Good afternoon and welcome to the APRIL 22nd Oakland Board of Education meeting. Um MR. Rakeestar, can we have a roll call to establish Quorum? On the roll call to establish quorum, student director Simmons. Student director Smith. Director Lauder. Director Williams Director Hutchinson Director Barry Director Thompson, PRESIDENT Vice PRESIDENT Bachelor. PRESIDENT Brohart here forum present. Thank you and MR. Hollis, can we have a interpretation check, please. Uh, yes, MADAM PRESIDENT, uh, for tonight s meeting, we have
3 languages available for live interpretation. They are Cantonese, Arabic, and Spanish. We also have a translation closed Captain Future available on Zoom that you can use by clicking the closed caption feature on your Zoom taskbar. With that, we will move on to announcements of live interpretation. We will start with Cantonese, I will lower all attendeess hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced, which at this time is Cantonese. And I will ask MISS Ho if she can come off of you and get the interpretation announcement for Cantonese. Go out and seko yaniho Netaolennapa go your way in hui
Kaguang tongwaang Cheng ying yoga yoha fainotekao yen zhongfuho yinhao Xinzia Guangdongwa come we don t what they are guangdongwa find it Dangwaan tende ying ping sa bingo saoingo de jitao Tao. The Cantonese announcement is done. Checking the attendees to see if there s any hands raised for Cantonese interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with Cantonese interpretation at this time. Moving forward to Arabic. I will lower all attendees hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced at this time, which is Arabic, and I will ask MR. Tareq if he could come off
the mute and get the interpretation announcement for Arabic. And with Shasha I hope them to feel but saidmafi zoom all interpretation to alla language interpretation hope them to feel but saidmafi zoom all interpretation to alla language interpretation hope them to feel but saidmafi zoom all interpretation to alla language interpretation, then we can put some salt on a beat, uh, the failed mute original audio. Arabic announcement is over. Thank you. Checking the attendees to see if there s any hands raised for Arabic interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with Arabic
interpretation at this time. Moving forward to Spanish. I will lower all attendees hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced, which at this time is Spanish, and I will ask MR. Copenhagen if he could come off of mute and give the interpretation announcement for Spanish. Yes, thank you, MR. Hollis. When I enum momento tiremos el ericio. The interpretation simultanea. Ale para cuarloloiselli not interpretation and la part inferio de la Ventana selection indo io mass selection in Spanish Paracuchar en espanard. Sinoveliono aga clique strepunda supensciosaiberran lacion, the interpretation. Pasaveria personas in la Roon
que esitan interpretation por favor levante la mano virtual eneste momento or ribanenelcha queneesitanel erruicio. Sinopiden el servizio de tamanera no sera urrante la primera parte de la gena. Mucha gracias. Thank you, MR. Hollis. Thank you, MR. Copenhagen. Checking attendees to see if there s any hands raised for Spanish interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with any interpretation at this time. That concludes the first. Hello. That concludes the first interpretation announcement for this evening, uh, and I ll pass it back to you, MR. Rick Straw. MADAM PRESIDENT, the availability of translation services.
Uh, has been announcement of the availability has been completed. Thank you. Tonight, in closed session, we will address the following items. Under labor matters, d125-1864 conference with labor negotiators. D2 26-0703 conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. D3 260,730 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation. D4 26-08001. Conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. D5, 26-0802 conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. D6 26-0925. Conference with legal counsel
anticipated litigation. D7 26-0926 conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. D 8 26-0927 conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. D 9 26-0946 conference with legal counsel existing litigation. D 10 26-0947 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation. D 11 26-0948 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation. D 12, 26-0957 conference with legal counsel anticipated
litigation. Under public employment. Item d 13, 24-1967 public employment superintendent of schools. Under pupil matters d14, 26-0705 expulsion student tt. D 15, 26-0832 expulsion student you you. We will then reconvene to public session at 5:30 P.M. Uh, MR. Seihao, are there any public comments on closed session items? Yes, we have 24 speakers. Um, I m going to limit everyone to one minute each. We have a lot of speakers want to be able to hear from everyone. Um, and if the students would come up first, if you filled out a card and you re a student.
Would you please come to the dais? Yep ok, for students, we have Carter Smith. Gianni Austin Aaron Novodey John Jonathan Stewart. Chris Ramos Maggie Bogart Tia Johnson and Sofia Gonzalez. Those are the student speakers. Thank you and that will be one minute each and if the adults could help them watch the time clock, that would be great.
Hi. Oh, hello. Hi, my name is Carter and I m here to talk about MISS Donna. MISS Donna should really stay because she is the glue to our school and our community and without her we would be nothing and fall apart. MISS Donna brought most of the schoolyard equipment she brought the Jenga tower, the hot potato, and the Connect Four. I believe MISS Donner should stay. She should not leave because some decisions that y all decided to make. That is all. Thank you. Hi, good
Hi, good afternoon School District. MISS Donna is a great person. She knows everyone s name by heart. She takes care of us like her own. She takes care of her students like her own kids. She makes us feel happy because she is always someone who is a part of the staff that the students depend on her. This makes us feel very loved and important, and we, and when we need help or when we are feeling down she is always there for us when we want more supplies, she always uses her own money to buy it for us. She is a very kind person.
Thank you. If you could, students I ll say your name before you speak because we record the the names. Thanks. I am Christopher MISS Donna. Has to stay with us because she MAY aid me a helper helper and I help out the kindergartens and she always know knows what what s kids if she doesn t always need. Stand them
to the office. She talks to them. To help them. the Thank you. Hi, my name is Tia and I go to law school that I m talking, um. Uh, about MISS Donna so that she could stay She s really nice and she helps us in a special way when I first came to this to this school, MISS Donna was really kind to me, and she would and she would make me feel comfortable and she would make me and she would also make me
feel special. Thank you. Greetings and good afternoon school board. Do you want to wait? There you go. My name is Tanya and Maggie Bogart, a 5th grade sky Lalita Elementary. MISS Donna is an important part of our day and part of our school family. She always makes sure kids are behaving and playing safely. She provides school equipment that we are all able to enjoy with her own money. She played a big part of my little Benny s first year of school in kindergarten. He knew that if he was feeling sader, someone was blowing him, he can look for her. MISS Donna s part of the light that makes her school shine. She supports my friends tonight when we want to listen and
dance to music during recess. MISS Donna helps kids inside and outside. Everyone could play on the field and that it s fair, MISS Donna plays a big part of everyone s day. MISS Donna must stay. She s also been here for a long time, so kids know her and feel comfortable with her. Thank you. Hello, my name is Sofia Gonzalez, and we need MISS Di to stay Without her, Kid wouldn t be as safe. You saying MISS Donna should go is the same thing as you saying you don t want kids to feel safe. Is that really what you want? She always makes sure every kid is safe no matter what, and you
want that to change. My name is Jonathan Stewart. Um, I just wanted to say as Donald s a respectful woman. She always helps us out. She always does whatever what she wants. She even gets us anything anything we want, and anything we need. Ok My name is Jerome and I m here to talk about MS. Donna and why she should stay. I think she should stay because she s helped a lot of students feel better. One kid was sad, and he asked to go to MISS Donna, and he came back smiling ear to ear. I think she should stay. She
spent most of her money buying things for us, so I really appreciate that and. Yeah thank you My name is Erin MS. Donna s must stay. She helps us. In a lot of ways. She bought us a lot of stuff outside and I don t want her to. I don t want her to stay because she s the best. Ok. Uh, I forgot my speech Uh Can I wait for it Can I wait for now I believe that is all the students. Thank you. Thank you. Excellent job you guys. Keep Ms
Donna Thank you Uh, next public speaker, please. Next speaker, we have Tanya Kapner, Michelle Jeter Kimberly Mayfield Seir Lockett Jeremy McKant. Those are the next 5 speakers. Is uh Tonya Kapner online? Yes, ok, let s go ahead with that one and then we ll do the, the, uh, in person. Hello, I m with the Equal Opportunity now by any means necessary. Teachers caucus and an oea rep at Sojourner Truth Online Middle School. Here to speak in defense of MISS Donna Jackson
s job at La Squalia and of all the excellent uh teachers and seiu and ase workers and union workers that have been cut. We need to reverse these cuts. This school board has more money than you are admitting, and you have a reserve budget We need to be fighting, demanding that Governor Newsome bring more money down to our schools and standing up together to build this movement against Trump s attacks on public education instead of clamping down on the community and taking away important positions for our students and their futures, like MISS Donna, the noon supervisor. She is an excellent person that deserves
her job, and so are all the other hundreds of people that you have cut. This is, this is unfair to our students and must be reversed. This community is organizing and we will continue to do so. We demand that you reverse these cuts and layoffs now. Thank you. Thank you. Our next public speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Michelle Jeter, and I m with Ask Me. I want to say that I appreciate you guys letting MISS Adler stay and kind of see this through and finish it out, we recognize the hard work that you re doing 100%, and I hope at the end of this we come out strong, um, on the other side of that we still have some
unfinished business in food service still um they re giving our information to outside people. They re letting them have access to our computers from wonderful a program that the director that you guys hired well Preston hired allowed to get access to our, our computer systems and and all of our information and our kids information and that is not ok at all, they re letting people from custodial services, work and food services, if we re gonna cut the positions, that means they re not needed, so there shouldn t be anyone coming in to work in the in those places we shouldn
t have contractors doing our work. If we cut it, that means it s not needed, correct? So there shouldn t be any contractors working instead of the people that you cut, so please, please take a look at it once again and take a look at what s going on in the food service department. Thank you. Thank you Good afternoon. Ousd board members. I am Doctor Kimberly Mayfield and I speak to you today as a teacher educator and a education policy advisor for black women organized for political action, otherwise known as Boapa, um, and we have
9 chapters throughout the state and definitely one in Oakland and I m asking you to vote to extend Superintendent Denise Sattler s contract for 2 years in 9 short months she has accomplished more than some superintendents have accomplished in several years as evidenced by keeping all schools open while navigating a fiscal crisis, ratifying the agreements with oea and seiu and having increased enrollment in the district which hasn t happened in nearly a decade. Thank you for your time. Keep Doctor Sattler so she can continue the work that she
started. Thank you. Thank you Uh, next speaker Next 5 speakers are Jose Sanchez, Antoinette Blue. Dave David Padelia Derrick Broth and Benjadin Cook Gurevic. Those are the next 5 speakers. Hello Uh, my name is Jose Sanchez. I m a proud Oakland firefighter. Uh, nearly 30,000 Oakland voters, including city workers, firefighters, nurses, and community members placed Measure e on the JUNE 2nd ballot. Measures specifically designed to maintain fire protection services and emergency response times uh address homelessness by
connecting unhoused folks with services and funding illegal dumping solutions. Uh, this measure ensures that Oakland remains on the road to economic stabilization while lowering taxes for a majority of homeowners. We ask that the Oakland Unified School District support Measure e and join a wide coalition of elected officials, workers, and community organizations including Mayor Barbara Lee, council members Zach Unger, Kevin Jenkins, Rowena Brown, Charlene Wong, and Janani Ramachandran The Stonewall Democratic Club, the Wellstone Democratic Club, Alameda County Democratic Club, Oakland Action Rising, ease, Alameda Labor Council, seiu 10
to 1 ifpte Local 21 and my union, your Oakland firefighters Local 55, help us keep fire stations open in Oakland safe. Yes, Annie, please Thank you. Uh, next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is Antoinette Blue. I am actually a police communications dispatcher with the Oakland Police Department, so I actually take the 911 calls that our community members put in every single day. As an Oak pd dispatcher and a parent of children that attend school in Oakland. I actually have a college student, a middle schooler, a high schooler, and a TKer. So just so that you know, I m in it. So when emergencies happen,
every second counts. As a 911 dispatcher, obviously I know how critical it is to keep the response times down for medical fire and police calls, and I understand as well as everybody else that delays are simply the difference between life and death. This is why I support yes on e, to help prevent 911 emergency response times from increasing by closing fire stations and so on and so forth, and ensure that our first responders can get where they re needed and when they re needed. So for the safety of the families in our community, I ask that you vote in support of Measure e. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please Hi, I m Debbie Puna, resident
in District 6 and a parent, um, and the husband of a teacher at Montera Middle School. Um, I m just urging you all to vote today in support of the resolution to support, uh, measure e, um, I think that s how we built, we build partnerships with the city and our other um partners in the area. Um, we wanna make sure that we stabilize and keep uh Oakland on the road to economic recovery, um, and making sure that we fund essential city services, so as a resident of Oakland, I urge you all to support yes on e. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, next speaker Good afternoon everybody. I m a
Beli bctc, uh we need to reverse all the layoffs, cuts in every union that is present in oesd. The whole district feels neglected and in poor condition either inside or outside in the buildings or grounds when there is a cut that affects staff mainly. But but who feels it, it s the kids of Auckland. We need to work together to change that and how we can reverse all what it is already be done. Every staff in district and every student is a pillar that holds oesd keep going. Uh, I m going to talk a little about bctc. We are already in a bargaining. We have met a few times. There is no movement,
minimal, even with the minimal monetary that we presented, we support the extension for one new year with the cost of living assessment ongoing for the year. Uh, I would like to see what s going to happen. We present that to labor relations, and I m hoping that s gonna be resolved pretty soon this meeting in this closed session. Uh, the safety is another thing that s happening throughout the districts. Uh, we experience a lot of issues. The staff, the students getting attacked, uh, a lot of stuff that we need to work together on it, to fix it, all of us together, we can achieve this better. I want to support our interim superintendent Sain Saar in one way. She d be doing
great stuff, even making her permanent contract. We need to, she s working with us together, transparent, building trust to achieve better tomorrow and keep that way. Uh, so far in that direction, that is where she s going, I give him my support in that beside. I also support board in the in their decision. I want you to ask more questions to the district getting clear and transparent assets back so we can attack this together. So that way there is no departments that feel left out that there is no cuts, that there is no student that feels left in the dark, so we can change this together, guys. Thank you so much.
Thank you Spe locking, if you can unmute yourself to speak. Sibilain if All right. Thank you. Thank you so much. I was coming off in a meeting, but my name is Sair Lockett. I am the deputy director at eBay and ESpa Action. Uh, good evening, board members, uh, superintendents and community, um, Oakland residents have been clear. They want the city uh that works. A city that responds when with two calls for 911, a city that keeps fire stations open, a city that addresses violence, cleans our streets, and supports our health and our
safety in our neighborhoods. Measure e is about stabil izing those systems. And for ousd that matters. It really, really matters. Our schools do not exist in isolation. Everyday, students, um, walk into classrooms carrying what s happening in their neighborhoods, when emergencies response is delayed, when violence disruption is in our community and with basic services are broken down, um, they show is still in our schools. It uh affects attendance, learning, and how overall well-being of our young people, uh, is achieved. We often talk about, uh, supporting the whole child, but supporting the whole child means investing in the whole
community. It means strong partnerships between ousd and the city of Oakland, Partnerships that provide youth employment violence prevention, family support, and public health resources. Measure e helps to ensure the city has the capacity to continue that work. Measure e was placed on the ballot by nearly 3, 30,000 openers. That matters very much. It also includes strong accountability, independent audits, public reporting and oversight, along with protecting protections for our seniors and low-income residents. Supporting this resolution is not about uh politics, it s about alignment, it s about ensuring that our students live in a city that is
safe, responsive, and functioning. I urge you to adopt this resolution and stand with Oakland families and young people. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, next speaker. Next speaker or a salola Bala, Schuyler Trent. Aaron Simmons Eterin Hogue and Jasmine Fortis And I want to remind everyone that it s a one minute limit tonight. All right. So my name is uh Aaron Simmons, and um i m here to advocate for my son, Aaron Simmons. Um I, I work at Oakland Tech as a school of psychologists. I ve been there for 6 years now, and my son is currently in the 8th grade at a Montera Middle
School, and we applied for him to attend tech that s actually the only um Oakland school we were like for him to attend. Uh, we do live, uh, in a different community, um, but, um, we were replaced, you know, he s like currently 377 on a on a wait list um I thought I was gonna have the staff priority, but I am a consultant, um, psychologist at the school, um, but right now my son s doing, he s doing really well, you know, he s an honor roll student, uh, he has friends in his community who he would like to continue to, um, you know, be being a similar environment is done, and so, uh, if there s anything that you guys can do to help them out so that he can attend Oakland Tech,
that would be great. Thank you for hearing me. Next speaker please Hello, my name is Skyler Tran. I m the sip sub at Lasuelita. I need people like MISS Donna in my life. She s super supportive to me. I know that you need people like Masanana in your school district and our school district and I know through my talks with MISS Donna and myself that every day we go home and we talk about what we could do to better serve our community and the students, and I hope that you are able to do the same and um are really thinking about what you can do even if it s not easy to take those next steps to keep people like this that we need. Thank you.
Hi everyone. My name is Adine Hogue. I am a resource specialist at La Esquilita. Um, I m also, uh, one of the alt reps at oea reps at this school. I m also a member of Eon bam caucus, and I m so proud to be here with La Escolita and with Ms Donna. I, I have not met a recess, yeah, you know, noon soup like MISS Donna before. Parents have her phone number. They can just text her. She text them back, um, she works with teachers to um manage students that need breaks. She goes above and beyond and what are,
what we are asking you for is a 0.3 of one of the lowest paid workers in the district. Taking away her hours is not gonna balance your budget. It s not. And we have not, nobody has fought harder than this school. Nobody has fought Donner harder than uh than Donna, she deserves this, and so, and you have the power to make that decision. We re expecting you to make it and we re demanding that you make it. Thank you. Next speaker please All right, good afternoon. My name is Jasmine Fortez. I m a 5th grade teacher here at Las Colita. I ve been here for 8
years, so I know the impact of MISS Donna Well, um, parents trust ousd to keep their students safe when they come to school they re trusting us. I know that our school is safer because we have missed Donna and we talk about student safety we re not just talking about their physical safety at recess. We ve heard from the students about their mental health and the social emotional impact that MISS Donna has had on our students just today alone I had 3 students interact with MS. Donna because they, they needed a break or because they were escalated and they came back to my class ready to learn. So it s not just about recess and keeping them safe at recess. It s about their entire
experience at school and her impact that it also it has on learning. Um we have 15 young people here standing in front of you, a lot of them pushed through brave, let me just say brave and courageous young people that pushed through their fear of public speaking to defend an adult as an adult that works with students, I know that means more than your vote. You have the power to show them that their student voice matters and decisions that you make and I hope that you rescind the decisions for cuts across the district and keep MS. Donna at her school. Thank you, thank you. Next speaker please
Yes, we have Fasal Olubala. California education codes that you are in violation of. Education s code 48,260. States that a student missing more than 30 minutes of instruction without an excuse 3 times during the school year, Shell be classified as truant. You cannot take it upon yourself to change truant to chronic absenteeism. The other code is code 49073. Student data which is uh uh that has the nature of being personal, must get consent from the parents in order to share that data. You have 3 items on the consent agenda, dealing with data. I don t know
if it has anything to do with personal student data. Uh, you also have the issue of uh Me e Measure e is not a citizens initiative. Unions are not citizens considered citizens initiatives, that s individuals who live in residency in the city. Unions have a variety of residency. Oakland Police Department is 90% non-Oakland resident. Fire department is 35% non-residents. They work together the city and the union because they only will get need 50% of the vote
rather than 66%. This is a manipulative move, rather than put it on the ballot from the state, the city and the unions they try to call themselves a Citizens initiative. You go right ahead and petitionate in this underhanded method. Thank you. Do you need some assistance over there Besha? Do you need assistance with the student? Ok. All right Are there any other public speakers No, all registered speaker has been called. With that, we will Oh, sorry, MR. Hollins that MR. Ekstra, can we have a, a
roll call to establish quorum, please. On the roll call student director Simmons PRESIDENT. Director Smith here. Director Lauder. Director Williams Director Hutchinson. Director Berry present. Director Thompson. Vice PRESIDENT Bachelor PRESIDENT Brohart Here. Warm, present, and Vice PRESIDENT Batchel has just arrived. And MR. Hollis, can we have an interpretation check, please?
Uh, yes, MADAM PRESIDENT For tonight s meeting, we have 3 languages available for live interpretation. They are Cantonese, Arabic, and Spanish. We also have a closed caption feature available on Zoom that you can use by clicking the closed caption feature on your uh closed caption icon on your Zoom taskbar. With that, we will move on to announcements of live interpretation. We will start with Cantonese. I will lower all attendees hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced at this time, which is Cantonese. And if you are in the public and would like a translation laptop. You can see
the gentleman to your left underneath the basketball court for a translation laptop. Uh, and I will ask, uh, MR. Yuan if he can come off mute and give the interpretation announcement for Cantonese. I got hold needle high open and how ukawai wei wei. You go to San Quintel the sou Gong tongwagaanjindou lao argobin link to your postal tidy note in house to yi how iilibinho yi lin tongong Shenguyani haoandu Kwang tong magapanji. You go to so you gong tongwagapan ying yaohafong yakotei kaoyingzhong of uhou you know Xinjia Kong Tongwali ahoyao 10 do gong to panic. You go to so you find it promo
Cheuao yangoretido yoyan so you Moriopobo torture Kennedy announcement is done, MR. Hollis. Checking the attendees to see if there s any hands raised for Cantonese interpretation. Seeing no hands on Zoom, uh, no one approaching in the room. We will not have Cantonese interpretation at this time. Moving forward to Arabic. I will lower all attendees hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced at this time, which is Arabic. And if you are in the public and need a translation laptop, you can see the gentleman to your left underneath the basketball court for a translation laptop. With that, I will ask MS. Abdy if she can come off and mute and give the interpretation announcement for Arabic.
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hand if you need the language being announced at this time, which is Spanish. And if you are in the public and need a translation laptop, you can see the gentleman to your left underneath the basketball court bore a translation laptop. With that, I will ask MS. Walker Marquez. If she can come off of mute and get the interpretation announcement for Spanish. Yes, of course Que buenas tamosavien Benida aero ion de la mesa directiva sto scholar de olet. Um estamoso freino interpretacion simultania a espanol, a sique sienen escuarla interpretation simultania.
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larunion. Er muchas graciaser and a Spanish announcement is done. Thank you. MS. Walker Marquez. Checking the attendees on Zoom to see if there s any hands raised for Spanish interpretation. Seeing no hands raised on Zoom, uh, no one approaching in the room. Uh, we will not have any interpretation at this time. That concludes the second announcement for live interpretation, and I will pass it back to you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Thank you. Tonight in closed session
the board uh item number d125-1864 conference with labor negotiators, the board did not take up this matter. On item d226-0703 conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, the board did not take up this matter. On item d3, 26-0730 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation. The board did not take up this matter. On d4, number 26-0801 conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, the board approved a settlement in this matter, motioned by Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor, seconded by PRESIDENT Brohart, uh, and vote of 5 to 0 with 2 abstentions.
On item d5, number 26-0802 conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, the board approved a settlement in this matter. Motion by Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor, seconded by PRESIDENT Brohart, with a vote of 5 in favor and 2 abstentions. On item d6, number 26-0925 conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter, motioned by Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor, second by PRESIDENT Brohart with a vote of 5 in favor and 2 abstentions. On item d7, number 26-0926 conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, the board did not take up this matter. On item d8, number 26-0927 conference with legal counsel,
existing litigation, the board approved a settlement in this matter motioned by Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor, seconded by PRESIDENT Brohart, the vote in favor of 42 abstentions. On d9, number 29-0946 conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, the board did not take up this matter. In item d10, number 28-0947 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter, motioned by PRESIDENT Brohart, seconded by Director Latta. Vote in favor, 52 abstentions. On item d 11, number 26-0948 conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation. The board approved a settlement in
this matter motioned by PRESIDENT Brohart, second by Director Lauda, a vote in favor 5 with 2 abstentions. On item d12, number 26-0957 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter, motioned by President Brohart, seconded by Director Lauda, Vote of 5 in favor with 2 abstentions. Under public employment matters on item d13, number 24-1967, Superintendent of schools, the board provided direction on this matter. Motion by PRESIDENT Brohart, second by Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor. Um, let me count this up because I don t have 1234.
There were 5 in favor and 2 no Under pupil matters on items d14 through d15, the board heard these matters and will vote on the matters in public in section I on the agenda. That is the end of the APRIL 22, 2026, closed session report out. PRESIDENT Brohar, point of clarification. Uh, I d really like a ruling from general counsel, uh Lindsay on d13. I don t think, uh, what was just reported out captures the extent of what was decided and voted on, and I know at least part of the resolution is not privileged. It referenced work that should have been
already going on with uh the district and a cessation of that work, which is not something that s privileged or should be discussed in closed session. So I d like a ruling on a more explicit explanation of what direction was actually given by board vote surrounding the superintendent within closed session. General counsel, can you give a ruling on that? Sure. PRESIDENT Brohart and, uh, Director Hutchinson, thank you for the question. So on, uh, the item d13. Direction was provided, but no final action was taken, uh, with regard to the, the superintendent s search or the public um employment of the superintendent. Those matters
have to be final action in open session. Thank you. So general counsels Lindsay. Is something being stopped? Um, I think that would be, uh, considering a, a final action. It s giving explicit direction for something to stop occurring that had been occurring. And so just because somebody says they might pick it up in the future. I think it s really important that we explain this, especially since it involves a contract that was approved in open session, and I know everyone should be very concerned about how our dollars are being spent, and if people are following through with the promises that they ve made. Thank you, Director Hutchinson
Hutching on that, uh, uh, PRESIDENT Brohar, just one more point of clarification. Any action regarding contracts, whether it be an amendment to change dates or whatever that MAY be. Those come in open session. Thank you for your rolling Are there any modifications to the agenda? I would like to, um pull item j2, which is our um classic high employees of the year, uh, postpone that until MAY 13th. And I would like to withdraw s2 and s3. Until um MAY 13th. Are there any others Director Hutchinson Yes, thank you, and I, I do
want to say under modifications, I m extremely disappointed that there s no mention of the letter we just got from the county superintendent, um, addressing the notice of going concern, every other time we ve ever received a letter like that, both the superintendent and the district have sent out public information to the community. And the school board PRESIDENT Has immediately agendized that item and it s really disappointing that that didn t happen in this case, uh, in terms of the consent report I would like to pull 076 and 083 Thank you.
