Upcoming Board of Education Meetings
The Building, Grounds, and Services committee met Monday, October 28 and there will be a regular Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, October 29.
Augmented Buildings, Grounds and Services Committee: Monday 10/28 at 6:00PM
The full agenda is available here.
The committee heard a briefing on SFUSD’s policy development and planning to support educator housing. Audio recording of the meeting can be found here.
Regular Board Meeting: Tuesday 10/29 at 6:00 pm
You can find the full online agenda here.
Opening Items:
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Superintendent’s Report, Student Delegate Report
Two SFUSD employees will receive RAVE awards:
A RAVE Distinguished Service Award will be awarded to Tanya Sanchez-Manu, a paraprofessional at Tenderloin Community School.
A RAVE Special Service Award will be presented to Sohum Bhatt, a chemistry teacher at Wallenberg HS.
Public Comment:
Those who have filled out speaker cards in advance may speak on general matters. Most of the time there is a limit of 2 minutes per speaker for public comment.
Advisory Committee Report
The African American Parent Advisory Council will be reporting to the Board of Education. You can take a peek at the slides they will present (see some of them below).
Consent Calendar:
This part of the agenda includes approval of contracts, MOUs, and personnel items (approving hirings, transfers, leaves of absence, separations etc.)
Usually the board votes on these all together, but any board member may “sever” a particular item from the group to discuss it in more detail and vote on it separately
Action Items:
The Board will vote not vote on any resolutions tonight.
Discussion of Other Educational Issues
Special Order of Business
Resolution about sufficiency of textbooks:
By law schools must have textbooks for every student to use at school and at home for core subjects. The Board must certify that requests for textbooks were met.
You can see what schools needed extra books and what materials were supplied by reading the resolution.
Introduction of Resolutions
These resolutions will not be voted on or discussed tonight - they will be sent for discussion at one or more board committee meetings and then will come back to the full board for a vote at a later date.
There is an opportunity for the public to speak to any of the resolutions introduced
Just one resolution being introduced tonight. It is a policy update on the Uniform Complaint Procedure (UCP) - aligning language to updated California law.
The UCP is an important formal procedure for filing many types of complaints against a school district or charter school in cases where concerns have not been adequately resolved through informal processes.
The ACLU has created a resource with more information about the UCP.
Public Comment
There is always an opportunity for public comment at school board meetings.
At regular meetings, speakers may speak to any item being voted on or may give general public comment during the time reserved for "Public Comment on General Matters." This item has recently been moved earlier on the agenda, so if you wish to speak, make sure you arrive by 6PM! Speakers must sign up in advance, either by calling the board office at (415) 241-6493 or filling out a speaker card at the meeting and handing it to Esther Casco, the executive assistant to the board, who sits next to the podium. Speaker cards must be turned in before the agenda item being spoken to is officially "called."
At committee meetings, those wishing to speak may sign up in advance or simply approach the podium when the committee chair calls for public comment.
Members of the public are typically allowed two minutes to speak, but the time given may be shorter if there are a large number of speakers.
Recording and Live Coverage of Meetings
You can access recordings of regular and committee meetings.
Video recordings of regular meetings (not available for committee meetings)
Audio recordings of committee meetings (click where it says "audio recording," under the meeting agenda)
Recordings are usually posted a few days after the meeting.
Regular board meetings are also broadcast live on KALW, SFGOVTV2, and via live webcast.
We will live-tweet the regular meeting this week. To follow, just search our handle @PPSSFBoardWatch or hashtag #BoardWatch!