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Open 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 MoreCollins, López and Moliga are out. Here’s how parents can keep the new S.F. school board in line.
San Francisco Chronicle: Open Forum, February 15, 2022 It’s finally over. San Francisco Board of Education members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga have been voted out in a recall — voters made it clear that the school board failed its 50,000 students when kids needed them the most. This was no small feat,…
Read MoreSF Parent Coalition and four former BOE presidents calling for a delay in superintendent application deadline.
San Francisco, CA (Feb 8, 2022) – SF Parent Coalition and four former SFUSD school board presidents are calling for a delay in the deadline for superintendent candidates to submit their applications. The current deadline is February 18, 2022. The incoming Superintendent will face a challenging climate and, potentially, a new Board of Education. In…
Read MoreS.F. public school parents found their voices during the pandemic. They’re not done fighting for kids
San Francisco’s public schools have long been run by central office administrators and school board members. But when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and those groups let parents down big time — brushing off their concerns about distance learning harming their children — parents found a group that wanted to listen. They found each other ……
Read MoreDecreasing the Distance is becoming San Francisco Parent Coalition!
On behalf of this organization’s executive board, we have a big announcement to make: Decreasing the Distance is soon officially relaunching as San Francisco Parent Coalition. If, like me, you found hope in this community and our advocacy this last year, please join me in becoming a member of the SF Parents network (it’s free!).…
Read MoreA Year of Harm and Counting: San Francisco’s Ongoing Public School Failure
We published a report looking at what the data tells us about the impact of prolonged school closures on the wellbeing of the city’s public school children. Read the report here.
Read MoreOp 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 reopening plans still leave out most secondary students
At least some secondary school students will have the option to return to in-person learning in April, school district officials announced on Monday. But most are still waiting for the district to set a date. The San Francisco Unified School District announced Friday that it had reached agreement with unions to begin returning students to…
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…
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