7677. Thank you. Are there any other modifications to the agenda? Ok With that, is there a motion to adopt the um pupil consent. Second And is there public comment on the on the people consent? Yes, we have Sheila Haynes and Asalo Labala. Uh, 2 minutes each I m sorry, people discipline JANUARY 6 ab 12:30 sponsored by uh Banta went into effect. It s called the uh expulsion, rehabilitation plan reform. It requires that a school district must develop a rehabilitation plan for a
student who has been expelled. And that that plan meets the needs of the students, addresses the student s behavior. Uh that led to the expulsion. Reviews educational options that the students can be, uh, included in It, it also requires a transition process for remitting the student, it requires the school district at no cost to the student to make available local accommodations to complete the requirement of the plan. I don t know if y all in compliance with that. I don t know if you re in compliance with this rehabilitation plan. But I know that you are out of compliance with a lot of things.
But these expelled students need to get what they need in terms of the education, their behavior, and that s not me saying it, that s the law of California, ab 12:30. And I hope somebody has the ability to determine if this is happening and make it happen if it s not. Public speakers. Uh, can we have a roll call on the vote, please? On the motion to adopt the pupil discipline consent report. Uh student directors are accused Director Lata Yes Director Williams
Yes, sir Director Hutchinson abstained. Director Barry Yes. Director Thompson. Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor. Yes. PRESIDENT Brohart, yes. Motions adopted by our student directors to go first. I know that they re in finals and need to study hard. Um, is that ok with, with the board? So then we ll do, um, k student report, and then we ll do j Special orders of the day, which is acc. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you so much guys, and thank you so much for your
patience. We re very sorry for pushing up our reports, but today on our report, we will be going over some student highlights, then we re going to go into acc updates and then we are going to talk about some upcoming events. So first off, we wanna give a large congratulations to ousd s very own Shane Award for winning Oakland s first wrestling state championship with the undefeated season of 42 to 0. Can we just give a little round of applause for that. Come on. Congrats Shayna, she s a senior and we just hope to hear more about your achievements. This is stuff that we want to see.
Following that, we would like to highlight La Nyja, who spoke at Oakland s homecoming rally for a two-time Olympic gold medalist Alyssa Liu. Now we, I m going to go ahead and share a little piece from Lena s speech. She said Alyssa s journey reminds us that challenges can lead to growth. The courage that can open doors and the greatness can come from anywhere, including Oakland, and for young people in the town, it reminds us that our dreams are real. Our voices matter and our future is ours to build. Thank you, Lena for that amazing speech, those amazing words. Again, it doesn
t matter if you re a student, it doesn t matter if you re a staff or a teacher, your words everything that you want to say, it matters. So please speak up Moving on to gsa day. It s a ousd held community event attended by lgbtq students and allies, and this year we had 150 high school students attend and 175 middle school students attend and at this event, they shared resources available to students. They strengthen their community and help students learn about the various health programs in Oakland. We want to give a good shout out to the health and wellness team for putting together a very safe, supportive, and fun conference for the ousd
students. I really hope you guys enjoyed and that there are more events upcoming. Now, I know it s been a while since we talked about our middle school ethnic studies conference, but we re still going to give you some updates on that. So every year we have our middle school ethnic studies conference for all middle schoolers. It was MARCH 6th at the Northeastern University and during this, during this conference, students participated in 3 different workshops. We had 27 rj circles, and we had 60 middle school students. Facilitate those circles. So again, we just want to give a large thank you to all the middle school students that participated, all the staff
that made this happen are acc adult ally Adriana who put this all together. Our governing board and all the staff that came out and helped them volunteer. Yes, give a round of applause to yourself and your community. Here are some pictures from middle school ethnic studies conference. And lastly, um, we have our 4th high school meeting that took place at Fremont, and this was the last meeting before our youth action summit, which is actually this Friday. Are you thatching some of this Friday where students will be able to run for their governing board positions and at this last meeting before this one, we had um acc lead of public speaking workshop, and we had students work on some smart goals. It
was a really good meeting to close out. Good afternoon, community. Um first, my apologies to you. It was, it was my ask that we went first, so I apologize for that, um, but I had somewhere to be. I m so sorry. Um and also, I haven t been up here in a while. Um, I had to take a a leave for myself to get things right. So, it s good to be back. Um, but coming up, all City council, we have our youth action summit. The youth action summit is a place where we re calling ousd high schoolers to get together to talk about problems that s going on inside of their inside
of their school sites. Um, these we lead them through a lot of community builders, a lot of workshops that have to do with leadership. This is a very good space to send your kid to send your brother, to send your nephew. You also are able to run for all-city council if you don t know what All City council is, All City council is a part is a student is a student union group, which me and me and Director Smith are a part of it is the student union group comprised of 11 students that serve as kind of a bridge between this between uh district leadership and students. So we have multiple roles, PRESIDENT, vice PRESIDENT, Culture and climate
director, two student directors, 2 lcap directors, um, secretary, health and wellness director. Historian um that s, is that it? That s about it. But at the youth action summit, this is where you run to, this is where students come to run for all City council. So if you have a student, if you have a daughter, if you have a son, a niece and nephew who would like to who you think would be good for one of these positions, or you, or who you like to see sit up here with like me and Director Smith, then I suggest that you send them here because this is me and Director Smith s last year up here. So both of these seats are gonna be available to run, um, and it opens a lot of doors and it
opens a lot of opportunities. So I really, I really urge you guys to push your kids and push your families to come and find a new leaf, you know, experience something though. The seal of civic engagement, um, the deadline extension for students has been to Thursday, APRIL 23rd, um, but the seal is, if you don t know what the cla civic engagement is. It is a seal for graduating students. It goes on their diploma, and it is a seal. For civic engagement. It s so, it shows that the student has been outside, has been working in their community and has been trying to push something and trying to make a difference, um, whether your student is a part
of a nonprofit organization, maybe they re part of student youth groups, maybe they re a part of clubs in school. If they re doing something to better their community if they re doing something that has to do with action that has to do with getting outside, putting your feet on the ground. If it has to do with making your space a better community, then they can get that seal for civic engagement. Um, there s a gpa requirement 3.0. The the gpa requirement for the seal is a 3.0. So, if you ever graduating student and you believe that they should put this seal on their, on their diploma. It looks really good,
and you can brag about it. Um, the extension has been set to April 23rd. Events Oh, I yeah, I could talk about it. Um, so the school district and the school board, I mean, the city and the school board has an education partnership committee. Um, it is a committee between the district and the city that has come together so we could talk about issues that s inside our schools and see how the city and the school district can come together to help out Um, we had a meeting on the 13th, I believe. Um, it was, it was ok. I, my personal opinion, um, I think they could be better things that we could talk about at
these meetings where more things can get done, more calls to action can happen. Um I think that s I think I I would like to hear Marianna s point of view from it as well, but my point of view, I think there could be better conversations that s had, um, and just better calls to action where we as district leaders and we as public figures can use our outreach and use our pool to get on the ground and actually make things happen and not, you know, listen to a bunch of reports back that we can t really have any calls to action from. Yes, I definitely agree with director Simmons. I really do like this committee. I really love being up there and being
able to, you know, connect with different district officials and everything, but I also want to urge the board to try to get more engagement going with the committee. Um, I know that our last meeting was like in SEPTEMBER, I wanna say it was definitely last year and then we met this year obviously in APRIL and I just feel like that s a really large gap. There s so much stuff that goes on in our school and just throughout the year with Oakland and everything, so I think that we should definitely be meeting more frequently, but yeah, I just think that this, this committee could definitely flourish and turn into something good for all of our students and families. Some upcoming events, um, this is a camping trip, meaningful student engagement.
One night summer camping trip, um, separate dates from middle and high school grades. It is at the Tilden Regional Park. I ve never been to the t Tilden Regional Park, um, but I m also not really a camper, but if you, if you guys are a camper, and if you guys have students who would like to go camping, I think it s a very good opportunity, you know, get outside with some other kids, um, spend some time in the wilderness, you know, get off our phones. I m a real big advocate for getting off your phone. So I think this would be, I think this would be a great space. I think especially for middle schoolers, I think spaces like these are very influential, um, and very necessary. So if you have a
middle schooler specifically, I would urge you to um sign them up for things like this, or, you know, bring it to their attention and let them make make the decision, but make it sound a little good so they kind of want to make that decision, you know what I mean? So ousd rj Day, APRIL 29th. This is going on at Edna Brewer Middle School. I oh this is this is all schools. This is at I know Edna Brewer has their rj day. I m pretty sure Edna Brewer is this is all schools, but Edna Brewer is, I m sorry, I m, I m Edna Brewer is my alma mater, and I m very biased and I know rj are a lot of stuff
that comes from rj comes out of Ena Brewer, and that s including myself. So Ed and the Brewer definitely leads leads the rj day I was talking to her with their um. Rj facilitator, MR. Gibson. Um, but rj Day for ousd, I m a real big rj advocate. Um, so senior senior student to school this day.End your student to school this day, all across the district, there ll be rj circles held in classrooms. What is rj Restorative justice is a practice that we practice inside ousd. Um, it is a practice of coming together as a practice of community. A lot
of our principles within ousd are built off of restorative justice. That s why we need to refund them. Um, but a lot of our practices within ousd are built off of restorative justice. Um, if you ve ever seen, if you MAY not have ever seen a storage Justice Circle, but it is a er of people come, they get in a circle, and we talk about our feelings. We talk about how we re doing. But you, we MAY ask, we MAY ask dumb questions, we MAY ask smart questions, or we MAY just ask questions, but we ask questions and we talk and we talk to each other, and it s a space that s non-judgmental. It s a space where people could come, people can connect, people can grow.
People can get together. So rj Day is real good Please send your student to school on rj Day, you know, I think this is going to be a real good day of community. I, I m definitely going to go to school on rj Day. Is there a video here? There s no video So there is a video So um, Mayor Barber believes youth advisory council, which I chair has an initiative called Help a Teach out, where we re put in essential classroom supplies and hm. There is a video. Don t play it yet. Um, Mayor Barbali s Youth
Advisory council, um, we have an initiative called Helping Teach out where we ve been supplying ousd teacher classrooms with essential classroom supplies all year long. Um, we re onto our 6th school now, which is Rhodesdale. Which is Rosedale continuation School. Um, whose district We, so, um this month we re donating to Rosedale Commun um continuation School. We hold fun free events every month, um, we do fund fundraising, we do community workouts, we do community art workshops. We do community supply drives. Everything that we do is free. Anybody can show up. Anybody can come. We only, we suggest donations. Um, if
you have, and if you and if you re willing, then, you know, by all means, I m gonna keep asking. But if you can t, just come have fun with us. Come, come fill into our space. Come build community with us, and that s all we ask. Um, but we do maybe 2 to 3 events a month, um, in 2026, these are all the schools we ve donated to and in 2026, so we donated $2200 to press to Prescott Elementary for in FEBRUARY. We donated $1400. To Oakland International in MARCH, and $1250 to Global Family Elementary in JANUARY. All of the schools we pick are under-resourcing in low they
are in low annual income areas, and they also have majority of their students on free lunch, and we also do a look test inside the school to see how the classrooms look. And now you can play the video. But this is for Prescott Elementary and we surprised them with supplies and we we re able to make a little video. We re gonna move on, but I just want to note that this is the 2nd time I had a video and it wasn t played and uh the third time, the 3rd time I have a video. We need to play it. But this is if you guys liked what I just said, um. If you guys liked what I just said and you would like to donate and you d like to
contribute to help a teacher out, um, we re supporting Rosedale Continuation School this month. So here s a, here s a flyer to donate I don t see any phones coming out. But you can scan this qr code right here to donate if you, if you are willing and if you, and if you are able, um, and I believe. That that concludes our report. Thank you. Is there a public comment on this one? Yes, we have Sheila Haynes and Osado Lobala. I d like to address the partnership meeting I think that it should be
understood that the city sets the agenda. You can t have a partnership where one part of the partnership gets to put on the agenda. You have to change the process so that ousd can have a voice on what goes on the agenda. So you need to address that You also need to address, even when they put something on the agenda, like illegal dumping. The report from the city of the generalized way that they handle illegal dumping, didn t deal with ousd problem of illegal dumping at the schools. So what you should have done is brought a list of schools
who are impacted heavily by illegal dumping and a the city to address that. Don t have a meeting with the city when they have an agenda about your schools and you don t participate in what you want them to do, and that s what happened around illegal dumping. The last thing was the uh Children s initiative on the agenda. I brought up that the process was not followed correctly. Nothing was done, some voice should have came out and said we gotta follow up correct process related to the Children s initiative. Lastly, ethnic studies. I keep
telling you this, you cannot, as young people participate in anything and support anything that allows something to happen at the expense of hurting something that s in place. So in order to have ethnic studies, we eliminated African American studies. That is not a fair process. To take to give something and take away from somebody something that s crucial to a particular group or should be crucial to everybody should want to know about African American studies. I encourage you, support things that have a moral and ethical code related to it. Don t ignore when something is going on that s wrong.
Thank you, uh, MS. Haynes I, I do not see her hands raised at the moment. Board directors uh, vice PRESIDENT Bachelor Thank you, um, as always, really appreciate, um, y all s report and, uh, also the fact that you guys are at Redsdale, um, supporting our students there as well. Um, the flyer that was included there didn t have specifically the Redsdale campus named. So if there s a document like that that I could share with our, um, with my community so that we can make sure that we get the resources donated, um, that would be really great. Um, I also wanna highlight, um, a couple of other events that are happening in MAY to celebrate our
students, um, the ann ual Arab American, uh, Swana honor roll is happening on MAY 2nd. I m really excited about attending, uh, honoring our own, um, which is, uh, uh, a celebration of our staff that have done amazing work. It s happening on MAY 6th. I see a former, um, honoree, uh, in our attendance today. Um, the ousd stema is also on MAY 6th, uh, and that I believe is gonna be at the Colosseum if I m not mistaken. Um, then oak, uh is gonna have a, um, kaboom uh days, uh, which is MAY 6th through the 8th, uh, where they re gonna be revamping the kind of playground area of that campus. Can
t wait for that. Um, the custodial and grounds 14th annual Equity and All Student scholarship award ceremony is going to happen on MAY 9th, uh, the 25th annual, um, Oscar Wright, uh, African American, uh, honor roll is also gonna be happening on MAY 12th, um, the Oaktown leaders, um, youths apprenticeship program is gonna be happening on the 12th as well, um, and then, uh, Rud s, I m sorry, Sojourner Truth s graduation is on MAY 29th, 28th, and then the ccpa graduation is gonna be on the 29th. I can t wait to celebrate all of our students at those events and if there are others that I missed, please let me know and we ll make other announcements for
those events as well. Thank you again for your report. I promise we ll show all three of your videos on your last night. Um, I also want to, um, talk about a um a joint brewer and Oakland High, uh family night, which is this, uh, Saturday night at Brewer. And thank you and Next on the agenda, I m sorry. I m waiting to be acknowledged that is the process we re supposed to use. Director Hutchinson, MAY you please step to the mic. I don t need to step to the mic, but parliamentary procedures at least we, we talk about them applying. Uh thank you Um, first, uh, Director Simmons, it
s good to see you back here again, um, and I m available anytime if needed. Just keep that in mind. Um, and I really wanted to check with you all. Um, I m still a little disappointed that we haven t had more students here over the last couple of months as we have these real serious problems going on in the district, but I wanted to double check because I, my recollection was that you two were both a part of the superintendent search committee that the school board formed. Um, so I m not sure if you were actually a part of the committee, but it s really important for students to know that the board is completely switched their plan when it
comes to that, and it s bad enough that there s not a public announcement of what s going on. It s even worse when the students and the student leadership is being explicitly kept out of the conversation. So please ask around because that decision was just made, and that s the decision that I wanted to be announced here, but it still hasn t. And um it s ironic that it comes almost on the one-year anniversary of when DR. Kyla Johnson Trammell was forced out as our superintendent, but you ought to be aware, please find the information and please make sure the students know because um it s really important that we have students included in
these decisions around the superintendent and our finances, um, and it s not a good enough excuse that the board s not doing anything. We still need to make sure we re at least trying to loop in students as a, as people are delaying these important decisions that should be made. Thank you. Thank you, Director Hutchinson. Uh, next on the agenda we continue with our student work and I believe this is item j, Special orders of the day. This is, um, Oakland Youth Vote Coalition, the evaluation report and lessons learned. Hello everyone. Thank you for your time today. Oh Yeah We re here to present our key takeaways and recommendations
from the first youth vote held in odd districts in order to prepare for next, um, for the next year s youth vote in NOVEMBER 2026. We are from the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition, which currently consists of the following youth organizations, all city councils, student union, apa, Californians for Justice, Oakland Kids First, and Oakland Youth Commission, and we ll start with our own introductions. I ll start. Hello, my name is Diana. I go to Fremont. I m currently in 11th grade and I m with Oakland Kids First. My name is Coy. I m a junior at Oakland High School, and I m a part of APal. My name is me. I m a junior at Oakland High School and I m a part of Oakland Kids First.
My name is Alexis. I am, uh, Fremont student. I m a 12th grader and I m with Oakland Kids First. Hi everyone, my name is Anara. I m an 11th grader at Skyline, and I m all city council s vice PRESIDENT. For an overview of our presentation, we re gonna start off with history of youthful, moving on to introduction to report and we ll also be sharing three key recommendation and takeaways. Lastly are, sorry, and we ll also share our personal reflection and lastly, our proposal. A brief history of our campaign for youthful is in 2020.
Measure qq passed with 67% of Oakland voters and from 2020 to 2024, we fought for the implementation of Measure qq and then from in 2024 we launched our first youth vote for odd districts, allowing youth to finally vote for the first time and from 2025 to now we are institutionalizing and improving youthful. Now we want to briefly acknowledge the legality of youth vote. Youth vote is legal. In a California appeals court case, Lacy versus San Francisco. The court upheld the city s authority under home rule powers, meaning a city charter can determine how to expand their own municipal electorates. Including school board
elections. Congressional or constitutional language for voter eligibility is a floor rather than a ceiling. Voter rights can be expanded. If you d like to know more about the legal precedents set forth for this ruling, please reference page 15 from the report. We would like to tell you more about the evaluation process. We worked with Laurie Schellenberger, a voting rights and election reform strategists to interview students, teachers, city leaders, coalition members, county leaders, etc. This report synthesizes our
reflections to make recommendations for improvement to the youth voting system in Alameda County. We will be leaving you all with a copy of the full evaluation report. We hope you ll be able to read through it and follow up with us. Um, in the next couple of slides, we will be sharing some of our key takeaways and recommendations for educational educational officials like yourself. Please note that the full report has takeaways and recommendations for various bodies such as government officials, election officials, funders, etc. And these are our takeaways for you all. Um, so on page 28, our first takeaway is in-class civic
engagement curriculum, combined with discussions and pre-registration were the most effective way to engage youth voters. We recommend that school districts should formalize a curriculum that pairs civic education with voter registration activities across grade levels. Schools should designate administrative and or department leads responsibleor curriculum implementation should invest in and compensate teacher professional development around civic engagement and education and and should explore ways to teach students practical investigative skills for learning more about candidates on their ballot.
For a second takeaway on page 30 of the report. Ousd superintendent didn t create a comprehensive plan to support youth voting as directed by a school board resolution. Which means schools didn t have sufficient direction or accountability. We recommend the school board should direct OEoti s communications department as well as district and school administrators to outreach to students and families about voter registration and via voting via Parent Square and other targeted means. The school board should also ensure targeted civic engagement curriculum is developed, embedded, and that school administrators ensure it
is implemented at scale at each high school. On page 31, our third takeaway is that there was not an effective partnership with Oakland Unified School District and the registrar of voters to promote pre-registration and voting, we recommend that school districts should work with election officials to promote voting including incorporating voter pre-registration of youth voters in the school registration slash enrollment process and ensuring that every high school has a ballot where youth voters can drop in their ballots or register or and vote in person in the days leading up to and on election day. Thank you.
Now we will be highlighting some quotes from students and teachers. Keep in mind that the quotes are anonymous. The pictures, aside from the quote, um from the, wait, you will see pictures aside from the quote, but they are not the students that said that. First, in Oakland youth leader said, I fought for you voting because it s just fair for you to have a say in decisions. That directly impact them. I m excited to vote when iTunes 16, and I have 3 younger brothers, who will now be able to vote in the future too. And another another youth leader
said, fighting for the Uo helped me have an impact even though as a non-citizen, I m not eligible to vote. And it has motivated me to move to pursue citizenship. Lastly an Oakland teacher champion said, this curriculum was fantastic. It pulls the curtain of mystery back on. Voting, Voting is one of our strongest powers as citizens and this helps support making sure every student who will eventually go into polls has some idea of how and what to expect. I highly recommend this
curriculum for all students. We are asking OUSDs um to implement these best practices in accordance with resolution 21220089. Supporting the implementations of Measure qq in high schools. Um, pertaining to voter education in classes, um, and studying and observing how we might best go about this. Our findings indicate that this can best be accomplished through teaching civic engagement in 11th grade us history and 12th grade government classes. Designating time during voter education weeks in SEPTEMBER or APRIL. Delivering at least one day of
civic engagement curriculum that is culturally relevant and includes the following. Oakland Youth Votespa s history and significance, inclusive of undocumented and illegible youth voters and their political power. Information on local candidates for the ousd school board. Logistical information on where and how to vote for the first time, um, especially for voters who lack prior knowledge of the voting system, so mail-in ballot boxes, rank choice etc Um, Oakland Youth Vote Coalition provides a free week-long curriculum on their website that can be modified and adapted for any Oakland teacher to use or teachers are
welcome to create their own, and this should be distributed to students. Annual or semi-annual professional development training for teachers and staff on Oakland Youth Vote, um, using oiv curriculum resources and explaining how to register students. Second is pre-registration. Our finding indicate that this can be best accomplished through first create an opt-out system instead of. Instead of an opt-in system. Students can choose not to register, but the time and resources are so devoted to every single student, I.E. Is not left up to a student to find out where and how to register on their own. Second, in class time designated to registration with
support from teachers instead of tling during lunch. We also find that paper registration are much more accessible to use rather than electronic registration. Each student is also going to be given a registration form in class with the option to leave it blank rather than having to request a form. Students will also have to be given multiple advanced warning and reminder to bring their Social Security number or driver license in order to complete the paper registration. Lastly, volunteers are also available to come in and support teachers with the border registration upon request from part from supporting non-partisan organizations such as Leagues
of Women Voters register her register voters, etc. And finally for outreach, our findings indicate that this can be best accomplished through using communication channels such as Parent Square, Minga, Newsletters, social media, etc. To inform eligible students about voter registration, voter logistics, like where to vote and how to vote. We can also host candidate forums in specific districts that have school board seats that are up for election. They could be held at the comprehensive high schools during assemblies. The Oakleys vote Coalition can support with a candidate forum toolkit of resources for how to organize and facilitate a student-led forum.
