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The district confirmed it plans to complete any school closures or mergers two years later, by fall 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Unified School District board put both initiatives at the top of Su’s list when it made her the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064366/sf-school-board-set-to-make-maria-su-the-permanent-superintendent-for-city-schools\">permanent superintendent\u003c/a> last fall, and neither is expected to be a light lift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fall 2024, a botched plan to close or merge more than a dozen schools led to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">resignation of former Superintendent Matt Wayne\u003c/a> — and Su’s appointment as his replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While school closures are almost always contested and emotional for families, Wayne’s proposal was criticized for lacking transparency and engagement, and for disproportionately affecting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008873/san-francisco-school-closures-will-hurt-chinese-immigrant-communities-city-leaders-say\">Chinese and immigrant students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/014_KQED_SFUSDSchoolBus_03022023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/014_KQED_SFUSDSchoolBus_03022023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/014_KQED_SFUSDSchoolBus_03022023_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/014_KQED_SFUSDSchoolBus_03022023_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/014_KQED_SFUSDSchoolBus_03022023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/014_KQED_SFUSDSchoolBus_03022023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/014_KQED_SFUSDSchoolBus_03022023_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A school bus is parked outside of Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8, part of the San Francisco Unified School District, in San Francisco on March 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Replacing the SFUSD lottery will likely be far more popular. Families, the teacher’s union and the school board have long supported overhauling the system, known for long waitlists for the most desirable schools, instability and confusion for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district started looking to scrap the system in 2018 and proposed a geographical zone-based replacement in 2020, but that was put on ice during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall, it seemed like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064746/sf-school-board-could-put-school-closures-back-on-the-table\">two initiatives\u003c/a> might move forward in tandem — and more quickly.[aside postID=news_12081587 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260428-VallejoChildCare-23-BL.jpg']The school board discussed a draft resolution that would have required Su to bring proposals for school closures and mergers, as well as a geography-based assignment system, by next fall’s enrollment fair, to go into effect by the 2027-2028 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Su said the district was “taking the time to get it right,” calling the steps part of a multiyear plan to build a “stronger future for our students” and make the district “stable and sustainable for the long term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have to be honest about how quickly we can complete this work given our limited resources,” she wrote in the message to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su’s plan would set a deadline for her to bring the school board a new student assignment proposal by the end of April 2027, to be implemented in the fall of 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear whether that will be some version of the geography-based zone plan the board previously discussed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some board members had raised concerns about whether that plan would be able to balance key goals like proximity, diversity and predictability in school assignments, and whether the zones could be drawn to ensure all have access to language immersion and special education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mission Education Center, a bilingual elementary school in the San Francisco Unified School District, in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meredith Dodson, who leads the SF Parent Coalition, said some version of the geography-based plan could “check off all the boxes” that the group has heard parents request, including “some predictability of identifying a school, getting assigned to a school within a certain proximity from where they live, and then having some aspect of choice and options within that proximity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she hopes the district’s outreach to the community over the next year will also extend to local families who decided not to send their children to SFUSD schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of this is probably the focus on: How do we drive enrollment back up? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The school board discussed a draft resolution that would have required Su to bring proposals for school closures and mergers, as well as a geography-based assignment system, by next fall’s enrollment fair, to go into effect by the 2027-2028 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Su said the district was “taking the time to get it right,” calling the steps part of a multiyear plan to build a “stronger future for our students” and make the district “stable and sustainable for the long term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have to be honest about how quickly we can complete this work given our limited resources,” she wrote in the message to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su’s plan would set a deadline for her to bring the school board a new student assignment proposal by the end of April 2027, to be implemented in the fall of 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear whether that will be some version of the geography-based zone plan the board previously discussed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some board members had raised concerns about whether that plan would be able to balance key goals like proximity, diversity and predictability in school assignments, and whether the zones could be drawn to ensure all have access to language immersion and special education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mission Education Center, a bilingual elementary school in the San Francisco Unified School District, in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meredith Dodson, who leads the SF Parent Coalition, said some version of the geography-based plan could “check off all the boxes” that the group has heard parents request, including “some predictability of identifying a school, getting assigned to a school within a certain proximity from where they live, and then having some aspect of choice and options within that proximity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she hopes the district’s outreach to the community over the next year will also extend to local families who decided not to send their children to SFUSD schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of this is probably the focus on: How do we drive enrollment back up? How do we make sure all families see SFUSD as the best option for their kids?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other major point that is likely to spark debate is equity, especially if the new enrollment system assigns students to schools based on neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, board member Alida Fisher pointed out that community advisory committees raised concerns that the geographical zone plan would disadvantage children in the southeast part of the city, where schools faced years of underinvestment, ailing facilities and less robust staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is likely to run into similar concerns as it takes up school closures the following year.\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>In 2024, the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008714/parents-sf-schools-named-for-closure-fight-keep-campuses-open\">looked to merge or close schools\u003c/a> based on a scoring system that looked at enrollment, academic performance, school culture, use of resources and equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Marrero, who heads the nonprofit Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco, said that many of the factors overlap — schools with fewer resources might then have lower enrollment, since parents might choose to send their students to a school with more special programs or academic options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear how the district will approach deciding which schools it could merge or close, but Su said in her message that her “priority is to make informed decisions that center the needs of our students, and support our staff and families along the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district confirmed it plans to complete that process during the 2028-29 academic year, which would be after Su’s current contract, through summer 2028. SFUSD would implement any closures and mergers in the fall of 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marrero said that in both the enrollment and school closure processes, the district will need to build trust with families to succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can outreach, and you can have ad hoc groups with the [school] board and all this stuff, but if you don’t have the trust, you don’t have the credibility,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco arrive for their first day of the school year on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She suggested that the district could rely on community-based organizations it partners with across its school sites — many of which host its after-school programs and offer supplemental enrichment for students — to lead the engagement process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they give the power to the community leaders, then they will be able to do a whole lot more with parents and families than they’re doing now,” she said. “We’ve had a lot of false starts in SFUSD over the years, and that has been our biggest downfall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su is expected to introduce her plans for the assignment system and school closures at the Board of Education’s May 12 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After years of controversy over course content, San Francisco’s public school district approved a new, permanent ethnic studies curriculum on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pushback over ethnic studies isn’t over, as the vote renewed calls to review the district’s two-semester course mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long considered a pioneer in the subject matter, the San Francisco Unified School District has offered its homegrown curriculum for high schoolers since 2010 — first as an elective, and beginning in 2024, as a graduation requirement taught to all ninth graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, after some parents and a national education group raised concerns about some of its lesson plans, SFUSD briefly considered pausing the requirement, and later opted to set aside its own curriculum in favor of piloting \u003cem>Voices: An Ethnic Studies Survey. \u003c/em>The program, which is now nearing the end of its yearlong trial run, is also in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/departments/curriculum-instruction/2025-2026-ethnic-studies-plan/voices-ethnic-studies-survey\">use\u003c/a> in other California school districts, like San Leandro, as well as nationally, according to SFUSD’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision came after Parents Defending Education, a group which has opposed lessons about racism, social justice, sexual orientation and gender identity, obtained and published excerpts from a trove of SFUSD ethnic studies teachers’ lesson plans, curriculum and miscellaneous documents — including one activity that asked students to role-play as Israeli soldiers putting Palestinians into refugee camps and another slide deck comparing the civil rights movements to the Red Guards, an often-violent youth movement supporting Mao Zedong during China’s cultural revolution in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents said the course was biased and “activist-driven.” Ethnic studies teachers KQED spoke with at the time said they had never seen the documents or taught those lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, Superintendent Maria Su said that throughout this school year, the district would both audit its own curriculum and pilot \u003cem>Voices\u003c/em>, making a decision ahead of the 2027-28 academic year for how to move forward.