School Board Meeting August 28, 2019 Part 2

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We are out of recess and we will not continue our closed session after this ledge meeting.

We were capably advised by our staff.

Thank you for your patience it is 5 30. We are at public testimony.

Rules for public testimony are on the screen and I ask that speakers are respectful of these rules.

The board does not take public comments on items related to personnel or individually named staff.

I'm assuming that the folks in this room can read and see those rules so I will dispense with reading them each and every word.

I would like to remind you that you have two minutes speaking time.

When you have 30 seconds left the yellow light will show up please start to conclude your remarks.

Thank you very much.

Please read the three the speakers three at a time.

Thank you.

First up we have Alex Zimmerman followed by Chris Jackins and then Sabrina Burr.

Microphone not working so you will start from beginning.

You will come again.

Can I speak again?

No?

Okay.

Zechail my dirty Nazi pig.

Komi Nazi pig with animal farm.

Gestapo antisemite and killer.

My name Alex Zimmerman.

I want to speak about something what has happened before and this is an agenda right now about board meeting.

Yeah you could Cut me and cut me and cut me many times right now too.

So situation right now very simple.

You cannot change me.

I'm too old and too stupid.

But you did this for 30 years with two generations of Seattle children, brainwashed them totally.

They don't know what this mean.

It's U.S. Constitution, freedom of speech, open public act, or country decision of city, of U.S. court, local.

and U.S.

Supreme Court.

This a problem what is we have right now.

This everything what is Seattle right now start to be a number one fascist city in America with one party system.

DIRECTOR HARRISON- Excuse me you said you were going to be speaking to consent agenda item number one which are the minutes of the meetings.

Please direct your comments to that issue the majority of saying.

DIRECTOR HARRISON- You see you interrupt me again.

You're acting like a Nazi pig.

It's a problem.

It's a problem.

I don't have my two minutes.

Exactly what is an agenda number.

It's a board meeting from 10th of July.

And this is exactly what's happened.

You don't give me a chance.

Speak.

It's a problem.

You cut my 40 minutes second right now.

Half.

What is you talking about?

That's exactly what I told you.

You real Nazi get stopped a pig.

As you're doing in every meeting.

You don't give me a chance.

Speak.

My two minutes like apostoby.

By law.

It rules.

You pretend you, so you're American?

No, you're a real Nazi piggy.

That's exactly what's happening here.

My name is Chris Jackins box 84063 Seattle 98124. On the bread contract three points.

Number one a letter from the baking company notes that it has two bakeries in Seattle one less than a half mile from school district headquarters.

Number two 12 out of 13 of the company's bread products contain calcium propionate a mold inhibitor.

Number three.

Why are preservatives needed?

The bread is only being baked a few blocks away.

Please vote no on this contract.

Drop the chemicals.

Give students fresh bread instead.

On the school name change from Van Asselt at African American Academy to Rising Star at African American Academy.

Five points.

Number one.

The name change is intended to reduce confusion between the original Van Assault and the current site.

Number two reopening the African-American Academy is a better solution.

Number three the district found one relative of Henry Van Assault an early settler associated with the land on which the school was built.

A relative was said to have given her a cent for the name change.

4. I sat through the district's previous renaming of Sharpless school to Aki Krosi.

District staff at that time found one listing of a Sharpless in the phone book, but that person was not related to the original Sharpless.

After the Sharpless renaming, the Sharpless family surfaced in force and threatened legal action.

5. So over the span of a couple of decades, the district has gone from finding zero relatives to finding one relative.

The district has not yet done proper due diligence.

Please vote no.

Thank you.

ELLIE WILSON- After Sabrina Burr we will have Vivian Grease followed by Jonah Randolph and Brian Terry.

Vivian.

All right thank you.

Okay thank you.

Good evening board members.

My name is Vivian A. Grice.

I'm a special education instructional assistant Focus grades K grades 3 through 5. Thank you for granting me the opportunity to speak in regards to the school name change at Van Aso Elementary at African-American Academy.

It has been an arduous journey renaming our school with highs and lows.

However the joint efforts of our dedicated community family students and staff and their vision including past present and future endeavor and goals are woven into a vast think tank to help solidify our proposed name change Rising Star Elementary at African-American Academy.

We are looking forward to starting the 2019-2020 school year with enthusiasm and hope.

cheering on our rising star students as they enter their new school setting.

We will begin with a new vision emboldened by the dreams hopes and aspirations inspired by our wonderful family community members staff students great leaders and visionaries.

We have risen from the ashes as rising star firebirds.

Facing challenges and moving upward and beyond as we brighten the future of our beloved children.

Families staff and community.

Thank you.

Hello board.

My name is Jonah Randolph.

I'm a first grade teacher at Van Assel and I've been teaching there for five years.

I grew up two blocks away from Van Assel.

That's where I was born and raised.

When I was just a boy Van Assel was just a field and we caught garter snakes in that field.

So for me teaching has been about coming home and it's a full circle and I feel like I'm not only a teacher but also a resident of the community.

And I'm just here to speak for our attempt to claim a name for ourselves.

In many ways this journey of choosing a name has had us go back through history.

We went back so far in our history we went back to the Duwamish and we realized that there are so many similarities as we went up.

So the treatment of Duwamish and Henry Van Asselt and what he stood for and how different he was than many other settlers.

The way that Van Asselt turned into The story of the African-American Academy after that.

All these things fit together and all of them fit together with a certain level of disregard.

People who've been disregarded.

People who've been moved.

People who've been had their name given to them or had situations decided for them.

So in this act of naming ourselves I want you all to know that we are trying in the most genuine way we can with the input of our staff staff our families our kids and our community to name ourselves to not only do it with confusion but also to claim our own right to be who we are.

A really really brief piece of history and I wish I could tell you all the history that we went over to go through this.

We actually have the whole family tree of the Van Asselts.

So our Van Asselt that we contacted I believe her name is Maureen Marva she is not The wrong Van Assault.

