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Presidio Middle School transitioned to the seven-period schedule in 2022, and allows students to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/presidio-middle-school/departments/electives#:~:text=Presidio%2022%2D23%20Electives,%2C%20Dance%2C%20Music%2C%20Computers)\">choose\u003c/a> four quarter-long arts, computer science, language, health or other advanced courses throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district, returning to a standard six-period day will prioritize core classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new schedule would cut 56 classroom teaching positions, and another eight in health. That course material would be folded into other classes, like physical education or science, according to the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security aide roles across campuses would also be cut in half, as well as 18 assistant principal jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliminating transportation for 2,500 non-special education students would save another $5 million. Marrero said the current funding serves students in neighborhoods with historically lower average test scores who attend schools further from their homes. 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That course material would be folded into other classes, like physical education or science, according to the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security aide roles across campuses would also be cut in half, as well as 18 assistant principal jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliminating transportation for 2,500 non-special education students would save another $5 million. Marrero said the current funding serves students in neighborhoods with historically lower average test scores who attend schools further from their homes. Cutting that service could create an additional barrier for some to go to a school of their choice, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039959 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meredith Willa Dodson speaks during a rally to reopen San Francisco Unified Schools at City Hall in San Francisco on March 13, 2021, on the first anniversary of school buildings being closed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another $14.6 million could come from central office personnel and service reductions, an area that the teachers’ union has long said keeps funds away from students. The district made significant reductions by restructuring the office last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that [the district] needs to make cuts, but we don’t yet understand, are these really the best cuts for our students or is there some other way?” said Meredith Dodson, who runs the advocacy group SF Parents. She said families want to know what other cuts were considered and how the ones identified in the fiscal stabilization plan were determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just looking for that information from the district to understand that that level of analysis was done [to determine] that these are the solutions that bring the minimal amount of harm to kids. I just don’t see it yet,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in the fall of 2027, the district is also suggesting savings of more than $3 million thanks to a “consolidation of [its] educational program portfolio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, SFUSD leadership has begun to discuss reconsidering school closures, after a controversial plan to shutter 11 schools was shelved last fall. Su took over in the wake of the closure crisis, and has prioritized the district’s budget before addressing its footprint, but she said last month that after the fiscal stabilization plan is complete this year, it would be time to take back up the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12064757 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, K-5 students, and their families at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy 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>SFUSD, like many districts in the state, faces declining enrollment, and campuses across the city have hundreds of empty seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While shuttering schools alone won’t save the district significant amounts of money, the district has said that having fewer schools could allow for more robust staffing and make room for more specialized programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodson said showing families those potential benefits will be key to garnering community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a parent to be told that their school is going to be closed, and to be okay with it, I think they would have to believe that there’s better education on the other side of that for their kid,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reductions planned so far are still about $30 million shy of what the district will need to cut to avoid deficit spending. 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"content": "\u003cp>After months of unresolved contract negotiations, San Francisco educators overwhelmingly passed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065524/san-francisco-teachers-take-key-step-toward-strike\">strike authorization vote Wednesday\u003c/a>, the first of two needed to approve a work stoppage across the city’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a five-hour vote at Balboa High School on Wednesday, 99.3% of United Educators of San Francisco members who cast their ballots chose to give the union’s bargaining team permission to call a strike vote at any time as they continue to work with the San Francisco Unified School District and third-party mediators to reach a contract deal for this year and next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the union does call and pass a strike vote, the district’s more than 6,000 educators could launch their first teacher strike in nearly 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our members come out for this vote … it gives us direction where we should be headed next. And it should be a very clear sign that our members are on the same page,” UESF President Cassondra Curiel said, ahead of Wednesday’s vote. “As a union, we have to do what our members say, and that’s what’s happening. They’re saying continue to push, and so we have to move forward with this escalation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators are currently working under a contract that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has asked for a 9% raise for teachers and 14% raise for non-certificated staff over two years. They also asked for up to 100% health care benefit coverage and a new special education staffing model, among other demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12025666 size-full\" 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>“Our members feel very, very strongly … and are willing to move toward collective action if necessary,” Nathalie Hrizi, who is coordinating UESF’s bargaining, said of Wednesday’s results. “There is willingness to strike over these issues if we have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders say months of bargaining that began in March have been fruitless: In October, UESF and SFUSD declared an impasse and entered a mediation process after the union rejected a proposal from the district that offered educators a 2% wage hike if they agreed to concede on many of their other demands — including the increased health care benefit contributions and special education staffing model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders said the pay increase would have meant discontinuing other previous contract stipulations, like a sabbatical program for veteran teachers and extra preparation periods for advanced placement teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel said that the union moved to end mediation after getting the impression that the district didn’t plan to make any additional offers in the weeks after their mediation session. Now, they’ll move to the final bargaining step before a strike, an independent fact-finding process conducted by a third-party panel. After a hearing later this month, the group will issue non-binding recommendations for a compromise deal.