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We walk the line until paraeducators and certificated staff get the raise we deserve to stay in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the district was “still not ready” to meet the union’s outstanding demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s negotiations came after bargaining teams met late into the night Monday for what Balboa High School math teacher Ryan Alias called the most productive bargaining session since October.[aside postID=news_12072735 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-19-BL-KQED.jpg']“We’ve seen movement today that we haven’t seen in 11 months of bargaining,” he told KQED Monday, after the hourslong session wrapped up around 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For once, district officials echoed the union’s assessment of bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a lot of progress last night working with our partners, and we started early this morning to continue to hammer out some of these last remaining issues,” Superintendent Maria Su told reporters Tuesday. “I continue to believe that we can come together in good faith and reach an agreement that is fair, responsible and sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties have been negotiating a new contract since last March, and educators have been working under an expired deal since July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, negotiations yielded little movement from either side. UESF had proposed 9% raises for classroom teachers and 14% raises for paraeducators; fully funded health care for educators’ families; changes to the district’s special education staffing model; and a few no-cost proposals related to immigration and housing protections for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> has maintained that those demands aren’t feasible given its budget crisis — with a $100 million deficit projected for next year. Until this past weekend, the district had only offered a 2% raise for each of the next three years, with concessions from educators, including giving up a sabbatical program and additional preparation periods for those who teach Advanced Placement courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073057\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-27-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-27-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-27-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-27-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, faculty, and supporters gather for a rally during the second day of an SFUSD teachers’ strike at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as the strike loomed over the weekend, the school district accepted some of the union’s no-cost proposals, and on day one of the work stoppage, it offered its most significant raise for some staff: a 10% raise over two years for paraeducators and school security guards, and an additional hour of work per day for paraeducators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was significantly higher than the district said was possible,” Alias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan, that movement — and the thousands of people who turned out to picket lines and a rally outside City Hall — sends a message: So far, the city has teachers’ backs, and they have the leverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was really unusually large, and the atmosphere was sort of unusually steadfast and resolved and determined,” Logan said. “For the time being, [educators] have very significant support in the community and amongst parents. So I think the pressure [is] on the school district to come up with an offer — not just an improved offer — but an offer that is acceptable to the teachers union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-23-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-23-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers perform during a rally of teachers, faculty, and supporters on the second day of an SFUSD teachers’ strike at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alias said the union’s bargaining team has been invigorated by the community support, and while the district’s proposal on some wage hikes was a win, it will take more for the union to accept a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To end the strike, he said, “We need higher wages. We need fully funded family health care. And we need the district to take the stability crisis in our special education staffing seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alias said the union wouldn’t decide whether to accept the proposed raise for classified staff until it sees the district’s wage proposals for other educators, as well as those addressing special education workloads and health benefits.[aside postID=news_12072028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg']“It’s really difficult to see how this will be settled unless the school district comes up with a significantly better offer,” said Logan, the SFSU labor historian. “Something that teachers think, ‘Yes, this isn’t everything we want, but this is enough, and we’ve achieved enough of our goals and … we have sufficiently achieved our aims at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that will happen, but absent that, I don’t think there’s any settlement in the near future,” Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite recent progress, Alias said UESF leaders are frustrated that the district still hasn’t made an offer to fully cover health care, which costs a family of four up to $1,550 a month after rates increased this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union made that demand months ago, but he said on Monday night, UESF was told that SFUSD would meet with the city’s Health Service System on Tuesday to get cost estimates for the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They hadn’t done their homework,” Alias told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an alternative to SFUSD’s offer to cover a percentage of premiums, it’s also proposed an annual benefit allowance of $24,000 for educators to spend on health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-54-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-54-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-54-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-54-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, faculty, and supporters march from Dolores Park to City Hall during the second day of an SFUSD teachers’ strike in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the sides continue to negotiate, city departments have stepped in to offer some extended programming for about 1,000 of the district’s most vulnerable students, and served more than 3,000 meals at temporary distribution centers on Monday. Parents are also piecing together \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072735/san-francisco-parents-scramble-for-child-care-amid-teachers-strike\">alternative child care\u003c/a>, keeping kids busy with educational activities and trying to get through math and grammar worksheets in instructional packets sent out by the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those challenges could grow as the strike goes on, and while community support for the union appears strong at the moment, Ohio State University political science professor Vladimir Kogan warned that during the COVID-19 pandemic, San Francisco was a sort of “cautionary tale” of when that support wanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city “had a recall just a few years ago, in part because much of the community really turned on the school board in some of the things that they were doing at the behest of the teachers union,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, three \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904879/sf-school-board-recall-results-alison-collins-gabriela-lopez-and-faauuga-moliga-headed-for-recall\">school board members were recalled\u003c/a>, in part over their reluctance to reopen campuses during the 2020-2021 school year, while pushing forward a racial justice effort to rename certain district schools and end merit-based enrollment at Lowell High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073010\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, faculty, and supporters march during the second day of an SFUSD teachers’ strike near Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco’s Sunset District on Feb. 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent;\">“The memory of the recall is probably still pretty fresh and it shows you just how quickly opinion can turn,” Kogan said. “Particularly, when the public comes to believe that the interest of the teachers are not the same as the interest of the students.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said Tuesday morning that the district recognizes the urgency to reach a full agreement and end the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand the strain and the difficulties that school closure is placing on parents, on students and on the community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the state reimburses school districts based on daily attendance, every day that campuses are closed also costs the district $7 million to $10 million, according to Su.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/aaliahmad\">\u003cem>Ayah Ali-Ahmad\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We’ve seen movement today that we haven’t seen in 11 months of bargaining,” he told KQED Monday, after the hourslong session wrapped up around 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For once, district officials echoed the union’s assessment of bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a lot of progress last night working with our partners, and we started early this morning to continue to hammer out some of these last remaining issues,” Superintendent Maria Su told reporters Tuesday. “I continue to believe that we can come together in good faith and reach an agreement that is fair, responsible and sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties have been negotiating a new contract since last March, and educators have been working under an expired deal since July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, negotiations yielded little movement from either side. UESF had proposed 9% raises for classroom teachers and 14% raises for paraeducators; fully funded health care for educators’ families; changes to the district’s special education staffing model; and a few no-cost proposals related to immigration and housing protections for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> has maintained that those demands aren’t feasible given its budget crisis — with a $100 million deficit projected for next year. Until this past weekend, the district had only offered a 2% raise for each of the next three years, with concessions from educators, including giving up a sabbatical program and additional preparation periods for those who teach Advanced Placement courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073057\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-27-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-27-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-27-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-27-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, faculty, and supporters gather for a rally during the second day of an SFUSD teachers’ strike at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as the strike loomed over the weekend, the school district accepted some of the union’s no-cost proposals, and on day one of the work stoppage, it offered its most significant raise for some staff: a 10% raise over two years for paraeducators and school security guards, and an additional hour of work per day for paraeducators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was significantly higher than the district said was possible,” Alias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan, that movement — and the thousands of people who turned out to picket lines and a rally outside City Hall — sends a message: So far, the city has teachers’ backs, and they have the leverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was really unusually large, and the atmosphere was sort of unusually steadfast and resolved and determined,” Logan said. “For the time being, [educators] have very significant support in the community and amongst parents. So I think the pressure [is] on the school district to come up with an offer — not just an improved offer — but an offer that is acceptable to the teachers union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-23-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-23-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers perform during a rally of teachers, faculty, and supporters on the second day of an SFUSD teachers’ strike at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alias said the union’s bargaining team has been invigorated by the community support, and while the district’s proposal on some wage hikes was a win, it will take more for the union to accept a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To end the strike, he said, “We need higher wages. 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Parents are also piecing together \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072735/san-francisco-parents-scramble-for-child-care-amid-teachers-strike\">alternative child care\u003c/a>, keeping kids busy with educational activities and trying to get through math and grammar worksheets in instructional packets sent out by the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those challenges could grow as the strike goes on, and while community support for the union appears strong at the moment, Ohio State University political science professor Vladimir Kogan warned that during the COVID-19 pandemic, San Francisco was a sort of “cautionary tale” of when that support wanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city “had a recall just a few years ago, in part because much of the community really turned on the school board in some of the things that they were doing at the behest of the teachers union,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, three \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904879/sf-school-board-recall-results-alison-collins-gabriela-lopez-and-faauuga-moliga-headed-for-recall\">school board members were recalled\u003c/a>, in part over their reluctance to reopen campuses during the 2020-2021 school year, while pushing forward a racial justice effort to rename certain district schools and end merit-based enrollment at Lowell High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073010\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, faculty, and supporters march during the second day of an SFUSD teachers’ strike near Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco’s Sunset District on Feb. 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent;\">“The memory of the recall is probably still pretty fresh and it shows you just how quickly opinion can turn,” Kogan said. “Particularly, when the public comes to believe that the interest of the teachers are not the same as the interest of the students.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said Tuesday morning that the district recognizes the urgency to reach a full agreement and end the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand the strain and the difficulties that school closure is placing on parents, on students and on the community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the state reimburses school districts based on daily attendance, every day that campuses are closed also costs the district $7 million to $10 million, according to Su.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/aaliahmad\">\u003cem>Ayah Ali-Ahmad\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Daniel Zimmerman heard that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> would offer free or low-cost child care to more families, he went online to make sure he and his wife qualify for a discount and started dreaming about having another baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last few years, the couple has been paying about $3,500 per month to send their children, ages 2 and 5, to a Spanish immersion preschool. Zimmerman said even though they earn six figures — he’s a nurse, and she’s a dietician — keeping up with the high cost of child care leaves them “basically in the red every month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not saving money, but we figured, especially when they’re young, we’ll just weather the storm until they get into public school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prospect of getting financial aid made him think they could raise three kids in the city. But he may need to brace for some snags when he starts looking for child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under guidelines set by the city Department of Early Childhood, income-eligible families can only select from nearly 600 child care programs within a pre-approved network. That might limit parents’ choices at a time when San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069711/san-francisco-expands-child-care-subsidies-to-tackle-affordability-issues\">expanding child care subsidies\u003c/a> to middle-income earners as part of a broader push to make the city affordable for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced that a family of four making less than $234,000 a year can get free child care, and starting in July, those earning up to $312,000 annually will qualify for a \u003ca href=\"https://provider.sfdec.org/wp-content/uploads/ELFA-Center-FCC-Rates-FY25-26.pdf\">50% discount\u003c/a>. The changes put San Francisco ahead of other major cities in offering nearly universal access to child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00075_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00075_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00075_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00075_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play at an in-home child care business called Daycare Bumblebee in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Up to 12,000 kids under age 5 will be eligible for the newly expanded subsidies — though fewer than half are expected to enroll — paid by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948690/business-tax-provides-crucial-funding-for-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-san-francisco\">funds from Baby Prop C, a 3.5% tax on commercial property leases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are excited and have a lot of questions,” said Mark Ryle, CEO of Wu Yee Children’s Services, an agency contracted by the city to refer families who qualify for subsidies to child care providers with available spaces. “We’ve seen a pretty significant uptick in inquiries around the tuition credit program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some families are discovering, though, that getting public funding for child care comes with a catch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The early years matter. Tell us what you want to learn about early childhood education and care by \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8658266/ChildhoodAudience\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>clicking here\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When Danielle Eichenbaum learned she qualified for the city’s subsidized child care, her toddler was already enrolled in Daycare Bumblebee in the West Portal neighborhood. She wanted him to stay — not only with the caregivers he already bonded with, but because they were teaching him Russian and exposing him to music, karate and other enriching activities.[aside postID=news_12069711 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SFCHILDCARESUBSIDIES00057_TV-KQED.jpg']But the day care wasn’t part of the city-funded network, called Early Learning for All, or ELFA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cried when we left. It was such a wonderful program,” she said. “His program now is great, too, but I miss the other one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bumblebee’s owner, Lyuba Schkolnik, decided to join ELFA to help Eichenbaum. But she soon discovered the process could take more than a year, requiring her to complete several early childhood education classes and undergo evaluations to determine if her program meets the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://provider.sfdec.org/wp-content/uploads/Quality-Standard_Updated_052125.pdf\">quality standards\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schkolnik, who left a marketing career to open her day care, didn’t mind taking the classes and hopes to get in. Joining the network comes with perks: Last year, in-home day care owners like her got $16,000 stipends to help them earn a living wage, and $12,000 to boost their assistants’ pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the fact it takes so long for someone to become a provider within the system is a little bit disheartening because the [expanded subsidies] are supposed to launch shortly, and we want to help families,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other parents expressed frustration over a policy that prohibits placing a deposit to hold space at their preferred day care, which is a standard practice in private-pay programs, where families often compete for scarce infant-care slots. Ryle said this assures fair access for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eichenbaum said that while she understood the system’s equitable goals, she worries the high standards to join ELFA are making it too hard for providers like Schkolnik to participate in the system and for parents like her to get the child care that works for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00137_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00137_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00137_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00137_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lyuba Shkolnik teaches children how to bake muffins at her in-home child care business called Daycare Bumblebee in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Their goals are so lofty that they don’t look at the real-world impact,” she said. “They are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside City Hall, two members of the Board of Supervisors want the early childhood department to speed things up for providers who want to join ELFA. They worry that when the subsidies expand, the waitlist for child care will grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do I want to go faster than they probably feel comfortable with? Of course I do,” Supervisor Stephen Sherrill said. “I think we can expand the system without sacrificing quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Myrna Melgar said she’d like to see a simpler and more accessible system.[aside postID=news_12070762 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-01_qed.jpg']“There are multiple things that go into the decision to pick a provider. It’s how you feel. Sometimes it’s cultural and language competence, sometimes it is proximity to your home or work. And so on top of it, to layer a bunch of other things for eligibility, it makes it difficult and complicated,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingrid Mezquita, director of the Department of Early Childhood, said the city is carefully building out the system, adding more ELFA sites and infant and toddler care slots in neighborhoods that need them most. Depending on their qualifications, she said, some providers can “easily whisk through in less than three months and some programs may take a little longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to have those kinds of quality assurances because, at the end of the day, our accountability and our responsibility is to that child and to that family and the programs that do come on board and do enroll in this public funding support also prescribe to that and have that shared accountability with us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past three years, the city used unspent funds that accrued when it was fighting a taxpayer group’s lawsuit over Baby Prop C to clear the waitlist for lower-income families who needed child care, boost wages for more than 3,000 early educators, who have historically been underpaid, and support their professional development. Those funds are expected to run out in six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the city-funded child care programs are serving more than 9,000 kids, have a lower staff turnover rate than the state average, and children’s kindergarten readiness has gone up, Mezquita said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071947\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00152_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00152_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00152_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00152_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoes line a cubby at Daycare Bumblebee in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 700 children are currently on the wait list for care, though there are about 1,000 available spaces. One reason for the discrepancy is that there aren’t enough infant- and toddler-care slots to meet demand, or the open slots don’t match families’ preferred schedule, location or language, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have expanded access, but the only thing that is a little bit of an art and a science — mostly art — to pinpoint is the preferences of families,” she said at a recent Board of Supervisors hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Early Childhood estimates that ongoing revenue from the commercial rent tax can pay for the expanded subsidies. But the department cautions that it may not cover the program’s full cost down the road if the commercial real estate market softens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mezquita said she’s hopeful San Francisco’s experiment will demonstrate that it can be scaled up and funded with state dollars. The city was first to offer free preschool for 4-year-olds in 2005, and this year, California expanded transitional kindergarten for all children who turn 4 by Sept. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are building a universal system. How we’re designing it is also taking into account that eventually, yes, we also need the partnership with the state to be able to not only expand it, but also make it widely available,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There are multiple things that go into the decision to pick a provider. It’s how you feel. Sometimes it’s cultural and language competence, sometimes it is proximity to your home or work. And so on top of it, to layer a bunch of other things for eligibility, it makes it difficult and complicated,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingrid Mezquita, director of the Department of Early Childhood, said the city is carefully building out the system, adding more ELFA sites and infant and toddler care slots in neighborhoods that need them most. Depending on their qualifications, she said, some providers can “easily whisk through in less than three months and some programs may take a little longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to have those kinds of quality assurances because, at the end of the day, our accountability and our responsibility is to that child and to that family and the programs that do come on board and do enroll in this public funding support also prescribe to that and have that shared accountability with us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past three years, the city used unspent funds that accrued when it was fighting a taxpayer group’s lawsuit over Baby Prop C to clear the waitlist for lower-income families who needed child care, boost wages for more than 3,000 early educators, who have historically been underpaid, and support their professional development. Those funds are expected to run out in six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the city-funded child care programs are serving more than 9,000 kids, have a lower staff turnover rate than the state average, and children’s kindergarten readiness has gone up, Mezquita said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071947\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00152_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00152_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00152_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260130-SFCHILDCAREACCESS00152_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoes line a cubby at Daycare Bumblebee in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 700 children are currently on the wait list for care, though there are about 1,000 available spaces. One reason for the discrepancy is that there aren’t enough infant- and toddler-care slots to meet demand, or the open slots don’t match families’ preferred schedule, location or language, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have expanded access, but the only thing that is a little bit of an art and a science — mostly art — to pinpoint is the preferences of families,” she said at a recent Board of Supervisors hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Early Childhood estimates that ongoing revenue from the commercial rent tax can pay for the expanded subsidies. But the department cautions that it may not cover the program’s full cost down the road if the commercial real estate market softens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mezquita said she’s hopeful San Francisco’s experiment will demonstrate that it can be scaled up and funded with state dollars. The city was first to offer free preschool for 4-year-olds in 2005, and this year, California expanded transitional kindergarten for all children who turn 4 by Sept. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are building a universal system. How we’re designing it is also taking into account that eventually, yes, we also need the partnership with the state to be able to not only expand it, but also make it widely available,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For the first time in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071181/san-francisco-teachers-union-moves-closer-to-a-historic-strike-first-in-more-than-50-years\">nearly 50 years\u003c/a>, San Francisco teachers began\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072392/san-francisco-teachers-will-call-for-a-strike-next-week\"> striking this Monday\u003c/a>. Now in its second day, the strike has halted work for teachers, counselors, nurses and social workers — and shuttered more than 110 district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly a year of tense contract negotiations between the San Francisco Unified School District and the United Educators of San Francisco union, the two sides \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059537/as-deficit-looms-sf-public-school-teachers-threaten-strike-over-fair-contracts\">reached an impasse\u003c/a> in the fall. The union says educators need higher wages that keep up with the rising cost of Bay Area living and fully-funded family health care. The district, however, argues its dire budget crisis makes meeting those demands an impossibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike comes amid a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands'\">coordinated campaign across California\u003c/a> by teachers unions with similar demands. And it’s not the first time Bay Area teachers have mobilized in recent years: Oakland teachers went on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949458/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district\">strike in 2023\u003c/a>, and almost went to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038227/oakland-teachers-strike-called-off-after-union-reaches-deal-school-district\">the picket line again in 2025\u003c/a>. West Contra Costa County teachers held \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066401/west-contra-costa-teachers-strike-continues-as-support-staff-return-to-work\">a four-day strike in December\u003c/a> that ended after the district offered them 8% raises and fully-funded health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the first time since 1979 that San Francisco teachers have walked off the job and to the picket lines. Hundreds of custodial and food service workers, principals and administrators are\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072729/san-francisco-teachers-walk-out-in-first-strike-in-nearly-50-years\"> also joining in a sympathy strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the lack of recent precedent for a strike like this means that parents and caregivers with kids currently in SFUSD won’t have much experience with exactly what to do when their schools are going through labor negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From free meals to child care support, keep reading to see what union organizers, teachers, school officials and parents say about what families should expect during the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatoptionsdoSanFranciscofamilieshaveforchildcareduringastrike\">What options do San Francisco families have for child care during a strike?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whataboutchildrenwhorelyonfreemealsatschool\">What about children who rely on free meals at school?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What do we know about school closures during the SFUSD strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The strike begins Monday, and the district’s 111 non-charter schools are closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF announced the decision to strike on Thursday morning in an email to its members, also sending a formal notice to the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not come to this decision lightly,” UESF President Cassondra Curiel said at a press conference Thursday morning. “It is up to the district to come [to the bargaining table] with a serious proposal to solve the stability crisis. If not, it will be up to the thousands of educators of UESF to do what few of us have done before and take the next step onto the picket lines on Monday morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072847\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without the 6,000 teachers, paraeducators, social workers and counselors represented by United Educators of San Francisco — and announcements from the unions that represent the possibility that administrators and other campus workers will refuse to cross picket lines — Superintendent Maria Su said schools will not be able to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If schools stayed open, students who attend would have continued to be supervised, but instruction would likely have not continued as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that parents are stressed right now by this decision to possibly strike. And we don’t want to strike,” Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely, a physical education teacher at Roosevelt Middle School and a union member, said earlier this week. “It’s very intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also this week, Su guaranteed that the district would meet its requirement of 180 school days, which might mean extending the school year beyond \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zu3XmotsMkdDtc6PuIwe9fsu-NsGSqn0/view\">the currently scheduled closing day of June 3\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are the district and union still negotiating to avoid a strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SFUSD and UESF met for a bargaining session Thursday, and the district proposed a new deal. It was rejected by the union, which called it “disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re set to bargain again on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which San Francisco schools could be most affected by the strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/schools/directory\">all schools \u003c/a>closed Monday, the impacts of the strike could start to vary depending on how long the action lasts.[aside postID=news_12072599 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-13-KQED.jpg']During the 1979 strike, for example, some schools reopened before others, and also operated differently depending on what staff they had available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su has said that whether a campus can open will depend on its available staffing and that a school requires an administrator to open and close the campus, along with custodial services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff would also be needed to supervise students, and food service workers would need to be on hand to provide meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD’s administrators and janitors are both members of different unions. But both have declared sympathy strikes, meaning they will not cross picket lines in solidarity with teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has suggested that families stay in close contact with their school’s educators and create group communication channels through apps like WhatsApp or Signal to discuss their school-specific details.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatoptionsdoSanFranciscofamilieshaveforchildcareduringastrike\">\u003c/a>What options do working families have for child care during this time?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The closure of San Francisco schools because of the strike could put parents in a logistical bind when it comes to their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SFUSD’s options\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD’s website says that there is temporary child care for students under the age of 5, and parents should reach out to referral partners to help connect them to options. The contacts are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/childrenscouncil?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZa6WwXHKy-yFNKlFEhbpx4kwNWDCHBUyMMCzJ8DH8NNpWyaa4Bod4i7r8tHmOMkGsfMQgD9YpG_uFPbcu5-1IoQsld6byTgIGFH27JWPWQUCmL4BN0DMbkvT9Ld4xiMKQROKJqIBXu7UbeNy_QGQlcsG2jz_Zx4HIoSd1oNVt-Xww&__tn__=-%5dK-R\">Children’s Council\u003c/a>: 415-343-3300 or \u003ca href=\"mailto:rr@childrenscouncil.org\">rr@childrenscouncil.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/WuYeeOrg?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZa6WwXHKy-yFNKlFEhbpx4kwNWDCHBUyMMCzJ8DH8NNpWyaa4Bod4i7r8tHmOMkGsfMQgD9YpG_uFPbcu5-1IoQsld6byTgIGFH27JWPWQUCmL4BN0DMbkvT9Ld4xiMKQROKJqIBXu7UbeNy_QGQlcsG2jz_Zx4HIoSd1oNVt-Xww&__tn__=-%5dK-R\">Wu Yee Children’s Services\u003c/a>: 1-844-644-4300 or \u003ca href=\"mailto:randr@wuyee.org\">randr@wuyee.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For other age groups, SFUSD has \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ecLWahYrM0OedreZon-1JcIzeWxANctCjjYfKDEZusM/edit?tab=t.0\">a list of vetted organizations\u003c/a> providing activities and supervision for children. Space is extremely limited, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058782\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference at Sanchez Elementary School on the first day of classes for the new school year in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district also has a list of state-funded community organizations \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eUNCkN4b3OSxIkIzMBebpzKMaKuwNnM4xvX3cOm6T2w/edit?tab=t.0\">providing academic and recreation support\u003c/a> off-site. (Meals may also be provided.) Priority access is given to students whose families qualify for free or reduced-price meal benefits, are foster youth or homeless youth, or are English language learners. The document is also available in:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/13u7JYgXyPI12zrtZlyBuiZ07y7SIdycRVAkxO-kewbE/edit?tab=t.0\">Spanish\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oaHn_0ftnpOhpScuY7GqAfm4fPlkKuFHMgMIHbH0icY/edit?tab=t.0\">Arabic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LIP2gMRrmkF_AvbhYt2-Xl_YvHiEpvSO6z6Azh-OETg/edit?tab=t.0\">Chinese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qM-qOw6qfsi8cWUz2fH4qro5mZbP-oxSFa8op6DPS2U/edit?tab=t.0\">Samoan\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1608z0Ys9EJUgic8JmF9cWowvTMjKVdFFiXDzJDMNCWM/edit?tab=t.0\">Tagalog\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sasg-9-p8Hk1Gmn3SZOm1py8GnPdy4RO_MDtoRyhcEE/edit?tab=t.0\">Vietnamese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Union options\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has invited parents to bring their children and join picket lines, and the union also said it is in contact with community partner organizations that are “assessing their capacity” to expand child care offerings throughout the school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After-school programming\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072599/sf-schools-will-close-if-teachers-strike-heres-how-city-hall-plans-to-step-in\">parents should reach out to their after-school care providers \u003c/a>directly for information on their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A program your child is already part of may be providing extended services. The San Francisco Beacon Initiative works with local nonprofits — including the YMCA of Greater San Francisco and the Boys and Girls Club — to run after-school programs at 27 SFUSD schools, including all of the district’s middle schools and its highest-need elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sally Jenkins-Stevens, the Beacon Initiative’s executive director, said that all these partners are looking into the feasibility of offering all-day care for students, though any services they can provide would likely be for some of the children already enrolled in their after-school programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some other organizations, she said, are simply limited by space. Many use campus facilities, and it’s unclear whether they would be able to access those if schools close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Programs and organizations offering expanded care during the SFUSD strike include:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003cstrong>city’s Recreation & Park\u003c/strong> after-school programs \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/information-employees/labor-relations/negotiations-updates/information-and-resources-families#83030\">“have been extended to full-day programs for children who are currently enrolled in their programs.”\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmariposakids.com/\">\u003cstrong>Mariposa Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> told KQED in an email that it is “opening full-day programming to families enrolled in our After-School Program on each strike day” from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. However, they do not “have the capacity to enroll other families on strike days.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://rocksf.org/\">\u003cstrong>Real Options for City Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, which operates at Visitacion Valley elementary and middle schools, as well as El Dorado Elementary School, has also confirmed that it can extend its care. However, that’ll be a fraction of its students — about 40, compared with the 300 they provide after-school programming for, according to Jenkins-Stevens.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.826valencia.org/\">\u003cstrong>826 Valencia\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, a Mission District organization centered around developing children’s writing skills, told KQED they would be “changing our programming so that we can accommodate students we normally see in other settings at our centers from [9 a.m. to 3 p.m.]” They are also “keeping our regular after-school programs for those who are enrolled.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-stemful.com/\">STEMful San Francisco\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>is “offering a full-day program from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.” for current members, including “an extended care option until 6:00 p.m.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionscienceworkshop.org/\">\u003cstrong>Mission Science Workshop\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is expanding programming during the strike. The latest workshop details, hours and updates can be found on the Mission Science Workshop \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/missionscienceworkshop/p/DUjpExmjyJ2/?hl=en\">Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Public libraries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most San Francisco public library branches are open during normal school hours, and a SFPL spokesperson said that their spaces remain a resource for students. Children older than eight can spend time in the city’s public libraries without a parent or guardian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Museums\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some museums across the city are expanding their hours or providing free admission for students during the strike. (Bear in mind that many Bay Area museums always had\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943906/how-to-find-free-museum-tickets-in-the-bay-area\"> free or discounted admission for visitors under 18\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be sure to check the scheduling and see if the museum is open that day, before heading out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/complimentary-admission-policy-during-sfusd-teacher-strike\">The California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>is offering free admission to students under 17 during the weekday, plus discounts for accompanying guardians.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUi6yG6CQt1/?img_index=1&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">a social media post\u003c/a>, the \u003cstrong>Asian Art Museum\u003c/strong> in Civic Center is expanding free admission on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays for guests under 18 \u003cem>and \u003c/em>an adult accompanying them. (The museum is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>SFMOMA\u003c/strong> always has \u003ca href=\"https://tickets.sfmoma.org/tickets/type?performanceId=10875&timezone=173&type=ga\">free tickets for kids 18 and under\u003c/a>, but for every 6 kids an adult must also be in attendance.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>According to the \u003cstrong>de Young Museum\u003c/strong>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/visit/de-young\">notice\u003c/a>, “General admission is always free for students 17 and under. During the SFUSD closures, free admission for an accompanying parent or guardian is also available on-site, [Tuesday through Friday.]”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Legion of Honor\u003c/strong> also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/visit/legion-of-honor\">free general admission for students 17 or under\u003c/a>. “During the SFUSD closures, free admission for an accompanying parent or guardian is also available on-site, [Tuesday to Friday.]”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>YBCA \u003c/strong>in the Yerba Buena Gardens area has free entry for young people 17 and under. On Wednesday, admission is \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/visit/\">free for everyone\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Exploratorium\u003c/strong> is offering free weekday student admission and adult discounts, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUir8Bcgaep/?img_index=1\">a social media post\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>MoAD\u003c/strong> is \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/visit\">free for youth under 12\u003c/a>. For students age 12 and over, tickets are $12.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tickets are \u003ca href=\"https://www.waltdisney.org/visit/admission\">free for children 5 and under\u003c/a> at the \u003cstrong>Walt Disney Family Museum\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What happens to special education services during a strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district has said its non-public school programs, which serve a couple of hundred students with the most significant special education needs, will continue to provide services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not yet put forward any concrete plans for providing services to its roughly 7,000 other special education students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whataboutchildrenwhorelyonfreemealsatschool\">\u003c/a>What about families who rely on free meals at school?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lurie said on day one, his office is prepared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072599/sf-schools-will-close-if-teachers-strike-heres-how-city-hall-plans-to-step-in\">stand up meal distribution centers \u003c/a>where students can receive a grab-and-go lunch on a first-come, first-served basis. Some sites will also offer breakfast, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--children-youth-and-their-families/free-youth-meals-sfusd-school-strike?preview=true&ts=20260206150049\">can be found on the city’s website\u003c/a>. These meals are available to youth under the age of 18, and on a first-come, first-served basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/information-employees/labor-relations/negotiations-updates/information-and-resources-families\">SFUSD’s website\u003c/a>, “To pick up meals, youth or a parent or caregiver will need to provide the child’s name, grade, and school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1vlptdAfBXgBKZHAKOYjd5vJ6i6iZ4HY&ehbc=2E312F\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centers will be in partnership with the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families; the San Francisco Public Library; the Recreation and Parks Department; and other community-based organizations. Families will receive information about the locations, hours and meal availability at sites directly, Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For children who participate in after-school programs, San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families provides daily snacks and suppers, and it has already asked its partner organizations if they can serve as meal distribution sites in the event of a strike, according to Jenkins-Stevens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11825852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student walks by a library book drop box outside of the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library on Jan. 11, 2011, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED has a thorough guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\">how to find and use a food pantry near you\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, including San Francisco resources like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafoodbanks.org/our-members/\">\u003cstrong>California Association of Food Banks’\u003c/strong> online tool\u003c/a>, which lists all the major food banks in the state\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://211ca.org/\">The state’s \u003cstrong>211\u003c/strong> hotline\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/\">\u003cstrong>SF-Marin Food Bank\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, which distributes food to participating pantry organizations, has \u003ca href=\"https://foodlocator.sfmfoodbank.org/?_gl=1*1lbew87*_gcl_au*MTkzNzUwMDUyLjE3NjEyNDUwMzE.&_ga=2.54192875.2143041145.1761245031-1508876033.1761245031\">a tool to locate food resources near you\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityteam.org/get-help/san-francisco\">\u003cstrong>CityTeam San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityteam.org/get-help/san-francisco\">searchable database\u003c/a> of places to find food and other types of support\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/services/dining-room/\">\u003cstrong>St. Anthony’s Foundation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> at 121 Golden Gate Ave.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.glide.org/programs/daily-free-meals/\">\u003cstrong>Glide Memorial Church\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> at 330 Ellis St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionfoodhub.org/our-programs\">\u003cstrong>Mission Food Hub\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> at 701 Alabama St., which provides groceries on Fridays to registered residents living in zip code 94110\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUjn4sDEjd0/?img_index=6&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Bread for Ed\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>at 1020 Kearny Street for children who attend Chinatown elementary schools\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ymcasf.org/program/food-assistance/\">YMCA Food Assistance Program\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>San Francisco County also provides some food assistance, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/food/free-food-locations\">Free food locations offering both groceries and meals\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/disability-aging/groceries-meals\">Options for having meals delivered to your home\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/disability-aging/groceries-meals/community-meals\">Locations where you can find a community meal\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How did we get to a San Francisco teachers’ strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UESF and SFUSD have been negotiating a new two-year contract for union members since last March. Currently, educators are working under their 2023–2025 deal, which expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the parties declared an impasse — meaning they couldn’t come to an agreement independently — and entered the current mediation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072850 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tadd Scott, English teacher at Mission High, bangs a drum during a teacher’s strike at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union has said its core demands are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fully funded health care for families\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 9% to 14% wage increase\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A proposal that the district add its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/services/family-supports-services/immigration-policy-resources\">sanctuary district\u003c/a> policy language, which says it is committed to protecting immigrant students, to educators’ contracts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A written commitment from the district to continue its current emergency shelter housing program for families\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Union negotiators say many of their proposals over the last 10 months have been rejected, including those regarding the sanctuary policy language and the emergency shelter housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the district proposed a new offer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Like their October deal, it maintains a 2% raise over three years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It proposes two health care options: one that would cover 75% of premiums, and another offering a $24,000 annual benefit allowance for health care costs. Neither matches the district’s claims earlier this week that it planned to fully cover healthcare costs through a “creative solution.