e e e e e e hey if we can begin welcome to uh CC Community Education Council 2 I will call this meeting to order my name is Craig susin
I'm the president uh I'd like to uh wish everybody a February um I will start off the meeting with a roll call hello hello okay Alison Charles
absence absence so now yes Jessica here saraha Alexandra okay oh on way okay we'll know
what you guys here yes okay uh I want to thank everybody for coming in uh like to start off the meeting by asking for cability to one another and respect towards one another I do this each month I realize this is uh something I do speak of each month but I'm going to ask
once again implore everybody to show respect when other people others are speaking and this goes both ways I'm G to ask council members and the audience to respect and listen to each other I will also ask members of the audience to let others be heard everyone has the
right not only to speak but also to be heard no please no heckling please no profanity we have students here and essentially students listening at home don't have to agree or disagree to other or even listen to other people but everyone does have a right to speak
their mind on issues that are important to them I will also ask the comments in the chat be respectful be kept respectful as well over the last few meetings we've noticed some vicious back and forth and that should not happen either so if that continues we do reserve the right to shut off the chat
function so uh that moving along to that I am going to go to the presentation of resolutions so we start off give me one second okay so uh resolution 268 resolution
calling on the New York City Department of Education to standardized grading rubrics across schools uh I'm going to speak on that this resolution highlights that different schools and different districts have a very disperate way of grading and this becomes problematic especially in years that grades are used
for admissions screen programs for example seventh grade which gets used for high school admissions we acknowledge there is no perfect solution here because grades do have subjectivity in them teachers have different standards we've all had hard T graders versus easy graders however different
schools have actual different policies for example we have found that in some schools students are allowed to retake test to boost their grades and within those schools some retakes count some don't others students are allowed extra credit to boost their grades other schools don't provide any of for any of
that we've also heard from parents that with with no recognition for honors classes there are students who forgo honors classes simply to avoid the higher standards and attempt to gain the system to to attain higher grades I'm going to be honest this isn't a resolution with an absolute solution
because there are so many permutations but there is an inherent inequity when schools have basic policies that are in conflict with each other and this is not a D2 issue it's a city-wide issue so we asked the doe to put together a group to study the issue and come up with some uniform policies as uniform as they can
be on these topics and this might include bringing in objective measures on admissions but this is not this reso is not about admissions criteria again we know there's not going to be a perfect answer different schools have different ethoses I believe School in future is more Project based so their grading would be different than for
example lab mle we get that we're just asking for the doe to look at this import this issue and try make an attempt to Norm this out next resolution is resolution 269 resolution to affirm cc2 support of nycps guidelines to support transgender
and gender expensive students and res resolution 248 would anybody like to speak on this resolution um yes I'd like to speak there a microphone oh hello can you hear me okay um thank you um so let me just say that
um you know you brought this resolution before this not a lot more to say but I would like to say that resolution 248 um I believe must be rescinded and I will keep introducing a resolution to resend it and I keep speaking out against it every month for the rest of this term
every month because resolution 248 was wrong then and it's wrong now there's nothing neutral about it there's nothing neutral about a Review Committee being convened to decide whether some kids can hold on to the rights they have or
not and this is not about safety you don't need an evolutionary biolog just on a committee which is what resolution 248 ask for to decide whether kids can safely play on the same basketball team after all this time it's really
amazing to me that this Council does not realize the depth of of harm it has caused to our community uh by trying to chip away at the rights of one group of already marginalized students I know many of my fellow
council members are sick of this and and they just wanted to go away you know wouldn't it be great if families of cisgender students and families of transgender students could all just come here and talk about the ELA curriculum and Grading rubrics and
state math test scores and school lunches fa student funding and not talk about who gets to play on what team don't you think that the families of transgender students want to talk about all those things that the families of cisgender students take for granted that
they can come here and talk about they should be able to do that all we as a council need to do is to repeal resolution 248 and just let them that's all thank you thank you then next resolution is resolution number 270 resolution in
opposition to Donald Trump's executive order ending the so-called quote unquote radical indoctrination and in support of culturally responsive and sustainable education would anybody like to speak on that go ahead
so I think many of us are familiar with the executive order issued by the Trump Administration on January 29th and that executive order is titled ending rad IAL indoctrination in K through2 public
schooling among other things the executive order mandates bi-weekly lectures grounded in patriotic education principles which shall be broadcast to the nation throughout 2026 so I think we should just keep that
in mind and we should try our best on cac2 to make sure our meetings next term don't conflict with the times of those broadcasts because I think it would be shame if any of us had to miss out on the state propaganda
sessions um more directly related to our C the executive order seeks to eliminate all federal funding streams that directly or indirectly support quote unquote discriminate discriminatory Equity ideology in
schools notably the executive order defines discriminatory Equity ideology to include among other things any ideology that the United States is fundamentally racist sexist or otherwise
discriminatory it raises issues about how or even if schools can offer instruction about America's history of slavery the genocide of Native Americans the suffrage movement the Civil Rights Movement The Stonewall
Uprising and so much more it threatens the way we teach both history and contemporary Society literature art and and all subjects the cudel the Trump Administration is using against schools that continue to teach about racism and
bias and refuse to implement a program of so-called patriotic education is the elimination of federal funding some people might say that this is an empty threat that it's just symbolism because most of New York City
public school funding comes from the state and not from the federal government but this is a very real threat that could strike at our most marginalized kids and I'll tell you why while only about 5% of New York City's education budget comes from federal
funds those funds are targeted at very specific initiatives that impact our most vulnerable students over 76% of New York City public school students live in poverty and New York City receives approximately
$700 million in Title One Part A funding this funding supports schools serving large numbers of lowincome students this this represents about half of the federal money coming into New York City's schools New York City's Universal free
meal program is supported by $545 million in US Department of Agriculture funding it provides free breakfast lunch and summer meals to 1 million students this critical anti-poverty initiative could face new restrictions
could be held hostage as a result of this executive order New York City also receives $291 million in federal individuals with disabilities in Education Act funding for over 200,000 public school students with disabilities
this funding is also put at risk by the terms of this executive order I could also mention Federal head I could also mention childcare development block grants that fund up to a $900 million per year for doe Early Child Care education programs um that serve over
880,000 infants Toddlers and school age children and since the executive order also targets teacher training programs for K to 12 teachers Cy could be affected huni receives an estimated $1 billion in federal funding from Higher Education Act title for financial aid
funding including pel Grant and direct student loan programs and federal research grants 82% of first year undergraduate students at cuni are New York City public school graduates and 50% of them come from households with
less than $30,000 in annual income that's that's not individual income that's household income and 82% of New York city folks of of cuni graduates stay in New York City after graduation so cuts to cuni would be devastating to our city their
graduates are working in our schools and throughout our city and they're our neighbors so as a city and as a school system you know we can have debates about curriculum but we should not be forced under a threat to our most vulnerable
students to oppose a so quote unquote patriotic education curriculum on our schools thank you thank you we'll move on we're gonna move on to our program presentation this is we have this each year the annual Fair student
funding presentation I'm going to introduce our superintendent Kelly McGuire is going to introduce his team thank you Che good okay no uh good evening evening Council uh and members of the community uh and team
from the Manhattan buau and District 2 uh my name is Kelly McGuire and every year we report on the funding of schools the fair student funding for formulas that impact how schools are funded and tonight I am joined tonight by our director of budget Natasha
Angus and senior director of fin Finance Jonathan tro as well as our Deputy superintendent Kelly Shannon check check better a little better okay double mic okay I'll of this
okay um Every Spring Every Spring the panel for Education policy votes on the New York City Public Schools uh budget allocation formula for the following school year which is called Fair student funding which is called Fair student funding in
preparation for this event superintendent and burough based support staff from the earth SA Public Schools proposed for student funding budget allocations for FY 2025 to all community and Citywide education CS the purpose of today's presentation
is to review New York City Public Schools budget and allocation formula review fa student funding and the weights for the fal year 2026 which aligns with the 2025 2026 school year this presentation reflects
our continued approach and how New York City Public Schools is conducting to be need engagement around our school budgets as it relates to the fair student funding formula our goal is to increase our transparency and ensuring that you as critical Community
stakeholders are made aware of how schools are funded and made aware of the resources available to you to better understand your school budgets I appreciate your joining the meeting today and we'll dive into this presentation now on to slide
two there we go uh today I'm going to be discussing three main topics and overview of this year's overall the York City Public Schools budget a detailed explanation of the par city funding formula and a walkthrough of new web pages created to
increase budget transparency if you have questions during the presentation please direct them to the chat if we're on Zoom uh or to budget public comments at schools.nyc.gov additionally the intention of this session is to collect public comments on
the formula for upcoming the upcoming school year we ask that you have specific feedback on the weight for fair student funding formula that you please send your comments to that email again budget public budget public comments
schools.nyc.gov our New York City Public Schools team will take public comments received at this email address into consideration in the coming weeks all um uh I'm going to provide an overview of our overall budget where funding
comes from and how our budget is spent a review of our G District's budget and the directions for which you can find school specific budget information where does our school funding come from I'm now going to provide an overview of our overall
budget and where the funding comes from the data is this data is based on the most recent budget included in the mayor's January plan our total budget for the 2024 2025 school year is 40.8 billion or about
32284 th000 per student in our system New York City provides most of the funding for the 2024 25 school year the city will contribute 23 billion or 58% of the total budget most of our city funding comes from we call city tax levy
dollars city tax levy funds are drawn from local taxes including property taxes sales taxes and personal income taxes every year the mayor proposes the amount of city tax funding be get and the city council must pass the budget into law before the fiscal year begins
in July 1 $15 billion or 36% comes from New York State funding New York state is our second largest source of funding every year the governor proposes the amount of State funding that we will get mainly based on the number and types of students enrolled in our schools and
then the state legisl must pass the budget into law before the new fiscal year begins on May 1st funding generally comes from income and corporate taxes as well as property and sales taxes and then we have Federal funding Federal Federal funding comprises a total of $2
billion or 6% regard funding for this school year the federal government is our third largest source of funding every year Congress proposes a budget and the president must sign that budget into law in advance of the new fiscal year which begins in October 1st every
every student succeeds act or Essa provides the rules for allocating most of the federal funding we receive how is New York City public New York City School's Public public budget spent in the previous slide we covered an overview of where New York City
Public Schools receives its funding from and now we will shift into how that funding spent in our schools across our system within our budget we have mandated costs and that must be covered annually including employe
employee benefits pension and debts as well as state manded payments to Trevor schools non-public and contract schools this pie chart represents the major costs I will provide a brief explanation of each section let's begin with the Early Childhood section located toward
the bottom right hand side of the chart it will will move clockwise the first two items cover employee benefits pension and debt this 11.4 billion doll pays for healthcare and employee benefits pension payments for staff debt
payments on loans for school construction and upgrades Charters we allocate 8% or $3.3 billion for Charter Schools as mandated by state B nonpublic and contract schools nonpublic and contract School payments cover schools
and programs that educate New York City students but are not directly run by New York the New York City Public Schools the 2.5 billion dollars includes students with disabilities attending specialized schools supplemental services to students attending non-public
schools and then superintendent field office and Central offices combined comprise less than 2% of our overall budget the school operations section pays for non-instructional services students receive the $5.1
billion is used to pay for costs including free breakfast and lunch for all students bus RADS and loan payments on buildings new construction and renovation this is similar to mortgage payments we also allocate $2.1 billion
to support Early Childhood from birth to age5 across the city lastly the largest portion of our budget is allocated to K12 schools and instructions we allocate .7 billion or 38% of our total budget
annually to support our schools including general education teachers guidance counselors Deans health and school climate initiatives such as gym teachers respect for all week and climate days special education after school activities summer school and
other operating expenses this also includes funding for textbooks computers materials and supplies now we're going to transition from a Citywide view uh and let's look at the budget and Source breakdown for our
district The District Two and just to be clear this is the geographic District Two not uh District Two under uh just our superintendency but as you can see in District Two we have one billion a$1 billion dollar budget across 118
elementary middle and high schools serving uh almost 54,000 students this does not include District 75 since those programs are not funded through FSF School budgets are comprised of a mix of fair student funding and other
funding sources where can I find information about my own schools budget we have reviewed our overall New York City Public Schools budget and our District budget during this presentation I will not be reviewing individual School budgets those are available on our
public website this slide shows you the steps you can find but then you can take defined School budgets from our homepage I will give you a minute to use this information to load uh on your school specific budget if you'd like starting at
schools.nyc.gov and then following the steps that are on this page you can take a picture of this and do this at M ature Leisure the information won't go away so who decides how the money is spent at the school level once this funding is in
place within School budgets principles are responsible for the funds allocated to schools and have a great deal of flexibility and how they spend the funding these choices are made in partnership with their school leadership team or SLT as principles and slts
create the school's comprehensive education plan or C they Identify some rules specific instructional needs and priorities and align those School budgets to the plan principles work with their slts to create the school budget in alignment to the goals and
instructional priorities of buying in the CP superintendents like myself supervise all principles in our district through this process and must approve all budgets their alignment with school C Fair student funding we'll now go into
more depth uh around what is student funding how it works and the proposed formula for the 2526 par student funding is the largest funding stream that we provide to schools in fact it accounts for nearly two-thirds of most K12 New York City
public school budgets the allocation of fair study funding provided to schools is based on the number of students rooll at each school and the specific needs of those students we make these calculations based on our Fair student funding formula which calculates how we
distribute this overall PP of money to schools within the formula students with needs that require more support receive more funding in alignment with those needs in many cases schools also receive funding from other funding streams including Federal funding streams like
Title One title 3 and IA which is funding focused on special education or other targeted allocation allocations for specific initiatives these po make up the REM remaining funds within the overall School budgets as a note Charter
Schools 3K and prek and District 75 programs are funded outside of the fair student funding formula additionally mandated I related services including speech teachers occupational therapists and physical therapists as well as onetoone Care
Professionals are also funded outside of the FSF formula again the money provided to schools from the fair student funding allocation provides principles with significant flexibility working in partnership with their slts to utilize the funding to design instructional
programs tailored to the needs of their students within the school Community funding from the FSF allocation provides each school's basic instructional program and classroom services this funding can be used to PID for classroom teachers including arts gym and cluster
