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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m just wondering how he’s doing today, and how his dad is doing. He’s got a single father. And so I was really curious how they’re handling it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily de Ayora took the morning off to bring her three kids, along with her neighbor’s children and a fellow PTA board member’s child, to the workshop. She belongs to her neighborhood mom’s group on WhatsApp, and said many members have already offered to trade child care responsibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty amazing how quickly parents can organize when we need to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Ayora, who’s also a member of the San Francisco Parent Coalition, said she supports the teachers’ cause, but hopes they can get what they need through negotiations and the strike could end soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids are fine. I’m lucky,” she said. “But there are many, many other children in this district that rely on school for food. There are many parents who are emergency workers, and they rely on schools as a safe place for their children to go every day. There are many, many students in this district who are [in] special education, and taking them out of their daily routine is extremely challenging for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike brought other parents back to the pandemic, when they were juggling with work and remote learning at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072891\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260209-SFUSDSTRIKE-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily de Ayora (center), communications specialist for the SF Parents Coalition, chaperones a group of students at Mission Science Workshop in the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco on Feb. 9, 2026, during an SFUSD teachers’ strike that closed all district schools. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abigail Alvarenga tried to get her two kids, who are in second and third grade at Monroe Elementary School, to work on their math and grammar worksheets before giving up and taking them to the science workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarenga and her husband are both firefighters, and they alternate their shifts to take care of the children. The couple can handle an indefinite strike, she said, but other families and older students aren’t so lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our kids are young, but I imagine for kids that are trying to do all of their high school stuff and trying to get their grades up for getting into colleges, the more days they’re off, the further and further behind they will get,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer the strike goes on, she said, she’ll have to reach for the workbooks and keep her children up to speed on their writing, reading and arithmetic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s educators headed to the picket lines early Monday, kicking off the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072392/san-francisco-teachers-will-call-for-a-strike-next-week\">first school strike\u003c/a> in almost 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s 111 public school \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072599/sf-schools-will-close-if-teachers-strike-heres-how-city-hall-plans-to-step-in\">campuses are shuttered\u003c/a> after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> and United Educators of San Francisco failed to come to a contract deal over the weekend, and the union declined Mayor Daniel Lurie’s call to delay the strike while negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this contract represents is stability for San Francisco Unified for years to come,” UESF President Cassondra Curiel said outside Mission High School on Monday morning, where students and families joined hundreds of teachers, counselors and social workers outside the darkened building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the only way to call off the strike would be for the union and district to come to a full contract agreement: “You can expect to see strong picket lines until that agreement is achieved,” Curiel added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a deal, SFUSD’s schools are closed indefinitely. Just before 2 p.m., the district confirmed to families that campuses would remain closed Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the thousands of striking educators, hundreds of custodial and food service workers, principals and administrators also walked off the job in sympathy strikes, making it unsafe for the district to open schools, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072848\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, center, speaks during a press conference at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. Teachers went on strike for the first time in nearly 50 years. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Maria Su told reporters Monday morning that the district’s team was prepared to receive a proposal from UESF when negotiations resumed at noon Monday, after an hourslong bargaining session broke down late Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are ready to sit that down at the bargaining table, work through the remaining issues, and quite frankly, stay here all night as long as it takes to get to a full agreement,” she said, adding that the district hopes to reach an agreement today. “Every day this strike continues has real consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families rely on school for access to food and child care throughout the day, along with instruction, mental health support and social connection, Su said.[aside postID=news_12072028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg']During the disruption, the city has set up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072028/2026-san-francisco-teachers-strike-sfusd-when-sf-union-childcare-after-school-programs-meals\">meal distribution sites\u003c/a>, and the district said some of its community partners and Recreation and Park Department after-school programs have been extended to all-day child care for their most at-risk students. Libraries and recreation centers are opening their doors to students older than 8, and the district is also offering independent study packets for children at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF declared the strike last week after months of state-led mediation ended with the union and district still far apart on many key demands, including fully funded family health care benefits and wage increases. The parties have been negotiating a new contract for almost a year, and educators are currently working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to health coverage, the union has asked for raises of 9% and 14% for teachers and paraeducators over two years and changes to special education staffing. The district had said those demands are impossible given its financial crisis, and it repeatedly offered a 6% raise over three years and some increases to health care coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the union declared it would strike, SFUSD made some movement on key demands, offering a 6% raise over two years and a $24,000 annual benefit allowance to cover health care costs during an hourslong bargaining session on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that session, the district and union reached a tentative agreement regarding the district’s sanctuary schools policy. UESF cited the agreement as an “important win” but rejected the district’s wage and benefits offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072850\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tadd Scott, English teacher at Mission High, bangs a drum during a teacher’s strike at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The district is clearly not taking our demands seriously,” the union said in a statement. “They are still telling us that any salary increases will come at the cost of previous contract wins. They are still not addressing the widespread crisis in our special education classrooms. And they are still not offering us a contract with fully funded family healthcare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Farfan, a paraeducator at Mission High School, stood on the picket lines early Monday. He said he was fighting for better wages, after being forced to move out of the city last year as the cost of living outpaced his pay. Now, he said, he has a 45-minute commute from the East Bay to get to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“We are the lowest paid throughout school, and we are the backbone for our students,” he told KQED, adding that most paraeducators only work six hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody here has their hopes up for the negotiations to go through,” he said. “I have a lot of students I’ve been helping from ninth all the way to 12th grade. I know a lot of the students in here; they know me. I get emails saying, ‘I will miss you,’ and I miss them, too, of course. For most of them, we are their second home. We’re their second families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the city at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, Charlie Macias and her mom, Nicole, had joined an early morning picket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student holds a sign alongside teachers and fellow students of Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy during a rally at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m missing my classroom a lot,” the first-grader said. She hopes classes will be back in session by Friday, when the school has planned a pajama day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We figured if school’s going to be closed, we might as well join our teachers and fight for them and what they deserve,” Nicole, who said she was home from work Monday because of the strike, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Lurie pleaded with the union to delay its walkout by three days so that schools can remain open as negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is critical that they continue the conversation so our kids can stay in school,” Lurie wrote in a statement, which was echoed by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teachers are custodians of our children five days of the week, and they deserve our support, our students need continuity and our families deserve certainty,” Pelosi wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072846\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD educators picket for the first time in nearly 50 years at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan said in an email that the union “really can’t delay the strike unless it genuinely believes that a deal is imminent, which is clearly not the case here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s honestly kind of mind-boggling that they’ve let it get to this point,” he wrote. “The problems facing the district in terms of teacher retention, morale and staffing levels have been building for years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the only way to call off the strike would be for the union and district to come to a full contract agreement: “You can expect to see strong picket lines until that agreement is achieved,” Curiel added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a deal, SFUSD’s schools are closed indefinitely. Just before 2 p.m., the district confirmed to families that campuses would remain closed Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the thousands of striking educators, hundreds of custodial and food service workers, principals and administrators also walked off the job in sympathy strikes, making it unsafe for the district to open schools, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072848\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, center, speaks during a press conference at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. Teachers went on strike for the first time in nearly 50 years. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Maria Su told reporters Monday morning that the district’s team was prepared to receive a proposal from UESF when negotiations resumed at noon Monday, after an hourslong bargaining session broke down late Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are ready to sit that down at the bargaining table, work through the remaining issues, and quite frankly, stay here all night as long as it takes to get to a full agreement,” she said, adding that the district hopes to reach an agreement today. “Every day this strike continues has real consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families rely on school for access to food and child care throughout the day, along with instruction, mental health support and social connection, Su said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During the disruption, the city has set up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072028/2026-san-francisco-teachers-strike-sfusd-when-sf-union-childcare-after-school-programs-meals\">meal distribution sites\u003c/a>, and the district said some of its community partners and Recreation and Park Department after-school programs have been extended to all-day child care for their most at-risk students. Libraries and recreation centers are opening their doors to students older than 8, and the district is also offering independent study packets for children at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF declared the strike last week after months of state-led mediation ended with the union and district still far apart on many key demands, including fully funded family health care benefits and wage increases. The parties have been negotiating a new contract for almost a year, and educators are currently working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to health coverage, the union has asked for raises of 9% and 14% for teachers and paraeducators over two years and changes to special education staffing. The district had said those demands are impossible given its financial crisis, and it repeatedly offered a 6% raise over three years and some increases to health care coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the union declared it would strike, SFUSD made some movement on key demands, offering a 6% raise over two years and a $24,000 annual benefit allowance to cover health care costs during an hourslong bargaining session on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that session, the district and union reached a tentative agreement regarding the district’s sanctuary schools policy. UESF cited the agreement as an “important win” but rejected the district’s wage and benefits offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072850\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tadd Scott, English teacher at Mission High, bangs a drum during a teacher’s strike at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The district is clearly not taking our demands seriously,” the union said in a statement. “They are still telling us that any salary increases will come at the cost of previous contract wins. They are still not addressing the widespread crisis in our special education classrooms. And they are still not offering us a contract with fully funded family healthcare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Farfan, a paraeducator at Mission High School, stood on the picket lines early Monday. He said he was fighting for better wages, after being forced to move out of the city last year as the cost of living outpaced his pay. Now, he said, he has a 45-minute commute from the East Bay to get to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“We are the lowest paid throughout school, and we are the backbone for our students,” he told KQED, adding that most paraeducators only work six hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody here has their hopes up for the negotiations to go through,” he said. “I have a lot of students I’ve been helping from ninth all the way to 12th grade. I know a lot of the students in here; they know me. I get emails saying, ‘I will miss you,’ and I miss them, too, of course. For most of them, we are their second home. We’re their second families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the city at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, Charlie Macias and her mom, Nicole, had joined an early morning picket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-37-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student holds a sign alongside teachers and fellow students of Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy during a rally at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m missing my classroom a lot,” the first-grader said. She hopes classes will be back in session by Friday, when the school has planned a pajama day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We figured if school’s going to be closed, we might as well join our teachers and fight for them and what they deserve,” Nicole, who said she was home from work Monday because of the strike, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Lurie pleaded with the union to delay its walkout by three days so that schools can remain open as negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is critical that they continue the conversation so our kids can stay in school,” Lurie wrote in a statement, which was echoed by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teachers are custodians of our children five days of the week, and they deserve our support, our students need continuity and our families deserve certainty,” Pelosi wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072846\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD educators picket for the first time in nearly 50 years at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan said in an email that the union “really can’t delay the strike unless it genuinely believes that a deal is imminent, which is clearly not the case here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s honestly kind of mind-boggling that they’ve let it get to this point,” he wrote. “The problems facing the district in terms of teacher retention, morale and staffing levels have been building for years. The district knew that there was enormous dissatisfaction among the teachers, and if they had any doubt about just how bad it was, they saw the result of two overwhelming strike votes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday morning at the Tenderloin Recreation Center, Lurie spoke publicly about the strike for the first time, saying he said he was frustrated that after Saturday’s bargaining session, where union and district officials said they made significant progress, negotiations seemed to stall Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yesterday, there was a lack of dialogue,” Lurie told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think so incredibly highly of our educators and our teachers. I want them well-paid. I want them to be able to afford health care,” he continued. “And I want our kids in school. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco schools will not be able to open if \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072392/san-francisco-teachers-will-call-for-a-strike-next-week\">teachers strike\u003c/a> as planned, the district said Friday, as Mayor Daniel Lurie prepared for the chaos of tens of thousands of families waking up Monday morning without access to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the strike goes forward, Lurie said, city departments will offer free meals and some extended child care services. Meanwhile, negotiations between the teachers union and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> continue, but both sides appear to be far from a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best outcome for our city is schools staying open and students continuing to learn in their classrooms. That remains my hope,” Lurie said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUZqDNLETq9/\">social media video\u003c/a> late Thursday. “But families deserve to know that their city is planning ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the 6,000 teachers, paraeducators, social workers and counselors represented by United Educators of San Francisco — as well as administrators and other campus workers, whose unions have vowed not to cross picket lines — Superintendent Maria Su said schools will not be able to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means families of the 50,000 students normally sent to 110 district schools would be left \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072028/2026-san-francisco-teachers-strike-sfusd-when-sf-union-childcare-after-school-programs-meals\">without child care\u003c/a>, and some children without reliable meals or places to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said on day one, his office is prepared to stand up meal distribution centers where students can receive a grab-and-go lunch on a first-come, first-served basis. Some sites will also offer breakfast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058782\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference at Sanchez Elementary School on the first day of classes for the new school year in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The centers will be in partnership with the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families; the San Francisco Public Library; the Recreation and Parks Department; and other community-based organizations. Families will receive information about the locations, hours and meal availability at sites directly, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who already participate in the district’s after-school programs could also have access to extended services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said earlier this week that it was working with the community-based organizations and nonprofits that provide that programming on the possibility of all-day care, but many are limited by space and capacity. Su said Friday that the district would prioritize unhoused children, but could not provide an estimate of how many could be accommodated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072028/2026-san-francisco-teachers-strike-sfusd-when-sf-union-childcare-after-school-programs-meals\">Mariposa SF\u003c/a> confirmed to KQED that it will open full-day programming to families enrolled in its after-school care programs at Leonard Flynn and Dolores Huerta elementary schools, and Real Options for City Kids said it would be able to serve about 40 students between its three schools. Parents should reach out to their after-school care providers directly for information on their options, according to district and city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said the district was working with its non-public school providers, which provide special education services to a couple of hundred of the district’s students with the highest needs, to continue their services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD plans to offer independent study for students to continue learning at home, and Su said the district was working on instructional packets for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public libraries will remain open, Lurie noted, and children older than 8 are able to access the facilities without a parent or guardian.[aside postID=news_12072028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-1020x634.jpg']“I know this situation is distressing for families and for students,” Su said Friday. “Please know that I am approaching this with deep urgency, working with everyone to try to reach a resolution that supports our educators while protecting the education, safety supports and care that our students need and deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike set for Monday comes after nearly a year of unsuccessful contract negotiations between the union and district leaders. Currently, educators are working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear how the city plans to support families should the strike extend beyond Monday. Lurie said he’s still hopeful an agreement can be reached, and that he was grateful that UESF and SFUSD had returned to the bargaining table on Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though there are details to work out, I know that everyone at the table, including every hardworking educator, shares a dedication to our students,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But UESF President Cassondra Curiel said in a statement after Thursday’s bargaining session that the union was disappointed by an apparent “lack of urgency” from district negotiators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su had said Thursday that the district planned to make a proposal to the union that met its top demand — fully funded health care for educators with families — and offered wage increases within its means, but Curiel said no such proposal was made that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All week we have been bombarded with the message that the district was prepared to come to the table and give us a serious proposal — and our members were ready to negotiate tonight,” Curiel said. “We aren’t sure what happened tonight when the district’s team — minus Dr. Su — came to the table without such an offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union has said it will not accept a contract that doesn’t cover health care costs, which rose this year. Educators with families on their health care pay about $1,500 per month — up to 40% of some of their paychecks, according to Curiel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has also requested raises of 9% and 14% over two years for different members, and to transition special education staff from a caseload to a workload model, to alleviate overloading the hard-to-staff positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD has said repeatedly that it can’t meet the union’s demands because of its budget shortfall. Su said that Thursday night, the district maintained its offer for 6% raises over three years, with concessions from educators, which it made in October. She said the district is also offering two health care benefit options: one to cover 75% of premiums, and another to give educators a $24,000 annual benefit allowance for health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposal takes into account the needs of all of our educators and provides the district with a three-year runway for financial stability,” Su told reporters Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A neutral mediator earlier this week found that that wage offer — which fails to match the state’s cost-of-living adjustment — is too low, and recommended a 6% raise over two years, along with fully funded health care for the next three years, using parcel tax funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district suggested resuming negotiations on Friday morning. The union has agreed to bargain on Saturday at 2 p.m., saying that would “allow the district time to make preparations on an offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Shareyourstory\">\u003c/a>California is expensive. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco schools will not be able to open if \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072392/san-francisco-teachers-will-call-for-a-strike-next-week\">teachers strike\u003c/a> as planned, the district said Friday, as Mayor Daniel Lurie prepared for the chaos of tens of thousands of families waking up Monday morning without access to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the strike goes forward, Lurie said, city departments will offer free meals and some extended child care services. Meanwhile, negotiations between the teachers union and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> continue, but both sides appear to be far from a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best outcome for our city is schools staying open and students continuing to learn in their classrooms. That remains my hope,” Lurie said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUZqDNLETq9/\">social media video\u003c/a> late Thursday. “But families deserve to know that their city is planning ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the 6,000 teachers, paraeducators, social workers and counselors represented by United Educators of San Francisco — as well as administrators and other campus workers, whose unions have vowed not to cross picket lines — Superintendent Maria Su said schools will not be able to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means families of the 50,000 students normally sent to 110 district schools would be left \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072028/2026-san-francisco-teachers-strike-sfusd-when-sf-union-childcare-after-school-programs-meals\">without child care\u003c/a>, and some children without reliable meals or places to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said on day one, his office is prepared to stand up meal distribution centers where students can receive a grab-and-go lunch on a first-come, first-served basis. Some sites will also offer breakfast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058782\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-30_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference at Sanchez Elementary School on the first day of classes for the new school year in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The centers will be in partnership with the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families; the San Francisco Public Library; the Recreation and Parks Department; and other community-based organizations. Families will receive information about the locations, hours and meal availability at sites directly, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who already participate in the district’s after-school programs could also have access to extended services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said earlier this week that it was working with the community-based organizations and nonprofits that provide that programming on the possibility of all-day care, but many are limited by space and capacity. Su said Friday that the district would prioritize unhoused children, but could not provide an estimate of how many could be accommodated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072028/2026-san-francisco-teachers-strike-sfusd-when-sf-union-childcare-after-school-programs-meals\">Mariposa SF\u003c/a> confirmed to KQED that it will open full-day programming to families enrolled in its after-school care programs at Leonard Flynn and Dolores Huerta elementary schools, and Real Options for City Kids said it would be able to serve about 40 students between its three schools. Parents should reach out to their after-school care providers directly for information on their options, according to district and city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said the district was working with its non-public school providers, which provide special education services to a couple of hundred of the district’s students with the highest needs, to continue their services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD plans to offer independent study for students to continue learning at home, and Su said the district was working on instructional packets for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public libraries will remain open, Lurie noted, and children older than 8 are able to access the facilities without a parent or guardian.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I know this situation is distressing for families and for students,” Su said Friday. “Please know that I am approaching this with deep urgency, working with everyone to try to reach a resolution that supports our educators while protecting the education, safety supports and care that our students need and deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike set for Monday comes after nearly a year of unsuccessful contract negotiations between the union and district leaders. Currently, educators are working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear how the city plans to support families should the strike extend beyond Monday. Lurie said he’s still hopeful an agreement can be reached, and that he was grateful that UESF and SFUSD had returned to the bargaining table on Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though there are details to work out, I know that everyone at the table, including every hardworking educator, shares a dedication to our students,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But UESF President Cassondra Curiel said in a statement after Thursday’s bargaining session that the union was disappointed by an apparent “lack of urgency” from district negotiators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su had said Thursday that the district planned to make a proposal to the union that met its top demand — fully funded health care for educators with families — and offered wage increases within its means, but Curiel said no such proposal was made that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All week we have been bombarded with the message that the district was prepared to come to the table and give us a serious proposal — and our members were ready to negotiate tonight,” Curiel said. “We aren’t sure what happened tonight when the district’s team — minus Dr. Su — came to the table without such an offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union has said it will not accept a contract that doesn’t cover health care costs, which rose this year. Educators with families on their health care pay about $1,500 per month — up to 40% of some of their paychecks, according to Curiel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has also requested raises of 9% and 14% over two years for different members, and to transition special education staff from a caseload to a workload model, to alleviate overloading the hard-to-staff positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD has said repeatedly that it can’t meet the union’s demands because of its budget shortfall. Su said that Thursday night, the district maintained its offer for 6% raises over three years, with concessions from educators, which it made in October. She said the district is also offering two health care benefit options: one to cover 75% of premiums, and another to give educators a $24,000 annual benefit allowance for health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposal takes into account the needs of all of our educators and provides the district with a three-year runway for financial stability,” Su told reporters Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A neutral mediator earlier this week found that that wage offer — which fails to match the state’s cost-of-living adjustment — is too low, and recommended a 6% raise over two years, along with fully funded health care for the next three years, using parcel tax funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district suggested resuming negotiations on Friday morning. The union has agreed to bargain on Saturday at 2 p.m., saying that would “allow the district time to make preparations on an offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Shareyourstory\">\u003c/a>California is expensive. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> teachers will go on strike Monday for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071181/san-francisco-teachers-union-moves-closer-to-a-historic-strike-first-in-more-than-50-years\">first time in half a century\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Educators of San Francisco gave formal notice to members and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> on Thursday that they will be on the picket lines next week as 11 months of contract negotiations come to a close without a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not come to this decision lightly,” UESF President Cassondra Curiel said at a press conference on Thursday morning. “We want to be in our classrooms and our school sites with all of our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union, which represents 6,000 teachers, paraeducators and other school staff, has been negotiating a new two-year contract with the district since last March. Educators are currently working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties are set to resume bargaining Thursday evening for the first time since declaring an impasse and entering mediation in October, and could still avert a work stoppage through a last-minute agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is up to the district to come [to the bargaining table] with a serious proposal to solve the stability crisis,” Curiel said. “If not, it will be up to the thousands of educators of UESF to do what few of us have done before and take the next step onto the picket lines on Monday morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strike, which would be the city’s first since 1979, comes as teachers’ unions across the state gear up for their own shutdowns: the Los Angeles Unified School District authorized a strike \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/los-angeles-san-francisco-teachers-unions-vote-to-authorize-a-strike\">last weekend\u003c/a> and San Diego will hold a one-day work stoppage later this month. Oakland’s union has \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/12/18/oakland-unified-teachers-union-contract-negotiations-oea/\">indicated\u003c/a> it is not far behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands'\">more than 30 California unions\u003c/a> launched a coordinated bargaining focused on stabilizing schools through smaller class sizes, special education changes and better wages and benefit coverage meant to attract and retain educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has requested full benefit coverage for educators and their dependents and wage increases ranging from 9% to 14% for teachers and paraeducators, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district can’t not afford to invest in stabilizing staffing,” said Teanna Tillery, UESF’s vice president of paraeducators. “With almost 400 educator vacancies and health care increasing by 20%, the writing’s on the wall. SFUSD needs to invest in all of its educators or risk losing most of us.”