She is directly related to Henry Van Assault and she gave us our permission.

So really brief history.

The African-American Academy was forced to close essentially.

And Van Asselt School was very happy where they were and they were told they were not going to move.

And so and Van Asselt and so African-American Academy was closed and Van Asselt School was forced to move into that building.

And now we want to go ahead and claim a name that belongs to us that wasn't given or wasn't taken or wasn't misconstrued.

Thank you.

After Brian Terry we will have Sabrina Burr.

Good evening.

IQ tests have a dark past.

Significant racial biases made them a tool for white supremacy.

We use an IQ test in our schools today to identify highly capable students.

For years now, we have identified white students as highly capable at a rate 20 times that of black students.

If we looked, we would see that the IQ test that we use has a 10 to 1 racial bias against black students.

But we don't look.

We have faced this gross inequity for more than 30 years and each year chosen to do nothing of consequence to address it.

In violation of both WAC 392170035 and District Policy 0030. It seems surprisingly easy for us to overlook the harm this program causes to our black students as though their lives don't matter.

I ask all of you to please consider.

what it is about our decision-making process that makes it so easy for us to neglect the interests of our black students, what your role is in this process, and what action each of you can take to change our process so that our decisions reflect the interests of all of our students equitably.

Thank you.

Good evening.

First of all I want to thank you for what you do.

I know your job is not easy.

I want to talk about the District 7 race.

It was supposed to be open and transparent but it is the most racist thing that I'm seeing.

We have bloggers and there's extreme white supremacy.

I've seen candidates being lynched in their character.

And I'm very disappointed.

We have candidates that I understand have relationships with HCC staff and this process is not transparent.

The reason why I did not put my name in the hat was because Emijah's name was in the hat and both of us did not need to have our name in the hat because she was fully qualified for doing the job.

And so I really want you to look at what is going on in the race.

There is a lot of white supremacy around this race and Seattle Public School staff is ingrained in it.

So I just want to be open and very clear about what that what that looks like.

There's extreme white supremacy around this and we need to correct it.

District 7 needs a black voice.

Even under Director Patu the black voice in South Seattle has not been heard.

You have not heard from our families and there's no trust.

And so if you want to serve the black people in Southeast Seattle you need to make sure we have somebody who has a relationship with them.

On the African-American Academy I understand what that community has gone through for the school.

But in Southeast I had no idea of what was going on nor has the community been engaged.

The community was engaged when it was called the African-American Academy.

And I don't know why we have to put something up in front of it.

The community went through a lot.

The African-American Academy it was races and they all ended up in South Shore in 2009 changing the dynamics of our school.

Because then we became a foreign reduced lunch school where we weren't before.

And I really want you to look at the African-American community and see how you're impacting them and how not honoring the name that the community picked what it does.

There is a lot of hurt in our community and you need to investigate that before you vote on it and just listen to what happened in a school community who did not reach out to our community.

This concludes the sign up list for public testimony this evening.

Do we have anyone in the audience that wishes to testify as I believe the appropriate ask at this time.

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Okay action items we move back to the consent excuse me board comments.

About myself this time.

Who would like to go first.

Director Burke please.

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The educators get to take a much needed break but there's lots of things.

That run full speed all summer long the capital projects team.

Has been going.

Super intensely to get our four schools started that director Mack had mentioned.

We've got four ribbon cuttings.

Two of them tomorrow at Magnolia and Ingram.

And two of them on next week.

On Tuesday at Queen Anne Elementary and Lincoln High School our brand new Lincoln High School.

Super excited about that.

So I just want to thank the teams that have.

Been working on that tirelessly.

And the start of school folks.

That are going to make our our transition to.

Getting kids butts in seats as we like to say.

Super successful.

I also want to share my gratitude with the bargaining teams.

Seattle Education Association and Seattle Public Schools.

There's another group of people that that worked their their tushes off this summer.

To.

Have a clean start of school.

I'm super excited about.

What that has come to and the how the interest based bargaining process.

Helps us through some of the challenging times some of the challenging topics but gets us to a better place together.

A special shout out I know that there's so many people that pass.

Into the organization through the organization I wanted to give a special shout out to Michelle Aoki.

I'm not very good with titles so I'm not.

I'm not even sure exactly what her title is but you know essentially director of international.

Language studies schools something or other.

What she taught me.

About commitment to a program.

And around language immersion schools and essentially our whole.

International Studies work.

Took me basically from zero to functional.

And so I'm really grateful for the passion that she has shown.

She will be she's retiring officially.

September 1st.

So I want to publicly thank her.

The.

I have I've scheduled three community meetings that I'm still waiting for confirmation.

These are essentially the community meet the three community meetings that will complete my term here.

September 14th Saturday 3 to 5 p.m.

Fremont library October 12th 10 a.m.

to noon at Greenwood library and November 9th 3 to 5 p.m.

also at Greenwood library.

Once I have confirmations I'll share that with the board office and we'll get it posted on the calendar.

Other than that thank you everyone for joining us tonight and looking forward to a wonderful start of school.

Director Pinkham and then Director Mack.

DIRECTOR PINKHAM.

Good evening and thank you.

I guess for our next.

Tuesday and Wednesday welcome back to school.

I do have a new high school student that'll be having to attend some orientation with her next year but to all students new and returning and those that are moving on like from elementary to middle school and middle school to high school welcome back and hope you'll find this year very fulfilling.

And as I mentioned we got some new schools opening up unfortunately I won't be able to make it to Ingram High School.

You got some UW commitments that's keeping me busy just by basically from eight to Sometimes even after the 5 p.m.

and workday.

And thank you to all the candidates that were looking for the District 7 position and providing input and you're using perspectives as you're moving forward with that.

Thank you to our staff and the SCA people that we were able to find you know come to this with just the work that you've done.

I appreciate it that we're at the point that we're at now.

I barely have much comments for people today so I guess I'll take this opportunity to wish my niece and her husband a happy anniversary and also for tomorrow my sister's birthday as well so I got to pass those congratulations out.