[aside postID=news_12065732 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-04-KQED.jpg']SFUSD has said it remains committed to reaching an agreement with the union, but is currently under stringent fiscal oversight by the state and in the second year of a two-year budget stabilization plan requiring hundreds of millions in ongoing expense reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the district made major personnel and service reductions to cut $114 million from its budget, and according to early recommendations \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sfusd-schools-budget-cuts/\">obtained by \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the district could present plans later this month to cut another $113 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson Laura Dudnick noted that in 2023, SFUSD awarded historic $9,000 raises to all UESF members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the state of California holds the authority to override any decision by the San Francisco Board of Education if it believes that decision could compromise the district’s financial stability,” Dudnick said in a statement. “We are facing another round of major budget cuts for the 2026-27 school year, and difficult decisions are ahead. Balancing the budget is a core step toward exiting state oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension echoes labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065732/west-contra-costa-teachers-are-set-to-strike-across-the-bay-area-more-could-follow\">negotiations in districts across the Bay Area\u003c/a>, where educators say their wages have fallen behind the cost of living and school districts have passed rising health care costs along to them, cutting deeper into their earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065383\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/240508-Berkeley-High-File-MD-02_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/240508-Berkeley-High-File-MD-02_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/240508-Berkeley-High-File-MD-02_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/240508-Berkeley-High-File-MD-02_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley High School in Berkeley on May 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065732/west-contra-costa-teachers-are-set-to-strike-across-the-bay-area-more-could-follow\">West Contra Costa County Unified School District’s teachers\u003c/a> launched their first-ever labor strike Thursday, and Berkeley Unified School District’s union declared an impasse in negotiations with their district last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel said come January, San Francisco teachers with more than one dependent could have to put $1,550 per pay cycle toward health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s result authorizes the union bargaining team to call for a strike vote at any time, though they can’t legally go on strike until the fact-finding panel issues its report in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the district and union receive the panel’s recommendations, the district will be able to make a final contract offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, we hope district management is really looking at where they’re at in negotiations and preparing to bring us things that could be a potential agreement,” Hrizi said. “No one wants to strike, but we are willing to [in order] to win the necessary things we’re fighting for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-teachers\">San Francisco teachers\u003c/a> and the public school district are at an impasse after 8 months of contract negotiations have garnered very little movement toward an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties on Thursday jointly requested that the California Public Employment Relations Board officially declare a deadlock and appoint a mediator to intervene in their bargaining process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move is an escalation toward a strike from United Educators of San Francisco, and comes after the union flatly rejected the San Francisco Unified School District’s contract proposal that would have given educators a 2% raise on Monday. The union said the deal would have required more cuts and concessions than benefits for its members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when we started really being concerned about the state of negotiations,” said Nathalie Hrizi, who is coordinating UESF’s bargaining. “We really felt we were so far apart in terms of our highest priorities that we had to declare an impasse, and the district declared jointly with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands\">Contract negotiations\u003c/a> have been ongoing since March, and UESF’s existing contract expired June 30. It remains in place for the most part as the parties work to finalize a new contract for the next two years, according to Hrizi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022799\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathalie Hrizi, vice president of substitutes for United Educators of SF and public teacher, poses for a photo outside of City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout negotiations, the biggest sticking points for the union have been: an agreement that the district will cover healthcare for educators’ dependents; development of a workload model aimed at improving working conditions for special education teachers; pay increases for certificated and classified positions; and a few “low-to-no-cost” demands, including reaffirming the district’s sanctuary status and committing to use district resources to provide shelter for the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF’s initial proposal for the pay increase in March was 14% for classified employees and 9% for certificated employees over two years. UESF president Cassondra Curiel said that in the months since, there’s been no back-and-forth negotiations bringing that percentage down. The district had not proposed any raise until the 2% offer, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have at each turn either delayed, rejected or dismissed our conversations at the bargaining table in such a way that it has made it impossible for the two of us parties to have a constructive conversation about the realities of the finances and the realities of the needs of our members,” Curiel said.[aside postID=news_12051862 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg']Hrizi said the union was “ready and willing” to move on a number of its demands, but that the district’s proposal would have required them to drop many of their demands to gain the small raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD proposed the salary hike in exchange for undoing existing agreements that give high school teachers who take on extra work — as department heads or teachers of Advanced Placement courses that enroll a certain number of students — an additional “prep” period. Stipends that are awarded to schools based on the number of AP exams their students take would also be cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the deal would have ended a program that allows educators to apply for semester-to-year-long sabbaticals after serving in the district for a minimum number of years and increased class sizes on some campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we saw was a 2% raise created by cuts and a denial of some of the things that are most important to our students,” Hrizi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2023-10-20-sfusd-uesf-announce-9000-salary-raise-teachers-2023-24\">granted teachers a historic $9,000 raise\u003c/a> in 2023, and an additional 5% salary increase the following year. The same deal gave classified educators a significant bump, to a minimum wage of $30 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\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>Hrizi said those raises have been integral to hiring and retaining teachers, and “at the time, the district had the financial wherewithal to fund that package.