yes so our last board liaison report i don't have a lot to say um at this point the california workforce pathways advisory committee is meeting later this month um continuing the work of the california of the uh career technical
423education state plan which we've been working on for what five years now so um i will be monitoring from afar to see the progress of that and then um with with all things charters i know that's continues to be dynamic and uh you know we we covered a charter item today and i that's all i have thank you all right well thank you and once again thank you for your amazing service on the board uh and i'll move to vice president spouse so um um president darling just a question i have uh some things to report on my liaison reports is this the time for me to make my own final reflections or do you want me to do that after the liaison reports i think you should go ahead and fold it in okay
424so um just a a couple of i had a bunch of lays on the report so my liaison to the california state university um center for advancement of instruction and quantitative reasoning that's the group that's trying to help support a fourth year of math with quantitative reasoning which you'll hear a lot about in the math framework and really working hard to take a look at how these csu faculty can help our k-12 faculty improve so they are continuing to meet they really want to help do relevant um support for content and pedagogy knowledge for teachers so just that's an ongoing thing so just wanted to let you know about that as well um as instructional quality commission both member rucker and i liaison next week is the orientation for new iqc members so um i'm
425assuming that remember glover woods will do the swearing-in of the new members but that is next week and then the california collaborator for district reform met on the 29th and 30th of november and they worked on centering equity and ensuring whole child well-being with the pandemic recovery as a focus so you'll appreciate that the conversation with districts and policy makers was around social emotional learning mtss and communities approach school approaches needs so again we are talking about that a lot in all of our collaborative work and i think really really important and as science liaison i appreciated the comments from the science community i just wanted to share they have now published a blueprint for action for equitable science education and have five priorities including a science and teacher and administrator workforce science that's culturally
426responsive and has appropriate materials in strengthening lead capacity and looking at the science performance indicator which i talked about on the dashboard anyway i i think they've worked really hard on this blueprint and they're willing and continue to collaborate with us and i just wanted to bring that forward as the science lives on i remember president donald hammond and i um are liaisons to the national association of state boards of education nazbe we had a meeting on the 21st with secretary cardona with state board vice chairs and chairs i thought the couple comments and remember darling hammond would probably um add to it but no question talking about the challenges but the opportunities going forward to make public education greater than ever and this is a chance to reset things that we didn't like in
427education which i think many of us would really agree on and so i just appreciate um that he focused on the positive lessons learned and not to lose the urgency to embed social emotional learning and well-being into our schools um and to re-imagine and um especially how hard things are just to remember um that we're all working really hard but but this is an opportunity and then my final reflections let me just say um when i came to the board um 11 years ago um the first team i ended up a local board meeting where i was an assistant soup at 1am flew up to sacramento never been in the cde room before the boardroom and there was parent revolution lots of bus parents there saying we want our schools to be better and thank
428goodness for yvonne chan who was there at the time who said to me okay look here's where you get coffee here's the restroom here's how you do expense report and since then i have my whole world has opened up with all of you and the board members that i've worked with over the last 11 years so i've had a very wonderful opportunity to be liaison to a lot of things i did before i day i was the california commission on teacher credentialing liaison i was opportunity to do the concurrence commission with the subject matter projects the instructional quality commission with ela and eld and the science frameworks accountability with the system of support the california practitioners advisory group the dashboard advisory commission on special ed i chaired the screening committee we appointed so many amazing
429people to state commissions i was liaison to the educa and pointed to the education commission of the states and went to the communities of practice for science and math the common core steering committee and all of you will now get these things all reorganized to liaison responsibilities let me just say these made my work on the board so amazing and valuable because i got to work with stakeholders and partners and working on um improving our program let me just say that what i realized so much is the voices and the input matter both in call-ins both in letters in our working groups and the input and that all the input of the voices helped improve all of our documents the thing that i think about is that we have amazing frameworks that we develop as
430guidance documents to the field not required and the thing that i would say to the field is before you do any adoptions for materials spend some time using the guidance documents so your staff and faculty and leaders know what's there so that when they pick materials that we also have vetted they'll have a good sense of what to choose so that's a lesson that i think many of us have learned about the resources in our frameworks and um let me just say that the voices from policy development to practice and implementation are so important we can create great policy but if we don't build capacity for staff and leaders to do the implementation we're not going to change schools so let me just say we've learned that if you go slow you actually go fast