I don't have any community meetings scheduled right now because unfortunately we're also heading into Husky football season and some of those games are to be determined so I'm actually I diligently work around those calendars so but Once I get them scheduled you will see them announce.

Thank you.

Good evening.

I appreciate the thank yous that are thrown out and also the birthday wishes.

I'm actually not a good person to remember other people's birthdays so happy birthday to everybody.

But I will do a shout out to my husband whose birthday was yesterday and my twins days before so.

I'm excited about the new buildings that Director Burke mentioned and the ribbon cuttings that we get to do successes in Seattle Public Schools.

We've got such a large district so many people so many challenges.

I just I really love the wins when they come and these are some major wins.

I know that Van.

Potentially rising star at African-American or Van Al Salt at African-American is struggling with some Facilities issues a roofing issue right now and I'm sure there's some other issues going on across the district and I know our staff is working hard to try to resolve those and that every student in our district needs and deserves a quality safe learning environment.

So excited about the ribbon cuttings tomorrow and excited about school starting next week having a short break before it starts.

So many logistics to go on for the start of school.

54,000 students.

I'm hearing that there's some enrollment projections that are maybe above but we don't know until people show up.

People are still signing up out there.

Getting all of the transportation things lined up.

It's a lot of details and a lot of teachers and principals and central staff are working really hard to make sure everything is lined up.

But I also know that there's often some glitches and I know my sense is particularly this year that there's a commitment inside of this district to be responsive to when glitches are happening and resolve them.

So I I hope that's what folks are experiencing.

I believe that's what the intent is and I hope that as we move into the start of school things get You know resolved quickly and with compassion.

As I mentioned in the ops we're getting some important updates at.

Then at the next ops meeting which is the day after school starts.

So we'll be getting enrollment numbers and getting some information there.

Update on start of schools.

And.

Also in response to the testimony around advanced learning.

The task force has been doing.

Their work and that those recommendations will be coming out.

There's a lot of work around that going on.

We have a work session that's scheduled.

In September on the 25th.

And I do know that there have been changes in.

Identification practices and so forth so there so.

No in the past five years there have been some improvements around.

The attempts to improve the identification processes and.

I do want to push back that there hasn't been anything done because I do know that there have been some changes made and there's a lot of conversation about what are the right changes to make in the future.

So I appreciate the support of the effort and I also want to recognize that we are working towards making improvements and that it is on our minds and in our in our agendas.

I don't have any meeting set up yet.

I was remiss in the last four months maybe six months.

Things were too busy.

But I do commit to getting something set up for September October and November particularly when there are some really hot topics coming up with student assignment and boundaries and those sorts of things get really.

And so I will be having a meeting I'll get it scheduled and I'll let you know when it is.

Thanks for coming out.

Thank you.

I hope short and sweet like sometimes I am.

I wanted to point this out.

Seattle Matt magazine.

And our very own.

head of food services.

And if you've eaten his cooking and his tiramisu is to die for and he's I'm going to teach him lasagna and he's going to teach me oxtail soup.

We've got a deal going on.

I do not have community meetings planned as yet but I will try to make them again at a West Seattle library I try to rotate them.

The third Saturday of the month from 3 to 5 unless there's a conflict here.

And the next one you have a 50 percent chance of getting lasagna.

And it's worth it for staff to come because we're rowdy and you get to see a different perspective and you all are very much invited.

A huge thanks for the lifts that our educators have done in bargaining and that our staff has done in bargaining.

This is the last summer for these people and as well please remember that most of our staff that has been on the bargaining team do that in addition to their 40 hour plus work week.

Their families don't see them.

And it's.

Really difficult intense work and.

It is so very much appreciated and and if and if you haven't heard it before.

From the bottom of my heart and this is one of those places where I absolutely will speak on behalf of the board.

Thank you ever so much both our staff.

And the Seattle Education Association if people come to the table with.

Listening and collaboration good things happen and I believe good things did happen and you will see that on the next board agenda for intro and action.

And for those folks that think that the board has some kind of megalomaniacal power that we could reach back in and change something.

Spare yourself the ugly emails and the blog post because that's just not going to happen.

This is a bargain that was collaborated on and and I would expect that we will in fact be approving it as is and.

Thousands of hours went into this and it's interest based bargaining it's not adversarial.

That's the difference.

And I sound really preachy and I don't mean to.

The other huge thanks is to the capital team and the start of schools team.

And I don't know if folks are aware.

I certainly wasn't being out in the seats here.

Prior to the start of school for years and years.

That that we have a cross departmental team that works on start of schools issues.

And they put together a giant size punch list.

And we used to say that this building and our departments were hugely siloed.

Well I'm here to tell you I'm here to tell you thank you speak up hold the mic close that that those silos are falling apart and that's one of the best things I've ever seen in the last four years being here on the dais and certainly the 15 prior to that.

This is a cross departmental team.

That works through this punch list and I think I heard a rumor this morning actually I heard a quote that we started with over a hundred items and we're down to 10 or 12. Something like that.

That's pretty extraordinary when you think of 102. Schools and.

And that many folks.

So thank you as well for that.

And thank you as well to the Seattle PTSA's.

It's not just teachers and principals that are in our schools right now getting ready for start of schools.

I as you know I I do look at the blogs I do try and keep up as an early warning system and I see new PTSA blood coming in and a really lovely what do I want to say almost mentorship process taking place and And that's a healthy and a beautiful thing as well.

And to those parents that are nervous about sending your your children to kindergarten or our schools there's family there for you.

You need to reach out and embrace it.

And I think PTSA like the school district is trying to do a better job of being inclusive and more engaging.

And again those are are great things.

I do appreciate and have heard loud and clear.

Frustration with the District 7 process.

District 7 appointment process.

I would say.

That this is the most transparent process that I've ever seen in living in this state for.

More than a few decades.

To fill.

Vacancies.

Is it messy it is democracy is messy.