[aside postID=news_12072028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-1020x634.jpg']The district has maintained that it’s hamstringed by a financial crisis and remains under state oversight. It said meeting the union’s wage and benefit demands is unfeasible and would be rejected by fiscal advisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the impasse, the district had proposed a 2% raise for each of the next three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066097/sfusd-teachers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-authorize-the-first-strike-in-49-years\">with concessions\u003c/a> from educators. Superintendent Maria Su has repeatedly said that the district has also offered a “creative” way to fund health care, but hasn’t shared details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to families after the strike was called, Su said that she wants to avert a strike, and that the district plans to present a proposal that “meets many of our educators’ requests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear what that offer contains. Earlier this week, a neutral panel released a “fact-finding report” — the final step of mediation — that included recommended compromises on the union’s top demands. That suggested 6% raises over two years and fully funded family health care for three years using temporary parcel tax money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has not said whether it would agree to the report’s recommendations, but Curiel said they “do not go far enough.” Paraeducators need more significant raises, and health care funding should be permanent, the union said in a written dissent following the fact-finding report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a strike goes forward on Monday, campus operations will be significantly impacted, and Su said schools could be forced to close. To operate, schools need an administrator and custodial services, along with staff to supervise and provide instruction for students, and food service workers to distribute meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is, if I determine that I cannot open school safely because we do not have the staff to open school safely, then we cannot,” Su said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SEIU 1021, which represents custodians, clerks and lunchroom helpers, has announced its members will hold a sympathy strike and won’t cross the picket lines. The United Administrators of San Francisco is voting through midday Friday to determine if it will do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closed campuses could leave families of SFUSD’s 50,000 students scrambling to find alternative child care come Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard moment for families,” said Meredith Dodson, who heads the nonprofit San Francisco Parents Coalition. For parents who “are working jobs where they don’t have flexibility, they’re trying to figure out alternative plans for where their kids will be on Monday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said about a quarter of the 700 families that the organization surveyed this week said they would have to miss work if their kids’ schools close. Just 4% said private childcare would be an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“It’s most worrying for those who are living paycheck to paycheck,” Dodson said. “We’re also hearing a lot of concerns, especially from families with children in the special ed system. Especially the ones with one-on-one paraeducator support. It’s really hard to get those needs met without our schools open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said that she’s working with after-school care providers to extend services for a small number of the district’s most vulnerable students, and would prioritize extremely low-income and unhoused students, as well as those receiving special education services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she estimated that might only cover a couple of hundred and up to 1,000 kids, a fraction of the number of SFUSD students who might be in a vulnerable position during a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About a third of the students experience housing insecurity or food insecurity,” said Nelson Barry, the president of Urban Angels SF, which serves unhoused and at-risk youth. “They come from families that are living at or near the poverty level, so when there’s a strike, it’s going to affect these children in great numbers, not just a few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070970 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie said Wednesday that he has been in contact with the union and district and urged both sides to return to the bargaining table and avoid a work stoppage. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties are set to resume bargaining Thursday evening for the first time since declaring an impasse and entering mediation in October, and could still avert a work stoppage through a last-minute agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is up to the district to come [to the bargaining table] with a serious proposal to solve the stability crisis,” Curiel said. “If not, it will be up to the thousands of educators of UESF to do what few of us have done before and take the next step onto the picket lines on Monday morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strike, which would be the city’s first since 1979, comes as teachers’ unions across the state gear up for their own shutdowns: the Los Angeles Unified School District authorized a strike \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/los-angeles-san-francisco-teachers-unions-vote-to-authorize-a-strike\">last weekend\u003c/a> and San Diego will hold a one-day work stoppage later this month. Oakland’s union has \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/12/18/oakland-unified-teachers-union-contract-negotiations-oea/\">indicated\u003c/a> it is not far behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands'\">more than 30 California unions\u003c/a> launched a coordinated bargaining focused on stabilizing schools through smaller class sizes, special education changes and better wages and benefit coverage meant to attract and retain educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has requested full benefit coverage for educators and their dependents and wage increases ranging from 9% to 14% for teachers and paraeducators, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district can’t not afford to invest in stabilizing staffing,” said Teanna Tillery, UESF’s vice president of paraeducators. “With almost 400 educator vacancies and health care increasing by 20%, the writing’s on the wall. SFUSD needs to invest in all of its educators or risk losing most of us.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The district has maintained that it’s hamstringed by a financial crisis and remains under state oversight. It said meeting the union’s wage and benefit demands is unfeasible and would be rejected by fiscal advisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the impasse, the district had proposed a 2% raise for each of the next three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066097/sfusd-teachers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-authorize-the-first-strike-in-49-years\">with concessions\u003c/a> from educators. Superintendent Maria Su has repeatedly said that the district has also offered a “creative” way to fund health care, but hasn’t shared details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to families after the strike was called, Su said that she wants to avert a strike, and that the district plans to present a proposal that “meets many of our educators’ requests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear what that offer contains. Earlier this week, a neutral panel released a “fact-finding report” — the final step of mediation — that included recommended compromises on the union’s top demands. That suggested 6% raises over two years and fully funded family health care for three years using temporary parcel tax money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has not said whether it would agree to the report’s recommendations, but Curiel said they “do not go far enough.” Paraeducators need more significant raises, and health care funding should be permanent, the union said in a written dissent following the fact-finding report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a strike goes forward on Monday, campus operations will be significantly impacted, and Su said schools could be forced to close. To operate, schools need an administrator and custodial services, along with staff to supervise and provide instruction for students, and food service workers to distribute meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is, if I determine that I cannot open school safely because we do not have the staff to open school safely, then we cannot,” Su said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SEIU 1021, which represents custodians, clerks and lunchroom helpers, has announced its members will hold a sympathy strike and won’t cross the picket lines. The United Administrators of San Francisco is voting through midday Friday to determine if it will do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closed campuses could leave families of SFUSD’s 50,000 students scrambling to find alternative child care come Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard moment for families,” said Meredith Dodson, who heads the nonprofit San Francisco Parents Coalition. For parents who “are working jobs where they don’t have flexibility, they’re trying to figure out alternative plans for where their kids will be on Monday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said about a quarter of the 700 families that the organization surveyed this week said they would have to miss work if their kids’ schools close. Just 4% said private childcare would be an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“It’s most worrying for those who are living paycheck to paycheck,” Dodson said. “We’re also hearing a lot of concerns, especially from families with children in the special ed system. Especially the ones with one-on-one paraeducator support. It’s really hard to get those needs met without our schools open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said that she’s working with after-school care providers to extend services for a small number of the district’s most vulnerable students, and would prioritize extremely low-income and unhoused students, as well as those receiving special education services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she estimated that might only cover a couple of hundred and up to 1,000 kids, a fraction of the number of SFUSD students who might be in a vulnerable position during a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About a third of the students experience housing insecurity or food insecurity,” said Nelson Barry, the president of Urban Angels SF, which serves unhoused and at-risk youth. “They come from families that are living at or near the poverty level, so when there’s a strike, it’s going to affect these children in great numbers, not just a few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070970 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie said Wednesday that he has been in contact with the union and district and urged both sides to return to the bargaining table and avoid a work stoppage. He’s also said he’s in contact with city partners to prepare to support families if schools close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is crucial that our schools remain open,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/danielluriesf/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>. “Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed. Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed. Schools are the foundation that makes daily life possible and helps every family in San Francisco thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time San Francisco saw an educator strike was September 1979, when teachers took to picket lines for more than six weeks, delaying the start of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strike, which was sparked by mass teacher layoffs in the wake of Proposition 13, shuttered some schools for more than two weeks and threw the city into chaos. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> educators are on the brink of striking for the first time in nearly 50 years, as the teachers’ union said Wednesday that it had reached the end of mediation with the district without an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has already authorized a strike, and now that the mediation process has concluded, educators could walk off the job as soon as next week if they don’t see a deal that meets their top demands, such as fully funded health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A monthslong impasse between the union and the San Francisco Unified School District brought both sides to mediation, a state-mandated step that legally must precede a teachers’ strike. That process ended Wednesday with a fact-finding report issued by a panel that includes one representative each from the union and the district, along with a neutral mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The report does not go far enough — and the recommendations here alone will not solve the stability crisis in our district,” Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said in a statement. “Now is the time for the district to come to the table with real solutions and show the community that they are fully committed to funding the classrooms and schools our students and communities deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is meant to offer an analysis of the merits of both the district’s and the union’s proposals, as well as nonbinding recommendations for a settlement. It recommends the district give union members a 3% raise for each of the next two years and fully fund health benefits for the next three years through existing parcel tax money. After that, the report said, the district should look into the possibility of extending full health care coverage through a different source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the district concurred with the report’s findings, the union dissented in part. UESF argued that paraeducators, who are among the lowest paid in the union, need more than a 3% annual raise and that health benefit coverage should be ongoing, not limited to the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has proposed 9% raises for teachers and 14% for paraeducators over two years, along with fully funded health care and a written commitment to the district’s sanctuary immigration policy and emergency shelter program for unhoused families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said that such a raise isn’t feasible given its current budget crisis, and it countered with an offer for a 2% raise for each of the next three years in October. Last month, it said it could fund Kaiser Permanente health care benefits through existing parcel tax funding until it expires in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said SFUSD rejected its sanctuary and housing proposals, which the district argued should be determined through district policy, not labor contracts. According to the fact-finding report, there are “significant challenges” associated with adding the language to educators’ contracts, which it said “imposes onerous responsibilities on the District as a landlord, job trainer, and legal advocate,” and opens SFUSD up to significant liability.