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that times are different now — SFUSD is in the midst of a multi-year budget crisis, and received a negative budget certification in spring of 2024 for the first time in recent memory. It \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">made $113 million\u003c/a> in cuts last year, including 100 layoffs of central office staffers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">early retirement buyouts\u003c/a> of about 350 other employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district implemented a stricter staffing model this year that leaves many schools’ former supplemental positions, like educators on special assignment or class-size-reducing teachers, vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the 2026-2027 year, SFUSD said it will have to make further budget reductions. It remains under a negative budget status.\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 Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“SFUSD is committed to a budget process that prioritizes decisions benefiting students while ensuring long-term financial stability,” district spokesperson Laura Dudnick said in a statement. “The [California Department of Education] continues to closely monitor our finances, and we must address deficit spending to meet our obligations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any raises the district does give teachers, she said, would need CDE approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not coming back saying we need to do what you did two years ago,” Hrizi told KQED. “We’re saying, given the current context, here are things that we think would make a big difference in the lives of educators and students and that are pretty doable and we’re happy to negotiate about them.[aside postID=news_12052399 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-12-BL_qed-1.jpg']“And we have not had a partner in those negotiations,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next Tuesday, the union is prepared to rally outside the district’s school board meeting, where it will deliver a petition signed by more than 75% of UESF’s 6,000 members declaring that they are willing to strike if necessary to “win a fair contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Declaring an impasse is a step in that direction, but the district and union will go through a mediation and, if necessary, another third-party-led “fact-finding” period to try to reach an agreement first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they are unable to find common ground at the end of that process, the district will have a chance to provide a “best and final” offer, and the union will legally be able to initiate a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want an agreement,” Curiel said. “UESF members do not want to strike. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hrizi said the union was “ready and willing” to move on a number of its demands, but that the district’s proposal would have required them to drop many of their demands to gain the small raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD proposed the salary hike in exchange for undoing existing agreements that give high school teachers who take on extra work — as department heads or teachers of Advanced Placement courses that enroll a certain number of students — an additional “prep” period. Stipends that are awarded to schools based on the number of AP exams their students take would also be cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the deal would have ended a program that allows educators to apply for semester-to-year-long sabbaticals after serving in the district for a minimum number of years and increased class sizes on some campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we saw was a 2% raise created by cuts and a denial of some of the things that are most important to our students,” Hrizi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2023-10-20-sfusd-uesf-announce-9000-salary-raise-teachers-2023-24\">granted teachers a historic $9,000 raise\u003c/a> in 2023, and an additional 5% salary increase the following year. The same deal gave classified educators a significant bump, to a minimum wage of $30 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\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>Hrizi said those raises have been integral to hiring and retaining teachers, and “at the time, the district had the financial wherewithal to fund that package.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that times are different now — SFUSD is in the midst of a multi-year budget crisis, and received a negative budget certification in spring of 2024 for the first time in recent memory. 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"content": "\u003cp>Class is back in session for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a>, and the new school year promises lots of change for the nearly 50,000 students and thousands more staffers headed back to campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008405/these-san-francisco-schools-could-close-list-isnt-final\">list of closing schools\u003c/a> is no longer looming overhead, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">leadership feels more stable \u003c/a>without the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005932/sf-mayor-sends-team-to-address-crisis-at-school-district-but-dont-call-it-a-takeover\">flurry of major city elections\u003c/a>, SFUSD is teed up for plenty of changes and growing pains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we’re watching heading into the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Slimmed down staffing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To close a record-high budget deficit projected for the 2025–26 school year, SFUSD last spring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">laid off 109 members of its staff\u003c/a> and offered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">early retirement packages\u003c/a> to another 345 who agreed to leave their positions in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s school board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028317/sf-schools-brace-hundreds-layoffs-including-teachers-librarians-counselors\">approved much higher layoff projections\u003c/a> in March, totalling more than 500 across school sites and the district’s administrative office, but was able to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040756/sfusd-reverses-over-150-layoffs-but-hiring-teachers-may-still-be-an-uphill-battle\"> rescind most preliminary pink slips\u003c/a> thanks to high participation in the voluntary buyout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\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>Even though the final layoff numbers ended up being relatively low, especially for student-facing positions, campuses are going to have noticeably fewer staff members this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district eliminated 400 positions in schools and across its administration, shifting many educators working in specialized roles, like curriculum development or reading support, into classroom positions vacated by buyout recipients.[aside postID=news_12044768 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-07-BL_qed.jpg']Schools will operate this fall according to a new bare-bones staffing model, which guarantees a principal, classroom teachers, a clerk and custodial staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other professionals, however, who families have grown accustomed to having around — like additional teachers who help keep class sizes small, or support English language learners — will only work in schools that have discretionary budgets available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD has publicly shared a supplementary staffing guide explaining how those roles could be filled, but how much funding individual schools have, and what they’re using it for, will start coming into view in the first few weeks of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also remains to be seen how many classes will start the year without a permanent teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district did not provide data on how many teacher vacancies it had on Friday, but in May, principals indicated that they were falling behind in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040756/sfusd-reverses-over-150-layoffs-but-hiring-teachers-may-still-be-an-uphill-battle\">trying to fill the positions\u003c/a> of those retiring or leaving the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Curriculum changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district is also introducing some pretty significant curriculum changes — both planned and unplanned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, kindergarten through eighth-grade math classes will begin using new lesson plans focused on problem-based learning and real-world applications. Both Imagine Learning and Amplify Desmos Math lessons were piloted in some SFUSD elementary and middle schools, respectively, last year.