But but the.

The meetings have been transparent they've been open.

We.

Had an abundance.

Of extraordinary people.

Coming to apply for this vacancies and and I'm so.

Thrilled and proud.

For that and I hope that we can.

Figure out other ways to corral that talent.

And and it does come down to a trust exercise.

It's the duty of the board under statute that we are the ones that vote and appoint and I know that this board director takes it very seriously and I trust that each of my colleagues does as well.

So stay tuned and hang with us and please be there for the form at Rainier Beach High School on September 11. Much appreciate.

Action items.

Let's go to the consent number one.

And Director Pinkham I believe you found an error as you do.

And these are the minutes.

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This meeting reconvened at 4.42 p.m.

Did we did we actually do that it was it was really that's what I was thinking did we actually wait let's recess and then no let's get back together and do this.

So 4.42 or 4.43 doesn't matter if we.

We're looking for advice here folks.

I didn't see that one coming did you.

It sounds like it actually is correct even though it reads unusually but I understand that did a recess come back in and that is actually what occurred.

I don't think there needs to be a correction.

Is there a way you can make that clear I guess because it does seem kind of if someone is to read this how did they recess and reconvene at the same time.

I think that you could add some language that there's a.

Board directors change their mind and reconvened.

Be the most accurate right way to say it.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- Would that be considered a Scrivener's addition sir.

Yes it just provides a little bit more clarity.

It doesn't actually change the actual content.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- And do we need a formal motion for a same.

No I think that we could just correct it.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- Okay.

To have a motion to approve.

Consent agenda item number one.

I move approval of the minutes of the July 10th 2019 budget public hearing the July 10th 2019 regular board meeting the July 15th 2019 work session the August 5th 2019 work session the August 7th 2019 board special meeting and the August 12th 2019 work session.

I second the motion.

All those in favor please signify by saying aye.

Thank you.

Now we move to C action item number one approving board policy number 3 2 3 2. Parent guardian and student rights and administration of surveys analysis or evaluations.

This came before C&I June 11 for consideration.

Motion please.

I move that the school board amend board policy number 3 2 3 2 parent guardian and student rights in administration of surveys analysis or evaluations as attached to the board action report.

I second the motion.

I see Chief Academic Officer Diane DeBacker at the podium.

Take it away please.

Good evening and thank you.

President Harris.

Am I on.

All right.

As you all know policy 32 32 deals with a very important topic and that is our the privacy of our student data.

Because this topic is so important we've taken a long time to get the language right as all of you know sitting up there tonight.

Along the way we were pushed by each of you by our communities by our own internal staff to get this right because we know that the rights and the responsibilities of our district to our students were not clear prior to this.

The policy that's before you today is strong and represents a collaborative process.

We did outreach with our communities formed an internal working group and had multiple feedback sessions with the directors and the curriculum and instruction committee.

At the recommendation of the committee members we also moved forward with a superintendent procedure to accompany this policy That procedure is currently being routed through our district channels.

That said I know that our district directors are interested in knowing the content of that procedure so I'm going to walk you through a few of the specifics.

First the procedure reaffirms the district's adherence to the protection of pupil rights amendments or PPRA and the guidelines from the U.S.

Department of Education regarding the protection of student data privacy.

The procedure also addresses the discomfort that some directors had expressed with regards to the PPRA protected category of sex behavior or attitudes.

We clarify that this should be interpreted to mean sexual behavior and attitudes in relation to sexual health and behavior.

Second the procedure clarifies when studies are opt in and when they are opt out.

And for it we follow this guidance from the U.S.

Department of Education and the federal law.

Those eight reasons for those are outlined within the policy.

Third the procedure outlines notification requirements to families.

Just this week a back to school notice was sent out to family informing informing them of this anticipated approval of the policy.

We will go back to them with the specifics once we have board approval on this.

We'll require that there's hard copy paper options and then we also will have other sources available such as through the source or email and will require that the notifications be translated into at least the five top languages of our district families.

Finally and I think this is one of the most important the procedure makes it clear that district staff are responsible for upholding the requirements set forth in this policy.

We'll require that district staff provide a contact person to track the opt outs and that we follow best practice in safeguarding signed consent forms for opt outs or opt ins.

And in any case where consent requirements are unclear we ask that data collectors consult with district legal counsel and we'll communicate this with our principals and our school staff.

We anticipate that if you approve policy 32 32 tonight we'll be able to share the text of the procedures with you at the September Curriculum and Instruction Committee and that will all be shared with you directors after that.

I stand for questions.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- Thank you so much Director Mack.

Since I don't sit on CNI I don't actually get to hear some of these conversations and it sounds like it's been very robust and completely engaged.

The one thing that I have.

A big question on is the language in the policy that and this might also be a question for Mr. Boy because I'm trying to understand who this who this actually covers.

The policy says specifically that it's blah blah blah required for all third party research.

Sorry I did the blah blah blah but anyway it's the second paragraph down paragraph down.

All third party research that doesn't encompass when the district itself is doing surveys.

And and then the accompanying policy number 4280 specifically only covers third party as well.

So.

All of the things that you just described for student data privacy.

Excellent.

Except this what I'm.

What I'm a little concerned about is that are we really only requiring those things of the third party research and not our own district because that's what the policy says.

It very specifically says third poly third third party research and it doesn't sound like it covers the district.

So can I get some clarity because despite my support for all of that work that's gone into that that's a huge thing if we are not following The same requirements and it's only the third party people that are having to follow it.

That's a problem.

So if I can get clarification on that.

DIRECTOR HARRISON So when we look at the policy the.

Paragraph number two states that it is the district's position that all third party receive informed consent.

When we look at internal research or internal research that.

Is that covers one of the.

One of the identified groupings here of the the reveal student information concerning any of the following eight categories then we fall into not an informed consent but a direct notification of a parent's rights to opt out and review the survey.

So those are the distinctions.

For clarification we are requiring that any third party research notify and parents have to give consent for these eight things.

