Presentation of Superintendent s PEEF Proposal and Discussion

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1 DATE: TIME: LOCATION: February 22, :00 PM - 8:00 PM 555 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA, MEMBERS PRESENT: Bob Palacio, Shojeh Liu, Julien Strumza, Liana Szeto, Stuart Dick, Nikka Sandoval, Beau Monton, Shawn Drost, Frances Phillips, Carline Sinkler, Lyslynn Lacoste, Fernando Enciso-Marquez, Esther Honda, Nicole Scott, Fowzigiah Abdolcader, Paul Monge-Rodriguez STAFF PRESENT: Kathy Fleming Jennifer Schuster and Lisa Chavez MINUTES ADOPTED: 9/27/17 Public Comment No public comment Presentation of Superintendent s PEEF Proposal and Discussion New Investments City year, addresses equity Principals innovation fund is great but low funding amount How many schools in bayview What is only 200k spread over, if it is 5 schools, is it enough Is it enough What do you spend it on for MS It is about the p knowing what the money should be spent on, it is the stuff you dream about, is it enough to cover the amt that you need, What is the accountability, we write reports, are you doing something that is making an impact It would be wonderful if the principals in that region gets the $, MS is 100k from salesforce We can applaud this idea and should additional $ become available General comments My first reaction is it is a lot of stuff to consider, why are we doing so much and spreading ourselves so thin, are there ways to consolidate some of these ideas? Yes, those little amounts got taken away, got rid of some of the lower $ funded programs

2 Point is valid, is that part of the idea around the OGU doesn't go to SLAM, is that it is a place where there is innovation and a place to address social and emotional and student services, the question is should it come out of General Fund or is this true innovation? There is a lot but there are times around what it is, is it direct service to students, will it enhance equity and social justice, support social and emotional learning? There are some things that have all of them, when we see something like establishing the Principal s Fund for the Bayview, that is innovation, soc emot supports. Innovation fund already being supported by Salesforce, which schools specifically, if they are already getting 100k for MS do they need more? BayView Cityyear, page 50, has a school been identified? No, is Americorp losing funding, how does that affect the partnership? I would be hard pressed to take this list, they all seem great, but hard to understand fully Not too much to do about it this year, in regards to using a framework or rubric Do we wish to say something in the memo that in general we would like to see more of or to focus on a specific program or area? The past two years, the direction was to use a rubric, that is why we have core principles It becomes clear for CAC members who have been in it longer I believe I understand that people did not hear concerns about the new investments and no red flags? There are three things for bayview and Early Ed. has not been addressed in this way before and they have been historically neglected, I think it is a good thing to have some of these things, mental health in Early Ed. which has been an issue Some of these things we have been wanting to have addressed for many years There are a lot of offerings that CBOs provide for example content is not always available in languages, a lot of it is capacity building It has not been clear, and still developing but not fully understood. Question around the use of sustainability in the core principles Promote Address Increase Discussion and Development of Final Recommendations/Feedback SLAM Praise for saturday program and particularly MS offerings of extended learning Arts budget $ for arts center funding Saturday if data is good, should be promoting it in some way, where would the innovation be in SLAM, if those were successful and looking to increase kids doing secondary arts, would expanding those programs hope with that, are we hitting our targeted students, are we at capacity? Is it under attended or just right?

3 Anything else about if it has been addressed about where we have increase PEEF funding but a decrease in site funded teachers. Would like investment in arts center not be be an increase in administrative costs I don t mind in investing some now, but they should not keep coming back to PEEF for administration needs 7 period day we have advocated we applaud the innovation experiments that are happening in the MS the belned models I see 4 or 5 things that are a few years in the running, administrators, TSAs, Formative Assessments and the extended school day (this has been addressed), it might make sense to bundle them, what is the plan here? If it is something that has been reiterated, say how many times, we have recommended, how many years in a row In the SLAM portion, we will point out some general good overall things we can say, we don t yet have the data about the PEEF funding on arts and music teachers, applaud increase for ms access to arts, with data to see who is benefiting from that 7 period days, innovative work being done to make it possible for all ms students to take electives and the administrative costs for the arts center, raise a caution, we are expecting the overhead of PEEF to be contained as the arts center comes on on line Seconded and approved Student and family supports A wow to add to add to the second sentence the proposed budget emotional supports and addresses historical equity pull out mentoring for success Wellness Policy has the potential to improve district wide culture around norms for both schoolwide and classroom events Challenges paragraph from previous year s memo, that is an ongoing need for district wide standards that are equitable, one MS has a half time nurse to serve over a thousand students Put in a recommendation for elementary to not have to chose between a nurse and a social worker, it is not appropriate to ask schools to answer that if we are trying to address the social and emotional well being of kids, all schools should have both present District should have ratio and should have access to both and the numbers should increase with the number of students Need to establish a baseline SOAR, lists 8 FTEs, 4.5 social worker fte to be determined, can we advocate that those be social workers and nurse positions Academic support