Is there any questions I actually do have a question if I could answer. So I did look at the curriculum that was on your, um, website, um, and it looks really good. Is that widely known to teachers or, um, I think it s already there, so it s like, why not use it? I mean, they re really making your own. So I m just curious if you know of teachers who are actually, um, accessing them. Um, I know that at my school site in Skyline, are, we ve had a couple different teachers have an understanding of the curriculum and kind of modify it and give a brief overview of it, and I
ve received the curriculum, um, in two different classes on my school site, and I know through some work with acc that a, a couple other school sites, a bigger school sites like Fremont and Ohio did did that as well, um, yeah, so I think that s something that s as of right now, widely known but can always be. Diffused further And I have a, a, a question as well. I just wanted to, first of all thank the students for their report. I think it s excellent and I, um, appreciate the research that s been done and I made a note of the proposals and recommendations that you
ve made. I also wanted to ask, um, has the group been working with the naacp, which has a special program they just did a voter registration training with students at McClymon s last week, so I was wondering if you re working with um that organization as well and their student group. I think that s a suggestion in terms of working together because that s one of our high schools that s already initiated a program, um, that started last week. So I think that s a suggestion I can share with you. Thanks. Yes, I just want to thank you all for your report. Not only was it aesthetically pleasing,
but it was really just super nice to hear about why this movement is such a big deal for our students. And just the legality behind it, all the legal works, everything that you guys are putting on behind the scenes. Um, I definitely wanted to echo the teacher curriculum. This is my first time hearing about it, but it sounds really, really nice and I want teachers to hop on that. I was just wondering, I might have missed it, but I was just wondering what the outreach for that was looking like? How are you getting this out to teachers? How are you guys telling them about this I can respond to that. Um, so last election we had 2 months to launch this and, you know, we, and starting in AUGUST when
teachers were coming back to school, so we did email blast it out and we offered 3 different professional development training so that teachers could have paid time to really digest and learn the curriculum. Uh, we did have 30/30 ousd teachers, um, attend those professional development trainings, and we recommend that moving forward again to just really carve out the time to train and educate teachers, and we hope to get far more for 2026 with more opportunity and time to um to get the curriculum out. We just relaunched it like 2 weeks ago, um, and it s been distributed from us, um, over email but also oea sent it out as well. Vice PRESIDENT
Yeah, I d like to thank you for the presentation and the learnings. I think it s all whenever you have an initiative, it s really helpful to like think about what could we have done differently next time so that uh we, you can continue to like roll it out and make it stronger. Um, I just also wanna appreciate the candidate forums as a candidate who was a part of one of the forums, um, it was my favorite cause it was like real questions because you all are literally in those classrooms every day, so I appreciated the those questions and the conversations that we had there. Also uh, had a great time watching the other candidate forum that happened last time. Uh, uh, and look forward to those types of
activities. Whatever we can do to kind of get that muscle going of like voting is super, super important. I remember growing up, I always went with my parents to vote, so it was super easy for me. I remember it was at my former high school. You know, I don t live there anymore, but it was my former high school and all of the staff knew me, that they re like, oh, you re one of the bachelors. Ok, so they just already checked me off and with give me my ballot. So whatever we can do to support our students and having that kind of mindset, um, is gonna help us keep our democracy, um, that we have moving forward. So thank you so much for the work and you guys are real, uh, game
changers here in California. Yeah, I don t wanna repeat what everyone has already said, but I plus one to all of that and just want to commend you because a lot of times when people do policymaking or they pass a measure, they pat themselves on the back and they don t really follow through all the way through implementation. This is a forever thing, not just a yesterday thing. So thank you so much for doing the real work. And on that note, I m trying to think right now how we can operationalize, like make this work happen every single recommendation that you all have lifted up makes sense. A lot of them don t even require
additional resources. It just requires us to think about how we can integrate new practices and develop new routines. And so I don t know if it s teaching and learning committee, uh, which is chaired by Director Williams, or if it s the committee, the legislation, uh, policy committee that PRESIDENT Brohart and I sit on, but I think in one or both of those spaces, we should connect to figure out how we can work plan this to make it happen. Thank you. Oops, sorry, Director Williams. Um, yeah, thank you very much for the presentation, really, really like it. I, I m a teacher myself, uh, high school history teacher.
So I was thinking, you know, how this goes and like, you know, us history, government, you know, as well. Um, even ethnic studies, um, the essence that uh Oakland youth are moving on this from 2020 today. It s epic. but it also is a continuation of how progress has happened in our country. Progress always starts with young folks. Always starts and young folks are always deep in the game when it comes to civil rights and really challenging the old structures and the old ways of doing business. So,
what I see of you today is that you are challenging the status quo. You are moving forward on uh a civil right that everyone should be able to vote and have that opportunity starting at 16, because as we know, our federal government is trying to take rights away. Voting rights. And for sure, uh, as this next election s coming up, there s gonna be some shenanigans, some crazy stuff popping off. And so it s just really that you ve already kind of started this process to be alert and to be able to really educate young folks like yourself to say, hey,
we need to be in this particular fight. This is about our civil rights and this is about our future. So I just want to thank you very much for the work you re doing, the, the and 2050 years, they look back and say it started at this time, which is really great. So thank you again, really appreciate it. Thank you. Are there any other board comments? Bye. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation and the reminder to teach this. Next on the agenda we have pisa. Hello, um, thank you. I m sorry, I Oh, you re, I didn t sorry, Pek,
um, is there a public comment on student, um, presentation. I got carried away with finding ballot boxes at high schools. Yes, we have Sheila Haynes, Asao Bala, and Patricia Arabia. Speakers 1st and 2 minutes. 81 years old. I m old school. And I I was in the Catholic Church. And we had guidelines about going to confession, don t eat meat on Friday, which you had to do during certain periods. Now, everybody do what the hell they wanna do. They go to communion, they don
t go to confession, whatever. And I m saying that to say this is the culture now. We don t necessarily follow guidelines or laws, we change it whenever we feel like it. This is a part of how this happened. That is the law the Constitution of the United States, the laws of California related to voting that says you have to be 18 and says you have to be a citizen, so we decide, we all, all we don t, that, that don t make no difference. We re gonna do what we wanna do. So in order to do that you had to have a registration process
The vote of register had to come up with a registration form. He didn t do that. He took the form that allows us child 16 or 17 to apply for a driver s license to also pre-register to vote. In order to do that and to get your driver s license, you have to have proof of identity proof of a of residency. In order to vote, y all don t have to have no proof of anything except your Social Security for registration. That s how y all did it. Now y all applauding this. I cannot allow you
to give these children the ability to say what they did has credibility when you didn t follow a correct legal process and as long as you do that, you are morally and ethically incorrect. These young people believe they did the right thing. You have to follow law. You have to do that And then, and if you engage in this, and I challenge y all at that meeting at at the partnership meeting. but anyway, y all carry on with this stuff. This is not gonna help them If they feel they can walk out
of here and obey and disobey laws, processes, mandates, whenever the hell they feel like it. They re gonna have a lot of trouble Uh, next speaker please Hi, I m Patricia Arabia. I taught for 20 years at Fremont High. I was the director of the, uh, Mandela Law and Public Service Academy. Currently, I am the co-chair of Youth Decide, which is a committee of the League of Women Voters, and I ve worked very closely with the entire youth vote coalition. They ve done an excellent job, and I have to tell you that curriculum is fantastic. They have already added the unit on the say the act and the proposal to suppress votes further. They, they stay right
on top of it. So they have offered this to the teachers, it s on the website. I, when I requested it, I got it within minutes. Uh, I, as the League of Women Voters, I also put my slide decks and my note takers on our website. They re available to anybody. All right, so when I tell we do two things, right? We go into the classroom and we teach and register there. We also table, if that s the only time that a teacher or a school can give us. If we table at lunch and we table after school, we re lucky if we get 6 to 7 people to register. That s a really good day. If we go into a classroom, where we re allowed to listen to students, answer their questions, work with them. The teacher in many cases even does work ahead of
time so that they come, they in fact do have to have their Social Security number. They do have to have their state vote id and they get 30, we get 30 registrations. All right, so, when I teach voter and I ask students for their leadership and getting their communities to speak up and they tell me that they do not feel comfortable asking questions. They tell me they don t have time to talk to each other. They tell me they need this. The times that I ve seen a very different experience was at Oakland High last OCTOBER Coliseum College Prep, Oakland Tech in the fall of 2024. In all those situations, there was
a coordination where the teachers brought their classrooms either into the library or I went into their classrooms, we worked together and we took out completed registrations and students knew they could ask us questions. Please, direct the teachers to give them the support. Ask them if they re doing it and support them. Sheila Haynes Sheila Haynes, if you can unmute yourself to speak. Hi, can you hear me Yes, we can. Ok, thank you. Um, I just wanted to, um, just thank you for the student report, and I like, I really love seeing the um
rj circles and the ongoing violence prevention type um events that are continuing to happen along with the upcoming event for rj Day on APRIL 29th, and I just don t want it to get lost about funding sources for um the arts and music, um, services to also help keep students in a joyful space along with the hate speech, um cause there continues to be uh violence that s happening as a result of verbal altercations. Um, I also wanted to just um speak on um the process of students being able to vote. I think it s a great thing that our students
be able to um have power in their voices and vote on things that affect them and their education and programs that they have that voice to be able to do that. So I just um ask the students to continue to uplift each other. Um, we have to get back to a culture of respect and so I believe that if we continue on with the restorative practices that hopefully um also with learning how to speak to each other that we can get to a point where students can be respectful of themselves and each other and be able to uplift the community. So thank you. I could probably speak for this
current item. You I believe this is the last item under j, so we ll move on to l, which is the pesac report. Come on up. Thank you and thank you for the good timing, um, so, uh, just to note that, um, you have a packet and you re advancing to like the 6th page of the packet which is foster youth advisory committee, they need to go first for obvious reasons. Oh Advanced to page 6. It s, it s ok. I can just read it. Oh, I am Patty Jergens from the
Foster Youth Advisory Committee. Oh, sorry, I m Patty Jergens from the Foster Youth Advisory Committee. On MARCH 24th meeting was canceled because we could not secure the participants that we needed for our dialogue. We had planned to discuss with the principles of elementary schools, um, discipline practices involving foster youth and suspension. In our elementary schools Our goal was and still is to is to bring together leaders from sites where foster youth have experienced suspensions to discuss discipline practices. Review the foster youth discipline policy. And share perspectives and experiences. We deeply value direct and
collaborative engagement. We are hopefully going to have this, um, happen at our APRIL. Twenty-eighth meeting next week Next page some things that we want to ask What do you find most beneficial about the policy? What questions do you have How can the foster youth advisory Committee partner with you to successfully implement the policy. Who in ousd would be most instrumental in supporting schools as they implement this policy. So again, join us at our next public meeting next, uh, next week, Tuesday, APRIL twenty-eighth. Thank you. Hi everybody, thank you for the,
uh, opportunity to speak tonight. Uh, I m Matt Glazer, lead delegate for the pesa. And I m here to give a report on our last public meeting. First part of this, uh, we ll talk about our multi-stakeholder engagement process to reshape our district. Uh, we have a shorter name, the multi-stakeholder engagement Group. We are a group of volunteers representing the various stakeholder groups of ousd with leadership from our advisory committees and collaboration with the ousd community. Our goal is to shape how engagement and dis and decision making should look to inform the
future of the district. We had our first public engagement on MARCH 31st. It was great, thanks to those of you on the board who were there and uh we ve actually gotten some great feedback from, uh, lots and lots of folks that were there. Uh, the goals of the meeting, uh, were to know what the four phases of ousd s financial stabilization plan are and what the goals of each phase are, uh, and then to begin to identify the conditions for a successful phase 4 in phase 4 engagement process and collaboration with ousd community members. Uh, and we re very much concerned with the stage 4,
excuse me, phase 4, part of the engagement process. The strongest message that we got from our parti participants, uh, and I think this will sound um very familiar is that trust requires a feedback loop. Community needs to see what they ve said reflected back to the participants in these engagements, and they want to know what s been done with the suggestions that have been shared with decision makers. And they need evidence of that We do have a couple of upcoming engagements, uh, Wednesday, APRIL 29th, that s next week. This will be on Zoom, actually both of these, uh, the upcoming the next two upcoming
engagements are on Zoom APRIL 29th is more or less a reinforcement of what we did on the 31st, hopefully to a wider audience, um, encouraging a lot of people to, to stay tuned for that. And then on Wednesday, MAY 6th, we re going to have, uh, breakout meetings that are in different languages to uh be as language accessible as as language accessible as possible, and that ll, uh, also be there. And then on the on JUNE 1st, we will have a very important in-person community meeting, and that will be at a place to be determined. If you d like to communicate with us, uh, questions, support, anything. Uh, we do have, uh, a web domain and a email address
engage at ousd dash mseg.Org. We will be launching an online uh platform for engagement, uh, and a website very soon, hopefully within the next week. Now I d like to move on to the highlights from the APRIL 15th meeting. That were, uh, in addition to this, we continued our discussion of the changes taking place in the academic division for the 26, 27 school year and we had a focus on community schools and student services, attendance and safety, and then the Office of Equity Targeted strategies, interpretation and engagement. In discussing these reductions and other changes, we aim to understand them in the context of things that have not changed. Understand the history of how
that staffing evolved in the past and consider both the immediate impact and the opportunity to do things differently. The questions and comments focused on the reasons for moving mtss, that s the multi-tiered systems of support into the Department of Community Schools and Student Services and what that impact would be. There are questions about what the actual work of the mtss team would be given their focus on many areas of student support, including academic, social, emotional, and attendance, etc. And also what their relationship with other central teams including safety and discipline would be. We also, we also talked about how centralized interpretation
could be scheduled and coordinated with the loss of employee during that work as we, uh, will no longer be having a central, um, scheduler for, uh, interpreters, how scheduling would be prioritized when centralized interpreters are managed across departments and the use of contracted interpretation services, and other staff. Staff explained that the interpretation resources other than centralized interprets, oh, excuse me, um, I m skipping around. I wanted to go to 5. We did wanna, uh, we did talk about the impact of losing both centralized family engagement specialists and CSMs when it comes to supporting schools committees and rela and related engagement activities. There was concern that we will
fully lose the ability to do this work. The extent to which the intervention approaches developed by the targeted strategies team in the Office of Equity, are passed to the mt mtss team, which also coordinates student interventions do the full recording, you can see everything at ousd.Org/elcap. And please join us at our MAY meeting where we will be draft rereview uh we will be reviewing draft changes for the llcap. For the next presenter we re requesting that she be off camera. So that s for our kdol folks. Just give me the go ahead one Thank you. Hello, my name is Latifali, and I ll be presenting for the, um, I
ll do the report back for the district English language Learner Subcommittee. Our highlights from our MARCH meeting. At our MARCH meeting, we learned about summer school for English language learners, um, one of them was the summer school academy for high school newcomers in high school. The second one was elementary dual language summer schools and then other ousd. Some, uh, sorry, other ousd and community summer programs such as extended school year for disabled students in ma. There s a link in the slide deck for that. Um, in MARCH, we also learned about the schools that need the most support
because they have the lowest language reclassification rates. Our FEBRUARY meeting had already highlighted the schools that had met the reclassification goals we were asked to consider some important context when reviewing the data. And ok, it takes 5 to 7 years for a student to reach pro proficiency in another language. When we consider reclassification rates, we must also consider the percentage of newcomer students. Newcomers are English learners who have been in the us uh in us schools for fewer than 3 years. A school with a higher percentage of newcomers will have a lower
reclassification rate. This is because it takes longer for newcomers to reclassify. Staff wants us to understand that it is different to show performance data instead of growth data. These are some findings from our discussion. And many of the schools, the fact that students with IEPs were not reclassifying at all or 0% contributed to the lower reclassification rates. 6 of the 20 schools discussed did not follow this trend. Those schools deserve recognition. Some of the schools with low rates had large numbers of students who speak a language other than English or Spanish. We must increase our focus on disabled English learners and on English learners who speak languages other than Spanish.
Next slide. Uh, the focus of our APRIL 23rd meeting tomorrow, um, on APRIL 23rd, we will focus on two of our three priority areas, access to language interpretation and family engagement in school communities. We are very concerned about reductions of central staff in these areas. We are concerned that these services will completely end or that they will be seriously interrupted? We want clear answers about who will coordinate interpretation, the central position for that work has been eliminated. And who will make sure that they that there are legally compliant and effective site
English learner subcommittees at schools all district family engagement specialists have been laid off. Join us on Thursday, APRIL 23rd at 6:30 P.M. Help us protect language interpretation and support for school site committees. Thank you. Sorry Hello, um, my name is jd Waashin. I am the co-chair of the cac, um, our original presentation, um, which you ll see in the slides, um, was prepared in anticipation of um the resolution for school stability and belonging for disabled students in ousd being
put forward for a final vote tonight. The goal of the resolution is to ban the ablest practice of removing disabled students from their school communities by closing or moving their special education classrooms, because children and youth experience these removals as outright exclusion and expulsion. It s traumatic. This is a practice currently allowed for disabled students, but not allowed for non-disabled students. It is a basic non-discrimination policy that we have been calling for since MAY of 2023, but what went up on the agenda for tonight is not the resolution we ve been calling for. What went up is a watered down version that won
t necessarily protect disabled students. It got rewritten after a fiscal impact statement that was done bad on a misinterpretation of the original resolution. The original would mean that a special education program could not be moved from a school, redesigned or closed in such a way that bars students currently enrolled in the program from the choice of attending that school for the entirety of its grade span. In other words, anything that would cause the removal of students from their school community The resolution does not prohibit, as the fiscal impact statement assumed wrongly, reducing the number of classrooms for a particular
type of program at a school as long as the current students can continue to attend the school, changing the grade configuration of a program, for example, looping, redesigning a program, for example, going from a program that serves only students with moderate needs to one that can serves students with both moderate and extensive needs as long as the IEPs and curri cul um access of the students can be fulfilled. And it doesn t prohibit changes from whole schools being closed. The new resolution allows loopholes for students to still be ripped from their communities and removes the safeguards of informing the cac of proposed changes and calling for the board to vote on such
changes. But the cac had a meeting with Director Brohard, Taragaard and Janine Lindsay this Monday, which was very productive and moving towards a resolution that will both protect students from discrimination and eliminate misunderstandings. And we look forward to having a vote on that at the MAY 13th board meeting and ending this three year saga. Um, and should I, and our next, our next meeting is when is our when is our MAY when is our when is our MAY 11th. Thank you. There are there any public comments on the pec report?
Ok. Oh, I see. Ok. Are there any board comments on pisac? Uh, I m gonna clarify Are there any public speakers on the pesac report? Right If there is anyone who wants to speak from the audience on the pisa report. I understand there was a an issue with the cards. Are there any board comments? Yes, I do have one, and I was trying to find the exact page um where it s located. And um I just want to encourage, I really enjoyed the report, but I want to encourage, um, everyone on the Peace Act to make certain you do not allow growth data to be minimized.
Many times, growth data will, will actually help us understand how kids are moving successively. And even though performance data might be hard to, to get, please allow yourself to utilize growth data also because it s extremely important, especially as you re moving kids from one, when they re matriculating, we uh growth data is very, very important. Lata Yeah, when I, um, appreciate, um, the lcap committees for presenting and, um, also, I think we just want to uplift again that the fact that we still haven t passed the school stability resolution, um, is very, um frustrating given that
it is a basic, um, civil rights issue and an equity issue that we treat our special education students the same way that we would treat our general education students. That being said, I also just want to appreciate, um, our general counsel, Janine and um our deputy superintendent of Business and operations Tara Guard and jd Woloshin, um, as well as, um, the whole cac for pulling together, um, you know, kind of a lot of work over a couple of days. Um, and I actually feel like the efforts that I have seen over the past couple of weeks, um, from our senior leadership, um, have actually made me feel like there is a real good faith effort to pass this resolution
and to ensure that we re protecting our disabled students. And so I just wanna say that I think that there are a lot of people who ve been following this resolution and wondering why it has taken so long. Um, and I will just say that I feel like we are, um, that I have seen some really meaningful collaboration from district staff and parent leaders. Um, on behalf of our, um, you know, some of our most vulnerable students being our disabled students. Thank you. Williams Thank you for the work that you re doing, um, yes, I mean, it is um really making a hold in our
district accountable. Uh, to make sure that everyone gets treated, all students. Uh, get treated, uh, equitably, so I am in support of it. Thank you. Barry. Yes, I just wanted to say thank you. I had the rare opportunity to attend the pesac meeting. I almost always have a conflict and so I really appreciated being a part of the space. The conversation that you all were facilitating as a conversation that I think the entire board needs to have. And so I left being curious and committed to figuring out how we agenize that conversation and make sure that staff are having that
conversation so that there s a plan in place that answers all of the questions that you all were raising and that times 25, given all the other bodies of work that we need to apply those same questions to. So I will be returning as soon as possible and engaging with you all directly to, to figure out how we can have that conversation in more spaces Bachelor Thank you. I d like to just thank the whole committee for all of the report and the, the work that they do each, um, at each meeting and each day. I especially wanna, um, appreciate the, uh, Dell Committee, uh, for highlighting, um, the issues around language justice and family engagement.
I think tho those are so you know, when coming to Oakland, those I think were such values that I like super appreciated and loved, making sure that like everybody was able to access um the information that they needed to do to support their students in the language that is most common to them. Is, I think, crucial, um, family engagement is also essential. I have seen folks bring students in that were in other uh online school spaces or weren t coming to school because of that continued commu family engagement so I think those positions for me are really important, um, and, and I, uh, will remind us that I included language around, um,
in the reductions if there is additional dollars to bring back some of those positions that do impact attendance enrollment safety, and academics. And to me those are positions that are crucial and key to all of those issues, all of those areas. Uh, so I look forward to the governor s budget, um, and, um, us being able to like fully reinvest back into those positions, um, because again, those are important to our schools communities. Um, and again, just the amazing work that you all do in such a short period of time and getting us this information is really helpful. Thank you. I want to talk a minute about the meeting that we had, um, to rework the, the, uh, student
stability, uh, resolution, and again, I would like to apologize to the csa cac community. I rushed through that, um, thinking it was of the urgency to get it passed because a number of us have been working on this for 3 years. Um, but I really want to appreciate the conversation that happened particularly between jd and and Tara Guard. I thought that it was both sharp and to the point. And I felt like the way both of you thought about the answers. I was, you know, kind of jumping ahead to different things. I, I felt like the thought that both of you put into this and working through some of these issues in the way
that, um, that you did, I think will really produce a resolution that we will vote on on MAY 13th and we ll really um benefit. Um, our students, our disabled students and families of disabled students, um, again will protect, you know, of the students rights, uh, disabled students rights to remain in their school that they enroll in initially and I thought, again thinking through some of the challenges of it, um, but just done in an amazing thoughtful way. So I really appreciated that conversation. Uh, student director. Thank you.
Uh, moving on to our next agenda item. Is item m, which is Labor Partners. I can see tonight we have our labor partners that are coming up, um each uh, union will have 5 minutes to speak. So if there are any speakers who would like to come up at this time. I was just ask which union wanted to go first and I see Beser from Building trades there. I guess nobody heard Good evening again. How are we doing? I will speak again with the same thing where I spoke before. That we need to reverse the layoffs, cuts in every union
that is present the oesd The whole district feels that neglected and poor condition because of you, the people not coming to work. We, we have so many that it s uh either outside or outside building or inside that feels it. There is the cas effect staff, but mainly who feels it s the kids of the Oakland Unified. They are the ones suffering the more. As you already saw before a Donna, one of the teachers, the kids came, talked about her, how much they re gonna MISS Her. It s just one person. Imagine going through. Hundreds of them that they re gonna feel like that. Um, and every staff in the district and the student, it s
a pillar that holds osd keep going. That s something that we need to look deeply into with all these cuts and we, we need to figure out how to reverse them, how to bring them back more. There is the money. It s coming up from So whatever it is, every day there s something coming up new, we need to use that and fund this back or reverse it or rehire because we have so many retirees as well. that they re not going to be replenished Uh, those vacancies, they re gonna be probably sitting, which that means it affects also the uh ur can actually structure of the whole district because uh yeah, you re gonna
have no vacancies, uh, and then we re losing my unit that is over the 7 people that we re gonna lose and it s only 7072 of us. So that means that every school is gonna affect it with the kids, with everybody else. I want to also talk about a little bit of bargaining that we re dealing with right now. I mean the bargaining, we re trying to bargain in good faith, um, we proposed some stuff we re waiting to get it back. I, I hope so that the labor relations shared that with you guys. Um and we re hoping for the next bargaining date that we re gonna be something to make us happy. I want to also talk about safety that is going through a district uh in recent months,
there is so many issues that happen throughout the school district, uh, Amherst, uh, Emerson, I m not gonna mount them. Laurel and all that stuff, we need to look deeply into the safety of these students and staff, the staff is more exposed to these environments than anybody else. I m talking about from teachers, principals, uh, special eds, bng people in and out of the unit. Anybody that s working for a school district should be people should worry about it deeply and work together how to make the safe district for everybody because uh it s all about we are all a team in this So we need to figure out this communication, the trust, whatever it needs to be, so we
can make it better. Uh, I definitely want to spoke also speak about supporting the DR. Sadler. She did take some risks to change stuff, uh, which probably before people didn t. Uh giving kudos to your board as well, but all we need to do a little bit better, I think communication getting uh getting more information from the district on the more transparency from the district, uh, understanding that you need to, what you need to do when it comes to decisions uh, because if lack of information doesn t give you that, you need to ask the labor, you need to
ask around, how can we achieve that, but one way or another, uh, because it definitely I support a lot of stuff, not all of it. Probably all of the people behind me as well. but uh uh uh we need a change. And we shouldn t be afraid of change. Change is good. Depends depends how you embrace it. Uh, but also, uh, bit change comes lots of a lot of responsibility. I can accountability as well. We need to make sure that everybody s accountable for their actions from the leadership on the top, the bottom, including you guys sitting there, your decisions are but makes sour. Life easier and maybe makes
everybody else s life easier. Um. I support board in anything that you guys do. I definitely wanna talk and keep meeting with you guys, discussing the issues that we have, uh, definitely something that, uh, looking forward in the future, which each one of you, some of you I didn t met every person, uh, not in person, in meetings that we had in one on one. I m hoping that that in the near future we re gonna continue having that and uh thank you for your time. Appreciate you. Good evening, uh, Superintendent. Good evening board. Student directors. My name is Carrie Anderson. I m an elementary teacher at Mancia Community School and the oea First Vice PRESIDENT. I d like to start first by
thanking all of you, Superintendent, board, and district staff for all of the work that you re continuing to do, um, to get us towards a truly student centered budget. I know that that work is not easy. At the same time, I would like you to please continue thinking about our students and what they need. Continue thinking about the individuals, the humans who day in and day out at our school sites serve those students. The visual and performing arts teachers, some of whom their positions have been cut. The tsa is who support the excellent Vappa learning that
our students thrive on. The home and hospital team Office of Ethnic Studies, excuse me, the ethnic studies, uh, people who support our ethnic studies program, as well as many of the other people who work in the Office of Equity. Our counselors, our step subs and other student facing positions. I do understand that cuts are hard, but they re hard disked. When they have a direct impact on our students, and our students are losing out on learning and on the caring adults who serve them. I also just want to draw to your attention the disproportionate impact on our workers of color and
particularly black workers in this district and ask you to keep a very close eye on that at this time and as we move forward. Thank you. Hi, um, i m Phoebe Ngun. I am an occupational therapist with special education and I serve as vice PRESIDENT Of seiu and I m here with um my other other wonderful leadership, um so right now I, I think we re trying to um reconcile um all these eliminations and and decreases in FTEs so. I ve just been thinking, ok, so on the one hand, you know, let s decrease or eliminate some FTEs of um attendance specialists here.