[aside postID=news_12072028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-1020x634.jpg']The district did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the report’s release, Superintendent Maria Su said she believed the district and union were close to a deal and could avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at the table; we want to continue and finish this conversation,” she said on Tuesday. “I know that we will be able to get to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said in a statement that its bargaining team is prepared to negotiate on Thursday and Friday, though it is unlikely to back down on its core demands. UESF has repeatedly said that it will not sign a deal without fully funded health care coverage, and it’s not clear if it will accept the current temporary proposal. UESF said it hasn’t seen that proposal in writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a dissent issued with the fact-finding report, Angela Su, who represented the union on the committee, said: “I agree that the district should tap into the resources available to fully fund dependent benefits … but dissent that it should be anything other than ongoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has said its members’ health care costs are rising exponentially, noting that as of 2026, a family of four pays more than $1,500 a month for coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just this January, educators got a 20% increase in our health care costs,” Curiel said Wednesday on KQED’s Forum. “Folks that are teaching … are going to have to go home today and make tough decisions about whether or not they can afford other things for the rest of the month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on social media, Mayor Daniel Lurie said his office is in contact with both the district and union, urging them to “keep talking so kids can keep learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that if a strike goes forward, he’s working with city departments to ensure there are options for students in case classrooms close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su has repeatedly said that closing campuses is a last resort, but could be necessary if they do not have sufficient staffing to open safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed,” Lurie said. “Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district could return to the bargaining table as soon as Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The report does not go far enough — and the recommendations here alone will not solve the stability crisis in our district,” Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said in a statement. “Now is the time for the district to come to the table with real solutions and show the community that they are fully committed to funding the classrooms and schools our students and communities deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is meant to offer an analysis of the merits of both the district’s and the union’s proposals, as well as nonbinding recommendations for a settlement. It recommends the district give union members a 3% raise for each of the next two years and fully fund health benefits for the next three years through existing parcel tax money. After that, the report said, the district should look into the possibility of extending full health care coverage through a different source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the district concurred with the report’s findings, the union dissented in part. UESF argued that paraeducators, who are among the lowest paid in the union, need more than a 3% annual raise and that health benefit coverage should be ongoing, not limited to the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has proposed 9% raises for teachers and 14% for paraeducators over two years, along with fully funded health care and a written commitment to the district’s sanctuary immigration policy and emergency shelter program for unhoused families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said that such a raise isn’t feasible given its current budget crisis, and it countered with an offer for a 2% raise for each of the next three years in October. Last month, it said it could fund Kaiser Permanente health care benefits through existing parcel tax funding until it expires in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said SFUSD rejected its sanctuary and housing proposals, which the district argued should be determined through district policy, not labor contracts. According to the fact-finding report, there are “significant challenges” associated with adding the language to educators’ contracts, which it said “imposes onerous responsibilities on the District as a landlord, job trainer, and legal advocate,” and opens SFUSD up to significant liability.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The district did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the report’s release, Superintendent Maria Su said she believed the district and union were close to a deal and could avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at the table; we want to continue and finish this conversation,” she said on Tuesday. “I know that we will be able to get to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said in a statement that its bargaining team is prepared to negotiate on Thursday and Friday, though it is unlikely to back down on its core demands. UESF has repeatedly said that it will not sign a deal without fully funded health care coverage, and it’s not clear if it will accept the current temporary proposal. UESF said it hasn’t seen that proposal in writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a dissent issued with the fact-finding report, Angela Su, who represented the union on the committee, said: “I agree that the district should tap into the resources available to fully fund dependent benefits … but dissent that it should be anything other than ongoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has said its members’ health care costs are rising exponentially, noting that as of 2026, a family of four pays more than $1,500 a month for coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just this January, educators got a 20% increase in our health care costs,” Curiel said Wednesday on KQED’s Forum. “Folks that are teaching … are going to have to go home today and make tough decisions about whether or not they can afford other things for the rest of the month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on social media, Mayor Daniel Lurie said his office is in contact with both the district and union, urging them to “keep talking so kids can keep learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that if a strike goes forward, he’s working with city departments to ensure there are options for students in case classrooms close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su has repeatedly said that closing campuses is a last resort, but could be necessary if they do not have sufficient staffing to open safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed,” Lurie said. “Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district could return to the bargaining table as soon as Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco teachers are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066097/sfusd-teachers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-authorize-the-first-strike-in-49-years\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">barrelling toward a strike\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, voting overwhelmingly this week to authorize one after months of unsuccessful labor negotiations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The vote — which gives union leaders the go-ahead to declare an indefinite work stoppage — was supported by nearly 98% of the city’s educators who cast ballots during a weeklong vote. More than 5,200 of United Educators of San Francisco’s 6,000 members participated, according to the union.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If called, the strike would be the first in San Francisco since 1979, and threatens to upend school operations indefinitely. Superintendent Maria Su has said schools could not open safely without striking staff, and that — if campuses are forced to close — the academic year could be extended into the summer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The time is now for the district to act,” UESF President Cassondra Curiel said in a statement. “What comes next is ultimately up to the district and their actions, but San Francisco educators are making it clear that we are more than willing to do everything we can for our community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UESF won’t strike until it receives a fact-finding report from a neutral party, part of a state-mandated mediation process between the district and union, next week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Curiel said that the union is committed to reaching a deal that meets its core demands, including fully-funded dependent healthcare, wage increases and contract language affirming SFUSD’s sanctuary commitments for immigrants. Earlier this week, she said the district hasn’t indicated it plans to meet their requirements.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The district and the union remain very far apart. That is a driving concern,” Curiel told KQED. She said this week’s vote brings the union closer to a strike than it has been in 20 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last time the union held a final strike vote like this week’s was in 2006. \u003c/span>\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>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">United Educators of San Francisco, which represents 6,000 teachers, paraeducators and other school staff, has been negotiating a new two-year contract with the district since March of last year. Educators are currently working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The parties mutually agreed to move into a two-part mediation process in November. Last week, they wrapped up the second step of that mediation process without a deal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are disappointed to share that we did not reach an agreement with UESF after today’s fact-finding session,” Su said in a message to families Friday. “Despite the District’s creative suggestions, UESF did not offer any counter, and terminated our Fact Finding session at 4:30 p.m.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The district said it’s offered UESF 6% raises over three years — pay increases the union said are contingent on giving up extra preparation periods for advanced placement course teachers and a sabbatical program for veteran educators, which they don’t want to lose. SFUSD also said it offered a way to fully fund health benefits, but Curiel said the union has not gotten any such proposal in writing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12070455 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250318-PrivateSchoolRates-13-BL_qed.jpg']“These ideas did not go nearly far enough, and … came with huge concessions our team knew our members would never stand for,” the union said in a statement. “We remain prepared to hear any real solutions the district may formally bring to the table that will stabilize our district for our students, educators, and families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curiel said the union is still willing to negotiate with the district, but that it “has not shown any actions that lead to actual attempts to avoid [a strike].”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Since] the last real proposal that we were passed, [it] has been months,” she continued. “The district could change that effort. We’re taking steps to be prepared.