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Stanford Study Agrees: School Closures Do Not Save Money
New study coming out of Stanford University confirms: school closures do NOT save money across California districts. Learn more about why, here.
AI Has No Place in Our Schools or Curriculum
Ai has embedded itself within our schools with the expansion of AI training for millions of teachers. We must instead invest in teachers to support our students, not AI models to train them.
Ethnic Studies is Essential
San Francisco United School District removed Ethic Studies from being a mandatory course for all students but new research shows that Ethnic studies has more of a significant impact that people thought.
Robot Teachers Won’t Save Education, They’ll Destroy It
What happens to kids when we replace real teachers with machines? This push for robot classrooms puts politics over students and ignores what children actually need to learn and grow.
Community Schools Need Sustainable Funding to Succeed
California is considering making community schools a permanent part of the state’s education funding system, a step that could help ensure more schools have the sustainable resources needed to support students’ needs.
Focus on Funding, Not Closures
Budget challenges are real, but neighborhood campuses should not be put on the table to solve the district’s instability.
SFUSD Strike: ‘When One of Us Needs Something, We All Need Something’
It should not take nearly 50 years to fight for what our educators deserve. Livable wages and access to healthcare should be a baseline for our educators, not an option. We must look to sustainable funding.
SFUSD Pushes Immigrant Students Out of Newcomer Schools
At a time when ICE fear is already looming over immigrant families, SFUSD used such fear to call parents and move newcomer students OVERNIGHT.
This "safety" was used by the district as a pretext to carry out budget cuts and now immigrant students paid the price.
The Reality of Using unused SFUSD property
A Mission High School senior pushes back on the idea of building housing on SFUSD property, suggesting these privileged ideas overlook students’ lived realities.
Charter School Closures Aren’t Slowing Down
Charter schools continue to close at a steady pace, leaving students and families scrambling for support. What’s often framed as “choice” is becoming a cycle of disruption with real consequences for communities.
SFUSD Moves Ahead With Contested Budget
Even after the school board UNANIMOUSLY voted down a plan that detailed over $100 million in SFUSD budget cuts, Superintendent Maria Su plans to go along with it anyways.
Su is going against the will of educators, administrators, students, families, and the board of education. This is unacceptable! We say: NO LAYOFFS. NO SCHOOL CLOSURES.
What Rising Absenteeism Reveals About Public Education
Absenteeism isn’t a student failure, it’s the outcome of decades of disinvestment in public schools.
Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment, and Cost Part 2: Disillusionment
Our communities deserve better than charter schools. Lack of oversight and accountability, pushing out marginalized students, and profit motives are what drive charters.
Inclusion and accountability are central to democratic public education. Charter schools do not uplift our communities in the way we want!
The Future of Public Education is in Community Schools
The sustainable community school movement is getting up and running, and its outcomes are promising. We need to expand access to community schools across all of San Francisco.
Huge Win for San Francisco Education
A rally preceding Tuesday’s school board meeting and the efforts of education advocates lead to the Board of Education unanimously voting no on a plan to drastically cut student resources and close schools.
Data Drudgery: How Standardized Testing Fails Our Students
Data can be a useful tool, but are we providing teachers with too much information? Some teachers are getting overwhelmed and stressed due to an influx of unhelpful data about their students.
Teachers Push Back as SFUSD Faces Deep Cuts
As SF schools face massive cuts, educators delivered a 99% strike mandate.
“Educational Freedom” Does Not Make Everyone Free
Public education helps to break down barriers and uplift students. The school privatization movement aims to destroy this public good and replace it with a system that funnels profits into the hands of the few.
Administrators (and Teachers) are Fed Up With SFUSD
Threatening legal action towards protestors is a surefire way to turn a small movement into a bigger one. That’s exactly what happened when Superintendent Maria Su threatened the administrators union.
Will Teachers Save Our Democracy?
A new book suggests that a powerful force for democracy and against fascism is indeed at work every day, despite all that’s being done to undermine it. And it’s not in the halls of Congress. It’s in public school classrooms.