Move some over there and then at the same time, um, you re talking about stability and generating revenue, right? Through attendance And then also reconciling um how we care about our community and value family engagement. And then yet we re eliminating family liaisons and family communities um engagement specialists and basically gutting the Office of equity. Um, there, there s also um trying to figure out what it means when you, when, when you agenda, appreciate, raise, lift and value our student s future
on one hand, and then we um cut the specialists in the college and career readiness and also specialists in technology. And then also, by the way, um case managers um I just wanted to highlight again that they re the ones that are doing, that s doing the work student by student and family by family that impacts attendance at tier 1 and tier 2, that you ve highlighted yourself is where the focus of attendance, um, retain to retain um good, I mean to um support attendance which again builds revenue which again supports and stabilizes schools, um, I do wanna say that, um, being part of the, um,
outsourcing committee with Director Laura, there s the it the work is slow, right, but it, I, I see a lot of positive stuff going on, so I do wanna lift that up, um. So I just want to say that these are the exact positions that keep schools functional and connected to families. So these are filled, fully functional schools. It s not about a lack of work and it s not about a lack of money. It s really a lack about a will and really putting your the money where your priorities are. Are there any other labor
partners that wish to speak Thank you Nice Uh you want to go ahead ok, I believe there s a representative from uaos. Uh, good evening. Thank you so much. Um. There s a lot going on that I wanted to talk to you guys about, but I was gonna stick to, uh, something that I ve been planning for a while to present to the board. Uh, we need to be able to hear all speakers. Thank you. Um as I was saying, uh, there s, there are a lot of things that I
ve been planning to say to the board, I m gonna stick to something that um. I m planning to speak to the board for a while on. Oh wait, that s If the audience could please, uh, keep it down so we can hear all the speakers. Thank you. We ve also reset your time. Good evening, Bart. My name s Carrie Kaufman. I m PRESIDENT Of United Administrators of Oakland Schools. Thank you guys for the time. Um, there are a lot of things I d like to speak to you guys about, but I m gonna stick to one, topic tonight. I did, uh, send you guys an email and I ll check in with you guys about that email later, um, but tonight I did want to speak about bargaining, and if I have some time, I will
a little to see if I can speak to some MARCH 15th concerns that we have as well. Um I actually want to present something to you guys that I will send today. Um, it is a joint study that the union in the district did collaboratively, uh, and this joint study was examining the pay of our members as well as many other things. Um, this joint study was conducted by the school district ousd as well as uaos, um. And it covered multiple topics. Uh, it was a six month study It, uh, we benchmarked against multiple peers in our area and uh we analyzed administrator pay, all administrators in, in uaos. Um. We looked at principals,
assistant principals, as well as managers, coordinators, directors, all positions in uaos um Before I talk about some of the findings, I want to do a a quick thing, uh, update for you guys. There have been a lot of settlements of contracts in the area. Uh, Berkeley, San Francisco, and West Contra Costa all settled within the past 6 months, um, and la just settled last week. Berkeley settled for an 8% increase in their pay. An increase in their benefits from 55% to 80%, and additionally, twoteps added to their pay scale at 3% each,
and I m speaking to the administrators union. West Contra Costa settled for uh 5% and 3% and 8% raise as well and then they also settled for a significant increase in their benefits. Uh, San Francisco settled for a a flat rate raise as well as percentage raise that turned into about 12 to 15% raise, a me too for all any other union as well as benefits increases. Los Angeles just settled. The Allah, the Association of Administrators in Los Angeles settled for a 12.15% raise, along with other monetary settlements.
The other findings were that ousd we have loved to say that we have the best benefits for our members, and that s how we recruit, we recruit employees is that we have the best benefits. That s still true, but it s competitive. San Francisco has been matching this. West Contra Costa is going to be matching this. Berkeley is pushing their benefits up. We can no longer continue to say the district can no longer continue to say to us that we re gonna pay you less because your benefits are better. The, the average, the average raise just to get our members to the average of 10 to 12 districts that we compared to
would be from 10 to 30% for site-based administrators and from 7 to 20% for central administrators. The average raise that our members would need just to be in the average, not to be the top quartile, the top tersile would be 14%. We have one competitive salary schedule in our whole union. One, the third key finding which was shocking to me when I saw it, 82% of our members are at the top of their pay scale. joke. After 20 years, we get $1300 for a stipend. We only have 6 steps on our pay scale, and after 20 years we got $1300. That hasn t been adjusted in very long. After 25 years, it turns into 2300 or 2500. These stipends are also
noncompetitive when I m looking at neighboring districts who do a percentage-based stipend. Um not only do we get paid the lowest in the area. We work more days contractually then. All of our neighboring unions. On average, our members are working 2% more days, 4 to 6 more days a year than our neighbors. And they re still getting paid less on a yearly basis. I wanted to do a couple of case studies with you guys. Um, I just picked a random middle school assistant principal of 23 years of experience in Oakland, if you add their base pay their benefits, their health
benefits, and their longevity stipend, it comes up to $147,000. You do this in our three neighbors, you get 176,000, 168,000 and $194,000. Members can go right next door and get a $50,000 increase in their pay. I did another case study after I did the second one, the district said, you don t need to do anymore. The second one, I looked at elementary principles with 15 years experience. No longevity stipend with their pay and health benefits, they get $170,000 including health benefits. Neighbors 190, 182, 203. You get 30 $35,000 more going next door. We need to settle our contract.
We need to get fair pay for our members. The, the pay is, is offensive. Thank you guys so much for your time Thank you Moving on to item n, which is the superintendent s report. Good evening. Um, community board members, staff, um, thank you for this time to report out, uh, I d like to start off just going over some items that I ll be discussing tonight specific unsung heroes, school highlights, and a focus on student attendance strategies. Today I want to acknowledge this is administration, um, Professionals Day, and I know that many of our sites, uh, many of our, um, staff were celebrated for their srt of
the school and their support in central office as well. Tonight I d like to acknowledge um Lisa Walker from Glenview Elementary. Um, she is an admin assistant, uh, but she covers so much more in in terms of what she brings regarding culture, spirit, and success. And her knowledge is, um, is incredible in terms of how she supports teachers, all staff and the students. Um, she s a special person that goes above beyond on a regular basis. Next unsung hero is Ariana Bostick is a speech and language pathologist at Burbank Early Learning Center, and she is not only a skilled speech
pathologist, but again, she goes above and beyond in supporting the community, working on several, uh, activities outside the program, outside the school, what I, which is what I call an outdoor classroom, uh, and supports our early childhood in many different ways. And so we want to acknowledge how she has extended herself beyond her regular uh assignment. And that s Ariana. Now, Humphrey Garrett. Uh, who s well-known, he is a culture keeper, but he is someone who always goes above and beyond every day, and she acknow he acknowledges uh staff, uh, he s worked all over the
district. He s worked as spend significant time at Skyline, but he s someone who knows students, he coaches students in addition to his work, um, at current work at Foster, and we want to acknowledge him, um, Humphrey Garrett, he s also one of our classified employees who will be acknowledged, uh, at the next board meeting. Next slide And now I want to go into school highlights and I m gonna ask our attendance uh speakers to come forward because we will go through this pretty quickly, but I wanna highlight um our science, science teachers and the schools where they re working, we really wanna, uh,
focus on our academic outcomes, and we have the stem Science Fair, which is coming up MAY 6th at Karl Mok, Christine Clark, I want to say their names out loud because they have done so much around advancing science at their sites. Highland Community School, Tracy Dordell at Laurel, Melissa Cox, Lockwood Steam, Pablo, Pitcher de Proto. Martin Luther King Elementary, Hannah Welch and Marla Sato. They are all participating in the stem fair and at Piedmont Avenue Elementary you ll see a long list of people who have been advocating for science at
the site. Conceptual, uh, r&l, uh, Dexter Coleman, Julie Ward, Kimberly Wong, Marie Assam Marini Matthews, um, Nasah Nesbit, uh, Rachel Martin, Rose Fucci, Roxanna Miles, Sarah Wills, Suzuku, Korroba, uh, Stephen Day, Tamara Rogers, Theoda Ambers, Trentlitico, and at Thornhill Elementary, Caitlyn Dodson. Next, I I d also like to acknowledge, um. Another site um Crocker Highlands, um, won the, um, Blue Ribbon Award this year. It s not the first time that um
that Crocker has received it, um, but I m very excited about, um, the acknowledgement that our state superintendent did and Duncan Wynn, who, uh, received a proclamation from our mayor, uh, recently, uh, at City Hall and see a, see a picture of, of some students that joined her, the staff, obviously it s the students who ve done the work and the staff who uh provided the the learning. Um, so I would like to acknowledge that and then moving on, um, where we ve unveiled, um, new athletic fields at icstcn we have several, several competing soccer teams that meet there on a regular basis. Um, we also
had the Oakland Ballers and Oakland Roots. They were there to celebrate with the students and just acknowledge, um a new field which was provided by Measure y. And lastly, um, I wanted to mention, um, board PRESIDENT, uh. Bohart and myself attended the Latino honor roll. It was awesome, it was, uh, we had a there was a student speaker that was fantastic, um, I saw a student there that s received a special award from Oakla s Promise and their families, and it was it meant a lot to me because I was um able to sit
with the founders of the Latina honor roll, um, Peter and, um, Emma Ru who I was around when we were together when that came about many years ago and uh we were able to um give our students the acknowledgement, um, actually give them their medals. They also had a section where all the seniors were sitting together, and that was a real powerful to see the numbers Please note that our student honor rolls, um, are honoring students who are receiving a 3.75 or higher. And we had lots of students who are in that category, and I was just so proud. I go to all the honor rolls and it s, it s
really what this is about is making sure that we are acknowledging students, but, but also taking the information from these events and using it in our middle schools and elementary schools to motivate our students to be able to participate in this way. At all of our honor rolls, our students received stos that they were the seniors will see a stole that they will wear at their graduations, and this is a way of acknowledging um their hard work, the teacher s hard work, and the families that support them. Now we ll go right into our student attendance strategies report and i
ve asked um uh, Sheila White and um Dwayne rockboun, uh, affectionately known as b, uh, to, to provide this presentation and um they re gonna give us an update on what we re doing and the strategies that we have in place regarding attendance. And let me turn you over to that. Good evening, PRESIDENT Brohardt, Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor, board members. Interim superintendent Doctor Saddler. And student director My name is Sheila White. I am a product of Oakland schools. I ve worked here in Oakland Unified School District for
21.5 years. My current role is senior director, strategic projects. And like I said, I m a product of Oakland schools. Go Wildcats. Thank you so much for your time. My name is Dwayne Bartholomew. I m the director of mtss for Oakland Unified, uh, born in the city, raised in Oakland, and very proud ousd employee. And we re gonna start with something that uh MR. Oscar Wright would always say, it s not about you, it s not about me, it s about the kids. So let s talk about and look at some of the data in terms of student attendance as it relates to our attendance audits. So some historical data,
2010-11 our audit finding was $800,000. 800,000 2011, 2012. Our audit finding was 1.2 million. And at that time I was asked to take on the role of supporting student attendance. And in 2012 I did just that. Um, I began reviewing all of the attendance audits. Board policy, state and federal guidelines as it related to attendance and what the process processes should be. I went to all the school sites, met with the attendant specialist to see what were they doing in the schools, what processes were they following? And so things were kind of, they had some really great
systems in place, but there were some things that were being done that we really didn t need to do, so I took some of their great strategies and just put them in writing, and we, they became our processes, streamline the processes, began having trainings. This is when we had in-person trainings a lot. We had a lot of in-person trainings and right now today, if you go into any school, the process is the same in every school. So whether a specialist is bumped um, to another site, whether there s a substitute, everyone is doing the same process. So in 2012, 2014,
we had 150,000 approximate um audit finding in those two years and and um the auditors came back. And they said, ok, wait a minute, what s happening here? Our district did file an appeal to have those audits lowered from 2010 to 2012. And they did lower those audits. Ok, to about 200,000 for those two years, so we had a lot more funding for student services. 10 of the years, um, under my leadership has been zero financial impact, but I m just leading the work. There are a lot of people doing the work in the field. They re doing excellent work, so I wanna highlight uh the great work of
our attendance team at this time. We have a wonderful program. I wanna let you know about our clerical mentorship program. It s been in place for the last 4 years, and we have 10 of our site clerical team members, 5 attendance specialists, 5 admin assistants, and it s a partnership that we have with our one of the unions at ciu. Um, our mentors, they apply. They re screened and selected. And they receive a $6000 annual stipend. And what they do, they re, this is amazing, amazing group of group of people that are highly
functioning. And um highly skilled. They train other clerical 1 to 1 they provide 1 to 1 trainings. They support um Kabo Bills, the ousd Health Fair. They step in and support other principals when the principals admin team is out. And just recently they supported over 1000 data errors so that our p2 audit, um, would be very, very clean when the report went to the state. Last year, at the end of last year, they cleared over 100 hra s after school was closed and some of the other clerical left, there was still some work that needed to be done, and they stepped in and supported that work.
And so, lastly, I want to talk about this great initiative under the supervision and direction of Doctor Sadler. So she partners with Oakland Natives Give Back. It s a great incredible partnership. Doctor Shadler was looking at our attendance data and there were 10 sites that she identified with a high unverified percentage rate at these schools. So Oakland natives um provided everyday accounts initiative to our district. They began calling all the families of the students that were absent for an enormous amount of time. And partnered with the families
to get the students back in school. And you go to the next slide, please. And so I just want to share some of the data. This initiative started in JANUARY and concluded APRIL 13th. And so at the time Castlemont was our highest unverified absences with students at 74.3%. And with the partnership with Oakland natives, they re dropped to 59.8%, a huge, huge variant. And if you look at Brett Hart they start at 17.2%, and they re verified absence rate dropped to 14.6. If you look at the very last, 02 more data points I want to
share. So, um, last year our absence rate at this time was 9.5% districtwide right now we re at 8.8. So that s a drop, which is fantastic. Also, we were at 27.3 district-wide unverified absence rate, and now we re at 23.6%. Which is a almost a 4% variance. So Doctor Sadler, I want to thank you for this initiative with Oakland Natives Give Back. It has really proven to support our students and help them. Thank you. Is just based off of the partnerships that we um utilize, uh, to make us, um, uh, attentive to attendance needs. Uh, it
s the training and support from our clerical staff. Um, it s all part of our mtss attendance strategy. It s really grounded in universal supports with every single school having an attendance team, that s one job is just how do we get our kids back to school and attending as frequently as possible. If without the relationships built without the trust, um, and the hard work of all of our attendance team members, ranging from principals, uh, community school managers, case managers, clerical staff, um, we wouldn t be able to do this, um, at all, so I just really wanna, you know, just appreciate the hard work that goes in uh to these
weekly meetings, these biweekly meetings at the school sites to take ownership of attendance and improve the access that our children have. And even for our students that, you know, might need a more targeted approach. Uh, we can utilize systems like sart and uh for an intensive approach, sars to have conversations with families to, you know, stop the cycle of the punitive attendance markers or um doing two families, but rather changing that, that mindset and actually doing with families and trying to build strategies to support families to access school every single
day. Um, so with all that hard work, um, you know, we re really proud. Of our chronic absenteeism, um, progress as a district, um, back in 2018, 19 before covid hit, uh, our chronic absenteeism was at 31.6%, with about 17.6% of students attending school, 95% of the time or greater. Covid hits, hits us hard. Our chronic absenteeism, skyrockets to 61.4%, um, and, you know, it s not until just, I mean, this is the current data that we re at for 25, 26 in terms of chronic absenteeism, and we ve dropped that chronic absenteeism rate to 26.5. Now, as 1 in 4 students chronically absent the where we wanna be,
no, but that drop is dramatic and something to be proud of, and even more so, I just really want a key on that 50.1% of satis satisfactory attending students. Those are students that are coming 95% of the of the school year or more. That is a huge leap from where we ve been, and the more we get that maximum amount of attendance, the more it will help the district, but most of all, our children will get access to an education. Thank you so much. Uh, and do we just wanna kind of close with, you know, we wouldn t be able to do this as we ve kind of showcases, we do it together, um, classified, certificated, uh, all leadership, all focused on one goal, and that s how we make
our strides. So thank you so much for the support. Thank you. Thank you very much and I also wanted to acknowledge, um, I look at attendance on a daily basis, and I want to acknowledge our teachers we have over 55 of our schools have teachers who provided their attendance on time 100% of the time, starting with the from the beginning of the school year to today, we have 55 schools where teachers are getting that attendance early on so that we can notify families through text, through calls, through um our supports with Oakland natives gives back
through um our all all parts of our team that our community school managers, there s a whole group of people who have been focusin on attendance. So thank you very much for that report. Are there any questions from the board m Mhm. Ok, there we go. I got it Oh, ok, sorry about that, you guys, but no questions. I just wanted to say how refreshing it was to hear about the new field on Think College now. If you pass by just drive by or just anything, you ll see how much they love their field. They re, it s always in use whenever I see it. It s just a community spot for a lot of people, so it s very nice to see how
useful it is to our students and our community. Um, and yeah, I just want to say I m very happy about the Latino honor roll. I will be speaking at the Black honor roll, so I m very excited for that. These are the student, um, achievements that we wanna make sure that we re acknowledging and again with the attendance thing, yes, I hope that our tennis team continues to flourish and get, continue to have our students in our schools to make them want to learn and want to be there every day. Uh, Director Berry Yes, I had the privilege. I think it must have been budget and Finance Committee of
hearing a preview of today s presentation on attendance and chronic absenteeism, and I had a few questions then. And I wish I brought my notes, um, but I think I remembered some of them, so I want to ask them tonight since we have the folks who know the answers here with us tonight. So my first question is a response to the incredible progress we ve made. I mean, almost 62% chronic absenteeism. It s just baffling and to do more than cut that in half. Um, I think it s incredible. My question is, especially in light of all the changes. That we ve experienced this past MARCH with layoffs. I
first want to know who is the team of people who does the work. At each of those levels, at each of those tiers, tier 1, tier 2, tier 3, who s doing that? And then how is that team changing in light of the layoffs that we just experienced this year. And then what s the vision and the plan going into next year with the big question being, how do you maintain that progress. I m gonna Oakland natives gives back is in the audience and I d like you to just come up so people can see you. They have wrote a grant and have been providing its services at no cost to the district. And so let s
acknowledge Oakland natives gives back in terms of their uh work. Um we re actually gonna be at McClymon s tomorrow, um, acknowledging the growth and a student there is gonna be receiving some funds for their increased attendance. So thank you for coming tonight and joining us. Um, staff, if you could respond to, um, Director Berry s question, please. Thank you. Um, so, uh our, uh, site attendance teams are, um, some of the most resilient and just um steadfast folks that I ve ever had the honor to support and work with. Um, I, I, I, it
s gonna look different in different places like in terms of the impact of some of the the changes that happened. Um, currently, uh, attendance teams are going through self-assessment, um, to be able to see some of the potential gaps for next year and we are working with teams to build attendance plans that can support them going into next year. So we re kind of in that, in that, uh, still the, the, the building process to ensure that um, you know, there s no negative impacts based on uh the changes as much as uh you know, to our ability, um, I think as teams have developed through the years, they ve learned a lot about how to be more efficient, um, how to
build capacity as a team, and I think that s gonna be a maintained focus going forward, um, you know, in, in the light of, of, um, you know, the, the current changes. Um, so, you know, I, I hope that answers your question or part of it, but the first part of the question is who is the team? Yes, so the teams, the attendance teams themselves are site personnel, uh, ranging from, um, principal, uh, community school managers, case managers, clerical staff, um, attendance specialists, um, at every attendance team at every site looks a little different depending on the personnel that they have for the site. Some site s have family liaisons that are part of that process. Some sites have, um, African American male achievement that
is part of that process. It just depends on the site specifically and how it s structured with personnel, uh, to the folks that support with case management, support with family engagement, um, to really hit home and, and, um, ground in who are the people being affected by attendance at your at at your site and how do we approach them to take away the barriers that they might be facing. Um, my team coaches a lot of these teams to be able to, you know, utilize data to make decisions, um, to be able to see the trends and time periods when it s like we re gonna hit a dip in the next couple of weeks because we always do right before winter break or before
spring break, um, and what can we do to be proactive to make sure that parents know when school starts back to make sure that parents know uh when school gets out, um, and that they come every single day, even those last days at the end of the year when it seems like, hey, all the testing and stuff is in, um, we still need you there every single day because every day counts. Um, so it s school site personnel, central oice supports for that school site personnel and as you go through the tiers, a lot of, um, like arbs are being are held by uh certain uh community schools personnel, um, with, um, sart facilitation and support through mtss and uh community schools as well.
I also like to add to that list at the top of the list is the classroom teacher calling home and talking with the parents around, just saying we missed your child today, we missed you. Can we support in any way? And so there actually is dedicated time in the contract for teachers to be able to do that. So there s a huge amount of people who are responsible for making this communicating the need for students to be in school and the supports and sharing the supports that are available. And I, I d like to also add, um, I know Doctor Sadler, um, in one of our meetings you mentioned that Oakland natives
will continue to support our schools next school year. So the launch that they did with phone banking will continue as well next school year. Um, my name is Dais Hunt. I m the chief of programs at Oakland Natives. Give back. I am born, raised, educated on purpose, go Bulldogs, ok. Um, but we have been doing attendance-related work for 18 years. And so we see ourselves as an extension of the work of the teams that was just detailed out and um we plan to partner in any way that makes sense to the unique needs of the individual campuses throughout the district. Good evening, everyone. Uh, my
name is Keisha Willard. I am the program director for Oakland Natives Give Back. Gons class of which has been very helpful with us building relationships with families that has given them the support to help remove barriers in order for their children to attend school, and we are definitely looking forward to continue this work with ousd. Thank you for having us. Thank you for working with our district. I appreciate that. Are there any other board comments? Director Hutchinson Yeah. Thank you, while we re shouting out schools Skyline 91. Um, you know, I m, I m, I
m very disappointed against Superintendent Sadler. Um, you know, we have some serious issues going on in the district, and now this is the 2nd superintendent s report in a row that has no mention of our finances at all. And if we remember back to scenario 3, which now people consider a plan for us going forward. It was promised that we would see an increase in attendance this year of 2% and another increase of 2% next year. And listening to these numbers, we ve gone from 90 90.5 to 91.2, which is an increase of 7/10 of 1%. 1/3 of the goal that you set out there months ago.
Um, and I, and before anything else, I want to again put on the public record that I am publicly asking PRESIDENT Brohart, what is the status of our search for a permanent superintendent, because we ve had no answer of that. I was very disappointed in the letters I received from you this week, Superintendent Sadler. We are not on the right track and I thought you sending your community supporter briefing to the board. Yesterday to advocate for you to get a contract going forward was extremely inappropriate, especially since you use districtail to do it. I ve still had no answer to the questions that I sent you over 4 weeks ago.
Again tonight, there s no budget update anywhere on the agenda. The oea contract still hasn t been costed out. We don t even know who s doing the fiscal analysis anymore in the district. A number of the items on the consent report don t have a fiscal impact analysis done. But most disturbing is the fact that we received a notice of going in concern from the county superintendent within the last week. There s been no announcement made from you or by the district announcing to the community that that s happened. There s no discussion of it tonight.
And in that letter, Elise Castro demands that the district provides certain information by APRIL 30th, which is before our next meeting. This is information that the district should already have on hand. Projections if we encumber all of our contracts in a cash flow analysis, both without the oea contract and with it. So I want to know since there s been no acknowledgement of that tonight. Nobody has said anything publicly about that going on. Are you going to comply with the county s letter? When is that going to happen? And when are we going to address the financial crisis that we all know we re facing.
