SF Politics Lowell High Principal Suddenly Quits, as Post-Recall Drama Continues to Rock SFUSD Who ya gonna blame now, recall people? The principal of SF's prestigious Lowell High suddenly up and quit Wednesday, with carefully chosen words that indicate he’s pissed about the payroll problems.
SF News SF Teachers Camp Outside School District Headquarters, Demanding Missed Paychecks Over 100 employees with the San Francisco Unified School District protested outside the district’s headquarters Monday, demanding missed or incorrect checks be rectified and paid out — and around two dozen of them spent the night outside the downtown district office.
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 SF Unified Backtracks, Says Masks Will Be Optional at Many City Schools Starting March 12 Just four days after suggesting it would be extending the mask mandate for San Francisco students beyond the state's recommended date, San Francisco Unified School District announced Friday that the masks will, in fact, be optional starting March 12 at middle and high schools.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Unified Says the Masks Stay On A top official in SF's teachers' union has caused a Twitter outcry after he amplified comments blaming the US for the Ukraine invasion, that Scott Peterson juror admitted to writing to Peterson in prison, and SF Unified wants kids to keep their masks on despite the state's changes.
SF Politics All Three School Board Members Recalled In Landslide This election, with eyes on it from around the country, proved to be a clear referendum on the school board, despite relatively low voter turnout.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Schools to Stay Open Following Negotiation Between District and Unions The teachers' union got what they wanted and SF schools will stay open, Newsom commuted the sentence of a Pulitzer-nominated podcaster at San Quentin, and Sephora just inked a big office lease in downtown SF.
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 Teachers Planning a Mass ‘Sickout’ on Thursday Over COVID Safety Frustrations Hundreds of teachers have signed an online petition saying they won't work Thursday because of SFUSD’s alleged COVID safety failings, but can you really have a sickout when more than 10% of the staff is already legitimately out sick?
SF News San Francisco Students Walk Out of School to Demand Action Against Sexual Harassment on Campuses Almost 500 SF students convened at City Hall Friday to advocate for more actions from the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) on sexual assault and harassment cases — noting that the school district's response to sexual misconduct is lacking.
SF News SF's Lowell High School Could Potentially Return to Merit-Based Admissions Following Judge's Ruling A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled against the San Francisco Board of Education Thursday, dealing another blow to the embattled school board that can hardly afford the attorneys fees it's incurred.
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 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 Data Shows SF Schools Have Avoided COVID Outbreaks So Far, Unlike Rest of Nation A mere five cases of in-school COVID transmission have been recorded since San Francisco schools reopened last month, and as of now, SF schools are avoiding the Delta variant nightmare being seen elsewhere across the country.
SF Politics Alison Collins Drops Her Lawsuit Against the School Board and District That a Judge Already Tossed Out Embattled and recall-threatened school board member Alison Collins has withdrawn the bizarre lawsuit she filed in March demanding $87 million in various damages from her fellow board members and the school district.
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 News Judge Tosses Alison Collins's Bizarre $87 Million Lawsuit Against SF School Board Many of us were left scratching/shaking our heads in March after embattled school board member Alison Collins filed her federal suit, and now a judge has tossed it before it had a hearing.
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 Won't Require Teachers to Be Vaccinated After months and months of delaying the reopening of San Francisco schools out of concerns for teachers' safety, the SF Unified School District has decided they won't be forcing teachers or staff to be vaccinated against COVID.
SF News East Bay Parents Lose Their Minds Over Teacher Who Wouldn't Teach In Person, But Is Going to Mexico For 12 Days There's been another dustup in the many-months' war between Bay Area parents and their children's teachers and school districts, and this time it's about a kindergarten teacher taking a trip out of the country while she's still supposed to be teaching.
SF News Humpday Headlines: School Board Indefinitely Suspends Renaming Debate A 48-year-old man has pleaded guilty to gun charges in a random shooting on Market Street, the SF school board just reversed itself on renaming 44 schools, and is Justice Stephen Breyer going to retire this year?
SF News SF School Board Does About-Face On School Renaming; Superintendent Delays Retirement Until 2022 Amid calls on social media for all of them to be recalled, San Francisco's embattled Board of Education is saying that it will reverse its decision on renaming 44 schools in the district in favor of a different, "more deliberative" process at a later date.
SF News Incoming Lowell High School Class to Better Reflect San Francisco's Diversity With More Black and Latinx Students The San Francisco Unified School District has released some numbers on the incoming ninth grade class at Lowell High School, now that the school will no longer have merit-based admissions but will operate on a lottery system.
SF News Mayor Breed, Other Elected Officials Call for SF School Board Vice President To Resign Over Past Racist Tweets Amid the controversy ginned up over SF School Board Vice President Alison Collins' 2016 social media comments — which evoke “racist, anti-Asian” beliefs — Mayor Breed and other elected officials have called for her immediate resignation.
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.”