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It also proposes the creation of a pilot program that would test transitioning special education staff from a caseload to a workload model.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The union said the district’s raise proposal came with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065524/san-francisco-teachers-take-key-step-toward-strike\">major concessions\u003c/a>, including the end of a sabbatical program for longstanding members — and additional preparation periods for others who teach Advanced Placement classes — that they don’t want to give up. The union has indicated it will not accept a deal that doesn’t fully fund family health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As someone who’s born and raised here, I think the city is just an incredible place to raise a family, to have kids,” Hutchinson-Szekely said. “I want our teachers to be able to stay in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love our jobs. We love our kids,” she said. “We also just want to stay in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was in that fact-finding report ahead of the teachers’ strike announcement?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The union’s announcement to strike followed what’s called a “fact-finding report.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This report is the final step in the mediation process between a school district and union, and is written by a three-person committee: one representative each from the district and the union, joined by a neutral mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036911\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The committee held a hearing process, which included gathering information and evidence — like financial data, wage and benefits comparisons and other reports based on their proposals — from both parties. This information was then reflected in the report, which also included non-binding recommendations for a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what Wednesday’s fact-finding panel for SFUSD and UESF said in its report about each of the union’s core demands:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Wages: \u003c/strong>The report says that the district’s financial situation is “precarious,” and that the union’s request for a 9% raise over two years isn’t feasible. But it also said that the district’s proposal of 2% per year for three years doesn’t keep pace with the state’s cost-of-living adjustment. The report ultimately recommended a 3% raise for each of the next two years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Health care:\u003c/strong> Again citing the district’s finances, the panel said that fully funding healthcare on a \u003cem>permanent\u003c/em> basis is unfeasible — but that it \u003cem>can\u003c/em> \u003cem>afford to \u003c/em>for the next three years at least. The panel recommended using parcel tax funding to fully cover healthcare for families on Kaiser Permanente plans for three years, and urged the district to look for another source to possibly extend that longer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary policy language and emergency shelter program:\u003c/strong> The panel said both of these are not mandatory bargaining subjects, and shouldn’t be included in the agreement. The report concluded that including the sanctuary language opens the district up to “significant liability” and “imposes onerous responsibilities on the District as a landlord, job trainer, and legal advocate.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Special education: \u003c/strong>The union has asked the district to shift special education work models from being based on a certain number of students, or a case load, to a more manageable workload. The panel said that while that proposal would be cost-prohibitive, the district should pursue a pilot program that includes a few elementary schools, as well as a middle and high school, “to develop an approach to address the demands and constraints special education teachers face.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch2>Has this kind of strike ever happened before?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The last time San Francisco teachers walked out almost half a century ago, the strike lasted more than six weeks, beginning in September 1979 and delaying the start of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elementary school campuses reopened two weeks into the strike, and middle and high school campuses slowly resumed operations the following week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some teachers crossed the picket line to return to their classrooms, and the district brought in substitutes to supervise students, instruction was still majorly interrupted throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1920x1283.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from the San Francisco Unified School District return to their buses after a field trip in San Francisco, California, on Sept. 13, 2012. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strike came after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042376/nearly-50-years-later-proposition-13s-impact-is-still-being-felt\">Proposition 13\u003c/a> capped California property taxes, which made up the majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701044/how-proposition-13-transformed-neighborhood-public-schools-throughout-california\">public school funding\u003c/a>. As a result of the funding loss and declining enrollment, SFUSD had laid off more than 1,000 teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Logan, a labor and employment studies professor at San Francisco State University, said it’s unlikely a strike this year would last that long — but it’s possible it could extend a week or two, which would be majorly disruptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein was integral to negotiating the end of the strike. Logan said city officials would likely also feel the heat to get involved this time around. “Your local elected politicians are going to feel huge pressure first to try and avoid a strike, and then if a strike were to happen, to make sure that it’s over as quickly as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A classroom at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lurie this week has urged the district and union to continue bargaining and said he is in communication with both parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1979 strike finally ended with a deal for a 15.5% wage hike and a promise to rehire 700 teachers — close to the 15.7% raise and promise to rehire all teachers that the union initially proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan said if a strike comes to pass in 2026, he similarly expects to see “the school district moving closer to the position that the union is asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a strike were to happen, within days, politicians would be saying, ‘This has to end,’ and school district officials would be under enormous pressure to bargain a settlement with the union,” Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If parents support the strike, how can they show it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UESF’s Hutchinson-Szekely said that parents have “so much influence,” especially when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">emailing or calling\u003c/a> school board members and district leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents can also attend \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/board-education/board-meeting-calendar-and-agendas\">school board meetings on Tuesday nights\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/board-education/public-comment-protocols\"> speak during public comments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another way to show support for the strike, Hutchinson-Szekely said, is by leaving positive comments online or by sending an encouraging message to a union member, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008836 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiffany Furrell holds her daughter Zoe, 4, on her shoulders alongside teachers and students of Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy during a rally at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If there is a strike, UESF says all members of the public — including parents — are welcome to show up in person and contribute in various ways. For example, UESF is seeking volunteers to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z4dyY1dsTHmu5JCjKzfzGhMF0Hy_jtzvcMOjHF_jT0A/edit?tab=t.0\">“adopt a picket”\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelkCrL0Xp53Fbn8KEsejhJK9bSqYtR-l5uSG7zip2EpVM-KA/viewform\">a school they’re connected to\u003c/a>, and perform tasks such as coordinating food and drink deliveries for picketers, collecting donations and providing child care support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson-Szekely also encouraged families to talk to students about “what it means to be in solidarity with the staff.” She said this may involve instigating conversations about how schools operate, and talking with children about how “chronic underfunding and understaffing are more disruptive in the long term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just hoping that kind of discussion can happen within families, and emphasizing that the inconvenience is temporary,” she said. “But the impact of under-resourced schools lasts for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does ‘crossing a picket line’ actually mean?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Families sending students to school during a strike\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://wecantwait.info/parents/uesf\">The CTA\u003c/a> says that as a parent or guardian, “you’ll have to decide if you want your child in this environment” of a school that’s in the middle of a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A strike is most powerful when students do not attend school, because this puts financial pressure on the district to negotiate with educators or lose more money from the state,” \u003ca href=\"https://wecantwait.info/parents/uesf\">the statewide union’s guidance\u003c/a> for families reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072849 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-12-KQED-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alison White, teacher at Mission High, top, leads a chant during a teacher’s strike at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volunteers teaching in schools during a strike in the absence of teachers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pta.org/home/advocacy/ptas-positions/Individual-Position-Statements/Position-Statement-Teacher-Negotiations-Sanctions-and-Strikes\">National Parent-Teacher Association guidance\u003c/a> to local branches also states that “PTA should not man the classrooms” unless “possibly for a day in the absence of advance notice of a strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only is manning of classrooms inconsistent with PTA efforts to obtain a qualified teacher in every classroom, but personal liability may be incurred,” the notice reads. “If the school administration intends to keep the schools open during a teacher walkout, it should develop a corps of volunteers outside the PTA structure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">\u003cem>Carly Severn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shotchkiss\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the first time since 1979 that San Francisco teachers have walked off the job and to the picket lines. Hundreds of custodial and food service workers, principals and administrators are\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072729/san-francisco-teachers-walk-out-in-first-strike-in-nearly-50-years\"> also joining in a sympathy strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the lack of recent precedent for a strike like this means that parents and caregivers with kids currently in SFUSD won’t have much experience with exactly what to do when their schools are going through labor negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From free meals to child care support, keep reading to see what union organizers, teachers, school officials and parents say about what families should expect during the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatoptionsdoSanFranciscofamilieshaveforchildcareduringastrike\">What options do San Francisco families have for child care during a strike?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whataboutchildrenwhorelyonfreemealsatschool\">What about children who rely on free meals at school?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What do we know about school closures during the SFUSD strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The strike begins Monday, and the district’s 111 non-charter schools are closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF announced the decision to strike on Thursday morning in an email to its members, also sending a formal notice to the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not come to this decision lightly,” UESF President Cassondra Curiel said at a press conference Thursday morning. “It is up to the district to come [to the bargaining table] with a serious proposal to solve the stability crisis. If not, it will be up to the thousands of educators of UESF to do what few of us have done before and take the next step onto the picket lines on Monday morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072847\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without the 6,000 teachers, paraeducators, social workers and counselors represented by United Educators of San Francisco — and announcements from the unions that represent the possibility that administrators and other campus workers will refuse to cross picket lines — Superintendent Maria Su said schools will not be able to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If schools stayed open, students who attend would have continued to be supervised, but instruction would likely have not continued as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that parents are stressed right now by this decision to possibly strike. And we don’t want to strike,” Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely, a physical education teacher at Roosevelt Middle School and a union member, said earlier this week. “It’s very intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also this week, Su guaranteed that the district would meet its requirement of 180 school days, which might mean extending the school year beyond \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zu3XmotsMkdDtc6PuIwe9fsu-NsGSqn0/view\">the currently scheduled closing day of June 3\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are the district and union still negotiating to avoid a strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SFUSD and UESF met for a bargaining session Thursday, and the district proposed a new deal. It was rejected by the union, which called it “disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re set to bargain again on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which San Francisco schools could be most affected by the strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/schools/directory\">all schools \u003c/a>closed Monday, the impacts of the strike could start to vary depending on how long the action lasts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During the 1979 strike, for example, some schools reopened before others, and also operated differently depending on what staff they had available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su has said that whether a campus can open will depend on its available staffing and that a school requires an administrator to open and close the campus, along with custodial services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff would also be needed to supervise students, and food service workers would need to be on hand to provide meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD’s administrators and janitors are both members of different unions. But both have declared sympathy strikes, meaning they will not cross picket lines in solidarity with teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has suggested that families stay in close contact with their school’s educators and create group communication channels through apps like WhatsApp or Signal to discuss their school-specific details.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatoptionsdoSanFranciscofamilieshaveforchildcareduringastrike\">\u003c/a>What options do working families have for child care during this time?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The closure of San Francisco schools because of the strike could put parents in a logistical bind when it comes to their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SFUSD’s options\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD’s website says that there is temporary child care for students under the age of 5, and parents should reach out to referral partners to help connect them to options. The contacts are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/childrenscouncil?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZa6WwXHKy-yFNKlFEhbpx4kwNWDCHBUyMMCzJ8DH8NNpWyaa4Bod4i7r8tHmOMkGsfMQgD9YpG_uFPbcu5-1IoQsld6byTgIGFH27JWPWQUCmL4BN0DMbkvT9Ld4xiMKQROKJqIBXu7UbeNy_QGQlcsG2jz_Zx4HIoSd1oNVt-Xww&__tn__=-%5dK-R\">Children’s Council\u003c/a>: 415-343-3300 or \u003ca href=\"mailto:rr@childrenscouncil.org\">rr@childrenscouncil.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/WuYeeOrg?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZa6WwXHKy-yFNKlFEhbpx4kwNWDCHBUyMMCzJ8DH8NNpWyaa4Bod4i7r8tHmOMkGsfMQgD9YpG_uFPbcu5-1IoQsld6byTgIGFH27JWPWQUCmL4BN0DMbkvT9Ld4xiMKQROKJqIBXu7UbeNy_QGQlcsG2jz_Zx4HIoSd1oNVt-Xww&__tn__=-%5dK-R\">Wu Yee Children’s Services\u003c/a>: 1-844-644-4300 or \u003ca href=\"mailto:randr@wuyee.org\">randr@wuyee.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For other age groups, SFUSD has \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ecLWahYrM0OedreZon-1JcIzeWxANctCjjYfKDEZusM/edit?tab=t.0\">a list of vetted organizations\u003c/a> providing activities and supervision for children. Space is extremely limited, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058782\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference at Sanchez Elementary School on the first day of classes for the new school year in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district also has a list of state-funded community organizations \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eUNCkN4b3OSxIkIzMBebpzKMaKuwNnM4xvX3cOm6T2w/edit?tab=t.0\">providing academic and recreation support\u003c/a> off-site. (Meals may also be provided.) Priority access is given to students whose families qualify for free or reduced-price meal benefits, are foster youth or homeless youth, or are English language learners. The document is also available in:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/13u7JYgXyPI12zrtZlyBuiZ07y7SIdycRVAkxO-kewbE/edit?tab=t.0\">Spanish\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oaHn_0ftnpOhpScuY7GqAfm4fPlkKuFHMgMIHbH0icY/edit?tab=t.0\">Arabic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LIP2gMRrmkF_AvbhYt2-Xl_YvHiEpvSO6z6Azh-OETg/edit?tab=t.0\">Chinese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qM-qOw6qfsi8cWUz2fH4qro5mZbP-oxSFa8op6DPS2U/edit?tab=t.0\">Samoan\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1608z0Ys9EJUgic8JmF9cWowvTMjKVdFFiXDzJDMNCWM/edit?tab=t.0\">Tagalog\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sasg-9-p8Hk1Gmn3SZOm1py8GnPdy4RO_MDtoRyhcEE/edit?tab=t.0\">Vietnamese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Union options\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has invited parents to bring their children and join picket lines, and the union also said it is in contact with community partner organizations that are “assessing their capacity” to expand child care offerings throughout the school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After-school programming\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072599/sf-schools-will-close-if-teachers-strike-heres-how-city-hall-plans-to-step-in\">parents should reach out to their after-school care providers \u003c/a>directly for information on their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A program your child is already part of may be providing extended services. The San Francisco Beacon Initiative works with local nonprofits — including the YMCA of Greater San Francisco and the Boys and Girls Club — to run after-school programs at 27 SFUSD schools, including all of the district’s middle schools and its highest-need elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sally Jenkins-Stevens, the Beacon Initiative’s executive director, said that all these partners are looking into the feasibility of offering all-day care for students, though any services they can provide would likely be for some of the children already enrolled in their after-school programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some other organizations, she said, are simply limited by space. Many use campus facilities, and it’s unclear whether they would be able to access those if schools close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Programs and organizations offering expanded care during the SFUSD strike include:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003cstrong>city’s Recreation & Park\u003c/strong> after-school programs \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/information-employees/labor-relations/negotiations-updates/information-and-resources-families#83030\">“have been extended to full-day programs for children who are currently enrolled in their programs.”\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmariposakids.com/\">\u003cstrong>Mariposa Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> told KQED in an email that it is “opening full-day programming to families enrolled in our After-School Program on each strike day” from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. However, they do not “have the capacity to enroll other families on strike days.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://rocksf.org/\">\u003cstrong>Real Options for City Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, which operates at Visitacion Valley elementary and middle schools, as well as El Dorado Elementary School, has also confirmed that it can extend its care. However, that’ll be a fraction of its students — about 40, compared with the 300 they provide after-school programming for, according to Jenkins-Stevens.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.826valencia.org/\">\u003cstrong>826 Valencia\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, a Mission District organization centered around developing children’s writing skills, told KQED they would be “changing our programming so that we can accommodate students we normally see in other settings at our centers from [9 a.m. to 3 p.m.]” They are also “keeping our regular after-school programs for those who are enrolled.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-stemful.com/\">STEMful San Francisco\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>is “offering a full-day program from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.” for current members, including “an extended care option until 6:00 p.m.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionscienceworkshop.org/\">\u003cstrong>Mission Science Workshop\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is expanding programming during the strike. The latest workshop details, hours and updates can be found on the Mission Science Workshop \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/missionscienceworkshop/p/DUjpExmjyJ2/?hl=en\">Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Public libraries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most San Francisco public library branches are open during normal school hours, and a SFPL spokesperson said that their spaces remain a resource for students. Children older than eight can spend time in the city’s public libraries without a parent or guardian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Museums\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some museums across the city are expanding their hours or providing free admission for students during the strike. (Bear in mind that many Bay Area museums always had\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943906/how-to-find-free-museum-tickets-in-the-bay-area\"> free or discounted admission for visitors under 18\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be sure to check the scheduling and see if the museum is open that day, before heading out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/complimentary-admission-policy-during-sfusd-teacher-strike\">The California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>is offering free admission to students under 17 during the weekday, plus discounts for accompanying guardians.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUi6yG6CQt1/?img_index=1&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">a social media post\u003c/a>, the \u003cstrong>Asian Art Museum\u003c/strong> in Civic Center is expanding free admission on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays for guests under 18 \u003cem>and \u003c/em>an adult accompanying them. (The museum is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>SFMOMA\u003c/strong> always has \u003ca href=\"https://tickets.sfmoma.org/tickets/type?performanceId=10875&timezone=173&type=ga\">free tickets for kids 18 and under\u003c/a>, but for every 6 kids an adult must also be in attendance.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>According to the \u003cstrong>de Young Museum\u003c/strong>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/visit/de-young\">notice\u003c/a>, “General admission is always free for students 17 and under. During the SFUSD closures, free admission for an accompanying parent or guardian is also available on-site, [Tuesday through Friday.]”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Legion of Honor\u003c/strong> also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/visit/legion-of-honor\">free general admission for students 17 or under\u003c/a>. “During the SFUSD closures, free admission for an accompanying parent or guardian is also available on-site, [Tuesday to Friday.]”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>YBCA \u003c/strong>in the Yerba Buena Gardens area has free entry for young people 17 and under. On Wednesday, admission is \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/visit/\">free for everyone\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Exploratorium\u003c/strong> is offering free weekday student admission and adult discounts, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUir8Bcgaep/?img_index=1\">a social media post\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>MoAD\u003c/strong> is \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/visit\">free for youth under 12\u003c/a>. For students age 12 and over, tickets are $12.