431as you build capacity that money matters but what you do with it matters more and i just have to say the dedication and the commitment at the state process is amazing i'm incredibly optimistic going forward about the hope for schools we have amazing funding we have to support our teachers and leaders and i can't think i'm i can't think of a more a wonderful opportunity than this really a capstone for me to help guide policy to practice so thank you all for how hard you work for what you do every day i look forward to continuing my connections with my friends and colleagues and and my next chapter and with you and i support the work ahead and thank you this has been the highest opportunity for public service in my career and i thank
432you so much for the opportunity thank you thank you member rucker thank you very much and i will take your advice and offer my comments as well as my liaison report you know i have served on this board for a reason and for a season i have to begin by acknowledging the great support that i've received from my friends my family my colleagues and policy advocates in the education community particularly at the california teachers association your expectations your feedback your arguments have sharpened me as a blade is honed by the fire and the hammer i leave the board in this season that many are calling the winner of our discontent dr richard levine was my college professor under whom i studied shakespeare and he taught me how to look in and look in the darkness
433and find the light while many people use this quote from shakespeare at the start of a long complaint i actually have a different view there's nothing wrong with public education in california for the students who have been fortunate enough to attend a school that's safe have small classes properly trained teachers supportive leadership and if they're in classrooms with other students who are properly cared for and fed if the school has adequate and appropriate programs for children who do not speak english and children who have special needs if the facilities are modern if the classes have up-to-date materials and active parent support is the norm in the schools where the norms are not in place the disparity in the access is more profound and these students as well as the educators who support them are faced
434with the hope that the board understands those priorities understands their dilemmas and will do the work that's needed to create sustainable change and that's been our mission in the entire time i have served on the board these are the core values that have been formed every conversation i've had every letter i've written every question i've asked and every professional decision i've ever made today we have a list and we've heard from so many people about our accomplishments and the milestones we've completed during the time i've worked on this board for that time despite the feelings we've had for the past couple of years i truly feel optimistic i think the unhappiness that has cloaked our hearts and our minds really is coming to an end the work to get there though to trudge through this
435quagmire remains and i'm going to take with me so many fantastic memories and stories that i can share over dinner that nobody will believe like the time i played charades with carrick ashley dead sigmund and tom adams in a bar in washington dc although i have had many assignments while serving on the board i'm going to focus my final liaison report on my principal assignments the national association of state boards of education i truly appreciate the opportunity for to participate in conferences and get the rich learning and professional development afforded by this organization i was thrilled to represent our state on their whole child study group last year instructional quality commission mike kirch appointed me when he was giving subject matter assignments to each of my colleagues he handed me the icc to start and
436set up this as a brand new entity that was established under law so i want to thank bill hones who served as the first chair as well as tom adams and stephanie gregson who served as the executive director i also want to recognize the talented practitioners who have sat with me through those iqc meetings and with whom i've had the opportunity to laugh and work and learn i must also commend to you the energy creativity and teamwork that are the high standards and norms among the seaford staff who have supported the work of the iqc i've also been the liaison to the california military in in interstate children's compact commission this assignment evolved from simply paying money for membership and approving a compact plan focused on making sure children who are military dependents have the
437right to transfer into the classes they need and to participate equitably in sports and other curricular activities to deepening the work this year on looking at how to support students with ieps as they move and transfer into our state i want to thank in particular jc raglin for her diligent support to get me started with this project as well as all the department staff who have helped to launch multiple related initiatives for this project it's worth noting that this state's leadership helped to create the military identifier that's in our state data system i've also worked with king son and feliza ortiz lee cohn on the california workforce pathways a joint advisory committee it was so wonderful and a great honor to restart this vital policy work group that's work will continue as they work to
438write and develop a new state plan for career and technical education and i truly appreciate the deep thinking and dialogue that we're the norm for discussion on this panel and i will truly miss that there were multiple staff who worked to support this project and this game principally led by the cte division as well as dr shiny weber from the community college chancellor's office i was also thrilled to be the hostess or to at least be the opening act for the california early math symposium i was really thrilled to work with board staff particularly carolyn sister to support the old the beginning of this curriculum and symposium the 2021 conference welcomed participants from around the world as the board moves forward to approve the math framework later this year i know the breadth and depth