\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 new curriculum will cost the district a total of $11.6 million — to fund new textbooks, digital licenses and professional development over the next five years in elementary grades and one year in middle school classes, according to SFUSD’s adoption \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/DEYNRV60952B/%24file/K-8%20Math%20Curriculum%20Adoption%20-%20Mar.%202025.pdf\">documents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the district has been working toward acquiring new math materials for multiple years, it also decided to make a last-minute change to another course curriculum: ninth-grade ethnic studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After parents and a \u003ca href=\"https://defendinged.org/map/\">national education organization\u003c/a> with a record of efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250521190020/https:/www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/14/metro/right-leaning-nonprofit-increasingly-targets-massachusetts-teaching-gender-race-sex-education/\">curtail education\u003c/a> about gender, race and sexual orientation in public schools expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046122/sfusd-was-a-pioneer-in-ethnic-studies-now-the-program-could-be-put-on-pause\">concerns with SFUSD’s longstanding Ethnic Studies curriculum\u003c/a>, Superintendent Maria Su decided to swap it out for a more regulated curriculum used by other districts across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told school leaders and families in June that SFUSD would\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046580/sf-school-district-wont-cancel-ethnic-studies-but-pauses-its-homegrown-curriculum\"> pause instruction of its homegrown curriculum\u003c/a>, developed by educators over more than 15 years, to audit course materials. Throughout the 2025–26 school year, she said the district will work on a more regulated internal curriculum to bring to the school board for approval ahead of fall 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Payroll problems persist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As teachers returned to classrooms last week, some dealt with what has become a fairly typical point of tension in recent years: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051862/sf-teachers-are-yet-again-having-payroll-issues-just-after-launch-of-costly-new-system\">getting paid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two years and more than $30 million trying to make a payroll system operated by EMPower work, the district ditched it last year, shelling out even more money to purchase new software from companies Frontline and Red Rover to manage paychecks and employee benefits.[aside postID=news_12051862 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg']That program launched in July, but in its first few weeks, some educators are already experiencing familiar issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Educators of San Francisco said some of its members’ dues haven’t been properly deducted from their summer paychecks, while other employees have reported being paid at the wrong rate or missing money for clocked vacation and sick days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said that kinks are expected, and some of the issues are byproducts of the EMPower system, since a lot of data had to be transferred over from that software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin Trujillo, SFUSD’s head of staff, assured board members last week that, unlike issues that arose in EMPower, he’s confident the district can identify and fix the root causes quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Declining enrollment and … a new school?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many of the problems SFUSD has been dealing with for years — long-term enrollment decline, funding shortfalls and teacher retention — persist, Su looks to be betting on new programs to draw in more students and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD saw an uptick in interest for this fall, thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031802/san-francisco-public-schools-see-surge-applications-thanks-transitional-kindergarten-demand\">expanding transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> offerings. Total applications were up 10%, led by families looking to enroll their 4-year-olds in district schools.\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>While Su and San Francisco’s Board of Education President Phil Kim have both left the door open to the possibility of school closures in the coming years, Su said in the spring that she’s most interested in transforming SFUSD sites for more TK classes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044978/sfusd-pays-millions-for-special-ed-this-change-could-save-money-and-help-families\">expanded special education \u003c/a>offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such site might also become the home of a new kindergarten through eighth-grade \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048313/san-francisco-unified-plans-new-mandarin-immersion-school-amid-charter-push\">Mandarin immersion school\u003c/a> announced in July.[aside postID=news_12048313 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanFranciscoK8SchoolGetty.jpg']Su previously said the move follows years of growing interest in a new dual language program. Currently, SFUSD only has 66 seats across two kindergarten Mandarin immersion programs, more than half of which are reserved for Mandarin speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the announcement this summer also came as support grew for a parent-led effort to launch a charter school offering a similar program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, leaders of the proposed Dragon Gate Academy, also a K–8 Mandarin immersion school, submitted a petition to the city’s school board asking for a charter to open next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, district staff urged the board to reject the proposal, citing educational and legal issues, and saying SFUSD “is not positioned to absorb the financial impact of the charter school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts have been generally wary of new charters, which can hurt their enrollment and siphon their per-pupil funding. The board will vote on the proposal Aug. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Schools will operate this fall according to a new bare-bones staffing model, which guarantees a principal, classroom teachers, a clerk and custodial staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other professionals, however, who families have grown accustomed to having around — like additional teachers who help keep class sizes small, or support English language learners — will only work in schools that have discretionary budgets available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD has publicly shared a supplementary staffing guide explaining how those roles could be filled, but how much funding individual schools have, and what they’re using it for, will start coming into view in the first few weeks of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also remains to be seen how many classes will start the year without a permanent teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district did not provide data on how many teacher vacancies it had on Friday, but in May, principals indicated that they were falling behind in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040756/sfusd-reverses-over-150-layoffs-but-hiring-teachers-may-still-be-an-uphill-battle\">trying to fill the positions\u003c/a> of those retiring or leaving the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Curriculum changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district is also introducing some pretty significant curriculum changes — both planned and unplanned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, kindergarten through eighth-grade math classes will begin using new lesson plans focused on problem-based learning and real-world applications. Both Imagine Learning and Amplify Desmos Math lessons were piloted in some SFUSD elementary and middle schools, respectively, last year.