4 Indian Ed and BAUDL are not in the proposed budget, but will still be funded by another source Concern about paying for two clerks in STEM as well as the number of TSAs Question around reducing, 6.3 for teachers to reduce 8 math and they are talking about how many kids are in there, the average class size declined We have to look at class size ftes to see if it is really being reduced STEM Curric devel and copying of materials, formative assessments, and the admins in the budget is not desired Multilingual Pathways (MLP) - concerned about the level at which materials are being translated There will not be an Arabic and Vietnamese pathways but to be secondary electives MLP - We want more spending on equity and add a line item for recruiting teachers, or let s cut the scope of the program MLP - See a trend we don t focus on depth we just keep expanding without a long term plan, breadth of programs is valuable but we don't do anything well, every school needs a full time nurse and a full time SSP, why don t we focus on that? All these little things are important in some way but there is expanding and contracting, we pull back, it comes and goes and that is tough for schools Our recommendations will be similar to those made last year, remove baudl and indian ed program reemphasizing things that have some up in the past too many tsa, teacher training from gf removing FA and list years rec. Stem - don't want to support copying of curriculum or clerks, also not for the development for curriculum,offset and reallocate those funds to reducing class size in Math8, investing more in the computer science piece. So it is more clearly direct service to school site. All approved these recommendations Structural Reserve fund want to try to get that down to $0 It s on track, it is wiggling a bit but not going down very fast, and in a time of uncertainty Spending cautiously the reserve fund, don t know what is happening The reserve fund is tied to wsf, the fund balance is on track Go to 2 more general comments 1. Given new investments, giving time to take root and become robust 2. If extra funds become available we highly recommend invest in SSPs Social workers, back to basics, making sure we are having SSP why PEEF was started in first place, innovative programs, some of the core things in PEEF have not been done to the fullest, on one hand we are resisting things that should be in General Fund and

5 not in PEEF, want it to be about enrichment, whole child, but tamp down this idea of too much. Recommendation - spend any increases in funding on increasing ssp and nurses across the board Confirm Final Recommendations/Feedback Members agreed on following recs: CAC Supports: Support for preserving the Fund Balance for both SLAM and OGU for anticipated bargaining outcomes Support for the $1.5M in new investments, especially support for the Bayview and the Middle School Redesign Support for moving of smaller programs out to UGF with a commensurate increase for SSP Support for the Saturday Arts Lab and appreciation for the recently released Elementary Arts Profile Report Support for reduction of Reserve Fund by $0.5M but still advocate for reducing it to $0 CAC Recommends: Recommendation to increase the number of social workers and nurses so that schools have more support, schools should not have to choose between social worker or nurse Recommendation to use any subsequent revenue increase for to increase the number of social workers and nurses Recommendation to move out programs that they feel do not offer direct impact to students: Formative Assessments & Teacher and Leadership Development Recommendation to restore reduction of high school arts teachers from other funding sources to increase offerings and enrollment in arts classes Recommendation for STEM to reduce the number of TSAs, curriculum development, 2.0 FTE clerks, copying costs, administrative leadership and use those funds to maintain current Math 8 class size reduction targets, invest in Computer Science and invest in STEM activities that offer more direct programming to students Concern that Multilingual Pathways Program is expanding too fast, and encourage district to fully support the existing pathways Recommendation to see administrative costs for the ArtsCenter moved out of the PEEF budget in coming years particularly any expenses related to capital campaign fundraising as the campaign is launched and the center is established.

6 Given the teacher shortage, the district is encouraged to prioritize the filling of vacant classroom positions and if necessary, reduce the number of TSAs across all PEEF programs.