The latest victims of the years-long payroll debacle that destabilized the San Francisco Unified School District — during which thousands of employees went underpaid, improperly paid or unpaid — would appear […]

SFUSD payroll debacle’s latest victims: Student interns

Reparations for African Americans are off the table in San Francisco — at least for the foreseeable future. Mayor London Breed made it clear last month she would no longer […]

Mayor nixes SF reparations, but Black college hub still possible

The San Francisco Unified School District has spent more than $40 million thus far attempting to right the sinking EMPower ship and fix the misbegotten payroll system that has managed […]

SFUSD will scrap disastrous EMPower payroll system, sources say

With another winter arriving in San Francisco, City College has made little progress in fixing its heat. Of the three CCSF campuses troubled by heating issues last winter, boiler replacements […]

CCSF heating issues continue for a second winter

Mother and son successfully crossed, while Gutiérrez was detained in Texas, where he’s currently located.

Recién llegados: Los niños inmigrantes acuden a las escuelas de San Francisco

A massive, $1 billion school bond initially slated for the March 2024 ballot has now been tentatively bumped to November. If and when it formally makes the ballot, it will […]

In ‘toxic’ political moment, SFUSD delays $1B school bond measure

When their schools get as much as $1 million a year in new funding, what improvements would students like to see? Better food. “Anything that people love. Simple french fries, […]

Students ask SFUSD to spend new funds on tutors, arts, better school food

In the latest instance of the San Francisco Unified School District struggling to pay its employees, some of the city’s most-credentialed teachers had their stipend checks bounce last week.  Multiple […]

SFUSD teachers’ stipend checks are bouncing

The faculty union representing professors and lecturers at San Francisco State University and other California State schools has voted to authorize a strike if it cannot reach a deal with […]

California State University faculty union votes 95% to sanction strike

Suzanne Pullen has $120,000 in student loan debt. At 53, she has not been a student for some time, but is, at last, using her hard-won doctoral degree. She’s a […]

SF State faculty rally for contract during week-long strike vote

San Francisco public school teachers and the school district bargained through the night before reaching a tentative contract agreement, averting the possibility of the city’s first teacher walkout since 1979.  […]

SF teachers, district reach deal after all-night bargaining session — strike averted

This morning, Supervisor Hillary Ronen and Arab and Jewish advocates held a press conference at City Hall demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.  The press conference kicked off a planned […]

Mission students walk out over Gaza attacks, Ronen calls for immediate cease-fire

The 1,000-member union for San Francisco school district custodians, cafeteria workers and other staff members reached a contract agreement with the school district Tuesday night, averting a feared strike. SEIU […]

SF school staff reach deal with district, averting strike

When leaders of the San Francisco teachers union this afternoon announced that 97 percent of the union’s voting members yesterday opted to authorize a strike, it was no surprise. Your […]

SF teachers goaded to the brink of strike by payroll debacle

The San Francisco public school teachers’ union has overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike, with 97 percent of those who voted backing the proposal — a move that ups the […]

SF teachers vote 97% to authorize strike

Parents, staff and students of Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 came together on Wednesday night to fight back against a proposal to split the student body into two groups, with […]

SFUSD plans to split Buena Vista Horace Mann during renovations

Members of SEIU 1021, which represents some 900 custodial workers and other staff in San Francisco public schools, have voted 99.5 percent in favor of a strike against the school […]

SF school staff union votes 99% to authorize strike

The emails and calls went out in September to faculty across San Francisco State University.  With apologies, department chairs informed lecturers that, come spring, they would see their classes cut […]

San Francisco State University facing mass staffing cuts

The union representing custodial and other public school workers in San Francisco has alleged that the school district is violating its contract, saying the district has put out a bid […]

SF school staff union blasts district for seeking outside workers

Two San Francisco Unified School District unions, the teachers’ union and the union for school staff, are readying for possible strikes as soon as October, following months of stalled contract […]

SFUSD teachers, staff gear up for strikes  

Public schools in San Francisco will no longer distribute hotspots that currently provide 8,000 students home access to free internet. But instead of cutting service off at the end of […]

SFUSD plans to end free home wifi for students

“Another winter of suffering,” said Malaika Finkelstein, a grievance officer for the college’s faculty union, American Federation of Teachers 2121. 

City College prepares for ‘winter of suffering’ awaiting heat fixes

Three health workers say the school district has delayed paying them $1,600 stipends for work they completed during the 2022-2023 school year. They’re just a few of an unknown number […]

‘Morale is low:’ SFUSD paraeducators still waiting on pay

Across the Mission and San Francisco, students and their parents flocked to schoolhouse gates today, ending their summers and starting a new year in San Francisco’s public schools. For some, […]

Back to school 2023: SF students begin a new year

San Francisco public schools are welcoming students to another academic year on Wednesday, with an estimated 25 percent of its vacant positions still unfilled. The district is actively trying to fill […]

SFUSD prepares for new academic year amid teacher shortages

“This is a very audacious project for MEDA, and we’re excited to meet the needs of our families, teachers, and our city,” said Karoleen Feng.

Derelict 18th St. building finally funded to be teacher homes

The San Francisco Unified School District, which last year introduced a costly and dysfunctional payroll system that underpaid and mispaid scads of its employees, has managed to once again miss […]

SFUSD misses payday for 815 of its lowest-paid workers

Two dozen parents of Black students at San Francisco public schools gathered for a town hall Wednesday evening and called for increased representation and better resources for Black students: More […]

Black parents demand more resources, representation at SFUSD

Eleven high schools in San Francisco are expected to lose 54 percent of their funding for after-school programs next year, according to a letter sent to the school district’s Board […]

11 SF high schools could see after-school budgets halved

On a narrow strip of Treat Street off 17th Street stands an unassuming gray warehouse with a hand-painted sign reading “Pat Clabernathy’s Indoor Donkey Farm and Retirement Home for Children.” […]

Mission’s rock-n-roll camp for kids makes ‘really cool people’

“How does anybody even conceive of doing this, and not tell the staff or the parents?” Lyons said. “If the parents don’t advocate, nothing happens.” 

Water faucets at six SF preschools test unsafe for lead