\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>During Wednesday night’s meeting, assistant superintendent of curriculum Devin Krugman said that the audit of SFUSD’s course, conducted by nonprofit group WestEd, found that it “partially” met expectations and required improvement in terms of coherence and connecting explicitly to the state’s model ethnic studies curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on those audit findings, we, SFUSD, decided not to move the SFUSD ethnic studies curriculum forward to evaluation,” Krugman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said that, meanwhile, it conducted a thorough review of \u003cem>Voices\u003c/em> throughout this academic year through parent, student and teacher surveys, interviews and focus groups and classroom observations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The overall feedback was very strong standards alignment,” Krugman said.[aside postID=news_12080441 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-37_qed.jpg']But critics say the curriculum selection process for ethnic studies should have been more akin to that for history and social science — which includes reviews of more than a dozen textbooks for different grade levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ask you not to rubber-stamp the one thing we considered. These students deserve better,” parent Sara Hall said during the meeting’s public comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.friendsoflowell.org/ethnic-studies\">Friends of Lowell Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that played a central role in the debate over merit-based admissions at Lowell High School, also raised procedural concerns, sending a demand letter to the district asking it to postpone the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its website, it notes the lack of other curriculum for comparison, and said the way that SFUSD agendized the vote — folded into the same agenda item as other history and social science materials — lacked transparency. The board’s agenda does not explicitly mention that it would include approving the ethnic studies course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand letter also calls on SFUSD to make the full curriculum publicly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Supryia Ray, who voted against adopting \u003cem>Voices\u003c/em> as a pilot last July and again Wednesday night, said she hadn’t been able to access the full curriculum prior to the vote. Board Vice President Jaime Huling said that there was a physical copy of the textbook at SFUSD’s headquarters, and the materials were accessible to the general public through a two-week free trial. She said she’d also requested a full digital copy from the publisher prior to last year’s vote on the pilot, and was granted access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to procedural issues, Ray also voiced concerns about the curriculum’s content, calling it “politicized.” The board member also questioned whether its roots in “liberated ethnic studies,” which focuses on power and oppression, could impair students’ critical thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072896\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marion, 10, glues a project 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>“I wonder how many kids will dare to disagree with the \u003cem>Voices\u003c/em> framing that they’re given,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cited reporting by the \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/27/sfusd-ethnic-studies-curriculum-review/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that said multiple parents who’d been part of the committee that evaluated the curriculum this spring felt that their opposition wasn’t heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the overwhelming majority of students, parents and educators who spoke during the meeting supported the curriculum adoption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students spoke about their experiences in the course, making them feel heard, and board member Matt Alexander noted studies showing that the course has improved academic outcomes for students.[aside postID=news_12054363 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg']“It’s great to see that the district and the board said … ‘We’re not going to make an ideological issue out of this, we’re actually going to look at the data,’” he said, during the meeting. “I want to thank you for in a difficult and challenging context to not fall prey to the drama and to stay focused on the basics. And ethnic studies is the basics. San Francisco should be really proud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program was approved, along with the new history and social science courses for elementary and high schools. The district said in its review of curriculum options for the middle school level, it did not identify any programs that surpassed the performance of its current one, but would continue to review newly released instructional materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the board approval could mark the end of debate over ethnic studies curriculum in SFUSD, looming questions remain about the course’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, Ray called for the board to agendize a discussion of the district’s current two-semester ethnic studies mandate, which was made a graduation requirement in 2021. A few parents who spoke during the meeting called for the course requirement to be lessened to one semester, and Ray said commissioners had received “hundreds” of emails to the same effect in the days prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, California passed a one-semester ethnic studies requirement for high schoolers beginning with the class of 2030, but it’s now been stalled without funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the board members seemed supportive of the current yearlong requirement, and only Commissioner Parag Gupta said he would support a conversation about the two-semester mandate, but was not sure now was the right time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the history and ethnic studies curriculum changes are set to take effect next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco public schools\u003c/a> will introduce new history and social studies materials in elementary and high school classrooms for the first time in more than 20 years next fall, under a curriculum overhaul set to be approved this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s school board is also set to permanently shelve its pioneering ethnic studies curriculum in favor of an off-the-shelf alternative after the homegrown course was put on pause \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054363/ethnic-studies-debate-follows-students-into-san-francisco-classrooms\">following controversy\u003c/a> last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Maria Su said the new history and social studies materials will replace sorely outdated textbooks, in which George W. 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SFUSD plans to continue using its middle school course materials, though they will be refurbished to reflect the current day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote comes four years after SFUSD began a process in which central office educators reviewed available curriculum programs and an 80-person team of school site educators and community members evaluated the top selections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last two school years, 40 elementary school classrooms and 35 high school classrooms have piloted the top options, which the district has recommended for adoption. The overhaul is expected to cost the district about $7.3 million for the next five years of physical and digital course materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the middle school level, SFUSD said none of the programs that were evaluated surpassed the performance of the current program, TCI’s \u003cem>History Alive\u003c/em>. The district said it will continue to use \u003cem>History Alive\u003c/em> while continuing to review newly released instructional materials.[aside postID=news_12054363 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg']The social science curriculum changes follow similar program overhauls for English language arts and mathematics. In 2024, SFUSD adopted a new language arts core curriculum for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, and in the fall, it rolled out a new math curriculum for kindergarten through eighth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am proud to follow through on our promise to provide a world-class education for every student — this is about making sure that we are setting our students up for success today and into the future,” Su said in a statement announcing the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board will also vote on standardized ninth-grade ethnic studies course materials, after the district’s homegrown curriculum, developed by educators over the last 15 years, caused controversy last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD has been lauded as a leader in ethnic studies throughout the state, first introducing the course as an elective in 2010 and making it a yearlong requirement for ninth graders in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046122/sfusd-was-a-pioneer-in-ethnic-studies-now-the-program-could-be-put-on-pause\">improved graduation outcomes\u003c/a> for students who took the course, and the district’s success was cited by state lawmakers when they enacted a mandate for California public schools to require a semester of ethnic studies in 2021. That policy was set to take effect last year, but it hasn’t been implemented due to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/09/ethnic-studies-california/#:~:text=California%20passed%20the%20ethnic%20studies,such%20as%20Hmong%20or%20Armenian.\">budget constraints\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s course came under scrutiny last year following multiple reports from the national group Parents Defending Education, which has opposed lessons about racism, social justice, sexual orientation and gender identity. 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In 2024, SFUSD adopted a new language arts core curriculum for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, and in the fall, it rolled out a new math curriculum for kindergarten through eighth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am proud to follow through on our promise to provide a world-class education for every student — this is about making sure that we are setting our students up for success today and into the future,” Su said in a statement announcing the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board will also vote on standardized ninth-grade ethnic studies course materials, after the district’s homegrown curriculum, developed by educators over the last 15 years, caused controversy last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD has been lauded as a leader in ethnic studies throughout the state, first introducing the course as an elective in 2010 and making it a yearlong requirement for ninth graders in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046122/sfusd-was-a-pioneer-in-ethnic-studies-now-the-program-could-be-put-on-pause\">improved graduation outcomes\u003c/a> for students who took the course, and the district’s success was cited by state lawmakers when they enacted a mandate for California public schools to require a semester of ethnic studies in 2021. That policy was set to take effect last year, but it hasn’t been implemented due to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/09/ethnic-studies-california/#:~:text=California%20passed%20the%20ethnic%20studies,such%20as%20Hmong%20or%20Armenian.\">budget constraints\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s course came under scrutiny last year following multiple reports from the national group Parents Defending Education, which has opposed lessons about racism, social justice, sexual orientation and gender identity. The group \u003ca href=\"https://defendinged.org/incidents/san-francisco-unified-school-district-has-ninth-grade-ethnic-studies-curriculum-that-teaches-gender-is-fluid-lesson-on-white-supremacy-proposes-creating-a-country-for-black-people-in-the-southern-sta/\">obtained a trove of SFUSD ethnic studies teachers’ lesson plans\u003c/a>, curriculum and miscellaneous documents through public records requests, and accused the course of being “activist-driven” and biased.