SF News Report: SFUSD School Closures Would Have Sent Kids to Lower-Performing Schools Some damning new documents have been unearthed that show the spectacular mess that is the SF Unified School District bureaucracy, and how the school closures would have sent many kids to even worse schools than they'd previously attended.
SF News Parents at SF Schools Slated for Closure Lament the Potential Loss for Kids The first of many pieces likely to appear in the coming days and weeks in the local media have appeared, quoting upset parents, following Tuesday's anouncement of 11 proposed school closures in the SF Unified School District.
SF News SFUSD Proposed School Closure List Is Out: 11 Elementary, K-8 and High Schools May Close or Merge A couple hours ahead of a planned announcement by the San Francisco Unified School District, the school closure shortlist has come out, and though it does not represent a finalized list, it will give parents and teachers an idea of what's to come.
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 San Francisco's School Board Scheduled an Emergency Meeting for Sunday San Francisco's School Board has placed an emergency meeting on their schedule for Sunday morning. The meeting's agenda has only one item listed, a "public employee performance review" for embattled Superintendent Matt Wayne.
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 Some San Francisco Public Schools Face Closure as Enrollment Plummets The school district of San Francisco, grappling with declining students and a looming budget deficit, is set to close or consolidate an unspecified number of schools by fall 2025, Superintendent Matt Wayne said.
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 State DOJ Probing Oakland School District Over Closing Seven Schools, Citing Civil Rights Violations The California Department of Justice has launched a “fact-finding mission” into the Oakland Unified School District over its plan to close seven schools and merge two others, as the closures may violate students’ rights to equal access to education.
SF News ACLU Joins Fight Against Oakland School Closures, Claiming Racial Discrimination The ACLU has now filed a complaint with the California Department of Justice urging the attorney general to look in to the Oakland Unified School District's plan to close seven schools and merge two others next year, saying the plan disproportionately impacts Black families.
SF News SF Teachers Union Says They’ll Return To Classes with Vaccine Shots, Less Restrictive Tier The union says they’re ready to resume in-person classes if they’re vaccinated and the city is in the red tier, or even unvaccinated if it’s in the orange tier.
SF News SFUSD Offers Free Meals to Schoolkids During Coronavirus Closures The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) announced yesterday that they’ll close all schools Monday for three weeks, the last week being their scheduled spring break. As a result, SFUSD will now supply free student meals during the two-week closure prompted by COVID-19.
SF News Bay Area Piggy Flu Panic Reaching Fever Pitch There are multiple stories from multiple news sources this gray Monday morning concerning all the Bay Area school closures that have been announced due to swine flu fears, and a few scattered cases.
SF News Swine Flu Cases Close Bay Area Schools After one confirmed case of swine flu and thee other possible cases, two Bay Area schools have closed. First, San Jose's Branham High School will be shut down for a week after a