439of the conference breakout sessions for this symposium will continue to grow i also worked on the significant deport disproportionality work group california can be proud of its federal reporting and accountability actions that you heard of earlier but i also want to point out that the focus of this particular work group has shifted now the issues of over referral of students of color particularly of african-american boys is going to be the focus of problem-solving sessions and uh the agenda for this work group going forward i applaud the initiatives of this work group being led by shiloh brazero and heller calamies as they guide the work group in this attention shift and focus on problem solving and finally michael for my colleagues on the board i want to thank you for your patience and your due diligence
440in supporting all of my um uh all of the work that i have done as it relates to waivers on every single agenda of this board there's a large docket of waiver items i want to thank judy styus and all the staff in the department with whom i've had the real honor of working with and reviewing and preparing these waiver items you have been patient tutors as i learned about selling surplus school properties adjusting approving adjustments and bond and indebtedness and school board races i'm also grateful for the dialogue as we've discussed what it means to consider the best interest of the student served by approving these waivers you heard for those of you who are regular attendees to the board meetings you've often heard me mention the fairy tale sleeping beauty as a reference
441to the fearful lesson of failure in naming the all there really are too many names to mention and too many projects to review if i did not name those projects or i did not name you in particular it's not because i forgot or i didn't think about you but there just is not enough time in all that work there have been many great days and many many hard conversations as a policy body i feel we have modeled good practice for inclusion and public engagement and i'm confident that work will continue so i will close with this one thought in this one quote you know i'm a reformed english teacher so i'm always going to give you a quote abraham lincoln said we must not be enemies we must not be enemies though passion may have
442strained it it must not break our bonds of affection the mystic chords of memory will swell again when touched as surely as they will be by the better angels of our nature thank you so much thank you and you know uh tina i'm going to come back to you at the end because uh when you were reporting we didn't have this second part of the report in mind so uh but i am going to move now to member rodriguez as we go through the alphabetical list okay um the ctc is proactively addressing the teachers actually okay so i uh i'm giving a report uh i'm liaison to the ctc and cesa and i hope i got that right i always confuse it with sathetha but so the ctc meeting um in december uh pro really
443addressed the teacher shortage and a few of the steps that they have taken uh with regard to the the current issues that they're facing uh first of all teacher candidates were given more time to complete tests required to earn a teaching credential and learn that their coursework could be taken to replace some tests at the meeting the ctc also extended the deadline for teachers to take the rica the seabest and the california subject examinations cset so about 20 percent of our state's testing centers are closed fresno and oakland are among the areas with the least access to testing for teacher candidates and some of the students are taking advantage of the online testing options in july the state budget trailer bill uh provided details for implementing new k-12 programs in the budget and um gave
444teacher candidates who were unable to take the required test due to covid until december 31st to complete the tests and the ctc has the authority to extend those deadlines let's see here the commission unanimously approved bilingual authorization 20 hours it was a unanimous approval by ctc commissioners uh the new bilingual authorization standards the btps and as i said the 20 hours of field work for the bilingual teacher candidates and for the uh we had a board meeting on december 16th and uh cesa has renewed its three-year contract with calarts there were some issues with the renegotiation process on that as you'll hear about as i continue but the the three-year contract has been renewed to a mission uh was that going to win 250 for the 2022 summer session the last time uh cesar ran
445an in-person uh program the tuition in 2019 the tuition was two thousand dollars that's quite an increase but it's due in part um to the fact that cal arts has also raised uh its price for csa the trustees voted to increase tuition even higher to incur additional funding for low-income students from across the state so currently 30 percent of css students on average are attending with financial aid the increased tuition will allow for almost half the students to attend with aid we'll also be able to increase the scholarship amounts and that's very important to the trustees to make sure that students who are underrepresented students of color low socioeconomic status are represented at the california summer school for the arts so even with the increase the cost to attend cisa is still dramatically i use
446the word dramatically on purpose dramatically below public and private four-week residential programs in date the trustees also voted to restrict the program to in-state students only for 2022. uh as the students are minors they can't reasonably send international or out-of-state students home who may test positive for coveted 19 upon arrival or during the program so uh that is uh it was only a vote for this summer and that concludes my reports thank you very much member patio brownson so i will highlight two recent task force and convenings that deal with the black student achievement task force with the department of education as well as the utk or upk and p23 constellation approach also with the department of education um so uh superintendent thurman who was here earlier but i think actually is now at the