teachers at the elementary school level as well as school leadership guidance counselors social workers and administrative people support staff Additionally the FSF allocation can pay for after school programs tutoring intervention programs as well as teacher
absence coverages and classroom resources and materials fa student funding how does it work uh I want to use this opportunity to further clarify some uh what we have already discussed today throughout this
presentation we have been talking about be student funding and the fair student funding formula when we say fair student funding we are talking about the money that is allocated to K2 schools from this large P not including B centers or District 75
programs this year FSF is approximately $7.4 billion the fair funding formula is the method by which we decide how to allocate the funding TOS the this slide outlines the formula and how we utilize the formula to calculate the total
amount of fair funding that each School receives now I'm going to walk you through how we will utilize the formula to determine how much faud funding each School receives and how we determine that specific dollar amount each School receives a foundational amount which is
provided to every school regardless of the number of students that the school serves this covers per School overhead costs such as the principal and school secretary but can be used for any purpose we then fully fund the costs of the collectively bargained salary
increases for staff and other Personnel costs we then add funding to the formula for collectively bargain contractual pay increase for school staff given the new set of collective bargaining agreements we are looking at ways to update the
formula for uh the coming year then we will calculate the remainder of the fair student funding by allocating a base amount for each student which per capita and then allocating additional funds based on each student's identified educational needs and instructional
programs it is in this part of the formula that we take into account weights that we have been referring to throughout the presentation on the next slide we will dive more deeply into the weights that we use utilize to determine the specific dollar amount that we allocated for students so you can have a clear
understanding of what goes into this part of the formula I also want to pause to reiterate that within this formula take time to examine individual needs of each student to determine funding uh funding allocations we make these individualized
allocate calculations for each student aligned to their individual and specific needs and educational program to determine how much funding would we provide to that school for each students this chart shows the proposed weights for the new next school year
that means if approved by the panel for policy up in April these weights will be used to calculate the school's FSF allocations for the 2526 school year this slide displays the FSF weights for the current school year 2425 which are
proposed to be maintained for the 2526 school year here you can see the different types of Weights that students can be eligible to receive based on their instructional needs for academic programs now to more deeply understand
uh understand the weights that we used to calculate the last part of the formula from the previous Slide the number of students per FSF category and their FSF weighted needs each student's weighted need is determined by the FSF formula now I'll explain the different
weights on this slide for 2425 the base weight of one was equal to approximately $ 4,254 per capita per student this per capita adjusted annually to reflect changes to the Citywide average teacher
salary the basic grade weight is allocated to schools for all students on their audited October 31st register and is calculated by considering instructional programming requirements by students grade level within the district theate waits for kindergarten
through fifth grade 6th through 8th grade and 9th through 12th grade funding for academic intervention services is determined by student academic performance when a student enters a school using just scores from the prior year for schools where students do not
have incoming test scores in the lower grades such as before students begin taking tests or if they don't have higher test scores we provide funding based on a student's poverty level funding for special education is determined by the percentage of time
students spend receiving special education services for example we have one way for students receiving services for less than 20% of their week funding that is called low intensity of service another weight for funding receiving parttime Services up to 59% of their
week or moderate intensity of services and the final weight for students receiving more than 60% of their time receiving special education services distinguished by the majority of service time which is less inclusive special class or more inclusive integrated quote
teaching these special education weights are then broken up by student grade level with the specific weight value again value determined by the cost of provid the instructional program we also provide supplemental funding that supports students who have been Declassified as special education
students this funding supports students in their first year transitioning out of special education services through the post M transitional support we funding for English language Learners is located based is allocated based on student grade level reflecting mandated
instructional services including bilingual and enl instructional programming additionally we have waights for former L's who have achieved proficiency within the last two years as indicated on the state designated uh term commanding they
are designated as commanding as for the state we also provide funding for L's with uh students with interrupted formal education or Scythe status students with this classification receive their respective L weight in addition to the site weight we also have another
category of weights for portfolio High School these weights are provided to schools based on the number of students who are involved uh in these academic programs within each High School Career Technical weights technical education weights have different tiers based on the type of
career preparation programs programs that require more resources such as nursing agriculture Veterinary Aviation Technology Automotive culinary uh skills Etc they require industry specific equipment higher levels of consumable
supplies and materials stud internship requirements that are integral to the program of study that are and they are highly specialized in ongoing for industry training for teachers uh they have higher weights of support to support
that instructional program there are also separate leads for students in specialized in academic or specialized audition schools and for students attending transfer schs the transfer School weight is broken into two tiers based on students age and cred accumulation transfer school students
who are further behind in credits at the time of admission receive a higher weight only students attending high schools are eligible for these weeks funding for students in temporary housing provides additional support to students enrolling student to student to
schools enrolling students into Free Housing this has an impact on our Asylum seeking families for living in temporary housing providing additional resources to the schools uh enrolling St population funding for the concentration of needs weight provides additional funding to
schools with high populations of students with signif with significant needs research shows that schools that serve higher concentrations of students with high needs require additional resources to provide robust education and appropriate resources and supports
to their students the concentration blate includes factors for proportion of for the proportion of students who are in poverty students with disabilities students who in temporary housing students and Foster Care English language Learners and students with low performance as key indicators of
concentration of the 2526 FSF weights are unchanged uh from the the proposed FSF 2526 weights are unchange from the current how the FSM weights work if the per capita were
$1 we just look at we just took a look at the at all of the weights that students could be eligible to receive within the fair student funding for allocation I also shared that we are calculating this formula for each school we take account the instructional needs of each individual student within the
school as we determine uh as we determine the school's overall budget allocation in this slide we will take a look at how each student's allocation is determined the different types of Weights are indicated by color on the right side of the slide in order to determine the weight for each student we
evaluate their eligib for the weight Based on data in the New York City public school system that stored key information about students now we are going to walk you through the process of how fair student funding formula a fair student funding formula would be allocated for two students Eva and Miles
Through the Fair student funding formula Eva and miles are two students who attended a school in our district Eva is a second grader and miles is the sixth grader the orange section shows the grade weight that they first received because NAA is a second grade student he
is entitled to G five grade weight of one again shown on the left W in this is in March since miles is a sixth grader he is entitled to the grade weight of 1.08 if they were a high school student they would receive a weight of
1.03 the need2 section shows the special education we most students are students with disabilities requiring special education clro instruction services of special education teacher Support Services special special class and more integrated mode teaching AAS and
individualized education program states that less than 60% of Eva's instru I'm sorry more than 60% of Eva's instructional program to be spent in an ICT setting therefore AA is entitled to the full-time more inclusive special
education weight of 1.74 shown in the navy blue on the left miles of individualized Education Program requires that requires less than 20% of Miles this instructional program to be in an IEP setting therefore miles
is entitled to less than 20% of low intensity special education weate .56 sha blue on the right both AA and miles are classified as English language Learners shown in yellow Eva is an elementary is uh from an elementary is
an elementary student former multilanguage learner who tested out of L status within the last two years because New York State requires two additional years of English as a new language Services services for former El
UHA is entitled to a K5 enl W of13 miles is also a multilanguage Le miles is enrolled in a bilingual program at his middle school the school has appropriately coded miles as enrolled in a bilingual program in the New York City
public school scheduling system as such miles is entitled to the six JY bilingual weight of .55 both Eva and miles are entitled to academic intervention services we shed in red Eva is a student in poverty and therefore they are entitled to the FSM
academic weate of .12 shown in red on the left mil also student who entered the school in sixth grade with fifth rate test scores that were below proficiency as a result he is entitled to AIS we of 35 shown in red on the
right both AA and miles are students temporary housing shown in green as such they both receive of12 Eva attends a School a high concentration of student needs sh Eva
attends tier three School the highest concentration of and is entitled to12 miles intends a school with lower concentration of need which does not receive that weight the of needs is shown in at the
top uh when you all up all the pieces together his allocation F Formula with total a weight of 3.23 while miles 26 using the example of the same two students miles and AA with the same
student leads from the previous slide we now look at a more realistic example of the weight of where the weight of one is equal to 4 4,254 Eva's weight of 3.23 is equal to $3,742 while miles's weight of 2.66 is
equal to approximately $1,317 under the FSF formula more information is available online about student funding and school budgets you can find the following online at New York City Public Schools info Hub under reports detailed
information about each school and every school's budget allocation in the form of school allocation memoranda or Sams uh and a summary of each school's total Fair student funding budget along with student staff accounts a programmatic
guide to Fair student funding as well as how fair student the fair student funding allocation is calculated for each school you can find the following online on each student each individual School website Webb page under reports then budget and
finances detailed information about the school's budget based on different types of funding for schools receive and detailed information as to how the principal has budgeted for the school year including the number of Staff positions and other
plans improving budgetary transparency with the new Fair student funding School web pages this is a new look and feel to the FSF school budget web pages we see a more streamline looking feel the dollars up to top with register and Associated
dollars down below beginning of the year midyear changes and final amounts for each school year all on one page improving budget transparency school budget has a plans in addition to the current web pages detailing each school's Galaxy allocations and budget
summary a new school budget at Lance brings together data on St enrollment demographics budget allocation and use of funds the new look also compar School demographic information to Citywide averages under K12 funding for this
school you can see that the school budget allocations rolled up into major funding categories you can also see each of the uh also see each of these is a share of the school's budget for this school FSF makes up 74% of the budget
under K12 spending for this school you can see the budget summary rolled up into spending categories classroom teachers other salaries employee benefits and non salaries known as otps which are generally supplies materials and
books all public comments will be reviewed by New York City public teams public questions and comments related to the fair funding formula will be posted by on the panel for Education policy website analysis and response of each relevant question and comment will be
available for review on the fair student funding website in advance of the April 23rd vote comments and questions may be directed to the following email address or phone number by April 22nd 2021 uh that is again budget public
comments at schools that nc.gov or by phone which is at 212 374 6754 I thank you tremendously for your time and attention today thank you for sharing your questions might come after
uh the presentation and we'll be gathering any unanswered questions and sharing back responses within a few days if you have any additional questions for me that I can support answering please reach out to me by email addresses K mire kmcg
schools.nyc.gov uh or on our district 2 website thank you again question sorry yeah sorry we have some questions for you you're not you're not out of the wood yet sorry um thank you for the presentation
um I'll s with a couple of questions and I'll I'll turn it over to my my colleagues when was the last time that the weights will change because you know said that they're not being changed between this year and next year when was actually the last time this was refed
and last time it was changed because it could have been reviewed and not changed but when last time it was actually changed um we're not sure if they're going to be changed for the coming year the proposal is to not change them um we will find out in April as to what the
vote on the pep is do you have a date for when the last FSF funding formula was Chang back okay that's fine the other question that I have before I turn it over to my colleagues the weight per student that that only
with the two children that you did it's a fairly complicated formula in theory a computer can calculate it out for every kid and it will be right however and I mean no offense to them your your colleagues of the Department of Education I don't have faith that
everything is done the way it should be it's contemplated formulas you have thousand thousands and thousands of kids you know almost what 900,000 kids is that data is that feed ever audited to make sure that child number one is with
13 different weights is actually getting the right weights getting all of them or not getting too many of them how is that audited and you may not know that that might be another I'll get back to um I'll say two things about it and then if you want to add anything else to it um
so uh one I will say that um from the perspective of superintendent working with principles there are several different um periods along the timeline of schools receiving their budget in
which these numbers are calculated um our schools just completed a um uh register projection for the coming year um and that's kind of like step number one gives us a bit of a prediction and a bit of a look into not just how many
kids are going to be in the school for the coming year but what that budget uh connected to those kids might look like um budgets also come out then in the spring of the Year prior to the coming year um and uh then uh schools receive
additional reports between the spring and the start of the school year from our budget office that are specifically aligned to the students who are in their schools and they can request as many of those reports as they like they're very uh available and really to help to ensure
transparency um we also see a couple of things that happen in at the start of the school year when students are involved school again these are checks on um uh with the alignment of the budget to students we see our budgets change um based on students who are
enrolling in the school after both before and after that October 31st register um we receive very clear reports uh from the budget office detailing uh here are the number of students that are you are uh over
projected register and you will receive additional funding for them and their funding looks exactly like this because of who the students are and different weights that are connected to them so there are quite a few steps that are in
place as an overall audit is there anything you might like to add to what this might look like from a burrow or District or Citywide level um I guess say that you know as a
principal former principal our principles are very tuned into what their budgets are and fight for every dollar that we have um and so yes and they speak to them so every
year I yes hi do Jonathan TR senior director of Finance for and um so every year the Department of Education um does what's called a m adjustment attchments um where the budget officer as superintendent Kelly mentioned takes all
the data of students in general education um as of October 31st and what we do is align with funding on where they belong December 31st is the other the deadline for the students with special needs and want to carry different weights and then Department of
Education aits every single school and adjust the weights for every student that is enrolled in that school during that time period and provides some with the additional funding um I have one question um you mentioned here about the number of students right that is a part of the
formula as well but my understanding is that since Co we have not adjust budgets School budgets based on enrollment because some schools had such huge drop in enrollments and uh and I know it was a big fight that City C this year and they said again that they would not
adjust and so my understanding is that number of students actually does not impact here because we have we have schools that have lost like 50% of enrollment and they still have the same bu that they had five years ago so is that confirmed that there is no
adjustment based on enrollement um well this was a presentation of the first student funding formula and how the first student from the for funding formula was arrived that uh it is true that in the past years not all years but in the most recent years in which schools have been
held for us um that uh their budgets have not uh schools have not that have lost uh St registered um have not uh seen a drop in their attendance or their enrollment funding for that year but