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the next week, the fact-finding panel, which is made up of a representative for the union, district and neutral chair, will issue its non-binding recommendations. The union also must choose to accept or reject a final offer from the district.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After that, it could call a strike at any time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not yet known which schools would shutter during a strike, or for how long. Su said in a message to families that SFUSD is committed to meeting its minimum number of instructional days, and could extend the academic year if necessary.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is an incredible show of strength and unity,” the union said in a statement. “The urgency of our demands has never been clearer.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UESF won’t strike until it receives a fact-finding report from a neutral party, part of a state-mandated mediation process between the district and union, next week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Curiel said that the union is committed to reaching a deal that meets its core demands, including fully-funded dependent healthcare, wage increases and contract language affirming SFUSD’s sanctuary commitments for immigrants. Earlier this week, she said the district hasn’t indicated it plans to meet their requirements.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The district and the union remain very far apart. That is a driving concern,” Curiel told KQED. She said this week’s vote brings the union closer to a strike than it has been in 20 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last time the union held a final strike vote like this week’s was in 2006. \u003c/span>\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>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">United Educators of San Francisco, which represents 6,000 teachers, paraeducators and other school staff, has been negotiating a new two-year contract with the district since March of last year. Educators are currently working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The parties mutually agreed to move into a two-part mediation process in November. Last week, they wrapped up the second step of that mediation process without a deal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are disappointed to share that we did not reach an agreement with UESF after today’s fact-finding session,” Su said in a message to families Friday. “Despite the District’s creative suggestions, UESF did not offer any counter, and terminated our Fact Finding session at 4:30 p.m.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The district said it’s offered UESF 6% raises over three years — pay increases the union said are contingent on giving up extra preparation periods for advanced placement course teachers and a sabbatical program for veteran educators, which they don’t want to lose. SFUSD also said it offered a way to fully fund health benefits, but Curiel said the union has not gotten any such proposal in writing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“These ideas did not go nearly far enough, and … came with huge concessions our team knew our members would never stand for,” the union said in a statement. “We remain prepared to hear any real solutions the district may formally bring to the table that will stabilize our district for our students, educators, and families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curiel said the union is still willing to negotiate with the district, but that it “has not shown any actions that lead to actual attempts to avoid [a strike].”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Since] the last real proposal that we were passed, [it] has been months,” she continued. “The district could change that effort. We’re taking steps to be prepared.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the next week, the fact-finding panel, which is made up of a representative for the union, district and neutral chair, will issue its non-binding recommendations. The union also must choose to accept or reject a final offer from the district.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After that, it could call a strike at any time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not yet known which schools would shutter during a strike, or for how long. Su said in a message to families that SFUSD is committed to meeting its minimum number of instructional days, and could extend the academic year if necessary.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is an incredible show of strength and unity,” the union said in a statement. “The urgency of our demands has never been clearer.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">school district\u003c/a> is expanding a tutoring program that more than doubled students’ reading proficiency rates last year, a bright spot in the district’s push to raise literacy scores after pandemic-era disruptions and changes to the reading curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, the district and San Francisco Education Fund rolled out short, individualized tutoring sessions for struggling students across a dozen of its highest-needs schools, but the district’s significant funding cuts and looming state and federal budget constraints posed a problem. SF Ed Fund said it had a waitlist of more than 800 students, without money to pay for the services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s set to change this week, after the district and nonprofit announced Tuesday that they would be able to clear those waitlists, and more than double the total number of students participating, with new city funding through San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the single most effective literacy intervention we have, and this expansion allows us to do what we know works,” said Ann Levy Walden, CEO of the SF Ed Fund. “With strong public partnership and clear goals, and in collaboration with the work of the district and its teaching staff, we’re able to deliver real, measurable gains for students who benefit most from support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expansion comes as SFUSD is trying to meet a lofty goal to raise districtwide literacy rates among third-graders to 70% by 2027. The rate of third-graders reading at or above grade level dropped year-over-year from 49% to 47% in spring 2025, according to the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/DLVPD8638224/%24file/%5BBOE%20Final%5D%2020250930_%20PMR%20-%20Goals%201%2C2%2C3.pdf\">most recent literacy proficiency data\u003c/a>\u003cu>, \u003c/u>the lowest percentage since schools returned fully to in-person instruction in the 2021-2022 school year after the COVID-19 pandemic.\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>The initial phase of the program provided about 1,250 students with short personalized tutoring sessions at least three days a week. Seventeen early literacy interventionists worked in 12 schools, across which the percentage of participating students reading at grade level jumped from 24% to 54% in five months. The biggest gains were among kindergartners, with proficiency rates topping 71%, and at Sanchez Elementary, which saw proficiency levels nearly quadruple, from 15% to 59%, SF Ed Fund said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walden said that while the tutoring alone is not a “silver bullet” to boost reading proficiency, it is highly effective when coupled with a strong curriculum and classroom support. The district r\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2024-03-28-sfusd-adopts-new-pk-8-language-arts-core-curriculum-2024-25-school-year\">olled out new literacy curricula\u003c/a> for transitional kindergarten through eighth grade for the first time in 20 years in 2024, which then-Superintendent Matt Wayne said was “research-based” and aimed at meeting the district’s 70% proficiency rate next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pilots run in some SFUSD schools in 2023, the programs were found to include more grade-appropriate assignments and stronger instruction than the district’s previous programs, it said at the time.[aside postID=news_12067247 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-24_qed.jpg']Now, DCYF is allocating city Student Success Fund dollars to expand the tutoring program to 1,440 more students, focusing on second- through fourth-graders, who are in a pivotal window for literacy development, according to SF Ed Fund. The city fund was created by Proposition G, which voters passed in 2022 to provide SFUSD schools with grants paid for by residents’ excess property tax revenue. The goal was to invest in schools where students were struggling with the academic and social/emotional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“High-impact literacy tutoring helps students build confidence, strengthen critical thinking, and develop the skills they need to thrive in school and beyond,” said Sherrice Dorsey-Smith, executive director of DCYF. “By investing Student Success Fund dollars and working in close partnership with our SFUSD and SF Ed Fund partners, we are expanding access to these services, bringing students off waitlists, and delivering more robust, coordinated support for students and families across San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new funding will pay for tutors — employed through private providers Chapter One and Braintrust Tutors — to work at additional elementary schools that SFUSD considers those with highest needs. During the initial rollout last spring, tutors were sent to priority schools, which have less than 50% of students meeting literacy standards and more than 50% qualifying as low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD is bringing on an additional 19 tutors for a total of 36 across 20 schools. SF Ed Fund said tutors will start at eight “high potential schools” that weren’t a part of last year’s rollout, including: Paul Revere School in Bernal Heights; Carver, Drew and Malcolm X elementary schools in Bayview-Hunter’s Point; César Chávez and Bryant elementary schools in the Mission; and Visitacion Valley and El Dorado elementary schools in Visitacion Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for SF Ed Fund said most schools’ new tutors will begin next week, while some are expected to start the first week of February, pending hiring and scheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said the focus on these campuses aims to address significant literacy disparities across certain groups of students: While just about half of SFUSD students are reading at grade level, only 7% of English language learners, 26% of Latinx and 19% of Black students met state standards for third grade, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This expansion enables us to focus resources on the grade levels and school communities where high-impact tutoring can most effectively accelerate literacy development — helping students catch up, stay on track, and build a strong foundation for future learning,” Superintendent Maria Su said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now, DCYF is allocating city Student Success Fund dollars to expand the tutoring program to 1,440 more students, focusing on second- through fourth-graders, who are in a pivotal window for literacy development, according to SF Ed Fund. The city fund was created by Proposition G, which voters passed in 2022 to provide SFUSD schools with grants paid for by residents’ excess property tax revenue. The goal was to invest in schools where students were struggling with the academic and social/emotional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“High-impact literacy tutoring helps students build confidence, strengthen critical thinking, and develop the skills they need to thrive in school and beyond,” said Sherrice Dorsey-Smith, executive director of DCYF. “By investing Student Success Fund dollars and working in close partnership with our SFUSD and SF Ed Fund partners, we are expanding access to these services, bringing students off waitlists, and delivering more robust, coordinated support for students and families across San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new funding will pay for tutors — employed through private providers Chapter One and Braintrust Tutors — to work at additional elementary schools that SFUSD considers those with highest needs. During the initial rollout last spring, tutors were sent to priority schools, which have less than 50% of students meeting literacy standards and more than 50% qualifying as low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD is bringing on an additional 19 tutors for a total of 36 across 20 schools. SF Ed Fund said tutors will start at eight “high potential schools” that weren’t a part of last year’s rollout, including: Paul Revere School in Bernal Heights; Carver, Drew and Malcolm X elementary schools in Bayview-Hunter’s Point; César Chávez and Bryant elementary schools in the Mission; and Visitacion Valley and El Dorado elementary schools in Visitacion Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for SF Ed Fund said most schools’ new tutors will begin next week, while some are expected