okay let's go ahead and begin I want to
thank everyone for being with us here
this morning I especially want to thank
the people who are standing with me at
this podium two of whom will have an
opportunity to say some words and so I'd
like to begin by introducing them with
us today is the president of the board
of trustees for the South Salido Marin
City School District Miss Ida green and
with us as well who will speak is your
new superintendent for the district
schools here in the area otoko garcia
and both of them will have remarks after
i conclude and i'm thankful that they
are here and i'm thankful that they made
it possible for us to be here along with
their the rest of the board of trustees
for the school district probably the
best way to start by the way let me also
acknowledge the work of the team at the
california department of justice without
the work that they did the investigation
that was conducted the conversation that
was had with the school district we
wouldn't be here and so I'd like to make
sure that I acknowledge gig Lindsay more
than anyone else because Garret was the
person principally in charge of this
matter Michael Newman who is in charge
of our Civil Rights Division is with us
as well and it's been the work of his
team that's made it possible for us to
do this up and down the state of
California but quite honestly Garrett
gets the spotlight today for the work
that he was able to achieve every child
no matter their stripe or stature
deserves equal access
quality education we believe that we say
it and it's what's required by the law
but what we say isn't always what we do
and certainly it's not what the
Sausalito Lansing school district did
when it chose to segregate its students
depriving the child of a fair chance to
learn is wicked it's warped it's morally
bankrupt and it's corrupt skin color or
zip code should not determine winners
and losers in America we finally
acknowledged that as a nation some 65
years ago in 1954 the Supreme Court in
the decision Brown the Board of
Education willed that resh racial
segregation in public schools was
unconstitutional but more importantly
they said separate is not equal but ten
years after that decision the California
Department of Education found that the
schools in this school district were
still segregated in response this school
district piano operate an integrated
system for its kids sending them within
the same grade than those from UNC and
Sausalito to the same schools in the
same location that was nineteen sixty
four decades later an investigation done
by the California Department of Justice
led by our mayor of children's justice
found that in 2013 the school district
intentionally established a racially
segregated elementary middle school
Bayside Martin Luther King Academy to
serve a predominantly minority
in unincorporated Marin City students in
nearby Sausalito on the other hand will
attend the publicly funded k12 Docs qzk
through eight charter school Royal Creek
Academy in coming to this decision the
district disregarded input from minority
members of the community discouraging
community involvement in the schools the
district promised that this new system
would be cost saving and that face
savings would be passed along and yes to
invest in Bayside MLK school and to
start a gifted learners program but
shortly after establishing the
segregated base I MLK the district cut
crucial math science and eat English
educational programming at the school
that that was required in order for the
school to establish this promised
international baccalaureate program real
quick Academy on the other hand was
guaranteed stable funding by the school
board the cuts to funding for Bayside
MLK resulted in a school that was not
only segregated by offering an inferior
educational program in addition
partially due to lack of access to full
time counseling at Bayside MLK
african-american students and district
funded programs lost sixty six times as
many days of instruction to suspensions
comparison to right students in the
district that's six to six times
disability that's the largest disparity
among white students in African art
anima African American students for
public school districts in the entire
state of California these decisions by
the Board of Trustees violated both the
equal protection guarantee of a
California Constitution and the Equal
Protection Clause of the US Constitution
the salsa NATO Marines see school
district schools were separate and they
were not equal it's time to make grade
on the district's unfulfilled promise to
so many of its students today we'll take
a significant step to address
segregation at Bayside MLK and I want to
thank superintendent Garcia and board
president green for helping make today's
announcement possible we are announcing
a settlement with the Sausalito Lawrence
County School District to address the
racial and ethnic segregation impacting
its students this marks the first time
in five decades that the state of
California has taken comprehensive
action to require a district to
desegregate this agreement will resolve
a comprehensive investigation conducted
by our office and it will establish
concrete steps so that social a Des
Moines City School District D segregates
Bayside Martin Luther King jr. Academy
in the settlement Thessaly the Marin
City School District agrees to develop a
comprehensive plan with community
members and third-party experts to
attract a diverse pool of students to
Bayside MLK while addressing the needs
of its current students it will appoint
a third party monitor to oversee the
implementation and progress of the
Comprehensive Plan and compliance with
the settlement it will create a
counseling program to offer college and
career guidance to students who attend