\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>Media coverage cited one in-class activity that asked students to role-play as Israeli soldiers putting Palestinians into refugee camps, and a slide deck that compared civil rights and other social movements to the Red Guards, an often-violent youth movement supporting Mao Zedong during China’s cultural revolution in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethnic studies teachers at the time told KQED they had never seen the documents or taught those lessons, but the curriculum was put aside by Su and replaced with an off-the-shelf option used in other districts across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall, SFUSD piloted \u003ca href=\"https://gibbssmitheducation.com/diversity-studies/voices\">\u003cem>Voices: An Ethnic Studies Survey\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>by Gibbs Smith Education, which it’s now recommending as the permanent curriculum. The district said the \u003cem>Voices\u003c/em> curriculum was the only one reviewed by an evaluation committee, which included 16 ethnic studies teachers and 15 other district educators, plus a handful of community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said it’s been well-received thus far, which is why she’s choosing to recommend it for permanent use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board is set to vote on the curriculum changes on April 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/affordability\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>How We Get By\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a KQED series exploring how people are coping with rising costs in the Bay Area and California. Find the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/affordability\">\u003cem>full series here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Ms. Hernandez’s son began to ask her where he would attend high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His curiosity brought forward a bigger question looming in her mind: Was their family going to be able to stay in San Francisco at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry, baby, but I don’t know,” she told her middle-schooler. “I don’t know if we’re going to continue to be living in the city; things are going to be too expensive here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> paraeducator and her husband had lived in the Bay Area for two decades, mostly in the city. For the last 10 years, they’d shared a two-bedroom apartment in the Outer Mission, paying about $3,000 a month in rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building was aging, the family was growing tired of struggles with their landlord, and they wanted to be in a neighborhood that felt safer. For years, though, finding another apartment in their price range seemed impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point we even wondered if we wanted to stay here or move even across the country,” Hernandez, who asked to be identified by only her last name because of ongoing litigation with a previous landlord, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple affordable housing applications had gotten her no further than long waiting lists and only a few calls back to apply. Then, in May, MidPen Housing called to say her family had been selected for a unit in a new affordable housing development that gives priority to school district staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079592 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_016_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_016_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_016_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_016_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Chisholm Village, an affordable housing development that gives priority to San Francisco Unified School District educators, on April 12, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I was dreaming,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez remembers picking her son up from school after they got the keys, ordering pizza and bringing him to the building near Ocean Beach as a surprise. “This is going to be your new house,” she told him, hopeful that he’d attend high school in their new neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new, five-story apartment building, nestled between the Sunset District’s signature two-story single-family homes and a burgeoning number of neighborhood restaurants, bookstores and coffee shops, is now home to more than 100 SFUSD employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.midpen-housing.org/shirley-chisholm-village/\">Shirley Chisholm Village development\u003c/a> sprang from a partnership between the school district and the city’s affordable housing program that was announced in 2015. It’s part of a growing number of teacher housing projects cropping up throughout the Bay Area as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/affordability\">cost of living in the region continues to climb\u003c/a>, often outpacing the salaries of essential education workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Sarah Karlinsky, the director of research and policy at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, the trend follows many universities and public sector employers, who have provided housing options for decades — both because of sky-high costs and a shortage of units in urban areas.[aside postID=news_12075761 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260401-AFFORDABILITYCHILDCARE00263_TV-KQED.jpg']“Many of us are familiar with this idea of the ‘company town,’” she said. “When there’s a large-scale employer and they want to make sure they can attract talent and workers … they need to ensure their workers have housing. Even if you think about building the railroads, large infrastructure projects involve thinking about where workers might live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, even companies in higher-paying sectors like tech have sought to help house their employees because of the lack of housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts are among the latest to pursue the model as they find themselves with vacant properties and employees who say they can’t afford to live near work or, in some cases, stay in the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarita Lavin, an ethnic studies teacher at George Washington High School, has worked in SFUSD for five years and lived in San Francisco for more than 10, but she said that before she moved into Shirley Chisholm Village, she was considering leaving both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d lived with roommates for a decade, navigating the usual cohabitating strifes like dirty dishes in the sink and uninvited guests, as well as some less common circumstances — like a pet reptile on the loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing like opening a cabinet and having a six-foot African king snake looking at you,” Lavin said. “That was the big moment where I was like, ‘Maybe it’s time for me to really start thinking about independent living.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavin said the Sunset District apartment, which is considered affordable, still costs more than half of her monthly take-home income at about $2,500 a month. But it’s a far cry from the rates she saw on Craigslist and Zillow when she started looking at studios and one-bedrooms. Those, which she said could top $3,000, are “totally out of the price range for teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079591 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_015_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_015_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_015_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_015_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Chisholm Village has units designated for various income levels between 40% to 120% of the area median income, with priority to San Francisco Unified School District educators. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She makes the cost work in part because it was important to her to stay in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just felt like a place where my family had roots in the U.S.,” said Lavin, whose mother immigrated from Guatemala to Pacifica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavin grew up in Oakland but moved to the Inland Empire at 11, after her family was priced out. She said they spent a lot of their time in San Francisco, though, so she felt drawn to move here more than a decade ago to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her last apartment, Lavin paid $1,100 a month, plus about $200 to $300 in utilities, for a room with two roommates — a low outlier among city rents, because the three tenants split the cost of their space equitably based on their salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she got older, it became increasingly important to have her own space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really thinking, if I can’t get this place, then I might want to start looking outside of San Francisco, move maybe out to the East Bay and leave SFUSD, because it’s just too unaffordable to live here,” Lavin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I kind of feel like maybe I don’t need an exit strategy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seeing results, but challenges remain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 2010s, Jefferson Union High School District was losing and replacing about 25% of its employees every year across its five campuses in Daly City and Pacifica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we surveyed our staff, we found that the number one reason that they were leaving our district was long commutes and housing affordability,” said Denise Shreve, the district’s director of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jefferson Union, the lowest-funded high school district in San Mateo County, “had to be creative” to retain teachers and recruit new ones, Shreve said. That led to a plan to build affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, the district was one of the first in the nation to pass a bond measure to fund affordable teacher housing, generating about $33 million. Shreve said it borrowed an additional $40 million or so through certificates of participation, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/certificateofparticipation.asp\">form of municipal financing\u003c/a> often used as an alternative to traditional voter-approved bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district broke ground in 2020 on a 122-unit development at its Serramonte Del Rey campus in Daly City, which opened in 2022 with all of its one- to three-bedroom units filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two years later, the district began the school year without any job openings. “We were completely, fully staffed. Before we had staff housing, that was unheard of,” Shreve said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other districts across the Bay Area have also pursued similar projects in recent years. Neighboring Jefferson Elementary School District opened 56 apartments for staff in 2024. Santa Clara Unified School District was one of the first in the state to provide housing for teachers, constructing 40 units in 2001 and 30 more in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, an Oakland nonprofit announced it had purchased an apartment complex that it would turn into housing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078453/one-way-to-help-oakland-teachers-salaries-go-further-affordable-housing\">Oakland Unified School District employees\u003c/a>, pricing units at 30% of their household income. The 33-unit building in the Temescal District is the first that the Oakland Fund for Public Innovation’s Rooted program has acquired as part of its effort to purchase 150 residential units in the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When SFUSD began work on the Shirley Chisholm development, it cited many of the same challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, more than 64% of district teachers surveyed said they spent more than 30% of their income on rent, and about 15% spent 50% or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_009_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_009_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_009_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_009_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Shayla Putnam walks through a courtyard