In 2003, a committee was created with members appointed from the city Board of Supervisors and the Board of Education. In the beginning, the committee was used to discuss joint concerns on issues, such as affordable housing for teachers, student nutrition, and graffiti in the San Francisco schools. Unfortunately, the structure of the joint committee was a matter of contention from the committees inception with an imbalance of power.
The Board of Supervisors control the forum. They decide what issues are put on the meeting agendas for discussion. They have the right to make inquiries of the San Francisco schools officials, who are expected to respond to all inquiries. Unfortunately, this is a one-way power structure.
The San Francisco schools are funded by the state and not accountable to city or county governments. The structure of the committee makes the San Francisco schools officials accountable to the citys Board of Supervisors and doomed from the beginning. Thus, the committee has met rarely in the past couple of years.
Though the San Francisco schools officials and city supervisors were scheduled to meet twice monthly in 2006, it did not happen,...
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