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tickets are \u003ca href=\"https://www.waltdisney.org/visit/admission\">free for children 5 and under\u003c/a> at the \u003cstrong>Walt Disney Family Museum\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What happens to special education services during a strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district has said its non-public school programs, which serve a couple of hundred students with the most significant special education needs, will continue to provide services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not yet put forward any concrete plans for providing services to its roughly 7,000 other special education students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whataboutchildrenwhorelyonfreemealsatschool\">\u003c/a>What about families who rely on free meals at school?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lurie said on day one, his office is prepared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072599/sf-schools-will-close-if-teachers-strike-heres-how-city-hall-plans-to-step-in\">stand up meal distribution centers \u003c/a>where students can receive a grab-and-go lunch on a first-come, first-served basis. Some sites will also offer breakfast, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--children-youth-and-their-families/free-youth-meals-sfusd-school-strike?preview=true&ts=20260206150049\">can be found on the city’s website\u003c/a>. These meals are available to youth under the age of 18, and on a first-come, first-served basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/information-employees/labor-relations/negotiations-updates/information-and-resources-families\">SFUSD’s website\u003c/a>, “To pick up meals, youth or a parent or caregiver will need to provide the child’s name, grade, and school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1vlptdAfBXgBKZHAKOYjd5vJ6i6iZ4HY&ehbc=2E312F\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centers will be in partnership with the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families; the San Francisco Public Library; the Recreation and Parks Department; and other community-based organizations. Families will receive information about the locations, hours and meal availability at sites directly, Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For children who participate in after-school programs, San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families provides daily snacks and suppers, and it has already asked its partner organizations if they can serve as meal distribution sites in the event of a strike, according to Jenkins-Stevens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11825852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43801_GettyImages-107987983-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student walks by a library book drop box outside of the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library on Jan. 11, 2011, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED has a thorough guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\">how to find and use a food pantry near you\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, including San Francisco resources like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafoodbanks.org/our-members/\">\u003cstrong>California Association of Food Banks’\u003c/strong> online tool\u003c/a>, which lists all the major food banks in the state\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://211ca.org/\">The state’s \u003cstrong>211\u003c/strong> hotline\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/\">\u003cstrong>SF-Marin Food Bank\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, which distributes food to participating pantry organizations, has \u003ca href=\"https://foodlocator.sfmfoodbank.org/?_gl=1*1lbew87*_gcl_au*MTkzNzUwMDUyLjE3NjEyNDUwMzE.&_ga=2.54192875.2143041145.1761245031-1508876033.1761245031\">a tool to locate food resources near you\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityteam.org/get-help/san-francisco\">\u003cstrong>CityTeam San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityteam.org/get-help/san-francisco\">searchable database\u003c/a> of places to find food and other types of support\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/services/dining-room/\">\u003cstrong>St. Anthony’s Foundation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> at 121 Golden Gate Ave.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.glide.org/programs/daily-free-meals/\">\u003cstrong>Glide Memorial Church\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> at 330 Ellis St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionfoodhub.org/our-programs\">\u003cstrong>Mission Food Hub\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> at 701 Alabama St., which provides groceries on Fridays to registered residents living in zip code 94110\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUjn4sDEjd0/?img_index=6&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Bread for Ed\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>at 1020 Kearny Street for children who attend Chinatown elementary schools\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ymcasf.org/program/food-assistance/\">YMCA Food Assistance Program\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>San Francisco County also provides some food assistance, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/food/free-food-locations\">Free food locations offering both groceries and meals\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/disability-aging/groceries-meals\">Options for having meals delivered to your home\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/disability-aging/groceries-meals/community-meals\">Locations where you can find a community meal\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How did we get to a San Francisco teachers’ strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UESF and SFUSD have been negotiating a new two-year contract for union members since last March. Currently, educators are working under their 2023–2025 deal, which expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the parties declared an impasse — meaning they couldn’t come to an agreement independently — and entered the current mediation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072850 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tadd Scott, English teacher at Mission High, bangs a drum during a teacher’s strike at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union has said its core demands are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fully funded health care for families\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 9% to 14% wage increase\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A proposal that the district add its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/services/family-supports-services/immigration-policy-resources\">sanctuary district\u003c/a> policy language, which says it is committed to protecting immigrant students, to educators’ contracts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A written commitment from the district to continue its current emergency shelter housing program for families\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Union negotiators say many of their proposals over the last 10 months have been rejected, including those regarding the sanctuary policy language and the emergency shelter housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the district proposed a new offer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Like their October deal, it maintains a 2% raise over three years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It proposes two health care options: one that would cover 75% of premiums, and another offering a $24,000 annual benefit allowance for health care costs. Neither matches the district’s claims earlier this week that it planned to fully cover healthcare costs through a “creative solution.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It also proposes the creation of a pilot program that would test transitioning special education staff from a caseload to a workload model.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The union said the district’s raise proposal came with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065524/san-francisco-teachers-take-key-step-toward-strike\">major concessions\u003c/a>, including the end of a sabbatical program for longstanding members — and additional preparation periods for others who teach Advanced Placement classes — that they don’t want to give up. The union has indicated it will not accept a deal that doesn’t fully fund family health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As someone who’s born and raised here, I think the city is just an incredible place to raise a family, to have kids,” Hutchinson-Szekely said. “I want our teachers to be able to stay in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love our jobs. We love our kids,” she said. “We also just want to stay in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was in that fact-finding report ahead of the teachers’ strike announcement?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The union’s announcement to strike followed what’s called a “fact-finding report.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This report is the final step in the mediation process between a school district and union, and is written by a three-person committee: one representative each from the district and the union, joined by a neutral mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036911\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The committee held a hearing process, which included gathering information and evidence — like financial data, wage and benefits comparisons and other reports based on their proposals — from both parties. This information was then reflected in the report, which also included non-binding recommendations for a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what Wednesday’s fact-finding panel for SFUSD and UESF said in its report about each of the union’s core demands:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Wages: \u003c/strong>The report says that the district’s financial situation is “precarious,” and that the union’s request for a 9% raise over two years isn’t feasible. But it also said that the district’s proposal of 2% per year for three years doesn’t keep pace with the state’s cost-of-living adjustment. The report ultimately recommended a 3% raise for each of the next two years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Health care:\u003c/strong> Again citing the district’s finances, the panel said that fully funding healthcare on a \u003cem>permanent\u003c/em> basis is unfeasible — but that it \u003cem>can\u003c/em> \u003cem>afford to \u003c/em>for the next three years at least. The panel recommended using parcel tax funding to fully cover healthcare for families on Kaiser Permanente plans for three years, and urged the district to look for another source to possibly extend that longer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary policy language and emergency shelter program:\u003c/strong> The panel said both of these are not mandatory bargaining subjects, and shouldn’t be included in the agreement. The report concluded that including the sanctuary language opens the district up to “significant liability” and “imposes onerous responsibilities on the District as a landlord, job trainer, and legal advocate.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Special education: \u003c/strong>The union has asked the district to shift special education work models from being based on a certain number of students, or a case load, to a more manageable workload. The panel said that while that proposal would be cost-prohibitive, the district should pursue a pilot program that includes a few elementary schools, as well as a middle and high school, “to develop an approach to address the demands and constraints special education teachers face.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch2>Has this kind of strike ever happened before?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The last time San Francisco teachers walked out almost half a century ago, the strike lasted more than six weeks, beginning in September 1979 and delaying the start of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elementary school campuses reopened two weeks into the strike, and middle and high school campuses slowly resumed operations the following week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some teachers crossed the picket line to return to their classrooms, and the district brought in substitutes to supervise students, instruction was still majorly interrupted throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1920x1283.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from the San Francisco Unified School District return to their buses after a field trip in San Francisco, California, on Sept. 13, 2012. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strike came after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042376/nearly-50-years-later-proposition-13s-impact-is-still-being-felt\">Proposition 13\u003c/a> capped California property taxes, which made up the majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701044/how-proposition-13-transformed-neighborhood-public-schools-throughout-california\">public school funding\u003c/a>. As a result of the funding loss and declining enrollment, SFUSD had laid off more than 1,000 teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Logan, a labor and employment studies professor at San Francisco State University, said it’s unlikely a strike this year would last that long — but it’s possible it could extend a week or two, which would be majorly disruptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein was integral to negotiating the end of the strike. Logan said city officials would likely also feel the heat to get involved this time around. “Your local elected politicians are going to feel huge pressure first to try and avoid a strike, and then if a strike were to happen, to make sure that it’s over as quickly as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A classroom at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lurie this week has urged the district and union to continue bargaining and said he is in communication with both parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1979 strike finally ended with a deal for a 15.5% wage hike and a promise to rehire 700 teachers — close to the 15.7% raise and promise to rehire all teachers that the union initially proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan said if a strike comes to pass in 2026, he similarly expects to see “the school district moving closer to the position that the union is asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a strike were to happen, within days, politicians would be saying, ‘This has to end,’ and school district officials would be under enormous pressure to bargain a settlement with the union,” Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If parents support the strike, how can they show it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UESF’s Hutchinson-Szekely said that parents have “so much influence,” especially when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">emailing or calling\u003c/a> school board members and district leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents can also attend \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/board-education/board-meeting-calendar-and-agendas\">school board meetings on Tuesday nights\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/board-education/public-comment-protocols\"> speak during public comments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another way to show support for the strike, Hutchinson-Szekely said, is by leaving positive comments online or by sending an encouraging message to a union member, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12008836 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-32-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiffany Furrell holds her daughter Zoe, 4, on her shoulders alongside teachers and students of Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy during a rally at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If there is a strike, UESF says all members of the public — including parents — are welcome to show up in person and contribute in various ways. For example, UESF is seeking volunteers to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z4dyY1dsTHmu5JCjKzfzGhMF0Hy_jtzvcMOjHF_jT0A/edit?tab=t.0\">“adopt a picket”\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelkCrL0Xp53Fbn8KEsejhJK9bSqYtR-l5uSG7zip2EpVM-KA/viewform\">a school they’re connected to\u003c/a>, and perform tasks such as coordinating food and drink deliveries for picketers, collecting donations and providing child care support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson-Szekely also encouraged families to talk to students about “what it means to be in solidarity with the staff.” She said this may involve instigating conversations about how schools operate, and talking with children about how “chronic underfunding and understaffing are more disruptive in the long term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just hoping that kind of discussion can happen within families, and emphasizing that the inconvenience is temporary,” she said. “But the impact of under-resourced schools lasts for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does ‘crossing a picket line’ actually mean?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Families sending students to school during a strike\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://wecantwait.info/parents/uesf\">The CTA\u003c/a> says that as a parent or guardian, “you’ll have to decide if you want your child in this environment” of a school that’s in the middle of a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A strike is most powerful when students do not attend school, because this puts financial pressure on the district to negotiate with educators or lose more money from the state,” \u003ca href=\"https://wecantwait.info/parents/uesf\">the statewide union’s guidance\u003c/a> for families reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072849 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-12-KQED-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alison White, teacher at Mission High, top, leads a chant during a teacher’s strike at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volunteers teaching in schools during a strike in the absence of teachers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pta.org/home/advocacy/ptas-positions/Individual-Position-Statements/Position-Statement-Teacher-Negotiations-Sanctions-and-Strikes\">National Parent-Teacher Association guidance\u003c/a> to local branches also states that “PTA should not man the classrooms” unless “possibly for a day in the absence of advance notice of a strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only is manning of classrooms inconsistent with PTA efforts to obtain a qualified teacher in every classroom, but personal liability may be incurred,” the notice reads. “If the school administration intends to keep the schools open during a teacher walkout, it should develop a corps of volunteers outside the PTA structure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">\u003cem>Carly Severn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shotchkiss\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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There are many, many students in this district who are [in] special education, and taking them out of their daily routine is extremely challenging for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike brought other parents back to the pandemic, when they were juggling with work and remote learning at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072891\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily de Ayora (center), communications specialist for the SF Parents Coalition, chaperones a group of students at Mission Science Workshop in the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco on Feb. 9, 2026, during an SFUSD teachers’ strike that closed all district schools. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abigail Alvarenga tried to get her two kids, who are in second and third grade at Monroe Elementary School, to work on their math and grammar worksheets before giving up and taking them to the science workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarenga and her husband are both firefighters, and they alternate their shifts to take care of the children. 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Just before 2 p.m., the district confirmed to families that campuses would remain closed Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the thousands of striking educators, hundreds of custodial and food service workers, principals and administrators also walked off the job in sympathy strikes, making it unsafe for the district to open schools, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072848\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, center, speaks during a press conference at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. 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Libraries and recreation centers are opening their doors to students older than 8, and the district is also offering independent study packets for children at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF declared the strike last week after months of state-led mediation ended with the union and district still far apart on many key demands, including fully funded family health care benefits and wage increases. The parties have been negotiating a new contract for almost a year, and educators are currently working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to health coverage, the union has asked for raises of 9% and 14% for teachers and paraeducators over two years and changes to special education staffing. The district had said those demands are impossible given its financial crisis, and it repeatedly offered a 6% raise over three years and some increases to health care coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the union declared it would strike, SFUSD made some movement on key demands, offering a 6% raise over two years and a $24,000 annual benefit allowance to cover health care costs during an hourslong bargaining session on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that session, the district and union reached a tentative agreement regarding the district’s sanctuary schools policy. UESF cited the agreement as an “important win” but rejected the district’s wage and benefits offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072850\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tadd Scott, English teacher at Mission High, bangs a drum during a teacher’s strike at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The district is clearly not taking our demands seriously,” the union said in a statement. “They are still telling us that any salary increases will come at the cost of previous contract wins. They are still not addressing the widespread crisis in our special education classrooms. And they are still not offering us a contract with fully funded family healthcare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Farfan, a paraeducator at Mission High School, stood on the picket lines early Monday. He said he was fighting for better wages, after being forced to move out of the city last year as the cost of living outpaced his pay. Now, he said, he has a 45-minute commute from the East Bay to get to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“We are the lowest paid throughout school, and we are the backbone for our students,” he told KQED, adding that most paraeducators only work six hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody here has their hopes up for the negotiations to go through,” he said. “I have a lot of students I’ve been helping from ninth all the way to 12th grade. I know a lot of the students in here; they know me. I get emails saying, ‘I will miss you,’ and I miss them, too, of course. For most of them, we are their second home. We’re their second families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the city at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, Charlie Macias and her mom, Nicole, had joined an early morning picket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student holds a sign alongside teachers and fellow students of Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy during a rally at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m missing my classroom a lot,” the first-grader said. She hopes classes will be back in session by Friday, when the school has planned a pajama day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We figured if school’s going to be closed, we might as well join our teachers and fight for them and what they deserve,” Nicole, who said she was home from work Monday because of the strike, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Lurie pleaded with the union to delay its walkout by three days so that schools can remain open as negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is critical that they continue the conversation so our kids can stay in school,” Lurie wrote in a statement, which was echoed by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teachers are custodians of our children five days of the week, and they deserve our support, our students need continuity and our families deserve certainty,” Pelosi wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072846\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD educators picket for the first time in nearly 50 years at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan said in an email that the union “really can’t delay the strike unless it genuinely believes that a deal is imminent, which is clearly not the case here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s honestly kind of mind-boggling that they’ve let it get to this point,” he wrote. “The problems facing the district in terms of teacher retention, morale and staffing levels have been building for years. The district knew that there was enormous dissatisfaction among the teachers, and if they had any doubt about just how bad it was, they saw the result of two overwhelming strike votes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday morning at the Tenderloin Recreation Center, Lurie spoke publicly about the strike for the first time, saying he said he was frustrated that after Saturday’s bargaining session, where union and district officials said they made significant progress, negotiations seemed to stall Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yesterday, there was a lack of dialogue,” Lurie told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think so incredibly highly of our educators and our teachers. I want them well-paid. I want them to be able to afford health care,” he continued. “And I want our kids in school. So I’m going to work tirelessly 24-7 to facilitate an agreement that educators can agree to and that the school district can agree to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/aaliahmad\">\u003cem>Ayah Ali-Ahmad\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sjohnson\">\u003cem>Sydney Johnson\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Shareyourstory\">\u003c/a>California is expensive. Share your story of how you get by\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the only way to call off the strike would be for the union and district to come to a full contract agreement: “You can expect to see strong picket lines until that agreement is achieved,” Curiel added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a deal, SFUSD’s schools are closed indefinitely. Just before 2 p.m., the district confirmed to families that campuses would remain closed Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the thousands of striking educators, hundreds of custodial and food service workers, principals and administrators also walked off the job in sympathy strikes, making it unsafe for the district to open schools, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072848\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, center, speaks during a press conference at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. Teachers went on strike for the first time in nearly 50 years. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Maria Su told reporters Monday morning that the district’s team was prepared to receive a proposal from UESF when negotiations resumed at noon Monday, after an hourslong bargaining session broke down late Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are ready to sit that down at the bargaining table, work through the remaining issues, and quite frankly, stay here all night as long as it takes to get to a full agreement,” she said, adding that the district hopes to reach an agreement today. “Every day this strike continues has real consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families rely on school for access to food and child care throughout the day, along with instruction, mental health support and social connection, Su said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During the disruption, the city has set up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072028/2026-san-francisco-teachers-strike-sfusd-when-sf-union-childcare-after-school-programs-meals\">meal distribution sites\u003c/a>, and the district said some of its community partners and Recreation and Park Department after-school programs have been extended to all-day child care for their most at-risk students. Libraries and recreation centers are opening their doors to students older than 8, and the district is also offering independent study packets for children at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF declared the strike last week after months of state-led mediation ended with the union and district still far apart on many key demands, including fully funded family health care benefits and wage increases. The parties have been negotiating a new contract for almost a year, and educators are currently working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to health coverage, the union has asked for raises of 9% and 14% for teachers and paraeducators over two years and changes to special education staffing. The district had said those demands are impossible given its financial crisis, and it repeatedly offered a 6% raise over three years and some increases to health care coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the union declared it would strike, SFUSD made some movement on key demands, offering a 6% raise over two years and a $24,000 annual benefit allowance to cover health care costs during an hourslong bargaining session on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that session, the district and union reached a tentative agreement regarding the district’s sanctuary schools policy. UESF cited the agreement as an “important win” but rejected the district’s wage and benefits offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072850\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tadd Scott, English teacher at Mission High, bangs a drum during a teacher’s strike at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The district is clearly not taking our demands seriously,” the union said in a statement. “They are still telling us that any salary increases will come at the cost of previous contract wins. They are still not addressing the widespread crisis in our special education classrooms. And they are still not offering us a contract with fully funded family healthcare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Farfan, a paraeducator at Mission High School, stood on the picket lines early Monday. He said he was fighting for better wages, after being forced to move out of the city last year as the cost of living outpaced his pay. Now, he said, he has a 45-minute commute from the East Bay to get to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“We are the lowest paid throughout school, and we are the backbone for our students,” he told KQED, adding that most paraeducators only work six hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody here has their hopes up for the negotiations to go through,” he said. “I have a lot of students I’ve been helping from ninth all the way to 12th grade. I know a lot of the students in here; they know me. I get emails saying, ‘I will miss you,’ and I miss them, too, of course. For most of them, we are their second home. We’re their second families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the city at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, Charlie Macias and her mom, Nicole, had joined an early morning picket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student holds a sign alongside teachers and fellow students of Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy during a rally at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m missing my classroom a lot,” the first-grader said. She hopes classes will be back in session by Friday, when the school has planned a pajama day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We figured if school’s going to be closed, we might as well join our teachers and fight for them and what they deserve,” Nicole, who said she was home from work Monday because of the strike, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Lurie pleaded with the union to delay its walkout by three days so that schools can remain open as negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is critical that they continue the conversation so our kids can stay in school,” Lurie wrote in a statement, which was echoed by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teachers are custodians of our children five days of the week, and they deserve our support, our students need continuity and our families deserve certainty,” Pelosi wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072846\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD educators picket for the first time in nearly 50 years at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan said in an email that the union “really can’t delay the strike unless it genuinely believes that a deal is imminent, which is clearly not the case here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s honestly kind of mind-boggling that they’ve let it get to this point,” he wrote. “The problems facing the district in terms of teacher retention, morale and staffing levels have been building for years. The district knew that there was enormous dissatisfaction among the teachers, and if they had any doubt about just how bad it was, they saw the result of two overwhelming strike votes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday morning at the Tenderloin Recreation Center, Lurie spoke publicly about the strike for the first time, saying he said he was frustrated that after Saturday’s bargaining session, where union and district officials said they made significant progress, negotiations seemed to stall Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yesterday, there was a lack of dialogue,” Lurie told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think so incredibly highly of our educators and our teachers. I want them well-paid. I want them to be able to afford health care,” he continued. “And I want our kids in school. So I’m going to work tirelessly 24-7 to facilitate an agreement that educators can agree to and that the school district can agree to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/aaliahmad\">\u003cem>Ayah Ali-Ahmad\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sjohnson\">\u003cem>Sydney Johnson\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Shareyourstory\">\u003c/a>California is expensive. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco schools will not be able to open if \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072392/san-francisco-teachers-will-call-for-a-strike-next-week\">teachers strike\u003c/a> as planned, the district said Friday, as Mayor Daniel Lurie prepared for the chaos of tens of thousands of families waking up Monday morning without access to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the strike goes forward, Lurie said, city departments will offer free meals and some extended child care services. Meanwhile, negotiations between the teachers union and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> continue, but both sides appear to be far from a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best outcome for our city is schools staying open and students continuing to learn in their classrooms. That remains my hope,” Lurie said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUZqDNLETq9/\">social media video\u003c/a> late Thursday. “But families deserve to know that their city is planning ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the 6,000 teachers, paraeducators, social workers and counselors represented by United Educators of San Francisco — as well as administrators and other campus workers, whose unions have vowed not to cross picket lines — Superintendent Maria Su said schools will not be able to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means families of the 50,000 students normally sent to 110 district schools would be left \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072028/2026-san-francisco-teachers-strike-sfusd-when-sf-union-childcare-after-school-programs-meals\">without child care\u003c/a>, and some children without reliable meals or places to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said on day one, his office is prepared to stand up meal distribution centers where students can receive a grab-and-go lunch on a first-come, first-served basis. Some sites will also offer breakfast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058782\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference at Sanchez Elementary School on the first day of classes for the new school year in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The centers will be in partnership with the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families; the San Francisco Public Library; the Recreation and Parks Department; and other community-based organizations. Families will receive information about the locations, hours and meal availability at sites directly, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who already participate in the district’s after-school programs could also have access to extended services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said earlier this week that it was working with the community-based organizations and nonprofits that provide that programming on the possibility of all-day care, but many are limited by space and capacity. Su said Friday that the district would prioritize unhoused children, but could not provide an estimate of how many could be accommodated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072028/2026-san-francisco-teachers-strike-sfusd-when-sf-union-childcare-after-school-programs-meals\">Mariposa SF\u003c/a> confirmed to KQED that it will open full-day programming to families enrolled in its after-school care programs at Leonard Flynn and Dolores Huerta elementary schools, and Real Options for City Kids said it would be able to serve about 40 students between its three schools. Parents should reach out to their after-school care providers directly for information on their options, according to district and city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said the district was working with its non-public school providers, which provide special education services to a couple of hundred of the district’s students with the highest needs, to continue their services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD plans to offer independent study for students to continue learning at home, and Su said the district was working on instructional packets for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public libraries will remain open, Lurie noted, and children older than 8 are able to access the facilities without a parent or guardian.[aside postID=news_12072028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-1020x634.jpg']“I know this situation is distressing for families and for students,” Su said Friday. “Please know that I am approaching this with deep urgency, working with everyone to try to reach a resolution that supports our educators while protecting the education, safety supports and care that our students need and deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike set for Monday comes after nearly a year of unsuccessful contract negotiations between the union and district leaders. Currently, educators are working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear how the city plans to support families should the strike extend beyond Monday. Lurie said he’s still hopeful an agreement can be reached, and that he was grateful that UESF and SFUSD had returned to the bargaining table on Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though there are details to work out, I know that everyone at the table, including every hardworking educator, shares a dedication to our students,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But UESF President Cassondra Curiel said in a statement after Thursday’s bargaining session that the union was disappointed by an apparent “lack of urgency” from district negotiators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su had said Thursday that the district planned to make a proposal to the union that met its top demand — fully funded health care for educators with families — and offered wage increases within its means, but Curiel said no such proposal was made that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All week we have been bombarded with the message that the district was prepared to come to the table and give us a serious proposal — and our members were ready to negotiate tonight,” Curiel said. “We aren’t sure what happened tonight when the district’s team — minus Dr. Su — came to the table without such an offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union has said it will not accept a contract that doesn’t cover health care costs, which rose this year. Educators with families on their health care pay about $1,500 per month — up to 40% of some of their paychecks, according to Curiel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has also requested raises of 9% and 14% over two years for different members, and to transition special education staff from a caseload to a workload model, to alleviate overloading the hard-to-staff positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD has said repeatedly that it can’t meet the union’s demands because of its budget shortfall. Su said that Thursday night, the district maintained its offer for 6% raises over three years, with concessions from educators, which it made in October. She said the district is also offering two health care benefit options: one to cover 75% of premiums, and another to give educators a $24,000 annual benefit allowance for health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposal takes into account the needs of all of our educators and provides the district with a three-year runway for financial stability,” Su told reporters Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A neutral mediator earlier this week found that that wage offer — which fails to match the state’s cost-of-living adjustment — is too low, and recommended a 6% raise over two years, along with fully funded health care for the next three years, using parcel tax funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district suggested resuming negotiations on Friday morning. The union has agreed to bargain on Saturday at 2 p.m., saying that would “allow the district time to make preparations on an offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Shareyourstory\">\u003c/a>California is expensive. 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Lurie said he’s still hopeful an agreement can be reached, and that he was grateful that UESF and SFUSD had returned to the bargaining table on Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though there are details to work out, I know that everyone at the table, including every hardworking educator, shares a dedication to our students,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But UESF President Cassondra Curiel said in a statement after Thursday’s bargaining session that the union was disappointed by an apparent “lack of urgency” from district negotiators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su had said Thursday that the district planned to make a proposal to the union that met its top demand — fully funded health care for educators with families — and offered wage increases within its means, but Curiel said no such proposal was made that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All week we have been bombarded with the message that the district was prepared to come to the table and give us a serious proposal — and our members were ready to negotiate tonight,” Curiel said. “We aren’t sure what happened tonight when the district’s team — minus Dr. Su — came to the table without such an offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union has said it will not accept a contract that doesn’t cover health care costs, which rose this year. Educators with families on their health care pay about $1,500 per month — up to 40% of some of their paychecks, according to Curiel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has also requested raises of 9% and 14% over two years for different members, and to transition special education staff from a caseload to a workload model, to alleviate overloading the hard-to-staff positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD has said repeatedly that it can’t meet the union’s demands because of its budget shortfall. Su said that Thursday night, the district maintained its offer for 6% raises over three years, with concessions from educators, which it made in October. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> teachers will go on strike Monday for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071181/san-francisco-teachers-union-moves-closer-to-a-historic-strike-first-in-more-than-50-years\">first time in half a century\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Educators of San Francisco gave formal notice to members and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> on Thursday that they will be on the picket lines next week as 11 months of contract negotiations come to a close without a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not come to this decision lightly,” UESF President Cassondra Curiel said at a press conference on Thursday morning. “We want to be in our classrooms and our school sites with all of our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union, which represents 6,000 teachers, paraeducators and other school staff, has been negotiating a new two-year contract with the district since last March. Educators are currently working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties are set to resume bargaining Thursday evening for the first time since declaring an impasse and entering mediation in October, and could still avert a work stoppage through a last-minute agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is up to the district to come [to the bargaining table] with a serious proposal to solve the stability crisis,” Curiel said. “If not, it will be up to the thousands of educators of UESF to do what few of us have done before and take the next step onto the picket lines on Monday morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strike, which would be the city’s first since 1979, comes as teachers’ unions across the state gear up for their own shutdowns: the Los Angeles Unified School District authorized a strike \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/los-angeles-san-francisco-teachers-unions-vote-to-authorize-a-strike\">last weekend\u003c/a> and San Diego will hold a one-day work stoppage later this month. Oakland’s union has \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/12/18/oakland-unified-teachers-union-contract-negotiations-oea/\">indicated\u003c/a> it is not far behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands'\">more than 30 California unions\u003c/a> launched a coordinated bargaining focused on stabilizing schools through smaller class sizes, special education changes and better wages and benefit coverage meant to attract and retain educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has requested full benefit coverage for educators and their dependents and wage increases ranging from 9% to 14% for teachers and paraeducators, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district can’t not afford to invest in stabilizing staffing,” said Teanna Tillery, UESF’s vice president of paraeducators. “With almost 400 educator vacancies and health care increasing by 20%, the writing’s on the wall. SFUSD needs to invest in all of its educators or risk losing most of us.”[aside postID=news_12072028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-1020x634.jpg']The district has maintained that it’s hamstringed by a financial crisis and remains under state oversight. It said meeting the union’s wage and benefit demands is unfeasible and would be rejected by fiscal advisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the impasse, the district had proposed a 2% raise for each of the next three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066097/sfusd-teachers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-authorize-the-first-strike-in-49-years\">with concessions\u003c/a> from educators. Superintendent Maria Su has repeatedly said that the district has also offered a “creative” way to fund health care, but hasn’t shared details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to families after the strike was called, Su said that she wants to avert a strike, and that the district plans to present a proposal that “meets many of our educators’ requests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear what that offer contains. Earlier this week, a neutral panel released a “fact-finding report” — the final step of mediation — that included recommended compromises on the union’s top demands. That suggested 6% raises over two years and fully funded family health care for three years using temporary parcel tax money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has not said whether it would agree to the report’s recommendations, but Curiel said they “do not go far enough.” Paraeducators need more significant raises, and health care funding should be permanent, the union said in a written dissent following the fact-finding report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a strike goes forward on Monday, campus operations will be significantly impacted, and Su said schools could be forced to close. To operate, schools need an administrator and custodial services, along with staff to supervise and provide instruction for students, and food service workers to distribute meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is, if I determine that I cannot open school safely because we do not have the staff to open school safely, then we cannot,” Su said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SEIU 1021, which represents custodians, clerks and lunchroom helpers, has announced its members will hold a sympathy strike and won’t cross the picket lines. The United Administrators of San Francisco is voting through midday Friday to determine if it will do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closed campuses could leave families of SFUSD’s 50,000 students scrambling to find alternative child care come Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard moment for families,” said Meredith Dodson, who heads the nonprofit San Francisco Parents Coalition. For parents who “are working jobs where they don’t have flexibility, they’re trying to figure out alternative plans for where their kids will be on Monday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said about a quarter of the 700 families that the organization surveyed this week said they would have to miss work if their kids’ schools close. Just 4% said private childcare would be an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“It’s most worrying for those who are living paycheck to paycheck,” Dodson said. “We’re also hearing a lot of concerns, especially from families with children in the special ed system. Especially the ones with one-on-one paraeducator support. It’s really hard to get those needs met without our schools open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said that she’s working with after-school care providers to extend services for a small number of the district’s most vulnerable students, and would prioritize extremely low-income and unhoused students, as well as those receiving special education services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she estimated that might only cover a couple of hundred and up to 1,000 kids, a fraction of the number of SFUSD students who might be in a vulnerable position during a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About a third of the students experience housing insecurity or food insecurity,” said Nelson Barry, the president of Urban Angels SF, which serves unhoused and at-risk youth. “They come from families that are living at or near the poverty level, so when there’s a strike, it’s going to affect these children in great numbers, not just a few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070970 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie said Wednesday that he has been in contact with the union and district and urged both sides to return to the bargaining table and avoid a work stoppage. He’s also said he’s in contact with city partners to prepare to support families if schools close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is crucial that our schools remain open,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/danielluriesf/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>. “Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed. Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed. Schools are the foundation that makes daily life possible and helps every family in San Francisco thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time San Francisco saw an educator strike was September 1979, when teachers took to picket lines for more than six weeks, delaying the start of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strike, which was sparked by mass teacher layoffs in the wake of Proposition 13, shuttered some schools for more than two weeks and threw the city into chaos. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties are set to resume bargaining Thursday evening for the first time since declaring an impasse and entering mediation in October, and could still avert a work stoppage through a last-minute agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is up to the district to come [to the bargaining table] with a serious proposal to solve the stability crisis,” Curiel said. “If not, it will be up to the thousands of educators of UESF to do what few of us have done before and take the next step onto the picket lines on Monday morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strike, which would be the city’s first since 1979, comes as teachers’ unions across the state gear up for their own shutdowns: the Los Angeles Unified School District authorized a strike \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/los-angeles-san-francisco-teachers-unions-vote-to-authorize-a-strike\">last weekend\u003c/a> and San Diego will hold a one-day work stoppage later this month. Oakland’s union has \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/12/18/oakland-unified-teachers-union-contract-negotiations-oea/\">indicated\u003c/a> it is not far behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands'\">more than 30 California unions\u003c/a> launched a coordinated bargaining focused on stabilizing schools through smaller class sizes, special education changes and better wages and benefit coverage meant to attract and retain educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has requested full benefit coverage for educators and their dependents and wage increases ranging from 9% to 14% for teachers and paraeducators, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district can’t not afford to invest in stabilizing staffing,” said Teanna Tillery, UESF’s vice president of paraeducators. “With almost 400 educator vacancies and health care increasing by 20%, the writing’s on the wall. SFUSD needs to invest in all of its educators or risk losing most of us.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The district has maintained that it’s hamstringed by a financial crisis and remains under state oversight. It said meeting the union’s wage and benefit demands is unfeasible and would be rejected by fiscal advisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the impasse, the district had proposed a 2% raise for each of the next three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066097/sfusd-teachers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-authorize-the-first-strike-in-49-years\">with concessions\u003c/a> from educators. Superintendent Maria Su has repeatedly said that the district has also offered a “creative” way to fund health care, but hasn’t shared details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to families after the strike was called, Su said that she wants to avert a strike, and that the district plans to present a proposal that “meets many of our educators’ requests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear what that offer contains. Earlier this week, a neutral panel released a “fact-finding report” — the final step of mediation — that included recommended compromises on the union’s top demands. That suggested 6% raises over two years and fully funded family health care for three years using temporary parcel tax money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has not said whether it would agree to the report’s recommendations, but Curiel said they “do not go far enough.” Paraeducators need more significant raises, and health care funding should be permanent, the union said in a written dissent following the fact-finding report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a strike goes forward on Monday, campus operations will be significantly impacted, and Su said schools could be forced to close. To operate, schools need an administrator and custodial services, along with staff to supervise and provide instruction for students, and food service workers to distribute meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is, if I determine that I cannot open school safely because we do not have the staff to open school safely, then we cannot,” Su said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SEIU 1021, which represents custodians, clerks and lunchroom helpers, has announced its members will hold a sympathy strike and won’t cross the picket lines. The United Administrators of San Francisco is voting through midday Friday to determine if it will do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closed campuses could leave families of SFUSD’s 50,000 students scrambling to find alternative child care come Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard moment for families,” said Meredith Dodson, who heads the nonprofit San Francisco Parents Coalition. For parents who “are working jobs where they don’t have flexibility, they’re trying to figure out alternative plans for where their kids will be on Monday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said about a quarter of the 700 families that the organization surveyed this week said they would have to miss work if their kids’ schools close. Just 4% said private childcare would be an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“It’s most worrying for those who are living paycheck to paycheck,” Dodson said. “We’re also hearing a lot of concerns, especially from families with children in the special ed system. Especially the ones with one-on-one paraeducator support. It’s really hard to get those needs met without our schools open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said that she’s working with after-school care providers to extend services for a small number of the district’s most vulnerable students, and would prioritize extremely low-income and unhoused students, as well as those receiving special education services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she estimated that might only cover a couple of hundred and up to 1,000 kids, a fraction of the number of SFUSD students who might be in a vulnerable position during a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About a third of the students experience housing insecurity or food insecurity,” said Nelson Barry, the president of Urban Angels SF, which serves unhoused and at-risk youth. “They come from families that are living at or near the poverty level, so when there’s a strike, it’s going to affect these children in great numbers, not just a few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070970 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie said Wednesday that he has been in contact with the union and district and urged both sides to return to the bargaining table and avoid a work stoppage. He’s also said he’s in contact with city partners to prepare to support families if schools close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is crucial that our schools remain open,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/danielluriesf/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>. “Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed. Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed. Schools are the foundation that makes daily life possible and helps every family in San Francisco thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time San Francisco saw an educator strike was September 1979, when teachers took to picket lines for more than six weeks, delaying the start of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strike, which was sparked by mass teacher layoffs in the wake of Proposition 13, shuttered some schools for more than two weeks and threw the city into chaos. Then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein was integral in striking a deal between the parties, which resulted in a 15.5% pay raise and a promise to rehire hundreds of teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan said Thursday that he still believes the parties could come to an agreement before Monday, “even if it defers a real solution on some issues [especially health care] for the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, if there’s little or no possibility of an agreement, it might only take one meeting to determine that,” he wrote via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel said the union is willing to hear a proposal from the district, but the clock is ticking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s 11:59 p.m,” she said, and “the homework is due at midnight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Shareyourstory\">\u003c/a>California is expensive. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> educators are on the brink of striking for the first time in nearly 50 years, as the teachers’ union said Wednesday that it had reached the end of mediation with the district without an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has already authorized a strike, and now that the mediation process has concluded, educators could walk off the job as soon as next week if they don’t see a deal that meets their top demands, such as fully funded health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A monthslong impasse between the union and the San Francisco Unified School District brought both sides to mediation, a state-mandated step that legally must precede a teachers’ strike. That process ended Wednesday with a fact-finding report issued by a panel that includes one representative each from the union and the district, along with a neutral mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The report does not go far enough — and the recommendations here alone will not solve the stability crisis in our district,” Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said in a statement. “Now is the time for the district to come to the table with real solutions and show the community that they are fully committed to funding the classrooms and schools our students and communities deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is meant to offer an analysis of the merits of both the district’s and the union’s proposals, as well as nonbinding recommendations for a settlement. It recommends the district give union members a 3% raise for each of the next two years and fully fund health benefits for the next three years through existing parcel tax money. After that, the report said, the district should look into the possibility of extending full health care coverage through a different source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the district concurred with the report’s findings, the union dissented in part. UESF argued that paraeducators, who are among the lowest paid in the union, need more than a 3% annual raise and that health benefit coverage should be ongoing, not limited to the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has proposed 9% raises for teachers and 14% for paraeducators over two years, along with fully funded health care and a written commitment to the district’s sanctuary immigration policy and emergency shelter program for unhoused families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said that such a raise isn’t feasible given its current budget crisis, and it countered with an offer for a 2% raise for each of the next three years in October. Last month, it said it could fund Kaiser Permanente health care benefits through existing parcel tax funding until it expires in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said SFUSD rejected its sanctuary and housing proposals, which the district argued should be determined through district policy, not labor contracts. According to the fact-finding report, there are “significant challenges” associated with adding the language to educators’ contracts, which it said “imposes onerous responsibilities on the District as a landlord, job trainer, and legal advocate,” and opens SFUSD up to significant liability.[aside postID=news_12072028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-1020x634.jpg']The district did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the report’s release, Superintendent Maria Su said she believed the district and union were close to a deal and could avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at the table; we want to continue and finish this conversation,” she said on Tuesday. “I know that we will be able to get to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said in a statement that its bargaining team is prepared to negotiate on Thursday and Friday, though it is unlikely to back down on its core demands. UESF has repeatedly said that it will not sign a deal without fully funded health care coverage, and it’s not clear if it will accept the current temporary proposal. UESF said it hasn’t seen that proposal in writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a dissent issued with the fact-finding report, Angela Su, who represented the union on the committee, said: “I agree that the district should tap into the resources available to fully fund dependent benefits … but dissent that it should be anything other than ongoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has said its members’ health care costs are rising exponentially, noting that as of 2026, a family of four pays more than $1,500 a month for coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just this January, educators got a 20% increase in our health care costs,” Curiel said Wednesday on KQED’s Forum. “Folks that are teaching … are going to have to go home today and make tough decisions about whether or not they can afford other things for the rest of the month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on social media, Mayor Daniel Lurie said his office is in contact with both the district and union, urging them to “keep talking so kids can keep learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that if a strike goes forward, he’s working with city departments to ensure there are options for students in case classrooms close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su has repeatedly said that closing campuses is a last resort, but could be necessary if they do not have sufficient staffing to open safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed,” Lurie said. “Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district could return to the bargaining table as soon as Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The report does not go far enough — and the recommendations here alone will not solve the stability crisis in our district,” Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said in a statement. “Now is the time for the district to come to the table with real solutions and show the community that they are fully committed to funding the classrooms and schools our students and communities deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is meant to offer an analysis of the merits of both the district’s and the union’s proposals, as well as nonbinding recommendations for a settlement. It recommends the district give union members a 3% raise for each of the next two years and fully fund health benefits for the next three years through existing parcel tax money. After that, the report said, the district should look into the possibility of extending full health care coverage through a different source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the district concurred with the report’s findings, the union dissented in part. UESF argued that paraeducators, who are among the lowest paid in the union, need more than a 3% annual raise and that health benefit coverage should be ongoing, not limited to the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has proposed 9% raises for teachers and 14% for paraeducators over two years, along with fully funded health care and a written commitment to the district’s sanctuary immigration policy and emergency shelter program for unhoused families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said that such a raise isn’t feasible given its current budget crisis, and it countered with an offer for a 2% raise for each of the next three years in October. Last month, it said it could fund Kaiser Permanente health care benefits through existing parcel tax funding until it expires in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said SFUSD rejected its sanctuary and housing proposals, which the district argued should be determined through district policy, not labor contracts. According to the fact-finding report, there are “significant challenges” associated with adding the language to educators’ contracts, which it said “imposes onerous responsibilities on the District as a landlord, job trainer, and legal advocate,” and opens SFUSD up to significant liability.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The district did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the report’s release, Superintendent Maria Su said she believed the district and union were close to a deal and could avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at the table; we want to continue and finish this conversation,” she said on Tuesday. “I know that we will be able to get to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said in a statement that its bargaining team is prepared to negotiate on Thursday and Friday, though it is unlikely to back down on its core demands. UESF has repeatedly said that it will not sign a deal without fully funded health care coverage, and it’s not clear if it will accept the current temporary proposal. UESF said it hasn’t seen that proposal in writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a dissent issued with the fact-finding report, Angela Su, who represented the union on the committee, said: “I agree that the district should tap into the resources available to fully fund dependent benefits … but dissent that it should be anything other than ongoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has said its members’ health care costs are rising exponentially, noting that as of 2026, a family of four pays more than $1,500 a month for coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just this January, educators got a 20% increase in our health care costs,” Curiel said Wednesday on KQED’s Forum. “Folks that are teaching … are going to have to go home today and make tough decisions about whether or not they can afford other things for the rest of the month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on social media, Mayor Daniel Lurie said his office is in contact with both the district and union, urging them to “keep talking so kids can keep learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that if a strike goes forward, he’s working with city departments to ensure there are options for students in case classrooms close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su has repeatedly said that closing campuses is a last resort, but could be necessary if they do not have sufficient staffing to open safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed,” Lurie said. “Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district could return to the bargaining table as soon as Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When commercial truck drivers are speeding down \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California’s\u003c/a> highways and interstates with thousands of pounds of cargo in tow, a single mistake can be catastrophic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet California fails to regulate most of the schools that train truck drivers, allowing nearly 200 unlicensed schools to operate with effectively no oversight, according to a CalMatters analysis of state and federal records. And when the state has tried to use its limited authority to discipline schools for shortchanging students or flouting the law, its regulators are often powerless, according to the analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without regulatory oversight, industry experts say there is no way to know whether students coming out of those schools are prepared to operate a big rig safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All aspiring truckers are required to attend specialized driving schools, where they study a dense curriculum — learning what to do, for instance, in the event of a skid or when the trailer swings out uncontrollably from the cab. Only then can they take the necessary exams at the California Department of Motor Vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the federal government and the state of California have systems for regulating trucking schools, making sure that they adhere to the curriculum, that the tuition costs are fair and that students are ultimately prepared to get behind the wheel of a truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067538\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from inside Amarjit Singh’s truck in Livermore, on Dec. 16, 2025. Advocates are calling on California officials to halt the planned license revocations. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in California there is a loophole: Private trucking schools that charge students $2,500 or less don’t need state licenses, effectively exempting them from oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state has tried to discipline schools, some reduced their tuition to $2,500 or less, at which point they no longer needed to heed the state’s orders. Other schools just disregarded the state’s orders altogether, the analysis shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has “more limited” tools for pursuing disciplinary action against trucking schools once they claim an exemption, said Monica Vargas, a spokesperson for California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, which is in charge of monitoring most private trade schools. She said the bureau can fine schools for violations, but if they refuse to pay, the state has no additional leverage beyond sending the fine to a collections agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau told the Legislature in a report last year that it gave licenses to 42 trucking schools. The total number of trucking schools could be roughly three times that, the bureau said, and Vargas later clarified that “exact numbers could not be known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To determine a more accurate estimate of schools, CalMatters used a \u003ca href=\"https://tpr.fmcsa.dot.gov/\">federal database\u003c/a> that lists all trucking schools, regardless of their tuition rate. But it’s not clear how accurate or comprehensive that list is. The federal government asks schools to self-register, and it doesn’t “approve or certify” the information that schools provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using the federal list, CalMatters found at least 184 California trucking schools that are not regulated by the state, including at least nine schools the bureau has tried — and failed — to regulate or shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/100124-Floor-Session-FG-63-CM-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up view of a lawmaker wearing a black suit and red tie as he smiles and looks towards another person off-frame.\">\u003cfigcaption>Lawmaker Mike Fong before the start of an Assembly floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/mike-fong-165455\">Assemblymember Mike Fong\u003c/a>, an Alhambra Democrat, proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab714\">a bill\u003c/a> to close the state’s tuition loophole for trucking schools. In his testimony for the bill, Fong said increased regulation of exempt trucking schools could make California’s highways safer for everyone. He cited federal data showing \u003ca href=\"https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813588.pdf\">more than 400 people died\u003c/a> on California’s roads in truck-related crashes in 2022 but in an interview, he acknowledged that there’s “no data to directly correlate” any of those crashes with the volume of unlicensed schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exemptions to licensing laws were intended for companies offering SAT or LSAT test prep courses, Fong said in an interview — those that “do not affect public safety,” he added. “This bill is really to close a loophole in current law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Gold, the founder and CEO of 160 Driving Academy, a chain of trucking schools, was a leader behind the development of the bill. “Because I’m (bureau) certified, my curriculum is on file. I have a surety bond in the state of California. I can’t rip you off as a student. I have insurance. The state of California has approved and walked my site,” he said in an interview with CalMatters, noting that approval took 18 months. Gold said his commercial trucking programs charge $6,000 and require about four weeks or 160 hours of training, a far cry from unlicensed programs that tell students they can finish in as little as 15 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unsuspecting everyday drivers have no idea the 80,000 pound truck on the highway is operated by an individual who’s not properly trained,” said Gold during his testimony for the bill last year. The California Association of Highway Patrolmen, a labor union representing CHP officers, also spoke in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill failed, though no one publicly opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Fly-by-night’ schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the unlicensed trucking schools consist of just a parking lot, a few trucks that students can practice on and a room or two for self-study. Some trucking school owners call these unlicensed programs “fly-by-night” schools — because they are small and unlicensed they can open anywhere or suddenly close and change owners or names with little notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened with the Truck Nation School in Modesto. On Aug. 19, Ricardo Chavez, who was enrolled at the school, was headed there to prepare for his DMV exam, scheduled just two days later. He showed up to find the gates to the parking lot locked and a sign that simply said the school had shut down.[aside postID=news_12069236 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/SoCalHwyAP.jpg']The sudden closure derailed his career plans. A trucking job was a path forward, he said, a way to earn a better living than his current rotation of gig jobs, such as putting up blinds and detailing cars. He had quit working, paid about $2,000 in tuition and fees to attend the trucking school and was hiring a babysitter to take care of his two kids so he could attend class for a few hours each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after the school closed, he failed the DMV exam and failed it again on the second try. He finally passed on the third attempt, almost three weeks later and after paying about $300 to a different school, but he still doesn’t have a trucking job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has a special program designed to refund students who lose their money when a school abruptly closes, but to qualify the student must attend a school licensed by the bureau. Since it charged $2,500 or less, the Truck Nation School was exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been horrible,” said Chavez, who was planning to work as an agricultural truck driver. Because it took him so long to get the license, he said he missed the window to work during the peak of harvest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repeated attempts to reach representatives of Truck Nation for comment were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas, the state spokesperson, said the bureau investigates an exempt school if someone files a complaint about it or if there’s an “internal tip.” Citations are rare. In the 2024-25 academic year, Vargas said the bureau issued citations to 15 unlicensed trucking schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How trucking schools avoid discipline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even when schools are licensed, state enforcement is limited. A 2024 CalMatters investigation found that state employees and contractors were referring students to Dolphin Trucking School, which received tuition subsidies through a federal job training program. While the Los Angeles school was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/08/job-training-california-for-profit-schools/\">pocketing thousands of dollars in subsidies \u003c/a>for many of its students, it was in the midst of a state investigation that included accusations of unqualified teachers and hazardous learning conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau stripped the school of its license in August 2024 following inquiries from CalMatters, but now the family that owned it is operating a new school, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtstechnicalcollege.com/\">“DTS Technical, Inc.,”\u003c/a> with the same office location. The logo even has a dolphin on it, a nod to its former name. On its website, DTS Technical, Inc. lists tuition at $2,500, plus a required $500 fee, for its comprehensive commercial driver’s license course and says that students can use public subsidies from the state’s Department of Rehabilitation to pay tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-30-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"From behind a driver and passenger seat, the driver's hand is on the vehicle's gear stick while another arm in a yellow safety jacket extends out to guide the gear stick.