With all due respect to the staff who came and presented, it s great that we re doing work. I love Oakland natives, uh, gives back, former council member De Witt. Been around for a long time But that s not what we should be talking about right now, and definitely not what I expect in the superintendent s report. So are you going to comply with the county s requirements and PRESIDENT Brohart, what is the status of the superintendent search. I want to thank our speakers, um. Director, uh, Hutchinson i am respo I sent a res uh I am responding to the superintendent. I sent her a response, which I sent a copy
to all board members. I sent I m, I m not gonna have a debate with you this evening, but I am going to respond. I have responded to the superintendent. I am working closely with her. Thank you. Are there any other board comments? So point of clarification, I did not receive that. The email that you sent was addressed to the board and the county superintendent has made it very clear that APRIL 30th is the deadline. So if you have responded, can you please make that available to both me and the community since you say that you ve already done it. That should be easy, and I should be able to receive that on my email in the next
few minutes. Otherwise, otherwise, I don t believe it at this point. Thank you. Director Lana, sorry. Director Thompson, I saw your hand go up later. No, simply want to say that thank you, uh, Doctor Saler, for the report and then also bringing in the other individuals in order to substantiate all these wonderful things that are happening. Um, I do want to shout out and thank um you mentioning that Crocker Highland received a blue ribbon award, and that s really important because that addresses the academic excellence of the school and also closing the achievement
gap. So that s doing two things necessarily, and I don t want an answer to this. This is just basically something I m putting out in the ether right now. Um, I, I think it s really important for us to establish vertical articulation, especially when we see a school that s doing well. We can mimic some of the procedures and some of the things that they re doing in order to facilitate that growth in the new school or new schools. Um, secondly, MR. B, I m sorry, I don t see him. Oh, there he is. Thank you very kindly for speaking about Thor and Tarb and how it s more of a
collaborative approach, uh, less than a punitive approach, because before, of course, we would look at attendance and when it escalated to either the sart or the sarb level, we would actually bring in outside individuals who would actually put mandates. And so, thank you very kindly for that. Um, not necessarily going to ask what exactly are you doing in order to create this collaborative approach instead of punitive, but I just wanna say I really appreciate your being able to do that and facilitating another way of actually addressing the attendance needs of
that all of our students should, should take advantage of. Um, DR. Sadler, again, I want to say thank you very kindie for bringing in the desperate individuals to show how all of us have to work together in order to make change. And one of my favorite um quotes is from an individual, her name is Margaret Wheatley, and it s out of chaos comes change. And so I m, I m eyeing that right now. Thank you very much. Thank you, Director Thompson. That s our, our motto there like that, uh, director Lana. Um, I, um, well, I, I don t want to repeat anything that Director Thompson just said on attendance. I ll just plus one
to that, um, and also just wanted to take a quick minute I know you read all of their names, um, Doctor Saler, but to shout out Piedmont Ave Elementary. They have had, um, uh, I think the fact that there were so many, uh, teachers named at that school is pretty incredible and I think, um, just highlights the really great work that s happening at that school. So. Thank you Congratulations to them Director Williams. Um, real quick, uh, thank you, Doctor Sadler, for um your report and bringing the attendance, uh, team up. I think that is oof, and my 5 years, that s like a first. Really. They re just really
hasn t been an emphasis on attendance. We know that we ve had over 3000 students that were chronically absent when I first started in 2021. We, it, it s the facts are in the in the budget itself. Uh, last year we ended with 3000 students again. So really, there has not been a real emphasis to bring that, uh, up, and I m glad that you ve taken that on as a challenge, and continue to use that to bring more revenue to our school. I think there are partnerships out there. Um, it sounds like we really have done a an audit, but really a real
assessment of how best to help our, our sites, and then partner with those who are also doing work uh on the behavior specialist. So I think that s a really great team. What we should be doing as a district is partnering with our communities. We should be talking about how not only just uh chronic chronic absenteeism, but what are the causes of that? I don t think we re talking enough about what are these causes that s driving it. Sometimes just having a phone call home, that s, you just need some one on one conversation to try to figure out what those solutions look like. And some life developments, some of our young
folks are living a different, they look different than we grew up. Let me just say that. And they re providers of their homes a lot of times, and they re working a lot of times. They re doing a lot more than we did as young folks. So I m just really glad that you are making that connection and you re prioritizing that, to really, uh, find the resources to send to our young folks to encourage them to continue to develop themselves and continue to matriculate up, because it will affect their life choices as they move on outside of high school, and if they know that we, we ve put systems in place to have check-ins. That s a win. That is a win. So
I see your vision coming to fruition, and I appreciate all the work that you re doing to move us forward. Thank you. Director Berry I already went because you call my name. I just wanted to say, I do think it s important cause I do a little bit of narrative change in my day job. And I think narratives are important And so I think it is important that we can hold space for two things to be true that Doctor Sadler, you ve prioritized and deepened the investment and attendance, and that we ve clearly made incredible progress over many years and I just want to acknowledge the
work that you inherited, uh, as acknowledgment and celebration of the work that you continued and deepened. I just wanted to name that. I also want to appreciate the work that you ve done, uh, director, uh, sorry, uh. Superintendent Sadler, oh my goodness. Um, I also want to appreciate the work that Oakland natives gives back. I think that this is the kind of partnership that we re looking at in our, um, as we do the just particularly around, uh, our attendance work. I think again, people coming from our communities reaching out to families in our communities makes a huge difference in families feeling acknowledged and having a place to talk to and talk about, you know, the
issues with attendance. So I really appreciate that work, um, appreciate the work of the staff as well It was really a very, um, good report, um. and again, just want to appreciate that is our attendance comes up, first thing is our students are learning. We re closing that achievement gap. We re meeting our, you know, one of our goals is for students to graduate career college and, and, um, community ready and the best way they do that, the only way they do that really is by coming to school. So I appreciate the work and of everyone involved in our, our attendance work. Thank you. Uh, public comment Yes, excuse me, yes, for police
speakers. We have Tanya Kapner, Sheila Haynes, and Asalo Labala. 2 minutes each, and I believe 2 of them are in line, correct? Um, so far, Tanya Kaplan is online. MS. Kapner, if you can meet I made yourself to speak. Yes. Um, Tanya Kapner, uh, Ian Bam caucus, and Oakland Education Association site rep, and I think it s pretty obvious that the elephant in the room here in terms of attendance is that hundreds and hundreds of school workers and employees who support and make it possible for students to attend
and to want to attend and to have a joyous and a truly deep learning experience at our schools have been laid off, have been cut, are not going to be here to help make that happen. And if this district actually wants students to student attendance to improve and to continue to improve, it needs to staff fully staff our schools and provide our students with the, with the, with the quality, equal quality education. I think the students that spoke, uh, for the restoration of the position of MISS Donna Jackson at Laqualita earlier today made it absolutely clear the things that make them
want to that that make them want to stay at school. The kinds of programs that give them mental health supports, de-escalate crises, all these things are at stake, for next year. That s the people that make this happen. Every school should have the people to make those calls home should have the teachers be able to stay at the school and work with the students should have the mental health supports, the conflict resolution should not be firing and laying off and consolidating. Classified or certificated workers should not be getting rid of so many of the oea members, seiu members, the asme members. This is a complete outrage in Oakland. Judges
people on what they do. And so we are demanding the reversal of these layoffs. We are demanding, we know there is money here for these positions to be put back, and our students deserve and need it, and we need to fight for more money for our schools, yes then let s join in a campaign to fight for the money from Newsome. Let s join together to fight the attacks on public education, but this, this school district can res can reverse these layoffs and cuts, and it must do that for our students, for our students to have the bright future they deserve for our students to have the people there to help
them next year that they need to stay in school, to want to attend daily, to have that joyous experience that they absolutely deserve. So I just want to make clear that we re going to continue to build this movement to fight against the cuts and layoffs and that you need to be doing that now, and this should not be a meeting of of self accolades that should be a meeting of reversing those cuts so our students can joyfully attend our schools next year and for the future. So in making that demand on you and we are going to continue to judge people on what they do. No cuts, no layoffs to our students. That s what being
student centered means. Thank you Uh, next speaker, MR. PRESIDENT, we have 2 additional speakers, av Ringer and Joanna Davis. Shame. Do you know how insulting it is for you to celebrate feels being redone, turfs repaired. And McClymons was scheduled this summer to start their field. Being done, and nothing has happened. So California education code section 48,260. through 48262. Addresses truancy.
A part of what is in those sections identifies two forms of truancy that you have to address. One of them is habittal truancy. And addressing habittal truancy, you have to refer to a school attendance review board or a probation officer to create an intervention plan. As it relates to chronic truancy. You have to continue to deal with the truancies. And create referrals to the district attorney. Because truancy can evolve into legal actions.
And in those legal actions parents can be held off accountable by being charged and given fines. Now you, you don t deal with truancy, but you don t have the option not to deal with it because it is law. Not only is it law they are legal consequences when children are involved in what is called chronic truancy. That s a part of your attendance, there s a difference between chronic absent and truant s absence. Chronic truancy means uh unexcused when you have absences that are excused, that s a different thing. You don t wanna deal
with it I hope somebody holds you legally responsible for not n Good evening board. Uh, my name s Joanna Davis. I ve been teaching in Oakland for 21 years. And I ve learned a lot. It s taken me a long time to learn how ousd operates. This year again, the district underreports their revenues during the budget review process. Manufacturing a deficit crisis. Again, the county superintendent corroborates this deficit narrative. Again this year, the media are enlisted to stoke fears of bankruptcy and state receivership.
Again, workers are issued pink slips destabilizing lives and schools unnecessarily. The current revenue projection does not even factor in early retirement savings or the savings from the elimination of vacant positions. An irony of ironies, Mike Hutchinson sounds the alarm the loudest, pretending to champion budget solvency when he didn t pay the workers who got him elected. The 4 school board members who have fought for budget transparency and to reduce spending on our bloated central office and contractors have been publicly blamed for this deficit. But they are the ones who have finally done the work to
wrangle with central office to get accurate information about the budget. Rather than rubber stamping. Thank you to the board members who are supporting increasing wages and benefits in order to reduce outside contracting. Thank you for addressing the highly paid ousd bureaucracy. This is a multi-year project, but we have to stay the course in order to have stable, racially just schools. We know that ousd can afford to keep all the pink slipped positions. We know about the 2.4% cola increase, we know that the budget will increase
significantly for 2627. So please stay the course. Thank you. I want to thank you, uh, Doctor Sadler, for asking your staff to come and give that presentation about chronic absenteeism, the work that they re doing, uh, I think everyone can agree it s it s a big problem not only for the students who are chronically absent, but for the way that it ripples through classrooms, so I think that that s money very well spent and the team is very impressive in the way that they re able to work, you know, together amongst a lot of different types of staff members. I am concerned that a lot of those layoffs are coming from attendance specialists,
case managers assistant principals, a lot of the people that we re talking about in those teams and next year it s not going to look good. I, I fear, um, and that has, that has implications for the students that are chronically absent for their classrooms and for our revenue, um. I, I can t help mention that, you know, it was Doctor Johnson Trammell who put all this in place. Uh I wanna I want to commend her for that and, and mention that, um, Doctor Johnson Trammell was fired in JUNE 2025. Um and it s coming up now on MAY 2026. So how is it possible
that we would have an interim superintendent for a year. And uh not even have started the search for a permanent superintendent It just doesn t seem like a good faith effort. What would a good faith effort to find a superintendent look like? Maybe during one of these board meetings we would have a conversation about what the priorities and principles you d be looking for in a superintendent. What trade-offs you d accept and then go out and find someone who d fit that bill. Uh, whatever place you come to, not everyone s going to agree with it. but whatever can get the support of 4 members. People would support. That s how it s supposed to work, but none of that
s been happening. Uh, you know, the loss of the previous superintendent wasn t some sudden event, it was something engineered by this board. So, you know, of course you point that interim superintendent, but then you have her in place for an entire year without even starting the search. That s not right. Now we hear your pausing the superintendent search in order to create a truly open process that fully involves the whole community. How can you pause something that hasn t started yet? And thank you. Do we have another and can you tell me, Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor, are you making a good faith effort to find a superintendent has been called. Can you, can you tell us that because I think we
deserve that answer. Um, now moving on to Ida thank you which is a consent items. Thank you to all the public speakers that we here today. So the consent items that were pulled were 0 76,077 078082 and 083 Did I get those right, folks? Ok. So is there a motion on consent items o. So moved um comments on, oh. director. No, we re gonna doub board comments and then public comments. Uh, Director Hutchinson Thank you So again, I pulled a number of items so they can be addressed specifically, and I m going to
continue the practice that I started a year ago of not voting for this consent report. As we can see, there s just a number of contracts in here and the spending is just continued unchecked. Um, I know that we don t have the district staff internally to even do uh fiscal analysis of items. I know the reason why PRESIDENT Brohardt pulled s2 off the agenda today is that it didn t have a fiscal impact analysis attached to it at all. So it should have never been brought forward. And now at this meeting, we have a number of items thrown in the consent report that has never been our tradition to do. We don t put board policies in a consent report.
We don t do allocations from our, our bonds and parcel taxes. We don t do uh political advocacy statements of what we are going to endorse as a board going forward in a consent report. Those have never been things that have been used in a consent report. But as you can see, we ve lost all semblance of practice. We have no guard rails. There s nobody doing a fiscal impact analysis. I haven t heard a legal opinion from the general counsel in a very long time to advise against anything. And it s this bizarre world where, you know, I m very proud of the fact that I voted
against those cuts in staffing, because I cited at the time that they hadn t been costed out and it didn t make sense and we hadn t seen them ahead of time. And now the directors that did vote for the cuts of the very unions they claim to work with. Are sitting up here continuing their practice. We have on this superintendent s watch, overspending, money just flowing out the window, and we re not even bothering to search for another superintendent. So, um if people don t realize what s really going on. Um, it makes it hard for us to change as a community, but all the signs
are out there. Uh, I ve seen a lot of stuff in my time I ve never seen this kind of stuff at ousd before, which is saying something. So please more people get involved and if our elected officials and have senior staff are not doing what they should do to do a good job, then we should hold them all accountable. That s the way this is supposed to work. Thank you. Director Thompson. Uh, Director Williams Director Barry. Yes, I just wanted to use this as an opportunity to elevate the letter that acoe uh
delivered, uh, and one of, and I, I think it s the first one, of the required actions is to encumber all contracts, and I do suspect and anticipate that that would lead to our gym consent, you know, agenda looking materially different until the end of the school year. And so I just wanted to invite the public to see the letter and that yes, this would be the item um as far as board, regular board meeting engagement when it would be relevant, that I think would be impacted and we would see that shift and hopefully um we can have the conversation about the other required actions as well. Thank you. Um, so I just want
to lift up number item 81, which is the support of Measure e, um, as we are grappling with the budget and the uncertainty from the state, um, our city is also facing budget challenges, um, but the solution for the city is really in our hands, um, as the speaker said earlier in this meeting, um, we need to vote yes on Measure e to ensure youth employment programs stay funded, violence prevention strategies like macro can continue their work and make sure that first responders have the resources that they need to in order to support us, our students, and our whole school, our whole community. Um, I will not only be voting to support Measure e, um, and voting for it on the ballot,
but I will also be canvassing alongside our community members and labor partners to make sure their whole community understands the importance of this measure and votes to support it, um. Director, PRESIDENT Brohart, did you have any comments on consent? Right, um, let s go ahead and take public comments on consent, MR. Chow. Yes, for speakers, we have Assalolabala. Rachel Kirk Cortez, Irene Brevoy. And Gabriel Cohn Go ahead, we will do a minute and a half. Good evening, directors. Um, before I claim my time, I just want to give a shout out to the cameras and to my attendance team at my school, MISS Dina,
MISS Nicole, we love you. Thank you for all the attendance work that you do and for those watching at home, we know how much that work means. Um, I m here to save us some money. So, um, I ll know that we re ready when our eyeballs are on me and we got a pencil in our hand to take care of some of these oh agenda items that we can take back off the consent report. Um, we re looking at 04. 04 is uh $300,000 increase to a consultant to do, um, design and architectural services for a turf replacement project at Hoover, um, $1.3 million that s a lot of money. Apparently we ve increased it by 300,000 and also increased their date by 3 months, so they are behind and more expensive than originally planned, and when I talked to Buildings and Ground, they don
t have a turf at Hoover. So the question is, what s being replaced? Is this the construction or is this just the design element and $1.3 million no matter what the answer is an incredible amount of money. That I think we didn t take it off. 06, uh rf contractors for some flooring, $50,000 talking to buildings and grounds. I think it s worth thinking about an investment into uh training our own building and ground folks to do flooring. Um, it would require hiring more people, but I think an assessment is required to determine how much we re paying on flooring across the district and whether or not we should bring that in-house. Moving on to 010. 010 is
$156,000 increase to $9 million to do a cleanup work plan at the center. And if you ve been to the center, you know how many kids are at the center these days? 0. So I think we can skip that for now. Uh, we re talking about a million dollars in work planning for cleanup, that sounds like a crazy amount of money. There should be one other slip in there for an Aaron Branold, and I was hoping to also take her time. Is that cool if she defers her time to me? We don t see time, but I can give you 30 more second s Thank you very much. Um, we got 012 is $80,000 for the planning coordination and management for an employee health fair, that s a teacher. So I think uh human services, hr and talent should be responsible for planning,
coordinating, and managing the health fair like we are in charge of planning, coordinating, and on-site managing our promotions, our graduations, our field trips, etc. Um, we got 018, which is the uh district s day of the teacher. We probably should have a ta by then if you want to celebrate us, and moving on to 027 $100,000 to uh Rob Skate for an extra competition in skating, which works out to $800 per hour. I love skating, but that seems like a lot of money to be spending on an after-school skating program without a little bit more, uh, checks and balances on what that amount goes to. And then I just have one more really quick, which is uh 079, the electricity $1.5 million a year for Ava, we know, I know we
re paying like $900 per site to pg&e right now. S I think we should do a little more analysis on how much we re spending on energy across the district before we put through a $3 million contract. Thank you very much. Next speaker. To McClymons and it says that you re gonna connect some electrical wires, whippy uh related to 076. It says that you re gonna abide by attendance and truancy laws. That s what you say. Then an old 77 you say you are going to change truancy to chronic absences. You don t have the, you can t change California law. GOD help us. Uh
04 and 009 have to do with uh Hoover turf, and at least you re doing a geological engineering service to find out if it s toxic. I hope you don t do like, uh, my climbings, you know it s toxic, but you re not doing anything. Then as it relates to, oh this is a good 1. Uh, 10, clean up. You don t say what it is. You just give the address, 28,500, that s West West Street. That s the central kitchen. What s going on at the Central question you are being required by Alameda County Environmental Health Department to do some remediation of problems at the central kitchen. You know that s sneaky when you don t say it s the central kitchen, but you just put 2850 West Street.
Then you have uh 011, new water filtration system at at Zinc s. Now this is important because you never talk about you need to put filtrations systems on the zinks in the kitchens. But you re doing it, you need to do it to every school. Uh, all 13, I m not gonna go with that 10, here s a good one. And your personnel report, 114 individuals are on leave. 76 have separated from the school district. My time s up. Ok, wait a minute, wait a minute. Would you like the rest of these people? I m gonna find one more. And uh, here s a big one. Legal
Services, $114 and protecting students health and education equity resolution. Are y all crazy? You re not doing that. I have some more, but uh I wanna respect that you tell me my time is up. Thank you Um, we have any more public speakers, MR. Ufin? Choo? No, that includes public speakers. Um. Vote. That s right. Um, let s take a vote on the, uh, o items without 076 077,078,082 and 0 83. 83, correct All right, on the roll call, uh on the motion as stated of student directors are absent. Director Thompson Yes
Director Barry Yes Director Hutchinson abstained. Director Williams Yes, sir. Director Lauder. Yes Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor Yes. PRESIDENT Brohart. Yes. The motions adopted All right, we will move on to item 076, uh, which is the absence anduse policy. I believe, um, Director Hutchinson, you pulled this item. I mean, I m sorry, is there a motion Motion to adopt 0 76? Great. Director Hutchinson, you pulled this. Who s taking the credit for the second.
Director Thompson Yeah, I have the same comment for both this item and the following item. Um, I m philosophically opposed to board policy being put in the consent report. That was never the way that we used to do business as a board. Um, I also agree with many of MISS Olubala s comments, um, and I have no faith in anything that s going on here now. So when a board policy is changed in this sort of way, I don t trust that it s been vetted by legal or by anyone else to make sure that it s legitimate. And the way we used to update board policy if there s been a change in the state law, is that review effort is supposed to be led by the general counsel, it s automatic review
across the board of all of our board policies to bring them up to date with current laws. This individual directors throwing something at the committee that they control and then bringing it forward here, thinking they re changing things when there s established policy and established law is very dangerous. And again, it s very hard to have any faith in anything going on here when we see how, uh, how we ve failed in the big picture. How can I trust that directors who are putting their energy into this instead of the big picture, actually know what they re doing. And the, the more uh genuine way to do this would be to list
each individual change in board policy as a separate business item on the agenda, so the community knows, so it can be discussed by the board, and it could be approved um on its own. This other way of doing business, um, just reinforces all the problems that we ve had. Thank you. Uh, Doctor Latta Yeah, I just want to make a couple of comments as the author of this board policy update, um, and just to clarify, this was not something that I wrote independently. It s actually the California School Board Association model Policy and the standard practice in the state is to in for most items that the csba model
policy is the standard and our policy had not been updated since 2004 and so therefore, um, as we re reviewing attendance, I felt it. A good idea to bring our policy up to the state standard. Um, the thing to know about csba in case folks, um, don t know cause why would you? It s a very boring thing to think about board policy if you re not up here, I suppose, is that those all go through their own independent legal review through csba. I did also work with Janine Lindsay, our general counsel, um, as well as fiscal to review this and so and this policy, um, you know, we, uh, the other thing I should say in terms of which policies should be
updated. We undertook a a, you know, basically a policy review with csba a couple of years ago. They reviewed our entire board policy catalog. Um, I believe that was submitted, um, for public review in in the fall of 2024 that outlined which of our policies were outdated and needed to be updated, redundant, um, or we re not uh we we re a unique policy to ousd and so these, this policy and the subsequent one that we ll be discussing were noted to be outdated with current, um, practice and csba model policy. So that s why, um, these are coming in this way, um, and I hope that reassures folks about the level of review that they, um, received. Thanks. Thank you. Um
any other board directors Uh, we ll take public comment on this item, so it s item 76 if folks wanna come up. Provide public comment on this item. You did not have to sign up ahead of time to provide a public comment on this item. I spoke briefly to this, uh, it s absolutely absurd. That a policy that doesn t include the opportunity for input. From teachers from parents, from the community. You just decide to have a policy change. I ve, I ve looked at policy changes that go on at the city
of Oakland. And the way that they do it is to have that input. More than one time So when one person, you say you decided. It wasn t like a committee it was one person decided we needed to do this. But anyway, but in that policy changed, you still have that you will abide by. Truancy law So you are, are you are,, you are legally taking responsibility but you re not doing it. Now the other 1, 70 where you are replacing chronic absenteeism. I
m sorry, you you change truancy into chronic absenteeism. I don t know where that insanity come from. Those are two separate things. Two separate things. One has to do when you have a legal excuse and one is an unexcused absence. I m, I m sorry. I don t know how you can do this. I, I don t understand how the legal counsel allows you to do this. But I ve seen it happen before where y all doing things that legally it s it s not appropriate. Or you don t have the right to do it. Legal counsel, you, uh, you got to say that this is legal.
That you can substitute truancy and make it chronic absenteeism. You can t do that. I d like to invite any other members of the public to make a comment on 0 76. Anybody online that has their hand raised? No. Um General counsel Lindsay, would you like to make a comment on this? Sure, thank you so much. I did want to just uh reiterate, uh, director Latta, I think, pointed to the district s efforts to have policy review and it s in consultation with um the csba which is a common, very common practice for school
districts. So in addition to my legal review of the board policies were also taken into consideration the common language from sample board policies that, uh, the cs b a has put out in many school districts adapt, um, as a whole. And so, uh, we will, of course, and I believe it is a noted in both board policy revisions that of course the ed code will continue to be followed in all instances, and I believe it highlights that there. Thank you. And just for folks who MAY not know, csba is the California School Board Association that we are a part of, um, and, uh, they have a
legal team that reviews and provides feedback and then we also have general counsel that can also be a backup. Um, all right, since there s no other public comment on this agenda item, uh, can we take a roll call on a vote? Yes, one more note, this matter was heard in the Budget and Finance Committee. On APRIL 2nd and is recommended by that committee for approval by the board. On the roll call uh, for approval of 0. 76. Uh, student directors are absent, Director Lauder. Director Williams Yes, sir Director Hutchinson? No. Director Barry
Yes, Rector Thompson, yes. Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor. Yes. And PRESIDENT Brohart. Yes. Motions adopted Alrighty, now moving to 077, which is board policy, a change of board policy 5113.1. Is there a motion So moved. Porcama starting with Director Hutchinson. Yeah, thank you. I don t, I don t want to belabor the point, but I, I just want to say that it gets really frustrating sometimes when people on the diet, um, restate the history of what s happened, and I know they weren t involved during that time period. And so if there was going to be a systematic review of all of our policy to make sure that they re up to date, then what I
would expect to come forward is that comprehensive review that everyone s looked at, and they come together as a package, and then that s something that would be agendaized as its own separate item. There d be time along the process for there to be community engagement and for the board to discuss it, but let s be real. The board hasn t had any conversation about any of these board policy changes. They came through this unilateral track, then they re buried in the consent report, and now they re going to be adopted with no conversation and really no uh engagement with the community at all. So it doesn t really matter how big or how small the board policy might be, this is
very far away from the way we re supposed to be doing business as the democratically elected community representatives and for people to bend themselves and do these mental gymnastics to try to prove to everyone how it s not really that is really sad because all you have to do is agendize it the right way. Include it in the normal conversation. And these aren t things that even should be coming through the budget and Finance Committee, which just by the way, their last meeting this month didn t have one item actually dealing with the budget or finances at all on the agenda. So this is what people are doing now instead of our real job, and it s just very frustrating, but I can
t people let people restate history when they re wrong and I know they weren t even here to witness it themselves. Thank you. PRESIDENT Brohar Yeah, I do want to, um, remind all of us that I believe it was about a year ago that we did have a chart of all the policies that uh the uh cspa did review for us and I believe there were quite a few of them that were, um, we needed to update. So, um, I appreciate the work Director Lata of taking these two and um. Updating those, those positions, but we do know, I think there are quite a few of them that we do, we need to update. So thank you. Yeah. Anybody else
Right. Um, any public comment on item 77077. Anybody with their hand raised online. Chick even the public comment from online. No hand raised vice PRESIDENT. Thank you. I take a roll call vote on this item. The recommendation of the budget and Finance Committee, uh, from a meeting of APRIL 2nd for approval of this item by the full board. Uh, director, student directors are absent. Director Lauder Yes Director Williams Yes, sir Director Hutchinson? No Director Barry
Yes Director Thompson. Yes Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor. Yes and PRESIDENT Brohar. Motions adopted. Ok, we re on a roll, Um, now next is, uh, 078, uh, which is the 7-Eleven Committee that came out of the facilities committee meeting, um, after two iterations and uh passed unanimously, Abo has been pulled. Um, so Director Hutchinson said, I believe you pulled. Oh, I apologize, motion to adopt 078. I it. Director Hutchinson Yeah, thank you Um, it s really shocking to see
that this is coming forward and that this again was buried in the consent report. So there was a time not that long ago in Oakland. That everyone collectively fought together at any effort to sell our public property out from under us. And the forming of a 7-Eleven committee has a very specific purpose and a loan purpose. By forming a 7-Eleven committee and having that committee declare our property surplus. That is the only thing that legally allows the district to sell or lease our public property. And so the fact that this is coming forward now from the same board that tanked our finances, and people think they
re going to declare our property surplus and be able to sell it. Is amazing to me You know, I actually happen to be the only one left around who s even attended a 7-Eleven committee that happened in the past. It s happened two times before in the past. And both times those committees were shut down and any of the leases the board tried to make afterwards. Um, have now all come back to the district because of the way they were done. So the fact that this board now before we do a community conversation or have any engagement, think they re gonna
put 3 specific properties on a list so they can be sold or leased to private hands is extremely objectionable. The fact that one of those properties is Ralph Bunche, which just 5 years ago, 6 years ago, was still housing students and because of the decisions made by this board. Now they want to move it to private hands. Second Avenue, the same thing. And for now then to throw in Lakeview into the mix. So again, the same board that is mismanaged our finances, think that now in a lame duck session with 9 months left that they re going to declare our property surplus so it can be moved to private hands. Now,
the first time we had a 7-Eleven committee formed in ousd. Was in 2014, a year after the building across the street was intentionally flooded. And at that point, interim superintendent Gary Yee formed a 7-Eleven committee to try to move that property. To Urban Core developers to build a 24 story luxury housing uh complex across the street. I encourage people to go watch the videos of those meetings. The 2nd time we had a 7-Eleven committee, the board and the superintendent at the time wanted to parcel off 5 parcels of 5 campuses that we have.