to start the first week of February, pending hiring and scheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said the focus on these campuses aims to address significant literacy disparities across certain groups of students: While just about half of SFUSD students are reading at grade level, only 7% of English language learners, 26% of Latinx and 19% of Black students met state standards for third grade, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This expansion enables us to focus resources on the grade levels and school communities where high-impact tutoring can most effectively accelerate literacy development — helping students catch up, stay on track, and build a strong foundation for future learning,” Superintendent Maria Su said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-board-of-education\">school board\u003c/a> on Tuesday will get a first look at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066271/sfusd-has-overspent-for-years-major-cuts-could-have-it-on-the-path-to-stability\">district leaders’ plan to slash spending\u003c/a> by more than $100 million for the second year in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed cuts include deeper staffing reductions, changes to middle school schedules and school consolidations as soon as 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Maria Su said earlier this month that the reductions aim to pull the district out of state oversight, but parents and teachers are worried about the impact further classroom reductions could have, especially on already vulnerable students and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is definitely some misalignment … in the sense that … our recommendations are calling out for sustainability in staffing, for mental health, and we’re cutting significant apportionments of positions,” said Vanessa Marrero, who heads Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, SFUSD cut $114 million in ongoing expenses through hundreds of early retirement buy-outs, a strict staffing model and administrative cuts. This year, it needs to identify another $102 million to cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The superintendent’s draft plan — which won’t be finalized until the spring — totals about $70 million in savings by 2028.\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>Under an updated staffing model, only Title I eligible schools will be allocated a social worker. Previously, non-Title I campuses that met specific enrollment criteria were eligible for at least a half-time position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal cuts 45 full-time roles, which could be spread across as many as 90 campuses. The district said it was looking to identify other restricted funding sources to pay for these roles, and to provide flexibility in schools’ discretionary spending to “prioritize investments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other major personnel reductions will come from a change to middle school schedules: campuses will transition from a seven-period block schedule rolled out over the last few years back to six-period school days.[aside postID=news_12066271 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg']In 2018, the district introduced its “\u003ca href=\"https://mgredesign.sfusd.edu/\">Middle Grades Redesign\u003c/a>” initiative, which created longer class periods and aimed to add elective course opportunities for students. Presidio Middle School transitioned to the seven-period schedule in 2022, and allows students to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/presidio-middle-school/departments/electives#:~:text=Presidio%2022%2D23%20Electives,%2C%20Dance%2C%20Music%2C%20Computers)\">choose\u003c/a> four quarter-long arts, computer science, language, health or other advanced courses throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district, returning to a standard six-period day will prioritize core classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new schedule would cut 56 classroom teaching positions, and another eight in health. That course material would be folded into other classes, like physical education or science, according to the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security aide roles across campuses would also be cut in half, as well as 18 assistant principal jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliminating transportation for 2,500 non-special education students would save another $5 million. Marrero said the current funding serves students in neighborhoods with historically lower average test scores who attend schools further from their homes. Cutting that service could create an additional barrier for some to go to a school of their choice, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039959 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meredith Willa Dodson speaks during a rally to reopen San Francisco Unified Schools at City Hall in San Francisco on March 13, 2021, on the first anniversary of school buildings being closed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another $14.6 million could come from central office personnel and service reductions, an area that the teachers’ union has long said keeps funds away from students. The district made significant reductions by restructuring the office last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that [the district] needs to make cuts, but we don’t yet understand, are these really the best cuts for our students or is there some other way?” said Meredith Dodson, who runs the advocacy group SF Parents. She said families want to know what other cuts were considered and how the ones identified in the fiscal stabilization plan were determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just looking for that information from the district to understand that that level of analysis was done [to determine] that these are the solutions that bring the minimal amount of harm to kids. I just don’t see it yet,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in the fall of 2027, the district is also suggesting savings of more than $3 million thanks to a “consolidation of [its] educational program portfolio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, SFUSD leadership has begun to discuss reconsidering school closures, after a controversial plan to shutter 11 schools was shelved last fall. Su took over in the wake of the closure crisis, and has prioritized the district’s budget before addressing its footprint, but she said last month that after the fiscal stabilization plan is complete this year, it would be time to take back up the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12064757 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, K-5 students, and their families at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy rally at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFUSD, like many districts in the state, faces declining enrollment, and campuses across the city have hundreds of empty seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While shuttering schools alone won’t save the district significant amounts of money, the district has said that having fewer schools could allow for more robust staffing and make room for more specialized programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodson said showing families those potential benefits will be key to garnering community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a parent to be told that their school is going to be closed, and to be okay with it, I think they would have to believe that there’s better education on the other side of that for their kid,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reductions planned so far are still about $30 million shy of what the district will need to cut to avoid deficit spending. 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That course material would be folded into other classes, like physical education or science, according to the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security aide roles across campuses would also be cut in half, as well as 18 assistant principal jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliminating transportation for 2,500 non-special education students would save another $5 million. Marrero said the current funding serves students in neighborhoods with historically lower average test scores who attend schools further from their homes. Cutting that service could create an additional barrier for some to go to a school of their choice, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039959 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/052_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meredith Willa Dodson speaks during a rally to reopen San Francisco Unified Schools at City Hall in San Francisco on March 13, 2021, on the first anniversary of school buildings being closed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another $14.6 million could come from central office personnel and service reductions, an area that the teachers’ union has long said keeps funds away from students. The district made significant reductions by restructuring the office last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that [the district] needs to make cuts, but we don’t yet understand, are these really the best cuts for our students or is there some other way?” said Meredith Dodson, who runs the advocacy group SF Parents. She said families want to know what other cuts were considered and how the ones identified in the fiscal stabilization plan were determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just looking for that information from the district to understand that that level of analysis was done [to determine] that these are the solutions that bring the minimal amount of harm to kids. I just don’t see it yet,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in the fall of 2027, the district is also suggesting savings of more than $3 million thanks to a “consolidation of [its] educational program portfolio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, SFUSD leadership has begun to discuss reconsidering school closures, after a controversial plan to shutter 11 schools was shelved last fall. Su took over in the wake of the closure crisis, and has prioritized the district’s budget before addressing its footprint, but she said last month that after the fiscal stabilization plan is complete this year, it would be time to take back up the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12064757 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, K-5 students, and their families at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy rally at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFUSD, like many districts in the state, faces declining enrollment, and campuses across the city have hundreds of empty seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While shuttering schools alone won’t save the district significant amounts of money, the district has said that having fewer schools could allow for more robust staffing and make room for more specialized programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodson said showing families those potential benefits will be key to garnering community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a parent to be told that their school is going to be closed, and to be okay with it, I think they would have to believe that there’s better education on the other side of that for their kid,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reductions planned so far are still about $30 million shy of what the district will need to cut to avoid deficit spending. And, SFUSD currently faces an escalating threat of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066097/sfusd-teachers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-authorize-the-first-strike-in-49-years\">teacher strike after months\u003c/a> of halting negotiations over a new two-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While SFUSD has said it cannot meet the educators’ demands due to the budget crisis, the union has signaled that members are prepared to strike over wages, staffing demands and more subsidized health care benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s school district plans to make \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">more than $100 million in budget cuts\u003c/a> for the second year in a row to stave off a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059537/as-deficit-looms-sf-public-school-teachers-threaten-strike-over-fair-contracts\">massive deficit\u003c/a> and aim to end a yearslong pattern of overspending, district officials said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move, however, won’t come without pain for families and staff, and it could be threatened by ongoing labor negotiations with district teachers, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066097/sfusd-teachers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-authorize-the-first-strike-in-49-years\">escalated their threat to strike\u003c/a> this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our fiscal stabilization plan is working, and we are moving towards stability for our school district,” Superintendent Maria Su said Friday. “However, we are