We asked candidates how the school closure planning process has gone and how they would support families most heavily impacted by closures.
Welcome back to the “Meet the Candidates” series for the school board, where we ask each candidate one question every two weeks. They must answer the question in 100 words or fewer. We will link to longer answers.
The San Francisco Unified School District is in the process of planning school closures that would take effect in the 2025 school year. The district’s budget crisis is the oft-cited reason behind the initiative.
Every SFUSD student and family should have safe, accessible, well funded and staffed, high-quality schools.social/emotional and academic support. So I’ve been skeptical about school closures—but it’s also true that in 1996, when I started teaching in SFUSD, we had 64,000 students; this year we have 49,000. Fewer students means less state funding, so we have to decide if we want to keep spreading our resources thinly over 100+ campuses. We need to ensure: Ph.D.
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