they don't maintain that attendance or they don't maintain that budget year after year so for example a school that ended the year with 900 students but were only projected this to have St 800 students in the fall they would only be budgeted for 800 students not for 900
students and then if it continued to drop to 500 students and the budget projection was for 500 students it would just remain at 500 the budget would be in alignment with 500 students so um but it is true that uh because schools have
been held harmless over the past few years that um schools have not seen a drop in their just one followup question so our schools adjusting their projection based on last year's enrollement or are they
still working based on preco enrollment projections no the um the budget Pro the enrollment projection is based on uh it's basically based on roughly the
percent change in students that were observed through the previous year so if a school had a 25% drop in the number of students not it's not perfectly aligned with this but if a school had a 25% drop in the number of students um in a year
then the following year they would be projected for 25% fewer students now principles can um put in appeals for this or uh make changes because they might know something and the Comm we're gonna open up a new class or uh we are
gonna open up a special program or something like that so they can appeal um those changes um but generally speaking uh the principal does not have so much say in how much they're budgeted uh we go to the next question I
just want to recognize that Alexander wel yes you have question so much for all this information I was wondering how could we and I know I had brought it up for too how can we support schools that go above
and beyond right what about for merit their teachers as a previous teacher myself you you know work hard with the students and I agree like kids with IEP um school that below standard grade they also need additional funding definitely because you have to work harder but what
about schools that are way above the standard how are we supporting our kind of um you know right like awarding them for all their extracts um yeah the legislation around that kind of decision making is
definitely at the city state uh and state level we have seen you know over the 25 years or whatever 30 years almost that I've been in education I have seen that happen in different in different ways but currently that is not the case so my my question is is how Dynamic
this is if there are changes in student circumstances during the year I think you mentioned October 31st in Roman deadline and also December 31st for students with disabilities but I'm wondering if if for example in one scenario would be if a student's IEP is
Rewritten um mid year sometimes uh so that they actually got more services would that weight change mid year and the other situation I'm thinking of is if a student has um you has permanent housing and and loses it gets evicted
and goes into temporary housing um can we adjust like mid years so that they get that schol that that student get that addition weight the um weight does not change for that student it would change for the coming year but it does not change for that student in the
present year however um the school leadership can appeal um to the budget office for additional funds to support support individual students to support changes in program um appeals
can be done in those uh I usually when appeals need to be made on behalf of um supports for individual students or um addition of programs the um the timeline is pretty quick um and
there are limited number of circumstances in which an appeal would be approved and you know we know pretty clearly as to when it might be approved or not I it has a little bit to do with what the service is that is being asked
for for the child or from the school uh it also has something to do with um how what what the in looks like uh in the school for that year um if the school had many many dollars that were unspent at that point in the year um then a
school might be asked to use the existing dollars the appeal is noted and then if changes need to be made in the budget later in the year then that could be just to follow up on that do you have a sense as to how many appeals for this
purpose happened last year or over a period of time and how what how many were were granted or percentage and I'm not looking for exact numbers but like is this something that becomes a Monumental task for the school to get accomplished or is it hey this makes sense let's just get it done and it's
really M my sense is that there are not very many that happen um but when they happen they're kind of a big deal so it always feels like a big thing you know it's very important to the school or to the child family and
teachers what would any grounds for for denial be it would not necessarily be a denial it would be more of uh not right now because um you currently have you principal currently have funding in your
budget to pay for the service let's note that appeal now and let's revisit it should your funding situation changes but again it would change you know year over year the child's weight at the end of the year would carry over
to the any other questions ahead so looking at the weights um I'm just curious the the weight for students temporary housing seems very very low and compared to that's I think 8 you said and
then2 and then the waight for students at the audition schools and some of the specialized high schools was 0.25 and. 35 can you talk a little bit about how if that has been consistent over the last four five years it's okay I think I got the
numbers right I think it was 0.12 for um since sub housing and then 0.25 and .35 um maybe this addresses a little bit of what I think P was asking because it was a little bit hard to hear on this side I think she might have been wondering whether students who are performing
perhaps above grade level should some how get additional funding was that the was that was that the Crux of her was that the cor of your question PR repeat the question for schools with students that yes how can we like you mentioned that
other schools do support other districts do support when students perform above the standards when the teachers work also very very hard with them how reing those students inol that was my
question I think the answer was a fair student funding formula does not allow for rewarding performance is that is that make the answer that you not buil okay which of course makes sense um and then with respect to the weights and how
they're allocated have there been any adjustments up and down over the last four or five years or is what we're voting on soon and of the end results of of changes that have C we can definitely get the specifics on
allocation changes I'm almost positive that in the most recent FSF change that there was a higher weight attached to sty temporary housing um but I can't say how much sorry one more question do you
again going back to the word audit I'm sorry but do you audit to make sure that the money is going where it's if you get money for a student in students in housing that that money is not used for an additional art
teacher how could you talk can you talk about that oh yeah introduce yourself also please tell us who you are so we're currently doing that now allocated for students in temporary
housing that uh money is being monitored but currently to make sure that students are utilizing that funding for those um students and for that population and know that youze that fund on
something it's not supposed to have does that tie into approval money that you get for IEPs for a student and you checking to make sure that you get x amount of dollars for child A's IEP it's going towards that child's IEP whether it is the second
teacher in the classroom oril so there's no way that let's say Kelly is the superintendent is actually the principal of ps-130 right here he gets a lot of money because he has a lot of students with IEPs in this school that he's not using that money to put in
an extra music teacher or an extra gym teacher or what have you someone is monitoring that yes that's I will just say I mean we just helped the principal actually a new principal um and we collected the names
of students in temporary housing for benefiting from a certain resource we had to send those names into to the budget office to make sure that they could check their ID numbers with the uh item that was funded um it would not
have been funded if we hadn't included closest numbers of students activties any other questions from the council thank you very much super thank you uh folks appreciate it
um so so we now move to the um uh the first public speaker session for you you Canna mik thank you Vice uh vice president s are you gonna do the M
calling again you do very good job event first I'm going to give the disclaimer that um the handwriting is not great on a lot of these uh names I'm also not great with pronunciations I apologize if I I'm GNA try to keep this as neutral as
possible um so the first Speaker we have is Analise shant and right after that we have kri Keenan hi my name is Al SE District to first grader first i' like to think the
minority [Music] their's looking into backwards policies that will only lead to people your those and our kids underwear we all see through the whole just asking questions thing
[Music] sorry we all see through just as asking questions thing you're creepy I don't want you around my kids I don't want you around any children at you guys you geted are you just GNA use this to like
ask questions about ma a looking forward to voting next we have Harry Kanan and then after that I'm not sure if it's Michael my name is krie Keenan uh I have two daughters who have been cdc2
students since kindergarten second month now a senior in high school they have together gone to ps11 7854 ppas and Beacon high school so we're pretty
much veteran parents in this district and obviously we live in the district as well so I'm here to support resolution 269 to affirm c2's support gu sorry cc2 is guidelines
to support transgender and gender expansive students and resend resolution 248 I'm also here to support resolution 270 I think everyone needs to state that if that is why they're here because it
is important for the record to know that the majority of this council is voting against its constituents the people who put them here are showing up week after week and they are voting
against us not all and I just do want to thank you to because you it's amazing that you're doing this and you should be able to knows better sure I'm gonna go over my time so
I'm trying to figure out what's the most important thing I have a trans daughter she went to CC D from the time she was it wasn't e we went to a school where they told us
when she socially transition that we should that's as we know from everything that has occurred over the last five weeks sports are R for what the true desire of many people and you can see it now every day
and it's killing I it's literally killing to erase transgender individuals and you ask all the time what's the harm at having a conversation now you know now you know that's we have
and then after one second after after Michael we have Joe it looks like v v or V and then August good thank
you hey can you guys hear me all right I have to follow my wife oh okay so I'll make it quick um I'm a D2 parent obviously I have two daughters one's 19 she's trans one and 17 she's not um like my wife
just said they went to school in this District um I'm happy as a D2 B for anybody who has questions since we've gone through a lot of the process and these and I'm open to these questions from anybody anybody on any side of the a um if you have a question I'm happy to
answer it because what I can tell you is is that none of my kids friends have ever which is why I'm in support of 269 and 270 there's no such thing as indoctrination all these kids want to do is be left alone they want to have
friends and nobody none of my kids friends have said hey want to try this trans thing seems kind of fun it's working for you but I think I might want to be gay I'm not sure I don't know they all ended up exactly who they were gonna be and they Lov my trans daughter thank
you Joe Joe V that is going on behind the scenes here that you can't see on Zoom when I came in they were trying to prevent me the trans activists are trying to prevent me from even siging up so I am signs up in case they paused my name out
because they were trying to snatch the sign up sheet from me I am signed up to speak first and second and what a lot of people on Zoom can't see is my sign and it says CIS equals can't imitate sex and I've said before that I am a female
athlete I'm here to speak up for the female athletes who are intimidated by this nonsense that's occurring behind me all the dancing and the tonery so we don't want I'm speaking up for the female athletes who do not want to have biological males competing with
them and you know what sex differences occur at really young ages and Scouts sometimes come to grammar schools I know because I was scouted so I I am a female athlete who
got a scholarship I am a female athlete who got sponsorship excuse me can I just ask could you take a step back and a big telephone l so TR St please don't than you at the last meeting you had Charles love here and he was trying to call out
Gavin over there at the end of the table for his racism because what Gavin tries to do is artificially inflate the numbers of people who agree with him when he talks about Community he's only talking about a specific part of the community and then he tries to pretend that he's going to co out the civil
rights movement and he can't even answer the one question that Charles love the only black man here who isn't here today was asking him and he's a racist and I hope that son pel doesn't continue to be
his kind of lap dog and finds some real V of power because he's just using you what's going on is that there's pathology they're pathologizing puberty pathologizing puberty and behind me there's a bunch of
virtue signaling and I intend to speak in the second time for public speaking in case they did avoid that the next speaker is um AUST good all right um can everyone hear
me all right so I make this quick uh I really don't want to be here because so the that I wanted to make a statement what I would say is that well I
mean I don't want anys I know what that feels like and it's not a fun feeling and being while being young is one of the most I don't want to say it's a feeling of but it is a sort of breathing process and you have to look into a world that doesn't like
you it doesn't do what it should make you feel safe so I'm just saying just let your kids have fun let them be in spaces like sports where they can express themselves and let them be around care about them will support them and who they know they are they know
themselves better than you know that and it's just it's hard enough to be a kid and it's hard enough to be alive so don't do anything to make it hard so resolution else it unnecessary harder for no
reason August prepare this I'm probably going to be pretty short thank you all for coming here if anyone wants to sign up for our initiatives please come find me after I speak I was actually the person that took away the info sheet from
earlier and I feel so bad that you felt attacked by that but if you had spoken to me rather than jumping on me I would have told you that that wasn't the signup sheet that you were using as speakers that was our personal information signup sheet so I'm sorry that you felt attacked enough to
physically assault me back there it was really upsetting for me but I just want to say here that as someone who was a trans kid and who survived to be a trans adult I know what so many of you are going through and this is not okay it's
not okay for them to make you question whether you should be here or whether you're right because you are perfect the way you are and I am so happy to be standing in front of you as a trans adult and I want to know Craig what what
is causing you to turn against your own Community because I've been rcking my brain wondering why because I organized for events I organized with so many different kinds of people and I want to have a conversation with you because I
don't understand why you wouldn't stand up for me when I so badly want to stand up for your rights and you're standing up for the people who are trying to overturn marriage equality they're trying to overturn marriage equality and that doesn't benefit anyone none of us
would benefit from the things that these people want to implement and I love everyone who showed up here tonight and I appreciate you so much and next time there will be snacks if you if you make it a nice time because we will
keep I keep telling you we will keep coming back because I need to stand here and be the support that I didn't have when I was a trans kid so thank so our our next speakers are going to be a
lot of Daniels then Annabelle Annabelle rier and then JY bar on the zoom call I'm sorry if I blow out your ears I'm loud good evening everyone Dro and for context I earned my PhD conducting
biomatic engineering research while scientific consensus in all major medical associations are trans affirming and met analyses of the numerous studies comparing CIS and trans athletes after starting ERT are inconclusive I'd like to discuss I'd like to discuss the effect of anti-par laws on regulations
on lgbtq youth there's a ly of research that shows anti-er laws have a delorious effect on the mental health of peer youth like to focus on a specific paper and I think this is actually cited in 269 state level anti-transgender laws increased past year suicide attempts
among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA by Leal was published last year in nature human behavior they showed a year after a state passes an anti-lgbtq law trans and non-binary youth were 7 to 72% more likely to
attempt suicide than before the laws passing the you were able to isolate this effect from multiple compounding factors my takeway is this I don't know what you're attempting with resolution 248 but it reads like a cynical attempt to S anti-trans sentiment into nycps
guidelines TR carefully if you vote do not resend it you may just wake up with and find that you have blood on your hands oh and on 270 teaching about slavery isn't indoctrination it's the original s of our country that we have not paid off yet
not cheating about it is anti-patriotic besides how would you explain why Article 1 Section 2 CL three of the US Constitution you know the three fths compromise good evening everybody my name is Elena Daniels and I'm a middle school teacher and I'm here to
speak in opposition to resolution 268 um which is designed to uh call on New York City Schools to stand across schools um as a middle school teacher in my science class I find that per um oftentimes very much designed for the
specific project when we do a science lab it's different than when I a test which is different than when we do a cell metaphor project or different than when we do science fair you know standardizing rubs just in one class it's even harder than stand it's not as
hard as standardizing them across classes in the rub that you use in Spanish it's different than the rubric that you use in math it's different than the rubric that you might use you know in any ell class or in a gifted ma CL um and the idea of standardizing them also
doesn't basically discount professionalism and we spent years in the classroom we know our students we know what they need and we know how best Val and I understand as a science teacher the goal of trying to have measuring tools that work for everyone
but there's no easy way to have that done from one class to another um and I heard you say earlier that you were a teacher um and so I'm curious like if you were a teacher and someone came into your class and said here's the great Angel you had to use um whether or not that would feel good
um and then lastly I also want to talk quickly about the funding piece um and I think it's great that we have a a fair funding formula that supports uh students have additional mations the extra money um and it's an interesting question that you're concerned about
students with iets and students who arear temporary housing um and making certain the money goes to them rather than going to art class or te class and personally I would like to trust our superintendent and our assistant superintendant that they hire princi who know where the best the money should go
and that ad students who have itps could use art class so our next speaker is going to be we have Josie barck then we're gonna have Gloria Chu and then Shane Allen make their way down