447task force meeting which i will be joining shortly after we finished here around the black student achievement task force which has been focusing on teacher diversity academic achievement housing homelessness and foster youth the school-to-prison pipeline and mental health recommendations will be coming from a group of luminaries really from across the state from academia from community-based organizations from school district leadership to really dig into this issue and make recommendations for the department to consider moving forward in the next couple of years the second body that that i wanted to highlight is looking at the um roll out and excitedly uh implementation now um of what has been uh the master plan for early childhood um so looking at universal transitional kindergarten and the p23 pipeline i've been participating in the partnership communications and strategy group which
448crosses a number of different agencies and leaders and really focusing on how to make sure that a cross-section of leaders from leas among them teachers superintendents administrators as well as early childhood community-based providers and families all understand um what some of the offerings and opportunities are that are rapidly upcoming so just as a reminder last year in the budget um universal transitional kindergarten was adopted with this year as planning but we will very soon be implementing utk in this next school year which is very exciting and also there's a lot to do and a lot of outreach to make sure that all of the partners understand what the different roles are what the potential to grow opportunities for three-year-olds in particular what the opportunities are for universal transitional kindergarten and then also how does that
449connect to the pipeline for going up to third grade um in early elementary and early literacy which also was exciting to see um in the the unveiling of the budget um was that yesterday earlier this week the time frame is now a little stretchy but i think with all of those there's a real mirror to some of the conversations we've had today about how to ensure that these are not one-off programs but that they are integrated that they actually layer in ways that are cohesive so that when we have the conversation about community schools about universal food programs about the el road map about mtss that these are all being brought to bear and made available for young children across the continuum as well last thing i'll just say as a point of gratitude is
450my kids go to lausd schools and i live in the lausd attendance areas we just opened up schools i just want to offer gratitude for all of the school leaders who in the last two weeks have reopened schools it has not been easy and we as a state have committed to it and are making it happen in ways that have not been straightforward but are profoundly impactful for children's learning i also want to voice gratitude for all of the parents who are trusting us to get this right and who are bringing their children ready to learn and will be on this journey with us so thank you perfect thank you i would second that emotion uh member mcquillen yes well said briefly [Music] not a lot since we had the break in december uh but
451i know a lot of people are uh stressed right now in our school so i i definitely second what was just said um looking forward to the california work uh joint pathways group that focuses on cte uh we're meeting on friday that january 21st to continue to work there i also have been invited to the committee the american indian oversight committee uh for cde that meets this friday is to give a bit of a report and i think there'll be a real focus on uh curriculum for native american studies throughout the state in their discussion looking forward to that but considering the late hour that's all i have to say thank you thank you very much but exciting work remember glover woods i do not have a formal liaison report i just want to extend
452congratulations to the recent appointees to the acsc and the iqc and also gratitude to member sen and who will always be to me vice president strauss for the leadership on the screening committee and all of the work that was done to bring two fine candidates forward for consideration today thank you and member escobado yes i'm i'm excited to report that by and i believe was during mid-december west ed was awarded a new five-year contract to continue to serve as a regional educational laboratory west that serves arizona california nevada and utah and they were first selected to be in this position uh in 1966 so that's quite a impressive track record and almost simultaneously they were also selected to serve as the regional educational laboratory northwest which serves alaska idaho montana oregon and washington so this
453will allow westjet to extend and deepen their partnership services and and support really throughout the whole western region of of our country so that's that's great to report also we're um ending our our time with the initiative and our work groups um i'm the co-chair of the bilingual multilingual group on sharing best practices on enhancing literacy for our state and i believe friday is our final sharing meeting i look forward to sharing some of the results of that amazing initiative by the superintendent for our next meeting terrific um i'm gonna wait and just say a word at the end and remember burr it's the mic comes to you thank you first i'd like to report on my major liaison work with the california collaborative for educational excellence we met our last board meeting was december
