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In the News: S.F. families log on for distance learning outside closed public schools in protest
For the first time in nearly a year, at least some San Francisco public school students went to their school campus Thursday to learn. But it wasn’t to enter their classrooms. Instead, at 9:30 a.m., students and families sat outside Clarendon Elementary and logged onto their computers and into online classrooms at a park across…
Read MoreOp Ed: San Francisco’s families cannot wait any longer for schools to reopen
By Seth Brenzel, Dheyanira Calahorrano, Meredith Willa Dodson, Yvette Edwards and Lorin Yin San Francisco Unified School District is in crisis. Despite recent assertions by commissioners Gabriela López and Alison Collins that safe reopening is a priority, the Board of Education and the District have not fulfilled their responsibility to care for their more than…
Read MoreIn the News: School Reopening Pits Parents Against Teachers: “Is There a Word Beyond ‘Frustrating’?”
MT. LEBANON, Pa.—Patrick Cozzens had never spoken up at a school board meeting until he stood in front of a crowd of angry parents earlier this month to read a statement his 16-year-old daughter helped him to write. “I’ve watched her go from a child that has loved school, thrived at school her entire life,…
Read MoreOp Ed: Parent group to SFUSD: Prepare to open our schools
By Meredith W. Dodson, Yvette Edwards, Kate Levitt, Laura Padilla and Clifford Yee We published an Op-Ed in the San Francisco Examiner. Read the full piece here.
Read MoreIn the News: School and city leaders ask governor to prioritize educators on vaccine list
Public school teachers have a lesson plan for the governor: Make educators a priority. On Thursday, Supervisor Hillary Ronen joined California leaders across the state to urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to put teachers and all school personnel toward the front of the line to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. Read more here.
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