space is here so try to month thank you hi everyone I'm Josie hey and I'm calling for the council to ascend resolution 248 for about a year I taught Ro
claiming to youth ages 5 13 5 to 13 both in a gym and outside on an actual rock and yes a group of six- olds climbing outside to be very very stressful but seeing a kiddo overcome their fear be it 5et on off the ground
or 50 feet off the ground really never got hold for all the youth and young people listening right now either here or online I want you to take a moment to think of a time you overcame a fear maybe it was presenting in front of your class asking someone to be your friend
or trying out a new name if you want you can even whisper it to someone next to you for all the adults I want you to think of a time you saw a young person overcome a fear which left to mark on you once you think of one raise your
hand and keep it raised if you thought of a queer a trans kid keep your hand raised if you're online and you can't see right now there are probably 50 hands raised I want to thank all the trans and queer use for overcoming your fears and
leaving an impression on all these adults myself included to the parents of trans kids thank you for facing your fears and continuing to support your kids I know it's not easy but it's what we all needed like that thank you everyone for
continuing to show up to these meetings I know they're always very fun but I'm so happy to see this many people here and I can't wait to be here next month Gloria to and then we're gonna have Shane Allen
and then Joy hi my name is Gloria I am a parent of a fifth grader at PS1 the seventh grader at baroo Middle School um either of more trans doesn't matter their girls they love their friends if it's not me
protecting my kids it's me protecting their friends they want to have the friends with them deserve to be there are always G to be part of our Lives it's our part embrace them and
make them feel like they B with us we all belong here so please support the resolution 269 and resend 248 I would also like you to
270 thank you Allen how many month how many months have by before M who's yet an empty chair Advocates her position here on the board how many months how many months it's been three
three three consecutive months there's a special place in hell for a mother who uses trans kids as Canon for her own political ambition I went to I went to January Chanel again not here I assume you publicize this event
as friendly to like-minded bigots as a safe place for those who quietly support you but are too scared to come to a cc meeting where they might actually have to face the very people they so callously deny exist this should have been your moment
to shine I could visibly count exactly two supporters in the audience they must have felt to two and I think they're here too actually um they must have felt pretty silly bringing signage to an empty room perhaps excluding children from
school extracurricular activities is not the Irish new yorker's top concern right she had a pain expression on her face when it sunk in just how short she' come up it was pathetic and flying in a token
self-hating trans person from Kansas she found it perfectly acceptable to use a minority perspective that represents less than 2% of the lived experience of trans people to support her bigot and views since she so ignorantly used the word
science to argue her views let's flip the script if you had a basic understanding of a scientific method you'd know that you don't go from forming a Hyo forming a hypothesis right to drawing conclusions you've missed some pretty basic steps including Gathering data
through observation experimentation and experience this is called empirical evidence any serious scientist wouldn't limit their data to views that already support their assumptions this is called cherry picking we've heard well me people
things like I didn't know who I was at that age this is patently false I knew why I was at age five I was a boy not because my environment reinforced Sy it because I knew it through and through I also didn't know I had a major crush on Shelly broer who sat across from
me I bet you all know who you were at that age just as trans people do too next we have joy defend and then I have a I have a question um is the next the after joy we have August uh ends or is that the same
August that's work before different okay oh it's that this is the microphone we' used through and then we have Chloe and TDY is it okay if I give up the mic okay good evening I'm here on behalf
of my two do children who are eager for district 2 to join join the chancellor District 13 families Citywide and in this room calling for policies inclusive of all children last month after a member of this C called participation of community members present theatric driven I was
reminded of the important role that theatrical protest has played in our nation's history given its parallels I thought to tell the story of the act up National Institutes of Health protests of 1990 by excerpting from Washington Post and a ya book called like a love story check it out of the library a
silence over over us like our hospitalized friend is walking by our side I can almost feel him smell him hear him and then I imagined his friend Jimmy walking next to him and his late partner Jose walking next to Jimmy and James Baldwin leading us and Oscar wild
and Judy Garland they're all walking with us when we arrive at the protest friends tell us that over 1,000 people showed up it's incredible an activist said this turnout will show them how much we care I want to tell him that even more people
are here than he thinks because there are spirits protesting alongside us jimy and his group run towards the entrance holding long poles and then ignite the multicolored smoke grenades I'm so mesmerized for a moment that I forget to raise my camera up that's how beautiful it is how powerful we've taken symbols
of Destruction and turned them into symbols of love and hope Aurora went up from protesters as Billows of red yellow blue purple and green smoke fill the air an Associated Press photo of activists under a CL out of rainbow smoke eventually made it onto the cover of newspapers across the country the next
month act up could be definitive could definitively Clare a victory at the 1990 International Conference on AIDS NIH gave the news that activists journalists and people with AIDS would be led into the AIDS clinical trials group and trials would expand to include women color drug users and children it was a turning point for both act up and
biomedical research that was 34 years ago here we are again what history will we make here tonight thank you community thank you council members Jessica Sarah sonal Gavin student
members and any potential new council members ready to meet this pivotal moment that we're caught it in together 248 oh all gu just so clear you in corre all right so Chloe it looks like in to TDY or and then we
have oh and then we have B hello my name is Chloe onari a proud transwoman M and I want to talk a little bit tonight about some things I've learned by 20 plus years of public teaching experience and my Doctorate in
Education what I want to talk about is maso's hierarchy Ops what it boils down to is that kids when they don't feel safe they can't learn and the members of this Council who have uh consistently voted against
the interest to these kids don't really care if trans kids can't learn and don't really care if trans kids don't feel safe but I want to talk about more than that because I want to talk about the ripple effect that this sort of thing has through a SCH Community because the people the fine
people that I'm here with tonight we care about all kids we care about trans kids we care about CIS kids and when you throw a little Pebble of exclusion to the pond of a school and you let kids know that there are things that can be true about
themselves that cause them to be excluded and to be cast out it makes other kids wonder what could I say about myself to a teacher a principal a counselor a parent that would make them cast me out as well and then they feel
unsafe and so now you have this school where nobody's feeling safe and nobody so I'm urging you council members in the interest of your own children to resend resolution 248 and
support resolution 269 270 thank you J Barnes and then after Barnes we're GNA have keer thank you can we hear me in the back got use my teacher
voice all right my name is n Barnes and I'm a proud educator here to speak out against resolution 248 have the honor of educating many students in Civics in history and some of whom were trans and nonbinary my kids taught me that living in truth freely in loved is not the bare minimum or closing
words but literally the difference between life and death our children spend the majority of their waking hours in school and Z place where they are safe loved and supported in their authenticity resolution 248 flies in the face that exacerbates the systems of
Oppression and the isms that we as teachers already have to combat as a history teacher unfortunately we are in a time where I hope there are still going to be history books to exist that discuss what's happening right now so the question I want you all of
you to ask yourselves is what do you want those books to say about you in this moment because my colleagues and I were preferred to teach that trans students loved and thrived rather than suicide rates of trans and nonbinary students are multi thank you for your
time we have Nico Nico keeper and then it looks like the cruise followed by Frankie either dull or pass okay so we have Nico
keer and then we have looks like yanie Cruz Yar Bruce and then we're gonna and after that it's gonna be Frankie could be dasal or PAs so if you guys could make your effort to make their way down be great
please hi everyone thank you so much for being here my name is NI keeper I've been an educator in the New York City public school system for almost 10 years I came from ps11 today there were some other ps11 people here I've taught at other District Two
schools I say this like my kids would say it that's not fair we're talking well I don't have a lot of time but I want to interesting stuff we're talking about elementary school kids right my job as an elementary school educator is to look at
what a kid is handling me and ask myself is it hurting anyone else no and then say sick do it more that's my only job is to keep them safe and to help them feel affirm now I'm I'm not GNA talk about trans kids
right now I'm gonna talk about what laws like this do to boys and girls you already know do you guys know you know laws like this do to boys and girls hey Daniela they teach boys they teach boys
that they are better than the women and they teach teach the young women that they don't matter and none of that is true laws like this make girls less safe because they give boys the permission to
be less safe in the class room trans kids don't do that non-binary kids don't do that nonbinary kids by their very existence make those kids go uh kids know what's
real you know what's not real this weird gender that y'all are pushing that's not real that is not real but I know my time is up I have one more thing to say that's not real but kids
trying to live as themselves and US supporting them that's what so my name is n Cruz I you see her pronouns I'm the director of AOC and programs at the New York transgender AOC grw and we for
that and I saying y'all got our attention in the worst way possible we're the same organization that's spearheaded agenda gender expression non-discrimination act which passed in 2019 so trans youth as we know already faced a disproportionate amount of
bullying and discrimination instead of working to make schools safer this resolution FS exclusion and puts them in even more danger and we will not allow this kind of discrimination to grew in our city we'll keep pulling up in number numbers each and every
meeting to my trans siblings here tonight t n texu Foy Fellowship in lunai and our community Advisory Board protecting our trans Joy means creating a world where we can Thrive celebrate and exist without fear or without compromise our joy is resistance our joy
is power and no one can take that away from us I continue to REM to remember that when it comes to the hatred that we're seeing cnc2 Council just keep for remembering us trans people we are the cure for that hatred that they hold
against us and might I say what a contrary you are to your own cousin Dr sandep bapar because they are a huge activist for the trans Community ever mean to be so they've been acknowledged on Health Magazine they they're running
all of trans North W's trans clinic and it's honestly a shame thank you I'm not sure it's after Frankie after Frankie we're gonna have okay after Frankie we're gonna have it
looks like CD Clifford then nadus Swanson and then candra NES I hope I pronounced that right just they nice enough to put the phonetics well hi my name is Frankie daa I am a
12year veteran teacher 10 years in the Department of Education and proud GSA adviser in the do I am here to ask you to vote no on 268 which is the rubric resolution and I want to bring up the historic classes
and racist issues around this resolution a little further all right sorry guys um so the issue with standardizing rubrics is a rubric is you to tell individuals the criteria in which you are going to earn a grade is
specific to the assignment to the project that needs to have space to accommodate the differentiation that all educators are asked to serve our students if we are not able to differentiate we are literally asking students to create things without the
tools and resources and high expectations without resource is abuse period end point we need to make sure that our students are receiving the resources the access and removing barriers because without that we are asking our students to create things
without access how can we do this we are literally adults that are putting our problems on students when we should be removing the barriers granting access and giving them everything they need to 16 as students also again we're talking about accessibility everybody was up here
talking about I about access about building up our students if we standardize the criteria what does that mean across contents art music dance anything like that does not have the same criteria as Ela as science and if
we we have standards like the CDC needs to St in their Lane and understand the difference between standards and rubrics if you want to talk about rubrics join your F and inside the classroom actually do something instead of harming our kids right what you're asking for continuing
is for the deal which since 2010 actually let's go back to 92 with the original Rainbow curriculum where we gave access and priz to our students right and in 2010 oura the state law says that we have to do this you guys are asking the city to break state law
that's what's ridiculous no resend 248 and vote no on 268 thank you so next we have slier and NES a it's not the microphone it's it's how
people speak into it okay mic checked mic checked mic checked can I can you hear me is this better no can you turn it up a little please that's as high as it
goes okay all right thank you hi my name is Kristen Clifford and I am the proud parent of two trans kids one of them is in a District Two school so I am here to talk to you okay both of my kids transitioned in New York
City public schools and they did great New York City Public Schools then the thing that you fighting the guidelines to support transgender and gender expansive students are great guidelines they're excellent okay
I don't understand why you want to hurt children because this is literally what I see happening okay I don't understand why I have to be here telling you that my
daughter tried to commit suicide I don't understand excuse me can you look at me while I'm seeing I'm sorry you don't like performativity of what is happening can you perform your job for me please and
I forgive me for yelling at you but I am angry okay I am my kids went through periods of time when they were self Haring okay I'm talking
to you as parents all of you we're all trying to keep kids alive right like number one can they survive so that they can then Thrive please and yes I'm asking you
specifically do you know I'm sorry excuse me do you do you actually know know % of trans kids don't feel safe in
school because of anti-trans legislation you know that thank you thank you so next we haveon yeah we have Johson
aish and then after that we're going to have chissy RS hi my name is Nadia Swanson and I am the director of advocacy at the AL for Center the world's largest program for lgbtq homeless youth today I we in a shirt that says
protect trans Joy because that is what we do every day at the ol for day septer 247 365 you may have passed resolution 248 but the reality is you don't have any power to change the law and the truth is we do the electives call us to know what
they should do to protect trans kids the doe calls us to train their social workers and teachers and they will keep doing that because we're not going back in New York City well we do have what you do have is the power to shape people's views to not see trans kids and
people as human it's actions like yours that led to the torture and murder of s nor twist in New York and all the others that we have lost that have been attacked the young people I see the young people's funerals that I plan and go to that is what comes out of
these resolutions so when the trans kids of D2 in New York City don't feel safe in your home or kicked out by their parents because of the transphobic rhetoric created by this Council we will be there to protect their
joy we will be sure they have a bed that they are fed that they are educated are kept safe when it all feels like too much and we will be there to make sure they know they're perfit just the way they are we will be there to ensure that they can have a beautiful future filled
with support from this giant Community it is not too late to say you made a mistake and we send your resolution do you not care about the lives of people why can't you look at us it doesn't make any sense you I'm telling you thousands of kids are dying
and you can't look up from your phone it is never too late and it is not too late to change your mind and if you ever want to have a conversation I would love to provide the education to you to understand and if you want to see what this does to people every day I would love to show
you H hello can you hear me okay hi um my daughter goes to Art design High School a trans child child um was bullied and committed suicide and when some of you have spoken to how uh anti-trans rhetoric affects all the
children that's what I'm talking about okay uh How can any of the children feel safe in a school where even one kid is not safe um I'm also here as a lifelong New Yorker to fight for my city because New York
New York has always been a place where we respect each other and give each other space to be who we are okay if something's weird if you don't like it just get comfortable with being uncomfortable if you're not comfortable
with what New York is don't live here I I cannot have people bringing their conformist Suburban values to New York that's not what New York all right to do you know sit in your in your
suburb with your car that's not what New York is and New York is important okay New York is holding down for this country all right and for all my sis
women who are anti-tr you have the wrong end of the stick they're P for us all right this is the fascist Playbook they pick off the most vulnerable the children and then they come for us the
handmaid's tail is coming we need our clear allies we need together okay look at all this look at all this joy and this beauty and this energy we need this we need to be
together so next we have Chrissy Rose and then after Chrissy hold on one minute Chrissy Chrissy wait one second just and then after Chrissy we're gonna have looks like Octavia
sor and then we're going to have faroh R can y'all hear me hi everybody I'm Chrissy Rose I have a full contact karate black Fountain and semi knockdown champion and I say that every month because if this was really
an issue about protecting female athletes then my professional opinion as a competitor coach and instructor in Combat Sports should but have a lot of wonderful new people here so let me say it again I train and compete with trans women they
belong on the with me I here to OPP 248 to Cle IET and that commenter who was speaking before does not speak for me I speak for myself and I support my