4542nd and we had a very thorough report from executive director matt navo who spent really the his initial months as our new executive director between august and december engaged in a major stakeholder feedback sessions he engaged with over 20 educational agencies that represented over 140 of our educational partners and to really sort of dive deep about what cce was doing well what they needed to improve on how they needed to you know what what they needed to do going forward in the environment in which we're all operating and as a result of that there's been kind of a reimagining of the vision of cce the mission of ccee and the value of ccee and probably the most important work is to identify the organization in such a way that our stakeholders and our educational partners
455better understand what our work is so matt and his team have organized around three centers the center for statewide instruction improvement and impact the statewide center for teaching learning and leading and the center for transformative systems for equitable educational outcomes so i encourage you all to if you're interested to do it a deeper dive into these changes they're all available on the website uh you can look at matt's report for the december meeting and i think it will give you a good sense we had a presentation at the board meeting from the center for um teaching learning and leading which is the center that's headed now by stephanie gregson um there much of their work has to do with the direct technical assistance as i think you know there are a handful of school districts
456that have been identified for direct technical assistance and uh we had a report on the success of those districts um stephanie is also leading as part of that work um the accelerated learning grant opportunities the rfp has been issued for the 45 million dollars that's available to leas for accelerated learning opportunities and those rfps are due on january 28th so um i'll take just a second first i i want to gratitude seems to be the word that we're all throwing around at first i want to express my deep gratitude to president darling hammond for separating out these comments because if i'd had to do this first thing this morning it would have been a different story it was so i was so moved by all of the comments that certainly my colleagues made but the
457other are our other partners governor brown president kirsten karen stout walters made on our behalf so let me just continue the gratitude feelings first to governor brown and to governor newsom for providing me with the opportunity of a lifetime to serve the public students of california i want to express my deep gratitude to my board colleagues the current board colleagues and i will just say i have a little deep sense of regret that i didn't get to know you all in person because as some members made comments earlier today i think with those of us who've been on the board for a long time creating the relationships and spending the time together that we were able to really enriched our work i think it was an opportunity to identify everybody's unique skills and perspectives and
458that helped us work in a very cohesive manner again to improve the lives i hope of all of our california students i think this cohesive opportunity and policy deliberation was really under the incredible guidance first of my cursed and now of president linda darling hammond that create a vision and the opportunity for all of us to work together again to apply our unique expertise and as someone said this morning we didn't always agree but we always respect each other and we really value the opinion of every single person that we've worked with i also want to take an opportunity to especially recognize the student board members with whom i've had the pleasure of serving in honor of serving over the past nine years these young people as you all know are incredibly talented and busy
459as we heard earlier in our with our united states senate uh youth leaders but they have always been prepared and unbelievably diligent in their service to the state board of education they've provided invaluable voice and contributions to the board and their commitment to public service gives me great hope for the future i also cannot say enough about the state board staff and the department of education staff board member rucker attempted to name people i'm not even going to try to do that because i really don't want i don't want to leave anybody out that i've had the opportunity to work with but just to say without their unbelievable dedication and expertise our board deliberations and decisions really would not be possible as you all know this is a hard job and you have to have
460an unbelievable depth of knowledge to do the work that we do so my heartfelt thanks and gratitude to every single member of the department of education staff and the state board staff for all of their help and related to that i also want to express my thanks especially to superintendent torlaxon and also to superintendent thurman who really have worked collaboratively with the state board of education to ensure the highest quality education for our students of california as many of you know when i started this journey 11 years ago as executive director to say that the relationship between the board and the department of education was prickly is a understatement and so it really i took it upon myself as my personal mission to try to improve that because i didn't i thought it was working
461at cross purposes for everyone in the state and i hope that i had a little part in helping to improve that and and making sure that everybody was pulling in the same direction so i just will close by saying um good luck to all of my colleagues that will be continuing all of your future endeavors of the board i do stand ready to assist in any way i can in my unofficial capacity i do think the future is bright for all of us we have to get a little dark cloud kind of hanging over our head that we're trying to get out from under but once we do i'm full of optimism and to continue the theme my grandkids are counting on you thank you awesome thank you i'm going to go to board member
462bananka thank you president darling hammond um in terms of my liaison activities last month i had the privilege of attending the annual csva conference where i participated in the student board member program and i was able to meet student board members from all across the state and just listen to their perspectives of how covet has affected their district and i felt like i was really able to learn from their wisdom and hear what they've identified as issues that their students have been facing and i know that one of the most prevalent issues that i heard at that conference was just the issue mental health and how the the pandemic has really affected that and i'm just so proud to see that a lot of our work on the board really focuses on student mental health
