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SFUSD’s $183M Price Tag For the Teachers Deal Has Numbers Missing The strike is over, but both sides still have math problems. The district says a fuller accounting is coming soon.

🔢 NEW, ADDING UP: The teachers strike is over. Now SFUSD has to figure out how it will pay for the deal. To cover the $183M price tag, are layoffs and closures on the table? @taybarton.bsky.social reports on both the district and the teachers union math.
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🏁 NEW, STRIKE ENDS: After 4 days of school shutdowns, union rallies, and tense talks, SFUSD will boost pay, health benefits + special ed staff. @cadepted.bsky.social still has to approve the agreement, which will use district reserves. @taybarton.bsky.social reports.
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Teachers Strike Update: Su Fumes About Urgency, Stresses Fiscal ‘Reality’ The parties are back at the negotiating table Wednesday amid halting progress and frustration. There's no word yet if schools will be closed Thursday.

3️⃣ STRIKE, DAY 3: School is cancelled tomorrow and negotiations continue. SFUSD shared a timeline of the back and forth (see 🧵 ) in response to UESF saying the district has dragged its feet for a year. See the latest from @taybarton.bsky.social at thefrisc.com/sf-teachers-....

SF Teachers Strike Update: Talks Ongoing, No School Tuesday The sides have made progress on issues related to special education, immigrant, and homeless students. No word yet about wages and health benefits.

🍎 TEACHER STRIKE UPDATE: No agreement yet. A few Tues. highlights so far:

▶️ Super. Su called A.M. talks ‘productive,’ esp. special ed and family shelters
▶️ No word yet if schools closed Wed.
▶️ Tonight’s Board of Ed mtg cancelled

Updates from @taybarton.bsky.social 👇
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🧵 TEACHERS STRIKE UPDATE: We've got a recap from day 1️⃣ of the historic United Educators of San Francisco strike. Spoiler: No classes again tomorrow.

@taybarton.bsky.social has the latest ⬇️ with highlights in the thread.
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SFUSD Teachers To Strike Monday If There’s No Weekend Deal Schools will close. City parks and libraries could be alternatives. But staff, resources, and funding are up in the air.

🪧 NEW, STRIKE PLANS: Unless negotiations take a turn this weekend, SF public school teachers will strike on Monday. @taybarton.bsky.social reports on what happens next as officials work out how to give nearly 50,000 students a place to go and food to eat. thefrisc.com/sfusd-teache...

SFUSD Says It Can Cut Teachers Without Hurting Immigrant Students Newcomer enrollment has plunged, officials say. But there’s ‘no intention’ of cutting programs.

🚸 ICYMI, SCHOOL TRADEOFFS: SFUSD budget cuts won't touch programs that serve immigrant students, but they could target staff behind them. That has teachers and families on edge. @taybarton.bsky.social reports on the enrollment numbers at the heart of negotiations.
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SFUSD Says It Can Cut Teachers Without Hurting Immigrant Students Newcomer enrollment has plunged, officials say. But there’s ‘no intention’ of cutting programs.

“We ask you to see the newcomer program not as an expense but as an investment," said one high schooler. thefrisc.com/sfusd-says-i...

SFUSD Says It Can Cut Teachers Without Hurting Immigrant Students Newcomer enrollment has plunged, officials say. But there’s ‘no intention’ of cutting programs.

🎒 NEW, SCHOOL SQUEEZE: On Thursday, families and teachers asked SFUSD to stop cuts to "newcomer" programs for immigrant students. Superintendent Su agreed — but there's a twist. With enrollment drops, staffing cuts are still on the table. @taybarton.bsky.social reports.
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UESF wants more support for immigrant students, but immigration issues fall outside the scope of collective bargaining, SFUSD says. The union disagrees. What’s known as “bargaining for the common good” is “not outside the ordinary at all,” according to UESF’s Alias.
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‘Very Likely Possibility’: An SF Teachers Strike Could Be Days Away 2% raise — or much more? What about health benefits for families? Each side is digging in.

⚒️ NEW, STRIKE THREAT: SFUSD and UESF negotiations are at a stalemate, starting the countdown clock for a teacher's strike as soon as Feb. 4. @taybarton.bsky.social digs into the back-and-forth amid big budget talks and staffing shortages. thefrisc.com/very-likely-...

