SF News New SFUSD Interim Superintendent Maria Su Makes First Public Remarks Since She Was Hired Friday After a whirlwind weekend that saw SFUSD Superintendent Matt Wayne resign Thursday and Dr. Maria Su installed as his interim replacement Friday, Su was introduced Monday and spoke publicly for the first time since her appointment.
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 Supervisors Grill SFUSD Superintendent Over $20 Million Unaccounted For In Budget, Which Is Actually More Like $30 Million It was a supervisor-on-superintendent pile-on Tuesday afternoon, as the SF supervisors unloaded on embattled SFUSD superintendent Matt Wayne over a $20 million hole in the special ed budget, which was revealed to be nearly $30 million.
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 News SF Schools Superintendent Survives Ouster Attempt, But Will Have ‘Stabilization Team’ Looking Over His Shoulder SF Unified School District Superintendent Matt Wayne pulled through an attempt to remove him from the job Sunday, but going forward, he’ll have some sort of “School Stabilization Team” meddling in his very fraught decision-making.
SF News SFUSD Delays School Closure Announcement Until Sometime in October Wednesday was going to be the big day when the SF Unified School District would announce which schools they’re going to close. But in a surprising Sunday afternoon statement, they said they’re putting off that announcement “until October.”
SF News SFUSD To Announce Which Schools They’re Closing In About Six Weeks Tensions are high among students, parents, and teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District, as the district has announced they’re going to close a number of SF public schools, and they’ll say which ones they’re closing in just a few weeks.
SF News SFUSD May Lay Off 600 Teachers and Staff In the Next Two Years Under Budget Plan As the San Francisco Unified School District submits to state oversight amid an ongoing budget crisis, we're now learning that the current plan to close a major deficit may include around 610 layoffs over the next two years.
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 News SFUSD Finally Replacing Their Disastrous, $40 Million Payroll System That Failed to Actually Pay People A two-year-long SF Unified School District payroll fiasco is still not resolved, so the district has decided to cut ties with the calamity of a payroll system called EMPower, and start over with a whole new vendor.
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 Students Staged Walkout Friday Afternoon Over Multiple Gun Incidents, District’s Safety Response There were three reported gun incidents in one day last month at SFUSD high schools, and today, some students staged a walkout over what they see as the district’s slow-footed response.
SF News Both Oakland and SF School Districts Face Federal Investigations, Allegedly Over Antisemitism While none of the reasons for the investigation have been made public, the U.S. Department of Education has opened investigations after receiving allegations of antisemitism in both the San Francisco and Oakland unified school districts.
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 News [Update] SF Unified School District Staves Off Strike By Tradespeople A union representing around 65 district employees responsible for maintaining public school buildings across San Francisco was accusing the district of unfair labor practices and unpaid wages.
SF News SF Teacher Strike Averted, After All-Night Bargaining Session Produces Significant Pay Raise A San Francisco teacher strike looked likely when 97% of the union voted in favor of a strike just last week, but an all-night session at the bargaining table just produced a new deal with a substantial pay raise.
SF News SFUSD Has a School In Chinatown With Only 11 Students Enrolled It seems perhaps not the best use of resources for a district with declining enrollment and a looming financial crisis for the SF Unified School District to operate a school with only 11 students, but that’s the case at Chinatown’s Edwin and Anita Lee Newcomer School.
SF News Drastic Teacher Shortage at Lincoln High as Students Return Today There are shortages across the SF Unified School District as students return to classroom Wednesday, but few as pronounced as at Lincoln High School, where they're lacking teachers for five academic subjects.
SF News Lowell Teachers Pulled Mass Sickout Wednesday Over Still-Ongoing Payroll Fiasco As many as 90% of Lowell High School teachers, and perhaps a third of the student body, staged a sickout Wednesday over the still-faulty payroll system that is ironically called “EMPower.”
SF News Rare Good News for SFUSD: Enrollment Is 1,000 Students Higher Than Predicted The San Francisco Unified School District has 1,099 more students enrolled than projected this year, which is cause for celebration (and about $10 million more in state funding), though it’s still about 500 fewer students than they had last year.
SF News Everett Middle School Chaos Goes From Bad to Worse, Student Now Hospitalized With Life-Threatening Injuries A new report details multiple injuries among middle-schoolers at an increasingly violent Everett Middle School, including a 13-year-old “with life-threatening injuries.”
SF News ‘Sickouts’ Spreading Across Bay Area Schools, as Teachers and Students Decry Lack of Masks and Testing Last week’s SF Unified and Oakland Unified School District sickouts were the shape of things to come at Bay Area schools, as Oakland teachers are pulling another one, as are many other East Bay schools.
SF News SF Unified Reverses Course, Will Now Require Vaccines for Teachers and Staff In a flip-flop likely to be celebrated with eyerolls by parents across the city, San Francisco Unified School District announced Tuesday that on second thought, they will be requiring mandatory vaccination for teachers and staff.
SF News SF Unified School District Deems New Email Threat Not Credible, Remains Open In a message to parents today, the San Francisco Unified School District, responsible fro nearly 60,000 students each year, revealed that it had received a violent threat similar to several across the
