San Francisco Youth Commission
Education Committee
Draft - Minutes
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
5:00-7:00pm
City Hall, Room 345
1. Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.
San Francisco, CA 94102

There will be public comment on each item.

Members: Brian Chu, Rachel Brodwin, Ariel Yu; Student Advisory Council Representatives: Kristen Sinclair, Carmen Chan

1. Call to Order and Roll Call

The meeting was called to order at 5:04 p.m. Commissioners present: Ariel Yu, Brian Chu. Student Advisory Council representatives present: Kristen Sinclair. Staff present: Allen Lu

2. Approval of Agenda (Action Item)

There was no public comment.

Commissioner Yu, seconded by Commissioner Chu moved to approve the agenda. The motion was approved unanimously.

3. Approval of Minutes (Action Item)

A. April 3, 2013
(Document A)

There was no public comment. Commissioner Yu, seconded by Commissioner Chu moved to approve the minutes to the meeting of April 3, 2013. This motion was approved unanimously by acclamation.

4. Public Comment on Items not on Agenda (Discussion Only)

Grace, student from City College of San Francisco, stated she was observing the meeting for her class.

5. Business (All Items to Follow Discussion and Possible Action)

A. Staff report

Mr. Lu provided committee members with an update about the upcoming Children’s Fund Community Planning Conference on May 3rd, 2013. The conference will take place from 9am-2 p.m. at College Track, 4301 Third Street. Due to it being school hours, committee members cannot attend, but asked if staff can attend and provide a report back at next committee meeting.

B. Update on Public Education and Enrichment Fund
• Debrief April 5th PEEF pre-hearing meeting

Mr. Lu provided the following updates to committee members: committee members have been urged to follow up with the school district’s PEEF- community advisory committee student surveys passed out to students at the Youth Summit; staff has reached out to school district staff who is working on this survey, but have not heard back yet. Committee members are interested in learning more about the upcoming PEEF hearings and community meetings. Members also expressed interest in helping with the PEEF CAC student surveys and getting input from community on PEEF funding priorities.

• Prep for City & School District committee meeting

Commissioner Yu will be able to attend the April 25th City and School district committee meeting.

C. Committee community engagement plan and off-site event-planning

Committee members then spent a majority of the meeting time planning the agenda for the upcoming off site meeting of May 6th.

A. Structure of meeting

I. Overview: SAC & YC Joint Introduction (B.Chu will come in next week to work on this)
a. Intro of SAC. Why did we decide to work together? (K. Sinclair)
b. Why Credit Recovery? Work of YC and SAC thus far on including student feedback in evaluating credit recovery programs.
i. Staff will work with committee member to create a presentation.
1. Statistics
2. Reso – Passed @ BOE
3. Budget Supplemental

c. Questions :
i. SFUSD - When/How parents will be notified? Questions around outreach of upcoming credit recovery options offered in summer.
ii. Community – What has your experience been with Credit Recovery? Are there any ideas you have about new CR options?
Commissioners then worked on planning on the outreach, flyer, and prepared questions for the offsite meeting.

D. Review other committee priorities
• RB’s Resolution recommending the inclusion of CA’s history of eugenics into the CA High School Curriculum.
o It will cost a lot of money to implement or add a new section into history textbooks.
o BOE and BOS do not have control over the printing of textbooks.
o Are there alternative implementation options besides textbooks in US History courses? Perhaps a workshop/seminar in Human Geography VS US History?

There was no public comment.

6. Items to Report to Executive Committee (Action Item)

There was no public comment.

Commissioner Yu, seconded by Commissioner Chu moved to provide the following updates to the Executive Committee: the committee will be preparing for the next full commission meeting; members will be attending the upcoming PEEF hearing at the Board’s select committee, and will also be working with staff on outreach for the offsite meeting. This motion was approved unanimously.

7. Executive Committee Report (Discussion Only)

There were none.

8. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 6:54 p.m.

Any materials distributed to the members of the Youth Commission within 72 hours of the meeting or after the agenda packet has been delivered to the members are available for inspection—along with minutes of previous Youth Commission meetings and all supplementary information—at the Youth Commission office during regular office hours (9am to 6pm, Monday—Friday). The Youth Commission office is located at:City Hall, Room 345