at Shirley Chisholm Village on April 12, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a resolution committing to pursue workforce housing that was passed the previous year, the San Francisco school board said, “High housing costs are a significant contributing factor to SFUSD educators’ ability to remain in San Francisco and remain employed with SFUSD, risking dire and unpredictable negative effects on the quality of SFUSD education when educators can no longer afford to live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, workforce housing has not completely solved the problem for teachers in areas with a high cost of living. For those like Lavin, even an affordable housing unit can take up a large chunk of their take-home salary. And in San Francisco, many teachers, especially those with more experience, make too much to qualify for some of the units in Shirley Chisholm Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building has units designated for various income levels between 40% to 120% of the area median income. For a single person, that equates to an annual salary between $41,130 and $130,900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, fully credentialed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/information-employees/labor-relations/labor-partners/uesf-certificated#78271\">teacher salaries\u003c/a> ranged from $81,350 to $134,762, meaning that even entry-level teachers are ineligible for 34 of the affordable apartments. And as educators — especially those with more post-college credits — gain seniority, they surpass the income threshold for more units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While SFUSD educators have priority for the building, about 10% of its units are occupied by non-SFUSD renters, most of whom have priority for specially designed ADA units. Of the 115 units that house SFUSD employees, many are occupied by support staffers who make lower salaries, such as paraeducators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the district’s housing is operated in partnership with the city, residents have to go through San Francisco’s affordable housing lottery to apply for a unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavin and Hernandez said that the process took months, and they had to provide a lot of information that the district already knows, like income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these issues are less pervasive in districts like Jefferson Union, which operates its housing independently, with the help of a property manager. It designates about two-thirds of its units for certificated teachers, while the rest are available to paraeducators and other staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a smaller district, it’s also able to have a bigger impact. While about a quarter of the staff lives in Jefferson Union’s workforce housing, only about 115 of more than 6,000 SFUSD employees live in its apartment complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, SFUSD set a goal of developing more than 500 housing units by 2030, and the district said it is exploring additional sites and partnerships to expand. It’s already broken ground on a second subsidized housing development in the Western Addition, which will add 75 more apartment units. And it’s identified \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2024-04-04-sfusd-identifies-additional-sites-educator-housing#:~:text=In%20October%202023%2C%20SFUSD%20formed,enable%20the%20development%20of%20housing.\">multiple other district-owned properties\u003c/a> throughout the city for future projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before pursuing future projects, the district said it will conduct a “thorough analysis — including surveying staff — to understand the needs and preferences” of educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the demand is clear. Nearly 15% of SFUSD’s workforce applied for the Shirley Chisholm Village complex, and about 395 district employees are on the waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_010_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_010_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_010_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_010_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Shayla Putnam stands outside Shirley Chisholm Village on April 12, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shayla Putnam, who teaches ceramics at George Washington High School, said securing a spot there felt like “hard work paid off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putnam is the main earner for her and her partner, who have bounced around to one-bedroom apartments in the city for five years. Even at the below-market rates at Shirley Chisholm Village, they could only afford a one-bedroom unit, but she said amenities like a dishwasher and in-building laundry, as well as a measurably larger living space, have made a huge difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the extra space does bring a quality of life that I haven’t necessarily experienced in the city,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her partner, who is an artist, has a dedicated workspace, and they were able to get a kitchen table for the first time. The bathroom is also big enough to move around comfortably — “you could spin in here with your arms out,” Putnam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, they save about $300 a month compared to their last apartment, which was also in the Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a little more leeway,” Putnam said. “It’s the difference [between] literally cooking food every night versus being like, ‘We can eat out at this locally-owned business, we can have this coffee shop’ — those little things that make life worth living rather than scraping by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building was aging, the family was growing tired of struggles with their landlord, and they wanted to be in a neighborhood that felt safer. For years, though, finding another apartment in their price range seemed impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point we even wondered if we wanted to stay here or move even across the country,” Hernandez, who asked to be identified by only her last name because of ongoing litigation with a previous landlord, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple affordable housing applications had gotten her no further than long waiting lists and only a few calls back to apply. Then, in May, MidPen Housing called to say her family had been selected for a unit in a new affordable housing development that gives priority to school district staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079592 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_016_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_016_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_016_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_016_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Chisholm Village, an affordable housing development that gives priority to San Francisco Unified School District educators, on April 12, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I was dreaming,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez remembers picking her son up from school after they got the keys, ordering pizza and bringing him to the building near Ocean Beach as a surprise. “This is going to be your new house,” she told him, hopeful that he’d attend high school in their new neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new, five-story apartment building, nestled between the Sunset District’s signature two-story single-family homes and a burgeoning number of neighborhood restaurants, bookstores and coffee shops, is now home to more than 100 SFUSD employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.midpen-housing.org/shirley-chisholm-village/\">Shirley Chisholm Village development\u003c/a> sprang from a partnership between the school district and the city’s affordable housing program that was announced in 2015. It’s part of a growing number of teacher housing projects cropping up throughout the Bay Area as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/affordability\">cost of living in the region continues to climb\u003c/a>, often outpacing the salaries of essential education workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Sarah Karlinsky, the director of research and policy at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, the trend follows many universities and public sector employers, who have provided housing options for decades — both because of sky-high costs and a shortage of units in urban areas.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Many of us are familiar with this idea of the ‘company town,’” she said. “When there’s a large-scale employer and they want to make sure they can attract talent and workers … they need to ensure their workers have housing. Even if you think about building the railroads, large infrastructure projects involve thinking about where workers might live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, even companies in higher-paying sectors like tech have sought to help house their employees because of the lack of housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts are among the latest to pursue the model as they find themselves with vacant properties and employees who say they can’t afford to live near work or, in some cases, stay in the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarita Lavin, an ethnic studies teacher at George Washington High School, has worked in SFUSD for five years and lived in San Francisco for more than 10, but she said that before she moved into Shirley Chisholm Village, she was considering leaving both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d lived with roommates for a decade, navigating the usual cohabitating strifes like dirty dishes in the sink and uninvited guests, as well as some less common circumstances — like a pet reptile on the loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing like opening a cabinet and having a six-foot African king snake looking at you,” Lavin said. “That was the big moment where I was like, ‘Maybe it’s time for me to really start thinking about independent living.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavin said the Sunset District apartment, which is considered affordable, still costs more than half of her monthly take-home income at about $2,500 a month. But it’s a far cry from the rates she saw on Craigslist and Zillow when she started looking at studios and one-bedrooms. Those, which she said could top $3,000, are “totally out of the price range for teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079591 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_015_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_015_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_015_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_015_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Chisholm Village has units designated for various income levels between 40% to 120% of the area median income, with priority to San Francisco Unified School District educators. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She makes the cost work in part because it was important to her to stay in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just felt like a place where my family had roots in the U.S.,” said Lavin, whose mother immigrated from Guatemala to Pacifica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavin grew up in Oakland but moved to the Inland Empire at 11, after her family was priced out. She said they spent a lot of their time in San Francisco, though, so she felt drawn to move here more than a decade ago to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her last apartment, Lavin paid $1,100 a month, plus about $200 to $300 in utilities, for a room with two roommates — a low outlier among city rents, because the three tenants split the cost of their space equitably based on their salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she got older, it became increasingly important to have her own space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really thinking, if I can’t get this place, then I might want to start looking outside of San Francisco, move maybe out to the East Bay and leave SFUSD, because it’s just too unaffordable to live here,” Lavin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I kind of feel like maybe I don’t need an exit strategy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seeing results, but challenges remain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 2010s, Jefferson Union High School District was losing and replacing about 25% of its employees every year across its five campuses in Daly City and Pacifica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we surveyed our staff, we found that the number one reason that they were leaving our district was long commutes and housing affordability,” said Denise Shreve, the district’s director of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jefferson Union, the lowest-funded high school district in San Mateo County, “had to be creative” to retain teachers and recruit new ones, Shreve said. That led to a plan to build affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, the district was one of the first in the nation to pass a bond measure to fund affordable teacher housing, generating about $33 million. Shreve said it borrowed an additional $40 million or so through certificates of participation, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/certificateofparticipation.asp\">form of municipal financing\u003c/a> often used as an alternative to traditional voter-approved bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district broke ground in 2020 on a 122-unit development at its Serramonte Del Rey campus in Daly City, which opened in 2022 with all of its one- to three-bedroom units filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two years later, the district began the school year without any job openings. “We were completely, fully staffed. Before we had staff housing, that was unheard of,” Shreve said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other districts across the Bay Area have also pursued similar projects in recent years. Neighboring Jefferson Elementary School District opened 56 apartments for staff in 2024. Santa Clara Unified School District was one of the first in the state to provide housing for teachers, constructing 40 units in 2001 and 30 more in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, an Oakland nonprofit announced it had purchased an apartment complex that it would turn into housing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078453/one-way-to-help-oakland-teachers-salaries-go-further-affordable-housing\">Oakland Unified School District employees\u003c/a>, pricing units at 30% of their household income. The 33-unit building in the Temescal District is the first that the Oakland Fund for Public Innovation’s Rooted program has acquired as part of its effort to purchase 150 residential units in the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When SFUSD began work on the Shirley Chisholm development, it cited many of the same challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, more than 64% of district teachers surveyed said they spent more than 30% of their income on rent, and about 15% spent 50% or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_009_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_009_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_009_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_009_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Shayla Putnam walks through a courtyard at Shirley Chisholm Village on April 12, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a resolution committing to pursue workforce housing that was passed the previous year, the San Francisco school board said, “High housing costs are a significant contributing factor to SFUSD educators’ ability to remain in San Francisco and remain employed with SFUSD, risking dire and unpredictable negative effects on the quality of SFUSD education when educators can no longer afford to live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, workforce housing has not completely solved the problem for teachers in areas with a high cost of living. For those like Lavin, even an affordable housing unit can take up a large chunk of their take-home salary. And in San Francisco, many teachers, especially those with more experience, make too much to qualify for some of the units in Shirley Chisholm Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building has units designated for various income levels between 40% to 120% of the area median income. For a single person, that equates to an annual salary between $41,130 and $130,900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, fully credentialed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/information-employees/labor-relations/labor-partners/uesf-certificated#78271\">teacher salaries\u003c/a> ranged from $81,350 to $134,762, meaning that even entry-level teachers are ineligible for 34 of the affordable apartments. And as educators — especially those with more post-college credits — gain seniority, they surpass the income threshold for more units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While SFUSD educators have priority for the building, about 10% of its units are occupied by non-SFUSD renters, most of whom have priority for specially designed ADA units. Of the 115 units that house SFUSD employees, many are occupied by support staffers who make lower salaries, such as paraeducators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the district’s housing is operated in partnership with the city, residents have to go through San Francisco’s affordable housing lottery to apply for a unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavin and Hernandez said that the process took months, and they had to provide a lot of information that the district already knows, like income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these issues are less pervasive in districts like Jefferson Union, which operates its housing independently, with the help of a property manager. It designates about two-thirds of its units for certificated teachers, while the rest are available to paraeducators and other staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a smaller district, it’s also able to have a bigger impact. While about a quarter of the staff lives in Jefferson Union’s workforce housing, only about 115 of more than 6,000 SFUSD employees live in its apartment complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, SFUSD set a goal of developing more than 500 housing units by 2030, and the district said it is exploring additional sites and partnerships to expand. It’s already broken ground on a second subsidized housing development in the Western Addition, which will add 75 more apartment units. And it’s identified \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2024-04-04-sfusd-identifies-additional-sites-educator-housing#:~:text=In%20October%202023%2C%20SFUSD%20formed,enable%20the%20development%20of%20housing.\">multiple other district-owned properties\u003c/a> throughout the city for future projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before pursuing future projects, the district said it will conduct a “thorough analysis — including surveying staff — to understand the needs and preferences” of educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the demand is clear. Nearly 15% of SFUSD’s workforce applied for the Shirley Chisholm Village complex, and about 395 district employees are on the waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_010_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_010_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_010_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/041226Affordability-series-teacher-housing_GH_010_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Shayla Putnam stands outside Shirley Chisholm Village on April 12, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shayla Putnam, who teaches ceramics at George Washington High School, said securing a spot there felt like “hard work paid off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putnam is the main earner for her and her partner, who have bounced around to one-bedroom apartments in the city for five years. Even at the below-market rates at Shirley Chisholm Village, they could only afford a one-bedroom unit, but she said amenities like a dishwasher and in-building laundry, as well as a measurably larger living space, have made a huge difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the extra space does bring a quality of life that I haven’t necessarily experienced in the city,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her partner, who is an artist, has a dedicated workspace, and they were able to get a kitchen table for the first time. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s teachers union overwhelmingly voted to ratify its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073441/san-franciscos-teachers-strike-has-ended-what-comes-next\">new two-year contract\u003c/a> on Friday, two weeks after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073306/sfusd-teachers-strike-no-end-in-sight-health-care-battle\">tentative deal ended a four-day strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Educators of San Francisco, which represents 6,000 teachers, classroom aides, counselors, social workers and other staff, voted 92% in favor of the $183 million deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract includes a commitment from the district to fully fund family health care beginning next year and boosts wages for some of the district’s lowest-paid workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco educators have overwhelmingly approved the contract that we know will help stabilize our schools and our communities,” union President Cassondra Curiel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a historic win. It’s a win for our members … it’s a win for our school district and broadly for public educators throughout the Bay Area and California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260211-SFUSDSTRIKEOCEANBEACH-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260211-SFUSDSTRIKEOCEANBEACH-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260211-SFUSDSTRIKEOCEANBEACH-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260211-SFUSDSTRIKEOCEANBEACH-05-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking San Francisco Unified School District employees form the words “For Our Students Strike” at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The vote comes as some other Bay Area districts narrowly avoid their own work stoppages. Early Friday, the Oakland Unified School District \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074794/oakland-schools-teachers-union-reach-deal-avert-strike\">reached a tentative agreement\u003c/a> with its teachers union to avert a looming strike, and Berkeley also secured a deal earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really happy, proud of them and looking forward to hearing about many more districts doing the right thing and making sure that our schools are fully funded,” Curiel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new deal, SFUSD will begin to cover the full cost of health care premiums for educators with dependents. Union leaders have said that previously cost members up to $1,500 per month.[aside postID=news_12074197 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-47-BL_qed.jpg']The contract also grants an 8.5% wage increase over two years to security guards and paraeducators, who work as classroom aides. Teachers and other credentialed staff, including social workers and counselors, will see 5% raises in that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074197/sfusd-teachers-got-a-big-contract-deal-not-all-are-happy-with-it\">isn’t without pushback\u003c/a> from some members, including a group of Independence High School teachers, who urged fellow educators to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/bay-area-news/2026-02-19/why-these-san-francisco-educators-are-voting-no-on-the-tentative-agreement\">vote against ratification\u003c/a>, citing a lack of concrete special education reforms and lower raises for credentialed staff than the union had proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 5% increase they’ll get over the next two years fails to keep up with the federal cost-of-living adjustment for 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the deal, the district has also warned that it will add another burden onto its already thin budget. SFUSD is looking to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067247/as-teacher-strike-looms-san-franciscos-school-board-set-to-review-proposed-funding-cuts\">cut $100 million in ongoing expenses\u003c/a> this spring, not considering the additional costs of the labor deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the school board approved dozens of layoffs, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073441/san-franciscos-teachers-strike-has-ended-what-comes-next\">more reductions are expected\u003c/a> in the coming months. Superintendent Maria Su has said workforce reductions and possible school closures are “on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" 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>“We stretched our resources to the limit to get this agreement done,” she said after signing the tentative agreement. “We still have a long way ahead of us where difficult choices remain. So while we have a deal today, we still need more support in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union has said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073219/san-francisco-teachers-strike-day-3-citys-schools-stay-closed-as-negotiations-drag-on\">district’s narrative about its budget is untrue\u003c/a>, accusing officials of manufacturing a crisis while building up a significant reserve fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel said Friday that the city’s strong support for striking teachers shows that “our community members support our public schools being as best as they can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That puts us in stark conflict with any initiatives that attempt from any direction to cut positions, to cut programs from schools, to eliminate schools,” she said. “We and our many, many supporters … are ready to step up to the plate and to fight for the schools our students deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract still needs to be approved by SFUSD’s school board before it becomes final.