trans have this for months so y'all have the information and it is really hard to stand here and continue to entertain the farce that you don't know exactly what you're doing so I'm not going to explain to you
again that trans kids exist and have a right to exist as themselves I don't care if you believe that although it's really pretty gross that you don't whether you believe it doesn't affect the truth look around this room the community is not convinced by your
hateful rhetoric all these people are here because frankly they don't care if you believe that we and the people we love deserve to exist we're not going to entertain this nonsense you can do the right thing you can do your job and you can listen to your constituents reasonable demands that their children
have equal access to school activities or you can be relieved of the burden of your position you will be voted out who effort one showing up for Trans kids tonight especially anybody here for the first time you all got the mumo that this is the thing that you can do and
you're doing it so keep doing it keep showing up these are our kids and we're not just going to make sure that they get to grow up although we're going to do that we're going to make sure that they get to live
Octavia and then we're going to have far after that and then we're going to have Nancy Mar you have Octavia hi um uh I don't have anything thank you so much wait I'm
attached okay I'm no longer attached um I don't have anything prepared I don't have anything very interesting to say but I am a fourth generation New Yorker I was born and raised here my family uh myself included have all been students of the New York City public school system I was there for the PS the is the
high school and even Cy I was a gay student when I was young I was a victim of like homophobic violence as a young child I have uh scars from a fractured skull from violence I was the I was the victim of
in high school um because of the kind of rhetoric and uh teachings that encourage children to be cruel to each other and I I think that 240 needs to be rescinded I support 269 270 because I
believe in kindness and I believe in generosity and I believe in the spirit of New York City which is one of brilliant inventiveness and and joy and and generosity and love because every New Yorker I know whether they were born and raised here or they moved here or they're refugees here they are people of
love and kindness and Hope I was also an athlete as a child and I remember the kind of rhetoric that was used to say that gay students are a danger to boy Sports because gay students they're
disruptive they're going to harm the the coherent Collective identity that if I have to be honest was a very patriarchal and uh heteronormative and violent system to be a part of but you know I I got my steps in and it was really fun to so you
know the last thing I want to say is that I I am afraid for my children and the kind of world that they're going to grow up in because I thought when I I'm almost done thank you I thought that when I came out that the world was going
to be a sort of trajectory of positivity and growth and I'm seeing now that the reactionary violence is always present and available and I believe we should respect the biological privacy of
students I believe in children's autonomy and I believe in love thank you far Wayne and then after Farah we have Nancy m oh can we have far
away fancy sounds good hi everyone I am not a public speaker M of two girls in Brooklyn and I'm here in support of resolution 269 and 270 as far as I know my kids are sis gender and they don't go to school in
District 2 so why am I here I'm here because an injury to one is an injury to all and because I know my phone that our safety is intertwin I'm here because while CC has
no actual power to change doe policy you are the biggest District in the city and what you say here makes news and it matters and it has Ripple effects for our entire city I'm here because the doe Representatives that come here every
month need a reminder that the community does not B these voices we literally turn our backs on them every meeting I'm here because we're in the middle of a f and the soal leader of this country
began his second term with racist dangerous anti-trans roric disguised as executive orders some of that speech is echoed by some people on this Council and the very small and
uninspired group of people come to these meetings I'm here because I'm powerful and you are too this talking up here will do anything I'm doing this because the folks in this audience have created an
irresistible and strategic movement that I'm proud to be a very small part of I'm here because I want to say to this group of people that I see your creativity your dedication your Ingenuity your joy
and I'm grateful to live in this moment and bear witness to that your to fight alongside you this movement of collective Liberation grows larger each and every day and here because I believe that we will win that concludes our first public
speaking session session uh good evening everyone um I'm going to start off tonight first with some quick announcements uh this Friday will be our third Whitney wisdom family engagement session uh the focus this time I believe will be on how
writing is incorporated into the curriculum but I'll let superintendent Maguire discuss the particulars that's specifically what we're going to be focusing on but it's Friday at 9:00 A.M uh details on how to join the join the zoom or on our website uh the first two engagement sessions I think were very
helpful um you will hear from uh actual principles and teachers and see how it's How the new uh n YC reads program is being applied in the classroom so I encourage everybody uh to join um 3K and prek applications are opened and they
close on Friday February 28th this Friday offers are released on or about May 20th g&t uh applications for grades 1 through four open in late April so you'll see information about that um families will be able to apply for
summer Rising seats in my Schools starting on Tuesday March 4th until March Fray March 28th uh School staff will be available to support families in the application process by ensuring they have their student ID and account Recreation codes needed to apply in my school we
have bu I don't remember which has like five schools or we have he'll he'll he knows which schools um applications for this to e the elections have been extended until Tom tomorrow I believe these include elections for the 32 CC's as well as the four Citywide education
Council cchs which is high schools cc75 which are for d75 programs CC which are for multi English language Learners uh and CCSC for special education you can find out more information and the specific requirements for each uh
Council on our homepage to sign up and vote you'll need a NX account if you don't have one or if you don't know what that is uh please contact your parent coordinator and they'll be able to help you participating in these elections as a candidate or a voter is your opportunity to help shape the future of your school Comm
so be sure to get involved and make your make your voice heard to be eligible for a D2 seat you must be the parent or guardian of a current D2 student the application period as I said ends tomorrow uh and voting will occur mid April through I believe it's May 13th but I'm sure you will get an
announcement if you're a parent or Guardian you'll probably get 177,000 voicemails uh as many of you have gotten already this is for a two-year term starting on July 1st of this year uh there have been a couple of fa uh engagement sessions it's the family and
Community engagement uh office they've had two engagement sessions you can find recordings of both of those sessions on the hom page of our website um this month is Black History Month and doe has been honoring that across classroom throughout the city
having important informative discussions and programs black history is clearly American history the doe has used programs such as hidden voices created by the department of social studies and Civics to provide resources but that's certainly not the only Avenue in which black history is Roven into the curriculum for superintendent Maguire
can provide details of the various programs as well now a few other things I wanted to mention we've obviously heard a lot about coming out of Washington DC and there are threats of withholding funding and that's a real threat and a real concern you heard uh the budget uh presentation earlier the
doe gets several billion dollars of funding from the federal government and those funds uh do fund many critical programs the chancellor has noted that there are many a number of lawsuits over this and there have been legal challenges to some of the executive orders last night I was on a call where
she iterated her commitment to protecting our students and the valuable funding that comes from the federal government the Department of Education is committed to protecting our students I've asked superintendent McGuire to reiterate Doe's policy when it comes to ice coming into our schools uh I know
both superintendant and principles have had numerous meetings and information sessions on this and the Doe's policy has not changed the chancellor has stated Us vorous times for families that are affected or want help do know that the Manhattan cor president's office is
office is hosting a know your rights workshop on Monday March 3rd at 1M 269 Henry Street for more information or to register or watch online please contact the B president's office www enhan bp. nc.gov or Victor or TR assistant can
also help you he has that information families with questions that have Federal policies can also call the mayor's office of immigrant Affairs there is a legal support hotline 1 1800 354 0365 the sure the whole the whole thing
okay the families with questions about Federal policies we call the mayor's office of immigrant Affairs there's a legal support hotline hotline I'll go a little slower this time sorry for that 1 1800 354 03
65 and to for more information just to go back for the know your rights Workshop you can go to www Manhattan bp. nc.gov it's Monday March 3rd 1M 269 Henry Street I think you can go on on
Zoom but I I don't hold me to that but I think you can go on Zoom the CH also sent out an email on Monday reaffirm reaffirming her support for students who identify as lgq Plus committing to maintaining a safe and supportive environment for all students
she noted that with school-based mental health clinics our Partnerships with community- based organizations and our school counselors and social workers all right uh every student has access to mental health support if you want information please reach out to
lgbtq schools.nyc.gov for more information you can also speak to our superintendent I'm our Deputy superintendent I'm sure they would be happy to point you in any direction that that you need that being said uh I'm going to turn our meeting
over now to the superintendent for his report sorry cig do you mind before we move up your report just for with respect to the CC election since we do have our face Representatives here maybe we could just tell people if you're interested in learning more about the CC elections we have two fa Representatives
sitting up front so you should feel free to reach out to them anytime speak absolutely thank you president slutkin and members of the council hello good evening everyone and also people at home on Zoom
my name is Rebecca Rosado I am the senior director of the governance team at the office of family and Community empowerment at new Public School our office has many charges one of which is
to support and collaborate with CCS um their functions roles and responsibilities as council members and in thought partnership another one of our charges is happening right now we
are doing our elections for all CS there are 36 community and Citywide education councils and all seats are up for election so each C the 32 C's Community
um education councils and the four Citywide education councils which include the council for high schools the council for English language Learners the council for special education and the council for district
75 are all up for election if you wish to apply and you are the parent or guardian of a child in New York City Public Schools the application deadline closes tomorrow Thursday February 27th
so please if you need support we ask that you connect primarily with the parent coordinator at your child fol if you are having technical issues also connect with your district offices and
ultimately you can also connect with us at elections 2025 at schools . nc. UV my name is Rebecca Rosado 11:59 p.m. the deadline closes
tomorrow 11:59 p.m. so please encourage anyone who has an interest also please visit New York City School's website where there's more information and if you have questions or are having technical issues please do not hesitate to reach out again my name is Rebecca
rosalo and my colleague here Ena piki we are here to support for it and if you have any questions you can reach out to us and if we don't have an answer we'll try and get answer thank you so much I just want to thank you I I just want to request that we not blow bubbles
in here and it's not doing it because of me I'm just trying to be respectful we're guests we're visitors here and then it becomes this the chair has become sticky the the custodian has to come in trying to not request add more work to the custodians so thank you I it's it's solely for that reason thank
you okay um thanks so much everybody for having me thank you Council for the opportunity to present um I will keep it relatively short since I had such a long opening um I wanted to begin by sharing a few data that pertain to our district
currently uh we are continuing to uh enroll about 21 22,000 00 students in our district 2,000 of them are students of temporary housing 4,100 students with disabilities 2400 students who are English language Learners or multilingual Learners um we serve about
550 students in our 3K and 3K programs and we just open three new prek classes uh for students with disabilities at the tech slip school that are a part of our district two pre Center so we're very excited about that uh we have maintained
about a 93% attendance rate this year with 20% of students who are chronically absent throughout the year that attendance has fluctuated a little bit with 96% being the highest week of attendance so far this week this year
and we have had a week in which we uh saw about 80% attendance earlier this year these are un audited unofficial numbers but they are roughly pretty close um uh 80% week was the uh week of
January 20th um we have some additional climate vishes uh that we want to take a look at so far these are goals that we are working toward reducing suspensions increasing uh positive climate in our schools uh we have seen a reduction of
the number of level four and five those are the most serious incidences that occur in our schools seen a reduction of those by 44 and a reduction of 39 princial suspension so far this year seen a very small increase in superintendent suspensions but overall a
reduction of uh 27 uh 24% production and suspensions uh districtwide uh there are seven more incidences of students who have expressed self harm or incidences of suicidal ideation in comparison to
last year at this time earlier uh right before the uh February break we had one of our school Spotlight visits at PS 59 it's very exciting they did uh a lot of work around their math initiative they've adopted a new curriculum over
the past couple of years uh it was a a great event because the kids really led the work um they presented us as visitors both uh members of the district team PTA members of uh ps59 uh as well as members of Our Community Education
Council and our president's Council uh they gave us uh run for our money with a couple of challenging problems uh and it was really exciting to see their work and see how kids from age kindergarten through fifth grade were really making sense of
matics um as uh CC president Tom uh sunin mentioned we have had three uh workshops focused on the NYC reads and uh initiative and the adoption of wh wisdom back in January uh we had a
presentation that was shared in which uh several folks from several schools including PS1 ps150 uh and the spru street school all share their experiences with uh the work we are going to have another one of those uh this Friday which I'll go into
a little bit more the one in January was centered on assessments and so we really got to see of have a look into what it means uh for kids and what it feels like for kids to be experiencing this curriculum and for teachers to be planning that curriculum uh in our
schools uh as I mentioned uh this Friday uh and we record all of these workshops and make them available to all of our families um they're on the district 2 website as well as the CDC website we also blast them out to families uh via email this Friday is really going to
Center on the writing regression uh the writing profession thinky about how kids from age kindergarten through eth I'm sorry kindergarten through 5ifth are advancing in their writing while kids from the beginning of the year to the middle of the year um are developing their writing and what the assignment
and casts look like for kids we're going to hear uh principles and assistant principles coaches and teachers from ps124 ps343 and ps59 um so we're excited about that
again information about that Workshop is available on the CDC and District 2 website it is uh via zoom and again we'll make for recoring available to everyone around the middle of the year we start to look at our District comprehensive comprehensive education
plan uh that is aligned with the Chancellor's priorities I'm pulling out just one of those priorities right now because I want to share a little bit of data that are connected to uh that priority uh at the start of the school year Chancellor Banks and then adopted Now by Chancellor Ros has adopted these
uh priorities including priority number three all students have a high quality Meemic experience in our district the goals and action plan are centered on me mathematics uh and so what we want to do is share a little bit about how it is that we approach our goals towards in
mathematics uh essentially what we are doing is we are working to build multi-tiered systems of support skills basically the skills of our teachers to be able to support students performing at all grade levels uh in the general education classroom as well as layer in
uh special opportunity for students who are working above grade level and students who are approaching grade level in mathematics um so far uh we are also taking a look at um the reports that teacher that principles are using to evaluate
teachers uh so that we can learn a little bit more about how principles are communicating these curricula and expectations around that work with their teachers so far in our district um as a a snapshot into the work the beginning
of the year we had about 73% of our students were performing at average a high average or an exceeding uh performance that we would expect at that time um in comparison to grade level expectations uh in the middle of the
year that number has moved up to 77% of students who are meeting or exceeding the expectations that we have the year and we're hoping to that that number continues to grow uh this is on a a screener uh uh tool it's not a full
assessment of how students are performing but just a snapshot of how students are doing at the beginning of the year middle of the year and then we'll give it again at the end of the year um again looking at these different layers I just want to that was just for
yeah uh looking again at this multi-tiered systems of support I just want to point out this layered set of triangles over here on the right essentially what we're saying with this layering of triangles uh layering of tier one tier two and tier three work is
that we want all students to have access to grade level Core Curriculum but then we also recognize that about 20% of students need R something special uh in tier two and an additional 5% of students need something special in tier
three um so these are skills of working to build up amongst our school leadership and our teachers around this whole system of mul tier syud and support so that we can support our diverse student body here in District
as I mentioned we have opened three new uh pre classrooms at the Tex school that are a part of our district 2 3K Center uh these classes are centered on supporting our students with disabilities um we have two classes that are size eight that are supported by a