But our district staff can do that without requiring it because we the policy doesn't require that the policy is only requiring it for third party it's not requiring it for our own district staff.

That is so under the PPRA.

The PPRA indicates that for Department of Ed funded surveys.

What is that.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- Yeah what is the PPRA I'm sorry.

PPR means what.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- The Protection of People Rights Act.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- Thank you.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- So under and this is the act that guides this policy under the act when.

A survey is submitted to a student and that's any time that a student is presented.

With questioning so sometimes you might refer to it as something other than a survey like a screener or a test something like that anytime that a student is asked to submit to a survey covering one of the eight sensitive topics if it were if it were funded by the Department of Ed.

There must be active consent by a parent and if it is not funded by the Department of Ed we are required to do and that'd be in the case of for us like a internal survey we are required to provide direct notification to parents and that direct notification must describe what the survey is the the sensitive topics that it might cover when it's going to be given And inform the parents that they have the right to review that survey and the right to opt out of this survey.

And we've also included in this that we require informed consent as well.

For any third party surveys as well that are not.

You know funded by the Department of Ed.

So we are the only time that a.

The ability to.

To not do an active consent would be an internal surveys that are not funded by the Department of Ed.

And then we would do direct notification and the parental right to opt out to review would be in place.

DIRECTOR HARRISON But for clarification this policy doesn't require notification or informed consent.

For our own.

Surveys.

You're saying that there is there is going to be in the procedures and that that's the process and the PPRA.

There would be because that was what we would do but this policy doesn't clarify that we also do require notification.

It actually does when we look at the when we look below the eight areas of sensitive areas Says in cases of district led collection of student data that may concern the above eight categories but is not funded by the U.S.

Department of Education.

The district shall notify parent guardians and adult or more emancipated minor students of the rights for refusal and their rights for their child's participation and the rights their child's participation in the data collection activity.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- So there it is.

So.

So it does clarify.

Thank you.

DIRECTOR DEWOLF.

Yeah you bet.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- So for clarity.

Third party research requires informed consent.

When it's our own we will be notifying them and that's a shall not a may.

So we are required to notify parents and that they can opt out if they want to.

That is correct.

Thank you.

Director Burke.

I want to close the loop on this conversation because I think it's a really good one and I appreciate you bring that up the.

If you scroll down a little bit more in the packet the language that we were originally looking at for this policy which I think came through WASDA was around applying these guidelines to federally funded surveys.

And I'm looking to staff to correct me if I if I overstep here but.

When we were talking with staff about well why just federally funded and the feedback was well we have those practices for all of our surveys.

But the policy language came with federally funded like well let's change the policy language to all.

And I think that became all third party but then this paragraph down below.

Indicates that it would include.

Internal as well so my my understanding is that we have a.

A standard.

policy for that this is codifying around opt in opt out.

And.

If that is.

True please confirm.

It is true.

Okay.

So that's that was the.

What what changed the language in here from federally funded to to including all outside sources.

And I really really do appreciate that clarification and getting all the way down to the bottom of the page and reading that part because the first thing that you read read is third party only and that gave me pause and concern.

So I would just ask I know you're working on the procedures I would ask to the best of your ability and the procedures to be very clear about the district's responsibilities in and how they are Responding particularly to this notification and opt out and all of that.

I'm sure you're already handling that in it but it just it's so important to have that really clear for us knowing our processes as well as family and students to know what their rights are.

Thank you.

Director Pinkham.

I almost got a concern that this may be a little bit too broad because that paragraph on the second page because we collect data Oh we always doing data and that says that this almost to me sounds like we can even have people opt out of hey I don't want to be counted in the data versus surveys.

I want to that paragraph to me in cases of district led collection of student data.

It doesn't say collection of surveys from or something like this.

So that concerns me that some may say hey sorry you can't count my Native American child because I don't want that child to be counted any data collected.

Is can I get that.

Is it.

No.

DIRECTOR HARRISON I would just say that because of the fact that we are really focused on the questioning of the state sensitive topic areas which precedes that language and in that sentence prior it talks about.

The data collection and then by the district for research evaluation analysis.

I think that we've narrowed it down appropriately.

With the focus towards that questioning of the sensitive areas and then.

It then continues on.

Talk about district data collection with the same context.

That concern the above eight categories.

And I think that.

That we're we're strong there as far as.

Your concern.

Director Burke Director Pinkham does that address your concerns.

Just that one paragraph or just it just talks about district led collection of student data that may concern the above eight categories.

That isn't collected anywhere in our system like when we do student demographics and when people register their children for the school none of this kind of data is collected of those eight categories.

So that's just what I was kind of concerned about that.

If there was something that we did collect and then we want to do an analysis of that data.

Is this policy now saying we must get permission from someone that may have identified as one of those in our system.

Has your concern been met and or explained or are we at an impasse here.

Looking at again the eight items as long as I know that this data isn't collected as a process of us getting students enrolled I'm good.

Okay so we've got that.

Director Burke did you wish to speak further on this.

I do.

I. I appreciate that this is a long time coming.

I appreciate that this took a great deal of work from legal from board staff from CNI from the chair of CNI and the CNI committee from research and evaluation from comms This hit a lot of different departments and streams of work.

A whole lot of really fascinating arguments were had and and I don't think conflict's a bad thing as long as we learn to listen to each other and we come out with good work product like this.

So on that note roll call please.

Director Burke aye Director Mack Director Pinkham aye.

Director Harris aye.

This motion is passed unanimously.

DIRECTOR DEWOLF- Thank you so much C.

Action Item Number 2 approval of the extension of contract with Durham School Services for supplemental bus transportation services.

This came before exec August 21st for consideration.

Motion please.

I move that the school board authorize the superintendent to execute a contract amendment extending contract SS 1 1 8 2 2 through the 2019 20 school year for school bus transportation services with Durham bus.

Durham School Services Inc. in the form of the amendment attached to the board action report with any minor additions deletions and modifications deemed necessary by the superintendent and to take any necessary actions to implement the contract amendment.