2 of them, they even made long-term leases for. We now just got those properties back, Edward Shands. And one of the cdc s the firm that we contracted with didn t make one lease payment in 5 years. So why would we trust the same people that won t address their finances that have led us to this ruin to actually sell our public property out from under us. Thankfully, there s laws that apply, just like there s laws over our public dollars. And the one thing I find most offensive is people who have not put blood, sweat, and tears into this district who aren
t even here think they can sell away our birthright. So if this is the fight people want to have over these next 9 months. I m here for it, but you re not going to sneak something through in the consent report. That s for sure. B Yeah, just a few things as co-author of this resolution. First, just to clarify for the benefit of the public, a 7-e1 committee. Doesn t have any decision making authority at all. The board retains all authority over the future of ousd
properties. The 7-Eleven Committee functions as an advisory body. And all it can do is synthesize and organize information and make a recommendation to the board. Uh, and one of the reasons why I am putting this forth is because I think it is important that while we do the very necessary work of managing the emergencies that are right in front of us. We don t lose sight of the seeds we need to plant for the future and a lot of these processes take a long time and we don t want to wait until we re quote unquote ready to do anything with the vacant
property that ousd has to do something with the vacant property that ousd has. And so like the um facilities, master plan, like the feasibility study, this 7-Eleven committee is an opportunity to empower the board with information that they can use in my opinion, to unlock opportunity. Right now we re spending money managing property that no one benefits from. And the idea here is that we create a path uh by providing this kind of information to the board for us to do something that does benefit the public. Um, a lot of the conversation happening in the community about what is possible at these properties.
None of it as far as I m aware, has anything to do with selling it to any private entity, and I m excited about what could be possible when we take seriously the opportunity um to, to do the research we need to, to do to address our vacant property. Doctor Bhar Yeah, I want to reiterate what Director Berry said that this, um, it is not the purpose of a 7-Eleven committee to sell the land, but it s an advisory committee to how to use that land and repurpose it, and I can t tell you how many times this week I ve been asked by
the media whether or not when we re selling this land, and that is just erroneous and it is not the sole intent. It s not the intent of the committee to talk about selling land. And yes, I, I was around when this happened. Um, I have been around in the district for a long time. Um, I also want to mention that in writing this resolution, which has gone through many iterations. I really deeply appreciate the work of Director Berry in taking this on, and in, in our facilities department, uh, Preston Thomas and Prinida in working with us to really ensure that the language in this resolution speaks to what we are asking to do. Um, again, we have properties that are
vacant We have one right across the street again, um, having taught at this school, I know that we looked out at that property for a long time, just we used to watch and say when are the windows going to fall out over there? It was that decrepit. So again, moving forward with how we can use our community, our, our, our, our school property in ways that benefit our community and that we re not adding to the blight of our community. But again, i appreciate the work Director Barry in um that you did to construct this, um, re s o lu tion Thank you can, can we please get a point, a point of clarification. Excuse me, a point of clarification. Can we please
get a ruling from General Counsel Lindsay about some clear definitions, because a 7 when a 7-Eleven committee is formed, they have a choice of whether to surplus a property or not, and there is a specific legal requirement of a 7-Eleven committee must be formed and declare a property surplus in order for that property to be sold or leased, and that is the sole reason why a 7-Eleven committee is formed. It s not advisory committee. It is for this specific option and then if a 7-Eleven committee declares a property surplus, it is only then that a school board has the option to sell or lease the property. Is that correct, General Counsel Lindsay? I would like to add
that it also says repurposing. I m talking about the definition of a 7-Eleven committee. So if you wanted to form a body to discuss repurposing, that doesn t require a 7-Eleven. A 7-Eleven committee has a specific, has a specific function. Resolution Sure, uh, so, so, what I heard Director Hutchinson ask is if a 7-Eleven committee is a precursor to selling or leasing property. No, that s not that s not what I said. I asked very specifically is a 7-Eleven committee needs to be formed and they have one choice whether or not to
surplus a designated building, and it requires the trigger of a 7-Eleven committee being formed and declaring a property surplus in order for that property to be sold or leased. Isn t that the function of what a 7-Eleven committee does to decide if something is surplused and if it is, that is the trigger that then allows the board to sell that property. District is considering selling or leasing property at 7-Eleven Committee is required. For that purpose Thank you Point of clarification since this is how we clarify a point that I ve already made right here.
The purpose of a 7-Eleven committee is to advise the board under the decision, and I think it s an important general counsel that we use the language to clarify the question that he s asking. And so I ll ask it in a different way. Does a 7 7-Ele1 committee make a decision about whether a property is surplus or not. A 7-Eleven committee is an advisory committee, uh, did I answer your question? I, I 7-Eleven committee is advising for a yes or no so that the language i m using to ask the question can be used to clarify. Director Hutchinson s point It, I don t think your question was a yes or no question, but I MAY have gotten lost in what you, the last piece you said.
But the gist of what you asked is whether a 7-Eleven committee is a decision-making body. Or advisory. It is an advisory committee. Ok. Alrighty. With that, we ll take public comment on this item, which is item 078. Are there any public comments on this item? Yes, we have Mario Capitelli and also Doctor De Liu. Interested as well. Here One minute Yeah, Mario s behind you Um
first point you have over $3 billion of needs related to the maintenance and repairs of buildings already in existence. That should be a priority. You are talking about, if you already spent $700,000 to do a feasibility study. Now, if you wanted to do a 7-Eleven. The 7-Eleven would make recommendations on how to use the buildings. Then the feasibility study would confirm whether that would be possible But you do the feasibility study first. And then the 7-Eleven Committee recommendation. That
s out of order Then I know that you don t really care about Bunch or Lakeview. You just threw them in there because you already had people come here to say they want that building across the street for transitional housing, so you have found a way to make that happen. Ad a Next speaker Good evening Superintendent and board. My name is Mario Cavatelli. I m the station manager of kdul, a taxpayer, citizen, and parent within the district. Uh, while I fully support the creation of the 7-Eleven Committee and the intention
of using district properties to generate ongoing revenue, I must object to this unfunded mandate on my team at kdol. Limits were put in place on the number of public legislative meetings my team covers monthly, before 2020, when we lost our fourth member to budget cuts. The Kadyel team has worked for the last 6 years to do the work of 4 with only 3. And on top of that, I have worked to organize and strengthen the communications department with the hopes of having a full service communications department and restore our lost position. Since 2023, I have identified $2 million in production and communications contracts that could have funded this position,
including $140,000 tonight. Since 2019, I ve identified 17 years of salary spending on fte doing the explicit work of kdol outside of their job descriptions and outside of the communications department that could have funded that position. Since 2020 we have pointed out we have 3 tax measures and a citizen s bond fund that require our services for their mandated public meetings that could but do not contribute to our staffing We have offered many, many, many ways to solve this problem. And none have been adopted. So now the established limits
adjusted for current staffing. 62-hour committee meetings and two great room meetings a month will protect us without exception until our staffing is increased. Thank you. We have one more speaker online. Yes, Doctor Delouf, you can unmute yourself to speak. Yes, my, my name is actually Doctor Dela Morris, and I am the naacp Education chair for the Oakland branch. Um, I wanna highlight that this conversation is a prime example of why we continue to go in circles with the school board, the 7-Eleven Committee is an advisory committee only. It is
not a governing body. That s information that s easy accessible, and should not take a long time to discuss. You all should be well versed in what these committees functions are. and I also want to kind of go into what I ve observed tonight, which continues to happen. Every board meeting is that when it comes to transparency, community input and conversation. You guys quickly go to defending yourself. But when teachers and parents and students come up to address
some of the hard questions You guys are radio silent. That s a problem and it s a, it s a problem that needs to be resolved collectively. You ignore questions that come to you about what is happening with the superintendent search. What is the response to uh superintendent Castro. This is public information. You guys cannot continue to ignore the audience that s present in the room and the folks that are on Zoom. This is why you re getting the negative press and the negative causes. You, you need to pull it together. Thank you
Um, any we ll go ahead and take a vote on those items for Hollis. Speakers MR. Up on the recommendation of the facilities Committee to adopt this item. On the roll call Director Lauder Yes. Director Williams Yes, sir Director Hutchinson? No. Director Barry Yes Director Thompson. Yes. Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor. Yes. PRESIDENT Berhar. Motions adopted.
Is 0 um 82, which is the heat mitigation, uh, resolution director. Is there anyone that is moving this item forward. I d like to make a motion to adopt 082. Yes, I ll second. Um. Director Perry, did you want to, uh, I m sorry, Director Hutchinson, you pulled this item. Yes, thank you. Uh, I pulled this item so I could vote for this item and I just really wanted to um thank all of the, the parents and community members who helped work on this, especially, uh, a lot of the families at Sequoia who really started
getting a ball rolling. And um amidst all the chaos, there is opportunity sometimes to take an idea from a school site and engaged people all the way to make it the district-wide policy. And so, um, hopefully everyone that helped make this happen, will continue to stay on board in this effort. We need to make sure that certain timelines are met that this work starts this summer, and then for some of the ongoing work that we still need to do in terms of heat mitigation. Hopefully we can work on having that as a comprehensive plan that is part of our next facilities bond when that goes out. So I just really wanted to be able to
vote for this and, and really highlight the idea of using film on the windows that shows that we could uh potentially see a temperature reduction in our classrooms of 5 to 10 degrees. Is justhe kind of cost-effective, widespread ideas that we really need to incorporate, especially with our facilities, and we know we won t be able to build our way out of it. So just a a real sincere thank you to a lot of the families who worked on this and uh I look forward to being being able to vote for it. Thank you. You? Yeah, I just wanted to say thank you to all of the
community members who elevated this as an issue and to would not let it go. I think this is for me, a good experience, um, because I got to witness in this experience, what it felt like to be held accountable, um, about an issue that wasn t right in front of me front and center, and so I appreciate you for elevating it to our attention and for showing up again and again and for the partnership of the ousd staff who weighed in over and over again on the development and design of the resolution as well. Alright Um, yeah, so I just wanted to
add that, uh, our schools, um, are need to be safe places for our students to learn and safe places for our staff to work. Do the acceleration of the climate change, um, of climate change in our school spaces have grown hotter and hotter year after year. Uh, fortunately, we ve done the work to pass, um, the bond, which is measure y and we as a board have readjusted to allocate $8 million towards heat mitigation. Uh, these dollars will initiate so many of the strategies that families have identified that s worked at school sites, um. And I wanna just iterate that this is just a, this 8 million is a drop in the bucket
compared to the need that we have to uh to uh tackle uh heat and so I agree with Director Hutchinson that our next bond must have the dollars allocated to tackle heat across the district at all of our school sites, um, and I look forward to hearing staff s report around, um, what are some considerations when going out for the bond? What are some of the things that we might need if we wanted to use these dollars, uh, quicker via an emergency resolution so we can get to work as quickly as we can into the summer, um, and I appreciate, um, not only my board colleagues who run the facilities committee but also the, the, the families and students, um, and staff that
came out to, uh, let us know how important this was and how it was um creating unsafe environments not only for their students but also for um all the folks that are in our school sites every day. Um, and again, I, I appreciate, um, Director Berry for taking the initiative and, and, and doing this work, I think it was a great tag team effort. At the end, where I was just like, I will join you, um, and so we could have this coming out of the facilities committee, so I look forward to continuing to partner with other school board directors in getting the work done. Now we ll take public comment on this item. Um, anybody want to speak on, uh, 082. Stood up for what they believed
in, and they did an outstanding job. Of representing what they thought needed to happen. Not just for their children, but for the entire district but you have to remember there are strong voices, but there people are not speaking and you have a responsibility to not just wait for somebody to come to you and make a demand, you have to seek out those needs and do it. So I ve been coming for years talking about McClymons. And then it s insulting to say, oh, I heard you, I listened to you. But you
re not listening to the MClima needs. The parents are not coming from Mcc clients. They re not coming But you know what needs to be happening. Regardless whether they come or not. But I don t wanna take too much away from the outstanding job. That these parents have done. To deal with this issue at their children s schools. I hope more parents will follow this example and speak up for their children as well. Next speaker Jack Nelson Community Volunteer Oakland resident, um MR. Assata s right. We gotta balance it if we can, but I will say this, I ll repeat what
I said at the facilities meeting last last week, uh, I still will bet less than $10 that I can get you about $8.8 million. Worth of heating and air service. Because that s, I sell ladders and I m with all these companies, Superior Mechanical, Atlas heating and air, and they re down by McClymons. It doesn t have to be uh, somebody that buys from me. I could, I could care. We, we need to put it out for bid because these guys are dying for work. Let s, let s look at that.
Any public speakers online? No products speaking online Let s go ahead and take a vote on this item MR. Rajkstra, can we take a vote on this item? Sorry. Yes, uh, on the roll call, uh, to, to the board, uh, on a recommendation of the facilities committee to adopt this item on the roll call, uh, Director Hutchinson. Yes. Director Barry Director Thompson. Yes. Uh, Director Williams. Yes, sir. Director Ladder. Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor. And PRESIDENT, uh, Braja. Motion was adopted.
Ok, now we re on to the last item that was pulled, which is uh 083. Is there a motion to, um, adopt I move that we adopt the same motion 2. Ok Uh, Doctor Hutchinson and again, I pulled this item, not only because uh I think it s inappropriate to do an allocation of g1 buried in the consent report. Um, I have a lot of questions about this. You know, one of the 17 questions that I ve had to, uh, Superintendent Sadler now for over 4 weeks, centers on g1, centers on the message that our middle schools were told they re losing half of their
electives. I asked the question of where is the funding for this? I asked the question of does that produce savings for us. I asked the question of our measure g1 dollars being rolled up to address some other deficit? And now to see this buried in here and see that it mentions this year and last year s allocation from g1, and questions about the carryover and what was there. Um, I think there s real questions about this, and the fact that I ve seen no documents really explaining anything. And again, I haven t been able to get my question answered about the message being told to
middle schools that they re losing half of their electives for next year. Um, and I was under the impression that those electives were being paid for out of g1. And so the question becomes if we have g1, if there s money and there was a carryover there, why are middle schools being told they re losing programs for next year and why hasn t the community been told that our middle schools are losing programs for next year. So again, I don t know what s happening. These are public dollars, uh, within the last month, we received an email from members of the g1, uh, commission, one of the members spoke at the last meeting,
citing his concerns. And we ve heard nothing about it, and here this is buried on here. Um, and so again, it just highlights the many problems we have going on. And I m of the strong opinion that things are being put on the consent report in an effort to hide them because nobody can really explain what s going on. Um and, uh, I m gonna be voting no and I hopefully more people in the community will start really looking into this because g1, like everything else, is one of a number of funds that we have, um, all of the documents and numbers were listed on the 2nd interim. And I have real questions about who
s in charge of the district s finances, who s making decisions, and if I can t get my questions answered and nobody can tell me who to even send a resolution to to get a fiscal impact analysis. That means things are entirely off the rails, and this is not what s ever happened in this district before. Thank you. PRESIDENT Brohard, sorry, there actually is an answer to this question. Um, originally, one of the members felt that they had to recuse themselves for this vote. And so it didn t the, the uh brewer s money didn t pass. So this was an effort again, working with the superintendent, um, to correct the situation so that Brewer
would get their allocation for this year and I believe the allocation is for uh computers and things like there s a list of things like that that weren t personnel related, but this was an effort to correct, um, an honest mistake by one of the board members who also quickly called me to say, how do we, how do we fix this? So again, working together, we were able to get brewers money back to them. Right, um, any other comments for colleagues who haven t spoken yet? Ok. Uh, we ll take public comments on this agenda item, so if there s any members of the public who are here or on Zoom
who would like to make a comment on this item, they can come up to speak now. They can all come up to speak and get one minute each. Get the timer going ok. Good evening. My name is Berta Rosa Guillen. I m the ethnic studies tsa, um, and this is something that you can all agree on is that ethnic studies is a board supported. We adopted a curriculum in the spring of 2025. It s something that could actually unite our school district. We don t have to be caught flat-footed about who we are as a school and as a district and what we value and
so, um, but our positions and our funding are unstable and um my colleague is losing her position this year and I m on my last year of a grant is following next year, but you should know what you approved, and it s the reader, it s the 9th grade course, and if you haven t already seen it, you should read it because a lot of the things that we students and staff talked about tonight are connected. The civic engagement work, the article on students in qq, it s in the reader. The steel, the Steella civic engagement, I support that work. So when you lose um these positions, you lose all that interconnection and network between our students, families, our teachers, um, and y all. So I m
gonna leave these with you. Thank you. Next speaker. Yes. Sure. Hi, good evening. I am Berta s counterpart. I m Lea Aguilera, and I started teaching in ousd in 1997, and I m currently the other ethnic studies tsa. And I m here to express concern and inform you about the loss of central office leaderships for ethnic studies, and its implication for ousd s ability to meet its commitment and legal obligations. Currently, there are only 2 central office tsa positions supporting ethnic studies across the entire district. The tk8 ethnic studies position has been eliminated through the MARCH, um, reduction in force and the ninth grade ts position is partially grant funded, and
we will lose that support next year. And this puts the district on track to having no dedicated central office leadership for ethnic studies, creating an immediate and critical gap in sustaining current implementation. I urge the creation of a central office coordinator. Ethnic studies it s its own academic discipline It is not t be assumed under history or under English. It there should be two tsa positions, a tk 8 and a 912 to ensure alignment and appropriate support. Ethnic studies is not new in ousd. It is a decades long standing priority grounded in board policy. We have frameworks, standards, pedagogical principles, it s reinforced by the George Floyd resolution,
the community schools framework, and the fai Act. Together, these commitments center equity, identity, community engagement, culturally responsive instruction, making clear that ethnic studies is central to ousd s mission. Without central leadership, we risk losing this. Ethnic studies is a core commitment and it s not an add-on. Sustaining central leadership is essential to fulfilling that promise. Thank you Next speaker Hi, everyone. Uh, my name is Tate Jade. I teach at Montera Middle School currently, but I m moving to an ethnic studies
position, uh, teaching position at Skyline next year. Um, I have had the privilege of working with Leah, uh, and Berta, uh, both, um, Leah s guidance and support have been transformative in my professional life as I have taught uh us history and incorporated ethnic studies themes throughout. Um, she s a mentor who, who builds genuine relationships, fosters trust, and creates uh the conditions necessary for self-reflection and growth, which is essential for all teachers and especially ethnic studies educators. Um, I ve also had the opportunity to work with there to this year and she s inspired me to
up my game and to pursue my purpose. Um, I was very concerned about, uh, hearing that these positions um were grant funded and not permanent positions within the district, that is obscene, um, and so, uh, Leon Berta both bring um deep expertise, institutional knowledge, vision, and empathetic leadership that cannot be replaced. These people are solid, they re amazing and losing them would be ridiculous. Uh, we need this support more than ever. Ethnic studies teachers need this support more than ever. Um, and we would risk being absorbed into disciplines that aren t ours and don t
understand our work. So please, please, I implore you, uh, to preserve this. We can t wait for the the state to do the right thing. We need to find the money here and fund these positions and make them permanent. Thank you. Thank you Next public speaker on this item, which is measure g1. I see folks standing. If folks wanna come up and speak. Ok. G1. Uh, anybody online No. Ok. Let s go ahead and take a vote on this item. MR. Rakestrong. Ok, the recommendation of the Measure g1 commission.
Uh, for the board to adopt item 0. Director, uh, Barry. Yes Director Thompson. Yes. Director Hutchinson? No. Director Williams Yes, sir. Yes, sir ok. Director ladder. Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor and PRESIDENT Perhar Motions adopted. Ok So now we re on to 1, which is many contracts with soccer Without Borders. So Director Latta, would you like to announce? Yes I m recusing myself from these items. I m friends with a
member of their board. Thank you. Thank you for that. So um, anyways, uh, is there a motion? I will motion to adopt one. Great. Um, are there any, uh, board comments? Seeing none Um, are there any public comments on this agenda itembala. One which is all the soccer without Borders contracts. I just want to remind you that your Tuesday, yesterday, a part of the mayor
s youth summer employment program. Has soccer without Borders. Being able to employ youth. In some I can t remember the amount of money. That s one thing Uh the other thing is, we got to start having a balance. Soccer without Borders is great. But I think we need to have some other forms of how we support the opportunity for young pple to engage in athletics. And uh we got flag football, we got, I m not gonna name them. But I think we have taken soccer with our voters up to the hill. And let
s start moving on to some other stuff that can be embraced by young people. I know black boys love. Basketball, and when I go to schools, like I passed this school, nobody was participating in basketball. They re playing soccer. They don t even try to offer it as an opportunity. But anyway, good thing for soccer without borders, but y all need to look into the mayor s youth. Employment program and you should have had a voice because this is what I told him about it You should try to find jobs that correlate with the career pathway that these children are
involved in so they can continue a sequence of what they ve already been focused on in their schools. So y all try to at least do that. Thank you, MR. Sato. All right let s go ahead and take a vote on this item. ok, on the roll call to adopt general consent report number 2. With director Ladder recused. Director Williams. Yes, sir Director Hutchinson abstained. Director Barry Yes. Director Thompson. Vice PRESIDENT Bachelor. Yes. And PRESIDENT Bhaar motions adopt. Will now the rest of the
meeting. We are now on to item p, consent item p. And nothing is pulled So we ll be taking public comment on um p which is facilities consent items. Is there any public comment on this motion to adopt I will second that thank you. Yes, for public speaker we have Asadolababa. Alright, thank you And are there any others that uh, any board comments ok, MR. Rigstrack, and we have a roll call on the vote, please. On the roll call If I don t call a director s
name, that means you re absent. Uh director, uh, student directors are opposite that is, uh, Director Lauder. Yes. Director Thompson Yes. Director Berry Director Williams. Yes, sir. Doctor Hutchinson, abstain. All right, Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor. Yes. And President Brohar motions adopted. We re now moving on to item q, which is um public comment on um items under the board s jurisdiction. Are there any public comments?
Yes, we have at the moment 16 speakers, so I ll call the 1st 5 speakers. A minute and a half, noted, thank you. We have Tanya Kapner, Sheila Haynes, Asaro Lobala Beri Cuckoo Chevik. And Isabel Nunez. Those are the 1st 5 speakers. I have come to the conscious decision, try to hold on to it that you could be convinced. That you need to serve the best interests of African-American students as well as all students. But you have no interest in that. You, you, you do not weigh in
on the necessities of our African-American students. I would recommend to any black parent don t send your kids to ousd. They don t give the attention. You give attention to newcomers. You, you, you weigh in on your special ed students. You weigh in on, uh, issues that have to do with English language learners. Sufficiently that people who have those children should be comfortable. When you have, at the last meeting of the measure bjny, pay attention, MR. Williams, because I m gonna talk about McClymons and if anything you need to be respectfully listened. The last meeting
they identified. The state or stage that McClymon s rebuilding program was in and you know what they said? It s in the design stage. This started in 2021. A remodeling plant, and at that meeting, McClymons is in the design stage. According to the the measure bjy Citizens Committee. So you guys I, I. I don t know how you, especially the black people up there. How can you be a black person sitting up there ignoring the needs of black children. Sheila Haines, if you can
unmute yourself. MISS Haynes No, we re not able to hear you, MISS Haynes. Still can t hear you Next speakers are Renee Cole. Liam Wissner. Jack Nelson Joanna Davis and Rachel Cannon Those were the next five speakers. Ok, I m glad everybody s just about gone here because this is different, um, we ve, we ve heard about money and issues tonight, but, uh, I have been working since NOVEMBER of 24 on the John Beam. And Tony Fardella.
