Posts by meredith
12/29/2022 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…
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…
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