and have attended Bayside MLK between
2013 and 2019 they were established a
scholarship a scholarship program to
provide funds to affected students to
pay for two years of college or trade
school and it will form a base a
gracious advisory group to advise the
school district on issues relating to
racial segregation recognizing that the
causes and effects of school segregation
extend beyond the classroom
I thank today's fussily marine school
district leaders its trustees
superintendent his faculty its staff for
them to move forward toward equal access
to a quality education for all of its
students sixty-five years is a long time
to wait it's a long time and it means a
lot of living and a lot of learning not
reaching its potential
finally this announcement should be a
call to action to all school districts
in our state of California to follow
through on very responsibilities under
the law because without equal access to
education there cannot be equal
opportunity for success it is up to all
of us to protect California's children
and its communities from injustice and
when we worked
whether we can get it done let me now
ask Board of Trustee president Ida green
to say some remarks good morning today I
stand before you in this pivotal moment
to acknowledge the south leader Melinda
City School District past failures which
led to the state of California Attorney
General Office are forming that Bayside
Martin Luther King jr. Academy is a
racially segregated school for more than
70 years the stigma associated with the
Marin City community has been one of
failure whether it's been failure
relative to housing education economic
disparity or acceptance enabling
communities it's been an ongoing battle
this is not the platform to discuss how
we as a people simultaneously change the
course of all the justices but we can
begin to move forward with the
foundational edik of a public school
system to provide an excellent and
excellent education within its system in
the generations of people who have come
before before me
entrusting the stewardship of the most
vulnerable among us our children and the
tradition of greening of the Masai tribe
we must ask and Hannah the children it
should not take the highest policing
agency in California to ensure that we
are taking care
of the children today settlement with
AGL mound and a bizarre district to move
forward with full transparency lifting
that perceived very secrecy as an
elected official I ask all constituents
in this district education change
desegregation it's the right time to
make a difference Thank You
superintendent Garcia good morning it's
a great honor and very humbling
experience to stand before you today in
a community that contributed a
tremendous amount to my own personal
growth as a child and as an adolescent I
played on these ball fields it's a
school with many kids that are still
friends of mine today who have children
in our system and it is incredibly
impactful to be part of a solution and a
process to help us move forward
today a historic turning point a
historic turning point that will allow
us to move forward together in a unified
way as a community to create a different
outcome a better outcome a better future
for all of our students and all of our
families it is with great anticipation
and reverence that we have reached a
settlement with the state attorney
general Xavier Becerra to address the
people's complaint against the Sausalito
Marin City School District this
settlement represents a turning point
and clear plan to support our healing
from a collective community trauma that
has its roots in systems and structures
that are decades
centuries in Sausalito
city in our County in our state and in
our country we are at a critical
juncture locally and nationally and are
excited to move forward in both spirit
and action with the highest dedication
to the ideas of equity diversity
inclusion justice and truth we invite
all members of our community here in
southern Marin and countywide to
participate in a process that unifies us
behind a common vision and takes
substantial action to manifest
educational
and social opportunities and outcomes
for all of our students and Families the
gravity and seriousness of the
settlement agreement allows us to answer
the call and mandate to deliver an
excellent education for all of our
students and we are excited to partner
with the Marin County Office of
Education and all of our community
partners and all of our local
governments and all of the different
educational institutions that support
students and families here in Marin City
to realize the vast potential of all of
our students and families and
particularly our black and brown
students and Families lady Jo famoso
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Romano's Hamas Sarah Ben Seaver thank
you all very much all done with the
background of the people were doing this
for chiming in so it's only appropriate
that we have these kids enjoying life
not even worrying about what we're doing
and that's the way it should be we'll
take any questions you might have and of
course we'll take if there are questions
we'll take any questions on this subject
before we take questions on any other
subject let me just do some real quick
words in Spanish so the superintendent
does you show me up
let me just quickly say in Spanish a
couple words es un buen dia porque
mientras escucha MOS nos gritos de
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Alencon Alegria de empezar una nueva
datapack e para las escuelas de
maurienne serie is a salir o donde los
ninos que pueden pasar e greet re y
tener Alegria no se tiene que prabhu par
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des ananza dónde van a poder aprender
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