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Op Ed: Restoring faith in San Francisco’s public schools
Last week SFUSD welcomed 6,056 of our youngest elementary students back to school. Children were greeted with parades of balloons, welcome signs, masked cheering from families and school staff, and tears of relief and happiness. Would their friends remember them? Was their teacher tall or short? What would their classroom look like? The big moment…
Read MoreIn the News: S.F. parents, politicians rally for a return to five full days in the classroom
With San Francisco public schools having agreed to a gradual and modest reopening plan, a parent-led movement to get kids back in the classrooms stepped up the pressure Saturday, calling for five full days of in-person education. Hundreds of parents and kids marched from Alamo Square Park to Civic Center Plaza, where Mayor London Breed…
Read MoreIn the News: SFUSD just released new details on the reopening plan for San Francisco schools
San Francisco school officials on Monday released more details about their plans to get some of the city’s more than 52,000 schoolchildren back into classrooms this spring after a year of distance learning that left many families struggling and sparked a lawsuit over reopening schools. Under the plan, starting April 12, some students in lower…
Read MoreIn the News: Here’s what S.F. parents think about the deal to bring some students back to the classroom in April
Parents’ excitement about San Francisco schools finally reopening in April turned glum Saturday as many realized that their children were not included in the latest plan. “It was initial excitement and overjoyed feelings of — is this really happening?” said Meredith Dodson, whose son is in preschool at Rooftop Elementary in the Twin Peaks neighborhood.…
Read MoreIn the news: Latest San Francisco school reopening fight: How far apart should desks be spaced?
Just as San Francisco public school officials and the teachers union seemed to be inching toward an agreement on reopening schools, a rift has opened over 2 feet of social distancing. According to a letter from the San Francisco teachers union, district officials proposed late Wednesday that students be seated 4 feet apart — a…
Read MoreIn the News: San Francisco Latinx moms protest in the park for schools to reopen
ABC7 covers a Zoom In by Comite de Madres Latinas de las Mision. See the full text here.
Read MoreIn the News: California parents mobilize after feeling ‘political disillusionment’
SACRAMENTO — Parents across California are protesting outside district offices, circulating petitions and dialing into school board meetings with a fury never before seen in the blue state. Gone is the fear of being politically incorrect by siding with Donald Trump or facing criticism for not caring about teachers. Instead, parents in the nation’s biggest…
Read MoreIn the News: New York, Houston and Atlanta have opened schools; San Francisco has not
KTVU covers a Decreasing the Distance Zoom In. Read more here.
Read MoreIn the News: The new denizens of Dolores Park are four feet tall
The nine figures sat silently on camping chairs and blankets in Dolores Park, shaded by a big tree. They’re wired in, laptops open and headphones on, rapidly typing while keeping an eye on their video calls and packed calendars. A chihuahua ambles between them, sniffing shoes and nudging legs, to figure out what they’re up…
Read MoreIn the News: San Francisco parents hold another day of Zoom-in protests
SAN FRANCISCO – For the second day in a row, parents in San Francisco fed up with distance learning on Friday brought their kids to Zoom into their lessons from outside of a closed elementary school, in an effort to show just how much kids need to be back in the classroom. Read more here.
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