\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 new curriculum will cost the district a total of $11.6 million — to fund new textbooks, digital licenses and professional development over the next five years in elementary grades and one year in middle school classes, according to SFUSD’s adoption \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/DEYNRV60952B/%24file/K-8%20Math%20Curriculum%20Adoption%20-%20Mar.%202025.pdf\">documents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the district has been working toward acquiring new math materials for multiple years, it also decided to make a last-minute change to another course curriculum: ninth-grade ethnic studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After parents and a \u003ca href=\"https://defendinged.org/map/\">national education organization\u003c/a> with a record of efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250521190020/https:/www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/14/metro/right-leaning-nonprofit-increasingly-targets-massachusetts-teaching-gender-race-sex-education/\">curtail education\u003c/a> about gender, race and sexual orientation in public schools expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046122/sfusd-was-a-pioneer-in-ethnic-studies-now-the-program-could-be-put-on-pause\">concerns with SFUSD’s longstanding Ethnic Studies curriculum\u003c/a>, Superintendent Maria Su decided to swap it out for a more regulated curriculum used by other districts across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told school leaders and families in June that SFUSD would\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046580/sf-school-district-wont-cancel-ethnic-studies-but-pauses-its-homegrown-curriculum\"> pause instruction of its homegrown curriculum\u003c/a>, developed by educators over more than 15 years, to audit course materials. Throughout the 2025–26 school year, she said the district will work on a more regulated internal curriculum to bring to the school board for approval ahead of fall 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Payroll problems persist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As teachers returned to classrooms last week, some dealt with what has become a fairly typical point of tension in recent years: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051862/sf-teachers-are-yet-again-having-payroll-issues-just-after-launch-of-costly-new-system\">getting paid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two years and more than $30 million trying to make a payroll system operated by EMPower work, the district ditched it last year, shelling out even more money to purchase new software from companies Frontline and Red Rover to manage paychecks and employee benefits.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That program launched in July, but in its first few weeks, some educators are already experiencing familiar issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Educators of San Francisco said some of its members’ dues haven’t been properly deducted from their summer paychecks, while other employees have reported being paid at the wrong rate or missing money for clocked vacation and sick days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said that kinks are expected, and some of the issues are byproducts of the EMPower system, since a lot of data had to be transferred over from that software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin Trujillo, SFUSD’s head of staff, assured board members last week that, unlike issues that arose in EMPower, he’s confident the district can identify and fix the root causes quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Declining enrollment and … a new school?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many of the problems SFUSD has been dealing with for years — long-term enrollment decline, funding shortfalls and teacher retention — persist, Su looks to be betting on new programs to draw in more students and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD saw an uptick in interest for this fall, thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031802/san-francisco-public-schools-see-surge-applications-thanks-transitional-kindergarten-demand\">expanding transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> offerings. Total applications were up 10%, led by families looking to enroll their 4-year-olds in district schools.\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>While Su and San Francisco’s Board of Education President Phil Kim have both left the door open to the possibility of school closures in the coming years, Su said in the spring that she’s most interested in transforming SFUSD sites for more TK classes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044978/sfusd-pays-millions-for-special-ed-this-change-could-save-money-and-help-families\">expanded special education \u003c/a>offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such site might also become the home of a new kindergarten through eighth-grade \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048313/san-francisco-unified-plans-new-mandarin-immersion-school-amid-charter-push\">Mandarin immersion school\u003c/a> announced in July.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 100 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> public school employees haven’t been properly paid for their summer work, union leaders said as teachers return to their classrooms this week, just over a month after the district rolled out a replacement for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908196/sfusd-teachers-protest-missed-paychecks-and-payroll-glitches-at-headquarters-overnight\">faulty payroll system\u003c/a> at a cost of tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the teachers’ union’s state labor complaint filed Monday against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a>, some members’ paychecks were delayed or missing, their hours were miscalculated or their union dues went undeducted in the first six weeks since the new system launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As they processed the first couple of checks for maybe a couple hundred employees who had worked over summer, many of the same excuses started to emerge, which was, ‘We didn’t account for these unique circumstances,’ and all of a sudden, people were not receiving their full pay,” said Frank Lara, the executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payroll has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922273/as-new-school-year-begins-some-s-f-teachers-still-havent-been-paid-what-theyre-owed-sfusd\">a thorn in the district’s side\u003c/a> since 2022, when it implemented the costly EMPower system that left some employees with incorrect paychecks, and others without pay at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over two years, the district tried to resolve issues with the buggy software, spending more than $30 million and ultimately angering thousands of educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, Lara estimated that at least 3,000 of the union’s members had issues getting paid through EMPower and filed more than 10,000 issue tickets with district staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Lara, executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, the district rolled out a new system, operated by Frontline and Red Rover, that Superintendent Maria Su assured the school board and district employees would operate more smoothly and reliably. That software cost the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">cash-strapped district\u003c/a> $20 million more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After careful deliberation with our teams, I am pleased to announce that we will be able to proceed with the transition to Frontline as scheduled on July 1,” Su told reporters in June. “And we’ve done all the due diligence to make sure we are going to be able to do it and not have the hiccups of last time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since July, Lara said about 150 of the union’s 500 or so members who worked over the summer have had payroll issues.