\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing black pants and a yellow sweater looks towards a yellow and black semi-trailer pulling a white cargo trailer.\">\u003c/figure>\u003cfigcaption>\u003cstrong>First:\u003c/strong> A Dolphin Trucking School instructor guides a student through a gear shift. \u003cstrong>Last: \u003c/strong>Orange cones divide the yard at Dolphin Trucking School in Vernon, where students practice driving trucks on March 11, 2024. Photos by Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person dressed in a green and orange safety vest stands next to the engine compartment of a semi-trailer while addressing students as they look-on.\">\u003cfigcaption>Students at Dolphin Trucking School listen attentively as their instructor reviews the truck’s engine parts in Vernon on March 11, 2024. Photo by Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carla Galvez, the owner of the now-closed Dolphin Trucking School, said she has no affiliation with DTS Technical, Inc. and refused to answer any questions on behalf of the family members who are listed as the owners of the new school. CalMatters called and emailed DTS, Technical Inc. but received no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another instance, the state issued a letter to El Monte Truck Driving School in the San Gabriel Valley in April 2021, telling it to cease operations for failing to document tuition costs and keep appropriate records, among other violations. The school kept operating anyway. More than three years later, the state issued another order to close and fined the school $100,000 for disregarding the previous order. The only way it can stay open and continue operating, the state wrote, is if it qualifies for an exemption, such as charging $2,500 or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is still operating as of this month and charges students $4,000, according to the school’s secretary, who spoke to CalMatters on the phone. She refused to answer other questions, such as whether the school qualifies for another exemption. Certain religious schools, nonprofit organizations and apprenticeship programs are exempt from state oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas, the state spokesperson, said El Monte Truck Driving School is making payments on a payment plan for the $100,000 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases federal officials have gone after trucking schools for criminal activity. In a series of cases dating back to 2011, the U.S. Attorney General’s Office prosecuted 20 trucking school owners, California DMV employees, and intermediaries who conspired to give trucking licenses to unqualified drivers, many of whom never took a DMV exam. In an announcement in 2022, the attorney general stated the school owners bribed DMV employees to help “failing or unqualified students” get their licenses. “In total, hundreds of fraudulent commercial driver license permits and licenses were issued as a part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/eastern-district-california-completes-prosecution-20-defendants-dmv-corruption-cases\">these schemes\u003c/a>, jeopardizing public safety,” the office wrote in its statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are schools properly training tomorrow’s truck drivers?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state exemptions and the lack of federal vetting mean there are few records on whether schools are adequately preparing drivers. Along with DMV exams, California state law says that trucking students need to spend \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-veh/division-6/chapter-7/article-5/section-15250-1/\">at least 15 hours\u003c/a> behind the wheel of a truck before they can receive a license. Since 2022, federal law also \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-III/subchapter-B/part-380#se49.5.380_1703\">requires\u003c/a> trucking schools to teach a specific curriculum that involves learning the parts of a truck and ways to operate it safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at some exempt schools interviewed by CalMatters said they struggled to get time behind the wheel and that they often had to teach themselves.[aside postID=news_12071380 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-450371215-1020x680.jpg']Aramis Andrews told CalMatters he paid more than $3,000 to attend Premier Trucking School in Red Bluff, which is unlicensed. Andrews said the instructor expected him to teach himself online before attending class, after which he was promised 20 hours of behind-the-wheel practice. But when he showed up to the school, the instructor was upset that Andrews wasn’t more prepared and kicked him out of the program on the second day. “He (the instructor) wanted me to go to the school and already know everything and just drive around some and make sure I was good at it,” Andrews said. “I feel like it was just a scam to be honest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe German, the school’s owner, said he kicked Andrews out because he “didn’t take the course seriously.” German said he gave Andrews a refund for the remainder of the program, which Andrews disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the bureau fined Premier Trucking School $12,500 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/settl_of_affir_cit_premier_trucking_school_20251229.pdf\">operating without a license\u003c/a> or a valid exemption. German said he paid the fine, though he denied any intentional wrongdoing. He said he was unaware of the bureau’s rules and that the full licensing process “would bankrupt us.” The bureau “is set up for universities or big, big schools,” he said, “not a school that’s one or two trucks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Gold, the CEO of 160 Driving Academy, the lack of regulation is the main reason for the poor training some students receive. “These schools do not have a comprehensive approved training curriculum and there’s no way they are compliant with the federal rules. Who knows the level of training they are conducting?” he said during his testimony for Fong’s bill last year. “The unsuspecting consumer has no idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fong said he would not comment on why his bill did not pass, but he noted the state had a “tough budget last year.” The bill died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, where fiscal matters are addressed. One estimate by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education said it would cost more than $800,000 a year to hire five new staff members to regulate all trucking schools, though registration fees paid by the schools could recoup roughly half of those costs. The Legislature is considering the bill again this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The trucking school ‘mill’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, appointed by President Donald Trump, has made cracking down on trucking schools a central piece of his agenda. He argues — with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/11/immigrant-drivers/\">only anecdotal evidence\u003c/a> — that many schools, especially those in California, are graduating immigrants who don’t speak English and who drive more dangerously than other truckers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Duffy said the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-cracks-down-illegal-providers-commercial\">had removed\u003c/a> nearly 3,000 trucking schools from its national registry for falsifying data, neglecting the federally required curriculum or refusing to provide certain records. The department also notified an additional 4,500 schools about “potential noncompliance,” though it did not respond to CalMatters questions about the specifics of those violations. Duffy has said repeatedly that some trucking schools are “mills,” helping students receive driver’s licenses even when they \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib2u4mDnH6E\">lack the qualifications\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/011526-Trucking-School-Modesto-LV-15-CM-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A semi-truck with a trailer reading “The Truck Master School” drives out the gated driveway of a parking lot to a trucking school with a giant banner on the gate.\">\u003cfigcaption>A truck drives out of the practice lot of The Truck Master School in Modesto on Jan. 15, 2026. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite Duffy’s efforts, institutions with repeated violations still appear on the national registry. The Fresno Truck Driving School Inc. was inspected six times in the last two years, with the U.S. Transportation Department repeatedly finding that the emergency brakes on its trucks weren’t properly operating. It also reported that the school had a driver who could not “read or speak the English language sufficiently to respond to official inquiries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re getting an inspection (from the federal government), that means something has gone terribly wrong,” said Zach Cahalan, the executive director of the Truck Safety Coalition, which advocates for truck safety and the victims of truck-related crashes. Still, he said trucks often are cited for multiple violations before the federal government tries to shut down the carrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transportation department proposed removing Premier Trucking School from its registry, and the school is now closed. DTS Technical, Inc. is still on the federal list. So is the Truck Nation School in Modesto, even though it’s been closed for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different school, the Truck Master School, took over the lease of Truck Nation, where Chavez used to practice. Truck Master charges just under $2,500, and like its predecessor, it’s exempt from state oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>About the data\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To estimate the number of trucking schools that are not regulated by California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, CalMatters cross-checked state and federal datasets. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration maintains the \u003ca href=\"https://tpr.fmcsa.dot.gov/Search\">Training Provider Registry\u003c/a>, which allows providers to self-certify they meet federal and state requirements. The registry also allows students to find commercial driver’s license training. But the department \u003ca href=\"https://tpr.fmcsa.dot.gov/Provider\">specifies\u003c/a> it does not “approve or certify” those providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to compile a comparable list of providers that may also be under the purview of the state bureau, CalMatters cleaned a list of 2,676 locations found in the federal database where providers conducted training in California as of Jan. 8, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters first filtered out providers registered as “private enrollment only” (such as employer-based training programs). We then manually filtered out providers whose names and online presence indicated they were likely one of the following and not primarily a commercial driver training school that charges tuition:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Public school district;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Community college;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Municipal, utility, state or federal agency;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Individual instructor;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chauffeur, logistics or similar company.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Because the federal database lists all locations separately, CalMatters consolidated branch locations of the same school based on name and contact information. We then matched schools to the state bureau’s list of approved private postsecondary educational institutions based on name, location and contact information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After compiling a comparable list, our analysis found at least 184 training providers listed on the federal registry that appear to be primarily operating as private trucking schools but were not approved by California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to operate as of Jan. 8, 2026. To confirm whether a school is still operating, we used recent reviews and online listings, though some listings may be outdated, or we contacted the school directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/CalMatters/data-trucking-schools\">\u003cem>See the list of schools\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2026/02/child-care-california-2/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All aspiring truckers are required to attend specialized driving schools, where they study a dense curriculum — learning what to do, for instance, in the event of a skid or when the trailer swings out uncontrollably from the cab. Only then can they take the necessary exams at the California Department of Motor Vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the federal government and the state of California have systems for regulating trucking schools, making sure that they adhere to the curriculum, that the tuition costs are fair and that students are ultimately prepared to get behind the wheel of a truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067538\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from inside Amarjit Singh’s truck in Livermore, on Dec. 16, 2025. Advocates are calling on California officials to halt the planned license revocations. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in California there is a loophole: Private trucking schools that charge students $2,500 or less don’t need state licenses, effectively exempting them from oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state has tried to discipline schools, some reduced their tuition to $2,500 or less, at which point they no longer needed to heed the state’s orders. Other schools just disregarded the state’s orders altogether, the analysis shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has “more limited” tools for pursuing disciplinary action against trucking schools once they claim an exemption, said Monica Vargas, a spokesperson for California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, which is in charge of monitoring most private trade schools. She said the bureau can fine schools for violations, but if they refuse to pay, the state has no additional leverage beyond sending the fine to a collections agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau told the Legislature in a report last year that it gave licenses to 42 trucking schools. The total number of trucking schools could be roughly three times that, the bureau said, and Vargas later clarified that “exact numbers could not be known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To determine a more accurate estimate of schools, CalMatters used a \u003ca href=\"https://tpr.fmcsa.dot.gov/\">federal database\u003c/a> that lists all trucking schools, regardless of their tuition rate. But it’s not clear how accurate or comprehensive that list is. The federal government asks schools to self-register, and it doesn’t “approve or certify” the information that schools provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using the federal list, CalMatters found at least 184 California trucking schools that are not regulated by the state, including at least nine schools the bureau has tried — and failed — to regulate or shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/100124-Floor-Session-FG-63-CM-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up view of a lawmaker wearing a black suit and red tie as he smiles and looks towards another person off-frame.\">\u003cfigcaption>Lawmaker Mike Fong before the start of an Assembly floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/mike-fong-165455\">Assemblymember Mike Fong\u003c/a>, an Alhambra Democrat, proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab714\">a bill\u003c/a> to close the state’s tuition loophole for trucking schools. In his testimony for the bill, Fong said increased regulation of exempt trucking schools could make California’s highways safer for everyone. He cited federal data showing \u003ca href=\"https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813588.pdf\">more than 400 people died\u003c/a> on California’s roads in truck-related crashes in 2022 but in an interview, he acknowledged that there’s “no data to directly correlate” any of those crashes with the volume of unlicensed schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exemptions to licensing laws were intended for companies offering SAT or LSAT test prep courses, Fong said in an interview — those that “do not affect public safety,” he added. “This bill is really to close a loophole in current law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Gold, the founder and CEO of 160 Driving Academy, a chain of trucking schools, was a leader behind the development of the bill. “Because I’m (bureau) certified, my curriculum is on file. I have a surety bond in the state of California. I can’t rip you off as a student. I have insurance. The state of California has approved and walked my site,” he said in an interview with CalMatters, noting that approval took 18 months. Gold said his commercial trucking programs charge $6,000 and require about four weeks or 160 hours of training, a far cry from unlicensed programs that tell students they can finish in as little as 15 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unsuspecting everyday drivers have no idea the 80,000 pound truck on the highway is operated by an individual who’s not properly trained,” said Gold during his testimony for the bill last year. The California Association of Highway Patrolmen, a labor union representing CHP officers, also spoke in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill failed, though no one publicly opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Fly-by-night’ schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the unlicensed trucking schools consist of just a parking lot, a few trucks that students can practice on and a room or two for self-study. Some trucking school owners call these unlicensed programs “fly-by-night” schools — because they are small and unlicensed they can open anywhere or suddenly close and change owners or names with little notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened with the Truck Nation School in Modesto. On Aug. 19, Ricardo Chavez, who was enrolled at the school, was headed there to prepare for his DMV exam, scheduled just two days later. He showed up to find the gates to the parking lot locked and a sign that simply said the school had shut down.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Since it charged $2,500 or less, the Truck Nation School was exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been horrible,” said Chavez, who was planning to work as an agricultural truck driver. Because it took him so long to get the license, he said he missed the window to work during the peak of harvest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repeated attempts to reach representatives of Truck Nation for comment were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas, the state spokesperson, said the bureau investigates an exempt school if someone files a complaint about it or if there’s an “internal tip.” Citations are rare. In the 2024-25 academic year, Vargas said the bureau issued citations to 15 unlicensed trucking schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How trucking schools avoid discipline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even when schools are licensed, state enforcement is limited. A 2024 CalMatters investigation found that state employees and contractors were referring students to Dolphin Trucking School, which received tuition subsidies through a federal job training program. While the Los Angeles school was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/08/job-training-california-for-profit-schools/\">pocketing thousands of dollars in subsidies \u003c/a>for many of its students, it was in the midst of a state investigation that included accusations of unqualified teachers and hazardous learning conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau stripped the school of its license in August 2024 following inquiries from CalMatters, but now the family that owned it is operating a new school, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtstechnicalcollege.com/\">“DTS Technical, Inc.,”\u003c/a> with the same office location. The logo even has a dolphin on it, a nod to its former name. On its website, DTS Technical, Inc. lists tuition at $2,500, plus a required $500 fee, for its comprehensive commercial driver’s license course and says that students can use public subsidies from the state’s Department of Rehabilitation to pay tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-30-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"From behind a driver and passenger seat, the driver's hand is on the vehicle's gear stick while another arm in a yellow safety jacket extends out to guide the gear stick.\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing black pants and a yellow sweater looks towards a yellow and black semi-trailer pulling a white cargo trailer.\">\u003c/figure>\u003cfigcaption>\u003cstrong>First:\u003c/strong> A Dolphin Trucking School instructor guides a student through a gear shift. \u003cstrong>Last: \u003c/strong>Orange cones divide the yard at Dolphin Trucking School in Vernon, where students practice driving trucks on March 11, 2024. Photos by Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person dressed in a green and orange safety vest stands next to the engine compartment of a semi-trailer while addressing students as they look-on.\">\u003cfigcaption>Students at Dolphin Trucking School listen attentively as their instructor reviews the truck’s engine parts in Vernon on March 11, 2024. Photo by Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carla Galvez, the owner of the now-closed Dolphin Trucking School, said she has no affiliation with DTS Technical, Inc. and refused to answer any questions on behalf of the family members who are listed as the owners of the new school. CalMatters called and emailed DTS, Technical Inc. but received no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another instance, the state issued a letter to El Monte Truck Driving School in the San Gabriel Valley in April 2021, telling it to cease operations for failing to document tuition costs and keep appropriate records, among other violations. The school kept operating anyway. More than three years later, the state issued another order to close and fined the school $100,000 for disregarding the previous order. The only way it can stay open and continue operating, the state wrote, is if it qualifies for an exemption, such as charging $2,500 or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is still operating as of this month and charges students $4,000, according to the school’s secretary, who spoke to CalMatters on the phone. She refused to answer other questions, such as whether the school qualifies for another exemption. Certain religious schools, nonprofit organizations and apprenticeship programs are exempt from state oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas, the state spokesperson, said El Monte Truck Driving School is making payments on a payment plan for the $100,000 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases federal officials have gone after trucking schools for criminal activity. In a series of cases dating back to 2011, the U.S. Attorney General’s Office prosecuted 20 trucking school owners, California DMV employees, and intermediaries who conspired to give trucking licenses to unqualified drivers, many of whom never took a DMV exam. In an announcement in 2022, the attorney general stated the school owners bribed DMV employees to help “failing or unqualified students” get their licenses. “In total, hundreds of fraudulent commercial driver license permits and licenses were issued as a part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/eastern-district-california-completes-prosecution-20-defendants-dmv-corruption-cases\">these schemes\u003c/a>, jeopardizing public safety,” the office wrote in its statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are schools properly training tomorrow’s truck drivers?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state exemptions and the lack of federal vetting mean there are few records on whether schools are adequately preparing drivers. Along with DMV exams, California state law says that trucking students need to spend \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-veh/division-6/chapter-7/article-5/section-15250-1/\">at least 15 hours\u003c/a> behind the wheel of a truck before they can receive a license. Since 2022, federal law also \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-III/subchapter-B/part-380#se49.5.380_1703\">requires\u003c/a> trucking schools to teach a specific curriculum that involves learning the parts of a truck and ways to operate it safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at some exempt schools interviewed by CalMatters said they struggled to get time behind the wheel and that they often had to teach themselves.