Um, signed renaming of the skyline field. I said, yes, but I, I, I. I was asked by Casey Adams, the athletic director, to do it. I said, yes, but I, it s got to be beam and Fardella. That s an important point that ll come back at the end here. 175 people answered a website survey. Indicating that they wanted Fardella beam or beam Fardella. Uh, in OCTOBER of last year, 25. I worked on this for a while and, and, and by OCTOBER 25, Mike Hutchinson came here and told me that it wasn t going to be ready to be able to, to do that.
I could use 30 more seconds actually. Since I waited 3.5 hours, but um, so I understood I wasn t impatient. Um, we went along. And we got to this year. Now um, I ve got a great sign. For $10,000. You can get an led sign with Bardella beam on it, Beam Fardella actually we re gonna do it alphabetically. But um uh, Preston Thomas got a hold of me and said, we d like to do a big sign. A big sign, and then just have the smaller sign for Fardell. I can t do that. I
m not gonna do that, and I hate to say it because my time s up anyway, but you ve got until MAY 13th to tell me if you re gonna go originally with my donation. Ok, this is, this isn t costing you anything. So make a decision let me know or I m, I m gonna withdraw. Cause I ve worked on it a year and a half and that s enough. And the team that MAY help me sponsor it, they need to know by MAY 13th. Thank you. Speakers coming to a podium, the remaining speakers, so I area of Fleischer, carry
Kaufman and av Ringer. My name is Arielle Fleischer My name is Arielle Fleischer, and I m the parent of a kindergartner here in the district. I ve enjoyed a lot of today s tonight s discussion around the attendance and the importance of planting seeds for the future, but I find myself very concerned about what has not been discussed tonight. I read the letter from Elise Castro and the follow-up from the interim superintendent, and I am very concerned. I m concerned by the interim s response and the lack of attention to this. Elise Castro s very stern letter at this meeting. The county superintendent of education made it very clear that our plan is not working, and that Oakland could be on
the right track if we create a complete credible and implementable plan. She said there is no clear picture of our district finances right now, including the fiscal impact of the tentative agreement. And that the situation could worsen quickly. She described a series of actions that need, that must, that are required to take place by APRIL 30th. None of which has been discussed tonight. The lack of urgency and focus is extremely concerning. 34,000 Oakland students need you to confront this with leadership and resolve and Thank you. N Thank you. Uh, we re doing a minute and a half?
Yeah 1.5. Ok ok, great, thanks So I, I think you ll all agree that uh trust between the school board. community is of the utmost importance. Um, unfortunately, there are some things that have caused the fraying. Of that trust I just want to go through a couple of those things. Um, unfortunately, the first one is. How often I see school board directors looking down. Or looking at their screens when public commenters are making their comments just as, as has just happened just now. Um
another thing that raised that trust, um, a couple of times I ve given public comment and. PRESIDENT Brohart, you ve offered to give a private response to that public comment. First it was asking you to explain why it was that you had fired the superintendent. An answer we ve still not received. You stopped me in the hall and and offered a private response and then again recently when I was questioning your your um ability to, to trust the current superintendent. How can you give a private response to a public comment. Now lastly, the idea that you would be selectively enforcing rules based upon the political content of a commenter s speech.
Just today when I was cut off just as my time was ended. As I was criticizing the school board, yet subsequent speakers. did not have their time cut off just that same way. Um the city of Oakland has a very strong ethics commission. The school board is not um under their purview formally, perhaps we might recommend a um an amendment to the, to the city charter so that you would be. Uh, you guys are still city officials, so you could call on them to come in.
To help give you guidance in this regard to help rebuild that trust. Thanks so much. Please Hello again. My name s Carrie Kaufman, uh, PRESIDENT Of the United Administry of Oakland Schools. I want to talk about two, topics right now. The first is around MARCH 15th, um. As you guys know, uios, uh, received the largest percentage of MARCH 15th letters. There are a number of our members who we believe were inappropriately and illegally noticed. We have brought this to the attention of the district, labor, legal, and hr. We have still yet to get that resolved. We provided a lot of
information around this, and we are still waiting for a resolution as to the fact that many of our members received inappropriate MARCH 15th letters that do not uh uh align with the law. We also had many members receiving MARCH 15th notices when their positions were already fully funded We ve been told that it requires board decision to resolve this, and our members are really upset and stressed and waiting for a resolution around that. The last thing I wanted to speak to is something that we have brought up before, um. Uaos has always tried to work collaboratively with the district and we try not to file complaints regularly.
There is a level one, a set of level one complaints that I ve been sitting at the desk of the district for a long time now, and it was filed 13 months ago. We are still waiting for a response when the statutory timeline is 60 days. We have been told that the investigation is complete and the report is ready, but we were told that in FEBRUARY. It is almost MAY We would like to see that. Thank you. Next speaker, please Next speaker, let s go back to Sheila Haynes, if you can try again, please. MS. Haines I m not able to hear MISS Haynes
Next item on the agenda is new business. Sorry. Um, and next item we are um withdrawing item s1 items s1 and s2, they will come back on MARCH 13th. I m sorry, MAY 13th with um changes, um, our next item is, I m sorry, you mean point of clar? Do you mean s2 and s3? Um, s1 is, um amendment number one, Services Agreement, Hazard Young Atea and Associates, fiscal advisory Team Services Superintendent of schools. Do we have a presentation on this
We did Never mind I, I m sorry, I thought you did say no, I thought you said never mind to pee. Do you wanna go ahead and speak for a minute? Mhm. Ok, thank you. So item s1, is there a motion to adopt s1? Motion to adopt item s1. I it ok, are there board comments? Director Hutkinson Um, now I m really disappointed there s no presentation or anything here. Um, so the first thing about
this is, uh, the memo with the fiscal impact analysis. I want to know who did this fiscal impact analysis. It lists ab 1840 as the funding, and I know we haven t received money through 1840 for the last two years, and we will be receiving no money from them going forward. So how can they, how can that fund be paying for this increased contract. Now, hya, the district or the school board originally contracted with them in NOVEMBER to do a superintendent search for over $100,000. There s been no superintendent search at all. Not one thing has happened. and I want to know who told hya not to do any work on the
superintendent search because we ve seen none. Then, surprisingly, in JANUARY when we came back after winter break. Hya was again put before the board to vote for them to be our financial advisors for $400,000 a year. Or for $400,000 until MAY 1st. Presumably to help the superintendent create a fiscal solvency plan. We still don t have a fiscal solvency plan. The consultants with hya. Have a very bad reputation. I encourage everyone to do a Google search or to read the recent articles in the Sacramento Bee. They ve also given very poor
advice to the board, as many of us have witnessed right here before us. And now with this new amendment, it ll bring their contract for the year from ousd in 2026, up to nearly a million dollars. Or roughly 3 times what it would have cost to have a chief business officer. They also recently tried to go to Sacramento City to get Sacramento City to give the same consultants the same contract. So obviously they re not working very hard for us if they want to go contract with another district. And lastly, and maybe most egregiously. As I ve said directly to the superintendent and to our new
senior staff in charge of this position. When Ali Castro sent us her report on the 2nd interim and the notice of going concern. The county superintendent offered. To pay for ousd to have financial advisors. So why are we spending more money that we don t have, from a fund that we re not getting funded anymore. When the county superintendent has offered to give us these services, and they ll pay for it. Why are we choosing to dip into money that we don t have for consultants who have not done a good job when again the county is now offering to pay
for it. And not one person has been able to answer these questions. Not one person has spoken about how we don t have the internal capacity anymore, because we ve contracted out. For people who love to talk about contracts. They sure don t seem to mention this one in any ad hoc committees. And again, why are we going to encumber the district with another $400,000 when the county has offered to pay for it for free. I would like an answer to that. Nobody has been able to give me that answer, and I brought this up specifically to senior staff. And it s our way out of this
situation to bring in real advisors on the county s dime. So again, why is this contract here? And why is this board willing to spend another over $400,000 to this firm. To provide these services when to date, they have not delivered on their previous two contracts. Thank you. Are there any other board, Director Barry, did you? Yeah, um I was surprised and probably disappointed. That the budget development process, budget stabilization process was not formally on the agenda.
Um, we never get to talk to each other. Um, there are lots of restrictions about how we can engage and when we can engage and when we can hear from the public. And without us, putting it on the agenda it removes an opportunity for us to literally think about these things with each other. So I would have liked to confront the decision around this extension within the context of that conversation. And think it would have been perfectly appropriate for hya to deliver some sort of
presentation that presents an update on the prior scope of work. Uh, in a formal way Uh, I also know that where we are right now. I mean, all the signs and clues suggest that we do need the assistance. I do think there was an incredible amount of work that was done when they first started. And even more work to do now because of the unanticipated, uh, expenses that we did not account for before we entered this agreement with them. And so I do think the help is needed. I also appreciate the responsiveness to the feedback we shared the last time. This was on the agenda about wanting
to see a scope of work that was responsive to the work ahead so that we knew what we were extending a contract for. Um, and congruent with an earlier conversation, I do think it s important that in order for us uh to hold anyone accountable, but particular particularly hya, it is important for us to see the actual plan. So scope of work is nice. This is the body of work that they ll be responsible for, but how are they going to do it? Who s going to do what Who s reporting to who When are we going to see it, and
we do need to see that it s not part of this contract and not part of this vote, but I think very quickly hereafter, we do need to see that so that we know what we re managing toward. Any of the board comments, Doctor Latta Yeah, I just wanna, um, just, and I think this gets to Director Berry s last point. I just, you know, when this first came on the agenda, the extension. Again, I anticipated us extending their contract to just again based on budget development, um, I do just also want to say that the changes to the contract to make it more transparent to everyone, the community included, um, but also to other, you know, our
district staff and to the board about what were the things above and beyond a typical, um, you know, fiscal teams work that the capacity that they ve been able to do, and I think my um experience with hya and DR. Fructos and, um, and kind of their experience in other districts helping to do some really creative things, and especially their work um, being county superintendents themselves and state administrators, I think, has been extremely useful in terms of widening our aperture for what are, what are some creative ways we can be more responsible. So I appreciated, um, I m, you know, I m happy to support this contract at this time with those changes. Um, and I think that
the more clarity going forward to their um, specific deliverables and having more updates is um uh, will be an important step as well. Thank you. Are there any other comments, Director Batchelor, I m sorry. Yeah, these are specifically directed to MISS Guard, if you can come on up. Um, so there were questions about, um, the amount of dollars that we have in ab 1840, um, and would this be able to cover that or would we be dipping into the general fund to cover this type of contract. And then, um, there s also questions around staff capacity as the new kind of person that oversees that
department, can you talk a little bit about those two questions. Sure, yes, thank you. Ab 1840, um, actually first director Hutchinson, you asked who wrote that financial statement. That was me. Ab 1840, we had $7 million left in ab 1840 at the start of the year. So, yes, uh, ab 1840 can cover this contract. And then secondly, um, I I m hearing and I m concerned about the amount of negativity that s thrown at hya, but I have not heard anyone ask how they are working with our team. So they have been working very well with our team.
Um, if we all step back to the beginning of the year when we were standing here thinking that we MAY have um to take a state loan again. When we were standing here in the beginning of the year saying that we MAY have a negative certification. We have had a qualified certification first interim that the county agreed with. We had a qualified certification second interim that the county agreed with. And yes, the county superintendent said going concern. And we will address that And who knows at this point what our 3 interim exactly will look like, but that s what a
qualified second interim is saying. When we work with hya, they are providing us guidance. As a director of Batchelor mentioned. They have worked at the county office themselves, in state administrators, been CBOs at districts. I m not going to stand and defend the work all I can say is that as we are working with them, our team, our cfo, myself, and other people in the budget office have enjoyed and are learning some things that we need to about our current budget and what we need to do going forward. So I ask that you do approve this contract so
that we can continue the work. I will come back and I agree. We need to communicate more about our budget. I ll come back if there s time MAY 13th to do that. And I m open for any questions. I MAY see myself and this tape on social media and I ll be prepared to answer there too. Thank you. Thank you, MS. Garre. That was really helpful. And I ve also had conversations with folks in Sacramento and they re very concerned about the financial challenges that they re facing with the current cbo that they have as well. Um, and are looking to see if there s other if there s other ways that they could be supported just like we
have been as well. Um, that s it for my public comment. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a public comment Yes, um, we have Sheila Haynes. Asalobala, and Oliver Brennan. The disruption. Yes, um, the names are Sheila Haynes Asalo Lubala, and Oliver Brennan. Thank you. Good evening, Oliver Brennan, parent of two students in ousd. I ve come here tonight to ask this board to vote against this contract extension. Um, we were moving from a cbo model to a cfo model, and we landed there. But now appears we re moving back to a cbo model again. And the persons sitting behind
me and you re trying to bring in contra uh consultants to spend almost a million dollars and have them around for the rest of the year. I mean, you re supposed to have people in the roles who are qualified to do those rules. They are well, handsomely paid to do those roles. And here we are in the middle of APRIL and people are talking about budget development. There s also people talking tonight about the historical budget cycle and how there s a, you know, the, the finances look one way at the first interim and then by the end of the year, everything comes back together. The last 22 years, the board in front of me tonight and all
previous boards had guard rails on the county who were always making sure we got to the end of that year, that that school year. Still solvent. This is the first time in 22 years we do not. Have those guardrails. So it s all on you. And there are two narratives going around here that one ousd is on the right track and everything s going to be fine. And the other, and it seems like the county agree things are not necessarily going to be fine. I have a copy of the letter here tonight that should be on that table with nobody else has it. In their person tonight, I will give it to Missus Sarah later. She asks about it. One way or the other, we re
either going to be right or we re not going to be right. There are two narratives going around. And it s going to come to come to pass within the next 6 to 8 weeks. There will be consequences for everybody in front of us. If it isn t on the right path. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. About uh a vendor who is already under contract. With this district that vendor should be here tonight. Be here tonight because you ve identified 31 through 312 as the areas for which they will
have competency. To deal with If I was sitting up there, I would call up the vendor and all of the areas that are important to me not necessarily all of them, but the ones that I feel have to be crucially addressed. I would ask them how are you planning to address revenue generation You can t just rubber stamp You have to verify that these people have the competency to do the work that you are saying that you re gonna give them extra money to do And you
re not doing that But here s the problem The problem is you don t have the capacity at some point to collaborate with each other. And you re making the one mistake that you have to walk away from. Mike Hutchinson knows what he s talking about. You might not agree with him all the time. But he has the fiscal capacity to generate a conversation with credibility. And so I m just gonna give you an example. Can I finish my thought? I had a low down messy situation with a council
member. To the point where I say I m gonna never speak to you again. Then that council member did something that was really good. I had to drop my pride and say that was excellent. I hope that you continue to do that. I could ve stayed mad y all don t have the ability to do that. No matter what he s doing or anybody else is doing, your number one responsibility is to work to get this done, but what y all do is no matter what he says you re gonna say no That s not gonna work If I have the capacity to do
this swallow my pride and admit that somebody that I don t like very much is doing something. That s good for the city of Oakland. You gotta start doing that too. Thank you. Are there any other public comments? Yeah, MS. Haynes, if you can, Iit yourself and. See if we can hear you We re not able to hear you, MISS Haynes Has now coming through MR. Rakesar, can we have a roll call in the vote, please? Yes, so on the motion to adopt the amended it, uh, the amendment to the hya contract. Uh, student directors are absent. Director Thompson.
Yes Director Barry Yes Director Hutchinson No. Director Williams Yes, sir wreck the ladder Yes. Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor Yes. PRESIDENT Brohart. The motion is adopted. The next item on the agenda is item s4, which is the facility s master plan. Is there a presentation with that or? Uh, are there any broad comments on this? I m sorry I ll move it. I ll second. Thank you. Are there any board, uh,
comments on the master plan? Director Hutchinson Thank you Um MR. Thomas, I appreciated the conversation we had the other day. I, I want to throw that in at the start. Um, you know, one of the reasons I ve been highlighting how this was something that was supposed to be done last year is because, um, as a board, uh before this current board, we did have a plan in place, a timeline, and a way to work through these issues. And what we had established as a board is we were waiting for the master s facilities plan last year. We had also approved the 3 Rs plan, which included re-envisioning the district
footprint. And what we are supposed to do is use the data from the master s facilities plan along with the community conversations from the reenvisioning process to produce um a a list of solutions or options that we were going to pursue as a district. And we were supposed to do all of that and then at the end of that process, if the community determined that we had a couple of properties that were surplus, then we would start a 7-Eleven committee from there at the back end. But instead what this board has done is thrown out all of the work and is doing things
backwards, and we ve had no community conversation around re-envisioning our footprint. The master s facilities plan is a year late, and is no longer in a position to inform that process. And now we have school board directors who from the comments I heard today, don t even understand the function of a 7-Eleven committee and the trigger that it actually is. Unleashing that committee when we haven t done the other work before it. Now some of us who have been here a long time have seen a number of attempts by a number of people to try to steal our public property away. And I view our public property
as my birthright, but not just my birthright. Everyone in Oakland s birthright. There s literally blood, sweat, and tears in every facility that ousd has. Each facility has a unique story. A lot of them are not very happy stories over recent years for how they wound up in that situation. But to see now that we re in a point when we finally get the master s facilities plan that we can t even really use it to inform decisions going forward like we wanted to is really frustrating. Um, but the one good thing I do want to highlight from this master s facilities plan is now at this point I ve completed work that I set
out to do when I first got on the board, which was to rewrite and erase some of the foundational documents that were being used. And back then we had the Jacobs plan. That was done with $2.4 million through consultants out of Texas as part of the early work with the Blueprint. And it was an awful plan that really devastated us in a lot of ways. With this new master s facilities plan. This is the final step in scrubbing any legacy of Jacob s away. So I m very happy about that, but as we can see with the vote tonight before the master s facilities list even comes forward on a 7-Eleven committee, that this board has it all
backwards and wrong. And one of the other things is since there are new to this, they don t realize the fights that really start to happen when our public property is threatened. And so I hope everyone s prepared for what s coming next, because, uh, us native Oaklanders, we don t give away our scarce resources without a fight. Thank you. I m Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor. Thank you. Um um, so, uh, good evening, uh, board colleagues and community tonight we bring forward the 2026, uh, facilities, uh, master plan for a final vote. This has been really been a
team effort, uh, the facilities team, the community, and the Citizen Bond Oversight Committee, the Facilities Committee and community have reviewed, commented, shaped, rethought, scratched, added, um redone the dashboards too. For this plan, um, and I m really proud of it. I want to recognize again the depth of collaboration that it took, and also the the best way to understand this plan is really a bridge between our vision and the actions that we take. Uh, it translates, um our shared priorities into a consistent framework to guide future decisions on operational
planning, capital investments, partnerships, and long term stewardship of our facilities. Importantly, it is not a list of specific projects, uh, uh, or school decisions such as school closures. It s intended to establish the data, the criteria, and strate strategic approach that will help the school district make transparent informed choices over time. By bringing this work forward, uh, we hope to advance it, uh, and make sure that we can, um, go out for future bonds and it also allows us to go out for the proposition to state bond, um, and continue to tackle some
of the issues that have been long term as well as um some of the most recent challenges that we ve had in our facilities. Um, so again, I look forward to taking this final step so that we can uh start utilizing this tool to have conversations about our school sites. Are there any other board comments? And are there public comments? Yes, um, comment. We have Asao Labala. Rachel, Kirk Cortez, and Jack Nelson. And a I, I made an error in my last comment. Uh, Doctor Thompson and uh MISS
Brown. I see evidence of you trying to work. With everybody and being fair about how you do what you do, and I shouldn t say it all board members. And I see uh I m sorry. Brown Director Barry, he called her MISS Brown. What is it? Oh, you know, MISS Brown is on the city council. And she girl, it s time for you to go. It s time for a meeting. I m going home. Uh but my point is I observe you guys very well. And MISS Um MISS Berry and Thompson, especially you, Thompson, you,
you will stand your grounds, and I appreciate you for that. And all of y all have got to start doing that. Uh, the facilities, uh, citizens, uh, lgb ljb committee met. And they voted for approval of the facilities plan. I said, but there s already had the first reading approved by the board and you re just getting it right now. And I m concerned about the plan when you have the that citizens group. And everything on Measure p on uh item p, they haven t, they didn t never saw none of this. Ok. Lastly I can t believe in the facilities departments. Ability to be fair and
equitable. Related to McClymons and so, uh, I ve heard things. That I m very disappointed with. But when I heard him say that the plan is one year late. Who else is addressing that and holding people accountable. The facilities plan should have an accountability component. Where is the $3 billion coming from that we need is the plan covering how they re gonna deal with that. I apologize, uh, to MISS Berry. And MR. Thompson for putting you in with everybody else, and good night. Are there any other public comments
Yes, so um Sheila Haynes We re not um able to hear me Haynes, um, that conclude public speakers. Can we have a, a roll call in the vote, please. On the, uh, upon the recommendation of the facilities committee, uh, from APRIL 16th to the board recommending approval of the facilities plan upon the roll call. Through the directors are absent. Director Hutchinson. Is absent Director Lauder Yes Director Thompson. Director Barry Director Williams. Yes, sir Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor
Yes and PRESIDENT Rouhar Yes Motion is adopted. Thank you ok, moving on to new business. We re going to start with t1. Which is 202-52026 annual report board policy, uh, 5115 enrollment stabilization. really And there is no motion, but you have 10 minutes. You heard it, right? Heard it. Ok, go ahead. All right. Good evening, Doctor Sadler, board, thank you for the opportunity to present today. Uh, my name s Killian Betlock. I
m the executive director of enrollment for our Fair District to do some context setting what we re here today is the annual report on board Policy 5115 in enrollment stabilization. It s one of the things that that um that that board policy calls for us to do once a year. It s in contrast slightly to when I was here previously in JANUARY giving a just a general enrollment update after census day. This is specific to the board policy I just named. So we re gonna take you through just like a quick uh overview of where we are, our three main strategies, and then kind of
where things stand as we move forward into the future. And I, and I, and I definitely understand there s a time constraint here, so I ll try to be brief. Um, here is the text or a selection of the text of the enrollment stabilization Board policy, um, adopted in APRIL 2021. It emphasizes the importance of enrollment to our district financially and in other ways in terms of stability. Um, and then just to quote it very briefly, the superintendent or designee shall include expenditures in the annual proposed budget starting with the proposed budget for 20122 to help each school to stabilize and grow as appropriate with both universal and targeted supports. So I want to talk about those
investments that have been made to date in the universal and targeted supports that we do. This is just some further context before we get in, and I think it s things that folks are very aware of, but, um, across our state enrollment is both projected to decline and is declining. There was a news article kind of passed around education circles this week that California uh declined as as a state by something like 75,000 kids. It was seven times greater than the state s projections. That s 2 ousd s less of children in the state is a lot. Um, the places that are, uh, projected to decline more or uh population centers,
right? Urban areas. This is largely driven by birth rate declines, but other factors as well. And then by sector, the public school sector, and this is from the state s uh way of categorizing things. They ve included charter schools here, even including those schools, um, is that a significant decline relative to private schools and home schools, etc. Um, and then we continue to face enrollment pressure from competing systems, so the charter schools that are in um in our city uh interdistrict transfers which are Oakland residents seeking enrollment in other in other districts, and I included an advertisement from um one of our neighboring school districts where it was, it s, it s not from last year, but
they were particularly seeking our students, uh, Antioch, San Leandro, also advertise inside of our borders for Oakland residents. Um, and then private and homeschooling options. We ll talk more about this at a data level later on, um, just to further kind of set context, the enrollment department which I lead has 3 teams. There is the preschool enrollment department, which is uh located both at Lakeview and at uh our our centers, uh, enrolls preschool students, the student welcome center enrolls tk-12 students and, and provide support to families and the enrollment marketing team implements board Policy 5115, and it s particularly their work tonight that that I m going to present. What I ve
shared with you here is the 2627 fte for each of those departments, um, the change in that f t e over 3 years as well, so for the enrollment marketing team, the 3-year change has been 4.5 positions, um, lost to funding restrictions and then a projection in 2627 for no fte on that team. So just some further enrollment numbers to ground us, um, we are seeing enrollment increases. We are district officially increased its enrollment this year for the first time since 1718. When you look at this chart and you break it by grade span, you see that the elementary, um, band is one of our healthiest, which is good. You want to grow from the
youngest kids up, that s your base, um, also all of these numbers are based on census day enrollment. That s the official enrollment captured on the first week of OCTOBER. I ve also included some very recent enrollment numbers from when I was preparing this presentation because I think it s helpful to note that even after census Day, we ve seen an increase in elementary grades, um, a modest two student increase in middle school, but to be, but um of ongoing concern, we ve actually seen a decline in high school that is very significant. It s largely driven by, um, the absence of the newcomer population, we re expected to, or we ve become expected to see and roll, but
not exclusive to just those that population, um, but we see a five-year change of 1.66% to the negative, but a one-year change of of modestly growing. When we look at tk, which is often something we talk a lot about, um, our five-year change in tk enrollment is 142%. That s a lot. Um, and then a 14% growth year over year. Um, I think it s helpful to just name in this context that we enroll more tk students than any school in Alameda County, um, and we enroll something on average of 6 or 7 times more tk students than neighboring school districts like, uh, Berkeley Unified or Alameda Unified. We re not 6 times bigger than those schools. We are investing in the strategy and we are responding to uh
what families are saying they want and we continue to need to address appropriate tk facilities and spaces aligned with family choice if we want to not stagnate. And that s hub models, early childhood centers, etc. Ok. The enrollment stables, the enrollment marketing team, the enrollment stabilization work is driven around 3 big strategies. I shared these last uh time when I was here, so I m updating this a little bit. The first, uh, when we say fostering the attitude of yes. Um, I don t believe this was the attitude that we started with prior to uh my time here.