[aside postID=news_12048313 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanFranciscoK8SchoolGetty.jpg']Some teachers who worked at district-sponsored enrichment programs over the summer didn’t receive pay at all; others never had union dues deducted from their paychecks like they were supposed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other employees were paid at the incorrect rate or had their paychecks delayed for weeks, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that going into the implementation of Frontline, there were going to be challenges. … with the implementation of any software and program, especially built on top of a system that we know struggled and did not work for our school district,” said Phil Kim, the president of San Francisco’s Board of Education. “The question I think that I’ve been posing to staff and making sure that the superintendent prioritizes is: ‘How fast are we able to resolve these issues?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the union has been especially disappointed by how the district is handling the problems, Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we raised the alarm, we were shocked at how dismissive the staff was in terms of the very real concerns,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a problem arises, everybody starts blaming each other. When we talk to the executive director of payroll … they go, ‘That’s probably an HR thing or a labor relations thing.’ So then we go over to the executive director of HR, and they’re like, ‘We raised these concerns a year ago and they didn’t include that into the system,’” he said. “Then who’s managing the system?”\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>Last week, the union sent a cease and desist letter to district leaders, including Su and Kim, detailing the issues employees had been dealing with since July, and informing the district it would file a state labor complaint if the issues were not resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, UESF sent that complaint to California’s Public Employment Relations Board, writing that after spending a year preparing for the transition to Frontline, “the system cannot actually do the things we need it to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UESF’s expectation is that SFUSD is paying all of our members exactly what they are owed exactly when it is owed, that our member’s benefits are fully and completely available … without delay,” the unfair-practice charge reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the district said it is working quickly to resolve any issues that arise and has created a website for employees with information and a way to report payroll concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As teachers return to their classrooms on Tuesday before the first day of school next week, union leaders plan to rally outside the district’s office, urging officials to resolve the issues quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really concerned now that 6,000 of our members are coming back, especially substitute teachers, that this is going to be a problem,” Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More than 100 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> public school employees haven’t been properly paid for their summer work, union leaders said as teachers return to their classrooms this week, just over a month after the district rolled out a replacement for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908196/sfusd-teachers-protest-missed-paychecks-and-payroll-glitches-at-headquarters-overnight\">faulty payroll system\u003c/a> at a cost of tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the teachers’ union’s state labor complaint filed Monday against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a>, some members’ paychecks were delayed or missing, their hours were miscalculated or their union dues went undeducted in the first six weeks since the new system launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As they processed the first couple of checks for maybe a couple hundred employees who had worked over summer, many of the same excuses started to emerge, which was, ‘We didn’t account for these unique circumstances,’ and all of a sudden, people were not receiving their full pay,” said Frank Lara, the executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payroll has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922273/as-new-school-year-begins-some-s-f-teachers-still-havent-been-paid-what-theyre-owed-sfusd\">a thorn in the district’s side\u003c/a> since 2022, when it implemented the costly EMPower system that left some employees with incorrect paychecks, and others without pay at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over two years, the district tried to resolve issues with the buggy software, spending more than $30 million and ultimately angering thousands of educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, Lara estimated that at least 3,000 of the union’s members had issues getting paid through EMPower and filed more than 10,000 issue tickets with district staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Lara, executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, the district rolled out a new system, operated by Frontline and Red Rover, that Superintendent Maria Su assured the school board and district employees would operate more smoothly and reliably. That software cost the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">cash-strapped district\u003c/a> $20 million more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After careful deliberation with our teams, I am pleased to announce that we will be able to proceed with the transition to Frontline as scheduled on July 1,” Su told reporters in June. “And we’ve done all the due diligence to make sure we are going to be able to do it and not have the hiccups of last time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since July, Lara said about 150 of the union’s 500 or so members who worked over the summer have had payroll issues.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some teachers who worked at district-sponsored enrichment programs over the summer didn’t receive pay at all; others never had union dues deducted from their paychecks like they were supposed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other employees were paid at the incorrect rate or had their paychecks delayed for weeks, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that going into the implementation of Frontline, there were going to be challenges. … with the implementation of any software and program, especially built on top of a system that we know struggled and did not work for our school district,” said Phil Kim, the president of San Francisco’s Board of Education. “The question I think that I’ve been posing to staff and making sure that the superintendent prioritizes is: ‘How fast are we able to resolve these issues?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the union has been especially disappointed by how the district is handling the problems, Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we raised the alarm, we were shocked at how dismissive the staff was in terms of the very real concerns,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a problem arises, everybody starts blaming each other. When we talk to the executive director of payroll … they go, ‘That’s probably an HR thing or a labor relations thing.’ So then we go over to the executive director of HR, and they’re like, ‘We raised these concerns a year ago and they didn’t include that into the system,’” he said. “Then who’s managing the system?”