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Board approves multiple policies, a waiver request to avert a $3.3M penalty, and closed‑session disciplinary and personnel actions
Summary
On May 14 the board approved a package of policies (including an amended bullying policy), voted to authorize a state waiver to avoid an estimated $3.3 million penalty tied to Lincoln High's instructional‑minute shortfall, approved consent items including item 19, and read out several closed‑session expulsions and contract approvals.
The San Francisco Unified School District Board voted on a suite of policy and administrative items and reported multiple closed‑session personnel and disciplinary decisions.
The board took a single roll‑call vote on ten policies forwarded from Rules Committee (including an amended bullying policy, BP 5131.2) and approved the bundle after no speakers were signed up. The consent calendar passed with the exception of an item withdrawn earlier; Commissioner Collins asked clarifying questions about classroom library purchases (item 19), and staff explained materials align with individual 'pitch' schools' plans. The roll call for the consent calendar and the policy votes was recorded as six ayes.
As a Special Order of Business the board approved resolution 1905‑14S01 authorizing submittal of a waiver to the State Board of Education after an audit found Abraham Lincoln High School short of required instructional minutes in 2016–17. District staff said the shortfall (reported in the audit as 519 minutes) exposed the district to an approximate $3,300,000 penalty; the remediation plan proposed adding three instructional days for two consecutive years. The board approved submitting the waiver by roll call.
After recessing into closed session and reconvening, the board publicly read out several closed‑session actions: approvals of contracts for five principals and one interim principal, approvals for two assistant‑principal contracts, non‑reelection of multiple probationary certificated employees, and the approval of several stipulated expulsion agreements (matter numbers as read into the record). The board also authorized the district to settle or pay specified litigation amounts for identified matters.
No detailed dollar amounts for the personnel contracts were read into the public record during the open‑session readout; expulsions were recorded by matter number. The board recorded votes on these items as six ayes with one absence noted for President Cook on some items.
