SF News In a Political Stunner, Mayor Breed Calls For ‘Immediate Stop’ to SFUSD School Closures, Trashes Superintendent Mayor London Breed cannot stop the San Francisco school closures, but she just lent her muscle and bully pulpit to the cause, suddenly declaring “It is time to immediately stop this school closure process.”
SF News Parents to Rally at SF School Board Meeting Tonight In Hopes of Halting School Closures Tuesday night’s SF Board of Education meeting is shaping up to be a raucous one, as parents and teachers are planning to rally before the 6:30 pm meeting, and will likely overflow into the meeting to protest the proposed school closures.
SF Politics Ex-SF School Board Prez Now Says She Quit Because of Superintendent, Previously Claimed It Was for Health Reasons A very curious change of tune from recently resigned SF school board president Lainie Motamedi, who claimed she quit over her “health and personal circumstances,” but now says she quit in protest of Superintendent Matt Wayne, whom she helped hire.
SF News SFUSD Will Ask Voters to Approve a Nearly $800 Million Bond Measure in November, Largest in City History The financially troubled San Francisco Unified School District will come asking voters for a bond measure that’s in the neighborhood of nearly a billion dollars in November, the most expensive bond measure ever in SF.
SF News State Monitors Take Partial Oversight of SFUSD Finances, as District Runs Risk of Going Broke San Francisco Unified School District’s deficit has grown so large that outside state monitors have just been given veto power over the district's spending, which is not a full state takeover, but seems to be setting the stage for school closures.
SF Politics SF School Board Likely to Switch to Elections By District, Because a Lawsuit Is Forcing Them To More political drama completely unrelated to education at the SF school board, as some out-of-town attorney had lodged a lawsuit to force school board members to be elected by geographic districts, and SFUSD may have no choice but to comply.
SF News SFUSD Looks Likely to Cut 900 Jobs as District's Deficit Explodes to More Than $400 Million The good news is that SFUSD is scrapping its wildly ineffective EmPower payroll system. The bad news is that they're also likely to scrap 900 job positions too, but at least it means they probably won’t shut down any schools.
SF Politics Ann Hsu Has Lost School Board Race, as Challenger Alida Fisher Takes ‘Insurmountable’ Lead London Breed-appointed school board member Ann Hsu will be the only Breed appointee not reelected in last week’s election, as anti-recall candidate Alida Fisher has sealed the win with a more than 3,500-vote advantage.
SF Politics Ann Hsu Falls Behind In SF School Board Race, Might Not Win Seat Mayor London Breed’s clean sweep of appointees getting elected last week is now in serious jeopardy, as school board appointee Ann Hsu fell 1,700 votes behind progressive Alida Fisher in the latest vote-count batch.
SF Politics Two of Breed’s Appointed School Board Members Cruise To Wins, Ann Hsu Ahead In Race for Third Seat It could be a clean sweep for the three school board members Mayor Breed appointed after the February recall, with only Ann Hsu’s election somewhat in doubt.
SF Politics Ann Hsu Way Ahead of the Pack in School Board Race Donations, Despite (Or Because Of?) Racist Comment Scandal Despite a summer backlash and furor over SF school board member Ann Hsu’s comments that Black and brown students had “unstable family environments," Hsu has racked up nearly twice the campaign contributions of any other school board candidate in the November election.
SF Politics London Breed Announces Picks for School Board Replacements, All Three Are District Parents SF Mayor London Breed is announcing her three picks for the school board Friday, and one of them was instrumental in helping to recall the three school board members who were ousted in last month's special election.
SF Politics All Three Recalled School Board Members Speak Out, Collins Insists She’s ‘Not Done’ The three school board members all have their say over being ousted in Tuesday’s recall vote, and soon-to-be-former board president Gabriela Lopez is saying the recall targeted “people of color, primarily women of color.”
SF Politics What’s the Deal With This School Board Recall Election and Why Are We Having It? An Analysis Confused about why we’re having a February 15 school board election? Class is in session, as we look at why this recall is happening, whose money is behind it, and what happens if the recall is successful.
SF News SFUSD Will Present Plan Today to Trim $125 Million Deficit: Basically Layoffs, Layoffs, Layoffs The school district’s deficit is even larger than we thought, and tonight the school board meets to figure out how to reduce it enough to avoid a state takeover.
SF News Lowell High Alums Take More Legal Action To Undo Lottery Admissions After already suing the district over changes to Lowell’s merit-based admissions system, a group of Lowell High alumni are seeking a court injunction against attempts to diversify the prestigious high school’s student body.
SF Politics Yes, SFUSD is Running a Huge Deficit — But So Are Other Districts All Over the State The ‘Recall the School Board’ crowd points to the school district’s $116 million deficit, but a little perspective comes from realizing that pretty much every other district in the state also has a huge deficit.
SF News Recall School Board Crowd Claims They Have More Than Enough Signatures to Make Ballot Looks like SF voters will see a recall election for three school board members, as that effort claims they have well exceeded the number of signatures required to trigger an election.
SF Politics School Board Replacement Measure Introduced by Political Action Committee A ballot measure to make the school board appointed by City Hall, instead of elected, is in the works — but the political action committee behind the effort might not exactly be “grassroots.”
SF News SF School Board Members Suggest Racism Is at Play In Blowup Over Lottery Admissions for Lowell High A virtual school board committee meeting erupted into chaos Tuesday evening with passionate — and arguably racist — public comments reacting to a recent announcement about a proposed one-year shift away from merit-based admissions at SF's elite Lowell High School.
SF News Another Day, Another Budget-Cut Protest A group of 50 or so gathered outside the state building on Golden Gate this afternoon to protest the state budget cuts that are causing the S.F. School Board once again to