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The contract also grants an 8.5% wage increase over two years to security guards and paraeducators, who work as classroom aides. Teachers and other credentialed staff, including social workers and counselors, will see 5% raises in that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074197/sfusd-teachers-got-a-big-contract-deal-not-all-are-happy-with-it\">isn’t without pushback\u003c/a> from some members, including a group of Independence High School teachers, who urged fellow educators to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/bay-area-news/2026-02-19/why-these-san-francisco-educators-are-voting-no-on-the-tentative-agreement\">vote against ratification\u003c/a>, citing a lack of concrete special education reforms and lower raises for credentialed staff than the union had proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 5% increase they’ll get over the next two years fails to keep up with the federal cost-of-living adjustment for 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the deal, the district has also warned that it will add another burden onto its already thin budget. SFUSD is looking to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067247/as-teacher-strike-looms-san-franciscos-school-board-set-to-review-proposed-funding-cuts\">cut $100 million in ongoing expenses\u003c/a> this spring, not considering the additional costs of the labor deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the school board approved dozens of layoffs, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073441/san-franciscos-teachers-strike-has-ended-what-comes-next\">more reductions are expected\u003c/a> in the coming months. Superintendent Maria Su has said workforce reductions and possible school closures are “on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" 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>“We stretched our resources to the limit to get this agreement done,” she said after signing the tentative agreement. “We still have a long way ahead of us where difficult choices remain. So while we have a deal today, we still need more support in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union has said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073219/san-francisco-teachers-strike-day-3-citys-schools-stay-closed-as-negotiations-drag-on\">district’s narrative about its budget is untrue\u003c/a>, accusing officials of manufacturing a crisis while building up a significant reserve fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel said Friday that the city’s strong support for striking teachers shows that “our community members support our public schools being as best as they can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That puts us in stark conflict with any initiatives that attempt from any direction to cut positions, to cut programs from schools, to eliminate schools,” she said. “We and our many, many supporters … are ready to step up to the plate and to fight for the schools our students deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract still needs to be approved by SFUSD’s school board before it becomes final.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While thousands of San Francisco public school teachers are voting this week on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073306/sfusd-teachers-strike-no-end-in-sight-health-care-battle\">a tentative contract agreement\u003c/a> that the union has touted as a major win, some educators have complicated feelings about the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, the biggest win was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a>’s agreement to fully fund health care costs for educators and their families. That came late in the night after the fourth day of a strike that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073717/at-sfusds-first-day-of-school-after-strike-families-are-happy-teachers-got-a-deal\">shut down city schools\u003c/a> for a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I broke down,” said Ryan Alias, a Balboa High School teacher who was on the bargaining team for the United Educators of San Francisco, the city’s teachers union. “A good friend of mine who’s a teacher who’s also on the bargaining team, we just kind of held each other, hugged each other and realized that there’s stability for our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alias has taught English at Balboa for the last five years. His wife is also an SFUSD teacher, and their two daughters are enrolled in elementary and middle schools in the district. Right now, he said, about 15% of his annual pay goes toward health care coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That money represented an inability to save for retirement, an inability to put much away for college for my kids,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week’s ratification vote by UESF’s 6,000 members, one of the final steps in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073441/san-franciscos-teachers-strike-has-ended-what-comes-next\">securing the deal\u003c/a>, is expected to pass.\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>But while the tentative agreement secures funded health care and significant wage hikes for classroom aides, along with commitments to support unhoused and immigrant students, it doesn’t meet the salary demands the union put forth for classroom teachers and other credentialed employees, or their plan to change special education workloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s complex,” said Todd Albert, who teaches science at Buena Vista Horace Mann Middle School. “Big picture, [I’m] really happy that our classified staff is getting like a 9% raise, very happy that a lot of my colleagues are getting fully funded health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But selfishly, [I’m] feeling like I didn’t get as much as I would have liked,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Contract wins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since reaching the tentative agreement on Feb. 13, UESF has called the contract a “massive win” for members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were able to achieve in this bargain with this contract is truly the ability for us to stabilize our school staffing and for our members to be able to improve our ability to afford living and working in San Francisco,” union President Cassondra Curiel told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big part of that is health care coverage, which will save some educators with families up to $1,500 a month.\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>“That was an incredible burden,” said Alias, who had worries about being able to keep his family in San Francisco. “There’s also housing instability. We rent a place nearby the school, which is fantastic, but having access to that $1,500 of our paycheck that we never see would give us so much more ability to feel safe, feel stable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paid premiums will be especially impactful for paraeducators, said Teanna Tillery, who has been a para in SFUSD’s central office for more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The positions are some of the lowest-paid in the district, but Tillery said she and other paras pay the same amount as other educators for their current plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our paraeducators who have two or more dependents, they’re paying upwards of $700 per paycheck, which is almost 40% of their take-home [pay],” Tillery told KQED.[aside postID=news_12073717 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-51-BL_qed.jpg']Celeste Rivera, a district paraeducator, said during the strike earlier this month that during the first two years of her job, she wasn’t able to afford coverage for her kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to pray that they wouldn’t get sick,” she told KQED, adding that she knows many coworkers who are in the same position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said the coverage will offer her peace of mind that she can take her children to the doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the health coverage, SFUSD has also agreed to a 9% raise for paraeducators over two years, plus an additional 5% wage bump for those who work in special education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many paraeducators in our school district are working two and sometimes three jobs, just to be able to afford to live in the city where they work,” Tillery said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wages for instructional aides who work in SFUSD classrooms and one-on-one with students who have special education services started at $31.52 per hour as of January 2025. Generally, paraeducators work 30 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being able to recoup that money is going to change their lives… Some paraeducators are talking about possibly going on vacation for the first time,” Tillery said. “It makes me smile to think that people can think of doing something special for themselves, outside of just paying bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s a give and take’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But not all union members are as pleased with the final contract terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For classroom teachers and other credentialed staff, like social workers and counselors, the deal doesn’t include a huge wage hike. They’ll get a 5% raise over the next two years, compared with their initial ask for a 9% pay bump in that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really would have wanted and needed that,” said Albert, the science teacher at Buena Vista Horace Mann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048319\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanFranciscoK8SchoolGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1287\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanFranciscoK8SchoolGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanFranciscoK8SchoolGetty-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanFranciscoK8SchoolGetty-1536x988.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the hallways of Buena Vista Horace Mann K–8 school in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 5% raise comes out lower than the federal cost-of-living adjustment for 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not keeping up with the cost of living, and I think ‘raise’ is a misleading term,” Albert continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because his wife also has her own health coverage, and they don’t have kids, the deal’s health care component also won’t affect him, Albert said. SFUSD already covers premiums for employees.