\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>Last week, the union sent a cease and desist letter to district leaders, including Su and Kim, detailing the issues employees had been dealing with since July, and informing the district it would file a state labor complaint if the issues were not resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, UESF sent that complaint to California’s Public Employment Relations Board, writing that after spending a year preparing for the transition to Frontline, “the system cannot actually do the things we need it to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UESF’s expectation is that SFUSD is paying all of our members exactly what they are owed exactly when it is owed, that our member’s benefits are fully and completely available … without delay,” the unfair-practice charge reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the district said it is working quickly to resolve any issues that arise and has created a website for employees with information and a way to report payroll concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As teachers return to their classrooms on Tuesday before the first day of school next week, union leaders plan to rally outside the district’s office, urging officials to resolve the issues quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really concerned now that 6,000 of our members are coming back, especially substitute teachers, that this is going to be a problem,” Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But on Friday afternoon, the district announced that it would pull back pink slips that had been approved for 34 school counselors and 117 paraeducators, who provide instructional support to teachers, leaving just nine remaining notices going out to school-site staffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials said they were able to cut the number down significantly through collaboration with the county and state boards of education, along with a successful early retirement buyout offer to educators. About 100 staffers in SFUSD’s administrative central office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036914/more-sfusd-layoffs-to-target-central-office-bringing-budget-gap-closer-to-zero\">were also laid off\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Lara, the vice president of SFUSD’s teachers union, called the announcement a victory and commended the district for its work to balance the budget, but he emphasized that there is still work to be done. 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And then we’ll be asking for money to be paid because it is a lot of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD said it plans to first offer open roles to internal candidates who were laid off from the central office or are on temporary contracts, then open hiring to others, which could extend the hiring timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klafter said her union is pushing to open hiring to all as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re quite late in the hiring season to have this many open positions,” Klafter told KQED. “Other districts around us are done hiring teachers in May, and we’re just beginning our opening hiring. That makes school leaders nervous because we have to assume first, are we going to get enough candidates for these positions? And then second, are these going to be the best candidates out there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volume of open positions at this point in the school year has some principals worried, according to Anna Klafter, the president of the district’s administrators union and principal at Independence High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every school has open positions, she said, and a principal at one of the westside high schools is looking to fill about 30 open roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School is over in two and a half weeks,” she said, adding that principals aren’t paid to work throughout all of summer break. “Principals will be forced to work over the summer to staff their schools because the alternative is not working and not having staff in your schools, and that’s just not OK. And then we’ll be asking for money to be paid because it is a lot of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD said it plans to first offer open roles to internal candidates who were laid off from the central office or are on temporary contracts, then open hiring to others, which could extend the hiring timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klafter said her union is pushing to open hiring to all as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re quite late in the hiring season to have this many open positions,” Klafter told KQED. “Other districts around us are done hiring teachers in May, and we’re just beginning our opening hiring. That makes school leaders nervous because we have to assume first, are we going to get enough candidates for these positions? And then second, are these going to be the best candidates out there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco’s schools\u003c/a> superintendent said a plan to cut hundreds of positions in the district’s central office, while preserving classroom teacher roles, will bring the district within $10 million of bridging a hundred-million-dollar deficit by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top administrative staffers will be included in the second round of employee cuts that Superintendent Maria Su is set to present to the Board of Education on Tuesday. In addition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031347/san-francisco-schools-may-cut-staff-face-backlash-over-new-hiring-limits\">counselor and paraeducator layoffs\u003c/a> announced earlier, Su said the reduction of 205 administrative roles is necessary to ensure that every classroom in the district has a certificated teacher next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be no layoffs to our teachers because we value and know how important it is to have a teacher in every single classroom,” Su told reporters on Monday. “But of course, this does mean that we still need to move forward with certain other positions. We will be laying off central office staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 staffers in the central office will be laid off, and 30 more roles will be eliminated after employees took the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">early retirement buyout\u003c/a> earlier this year. Su said the district plans to promote internal employees to fill some of the roles left vacant by high-level retirements. The remaining 75 positions affected by the cuts are currently vacant and will not be filled. The district said the plan will save it $34 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents and union leaders have long called for cuts to what they say is a “bloated” and dysfunctional central office and accused the district of spending too much money on positions that don’t serve students. Su, who has led the district for six months, said that in the past, about 25% of district spending went toward the administrative arm.\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 cuts will reduce that to 16%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are taking a thoughtful, multi-pronged approach, balancing the budget carefully while doing everything we can to minimize the impact on students and our staff,” Su said. “Everything we do is guided by our belief that every dollar should support student success and that strong systems create the foundation for thriving schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Lara, the vice president of the union representing SFUSD teachers, told KQED that the union is optimistic about her proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it’s about time that a superintendent took the matter seriously and is making the level of cuts that [she is] presenting to the board,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lara, past central office cuts have overwhelmingly affected lower-level staff and union members, while Su’s plan consolidates more upper-management roles.[aside postID=news_12031802 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED.jpg']“We can see that it’s actually coming out of where it should,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Su has repeatedly said no classroom teachers will be laid off as part of the significant spending reduction, she noted that all 114 teachers currently on special assignments — usually district veterans who focus on specialized small group instruction, reading intervention, or other targeted services for struggling students — have been asked to return to the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those special positions will be eliminated, or at least remain vacant until the district fills 92% of its base staffing needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su’s plan for the central office also includes a new executive office structure meant to eliminate some of the “silos” she noticed between departments after taking over the superintendency last fall. Her plan shrinks her executive staff from eight to four positions and merges other high-ranking roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two top business and operations positions will be combined, and four positions heading educational services for different grade levels will be merged into two. 