Immediate action is in the best interests of the district.

I second the motion.

Take it away Chief Podesta please.

Fred Podesta Chief Operations Officer.

The board will recall that in the fall of 2018 the district was having trouble with transportation that our main yellow bus home to school transportation provider for a student was struggling with fully staffing its driver ranks and was missing roughly 40 routes a day due to lack of drivers.

So the district reacted as quickly as we could and in late fall entered into a supplemental contract to get additional bus service from Durham another provider and was able over the next period of weeks to kind of stabilize services add routes and improve service markedly from the fall to the winter and we think going into while we've made other tactical changes and expect the driver picture to be better this fall than it was last fall still think the prudent thing to do Is to not be kind of over a barrel with one vendor and to be able to draw from a broader pool of buses and drivers and amend this contract to extend it another year.

DIRECTOR HARRISON- Comments questions concerns from my colleagues.

Triple dog near you.

Seeing none roll call please.

DIRECTOR HARRISON- Director Mack.

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I move that the school board authorize the superintendent to enter into an agreement with the friends family bakeries covering the period from September 1 2019 to August 31 2020 at a cost of up to two hundred and fifty three thousand two hundred and eighty eight dollars and 42 cents for bread products with any minor additions deletions and modifications deemed necessary by the superintendent to take any necessary actions to implement the contract.

Approval of this motion would authorize a one year contract with annual renewal option for two additional years at a similar price.

Immediate action is in the best interest of the district.

I second the motion Chief Podesta take it away.

This is the third basic food contract that we're bringing to the board this year first being for fruits and vegetables and dairy products this provides the bed The bread products that we use for breakfast and lunch service.

A request for proposal process was conducted in the spring.

We had two vendors.

This contract is a few thousand dollars more on an annual basis projected but the spectrum of products that they offer and the service in terms of delivery seems much better and so the.

Evaluation panel chose this provider Franz Bakery also a local provider that we're probably many of us are familiar with.

One question came at the Operations Committee about Do we have any information about how the bakeries handle nut products and nut allergies.

The facilities that will be serving us are all nut free.

So that will be one less thing to worry about.

We would like.

DIRECTOR HARRISON- Chief Podesta could you also address the concern or have your colleague address the concern regarding preservatives that came up at public testimony.

We do you know not all these products are custom made for us so people have different shelf needs and we.

Have an enormous warehouse and kitchens.

So while it is true that we get products delivered to us relatively quickly we do have storage issues and are trying working hard which is why and I appreciate you highlighting our nutrition services directors media attention but we're trying hard to get fresher food in students in front of students but we will store these products and so having stabilizing elements I think is still important to us.

I don't know Aaron if Aaron has anything you'd like to add but I think we're still in that market where there'll be some preservatives in our bread products.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- And can we do away with them in 10 years and make scratch bread.

It's good to have an aspirational goal.

Any other comments questions concerns Director Burke.

I want to also echo an enthusiasm for baked products but the love for scratch baking or having those that equipment and capability at our schools.

I think back to my high school days where the rolls were 15 cents and the milk was 20. And I made it through my entire lunch on these one dollar lunches that were four rolls and two milks.

And it got me here today made me who I am.

So four rolls and two milks that's that's the secret recipe.

I got to think that students smelling bread baking would only improve educational outcomes.

I know it's not nutritionally correct but I just wanted to share that.

Director Bingham and then Director Mack.

I was just kind of caught I guess on the motion itself when it said A similar price.

What's the definition of similar price.

I believe at a roughly quarter million dollar projected cost.

This price was about four thousand dollars more than the other.

It says you know contract it.

One year contracts with annual renewal for option two additional new years at a similar price.

So similar price I guess.

Is that you know.

Within that two hundred fifty thousand dollar range is that similar.

That's.

Relatively comparable to what we spent last year was about two hundred and thirty one.

And this is an estimate you know the actual cost will depend on what we order.

The mix of red products versus other.

I don't know that he's talking about that as as much as he's talking about the looseness of the word similar price that it's not tacked down.

And that.

If I'm reading you correctly that gives you pause.

Right.

It it's.

It's an option.

I don't know if you do want to chime in if there's an inflator built into the contract that limits.

And again it's an option that we don't necessarily have to take.

We can go to other providers.

We'd expect it to be again in the market and roughly the rate of inflation.

But are there any other.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- So is it coming back to us then for renegotiation in a year.

What does the RFP say.

The option would come back to you if we expect similar expenses because it would be over the quarter million dollar price.

DIRECTOR HARRISON Okay.

Got it.

Thank you.

Director Burke you're good.

Director Mack.

DIRECTOR BURKE I just appreciate all the good work that's going on and nutrition services on all different fronts including and thank you for finding out about the nut free aspect.

That's.

Safety of our students in our schools is important and I know we also talked about the work that's going on to get more clarity around the allergens that are in our school lunches so that it's easier for folks to to figure out whether or not that's going to be a safe meal.

Allergies are complicated and I know that lots of folks out there have to Go through the process of doing 504 plans and having all the accommodations.

So I just really appreciate your attention to the safety of our students and finding that out.

Roll call please.

Director Pinkham aye.

Director Burke aye.

Director Mack aye.

Director Harris aye.

This motion is passed unanimously.

Okay action item number four and after this item we're going to take a 10 minute break.

School name change Van Asselt at the African-American Academy came before Ops August 15th for approval.

Motion please.

I move that the school board authorize the change of Van Asselt at African-American Academy to Rising Star at African-American Academy.

The change would commence in September 2019 but allow one full year for changes to be made to district systems immediate action is in the best interest of the district.

I second the motion.

Who is presenting this one.

You Chief Podesta.

I think I'll tee up a couple of process points and then ask Principal Lamb to join me to talk about the outreach part.

Thank you.