teacher and teaching assistants and one class that is uh a size six class six students in the class one teacher and two Care Professionals these students have a full day of school we're very excited to be able to offer this resource um to all of our students and
expand opportunities for our students with disabilities our youngest students with disabilities uh they have a full day of school that's complete with both academic and enrichment activities um we're just excited to see this grow uh both this year and in the year to
come and as mentioned by our face team here um we uh the application for cc has been has expanded uh to additional dates um if you want to use that QR code you have that QR code works if you wanted to
look up some information um I will say that uh we do will have a date of uh April nth as one date for our candidate forums but uh due to the number of folks who have applied for cdc2 we are now at three different dates that we're going
to be looking at for uh the candidate forums so uh those dates will be published um once they're finalized by our GTA presidents uh the president Council who will will run those candidate fors I did want to share a little bit uh
of an update in regard to non-local law enforcement people have asked a lot of questions in regard to uh law enforcement that is not a part of New York City we talk about um ice uh coming to schools please know that this policy
has not changed um in New York City essentially uh we have been doing a lot of work around training our school safety agents our office staff our parent coordinators and our school leaders around the policy and how it is that we inct with non local law
enforcement should they enter our building essentially we ask them to step out of the building and provide us with any kind of Pap work that they might need or that they might have on hand uh some search warrant arrest warrant um we
asked them to again step out of the building and we then contacted our senior field Council a team of Boyers that work on behalf of New York City Public Schools uh some that those of that legal council can support our school leadership should this ever
happen this has not happened in our district or in our city uh to our knowledge and um we want to make sure that uh our team is uh well prepared with the knowledge uh of how to handle the situation should
interrupts um our Chancellor also Chancellor Supply just sent a letter to the community uh in which she reaffirmed support for our lgbtq plus Community um as a part of that as a part of that that letter uh
she did include some links to U the web pages for uh how it is that um both school-based staff teachers uh and families can expect uh gender expansive transgender gender do conforming kids to
participate in physical education and PE classes essentially this line here uh here at the bottom transgender and gender expensive students must be given the same opportunities to participate in physical education and um also just the the uh bottom line
here too to participate in uh inter mural and other sports activities so this was uh she sent a letter this was hyperlink into the letter if you can see it listed up specifically if you clicked on the link this is what you um and again just looking ahead to a few
dates uh that are coming up here um we have again our Workshop this Friday for NC reads and wisdom we have conferences for families in March uh school is closed for e aler and uh we also have
spring break and uh as CC president suin mentioned um we do have the opening of our summer Rising programs um those are are opening on March 4th it is a full day of school uh excuse me full day of programming uh the morning is academic
the afternoon is enrichment that is provided by our f ners with the ycd the Department of Youth and Community Development um those programs are going to be held at U PS2 ps6 ps111
ps13 no any uh right here ps13 uh and the PEX School the Roso Island School Ms 131 Eastside middle school and 75 Mor um again you can look up summarizing on our New York City Public Schools website for
more information again that opens on March 4th and um if you encounter uh a full program there you find that one of the programs is full uh you should continue to reach out because those spes do open up um throughout the summer
and with that I will just thank you and take any questions thank you I'll start off thank you so I'll start off with a question that sound familiar to you um on the
attendance have you looked at we've had this conversation so it's it's more for the council and for the audience have you looked at for attendance chronic chronic absenteeism what is absenteeism
because kids are sick kids are having issues coming in for other reasons or versus kids are are taking extra vacations you know there there's
instead of instead of a five day vacation they're taking an eight day vacation or what have you have you looked into that and then the second thing I'm going to ask um is what are you doing at a school by school level so I I know and we've talked about this and I know you know about this at my school
one of the things that they've done and it's actually had a considerable amount of success is if somebody is chronically absent they buddy them up with that person with the family up with someone from the school a fault team member not not other parents and they open the lines of communication what can we do
how can we support you and that's had very good success what are you doing across the district to get that because absenteeism is been on a lot of levels and there's reasons for it you don't want to send kids school and sick I understand that I I totally get that as a parent I don't want my kids to be in
if they're not comfortable either if they're sick but when a kid is not in school a kid is not learning right so uh and that's not you know that's not going to be so so what are you doing on that than yeah um I will just I'm gonna we have two Deputy superintendents they
both fantastic uh one of them is out of the office today Dr Richie Higgins um but uh be superintending Kelly Shen here I'm actually let her answer question um I will ask her she actually does lead um our
attendance team and um but I will just Define pic absenteeism as uh a as 10% of student is absent 10% or more of the time than they are considered rically absent but um
Shandon thank you so much um first I want to say that this is multifaceted problem that we face and so we take each case student by student family by family and so something that you refer to Craig that we work across our SC both with our
attendance coordinator as well as the deputy superintendent we attendance teams that are established at every school they required to have them and what we look for is what are the underlying causes for these absences so that we are not making assumptions about
as to why they are happening once we've that identification word partnering which families to understand how might we mitigate the barriers that potentially exist or causes Behind These absences and they are range I can share a few that we've addressed sometimes the
barrier that exists is a relationship to access to Medical Care and there's ongoing chronic illness that a child is facing and so often those absences relate to needing emergency care and consecutive days out and so how are we
connecting families to resources Health Professions medical field that can provide ongoing care so we can have students in school as often as possible in some cases issues are around um travel hardship trying to get
children to multiple School sites and so some of the ways in which we directly address this I want to talk at a granual level when we know those causes we can reach out to families and we can make a plan student by student family by Family it might be something um in the range of
just understanding several families when we um had these one-on-one conversations and be buddied up um sometimes were hesitant to send their child to school late and be like we want your child to come to school we understand come in if they're coming in at nine o'clock we
still want you to come into the building and we're going to make the most of the day and then we can continue to build on those plans in addition sometimes chronic absentees about um housing in security and movement for children and for families and having to
work on arrangements for getting children to school and starting over again to think about who can bring my child back and forth and what is the access we have to both early drop off as well as after school activities and so we work with our school communities to
ensure that to every extent possible where it is feasible what's early drop off we can have early breakfast come in at this time you don't have to wait for regular arrival time and if we can connect you to our CBO and our after school activities and we can provide the
additional child care needed for many families um that we have can extend the school day from upwards to 6m as many of our school uh communities to um last but not least some of the other issues that come up around um I want to be really
mindful I think sometimes there's an assumption it's about extended vacations that is r and I will Advocate now that outside of the regular of CA um uh issues that we face that I will implore everyone as a parent myself that the taking off before and after a holiday
does affect the number of um opportunities your children have to experience the amazing amazing education they're getting but when we do talk about CA we have worked really diligently as a district team to work with every single um attendance team at
the school level we meet month by month we track pretty much week by week where attendance is at what are we seeing as changes and then I want to just shout out that school commun of trying to understand Rec cause that that is starting to grow
in that initiative across our district to really talking to the our families affected absenteeism and then what are we doing to partner with them um to support and Advocate and bring children into school as often as possible so
that's um kind of the work that we're do sorry sorry I have a followup which sorry get off easy now I just want to add that um I've been do a lot of
forsen gonna come out soon um it's it's really it's very important to understand they extend vacations for you chronically absent be% days so it's like one day that's not like taking two days
on so it's yeah and C wide the ex rate is now around one of kids um the latest that just came out the spe and so I think that uh you know we're doing better this so I just
want forget about you one follow on that one of the things you said is if they have to stay late for an after school program you'll work with them a lot of the I don't know if it's a majority but I know there are a number of schools in our district that the after school program is basically an outside
contractor it's not a doe program like if after uh imagin or whoever so you have to pay for that right it's not so what would happen in that case does the doe step in or for scholarships how would that work because a lot of our schools seemly don't have doe after
school programming that's a school by school basis as much as we'd like to have every school have um free after school much like the Middle School initiative that took place we'd love to see that come to Elementary that is um so in Middle Schools um several years back I can't remember which year it was
there was a major initiative request New York City from the um York City public school system to offer um CBO Partnerships where middle school students would not pay to attend after school programs and to expand those offerings to bring our students back
into the school building after school build those social relationships and those opportunities to Play and Learn together in elementary school it is often school by school we work really well with all of our school leaders I'm looking over
at um to not only get uh programs where they families do have to pay but are there sliding scales can we find other organizations are their grant program so often through city council sometimes programs come in through our city council grants and it might be for 12 weeks but for those 12 weeks it is a
program that we do not have to our families do not have to pay for and we look very carefully how can we match those programs to the needs of individual families within this whole Community thank you um I think Sarah's question about this topic so you're not the hook yet sorry
sah sorry on at all okay cool um somewhat related um there is a um shelter that is closing on March 20th um and there are families that are um impacted by that and um it
just know public assistance so I see these families come in they're pulling their children out of school as well because they're scared to come to an appointment without their child because they're worried I will take them or their children so but I'm also concerned about obviously with the shelter change um and their access to school our
school's being provided support some school counselors and and parent coordinators to help them navigate finding a new shelter and ensuring transportation from another Perman town to wherever the school is who we work closely with um our student
contemporary housing coordinator and we know something like this is happening we work with that individual school um and we work through what we can potentially offer some families will choose to want to stay even when they go to a new location some
families that that barrier becomes too great and we want to make sure that transition is as um smooth as possible and so how can we reach out to the new school can we make sure everything is sort of transferring over but from our perspective we work with the individual
school and we work with families to think about so what will you need now if you you want to keep your child in the school you want that consistency what's the travel hardship that might ENC is this a bustling situation is this providing Metro uh it's not Metro cards
any Omni cards thank you modern Omni cards um as well as are there other resources that now might be needed so again that becomes very uh nuanced in terms of making sure we're speaking with the individual families and understanding what their hopes and
wishes are so our school social workers are tapped into a condent of resources amongst each other and to the extent that's within our sphere of control then we will be able to get offer that guidance um if it's something that's out of our guidance we don't have the information
that we then go back to um our different U the aison we work with and say does anyone else have this information and in addition it's always something that we strive to do is to connect back to Community Resources so it might not be within the New York City public school system but we might reach out to local
elected officials or other groups that we know of in the community and say how might we get this information this is what our families are requesting and asking in need go ahead so my question is related to the attendance rates and is also related to um I think to Sarah's question
is we we know that we saw the attendance rates like districtwide and we also saw before that there are um about about 10% of our our students were students in temporary housing but we also know that those students are tend to be kind of concentrated in in certain schools that there are certain schools with like 30
or more percent of students of temporary housing in their student enrollment so I'm wondering with those schools that haveing populations of students in temporary housing have we seen like bigger um ATT drops like sort of in the last in the
last month or five weeks don't have that specific data what we can say from what we observed um I think it was the third week of January we saw a significant drop in attendance particularly in school communities where there was a large population of students
at temporary hous um we worked really quickly um to then go back to attendance teams and say we might have like a conjecture as to why that's happening let's see if we understand that and then can we do
more Outreach and so we had to double our efforts on Outreach with the within the school community no um I don't need to C of them we'll come back to you we did just lose Forum we're down to six voting members as a result we will not be able
to take a vote tonight vote on the resolutions tonight yes sorry Daniela has been coughing on just so you know just for you Daniela has been okay Danielle has been coughing on me
most of the night so she it's I don't actually I don't know you hear yeah sorry we don't take it doesn't work we don't take T questions for the audience sorry sorry uh my apologies I
I'm here I I can't speak for the others so okay are there any other questions for the superintendent from the council lens do you have a question time okay can I ask a question to our president and um I just want to
understand the procedural effect of this are we going to table those three resolutions and they will just carry over to the next meeting how does this work that's actually a good question um uh they they I believe they would be
tabled oh I believe they would automatically be taed but in any but but we hadum started the meeting either way we don't if you don't have a quorum you you can't you can't move to table the resolution so you can vote on the
resolution you can vote on them all right I I have a couple questions we're continue with the superintendent report we have a few death questions for the superintendent super superintendent mire yeah super require a
couple couple questions um so superintendent McGuire the first I have a couple questions for you the first question is I see before you put that there were 2,000 students in temporary housing for our district can I ask you
what percentage of those are you aware of on migrant students most recent updated number uh the question was just uh the question was of the 2,000 students that are living in temporary housing how many of those students uh might be students from
family seeking Asylum we don't track that number we don't uh track students as um students seeking Asylum we just know that number um what I can say is that uh you know prior to our student School our schools serving and
supporting students and families seeking Asylum um that we had about, 1500 kids I'm sorry we had about 500 uh kids in our schools that were do we have excuse me do we have we have can I ask the school security staff
we have someone that's come on stage can they please remove that person please excuse me can I I I I I have a question so so just so we're clear so the most
recent number that you're aware is probably 500 students no I I don't know the number uh super McGuire before this meeting we didn't discuss any questions that I was going to ask you anything like thatting
we did not okay um you're familiar with resolution 248 are you not 248 248 I am okay as I'm sure everyone in this room I have a question couple quick questions for you um as far as you are aware of has the Department of Education taken
affirmative actions on resolution to war actions I mean the U the former Chancellor Chancellor Banks came out in opposition uh vocally uh against resolution 248 at um a Citywide meeting I guess that
was in May thank you very much in May of last year uh yes he did make a public statement and have you seen any indication that the uh recommendations made in that resolution have been implemented in any way shape manner or form either in District Two part of the city
yeah no okay I have a question sorry um so so my question um for General McGuire is um does the rate of chronic absenteeism among cc2 members exceed the rate of chronic absenteeism among District two
students hey that one I don't have clear data yeah I see the sheets okay I I think we know the answer to that question um it's a pretty significant um difference but um and so my other question is I guess building on bren's question is has our curent
Chancellor Melissa abos made any statement or taken any action in respect I mean specifically directly about resolution 24 um in the letter that she published this week uh she airm support for lgbtq plus uh
individuals students teachers and families um she did uh she did link to policies and practices that we as um New York City public school staff um are intended to follow she not mention
resolution 248 in that letter that is the public statement that I think relates most closely to this res I am familiar with for Education policy you agree with me that that's the largest um I guess administrative organization that runs the Department of
