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SB 691 – Early Screening for Risk of Dyslexia – SUPPORT
March 17, 2023 The Honorable Josh NewmanChair, Senate Committee on Education1021 O Street, Suite 6740Sacramento, CA 95814RE: SB 691 (Portantino) – Early Screening for Risk of Dyslexia – SUPPORT Dear Chair Newman:I write on behalf of SF Parent Coalition in strong support of SB 691, which would help eliminateinequities of opportunity by requiring all local…
Read MoreParent Advocacy Updates, Newsletter Feb 1, 2023
Weekly updates from SF Parents Dear Parents and Supporters, It’s February and the start of Black History Month! We feel lucky to have a school district that recognizes rather than bans from the classroom the true history of Black Americans. Especially in light of the recent horrific brutality with Tyre Nichols’s fatal encounter with…
Read MoreEmail the BOE to call for stability + Thursday January 19 Newsletter
Weekly updates from SF Parents In our first newsletter of 2023, we shared hope for more of what we saw during the second half of 2022: a boring Board of Education. A continuation of the drama-free focus on students and improved educational outcomes. All the adults rowing the same direction, righting the ship and…
Read MoreIt’s 2023… What can parents expect from SFUSD & the BOE? (January Newsletter)
Weekly updates from SF Parents Happy 2023, SF Parent Coalition community! What’s on your wishlist for this year? Here are some things on ours: SFUSD’s follow through on their literacy commitments. Plus: We’d like to see schools supplement reading instruction with additional reading supports between now and the literacy program overhaul, which will require…
Read More12/29/2022 EOY and a Look Ahead
Weekly updates from SF Parents Dear Parents and Supporters, We thought 2021 was the Year of the Parent Advocate, but 2022 proved even more powerful. Parents kicked off the calendar year by mobilizing volunteer efforts in partnership with SFUSD and the business community to get PPE to teachers and students. Eighty parents signed…
Read MoreNewsletter December 29, 2022 Spanish
Weekly updates from SF Parents Pensamos que 2021 era el Año del Defensor de los Padres, pero 2022 demostró ser aún más poderoso. Los padres iniciaron el año calendario movilizando esfuerzos de voluntarios en asociación con el SFUSD y la comunidad empresarial para llevar PPE a maestros y estudiantes. Ochenta padres se inscribieron para postularse…
Read MoreOpen Letter to SFUSD Superintendent Wayne and Board of Education
Dear Superintendent Wayne and the Board of Education Commissioners, What are we doing? New state reading and math proficiency scores should be a red flag for SFUSD On October 24th, SF Unified published in its news communications to families, educators, and the community that “SFUSD Remains Ahead of State in Students Meeting Standards.” This is…
Read MoreParents and community send literacy petition to SFUSD Superintendent and Board of Education
On October 21, 2022, SF Parent Coalition hand-delivered to SFUSD’s Central Office the following literacy petition, signed by 250+ parents, teachers, and supporters, calling on the district to urgently commit to providing high-quality, research-based early literacy instruction to our students. Following the petition’s delivery, parents and community members filled out and mailed handwritten postcards to…
Read MoreNewsletter October 17, 2022 (English)
Weekly updates from SF Parents SF Parents Community, For over one year, SF Parent Coalition has been working with parents, teachers, community organizations, and SFUSD leadership to understand the literacy crisis impacting many of our 50,000 students. We’ve been equipping families with the information they need to advocate for their children at the school…
Read MoreNewsletter October 17, 2022 (Spanish)
Weekly updates from SF Parents Comunidad de padres de SF, Le pedimos que tome medidas urgentes HOY, para firmar nuestra petición de alfabetización que pide a los líderes del Distrito Unificado de San Francisco que se comprometan de inmediato con los cambios necesarios para ayudar a todos nuestros estudiantes a leer al nivel de su…
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