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Aramis Andrews told CalMatters he paid more than $3,000 to attend Premier Trucking School in Red Bluff, which is unlicensed. Andrews said the instructor expected him to teach himself online before attending class, after which he was promised 20 hours of behind-the-wheel practice. But when he showed up to the school, the instructor was upset that Andrews wasn’t more prepared and kicked him out of the program on the second day. “He (the instructor) wanted me to go to the school and already know everything and just drive around some and make sure I was good at it,” Andrews said. “I feel like it was just a scam to be honest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe German, the school’s owner, said he kicked Andrews out because he “didn’t take the course seriously.” German said he gave Andrews a refund for the remainder of the program, which Andrews disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the bureau fined Premier Trucking School $12,500 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/settl_of_affir_cit_premier_trucking_school_20251229.pdf\">operating without a license\u003c/a> or a valid exemption. German said he paid the fine, though he denied any intentional wrongdoing. He said he was unaware of the bureau’s rules and that the full licensing process “would bankrupt us.” The bureau “is set up for universities or big, big schools,” he said, “not a school that’s one or two trucks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Gold, the CEO of 160 Driving Academy, the lack of regulation is the main reason for the poor training some students receive. “These schools do not have a comprehensive approved training curriculum and there’s no way they are compliant with the federal rules. Who knows the level of training they are conducting?” he said during his testimony for Fong’s bill last year. “The unsuspecting consumer has no idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fong said he would not comment on why his bill did not pass, but he noted the state had a “tough budget last year.” The bill died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, where fiscal matters are addressed. One estimate by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education said it would cost more than $800,000 a year to hire five new staff members to regulate all trucking schools, though registration fees paid by the schools could recoup roughly half of those costs. The Legislature is considering the bill again this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The trucking school ‘mill’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, appointed by President Donald Trump, has made cracking down on trucking schools a central piece of his agenda. He argues — with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/11/immigrant-drivers/\">only anecdotal evidence\u003c/a> — that many schools, especially those in California, are graduating immigrants who don’t speak English and who drive more dangerously than other truckers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Duffy said the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-cracks-down-illegal-providers-commercial\">had removed\u003c/a> nearly 3,000 trucking schools from its national registry for falsifying data, neglecting the federally required curriculum or refusing to provide certain records. The department also notified an additional 4,500 schools about “potential noncompliance,” though it did not respond to CalMatters questions about the specifics of those violations. Duffy has said repeatedly that some trucking schools are “mills,” helping students receive driver’s licenses even when they \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib2u4mDnH6E\">lack the qualifications\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/011526-Trucking-School-Modesto-LV-15-CM-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A semi-truck with a trailer reading “The Truck Master School” drives out the gated driveway of a parking lot to a trucking school with a giant banner on the gate.\">\u003cfigcaption>A truck drives out of the practice lot of The Truck Master School in Modesto on Jan. 15, 2026. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite Duffy’s efforts, institutions with repeated violations still appear on the national registry. The Fresno Truck Driving School Inc. was inspected six times in the last two years, with the U.S. Transportation Department repeatedly finding that the emergency brakes on its trucks weren’t properly operating. It also reported that the school had a driver who could not “read or speak the English language sufficiently to respond to official inquiries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re getting an inspection (from the federal government), that means something has gone terribly wrong,” said Zach Cahalan, the executive director of the Truck Safety Coalition, which advocates for truck safety and the victims of truck-related crashes. Still, he said trucks often are cited for multiple violations before the federal government tries to shut down the carrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transportation department proposed removing Premier Trucking School from its registry, and the school is now closed. DTS Technical, Inc. is still on the federal list. So is the Truck Nation School in Modesto, even though it’s been closed for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different school, the Truck Master School, took over the lease of Truck Nation, where Chavez used to practice. Truck Master charges just under $2,500, and like its predecessor, it’s exempt from state oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>About the data\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To estimate the number of trucking schools that are not regulated by California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, CalMatters cross-checked state and federal datasets. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration maintains the \u003ca href=\"https://tpr.fmcsa.dot.gov/Search\">Training Provider Registry\u003c/a>, which allows providers to self-certify they meet federal and state requirements. The registry also allows students to find commercial driver’s license training. But the department \u003ca href=\"https://tpr.fmcsa.dot.gov/Provider\">specifies\u003c/a> it does not “approve or certify” those providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to compile a comparable list of providers that may also be under the purview of the state bureau, CalMatters cleaned a list of 2,676 locations found in the federal database where providers conducted training in California as of Jan. 8, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters first filtered out providers registered as “private enrollment only” (such as employer-based training programs). We then manually filtered out providers whose names and online presence indicated they were likely one of the following and not primarily a commercial driver training school that charges tuition:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Public school district;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Community college;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Municipal, utility, state or federal agency;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Individual instructor;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chauffeur, logistics or similar company.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Because the federal database lists all locations separately, CalMatters consolidated branch locations of the same school based on name and contact information. We then matched schools to the state bureau’s list of approved private postsecondary educational institutions based on name, location and contact information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After compiling a comparable list, our analysis found at least 184 training providers listed on the federal registry that appear to be primarily operating as private trucking schools but were not approved by California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to operate as of Jan. 8, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning in Los Angeles, a young mother dropped off her 2-year-old and 4-year-old at a child care center located in a neighbor’s home. It was the 2-year-old’s birthday, so she also brought a treat for the staff and kids: a “Cars”-themed red velvet cake, the child’s favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she went off to her job as an office cleaner. The child care provider never saw her again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was picked up,” said the provider, Adriana, who asked to be identified only by her first name because although she is a legal resident of the U.S. she fears wrongful deportation. She also asked not to name the mother and children. “The kids were saying, ‘Where’s mommy? Where’s mommy?’ It was hard for us providers to explain. It was heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s sweeping crackdown on immigrants has taken a particularly high toll on the child care industry – both for families and providers. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/blog/nearly-half-a-million-early-childhood-educators-are-immigrants/\">almost 40%\u003c/a> of the workforce is foreign-born and more than a million parents — immigrant and otherwise — rely on child care providers so they can go to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Absenteeism and empty classrooms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several recent reports have found that since Trump beefed up immigration enforcement, child care centers have lost staff — immigrants who are afraid to come to work — as well as immigrant parents who are afraid to drop their children off for fear of being arrested and separated from their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/brief/immigration-policies-harm-ece/\">One study\u003c/a>, from the Center for Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley, found the effects to be wide-ranging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-011-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071645\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-011-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-011-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-011-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-011-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A daycare worker hugs a child in a play room at her child care facility in San José on Oct. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The administration’s policies targeting immigrant populations not only harm the immigrant (early childhood education) workforce, they also have the potential to destabilize the already-fragile ECE system that immigrant and nonimmigrant children, families, and ECE professionals rely on,” the authors wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of staff and revenue has \u003ca href=\"https://d1y8sb8igg2f8e.cloudfront.net/documents/ICE_and_Child_Care__Media_1-Pager.pdf\">affected all families\u003c/a>, not just immigrants, because it means the already-tight child care market has shrunk even further, according to New America, a left-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aggressive immigration enforcement has already caused closures, empty classrooms, and absenteeism in day care centers in some communities,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/immigrant-workers-childcare-crisis/\">according to a report \u003c/a>by the American Immigration Council, a research and advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Bigger than we can imagine’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California is home to about 1.7 million babies and toddlers, the vast majority of whom spend at least some time in child care while their parents work. Some are enrolled in licensed day care centers, some have nannies, and others have informal arrangements with neighbors or family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tightening of the child care industry has been an extra burden on families who are already juggling the demands of work and home life. Child care is \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-child-care-crisis-high-unmet-need-and-regional-disparities/\">expensive and hard to find\u003c/a> in California — the immigration crackdown has made it even harder.[aside postID=news_12070762 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-01_qed.jpg']“The impact, especially on women, is bigger than we can imagine,” said Patricia Lozano, executive director of Early Edge California, which advocates for early childhood education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s the children who might suffer the most, she said. Not only are some missing their regular child care providers, but those with immigrant parents may be experiencing stress at home and a disruption of their routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids benefit from going to child care. That’s a healthy, safe place for them to be,” Lozano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lozano’s group encourages immigrant families to make a plan for their children in case a parent is arrested, and inform the child care provider. The group also reminds child care providers they shouldn’t allow immigration enforcement officers into a child care center unless the agents have a signed judicial warrant. Early Edge California and other groups have published a website, \u003ca href=\"https://allinforhealth.org/safe-schools/\">All in for Safe Schools\u003c/a>, that offers guidance to schools and child care centers on how to help immigrant families and LGBTQ students. In addition, the Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 30,000 chid care providers in California, also provides resources for immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Know your rights, have a plan, be prepared,” Lozano said. “And talk to your kids about it in a way they can understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Locked doors, pulled shades\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, where 34% of the population is foreign-born, the immigration crackdown has had a noticeable effect on families and child care providers, even though the county has not seen significant immigration enforcement compared to other regions, said Kym Johnson, chief executive officer of BANANAS, a nonprofit child care referral and family resource service in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some child care providers are avoiding public places, such as parks and playgrounds, while some immigrant families have dropped out of playgroups or kept their children home from day care when immigration agents are spotted in the neighborhood, Johnson said.[aside postID=news_12069711 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SFCHILDCARESUBSIDIES00057_TV-KQED.jpg']At one playgroup in East Oakland, organizers started locking the door and closing the blinds to make families feel safe. At another playgroup, located at a library, staff helped families create safety plans in case immigration agents arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bananas used to hold monthly diaper give-aways in a parking lot that would regularly attract 200 families. Fewer people started showing up after Trump took office, Johnson said, so now the group holds the giveaways several times a month, attracting smaller crowds, and moved the event indoors, so families can’t be seen from the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been trying to stay under the radar when they can,” Johnson said. “We do what we can to help people, because so many of these families don’t have a voice. And the kiddos especially don’t have a voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’re targeting everyone’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Adriana, the child care provider in Los Angeles, has been in the child care business for 23 years. She tends to a dozen or so children in her home and is also raising her own four children. The day of the 2-year-old’s “Cars”-themed birthday, Adriana called the children’s grandmother after the mother didn’t arrive to pick them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alarmed, the grandmother tried unsuccessfully to reach the children’s mother and then brought the children to her house. Eventually the family learned what happened: Both the children’s parents plus their uncle were arrested and deported to Colombia. After a few weeks, the grandmother and children moved to Colombia, as well, so the family could be united.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Adriana started bringing her passport everywhere she went. She also started locking both gates at her house, not opening the front door unless she knows who’s ringing the bell, and working with parents — even those with legal status — to create back-up plans in case they’re arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here legally, but they’re targeting everyone,” she said. “I’m just scared. What if my kids are in school and I can’t call? I try not to let it affect me, but it’s always in the back of my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She often feels frustrated and helpless, but tries to create a safe, welcoming environment for the children in her care so they can focus on having fun — and find some relief from the anxiety they may be feeling at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sad. (Immigration agents) are targeting hard-working people, not criminals,” she said. “People who are just trying to make ends meet for their families. But my job is to take care of children. So we try not to put that fear onto the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2026/02/child-care-california-2/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At one playgroup in East Oakland, organizers started locking the door and closing the blinds to make families feel safe. At another playgroup, located at a library, staff helped families create safety plans in case immigration agents arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bananas used to hold monthly diaper give-aways in a parking lot that would regularly attract 200 families. Fewer people started showing up after Trump took office, Johnson said, so now the group holds the giveaways several times a month, attracting smaller crowds, and moved the event indoors, so families can’t be seen from the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been trying to stay under the radar when they can,” Johnson said. “We do what we can to help people, because so many of these families don’t have a voice. And the kiddos especially don’t have a voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’re targeting everyone’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Adriana, the child care provider in Los Angeles, has been in the child care business for 23 years. She tends to a dozen or so children in her home and is also raising her own four children. The day of the 2-year-old’s “Cars”-themed birthday, Adriana called the children’s grandmother after the mother didn’t arrive to pick them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alarmed, the grandmother tried unsuccessfully to reach the children’s mother and then brought the children to her house. Eventually the family learned what happened: Both the children’s parents plus their uncle were arrested and deported to Colombia. After a few weeks, the grandmother and children moved to Colombia, as well, so the family could be united.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Adriana started bringing her passport everywhere she went. She also started locking both gates at her house, not opening the front door unless she knows who’s ringing the bell, and working with parents — even those with legal status — to create back-up plans in case they’re arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here legally, but they’re targeting everyone,” she said. “I’m just scared. What if my kids are in school and I can’t call? I try not to let it affect me, but it’s always in the back of my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She often feels frustrated and helpless, but tries to create a safe, welcoming environment for the children in her care so they can focus on having fun — and find some relief from the anxiety they may be feeling at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sad. (Immigration agents) are targeting hard-working people, not criminals,” she said. “People who are just trying to make ends meet for their families. But my job is to take care of children. So we try not to put that fear onto the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2026/02/child-care-california-2/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The soaring cost of child care has recently led states like New Mexico to offer universal child care and cities like New York and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069711/san-francisco-expands-child-care-subsidies-to-tackle-affordability-issues\">San Francisco to expand\u003c/a> free and low-cost child care to income-eligible families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could it be done in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two papers published Friday, researchers say, in short: Yes. The state could build upon \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/california-funding-trends-for-early-care-education-programs/\">its ongoing investments in child care\u003c/a> and work toward universal care for infants and toddlers, aged three and under.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost could reach up to $21 billion per year to subsidize all families, but it would generate as much as $23 billion in economic output — essentially paying for itself — by allowing mothers of young children to rejoin the workforce, according to an analysis by the \u003ca href=\"https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/economics-market-early-childhood-care-and-education-california#15\">Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not considering the many other benefits that accrue to the children themselves, to families and to society from having a robust, high-quality, well-functioning early childhood care and education market,” said Chloe Gibbs, a policy fellow at the institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.childcareaware.org/price-landscape24/\">Child care prices went up 29%\u003c/a> across the country from 2020 to 2024, according to Child Care Aware of America, a national network of child care resource and referral agencies. The prices outpaced overall inflation as increased demand for care collided with a worsening shortage of child care workers, \u003ca href=\"https://kpmg.com/us/en/articles/2025/october-2025-the-great-exit.html\">according to the business firm KPMG\u003c/a>, which noted that women with young children are increasingly working part-time, missing work or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061802/how-are-child-care-costs-affecting-the-lives-of-bay-area-families-you-told-us\">leaving the labor force entirely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251008-CHILDCARE-DISCRIMINATION-MD-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251008-CHILDCARE-DISCRIMINATION-MD-05_qed.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251008-CHILDCARE-DISCRIMINATION-MD-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251008-CHILDCARE-DISCRIMINATION-MD-05_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child care business owner holds one of the younger children attending her home daycare in Manteca on Oct. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Affordability concerns are front and center for American households, and that also means there is a political and policy window of opportunity to take strides,” said Neale Mahoney, an economics professor and director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economists call child care an example of a market failure because the cost of providing care exceeds what families can afford to pay, resulting in an imbalance between supply and demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care for infants and toddlers is harder to come by and costs the most because babies require constant attention. Providers must maintain a low caregiver-to-child ratio, which limits capacity, but have a hard time retaining workers. Policy experts say subsidies can help close the gap between what parents can afford and what it actually costs to provide high-quality care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Stanford economists estimate that California could subsidize infant and toddler care for low- and middle-income earners at a cost of between $4 billion to $8 billion per year, or between $12 billion to $21 billion to scale the subsidies to all families.[aside postID=news_12069711 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SFCHILDCARESUBSIDIES00057_TV-KQED.jpg']A universal “zero to three” child care program could allow more than 100,000 mothers of young children to join the workforce, they said. Stanford coordinated the publication of its policy brief with another by researchers at the University of California that outlines ways to build up the child care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpip.uci.edu/files/briefs/zero-to-three.pdf\">paper by two early childhood policy experts\u003c/a> at UC Irvine and UC Berkeley lays out more than a dozen suggestions to build a child care system that works for families and child providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include consolidating more than a dozen funding streams for child care and simplifying eligibility rules to make it easier for child care providers to enroll families; making Head Start centers eligible for state funding so they can serve more children; cutting fees and easing zoning restrictions to get child care facilities up and running faster; and setting up a comprehensive online portal where families can find the kind of child care they need and providers can respond to market demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We don’t have anybody that’s looking out across California [for child care needs] the way we look at where we should build schools or where we should put bus stops or post offices,” said Jade Jenkins, a professor at UC Irvine’s School of Education. “If we provide families information in this online marketplace to make finding child care as easy as it would be to register for yoga … we could meet families where they are at and draw providers in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said modernizing child care information is one of several low-cost fixes the state can undertake to prepare for expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas called California’s cost of living “the single biggest threat to our future” and set up a select committee to focus on child care costs. He said now that California has fully expanded transitional kindergarten, also known as TK, to offer a free year of schooling for all 4-year-olds, it’s time for the legislature to focus on helping families afford child care for the youngest kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071645\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-011-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-011-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-011-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-011-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A day care worker hugs a child in a playroom at her child care facility in San José on Oct. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The committee held three hearings last year but has yet to propose any solution. At a hearing held in Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article312533574.html\">only one of 13 members of the committee showed up\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the most recent hearing in December, Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, who co-chairs the committee, told KQED that more time is needed to investigate which model of child care expansion works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been working on this ever since I came [to the legislature] in 2016, and I can see that we’ve got more work to do, but we got to do it right, and we just can’t be slapstick,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the quick buildout of TK led to \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/early-childhood-education-pre-k/transitional-kindergarten-public-preschool-affluent-income-report\">unintended consequences\u003c/a>, including the closure of private or nonprofit-based preschools that lost their 4-year-old students to publicly-funded schools and struggled to pivot to serving younger kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8658266/dc85b370721c\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" style=\"overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguiar-Curry said New Mexico could offer universal child care because it has a smaller population and can draw on oil and gas profits to fund the initiative. 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Some school sites where allegations of discrimination were made must also hold educational assemblies and OUSD will be required to plan ongoing professional development that ensures education doesn’t have discriminatory bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacks said that she believes the decision doesn’t go far enough and plans to ask the state to require OUSD to revisit its own investigation and look into complaints it didn’t previously investigate fully. 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