Enrollment can be a gatekeeping tool that some districts deploy, um, enrollment can have arbitrary barriers, and enrollment could also be driven around white middle class tech literate, English dominant values and for us to really serve our community, we have to challenge ourselves to center a different type of family in our decision making, our policies and the way we implement those policies. So when we talk about an attitude of yes, we think about our um primary user of these services, not as someone who s taking a break from their work from home job and they re nicely appointed den to hop on their fancy fast laptop and get
going, but rather someone who s like, I don t know what to do. And but I need, but I think I need to sign my kid up for 9th grade, right? And so how do we reach those families and how do we organize ourselves around those and how do we do things like take other documentation that s valid and appropriate besides a birth certificate, because not everyone s walking around with a birth certificate, not everyone was born in a country where those were common, right? Um, and so a lot of that is our enrollment tool and continuing to make it better and continuing to take feedback from users from the community on how on how to improve it, which we ve done every single year and brought improvements to
that. Um, the big headline this year has been the afterschool program application inclusions. Families are getting afterschool program offers now, right? That used to happen, not now, like JULY, JUNE, maybe MAY, maybe AUGUST, right? And it s happening now, and that s a huge growth, right? It s not perfect, it was year one. I ve gotten, I assure you I ve gotten feedback from the community that we re thinking about for next year. We ll continue to do that because that s just how we re trying to orient ourselves. Um, I think also just, just naming the amount of just cross-training and communication, thinking about who is every job class that
s that might encounter a family who says, help me enroll and making sure they both have access to that information, access to me, and access to ways to get their questions answered, because in our district, that s not just the community school manager. In some places, it s also the school counselor, but it s not just the school counselor. In other places it s the community relations assistant bilingual too who s in the office who s helping someone enroll, right? And so we have to make sure that all those folks have access to the system, know how to use it, and don t send a parent somewhere else when they re getting that one
moment of FaceTime saying. I need to sign my kid up, right? So that s been a big investment in my time and our team s time to make sure we re there for folks in that way. Um, those are our satellite offices which we talked about Lakeview is not particularly great with getting to from public transportation. It s not located in a in a population center and so we re in 4 locations, uh, Elmhurst, Havens Court, Urban Promise, and, uh, the Marcus Foster Building to also provide additional supports to families so they can access our, our services. Also also point out that those areas were also places where we
ve seen. Charter school families based on geography coming back into our district. And if we have a satellite office in those places we re facilitating that move and making it easier for folks. Um, one of our big data points on the success of this is that our applications continue to go up, that every year for the last 4 years, we have more applications than the year before. Um, when I presented this presentations, we are 422 applications ahead of last year s pace, and that was 872 applications ahead of the year before. An application is not enrollment, but if they re not applying, they re not getting it. So we have to continue to grow those, um, and we have
growth not just in tk but also in sixth grade application s in 9th grade, we had the highest percentage in en ro ll ment recorded data of the of the percentage of 5th and 8th graders applying on time, um, in our system this year and that also is an equity data point, right? Because it means that a greater representative proportion of our district is applying on time and is having access to all of the schools in the district, right? Not just those that have space in JUNE, AUGUST, etc. Um, this is an older, uh, uh, data point because we haven t had updated opportunities on the on the services to schools, but I think it s really telling and really important that the folks who use our systems, the principals, the central office
folks say that they re getting a better product and they re getting better service year over year. Um, I wanna go to strategy two. Increase visibility and brand awareness. This is about positioning this school district in the forefront of the consciousness of our city and of our parents and not shrinking or backing away or feeling bad because we had a bad thing happen, but unapologetically saying oesd should be the first thought for education for every parent in this district because, because we ve earned it and because families will be well served, right? Um, we do things better than everyone else, and we need to tell those stories. We can t wait for the media to to find us and say, oh, that was really
nice because it won t happen, um, they will, that s not how media works and that s not how the negativity bias in our brains work. We know that families are also making choices based on the types of schools that are talked about in their social group, and we can affect what s talked about, right? And there are some communities where ousd is not considered a viable option. When you make it a viable option, you fait accompli bootstrap yourself into that conversation and have folks start considering you in a different way. We talk about some schools that are like pre-tour. You have to get them to a point where people are like, I d like to learn more. That doesn
t, we don t start there. Right? And so this is part of what we do. And so that s about, um, you know, broadly advertising all of our enrollment deadlines and timelines, digital advertising, print, billboards, people see a lot at. It also means tabling at city events, so at at pride at black joy at the Laurel Street Fair, um, trying to make sure we re in um the event that the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce puts on this coming year, right? So that we re there and people are seeing our district and they re seeing um our logos and they re like, yes, Oakland Unified is part of the fabric of when people are out and about in the city, right? Out and about in
the town. Um, it s also social media that s where people live their lives, our three social media brands, Townsprouts for Elementary, Oak in the Middle, and the Link, telling the stories of schools in really simple and compelling ways, whether that s, you know, interviewing high school graduates and saying where are you going to college, that we have tk Tuesdays that we show off, um, our amazing tk teachers showing Oakland, um, goes outdoors, one of our, um, enrollment marketing team leaders was with, went to an ogo event with a, with a um Brett Hart Middle Schoo and just like got all the great experiences of kids being in the outdoors sometimes, you know, that type of context for the first time it
s really important to tell those stories, right? Um, Kelly, I m remind you here about 20 minutes now. I m at 20 minutes. That s insane I love your excitement. Well, let s keep going. I m gonna go faster. Um about 2 minutes. Let s do it. Um, this was, this was a specific re this was always gonna be part of this presentation, but it was a specific request for Director Hutchinson from Director Hutchinson showing how we re doing relative to other groups, other systems, um, and so I think just what I wanna highlight is even though the total number of school-age children in Oakland by enrollment has shrunk by 4000 kids. We ve picked up market share, right? We ve picked up um against those
systems. Um I m not gonna believe this because I don t have time, but I just wanna, we did a brief analysis of what was the trajectory of our district s enrollment from the point of investment in enrollment stabilization and then where have we been now and then what is the what is the trajectory moving forward and showing pretty significant gaps, um, that there could be a difference of as much of 3000 kids based on where we re heading and where we re now heading. If we, you know, understanding that tk expansion is part of that. If we excluded tk from that conversation, that gap is still big. Um, I m going to briefly touch on focal schools. We focus on
um a series of focus schools every single year, and we provide uh enrollment assets to them, technical support on the back end, and adaptive support to leaders who are trying to think about how better to position their schools, um, provided you a list of those schools, um, and a brief overview of just some of the assets that we provide, building new flyers for teams, lawn signs to promote schools inside of their neighborhood attendance boundaries, magnets that get sent to families when they accept school offers at our focal schools. Um ok appreciate the reminder on time. So just some reflections moving forward, um, we are not funded
for 2627. Um, we were modestly funded for this year and made up the difference with carryover. And so the work that I ve shared, um, is not scheduled to continue and, uh, and we have no fte allocated, so there s both the the kind of hard dollars that we use to advertise and buy things for schools, that is there that is uh we don t have a plan to continue that, and the two staff members who own this work and lead it, um, have received MARCH 15th notices. Um, so that means that the enrollment focal school work would be ending the PLCs we run for sites to do their own Internet and websites would be ending social media promotion. Outreach would be over, uh, our advertising would be done and then we would have a just kind
of a reduced capacity to respond to schools and and especially when they re trying to do thought partnership and strategic planning. Um, we would also, um, just, just some reflections and next steps to wrap this and I m happy to take questions. Um, we do believe this work was, was successful on key metrics, but as stated, we don t have funding and that s, uh, that feels unfortunate, um, we also had a challenge where our overall impact continued to be lessened because we couldn t get the right job descriptions brought online for what was essentially new work. And so when this board in the future authorizes new work, I would
just really urge you to ensure that that is coming with the necessary job descriptions to do that work and not reusing what was available or convenient or not, uh, there s no one, no ft in it, um, because that would hampered us from the start, and we are never able to bring change. Um, we have a pending contract for fm3 to do public interest polling as we just, as we look forward and, uh, both, both to support bond initiatives, our partners with oci would have asked for a question to be in there and then continue to do kind of progress, um, like time 12 on how we re doing with some of with, uh, the Oakland community. Um, and then as we do our, we
do our last, we implement our revised strategic plan, uh, the department will be reconceived as an operational department, not a strategic one, because of lack of capacity, uh, we need to communicate those changes to school teams and leaders and then provide them with as much of a diy kit as we can give them because we can t, we won t be able to carry that. Um, just and then that vein, I just want to thank the two members of the enrollment marketing team for their work, uh, Jane Liao, who is a alumnus of Oakland Unified and and Bobby Jordan, who s both an ousd parent, uh, and the partner of a longtime ousc staff member, um, done really great work. And I ve give you lots of great stuff in the appendix, so feel
free to check it out as your time goes, and I m happy to answer any questions that you have. Are there any board comments Go ahead, Director Thomas. I m, I ll make it real quick. It s not a question. It s just, uh, an appreciation. For what you ve presented in I I especially um focused in on strategy one. When, um, when I see we facilitate things and make it easier for parents to have access, and then I, I m thinking about my own school now, and I m thinking about how when kids enroll in school or parents enroll their kids in school. They want, many parents
want to have a summer school placement for their kids. And so seeing that, you know, your vision pushed it so far to actually say, ok, when when when a person does this, this happens. So, I just want to appreciate that because I, it really, I mean, it really meant a lot to me to hear that because I see it every single day. I mean, parents want to put their kids in summer school and can t because it s all full and you re, you re having both things happen at the same time. So that s wonderful. Thank you. Directors
Director I just wanted to point out what you mentioned at the end, Reflections and next steps. I already told my colleague here when I was looking at the report that I was concerned about the lack of investment We all know what happened there, but I think it s concerning and I m just wondering what the plan will be in the absence of that. I mean, we ll try to package the things that we learned, um. We, we have a, a playbook that we ve given schools. They prefer to say, can y all do it? And we usually say yes. Um, we will then start having to say
no to those things, and I, I think there s just, there s, there s things you can do for free, and then there s things that cost money, and I think um I can t, I can t buy myself lead an enrollment marketing team or lead this work. I m, I, I don t think it s appropriate to try or to promise something that can t be delivered on, um. And so I think those things will just stop um there s definitely like kind of a vision that s in our district, um, that, that most of this was just tk expansion, and so we re kind of, and I don t mean this snarkily, we re kind of running that experiment, and we re
testing that hypothesis, because we won t have the ability to do any, to really do much else, um. And we re not gonna stop having an attitude of yes and we re not gonna stop serving families and we re not gonna stop like caring about this stuff, but if, but if we re not funded to do it, we, we can t. Bachelor. Oh Jeor Williams, I m sorry. Uh sorry. Uh, yeah, thank you for the presentation. Appreciate it. Uh you know, I, we ve always, uh, we, what we talk, you know, I do appreciate the work you ve done at District 3. Um, and, uh, in a way this like uh momentum builds. It takes a moment
before it really starts to get the fuel in the action and the action starts to move everything. So I really would hate to see to say that we just ran out of gas so quickly. Right? This is this would roll it project is. 10-year plan, really, you know, because I mean we have to look that far out in the future, even the state. Has required the city of Oakland to build another 20,000 units, right? So they re like everyone s positioning. Oh, we MAY have Costco in West Oakland. Or we MAY have Costco. People flock over there, you know, but there
s, you know, the Mandela. Uh, we have the Oakland Coliseum that. You know, uh. Brother Ray Bobbitt is working on it, you know, so there s opportunities there over the next decade. Um, and it would just be so sad to see that we started and stopped, because to start up again takes another 3 to 56 years, right? So, uh, in my heart, I m worried. I, I, I think we ve all on the board are really trying to reflect and uh really reflect on what our priorities are. As a board. How, how do, where
are we going to move to, where do we? Lift over these rocks to find whatever funds are there to really make some stuff happen, right? So I, I thank you for taking the time out to talk to us, to give us that. Energy, uh, that we need to continue to work together to move them forward and, and thank you for the progress, uh. You know, our schools I, I can only speak for District 3, you know, each school has increased their enrollment, and I think sometimes the community looks for the negative stuff, but these are positive things that are happening. And it doesn t get, like you
said, it doesn t get put out enough. To our community to say, hey, look at your school and your neighborhood. We got some fabulous things going on over here. To just get them to consider. And uh basically, ok, 0, 17 seconds left. Uh, that was why I saw it. You should put me on a clock, I could feel some energy coming its way from a yellow blouse over there. But uh but, you know, the thing about it is, it actually happened in tandem. Preston is really invested in d3 and how the schools look nice. So parents are coming just to hang out, just to be in front
of the school. So this draw that we re doing on multiple fronts is really short itself. So I just want to thank you and and Preston as well. Thank you. Yeah a of Um yeah, I, um I think I just first and foremost wanna thank you and I ll also echo, um, that Janon and Bobby are amazing and I, you know, I think it s always, um, very lovely to see my kids, my kids go to Prescott, and so, um, he s like a star, Jayon is when he comes, um, so I, um you know, I think just that work is really, really so
important, um, and I wonder, you know, I think when you know, you kept things quite high level, which I think is important. And I have two questions for you. I think the first question is you know, if you think about like, let s just say you know, kind of that delta of 3000 students or, you know, the difference in projections. Um, one, whether you ve kind of caught the sort of modeled out what that means for our annual operating budget as a district? Like what, what does the investment in enrollment stabilization. Mean compared to what, you know, not investing in that work. For what we actually net um or
bring in as, um, revenue as a district. And my second question is there were, you know, when the last time you came to the board, you spoke specifically about some of the outreach into communities that don t normally get targeted. So like for example, the El Timpano stuff. I m wondering if there are other things, you know, again, I think. I love the magnets and the yard signs, um, I think, but I m wondering what are some of the other targeted outreach that will not happen. Um, especially to groups that we, um, uh, as you said, like often or not really clear on how they enroll in school. So those are my two questions for you if you can answer them. Thanks. I mean, I think the very short answer
to your first question is that if you take all of the money invested in enrollment stabilization, and you use as a metric, how did we do against the mathematical projections, right, which are, it s math, it s not someone s feelings, and if anything, they get pushed up by sentiment, not down, right, so uh, so you re having more aggressive projection and you look at the difference in in realized enrollment and therefore realized ada against those projections. Enrollment stabilization funding has paid for itself at least twice over. Um, and so it s one of those investments that you could put,
you, I mean, it s very hard to put like a $1 roi on like how did a reading intervention work because you re measuring learning. And here we re measuring to a certain extent butts and seats, which turns into ada and, and we can look at in the years immediately prior to enrollment stabilization, those two years, we missed our mathematical projections by 1800 kids, and that means that at census day they re scrambling for dollars cause you re saying I don t, we didn t get enough kids. Since then we ve exceeded it every single year by many hundreds of students, and I would just add collapsing classrooms and making combo classes, right? I mean, there, there s all these, and you, and
then you have um staffing issues and things like that, and during those times, other districts were declining double digit percents in enrollment, and we were like. 1%, and that also gave us a measure of stability relative to other districts, that s really important, right? No one wants to have declining enrollment, but if you have to, going down less is better than more. Um, I think to your other question, some of like some of what like the El Timpono is just an example I talked about last time I was here that partnership came about in part because we had the ability to respond to the opportunity. Right? And so some of what I would say to you is like, we don t always know where that next opportunity is going to come from, right? And we don t
always know when we re gonna get. Insight or or access or entree into a community that we haven t really reached yet, um, but when we have reduced capacity, we MAY not be able to maximize it in the same way, right? Um, I do continue to think that multilingual outreach is something that we need to grow and not shrink, right? It s something we think a lot about, um, and we also have a portion of our community that it s not a sign, it s not even a well run, well-run website. There needs to be a personal touch, and so that that s on tabling, that s on outreach, that s been we
ve never, we, we ve we ve wanted but not been able to maximize like even like, what is the enrollment street team look like and how do we tar, you know what I mean? And so, um those are all things that then just kind of get taken off the table. Thank you. Thank you. 01 last comment. I just wanted to thank Kilian. I do want to say to the board, I don t wanna, um, after this wonderful report, I don t want everybody to leave on kind of like a downer in terms of where we are because um I feel that there s a lot of work we can do with the data, with the information, and with the strategies that Kilian has. So
as we go out and talk to funders like just this week, I, you know, met with the Eatler play playgroup. I m meeting with a lot of different people who have seen what we ve been able to do with facilities, with the kind of structure that you ve brought with the enrollment stabilization, so having a strategy and in recognizing the kinds of things that are going on in the community. You mentioned all these places all over the closet, you know, whether it s the Black Joy Parade or the Chinese, you know, all these things, uh, places are places where people gather and connect and they share. So I think understanding where we ve been
successful, where we ve made a difference. I ve even noticed and I have witnessed at the Foster, um, Leadership Center. Enrollment happening where parents have come in and felt very comfortable because it was right in their neighborhood, and there was somebody there that could do it right on the spot. I have observed that, didn t take a lot in time, I ve even seen people bring other people back after they were there with some friends. I ve observed all of that. So all of the strategies that you ve documented are I think are are very exciting in in the past, they ve been kind of you know, pathetic all over the place, but you, there s a strategy and there
s a focus. So even with our deficit, even with the challenges, there s a plan to implement so that when we talk to people, we can say this is how you can help us here. This is how you can help us there. This is how, so I don t want people to leave feeling like, ok, we re done. No, we are clear about what s working and how we can discuss with other people who want to support us. Um, bring back a lot of things and I ve seen over the years, I ve seen people do things, so I ve, I know what you re talking about. I ve seen, I, you know, I m driving around the city all the time. I m talking to lots of people
So I just want our board to know that we have to stay focused as we develop the budget, as we think about ways that we can implement different aspects of this, maybe not in the same way, but we re, we re we can target exactly what the needs are, what people will say, how can I help? And that happens a lot Um, this district has raised over $100 million annually around people who want to help us, but have been clear about what we need and what we want and when it s needed is really helpful. So having this
structure in place around what actually works, is powerful. So I just wanted to kind of leave with that, you know, leaving on an up note that you ve brought the clarity around what s working and what the right direction is that we want to go. We have to figure out how to fund it Thank you Is there any public comment on this side? Yes, Wearzalo Lubala. Here That can include public speakers Thank you. I d like to make a motion to extend time to 11:45. If need be Second
roll call on the ok, on the roll call to extend the um meeting time tonight to 11:45. Is that what I heard? Uh student directors are absent director Lauder. Director Williams. Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson absent Director Berry. Director Thompson? Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor. Yes and PRESIDENT Brohar motions adopted, time is extended. The next item on the agenda is our legislative platform and um recommended legislation, um, i want to preface this for just a short minute here. Um, Oakland Unified Schools, uh, service as centers of learning, joy, and
community for our students, staff and family and all our work, including legislative advocacy, our goal remains clear to ensure that all 34,000 ousd students graduate ready for college career and community. Our legislative platform is guided by our four key priorities, ensuring strong readers by 3rd grade, supporting empowered graduates, creating safe and joyful schools and growing uh di diverse and stable workforce. The legislative bills we will discuss tonight are aligned with these priorities. 3 of these bills reviewed by the ad hoc Legislative Committee, including Director Berry and myself were moved to the Teaching and Learning Committee for further consideration.
The Teaching and Learning Committee met last night and is recommending a watch position on all three of these bills, ab 22225, closing the achievement gaps gap state operations and support plan introduced by Assembly member Patel, ab 2514, the state of thechievement gap introduced by Assembly Member Ransom and ab 1750 school employees absences due to illness or accident introduced by Assembly member Coloza. The ad hoc Legislative committee also recommended an opposed position on sb 1067, pupil instruction math introduced by state senator Webber Pearson.
This recommendation is based on concerns that there are currently no reliable vetted math screening tools capable of accurately identifying math disabilities. We look forward to discussing these bills and determining how they align with our priorities and support the success of our students and staff. Um, I need to, uh, well, now I ll turn this over in a minute to Leylani. Um Albinao, I hope I pronounced it correctly. And Megan Beyer from School Services. Is there a motion to adopt the legislative, I d like to take the, um, sorry, uh, t1 and t2 and t3 together, um, it s on a motion to adopt. I ll make a motion to adopt t226-0991 and t3 26-01006, um, to be taken together
recorded separately. Good evening. Leylani, on behalf of School Services of California here to support the work of the board and to answer any questions, I think you have the list of bills in front of you. Thank you for that summary, and Megan is available via Zoom, um, and both of us are here to answer any questions that anyone MAY have about the legislation and the recommended actions. Oh ok, go ahead. I just want to make one comment on the platform related to school finance. The way that the platform is structured, I think is
appropriately focused on like um school finance, literally the la lcff. And I think there are other, uh, revenue. Uh legislation, actions being explored and running through the legislature that I think shape our ability to serve students and families, ranging from like what s happening on the Medi-Cal front to, you know, what could happen in terms of helping to ensure that our parents and caregivers can afford, um, basic needs living here in Oakland. And so I think um in future conversations when
we convene as a board to track legislation and even in our meetings, I think it would be um helpful to have conversations about some of those other It s not school finance per se, but I think it shapes, um, and effects our ability to do what we have to do as a school district on the fiscal front. I agree Are there any other questions well I guess, uh, MR. Uh, public comment. Have usadolabala. I don t think she s here. MR. Rakesar, can we have a roll call the roll call, uh, to
consider, uh, considering t2 and t3 together, uh, what we recorded separately. Uh, student directors are absent, Director, uh, Barry. Director Lauder. Yes. Director Hutchinson is absent. A director Williams Yes, sir. Uh, Director Thompson. Yes. Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor. Yes. And PRESIDENT Brohar. Motions adopted Right, next is uh t4, and I d like to make a motion to move t4 and t5 together, um, but recorded separately. Is there a second to that motion. Wonderful. Is there any staff presentation or discussion from
staff around the superintendent? No? Ok. Um, board colleagues, any questions or comments about t4 and t5. Ok. Public comment on these two items. I have Posalo Lubala her hand raised? No, that conclude public speakers. All right, let s go ahead and take a vote on this item. Right? Theater directors are absent Uh Director Lauder. Yes Director Thompson. Director Williams. Yes, sir Rector Hutchinson is absent. Director Barry. Yes. Vice PRESIDENT Batchelor. Yes and PRESIDENT Brohar. Yes. Ok,
motions, adopted. Um, the next item on the agenda is we do. Oh, I don t have anything Oh, then you board actually I do, um, just a short one, I think. um, some of us attended the, uh, Martin Luther King oratorical fest, um, speakers at, at Skyline, and it was very moving and they had a picture thing at the end where all the kids were taking pictures, but there was one young man in particular who was you know, like 3rd grade or 4th grade, I think, who just gave a speech that
stopped all of us. I mean, it was this student, his name was AUGUST. And um he had such presence on the sta I mean on the stage, his, he just captivated this whole auditorium. So again, I think this is really the power of, um, when we do more than just teach writing and speaking, but we teach that power of, of oratory and um you could really tell from the students again that that they really and it s a different skill than public speaking. It s, it s, you know, really from the heart and it really it really is a motivational kind of thing. So, um, I, I was really pleased to
be able to attend that, um. Yeah, that s it. Uh board reports. Director Thompson. Yeah, I ll make this real quick, um, I had the opportunity to visit faith in Action, illegal dumping, and I immediately thought about how the illegal dumping sort of affects our school, every single one of us, you know, we sort of have a problem there and just seeing the work that they did. They incorporated individuals from the city. The mayor was there, uh, a number of the city council persons were there, the director of um whatever that department is that cleans up stuff, the public works, yeah. Yeah, they were all there and, and I, I really thought about all of us, and I said, wow,
this is great that they re investing so much money and time into making this work because it s helping to facilitate easy access to the schools for our kids, because I m not sure if you guys have received it, but I received um all of these emails from parents, you know, about my, some of my schools were sort of obstructed because, or the path of the school was obstructed because there was garbage out there and people living out there and being all the kinds of things that happen. So that s all I want to report. I m just really glad that they re doing something to help all of our schools. Yeah, I just want to highlight
a couple of events happening, um, for District One schools. The, um, one that s coming up very quickly is the, um, Oakland Tech production of Radium Girls. There s, um, uh, 3 showings that um over the next couple of days. So if you re interested, you can buy tickets and support the student um actors and also on Monday at 4 P.M. At Grand Lake is the Oakland International Film Festival. So the, um, uh, Zach Silverman, who s the lead of the Media Academ y um, because I ve worked with the students to produce their own films, um, the tickets are not very expensive. It s only $5 for students and alum and then 15 for adults, um, and it
s always a great, um, a great way to not just see the work that s being produced by students, but also get, um, you know, more insight into kind of what, um, kind of the perspective of our newcomer students. All right, Director Berry just 1 to 1. Formal request to have budget be on the agenda for the next budget and finance meeting in the next regular board meeting. Budget all the time And my next office hours is on the 25th of this Saturday at 10 A.M. We can talk about the budget. We can talk about visioning for
the future. I hope to see folks there. Coughing on me Asta Muerte Um, the next item is new agenda. Uh introductionary new sorry, any introduction of new legislation. All right. With that, we are adjourned.