463and that's still just always at the forefront of our of our thought um i'm also working on picking up where member fatale left off last year by working alongside the california association of student councils on following up on some of the presentations that we had heard at our last meeting from the students at the student advisory board on education and then finally i've been hearing many students perspectives on the 2022 revision of the mathematics framework and actually tomorrow night i'm going to be attending a discussion hosted by the california student board member association where i'm going to hear plenty of student voice i'm sure on this issue i know that students definitely have strong opinions from what i've heard thus far and so i'm definitely looking forward to that and that concludes my liaison report
464thank you i'm gonna add one comment uh for mine and i want to give ting the last word so we'll end on that note before we open up the public comment for anyone who wants to also share um departing thoughts for for our poor board members but just to piggyback on the point that eileen made earlier about the work that is going on with the national association of state boards of education and the conversation we had with dr cordona from the u.s department of education i just want to note that a lot of that conversation was about looking ahead to the next stages in assessment and accountability and what will most support students what will most support educators in being able to support student learning what will bring opportunity to learn um indicators uh to
465the force so that we're paying attention not only to what students can do but what the opportunities they've had to learn so i just want to flag that that is a next turn of the page that has been flagged for us from the federal department of education in the course of his comments and i've heard dr cardona say this several times before he said look assessments ought to be students shouldn't even know when they're being assessed they should be engaged in wonderful inquiries and projects and we should be able to take data from that that helps us guide our teaching and learning so he has a very um progressive vision in mind uh there is a new uh faq out from the department inviting states to think about how they may want to continue to
466evolve their systems of reporting and accountability to take more account of what students experience in terms of the climate of their schools in terms of the opportunities for learning and so we will be tapping the wisdom of all of our departing board members as we undertake our part in thinking about those things and resting on the wisdom of our current board members to take those next steps and with that i'm going to pass the ball to ting i wanted to say that before you uh spoken love because ting you and i've shared so much around this uh assessment adventure and i've relied so much on your thinking and your wisdom in that regard so to you thank you so much um so i'm a little bit overwhelmed with emotion and i i don't have words
467when that happens to me uh it just i wanted to say simply it has been such a deep honor to be a part of this board of education um and then i just have five things i want to leave as wishes for those of you who are around the virtual dies right now um and who will be continuing because i'm realizing that you have not had this kind of experience these experiences so what i wish for you is that you one day will have the rush of digging for the right change to order your lunch before 10 o'clock so that you can get lunch in time i wish for you that that you will that you will experience the fun one day of sneaking to the back of the board room and finding all the
468snacks that the state board staff has left for you and sometimes they're healthy too but mostly the chocolates are great in the cookies and the potato chips i what i also wish for you is that you will experience the surprise of finding out that you actually have a box mailbox in the state board office and rushing over to it to find that it is overflowing with stuff cleaning it out forgetting that you had a box two months later going back and finding it overfilled again i hope that you someday will experience the joy of having a group photo together and this last one i don't wish it would happen to you but um to experience the overwhelming appreciation and gratitude when three of your colleagues jump to your defense when you're personally attacked through a
469public comment and i will never forget um having that experience and having the my colleagues have my back and that has been one of the most memorable experiences i've had on the state board of education um because i think we work together and um we do respect each other even if we don't agree and the bond that is formed through that is something that i will always take with me thank you that's wonderful oh what a day what a day what a day um we are going to put the public comment card up again and we're wanting public comments uh that are to be shared with our departing board members if there are any at this juncture before we then separately go to general public comment so members of the public wishing to provide comment
470on appreciations for our departing board members may do so by calling the number shown on the public comments slide and using the access code that is there are there any public comments good evening state board of education members my name is michael juba and i'm a classroom teacher speaking on behalf of the california teachers association it is with my pleasure that the cta would like to express our thanks and gratitude to the state board members subur patricia rucker king tsung and eileen strauss to say the least the state is losing decades of school policy expertise and the historical context and perspective that represents we are grateful for the dedication and wisdom that each of you have brought to this institution for the students and for the educated of our states and on behalf of the