So this as the bar states this the school started considering this really based on practical issues that having Van Asselt at African-American Academy and having old Van Asselt and original Van Asselt has created myriad But I think once staff and the school community got into it they just became more about building a new identity and about self-determination.

So the principal and her team formed a naming committee committee that did exhaustive input from school stakeholders to think about a process and think about what it would mean to the school community.

I also really want to applaud that this isn't a building name change so the Group voluntarily met the spirit of the board procedure about building name changes because it's transparent and calls for a lot of outreach and engagement.

But a school name change is is different and can be done differently but I think they've used a very open process and that's why we're here today.

And just want to make sure that the board understands that You know this is being done in the spirit of a building name change but the building name will not change.

It's just that that process is a good is a good vehicle for getting input and and getting engagement.

And so the team followed it.

Is there a question Director Mack.

Director Harris.

Hello.

Director Mack note to self.

Okay so just because I'm really looking forward to hearing from the principal and get some history as well and I think the community is as well.

But I really want to get clarification on what we're doing here so the public fully understands.

So there are two buildings called Van Asselt.

Yes.

And those buildings.

There's there's.

How many buildings are actually called Van Asselt.

There is original Van Asselt and old Van Asselt I think.

Okay so there's original Van Asselt old Van Asselt and Van Asselt Van Asselt is not a building name it's a school name the building name is African-American Academy.

Okay so we have two buildings that are called either original Van Asselt or old Van Asselt but their name is technically Van Asselt.

Okay.

And then when the school itself moved.

To the African-American Academy building who's the building's name is African-American Academy.

That name of the building came with it.

But we are not changing.

The actual building names of the two buildings that still exist called old Van Alsult and original Van Alsult.

Those are still Van Alsult as building names.

We are only changing the name of the school community in the African-American Academy.

Building.

And that building name will remain.

And the policy is around building names.

It is.

And it's very specifically around the importance of that and the process around that.

So we're not doing that.

We're not changing a building name.

But it's a significant change to the community.

So I think that was why this process was followed to give the board input and to follow a good process that encourages engagement.

So I will turn it over to.

And can our guests as well specifically address former PTSA President Serena Burr's Sabrina Burr's comments and concerns.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

My name is Huen Lam principal at Van Assa Elementary School.

First I'm really sorry for the way I dress.

I am dressed for packing and moving with my staff today and so my mind has not been in looking good at all and I apologize I forgot the clothes I didn't have to borrow her sweatshirt.

So I do apologize first of all.

So as a new principal coming into community I kind of grew up here pretty much started my career at Van Assal as an IA.

Coming back to it the first thing I look at the building because oftentimes to me being an immigrant a refugee myself name is really important name and identity is something Really, you need to have, to have pride, to really know where you're coming from, to really think about the future, right?

So I came into this building where you can't even find the identity, like Van Assel.

Like, I came even as a leader.

I didn't know where to sit, because there's old Van Assel, Van Assel everywhere.

So I was standing looking for where I am, who I am, and I went to the building.

There's this old hanging sign, you know, that's hanging on the window, and you couldn't see Van Assel, and I looked around the building, I'm like, Who are we?

Where are we?

And so that was something I looked into and I asked Jen, who's been here and who's been the heart and soul for seven years at Van Assel, why is that the case?

And nobody wanted, and she shared all the confusions, all the fire department and all our budgets, and I looked at it, we were even like, Paying for somebody that's at old Benassel when I went to our budget arena.

So there's a lot of confusion and I go and this is a battle that not everyone wants to take on because it's very political as I went through the process.

But I know it needs to be done because it's important to our community and our students that there has to be a name that we can identify, be proud of and We can then really start rising together and create a new future for our students right this aspiration.

So Jen worked really hard so I want her to share kind of the history that we did because we understand it's important to bring our community in to really acknowledge and honor all the past that has been going on how we got to this future because to me that's really important when you really know your name and your identity right.

And so Jen will share and really Share what Sabrina was concerned about and we understand that and so we were really careful in the way how we include and engage our community members.

Thank you I'm Jennifer Kovach the assistant principal.

And I love doing research.

So that's why I've been more in the role of the historian.

But I also need reading glasses.

Here we go.

So we actually started because we did meet with Sherry Cox and the superintendent and it was recommended that we do do research.

So with the African-American community, African-American Academy community, we reached out to many people who were instrumental in the founding of the Academy.

I want to say that going back to the early 1990s, we have connected with Ricky Malone, who was one of the original founders.

We also were told that Michael Preston and Tony Orange were involved, but we were not able to contact them.

We did work with Dr. Wanda Hackett, who was part of the LINCS, which supported the academy.

And Gail Johnson, whose mother was quite instrumental here in Seattle in getting many things going.

And they have come to some of our meetings.

With the Black Child Development Institute, which was also instrumental in supporting the academy, Kimberly Early came and worked with us.

No one from the Tabor 100 company responded, but we reached out to them.

Colin Williams' family was contacted and declined to participate, but appreciated being contacted.

Mel Streeter, the architect's sons, were contacted, but they decided not to participate as well.

We contacted staff who had taught at the academy, Bill Butler, Mary Vester, George Freeland, and Davis were aware of the process, came to some of the meetings, Bill Butler especially, Mary Vester came to one of the meetings, George Freeland was just communicating with us via email.

And then Liz Reynolds-Thomas came and participated in many of the meetings and she was one of the big supporters with the links as well.

And then Valerie Fisher was a community member who came and also gave some input.

These are people who were instrumental back when the academy was getting founded and was active in the building for the 10 years that it existed approximately in the African American Academy at 8311 Beacon Avenue South.

To address Ms. Burr's comments about contemporary engagement with the black community, which I think she was specifically addressing, although we were told many times that it wasn't just a school for black students and that many students from many different ethnicities attended the school.

We feel our community engagement with the present was very much with our families.

And by reaching out to all of the people that I mentioned to you, we know that they were also reaching out to their sort of constituents and so forth.

And what we learned from this process loud and clear is that African American Academy is a name that we want to carry very proudly.