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Human resources and early education will also lose more than a dozen roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the district works to make $114 million in budget reductions, it is also shelling out nearly $30 million over four years to implement a new payroll system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though not ideal, Su said it’s a necessary expense after the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908196/sfusd-teachers-protest-missed-paychecks-and-payroll-glitches-at-headquarters-overnight-sfusd\">tried and failed\u003c/a> to implement a new system in 2022 and 2023, which left employees with missing or incorrect paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That cannot happen under my watch. It will not happen,” Su said. “It is unconscionable that it did happen, and we cannot allow that to be the case moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fiasco \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfusd-payroll-scandal-empower-teacher-pay-18698224.php\">cost the district $34 million\u003c/a> and a lot of trust from staff and families. Last March, the district committed to pivoting to Frontline, a payroll system used by more than 60% of districts across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does take us a lot of money to stabilize the current system,” Su said. “However, when we do pivot to the new Frontline system, I believe that the amount will significantly reduce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is on track to present a balanced budget by the state’s deadline at the end of June, Su said, but the process will continue to require “lots of difficult decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFUSD is committed to ending our habit of deficit spending and avoiding future state oversight,” Su said Monday. “We have been living on a credit card and this cycle is not acceptable. Our students deserve better. Our staff deserves better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco families anxiously awaiting the list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">schools that are set to close or merge\u003c/a> will have to wait until next month to find out after the district pushed back its announcement on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay comes as parent groups and the union representing San Francisco Unified School District teachers continue to put pressure on school officials to provide some certainty. Families had been expecting to begin getting answers this week about which campuses would shutter after the 2024–25 school year as part of the district’s “resource alignment campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know there’s a lot of anticipation and emotions around our recommendation and how SFUSD will support the affected communities, but it is essential that we carefully review everything before making the announcement,” Superintendent Matt Wayne said in a statement postponing the release of the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district had previously said the list of schools recommended for closure would come on Wednesday. The Board of Education is expected to vote on the list of schools in December and close the campuses at the end of the academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne did not specify a new date for the list but said that it would be released next month and that the rest of the expected timeline has not changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glen McCoy, a grandparent of two San Francisco Unified School District students, speaks during a press conference held by the United Educators of San Francisco outside of the district offices in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The decision comes after weeks of pushback from the teachers’ union and parents groups, including United Educators of San Francisco and Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Closing schools in San Francisco will not save money,” Cassondra Curiel, the president of United Educators, said at a press conference on Monday that was planned before the delay was announced. “There are no costs to be saved. This does not close the deficit. What it has done is cost us a lot of stress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said that the goal of closing schools is not to save money but to “improve the experience for students and teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By aligning the number of schools we operate with our current enrollment, SFUSD can manage resources more effectively and ensure every school is fully enrolled and well-supported,” Wayne said in his statement, adding that the closures have the potential to decrease operating costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parent Havah Kelley speaks during a press conference held by the United Educators of San Francisco outside the San Francisco Unified School District offices on Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Curiel said the district should not discuss closures until it stabilizes other priorities. The district is facing a staffing shortage and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000784/sf-teachers-students-face-uncertain-future-as-budget-crisis-threatens-closures\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>, which has already led to increased state oversight and poses a risk of takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Marrero, the executive director of Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco, said that many parents still don’t feel like they have enough information about what the transition will be like if their school is slated to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a plan that actually details what that transitional life is like,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other school communities where school would not close will be impacted, generations of families would be impacted, their immediate community would be impacted — businesses, nonprofits — so it’s a big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12000784 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/010_KQED_SFUSDSchoolBus_03022023-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne said he decided to move the announcement to ensure that the district is looking at “every angle” of the district’s operations that will be affected, including after-school care, transportation and grant funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure we get this right,” he said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978035/sfusd-considers-school-closures-and-mergers-amid-declining-enrollment\">first announced in March\u003c/a> that it would close, merge and co-locate a number of schools after this academic year. The closures will be SFUSD’s first in 20 years, spurred by consistent enrollment declines since 1999 that have left about 14,000 empty seats across campuses. More than 4,000 students have left the district since the 2017–18 school year, and SFUSD could lose 4,600 more by 2032, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne said that leaders of the initiative are working to ensure that the district’s fiscal analysis is strong, that a transition plan and support systems are in place, and that equity audits conducted are integrated into the recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The waiting game is unfair, and parents need stability,” Roberto Hernandez, a parent of a Mission High School 11th-grader, said during the teachers’ union press conference on Monday. “School is supposed to be a safe space for learning, yet the emotional safety of our children is at risk. Not knowing if your school is going to be closed creates anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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