[aside postID=news_12073441 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-52-BL_qed.jpg']“At the end of the day, you can’t make everybody happy,” he said. “This time, I think we really focused on health care. When the [next] contract is due in two years, I really hope that they focus on a raise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, just a week after the union and district signed the tentative agreement, SFUSD revealed plans to issue more than 40 preliminary layoff notices to a handful of teachers and about 30 paraeducators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number is lower than it has been in previous years; last year, SFUSD sent hundreds of preliminary pink slips in March. But it likely doesn’t reflect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073310/if-sfusd-teachers-get-their-way-district-suggests-more-cuts-could-be-on-the-table\">additional cuts the district will need to make\u003c/a>, accounting for the new contract costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the tentative agreement, the district already planned to make about $100 million in budget reductions this year, and Superintendent Maria Su has said that layoffs and potential school closures are on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stretched our resources to the limit to get this agreement done,” Su said after signing the tentative agreement. “We still have a long way ahead of us where difficult choices remain. So while we have a deal today, we still need more support in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the union’s ratification vote this week, the tentative contract will still need to gain school board approval before it becomes final.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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She loves her school,” Timbadia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter told KQED she was sad to stay home last week while schools were closed and couldn’t wait to return to her classroom. 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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>She is among nearly 50,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> students who will be back to just that this week after the city’s first school strike in nearly 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072729/san-francisco-teachers-walk-out-in-first-strike-in-nearly-50-years\">walkout shuttered 111 campuses\u003c/a> and lasted four days before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073306/sfusd-teachers-strike-no-end-in-sight-health-care-battle\">coming to an end early Friday\u003c/a> morning ahead of a long holiday weekend, after the district and United Educators of San Francisco signed a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal will fully fund health care coverage for educators with dependents and significantly raise wages for paraeducators.[aside postID=news_12073441 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-52-BL_qed.jpg']It was reached after nearly a year of negotiations and a week of major disruptions to the city’s school system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad they gave the teachers what they deserve,” said Timbadia, who said she and her daughter walked Jean Parker’s picket lines each morning of the strike. “I wish it was resolved earlier, because teachers and students, they all suffer. Parents suffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad it got resolved as fast as it could, but I wish they could have been in school and [teachers] didn’t have to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At both Jean Parker and nearby Yick Wo Alternative Elementary in North Beach, parents’ support for teachers was strong — as it was during the strike, when thousands joined picket lines and rallies across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean Parker parent Alejandro, who declined to give his last name, said he was happy that the union had gotten a deal, but he was left with “more questions than answers with the school district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the biggest concern I have is that the budgeting from the district still is quite opaque in my opinion,” he told KQED, adding that he felt that annual cuts in SFUSD “aren’t really occurring where they should.”\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>Alejandro pointed to Superintendent Maria Su’s salary, which is $385,000 a year, and drew criticism from some during the teachers’ contract negotiations. “That’s five credentialed classroom teachers,” he said. “I would rather have five credentialed classroom teachers than have her keep her job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yick Wo parent Juliana Egley said she was feeling more trusting of the district than she was a little over a year ago, when Su was appointed in October 2024 after embattled Superintendent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">Matt Wayne resigned\u003c/a> amid a botched plan to close some schools. Yick Wo was one of more than a dozen campuses that could have been affected by the closures and mergers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Egley said, “I do feel like the district was unreasonable in a few things where they were refusing to bend,” adding that she also brought her daughter to walk picket lines with teachers last week. “I just want the teachers and the educators and everybody to get paid more, to get paid what they’re worth, and to feel secure and safe both financially and physically, and emotionally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backpacks hang in the hallway 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>Throughout the week, her daughter had been able to attend all-day programming through the Salesian Boys and Girls Club, which runs Yick Wo’s after-school care program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the strike, the city and district worked with the Boys and Girls Club and other community organizations that run those programs to expand services for students who were already enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Egley said her daughter was happy to be back to regular school drop-off on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She loves coming to Yick Wo,” Egley said. “She loves the school. She loves hanging out with her friends, and she loves learning. The district was great about putting out independent study things and we do have, like, the little workbooks, but she also just likes being in class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t just the students who were excited: “Thank God,” Donald Tucker said after dropping off his daughter at Yick Wo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d also attended the all-day programming through the Boys and Girls Club — with the exception of her birthday, when Tucker said she had gotten to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all kids were so lucky. Lidia Rojas said that when her son was out of school last week, she brought him along to her classes at City College. “Sometimes he [came] with me and takes my classes, too,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wanted to be with her friends, with her teachers. She loves her school,” Timbadia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter told KQED she was sad to stay home last week while schools were closed and couldn’t wait to return to her classroom. She said she’s most looking forward to “doing new things and learning new things.”\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>She is among nearly 50,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> students who will be back to just that this week after the city’s first school strike in nearly 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072729/san-francisco-teachers-walk-out-in-first-strike-in-nearly-50-years\">walkout shuttered 111 campuses\u003c/a> and lasted four days before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073306/sfusd-teachers-strike-no-end-in-sight-health-care-battle\">coming to an end early Friday\u003c/a> morning ahead of a long holiday weekend, after the district and United Educators of San Francisco signed a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal will fully fund health care coverage for educators with dependents and significantly raise wages for paraeducators.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Parents suffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad it got resolved as fast as it could, but I wish they could have been in school and [teachers] didn’t have to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At both Jean Parker and nearby Yick Wo Alternative Elementary in North Beach, parents’ support for teachers was strong — as it was during the strike, when thousands joined picket lines and rallies across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean Parker parent Alejandro, who declined to give his last name, said he was happy that the union had gotten a deal, but he was left with “more questions than answers with the school district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the biggest concern I have is that the budgeting from the district still is quite opaque in my opinion,” he told KQED, adding that he felt that annual cuts in SFUSD “aren’t really occurring where they should.”\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>Alejandro pointed to Superintendent Maria Su’s salary, which is $385,000 a year, and drew criticism from some during the teachers’ contract negotiations. “That’s five credentialed classroom teachers,” he said. “I would rather have five credentialed classroom teachers than have her keep her job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yick Wo parent Juliana Egley said she was feeling more trusting of the district than she was a little over a year ago, when Su was appointed in October 2024 after embattled Superintendent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">Matt Wayne resigned\u003c/a> amid a botched plan to close some schools. Yick Wo was one of more than a dozen campuses that could have been affected by the closures and mergers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Egley said, “I do feel like the district was unreasonable in a few things where they were refusing to bend,” adding that she also brought her daughter to walk picket lines with teachers last week. “I just want the teachers and the educators and everybody to get paid more, to get paid what they’re worth, and to feel secure and safe both financially and physically, and emotionally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backpacks hang in the hallway 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>Throughout the week, her daughter had been able to attend all-day programming through the Salesian Boys and Girls Club, which runs Yick Wo’s after-school care program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the strike, the city and district worked with the Boys and Girls Club and other community organizations that run those programs to expand services for students who were already enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Egley said her daughter was happy to be back to regular school drop-off on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She loves coming to Yick Wo,” Egley said. “She loves the school. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s historic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073306/sfusd-teachers-strike-no-end-in-sight-health-care-battle\">teachers strike\u003c/a> has ended and schools will reopen next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Unified School District and teachers reached a deal around 5:30 a.m. Friday, following a 13-hour bargaining session, according to the United Educators of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $183 million agreement includes fully employer-paid family health care benefits — the union’s main sticking point \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072981/the-sfusd-teachers-strike-goes-on-heres-what-itll-take-to-end-it\">throughout negotiations\u003c/a> — as well as wage increases, revisions to special education workloads, and sanctuary and housing protections for district families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the contract still needs to be ratified by the union and adopted by the district’s Board of Education, United Educators of San Francisco leaders said it will serve as a “strong foundation” for school stability in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were able to achieve in this strike was an unwavering, long-lasting sense of solidarity that will only benefit every single San Franciscan,” union Vice President Frank Lara told reporters early Friday. “While it was difficult and it is difficult for our members who have gone on strike, we’re ending it with a lot of joy, a lot of excitement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties reached the two-year agreement after nearly a year of negotiations between the union and district, and a week without school for the district’s 49,000 students. Schools will reopen to students on Wednesday, after planned holidays for Presidents Day and Lunar New Year on Monday and Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-07-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-07-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>Superintendent Maria Su called the deal “monumental.