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9/9/2025 Regular Meeting: Monitoring Workshop at 6:30pm:
- Full meeting agenda on BoardDocs here.
- Zoom Link Here – Password: 132443.
- Agenda summary from SF Parent Coalition follows below.
SF PARENT’S SUMMARY:
SFUSD’s budget woes unfortunately continue…
1) SFUSD did not meet target to reduce FY 2024-2025 Unrestricted General Fund expenditures to $735.3 million (instead, expenditures increased to $790.2 million);
2) The updated FY 2025-26 budget shows the General Fund deficit growing by $2.8 million. The ‘26 budget worsening suggests SFUSD may not be able to achieve its goals this year.
BUDGET-RELATED AGENDA ITEMS
Item H.1 Fiscal and Operational Health Update (presentation link)
- SFUSD has a “negative” budget rating by the CA Dept of Education (CDE), and is still under partial state oversight. The updated FY 25-26 budget reveals a worsened financial condition the budget’s adoption in June:
- The updated FY 2025-26 budget shows a growing General Fund deficit of -$102 mil, up from -$99 mil when adopted in June.
Item H.2 Revisions to Guardrails and Interim Measures (presentation link)
- Superintendent Su is proposing the following revision to Interim Guardrail 4.2: “The District will reach positive certification by the CDE by June 30, 2026.” SFUSD intends to achieve Interim Guardrail 4.2 by completing the fiscal stabilization process (link to SFUSD’s Fiscal Stabilization Plan, March 2025 update). This plan requires an additional $13 million reduction in General Fund spending for FY 2026-27, including eliminating 67 certificated (teacher) positions and 15 classified positions (a total reduction of 82 full time employees).
Item I.1 Workshop on Student Outcomes, Guardrail 4: 4.2 fiscal stability status (presentation link)
- SFUSD’s FY 2024–25 progress report on Interim Guardrail 4.2—requiring a reduction in Unrestricted General Fund (UGF) expenditures from $784.8M (July 1, 2024) to $735.3M (July 1, 2025)—shows the district is significantly off track: after an additional $44M transfer to Special Education and higher required routine restricted maintenance contributions. UGF spending rose to $790.2M, increasing rather than reducing expenditures and worsening the deficit.
Our Take: We support SFUSD’s focus on regaining a positive fiscal certification from the state. At the same time, it is unclear how eliminating 82 full-time positions (67 of which are certificated teachers) will not negatively affect student outcomes. How will layoffs be achieved without negatively impacting students?
STUDENT OUTCOMES-RELATED AGENDA ITEMS
Item G.1 Latinx Community Council (presentation link)
- The LCC made 4 recommendations to address the opportunity gap for Latinx and Newcomer / English Learner students, many of which involve investment in curricula, literature, programs, and communication to better support these students. SFUSD’s response suggests that no additional funds will be available to adopt the recommendations..
Item H.2 Revisions to SFUSD Guardrails and Interim Guardrail Measures (presentation link)
- SFUSD’s proposed 2025–26 student-outcome guardrails aim to: use an inclusive decision-making framework for at least one major decision; cut chronic absenteeism from 24% to 20% by June 2026; boost student belonging from 78% to 80% by April 2026; reduce disproportionate discipline (African-American student suspensions from 9.1% to 6.6% by June 2026); improve Tier-1 instruction in PK–8 by +5 points from an Oct 2025 baseline by June 2026; raise PK–12 data-use for instructional improvement from 53% to 58%; increase PK–5 implementation of coached/PD strategies from 62% to 65%; and maintain 95% classroom staffing on the first day of school in Aug 2026.
Item I.1 Workshop on Student Outcomes, Guardrail 4: 4.1 HR classroom staffing (presentation link)
- SFUSD is reporting its progress during FY 2024-25 for Interim Guardrail 4.1: “Increase the % of classrooms which are fully staffed from 82% on August 19, 2024, to 92% on the first day of school in August 2025.”
- SFUSD met this target in August 2025, with 94.6% of classrooms across the district staff. However, important variations existed across grade spans. Staffing hovered in the mid-90s overall—highest in elementary (96.1%) and lowest in K–8 (89%), with middle at 94.8% and high school at 94.1%.
Our Take: We congratulate SFUSD on meeting last year’s Interim Guardrail 4.1 and encourage it to meet all its Interim Guardrails this year. Questions we’re asking:
- Where is the analysis of Interim Guardrail results from last year? Which of last year’s Interim Guardrails were met or not, what actions were taken in response, and what lessons were learned?
- Why is the % of classroom staffing not continuously monitored, and only monitored on August 26, 2025? Shouldn’t SFUSD be working on achieving 100% staffing throughout the course of the school year?
- What if Guardrail 3: curriculum and instruction targets are not met? For Interim Guardrails 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3, what is the district’s plan to ensure that implementation goes well, and that teachers are using the new curriculum
- How will SFUSD’s budgets in the next few years preserve sufficient funding to ensure successful student outcomes?
As a reminder – SF Parents’ community continues to demand from SFUSD:
- AN INCREASED, DEMONSTRATED FOCUS ON STUDENTS:
- We want to see the district’s clear plan and commitment to a baseline of excellence and equity across every SFUSD school. Without this clarity and vision, or analysis of how these decisions align with our student outcomes goals, it is impossible to know if this is a truly student-centered plan that will maximize success for our students even despite budget cuts.
- GREATER TRANSPARENCY AND COMMUNITY ACCESSIBILITY:
- SFUSD plans need greater detail and transparency. Without an analysis of school site impacts, it’s unclear if SFUSD is prioritizing student success. The Board should not approve budgets or plans without confidence in their accuracy and impacts on teaching and learning. We urge SFUSD to provide more thorough impact analyses to increase transparency on decision-making and build trust with the community.
- SFUSD needs to be more open and honest about the budget. SFUSD committed to updating the Fiscal and Operational Health Dashboard last summer, and then abruptly abandoned that commitment in the fall. Fiscal topics from the short-lived Ad Hoc Committee should be included in all regular Board meetings, and the dashboard should be updated monthly until the budget is solvent.