As a building name.

And that we through this process are going to I think be able to reaffirm all of the ideals and the work and the love and the care that went into that.

So I feel like we are open to continuing to engage and will continue to engage with anyone who cares about African American Academy's history and present and future.

To address Mr. Jaskin's comment, when the Sharpless research was done, Ancestry.com probably did not exist.

And so we luckily now have technology which allowed us to create a pretty complete family history tree of the Van Asselt family.

And Van Asselt had four children, three daughters and one son.

One of the daughters, she married somebody named Benidem.

Her name was Harriet Jane.

And that family stayed in this area.

So the other three siblings moved to California and moved to Michigan.

And really sort of lost interest in their family.

But Harriet Jane's great granddaughter who would have been Henry and Catherine Jane Maple.

That was Henry Van Asselt's wife.

Their great great great granddaughter Marlis.

I will not share her last name just for confidentiality.

She lives in the area, an island a little ways away from here.

And she is a passionate historian of her family.

She donated all of the letters to Mohai and in addition some furniture is there which we can go and see and you can go and see.

And she said that she would talk to her brother Mark.

So I also am active with Ancestry.

So we communicated first over Ancestry then we talked over the furniture.

And there actually are some of their children who are educators right now.

One is a speech-language pathologist over in Bellevue, and the other one is teaching, again, up in the island.

So she reached out to everybody in the family, including her brother Mark, the most, like, closest descendants.

And they are very, you know, happy to clear up the confusion.

She really understood the confusion.

She said, as long as there's at least one building named Van Assault, we are happy.

Well, there are actually still four buildings, at least, that bear the, or three buildings that name the Van Assault.

There's the 1909 building, there's the 1950 building, and the 1909 building became a landmark in May, so that will stay that name I imagine for quite some time.

I've recommended that those two buildings together become the Van Assault Educational Complex to kind of clear up the confusion about the two buildings piece of it.

And then the Van Assault Community Center is right across the street also having the name Van Assault.

Van Assault became the name of an entire neighborhood because Henry Van Assault had 320 acres which sort of became a whole neighborhood.

And it became annexed to Seattle in 1907. So there's more like the Van Assaults that sort of.

Sort of spread all over that area.

DIRECTOR HARRISON I'm going to ask you to twirl it up.

But may I just say something here for the record.

How cool is it that we have staff.

That is so passionate.

And so freaking talented.

Thank you so much.

Director Mack.

I really appreciate the thoroughness of the research and the reaching out and the so I do have a question though from Mr. Podesta for future bars because it does sound like the two buildings that are next to each other but they're basically one school that maybe that does need a renaming clarification.

We are doing the ribbon cutting on Queen Anne which has two buildings but it's all Queen Anne.

So I'm wondering if we can.

Can you schedule that for an Ops meeting please.

Yes I just like to put that on the agenda.

For the direct that the chair of Ops.

Mr. Ops.

We'd be happy.

Roll call please.

Excuse me.

The blind eye.

Director Pinkham.

And just reading through this bar and stuff.

For me and I think maybe for some of the public there's a lot of confusion It seems like this Venice or whatever at African-American is referred to as a building.

It's referred to as a school.

It's referred to as a program.

Which one is it?

I think we need to make that a little bit clear in this.

Is it a school or is it a program because.

It's a school.

In some of the notes they talk about you know the renaming a program.

And then another part of the notes it talks about renaming the school.

So for me that.

just confuses a lot of stuff for me as this what can then future happen.

Oh yeah they renamed a school through this process and someone else.

Hey we can rename a school just through the same process.

I hope that this doesn't you know make things muddy going down as schools want to change your name or programs change your name.

Is this again it's a change of a school if that's what it is name.

I want that to be clarified.

This microphone is hot.

It I think my understanding seemed to me that the bar was clear perhaps some of the background notes use the term program but just to clarify this is a school name and really we have schools and buildings and building name change is a much bigger deal.

Involves OSPI and others.

And a program or a school change is clearly what's going on here.

DIRECTOR DEWOLF But looking at the notes seems like they're following the procedure for program name changes not for school name changes so that's where the kind of confusion.

DIRECTOR DEWOLF The procedure they followed is for building name changes that that's the board procedure is about building

In the notes that are included with this page six it says Gretchen DeBaca shares how program name changes are proposed.

Versus seems like this should have been changing how school name changes should be chose.

If that was again maybe just a scrivener or something and it's still again for me that just needs to be clarified that they follow the school name changer procedure not the name programming.

I believe there are only board policies for building name changes.

And so which is the highest bar in terms of visibility and letting the board weigh in.

So this team chose to use the highest possible bar.

But what is being changed is a school name.

Director Burke.

I want to commend your team on the outreach.

I was reading through the level of detail that went into this.

You know we talk about our bar in terms of board action report but this is a bar that has raised the bar.

And I guess I I think I can tell from the content but I'd like it to be part of the record why this is for intro action.

The I meant a lot to the identity of the school and the school community to start school this year with the new name.

Madam Superintendent please.

DIRECTOR HARRIS- Yeah I just want to commend Principal Lamb and her staff and her team for all the work they did.

I mean from that very first meeting we had around a small table with the input that was given there to what it's grown to become and all the deep engagement that happened and the work that was happening and all of the stakeholders that you had to engage.

So I just want to thank you for diving into that for really Bringing people together and to come you know it's very significant to actually move from Van Asselt to Rising Star and what that means to your community.

And I think it is a change that will help you galvanize your community to really have an identity about who it is you are.

For your students right and what that means to your staff and family.

So just thank you Principal Lam for your leadership in that and for the team members that you were able to bring together on that.

DIRECTOR DEWOLF ROLL CALL PLEASE.

Director Burke.

DIRECTOR BURKE I. Shine Bright.

DIRECTOR BURKE I. Director Pinkham.

DIRECTOR PINKHAM I. Director Harris aye.

This motion is passed unanimously.

The 15 minute break 7 05 back here.

Thank you.