SF News SFUSD Avoids Teacher Layoffs Thanks to Early Retirements In a rare bit of good news for the San Francisco Unified School District and its ongoing budget woes, the jobs of at least 100 teachers have been saved thanks to other teachers taking early retirement incentive packages.
SF Politics Four Seats Up for Grabs to Serve on School Board for the Incredibly Chaotic SFUSD The SF Unified School District is such a mess that most school board candidates declined to run for re-election. These are the people running for the four seats that are up for a vote on Election Day.
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 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 Politics SF School Board President Resigns Ahead of Tense Season, Mayor Appoints Replacement SF Board of Education President Lainie Motamedi abruptly resigned from the board Friday morning, citing "health and personal circumstances," and Mayor London Breed is already swearing in her replacement.
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 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 News Humpday Headlines: School Board 'Admonishes' Ann Hsu The SF school board voted unanimously to "admonish" member Ann Hsu over racist comments, an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Napa has now claimed one life, and a 30-year-old cold case in Alameda has been closed.
SF Politics Supervisor Calls for New SF School Board Member to Step Down Over Racist Comments In an echo of a similar controversy last year, a newly appointed school board member, who is Asian, is being accused of racism toward Black and brown people, and an SF supervisor has called for her resignation.
SF News Post-Recall School Board Reinstates Lowell High’s Merit-Based Admissions You can call it “selective admissions” or you can call it “segregation,” but the school board voted 4-3 to reinstate merit-based admissions at Lowell, with all four Yes votes being London Breed appointees.
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 News Humpday Headlines: SF School Board Approves 300 Layoffs The SF school board voted to lay off 300 district staffers to close a budget gap, a homicide suspect was arrested in Sonoma County following a tense day in Monte Rio, and SF Mayor London Breed is pressing the school district to lift its mask mandate along with the state.
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 News Thursday Morning What's Up: One Recalled School Board Member Just Resigned Ousted school board member Faauuga Moliga has just abruptly resigned, Marin County has lifted its water-use restrictions, and Assemblymember Phil Ting has introduced legislation to decriminalize jaywalking.
SF Politics Low-Turnout, Seemingly Minor School Board and State Assembly Elections Today Have High Stakes Even CNN is covering today’s SF school board recall and state assembly special election, and while results could make national waves, a ho-hum San Francisco electorate is hardly turning out to vote thus far.
SF Politics SF Recalls Largely Funded by ‘Neighbors for a Better San Francisco’ PAC, Which Is Based in San Rafael A full two-thirds of the Recall Chesa Boudin money, and 25% of Recall the School Board contributions, comes from a secretive PAC called “Neighbors for a Better San Francisco,” which lists its address as being in San Rafael.
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.
