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What the Right Gets Right About What’s Gone Wrong with Public Education
Conservatives are increasingly critiquing public schools for reducing education to workforce training, a concern that resonates beyond the right. Instead we need a broader vision of schooling—one that fosters curiosity, literature, and shared humanity instead of just preparing kids for jobs.
House Leaders Gut Public Education to Fund Charters
House leaders’ new budget slashes billions from public education—gutting funding for low-income students, English learners, teacher training, and community schools. While kids lose vital supports, charter schools walk away with half a billion dollars.
What Katrina Taught Us: Privatization Fails Our Kids
After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans became a testing ground for charter schools—and the results are a cautionary tale for San Francisco.
Our Children Deserve Fully Funded Staff—Not False Promises
SFUSD has failed immigrant families at Mission Education Center, leaving children in unsafe, understaffed classrooms when what they deserve are fully funded teachers and stable schools.
We Need to Defend Ethnic Studies
MAGA supporters are fighting back against ethnic studies, a program which has demonstrable benefits for all students. We need to rally to defend it.
AI Can’t Replace Our Teachers
AI is harmful to our students, and cannot replace our teachers and counselors.
The Broken Promise of the Charter School
Read a summary of a report from the National Center for Charter School Accountability about the ways charter schools have broken promises to parents!
How Trump’s Attacks on Public Schools Harm Us All
Dismantling the federal Department of Education is an attack on public education as a whole. When public education is attacked, marginalized students suffer the most.
Breaking the Preschool-to-Prison Pipeline
The Preschool-to-Prison Pipeline is real, and we need to dismantle it to build a more equitable future.
Why Public Schools Matter
Public schools are central to both our democracy, and our communities. We must lift up our public schools for the benefit of students, and for our communities!
We Joined the Advancement Project!
We joined Advancement Project to fight school voucher programs!
SFUSD ‘central office’ layoffs would actually eliminate on-site school workers!
SFUSD promised to keep cuts away from students, but school nurses and special education teachers are being cut. How does that make sense?
The Rise of the Unqualified: Inside the Kakistocracy Running American Education
Kakistocracy refers to government by the least qualified, or the most unscrupulous, or the most self-serving.
We cannot allow it to seep into SFUSD.