Education in New York or the let's say the highest Authority happens at the okay the highest Authority Chancellor attends the and there's a pet meeting tonight okay nothing further are there any other questions from the from there were some questions right so
all right there were some questions about voting so first of all in terms of a meeting if people leave the meeting still continues meeting continues uh however however when you don't have a forum the effective okay when you don't
have a Forum present and it requires a certain if if if people get interrupt they just won't I just won't address it actually just somebody if they have to be present at the time of the vote you can't vote and say I'm gonna vote this way for later in it's not allowed
that state law so are there any further questions are there are there any further questions for the superintendance okay I no further questions
no no no further questions for the superintendent but I think if your position is that we do not take a vote because there is no Quorum I think that it is due respect to the audience to take an informal vote that will not
count for and whereby every council member who is here to State their position on the record for all people that showed up today thank you there is there is no informal vote okay first of
all okay first first of all we're not even at that point yet because in the agenda just so you everyone knows in the agenda there is a discussion of um uh there was the discussion of resolutions and that's after the report of committees so we might even at that
point we're still going to discuss resolutions I don't know where they are right now no stop for a minute so so what's the next we have the speak we had the uh superintendent's report we have my
report are there any reports from committees okay I think I think the easiest way to solve this is just want to give your I can't hear son I can't just I can't hear you it's not that I'm ignoring
you is that better yes yeah I think the simplest way to resolve this and G write by this community is why don't we just go down the line and express whether we would vote yes no or on this resolution and frankly I think people are really just concerned and interested in your
and lens vote so maybe satisfy them and tell them what we do yeah so so can we commit to doing that so that people okay I don't care about the order everyone's saying but make the commitment okay so discussion of
resolutions we'll start off with resolution sorry my think front me resolution 268 resolution calling on the New York City Department of Education to standardize grading rubrics across schools are there any comments
Len okay so on resolution number 268 I have had children that have attended approximately five district two schools so I'm just going to give you a real world example of what I've seen in terms of how parents react uh based on the
perception of certain schools being harder grades certain schools being easier uh because it affects the admissions process and it affects how people app to certain schols so my experience has been I'm not saying I advocate this in any way shape or form
but I know for a fact I've seen this and I've heard parents discussed this with me is uh you have elementary schools that um have parents that know that certain schools in our district tend to be more rigorous than now I don't know
if superintendent sta agree with that what I will say is there's a perception that certain schools are harder than other schools and that can be for a lot of different reasons and I have actual knowledge of parents that specifically
have chosen not to send their kids to schools that are perceived as being more difficult or shter because they think that will give them an advantage in the high school ad process now I consider that absolutely crazy and I consider it absolutely nuts I don't endorse it or
condone it or supported in any way shape matter or form I will tell you it is a real thing that has occurred I have seen it I've spoken to people I know that it actually happens so when we talk about trying to standardize rubrics I know one of the speakers tonight a couple but
first all very passionately about in opposition to this I can tell you that we need to try to do a better job standardizing things because if we don't you're going to have situations like this where people are going to choose to send kids to certain schools because the perception that someone needs at all I
think you should send your child to the school that's the best fit for them that's going to challenge them the most and I think that's the most important consideration I think people should have but in reality that's not that's not what's happening so that's why I am one
of the sponsors for this resolution it's I there's no Al motive here it is not it is really just to try to standardize the things that toally aren't standardized between students and of our district uh and I think it's important to do I think it gives some
sort of across the board standarization to try to level it out so at least someone knows that an a one school should be equivalent to an a another school no motive there's nothing here there's no hi agenda that's what we're
trying to do to avoid those situations which I've seen where parents choose not to send their kids is it on now okay yeah um well I do understand where you're coming from I do think that the notion of uniformity among like very different schools both
culturally and just the student body is like impr practice impossible I think the appeal of some schools so I can say for myself I go to Hunter the appeal of the school was that it was more difficult the the culture was more rigorous right and what might be
suitable for me might not be suitable for the next person and I think with that and I can talk about this in terms of like AP Flores and stuff like that with different cultures at schools there's going to be different um levels of rigor there's be different greeting and I think that um it's kind of unfair
and dismissive of the academic culture at schools to impose like a standardized grading um just because of different teachers different students and different expectations I don't think that that's an inherently negative thing and that's something that's very inherent in the schooling process that
there are some schools that are regarded as higher and lower and that's you can't really change the status with a rubrick hi sorry so I was also just wondering about this because obviously like I understand what you're saying
but saying like students learn in different ways different teachers use different types of my experience as school student know 12th grade um for example in my school's a six or 12 school so 630 which I know this
counil like PR um so you use a one through seven skill because it's an i school and they want toare students for they're going into kind of into that high school or another IB School um kind of get them ready for that and I really appreciated
that my sister I was in sixth grade and she now seven scale she able to talk to me and be like oh we're gonna can you different school like one through four and also I think like there's been a lot of evidence to show that like standard
bace grading or you have just getting to 100 something like some class ver like kind more beneficial so I'm just curious like how you would do like for the different class like a s versus a math
class verus like an English class have very different kind of different goals that you're trying to reach like Mastery versus skills versus like I guess I was just kind of wondering what the approach would be for that sure well I will just say that in
terms of this particular resolution is Asal in terms of seeing implementation but what I will say is the two of you I know for a fact pretty sure college and I'm pretty sure that um I don't know if either of you both took
like the SATs or the acts and standardized TX there are will World consequences in terms of we don't really have we have the elas we have math tests people opt out of those tests uh and with regard to admissions process I think it is kind of important to at
least aspire to try to have I I agree their schools are different somebody who goes to schooling it's not gonna be the same let's say as there's different things like that but I think that it's not too much to
try to ask at least at of elentary level to try to get some sort of standardization to kind of have an idea some you know where people are and that someone for an example doing an admissions process kind of know okay
this person has these capabilities or those capabilities and and and don't pick specifically thinking so it's aspirational I don't think there's I can't tell you what the is but the problem is we're getting away
from testing because there was discussion standard testing inequitable and that's great but you know you have to have some sort of understanding where kids are whatev of understanding is you what
their capability are and it's just not the same and it's not the same from school to school it's not the same from District to District it's not and we're just trying to be aspirational here say let's try to think understand so so I think the the
speakers that when mentioned that spoke in opposition to this resolution were actually Educators and teachers and the sponsors almost blind obsession with scen schools it's really clouding sort of the
clarity that to which I think they approached this which is completely instructionally and pedagogically unsound and also unwise so if we're taking an informal vote on this unless I'm not sure why you other to propose
this but my vote on this is now um I mean I think the the Educators in the room really said it really well I also teach students that I can't imagine I mean I even have I have like two sections of the same class one is Monday Wednesday one is Tuesday and Thursday and I magic grading exactly the same
across those students they're just different students we talk about different things I'm so glad I'm not you know um boxing to this rubric um I think rubrics are G appropriate for like individual assignment they help scaffolding they help students but I mean it's not um helpful applied across
the whole system and just think about the feasibility of this you can't just hand if we have 80,000 teachers in the new City public school system you can't hand them a rubric and expect them to implement I'm just imagining the the the PD that's going to go into this this is like a multi-million dollar like crazy
PD and it's not even going to work it's totally a possible um so I mean this is just it's not aspirational it's kind of delusional to expect that we can do this so so there
are rubrics I mean I went through the rubric from my son's class last year where where he got his grade so the rubrics do exist but what there is an inherent problem that parents have when they hear that at one Middle School in our district you can retake tests you don't do well your child can retake
tests whereas other school they can't and if you're going to do at one school you should have it at the other school it should be uniform that's not fair to have one versus the other so but it's happening
so so there is you know and and I know it's very interesting to say well Educators say this Educators say that well parents should have a voice and that's what we're here for if there was if if if we're only going to go by strictly what Educators
want there should be no CC there should be no P it should just be the Department of Education parents have concerns and they afford it to us Sarah all right there on so um I I I think you lost something in this in this
resolution because I guess I agree you cannot have a standardized um rubric across all these schools there's so many different schools and so many different options and one of the reasons people choose the school they choose is because maybe it's easier M starter and that's the beauty that's why they stay in New
York because of the OBS because of Project based learning because of all these different things if they wanted something standard they'd go move to noville Idaho they'd have you know Jesus teaching everything so that's great do that um I I will say this and it will be
controversial and you know I'll be voting against my friends and and all this stuff but um I'm actually not against the second part you know you do need some level of acknowledgement do I love the fact that they're Advanced um classes and and honors classes no but
they exist and if they are not weighted in in this ridiculous system that we have for tear at great that cause endless anxiety and Trauma for students but do exist then you have people are playing games and and so I do think that that could be you Seer that and it's a
different conversation you cut cut this resolution in half and and you might actually hit the uh the number you need and because I don't know who's going to show up at the next meeting to vote because God knows they don't show up regularly so who the hell knows um they
got stuff to do I don't know run for a fascist leader or whatever so that's awesome for them I'm really stoked so but maybe instead of a pie in the sky thing that doesn't apply across the New York City schools and and and doesn't in
any way respect the teachers some of who are in this room who have degrees in training and years of experience and know way more than any of us up here um maybe we should accept then let them them do their stuff and we say hey let's
have some some supports there but Hors to put separate you know they won't show up no you know I I get what you're saying I I I will just say I I hate to say it but grades grades are a reality
in society I I wish they weren't a lot of things I didn't do very well at um but I can tell you that you know there's a trend and I think there's seeing this in the Department of Education especially at the state level where they're changing regions so they're
they're dropping regions requirements and things like that I get it you know because there's a discussion of is it inequitable there should be different Pathways to graduation but let's not forget there's no question that when you have people for example just looking at
Uni for example when you have a certain percentage of students that need remedial classes because they don't know how to read when they graduate that's problem I'm not saying that's something in District 2 because we're we're in a very high performing District but there are districts that have real serious
issues because you get social promotion you get and there's no there's no um way to ascertain what a student actually Knows by the time they graduate because social promotion they maybe they opt out of tests they don't have any requirements so I I I think we should
kind of try to require you know a standards and a and a uniform set of stand I mean say teachers teach students to read Ru don't teach students to read I just want to SA that thank you for acknowledging me president um and
councel uh I believe that in it is contemplated already in the agenda the discussion of the resolution where you have already expressed your opinions either for or
against it having a vote for it while you are under quum is noted no no this is it's under Robert's Rules of orders we allow to to ask call for a non-binding expression of opinion
I don't think it's fair to say that the discussion section should impute some kind of yes or no opinion I think that the rules are clear Robert's rules are clear around this nonbinding expression of interest um
believe that um you have a parliamentarian is am I am I incorrect in this as a council do you have a parliamentarian former par okay and so is there something in the bylaws that
contemplate for this no and so I'm again going simply by what is in the bylaws and and based on what I'm hearing that there isn't some sort of mechanism to actually po do what you're asking it's
called Robert's Rules of Order Robert's Rules of Order is a is a tone or a book or a set of rules that you can use as reference but it is not the guiding so the bylaws are silent so I mean I knows as president he referred to Robert's
Rules of Order all the time and there was something or some question right mod too I mean I think the council can agree that we can apply Robert's Rules of Order in this situation if they don't it's hypocritical but I think that that is right we don't have a quum so you can't
make a motion article clearly said all procedural questions not covered by these bylaws shall be governed by Roberts Rules of Order if if if we're here let's let's let's C all the PS I am not going to support resolution um
269 I'm going to abstain from that resolution should we should it have come to a vote tonight okay is that satisfying I mean let's just come out and say it we'll discuss 270 when we discuss just try to cut all Bs and just tell you what you want to
know okay so which is do the discussions first that's K discuss 269 does anybody want to speak about 269 okay so I've obviously talked about this before I'm not gonna like go into it again obviously I am not support of
248 um I did also just want to say that obviously this Council has no actual like jurisdiction on any like laws or anything but there is like setting a precedent for the type of red that we're using when we're talking about children um when we're talking about an already
vulnerable group of children I just think it's so important for adults when they're speaking about kids when they're speaking about a group that's already so marginalized especially right now let say government uh not go a tangent but I think it's important to be mindful of
like the Ty like language we're using and like maybe not like laughing with some about suicide rates of trans like that kind of just that kind of I feel like you know kind empathy um as people power as
people that are adults in this world right now um so I just want like clear when we're talking about this in this Council that has no actual like law binding anything but it does come there
are maybe kids watching this there maybe like the audience um I just like to be ful of what you're saying I guess is what I'm trying to say when we're talking about this topic and just like maybe don't laugh or like make comments
or jokes such a serious that's okay anybody else I mean I hope hope that you're not saying we were laughing Shing anything like that okay just want to be just want to be clear about that it's up on the record um because
the individuals here that is we're talking about are not here but I don't know send minutes I don't know that's like um that includes the respect to look at people who are speaking um that includes you know I look at every
speaker whether I love it or not because you know you came came here you know you're not getting paid nor than are but still it's something important to you when you came and I am might not love it but that's what I signed up for so I would really hope that we continue to
reinforce that behavior from our colleagues to look at the speakers okay so so thank you Sarah you know someone was complaining about me on my phone earlier and just just keep in mind people might need to check their phones
for a whole bunch of reasons for example you finish for example tonight for tonight I got a text from can I finish can I finish I've listened to each of you and I have listened to you I got a text me I got a text
message and my caregiver had to so I had let me finish that my caregiver for my son can I finish so I you would like to hear from me people say they want to hear what I want to say but you're not letting me
speak speak so tonight I got a text message from my caregiver I don't know what you just said that okay know my first job and everybody's on here first job is to be
responsible to their child okay let me finish let me finish let me finish so I got a text message from the caregiver for my child for tonight that she had to leave in an emergency and I had to take some text messages to make
sure I could say okay okay okay but I just want to say okay okay okay that's fine but I hope I hope folks think that I am not playing on my phone
Tetris or God knows what else okay okay I cannot speak for other people okay thank you I cannot take people s away now that being said okay that being said okay that being said that being
said I've list to each of you I would appreciate it if you could let me speak okay so okay then I'm then I will not give comment it's fine if you're not going let me speak I will not give comments on 269 we'll go to resolution
270 resolution and OPP I offer to speak you didn't want to listen so resolution 270 resolution and oppositions to Donald Trump's executive order anding so-called radical indoctrination and the support of culturally responsive and sustainable education does anybody wish to speak on