471310 000 members we sincerely thank you for your service thank you uh next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now is this for board members departing yes it is sorry okay it looks like that is all for public comment all right oh well we uh we all look forward to the next chapter and to continuing to be in touch with you and i appreciate attending all of your wishes for us uh i i wish those things to the especially the dark chocolates we're now going to reopen for general public comment uh i want before we do that though i want to let you know that in your inboxes now ting sue patricia and eileen there should be e-cards from us and from many many
472other people in the universe i do not open them yet because we have one more item but as soon as we hang up the phone and close up the zoom you will find your last uh gift for the day and when we're able to be in person we will have that get together and do this all again so now our last general public comment slide if there are any callers for general public comment on items that have not been taken up in the printed agenda today we will open the phone line for those callers okay i think we may have one caller here that would have liked to speak towards uh the last item um i will open the phone line now all right go ahead caller pl please state your name and affiliation for
473the record thank you this is lee angela reed on behalf of the small school districts association numerous county offices and on behalf of all of us at capital advisors i appreciate the indulgence i'd like to thank members brucker strauss and son for your vision your strength your leadership and your friendship you made our accountability system better and you made us better as advocates as education partners and you've inspired us along the way thank you and wish you the very best thank you [Music] next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record do you have one minute your time starts now good evening i'm with the special education advocate leaders a community group of special education attorneys advocates and parents with over 1100 members we are asking the california department of education to investigate
474how special education dollars are being misused by the west end tilpa luiselpa has spent almost three million dollars in one year for for-profit litigators to deny children special education services in most cases the cost of the lawyers is much more than the parent request these attorneys are being enabled by the we selpa because they're allocating money to private corporations rather than our children please help us correct this injustice thank you for your time thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now good afternoon state board of education i am a special education parent i wanted to thank miss kellemy for offering the compliance complaint unit as a resource but sadly that unit is not very parent friendly and for the most part finds
475the districts in compliance it also is very difficult to get public records from the cde which is a violation of the public records act i recently saw on a social media report on the bias and non-compliance of the office of administrative hearings cde has an agreement with oah to conduct special education hearings the system is broken on many levels as evidenced by the report we heard today on the many areas that california has not met federal targets we would welcome a meeting with miss kalami to discuss our concerns further your assistance and guidance is very much appreciated and thank you for your time thank you next caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time starts now greetings board members and staff my name is david page and
476i'm speaking on behalf of parents and community members of san diego unified's lincoln high school who deserve investigation of their valid complaint accepted by the cde's ucp division we deserve an explanation for the lack of action delay and response from cde well past regulatory requirements for requesting an agenda item for the next board meeting as part of your oversight requirements for reports that would report case load number of unresolved cases over 60 days and the reason for exceeding the 16 day requirement the specifics that indicate the flaws or needs of the department whose function is to bring resolution between parents and districts as required by federal state and local law parents and stakeholders of this state deserve at minimum a quarterly report of status of complaints in the ucp office care complaints such as ours
477involve violations of parent involvement legal assurances and falsified documents if these issues are allowed to go unresolved we've cheapened the parent involvement in the districts thank you caller your time is up for the purpose of your existence thank you thank you and we have one more written public comment that was submitted as part of a reasonable accommodation request i will read that now um quote the sbe needs to direct the cde to be tougher on repeat offenders such as the irvine unified school district iusd has been found out of compliance and has failed to follow cde ordered corrective actions the cde must not let districts get away with this blatant disregard for the law and disregard for the cde oversight irvine unified also intimidates parents by bringing attorneys to iep meetings which is against guidance
478by the u.s department of education please ensure that irvine unified follows all corrective actions and that it stops intimidating parents end quote and that concludes public general public comment for item 13. well thank you very much and thanks to all the board members for both a historic day and a very intense day we've gotten a lot of good work done we once again want to bid a very bittersweet farewell to our departing members and look forward to all the ways in which we will continue to engage you in the work i took governor brown's administration admonition very seriously about how we take advantage of all the experience that is represented here uh this is now the end of our january 2022 meeting and i adjourn it at 5 53 p.m take care thanks everybody