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This agreement will help us recruit talented educators to work in San Francisco in our public schools,” she said on Friday. “It will help retain our dedicated staff that serves our classroom each and every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract includes SFUSD’s commitment to fully fund health care premiums on its lowest-rate Kaiser Permanente plan for educators and their families starting next January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The benefit package had been the biggest sticking point for the union, which said its members pay up to $1,500 for health coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said that starting in July, it will also provide “meaningful relief” to bring premium rates down.[aside postID=news_12073310 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/251205-wccusdstrikerally01511_TV_qed.jpg']In an email, San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan called the health care coverage a big win for the union, but said that the other two sticking points — wages and resources for special education services — “could perhaps best be described as a ‘score draw.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When bargaining began, the union asked for 14% and 9% raises, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district will give both security guards and paraeducators, who work as school and classroom aides, an 8.5% raise over two years, with hikes of 4% this year and then 4.5% in the year following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special education paraeducators will receive an additional 5% salary increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security guards will gain an additional floating holiday, as well as eligibility for full-time employment, which improves their benefit coverage options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certificated educators, including teachers, social workers and counselors, will receive 2% raises in each of the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union had also proposed transitioning from a caseload model, which allocates workload by student, to a new model that accounts for varying student needs, reducing the burden on employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073557 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, in San Francisco, addressing the San Francisco Unified School District’s newly reached agreement with the teachers union. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, the tentative agreement calls for the district and union to “collaborate on an educator working group with budget authority to improve special education programs,” and commits to providing “additional supports” for special educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, Mayor Daniel Lurie called the contract “a win for our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a win for our public schools. It’s a win for educators,” he told reporters. “We talk about affordability in this city, and it is far too out of reach for so many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intertwined with the excitement surrounding the deal, though, are looming questions of how the district will pay for the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073459 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-40-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-40-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-40-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-40-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\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>Throughout negotiations, the district and union had been at odds over how much funding is actually available to cover expenses like raises and benefits. Prior to the deal, the district had already been planning to make more than $100 million in cuts ahead of next fall — and in November, moved to reopen a conversation about merging or closing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su has repeatedly said the district cannot spend outside its means, as it is under state oversight and, according to Su, “inching out” of a fiscal cliff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are on the right path to fiscal solvency, and so we need to be responsible with the deals,” she told reporters earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the possibility of layoffs or school closures and mergers on Friday, she said, “That has always been on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073460 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-31-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-31-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-31-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-31-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roosevelt High School students stand alongside teachers, faculty and supporters during a rally 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>The district said it would dip into a “rainy day” reserve fund of about $111 million that it set aside in December to help cover health care costs for the duration of the new contract, which expires in June 2027. But it’s still unclear how much reserve funding it will use, or how it plans to continue to pay for the benefits moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking with reporters on Friday, Lara said that the district’s budget woes have more to do with management than a lack of funding, citing SFUSD’s significant fund balance, built up after overprojecting how much it would spend in many recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district ended last year in a deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a conversation for a different moment,” Lara said. “But I hope that the power, the energy, the love that we’ve received from our city … shows this district management or any district management or any board elected that people have hope and people want to see SFUSD succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \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\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It’s a win for educators,” he told reporters. “We talk about affordability in this city, and it is far too out of reach for so many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intertwined with the excitement surrounding the deal, though, are looming questions of how the district will pay for the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073459 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-40-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-40-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-40-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-40-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\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>Throughout negotiations, the district and union had been at odds over how much funding is actually available to cover expenses like raises and benefits. 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"content": "\u003cp>After days at a stalemate, San Francisco’s teachers union announced early Friday it had reached a tentative agreement with the city’s school district, ending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073310/if-sfusd-teachers-get-their-way-district-suggests-more-cuts-could-be-on-the-table\">a four-day strike\u003c/a> — the first in nearly 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Educators of San Francisco announced that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> reached the deal around 5:30 a.m. following a 13-hour bargaining session. The union has been negotiating a new contract for 11 months and has been working under an expired agreement since July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-year agreement includes fully employer-paid family health care benefits — the union’s main sticking point throughout negotiations — as well as wage increases, revisions to special education workloads, and sanctuary and housing protections for district families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By forcing SFUSD to invest in fully funded family health care, special education workloads, improved wages, sanctuary and housing protections for San Francisco families, we’ve made important progress toward the schools our students deserve,” UESF President Cassondra Curiel said. “This contract is a strong foundation for us to continue to build the safe and stable learning environments our students deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073219/san-francisco-teachers-strike-day-3-citys-schools-stay-closed-as-negotiations-drag-on\">San Francisco schools\u003c/a> have been shut down since Monday as UESF members and other district employees took to picket lines. Schools will reopen to students Wednesday, after planned holidays for President’s Day and Lunar New Year on Monday and Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This agreement enhances our efforts to recruit and attract talented educators to work in San Francisco public schools and reflects our commitment to invest in educators,” Superintendent Maria Su said in a statement. “I know it has been a hard week, and I want to extend my heartfelt appreciation to our students and families. We cannot wait to welcome you back to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-33-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-33-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-33-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDSTRIKEDAY2-33-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>The new contract includes major wins for the union, which has been pushing for fully funded health care, raises and an overhaul to the district’s special education work mode. The agreement, which still must be ratified by union members and approved by the Board of Education, will be retroactive to July 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout negotiations, UESF demanded that the district cover 100% of premiums on the least expensive plan for educators with two or more dependents, which currently costs teachers about $1,500 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That amount of money is life-changing to us,” Ryan Alias, an English teacher at Balboa High School, said during a press conference Thursday. He and his wife are both public school teachers, and he has two children in SFUSD schools.[aside postID=news_12073310 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/251205-wccusdstrikerally01511_TV_qed.jpg']“If we had that in our pocket, we would be able to save for retirement,” he said. “We would be able to save for college funds. We’d be able to save for student loans. We’d be able to pay for art classes for our kids. 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When bargaining began, the union asked for 14% and 9% raises, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special education paraeducators will receive an additional 5% salary increase, and classified employees, including security guards, will gain an additional floating holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security guards will also be offered full-time employment, which improves their benefit coverage options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260211-SFUSDSTRIKEOCEANBEACH-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260211-SFUSDSTRIKEOCEANBEACH-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260211-SFUSDSTRIKEOCEANBEACH-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260211-SFUSDSTRIKEOCEANBEACH-05-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking San Francisco Unified School District employees form the words “For Our Students Strike” at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Details about the special education workload changes are sparser. The district said it has committed to providing “additional support” for special educators, adding that the parties will “collaborate on an educator working group with budget authority to improve special education programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union had requested that the district move from a caseload model, which allocates workload by student, to a workload mode, which factors in the work associated with the needs of each student, to reduce the burden on employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Friday morning, Mayor Daniel Lurie thanked the bargaining teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As San Francisco becomes increasingly out of reach for so many, we all understand that it is absolutely essential that our educators and their families feel truly supported. 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