that well I I said I said most of what I I said um you know earlier so I won't try not to repeat that um but I do think that this is this is very important I mean I think um you know part of again I mean speakers have spoken to this tonight part of why we are here is
because of we're in a community that has tremendous like diversity has tremendous like just and it's it's a rich community and it's uh in terms of like terms of people in terms of cultures in terms of ideas and I think that um this executive
order runs very much contrary to that it's it's imposing and it says it's against radical indoctrination but it's radically indoctrinating people with one specific ideology um patriotic education um and you know who's
patriotic education and so I you know I think it's important that we as a council send a message uh opposing that um I also want to just say that um in terms of the discussion we just had I mean our bylaws um also provide under section two that after the third
unexcused absence the president shall shall is that oper word here at the next calendar meeting present resolution declaring a vacy to the chanc so so I I expect our president to sill this
obligation to look at the uh excuse absences and if there is a person on here with more than three with three or more um excuse absences this term to bring this resolution next month please so we're actually on a resolution so I
don't know what call you seg wait to that but so I'm gonna start I'm gonna start by saying I'm on I'm speaking my Resolute would you like to hear what I have to say on 270 or not I I didn't on to the other one so I'm gonna start by saying I am certainly
very concerned about any attempts to block teaching about our history in our culture we're in black history month and I'm so happy our school's talk about black history as I said black earlier black history is American history my son start started a unit on immigration into
the western United States and that's and specifically they're starting to talk about Japanese immigration into the western United States and we've had conversations about that and that's led to discussions about several years later what came later and the horrific treatment of Japanese americ concerning World War II by the American government
we need to have these discussions I have these discussions with my own son my concerns of have the res I do have certain concerns about the resolution from a technical standpoint and this is a small technical thing the resolution directs schools to do things we we can't have the word I don't think we should
have the word direct because it's not in our power we can urge demand recommend this is a minor point it's it's one word but I just wanted to bring that up we can urge we can recommend cool we can't direct principales don't schools don't report to us but since the resolution
has come out I've heard from a number of Jewish families who've had a number of concerns yes there are elements of all of these programs that are fine very important very useful but there are also places that have been in the minds of many Jewish families a very biased view that promoted
anti-semitic sentiments there's a whole report that discusses this it raised questions of compliance with regs 830 and 832 whether some of these instructional materials led to Jewish students being made to feel marginalized or targeted one specific example is a
teacher in Brooklyn showing a map of the Middle East that simply erased Israel completely questions have come up over who's funding these programs there have been toolkits developed by educator groups
that were used to for students to attend rallies rallies and of course students can be activists students can attend rallies but it concerns me when tool kids are developed for rallies where the battlecry is f to chws and that did happen so I don't think questioning what
we I thank you so I don't think questioning what we do would be a say and perhaps this resolution can be worked on to incorporate all of that when I say the word truthful but I know about all these other issues that I've experienced and many families have
experienced me about I simply get very concerned so I am not I am not against the resolution in principle but I think it needs a lot of work to address these issues so thanks um I'm a Jewish family and I don't have any issues with it I have a
lot of issues with the executive orders um I have a lot of issues with the fact the executive orders are coming from a person who is run by a billionaire who throws Nazi salutes that's what we should be concerned
about that's what scares me as a Jewish person and if you know me you know saying that I'm a Jewish person is not something I say with there excuse me sir like a little respect thanks thanks um
so lost my training just a little angry um I I don't think that taking a hard line against um fascism against um the behavior of erasing the history of genocide um we have a mayor I also you
know my family's Armenian too the mayor just won't talk about the Armenian Genocide when's that coming up I think that we have a major issue with the woman who spoke here who talked about the beauty of what New York is is is saying that we need to protect that and this is one way to protect that to give
our kids that and if you cannot handle these difficult conversations with your children then you need to take some parenting classes a lot of the schools offer them on difficult conversations and it has not been easy I have made missteps my children have said things
because they have about um issues in their family's past and they've said things that have been hurtful to their friends but we have to have those difficult conversations because that is what is part of being in this community in the in New York City and in America and that's what's
important to me and if we cannot make that stand as a powerless group of parents then what the hell are we doing I mean this is disturbing I I don't I'm not familiar with what was talking about but what I will say is I
think it's pretty obvious from the discussions that we've been having and the rhetoric that's contained in the in the resolution that there's a lot of passion um involved there's no question about it and I and I I get that if I'm willing to take if I was to take it in
from Power uh I I'm willing to I'm willing to to which I'm not going to but I would suspect that if you took a the audience I think most people would probably but it will says they do have difficulty with with the langu can't necessarily be worked out last time I
think this is be the resolution was floating about another CC 133 so I I have some I have some issues with it um I'll just say it with that um you know let me just say this you know
we we're here and somehow and I think this is unfortunate to happen with cc2 to begin with I we become kind of a foil for everyone to direct their their their anger their hatred their concerns their their disagreements towards whoever is either left on the stage which we're
here right or we become the foral district who the fall for for society in general for the Trump Administration for all the things that are all the things that are wrong with the world and and I'm fine with that I'm fine with that it's okay it's okay and I'm willing to
try to discuss things with people and try to you know try to reason with them and and I get it and I've tried to do that but if you don't but you know what I tried I I
tried I'm not here to you know s I'm yeah and I I have to say I was very sorry let me finish and Jessica I'll get to you I really think right so so let let me so that that's exactly who I was going to reiterate Jess and I don't want to I think we can
have offline I don't want to rewrite things now but that's what what I said just now is I was willing to work on it and I've gotten comments from the audience and comments on the on here that basically are saying that I'm not
you're saying anti-semetic is not you're not GNA tell me what I feel is anistic and I'm not GNA tell you and I'm not and I and I'm not telling you everybody has to decide for themselves okay but I but I was I am willing I said I was
willing to work and I still get CR we get we get criticized I think Len might say might be willing to do the same thing that I want to speak for him and we're still getting criticized we're trying to work with you it's um it's it's okay for people to
criticize us it's very okay and I have listened I have the um I have listened to people speak I mean I've listened to people call me a racist in these Mee communist whatever but I still I still look them in the eye
and I listen to them um and so I think that's important and to to L's point it's not that just that we are for I came to these meetings since starting in about 2020 um like shortly before things sh down from pandemic came in person and
then I was here online and then I finally ran from the seat I came because I was really really angry at the way you Len and others on this Council representing my kid and other kids and I'm not now the IEP parent member in
this Council and I heard so many people in this Council just disrespecting students with disabilities and that's why I came and because I was mad because I was mad at you guys because you guys trashed people that I love and respect I
was also mad that that I have the mic um I was also mad mad that um people were um I thought there were many parents I knew who felt like they were not welcome here I talked to parents I talked to parents particularly I want to say particularly black parents I want to say
particularly like wear parents parents who felt that that this was not a space they were safe uncomfortable and they didn't want to come here and you know I think that we should we should understand that and we should do something better and I came here because
I wanted to make this Council something better than what it was and what it was and what it still is by and large is a council that spits in the face of our kids of our parents it it represents a very small group of of of parents and it
and it just basically tells the others to go piss off and I don't like that at all and so that's why I'm here I'm not here because of a foil I'm here and you know let the very first meeting you told me don't take things personally how do I not take personally when people disrespect like my family my community I
take that very personally and that's why I'm here uh it's 9:35 we need to be out in probably 10 probably 10 minutes or so um how many people do we have on
this okay so Victor see I I'm seeing how many we have we have to be out at a certain time I I can't say to the school safety agents you have to stay I can't do that we don't have per I think we're going to limit it to a
minute for person because we two minutes then we have Clifford andand candra um thank you everybody um I we've heard so much about the bylaws I want to take a minute and what Gavin said in
section two of the cc2 bylaws says it's the responsibility of each council member to attend all regularly scheduled calendar and working business meetings of the council um and any council member who fails to extend to attend three regularly scheduled C their meetings per
term without a valid excuse um dictates his or her office or their office by refusal to serve under New York State education law 259 um and after the third unexcused pass president shall um at the next calendar meeting
present the resolution declaring a vacancy to the canselor um I'm a teacher so I'm pretty good at taking attendance for th for those of you who are in the chat um and for those of you can see it as I hand it up from here um three has missed fours this term um Alison has
missed four Daniela has missed three Charles has missed four and has missed three um so if there's errors in your minutes which is where all this data came from um please let us know and you can prend your B next time but otherwise
I would expect and as the by law say the president shall introduce the should to remove them for next time thank you thank you all for being here and thank you for all staying here I have heard from parents I want to
speak to something Gavin just said I have heard from parents who do not come to these meetings because they are scared that moms for Liberty is going to out their trans kids
okay that is one of the reasons why there aren't as many parents here okay and why we need our allies I also want to say when trans kids feel safe all kids feel safe and Len I just want to speak to you
specifically okay you intimated that the CC Council this district has no actual power right do you intimate it oh but we have to ask like where's the real power in here okay and one of our students
said there is power in language right okay I want to bring back the student who suicided from art design high school okay I met the dad of this kid at a holiday party and if you could look in his eyes
and see the depth of pain would you still vote I abstain that is what I want to know hey I just wanted to respond um to what was said about resolution
270 about anti-Semitism this is in order to you opposition to Donald Trump's executive order anding so-called radical indoctrination this is about black history this is not about anti-Semitism
can we not for once support black history in schools and just draw a fine line and just be super firm that we stand in support of the fact that that we need to have black
history in schools and that's all it's about it's not about anything else and when you say that it's about anti-Semitism you are echoing the ideology of Donald Trump all right it's not about that it's just
about teaching history okay our next speaker is ril Le and then we have Joe V and then August we have it looks like here okay next Jo
okay I'm here to support resolution 248 and let's be clear on what resolution 248 is it would allow for the research of the impacts of having biological males compete with biological females in sports the research and that's what
these people have all come out against the research and they're just virtue signaling and they're baby bullies so let's not plate these baby bullies and the hypocrisy of some of the people on
this panel like Lila is astounding because when you were talking about people smiling at suicides of what you call Trans children you were smiling and the other thing I need to mention is that the Big Money Maker here is the
medical farmal industry because each person who gets on the medical Mar Maro round for a so-called trans medicalization the medical Pharma industry makes at least $1 million and this is my final
comment my final comment please before people can legally consent to sex they can have these medicalization procedures AUST good ideology is believe it or not for children what represents is the right to
autonomy Freedom identity self-actualization and safety which is always represented and section 24 stands in opposition to children's rights which is an entire document on both the rights of children and one of those rights in that do is
the right to sa play spes with sa adults which this violates viol I minut uh that's all I wanted to say because I okay next we have Nancy marado
followed by Frankie T and Holly so do we have n you can speak twice okay all Frankie Des it doesn't what's your question what's your question okay
we you're interrupting the public speaking session please you're interrupting the public speaking Nancy marado Frankie Des all the way back in 2008 there was research there was research that said
standardized teting is harmful to Student Health in 2013 that was reaffirmed out of University of Michigan because I give my resources and fight my my St you know okay so again you have following research that says in 2019 and in 2022 out of both University of
Michigan Arizona State and California that talks about the harmfulness of standardized testing as a parent I recognize you're insecure because you want to have control over your student that's great we need to trust the educated professional teachers that have multiple degrees that are Ser you have a
place at the table as a parent one of the things you're like oh what are they going to get tested on Project based learning is non-standardized set that allows to meet all of the standards in our state allows for diverse Learners we want to reach our IP students we can reach students with 504 physical
disabilities emotional distresses all of these things are important Project based learning does that we do not need standardized tests we do not need to harm our students without the resources able to give them again I expectations without resources is abuse
and our last speaker is going to be Holly Holly H I am aent of two kids who as far as I know are here as a former member of a c i served on CC District 22 for two
years it was the co years it was really hard because I was like home all day with my kids and they were making and I like try to sit down zoom and I to like text like husband was
downstairs and making like super and I know that you would rather be SP inting discussing other things I haven't like Tak a St for
example but that most of the folks here also thank you so much to respect your time to respect time I want you to remove the members of your Council per your bylaws as we had to on District 22 for someone who just stopped showing up
and it was a bummer and we all liked her we felt really bad about it but it's what you have to do when someone isn't doing their job you can do this okay so uh that's the end of the second public speaker session as we have discussed we cannot take a vote tonight
is not it would not be appropriate uh we cannot approve the Amendments we review the amends I know there was one comment on it we to let over for next month uh as there're already new business go ahead G
so the new business since you objected to it you didn't understand why I brought it up at that moment um is the um the the bylaws the requirement under the bylaws for president to introduce a resolution at the next meeting about the asking the chancellor about the removal
of of the members who have more than the the the um more than the designated number of ABS so I want to know um our Council president's plan to implement that um you know requirements yeah I mean I have to look
at the attendance and there were a number of them that were excused absence they were excused absences as you as you probably know under the uh New York state of meetings law if somebody gives an excuse I can't to them they say they're sex I I don't it's not appropriate to ask for a doctor's notice somebody gives me an excuse we have
given them um given them uh excusals I think most people on this Council got an excusal I think Gavin you and I probably have not because I I have been to every meeting I think really only two uh so I have to look at the numbers and you will file the bylaws according um it's I I
just want to add that that this shouldn't be an issue because it's in the minutes we voted out the minutes and so the minutes record whether the absence is they do I don't have every minute from the past two years year and a half in front of me I will do that okay I'm point out the facts that
that that helped me just a little bit just so I'm not trying to be biased but I just want to point out in fact that the decision on what is an excuse absence actually comes from the president I was they were kind enough to give me an excuse absence when the night before my I'm not trying to make you go all on the night before the meeting my
cat died and so see I'm not trying to do it it sucks I you're rest in peace um but I did appreciate that and that's that's the humanity so I do I do want to point out as he as the president's reviewed this and they go through what's been excused and unexcused that is at
their discretion yes did the discretion help me sure well sorry there there is discretion but I mean it's not like I you can say I didn't I didn't feel likeing I mean they're all parameters and I just want to add I just want yeah excuse me I just want to add S I just
want to say that as the for president you know whenever somebody even have the slightest you know justifications fine and and and you know and that's yeah just add this there are certain yeah yeah and and when there's also
privacy issues and there privacy issu okay um okay so we have we have to get we have we required to have the business meeting so we're going to adjourn this meeting I need to do and we will adjourn
this meeting meeting can we do a roll call for the working business meeting thank you so we'd like to be respectful we would like to be respectful to the school security agent and to our host who needs to be out in in eight minutes and we
have to clean it up so we need to do this gav Char Jessica so we will adjourn the working business meeting thank you everybody