State warning: #SanFrancisco #schools could be broke in 14 months.

Critical work ahead for everyone. #SF kids need our help now. Be at Tuesday's #SF USD Board mtg.

@VOSF has the story.

thevoicesf.org/2024/05/02/sca…

SF Guardians SF Parents #SFKidsCantWait #education John Fensterwald Beth Kelly

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Four seats are coming up for election this November -- a number of candidates have filed to run.

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'Public schools can’t reform kindergarten zones or start major repairs until they resolve consolidations. Public opinion, timing, and politics add even more complications.'

via Ida Mojadad

thefrisc.com/sfs-controvers…

Excellent article Norm Matloff 一啲都唔明! latimes.com/opinion/story/…

My contribution to the 'math wars,' latimes.com/opinion/story/…

We sincerely hope Oakland School district will learn from the San Francisco situation and return to offering Algebra 1 in 8th grade.

Public schools need to do all they can to support kids from disadvantaged backgrounds … not handicap them further.

EDITORIAL: City College of SF’s accreditation is once again at risk, its chancellor is leaving & its budget outlook is bleak. The Board of Trustees needs to stop living in la-la land, end its political gamesmanship & make tough choices to keep CCSF alive. sfchronicle.com/opinion/editor…

“The most consistent thing about grading is inconsistency,” Austin said, adding that how students are graded varies by school and by teacher and is often archaic and arbitrary.

S.F. school district plans additional affordable housing units for S.F. teachers sfchronicle.com/sf/article/aff… via San Francisco Chronicle

Turns out Yolande Beckles — consulted by the authors of the CMF as an 'engagement expert' and who next month will co-host a Stanford webinar with Jo Boaler — fled the UK decades ago after she became embroiled in a string of sordid financial scandals.

My latest 👇

This saga has now entered the realm of the absurd.

‘Beckles frequently collaborates with fellow Brit Jo Boaler, the Stanford mathematics education professor who played a key role in shaping the CMF and who has recently come under intense scrutiny for allegedly engaging in…

As I wrote about before, my autistic son was subjected to seclusions and restraints in his SFUSD elementary school. SFUSD did not report these to the California Department of Education (CDE), as required by law.

Today I'm going to talk about what is required to be reported. 🧵

SFUSD:
✅ CAN move quickly on consolidating and closing schools
❌ CANNOT move quickly on fixing broken lottery system that encourages families to explore alternatives
🤔

There is a consistent trend where the people who want to block kids from taking algebra blatantly lie about what the sources they cite are saying

Long school closures were not “anti-racist”. They were a form of systemic racism against nonwhite low income kids and their families by “progressives”.Majority nonwhite schools now suffer the greatest increase in absenteeism since COVID. SF Guardians

'The district won’t use the legal settlement to add any staffing or resources, but rather cover the cost of current staff, officials said, freeing up funds to reduce potential cuts elsewhere.'

“For too long, generationally failing Black and brown families has been the status quo in our city. Our families are not taking it anymore.” Families in Action for Quality Education Oakland’s Kimi Kean via Jill Tucker San Francisco Chronicle sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… #caedu #oakedu ousdnews Carol Kocivar Charles Cole, III, Ed.D., MPA ᯅ SF Guardians

As part of SF Parents #SFKidsCantWait ' 'I love my SF public school' campaign, I wrote a piece for EdSource about what SF public school parents, and other urban public school parents across the state, love about our kids' schools. (1/3)

Furious Oakland parents declare war on status quo in schools. Here’s how they’re fighting back sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

Now that SFUSD has acknowledged that the SFUSD Math pilot didn’t work as it once claimed…

Don’t you think it’s time for NCTM to take down this webinar?

nctm.org/online-learnin…