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Parents 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…
Read MoreNewsletter October 17, 2022 (Chinese)
我們要求您今日就採取緊急行動，簽署我們的《掃盲請願書》（literacy petition），呼籲三藩市聯合校區的領導們立即做出必要的改變，以支持我們所有的學生達到其所在年級學生應具有的讀寫能力。
Read MoreNewsletter September 15, 2022
Weekly updates from SF Parents 🎉 SF Parent Coalition gets big-time recognition with award from National Parents Union! SF Parents co-founder, Yvette Edwards, represented our organization at the recent National Parents Union convening, attended by incredible advocacy organizations from across the country. We were humbled and honored when Yvette was called up onto stage to…
Read MoreWhat are classroom consolidations and why would SFUSD consider doing this?
September 15, 2022 SFUSD welcomed students and families back to school on August 17th, but some classrooms in some schools remain unsettled because of uncertainty in staffing. Ten days after the start of school, SFUSD counts the number of students actually enrolled at each grade in each school in order to make final staffing determinations.…
Read MoreBack-to-School Nights: How Parents can come Prepared!
Back-to-school nights are an important opportunity for parents to be welcomed into their children’s school community, to learn about priorities for student learning and well-being both in the classroom and school-wide, and to ask questions of teachers, principals, and other school leaders. Don’t miss your kids’ back-to-school nights, whether you’re a new-to-SFUSD parent or you’ve…
Read MoreNewsletter August 24, 2022
Weekly updates from SF Parents Three advocacy tips from SF Parents to start off your year TIP #1: Join your School Site Council Okay okay, we know the school year has only just begun. You can first get through your kid’s Back-to-School Night and then join us for a fun parents’ night out with SF…
Read MoreNewsletter August 17, 2022 (English)
Weekly updates from SF Parents Back-to-School Welcome from our Board Dear SFUSD Families and Family Champions, With a new school year starting, we at SF Parents want to extend a warm welcome to new SFUSD families and a warm welcome back to families returning to our schools! The beginning of a new school…
Read MoreNewsletter August 17, 2022 (Chinese)
親愛的三藩市聯合校區的家長和支持者，
隨著新學年的開始，三藩市家長聯盟（SF Parents）熱烈歡迎加入三藩市聯合校區的新家庭，並熱烈歡迎那些返回學校的家庭！新學年的開始會帶給人多種感受———興奮、緊張和好奇。