still struggling in really tough times. We still need to make additional reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These reductions will not be taken lightly,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Unified School District plans to present $102 million in budget cuts this year, as it faces projected funding shortfalls of $51 million for next year, and $32 million and $19 million for the following two years, Su said. Insight into where those cuts will focus could come as soon as Dec. 16, when staff will present an update to their multi-year fiscal stabilization plan to the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first year of the plan, which was implemented for the current school year, included $114 million in ongoing expenditure reductions through an employee buyout initiative for hundreds of late-career educators, a strict campus staffing model and layoffs of administrative employees in the central office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\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>Su has warned that making more cuts on top of those could be harder, but she said her team heard a resounding message from families at town halls across the district this fall: End the cycle of cutting services year after year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a strong desire for us to be stable,” Su told KQED. “It’s not fair to students, it’s not fair to parents, [and] certainly not fair to our staff, where we cannot even guarantee the basic stability of a job or the basic stability of a student knowing that their teacher is going to be in their school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making these budget reductions, she said, is necessary to achieve stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s cuts last year put it in a position to move out of a “negative” budget certification from the state, which indicates that financial advisors don’t believe it will be able to pay its bills over the coming two years. Now, the district expects a “qualified” certification, which indicates that it might be able to meet its financial obligations.[aside postID=news_12066097 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20240827_SFUSDProtest_GC-5_qed.jpg']“Today is good news. Achieving qualified certification is a critical step towards exiting state oversight and fully regaining local control,” school board president Phil Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under that certification, the district would still be subject to financial oversight, but Su said it’s a step toward a “positive” certification, which would allow it to operate independent of the state for the \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/C7JF2N82A0CD/%24file/21%20-%2009.15%20CDE%20Letter%20re%20San%20Francisco%20COE%20%26%20USD%202021-22%20Budget.pdf\">first time since 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said the district hopes to reach that level as soon as March, but by the end of the academic year at the latest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That plan could be threatened, though, by ongoing labor tensions between SFUSD and United Educators of San Francisco, which represents 6,500 district educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strike authorization vote held by UESF overwhelmingly passed on Wednesday, the first of two votes needed to authorize a work stoppage, after nine months of unfruitful negotiations over their 2025-2027 contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union can now call for a strike vote at any time, but it will have to complete a two-step mediation process before teachers are legally allowed to walk off the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties declared an impasse in October and are now in the second mediated negotiation phase, called “fact-finding.” They’ll present arguments to a panel of state-appointed mediators later this month, and that panel will issue non-binding compromise recommendations. SFUSD will be able to make a final offer to the union before educators can legally go on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the union is demanding a raise, fully paid health care coverage for dependents and a new special education staffing model, the board said it isn’t in a position to offer the union more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The board truly wants to honor all of the hard work and meaningful work that our educators are doing to serve our students every single day. We just cannot give them money that we do not have,” school board vice president Jaime Huling said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will and have offered them everything that we can afford,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, SFUSD offered UESF a 2% raise in exchange for concessions on its other demands, and at the expense of some existing contract provisions, including a sabbatical program for veteran educators and extra preparation periods for advanced placement teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders said the results of this week’s vote — which was passed by 99.3% of members who voted — indicate that they’re willing to strike if their demands aren’t met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If teachers strike, it would be the first in nearly 50 years in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, we hope district management is really looking at where they’re at in negotiations and preparing to bring us things that could be a potential agreement,” said Nathalie Hrizi, one of UESF’s bargaining coordinators. “No one wants to strike, but we are willing to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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And it should be a very clear sign that our members are on the same page,” UESF President Cassondra Curiel said, ahead of Wednesday’s vote. “As a union, we have to do what our members say, and that’s what’s happening. They’re saying continue to push, and so we have to move forward with this escalation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators are currently working under a contract that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has asked for a 9% raise for teachers and 14% raise for non-certificated staff over two years. 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Now, they’ll move to the final bargaining step before a strike, an independent fact-finding process conducted by a third-party panel. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s teachers union plans to take a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059537/as-deficit-looms-sf-public-school-teachers-threaten-strike-over-fair-contracts\">significant step toward a strike\u003c/a> next week, after eight months of bargaining with the San Francisco Unified School District have failed to yield a contract agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Educators of San Francisco will hold a strike authorization vote — the first of two the union’s rules require to officially call a work stoppage — on Dec. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union president Cassondra Curiel said that since UESF and SFUSD declared an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059537/as-deficit-looms-sf-public-school-teachers-threaten-strike-over-fair-contracts\">impasse and entered third-party mediation\u003c/a> in October, the district has not made concessions on proposed raises and expanded health care coverage, among other issues, prompting the union to take a step toward striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not get a signal from the district that they were going to change routes at all,” she said. The union and district’s bargaining teams attended a full day of mediation earlier this month, which Curiel said yielded no progress. “That really made it clear to our bargaining team that the district has every intention to maintain a status quo in our contract,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD said in a statement on Wednesday that it was continuing to bargain in good faith “to achieve a fair agreement that avoids disruption to student services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240916-UnionSFSchoolClosures-38-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240916-UnionSFSchoolClosures-38-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240916-UnionSFSchoolClosures-38-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240916-UnionSFSchoolClosures-38-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240916-UnionSFSchoolClosures-38-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240916-UnionSFSchoolClosures-38-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240916-UnionSFSchoolClosures-38-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240916-UnionSFSchoolClosures-38-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teanna Tillery (center), a Para Educator, listens to Cassondra Curiel, President of United Educators of San Francisco, during a press conference outside San Francisco Unified School District offices on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UESF and SFUSD \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands\">began bargaining\u003c/a> over a new two-year contract for educators in March. Their current contract expired in June, but mostly remains in place until a new deal is reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, UESF rejected SFUSD’s contract offer, which would have given educators a 2% raise, saying it would have required more concessions than gains from its members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal would have undone existing agreements that give high school teachers who take on extra work — as department heads or teachers of Advanced Placement courses that enroll a certain number of students — an additional “prep” period, and cut stipends awarded to schools based on the number of AP exams their students take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would also have ended a program that allows educators to apply for semester-to-year-long sabbaticals after serving in the district for a minimum number of years and increased class sizes on some campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF’s initial proposal for the pay increase in March was 14% for classified employees and 9% for certificated employees over two years. In the months since, there’s been no back-and-forth negotiations bringing that percentage down, Curiel told KQED in October. She said the 2% offer was the first from SFUSD that included a raise.[aside postID=news_12064746 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/241009-SFUSDClosuresMarch-30-BL_qed.jpg']The wage hike is important, especially for paraeducator positions, which are some of the district’s lowest-paid and hardest-to-staff roles, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district has indicated that its budget to increase compensation is tight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD is currently in the second of a two-year budgeting process to curb a massive ongoing deficit. Last year, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">slashed $114 million\u003c/a> in annual expenses through hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">early retirement buyouts\u003c/a>, the implementation of a strict staffing model in schools and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">administrative position reductions\u003c/a>. This year, it will need to make another $48 million in cuts, which Superintendent Maria Su has indicated could be even more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the district said it was committed to a budget process that benefits students while ensuring long-term financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the state of California holds the authority to override any decision by the San Francisco Board of Education if it believes that decision could compromise the district’s financial stability,” the district said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, SFUSD said that “any proposal for raises must be approved by the CDE and must be financially sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request for a wage hike comes just two years after SFUSD gave \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2023-10-20-sfusd-uesf-announce-9000-salary-raise-teachers-2023-24\">historic $9,000 raises\u003c/a> to educators, along with a 5% salary increase the following year. Under that deal, classified educators also received a significant bump to a minimum wage of $30 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel said that higher pay matters to members, but the two primary focuses of negotiations have not been about compensation. UESF is requesting an agreement that the district will cover health care for educators’ dependents and development of a workload model aimed at improving working conditions for special education teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are 36 days away from a massive increase to our health care for the second or third year in a row for our dependents,” Curiel said Tuesday. She said that educators pay about $650 per pay cycle for coverage for one child. 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