SFUSD’s Extra Kindergarten Year Is Meant to Be a Draw. For These Families, It’s a Problem ‘TK’ for 4-year-olds gives kids an educational boost and helps cut childcare costs. But at least three classes haven’t had a permanent teacher all year.

🍏 NEW, TEACHER WANTED: Some transitional kindergarten kids haven't had full-time teachers since August, despite the classes bumping up enrollment for SFUSD. @taybarton.bsky.social reports on the holdup and the building parent frustration.
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SF’s Next Big Homeless Count Is Coming As Trump DEI Rules Loom Federal officials don’t want to hear about gender or sexual orientation and have threatened funding cuts elsewhere. Here’s what one SF nonprofit is doing.

📋 ICYMI, NEW QUERIES: Trump's anti-DEI agenda brings potential complications to SF's point-in-time count. One nonprofit is doing its own count with even bigger questions. @taybarton.bsky.social reports. thefrisc.com/sfs-next-big...

Learned a tremendous amount about #homelessness in #SanFrancisco for this one! Many thanks to all who lent their time and insight.

How SF’s Housing Plan, Now Law, Might Be Forced Back to the Drawing Board Big projects, like 25 stories proposed for the Marina Safeway site, could brew new political fights — including a trigger for more upzoning.

💅🏼 NEW, UPZONE REDO? How strong is the backlash to SF's housing plan? Stay tuned for 2026 elections, starting w/June contests for 2 Board of Supes seats. And if SF doesn't permit 20K homes in '26, more upzoning could come in '27 - but it must go thru the board first.👇🏼

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We Pored Over SFUSD’s New Ethnic Studies Book. Here’s What’s In It ‘Voices’ won hasty approval to replace a controversial curriculum, even though school board members hadn’t read it.

📖 NEW, SNEAK PEEK: When SFUSD chose the "Voices" textbook to replace its controversial homegrown ethnic studies curriculum, board members hadn't read it and teachers had to adopt it last-minute. Will it assuage critics? @taybarton.bsky.social gives you a closer look. thefrisc.com/we-pored-ove...

SFUSD’s First Evaluation of Controversial Ethnic Studies Pilot Hits Delay Following this summer’s scramble to find a new curriculum, the district promised a progress report this month. That’s not going to happen.

📚 ICYMI, ETHNIC STUDIES STUDY: This summer, SFUSD rushed to find a new curriculum after its own ethnic studies course caused uproar. Now the district has pushed its first review of the pilot. @taybarton.bsky.social reports on how we got here and what's next. thefrisc.com/sfusds-first...

This AI Software Translates Special Education Plans for SF Parents No, it's not ChatGPT. About 200 SF families have been testing the program in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese. SFUSD has yet to invest.

💻 ICYMI, SPED TECH: “The language of special education itself is like another language,” says one parent who's been testing out a new #AI tool to translate and simplify special ed plans. But as @taybarton.bsky.social reports, SFUSD has privacy concerns. thefrisc.com/this-ai-soft...

SFUSD’s First Evaluation of Controversial Ethnic Studies Pilot Hits 3-Month Delay Following this summer’s scramble to find a new curriculum, the district promised a progress report this month. That’s not going to happen.

✏️ NEW, EVAL BACKTRACK: A few months into its ethnic studies pilot, SFUSD was due to release a report on its progress. Now there's an additional 3-month wait. @taybarton.bsky.social has the scoop on the delay and some of the controversy behind the new curriculum. thefrisc.com/sfusds-first...

This AI Software Translates Special Education Plans for SF Parents No, it's not ChatGPT. About 200 SF families have been testing the program in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese. SFUSD has yet to invest.

🤖 NEW, AI FOR SPED? Mandated special ed plans are long and dense, especially difficult for non-English speakers to wade through while they wait weeks for a translation. An AI tool offers a solution, but SFUSD isn't on board. @taybarton.bsky.social reports. thefrisc.com/this-ai-soft...

SFUSD Renews Two Bayview Charter Schools With Minimal Fuss KIPP’s two schools, open since the 2010s, got near-unanimous approvals, despite recent rejection of a different charter school.

🍎 ICYMI, CHARTER SCHOOL'S IN: Last night SFUSD renewed two Bayview charter schools. One, an elementary school, will cede state control to the district. How did these two charters win while Dragon Gate Academy failed? @taybarton.bsky.social reports. thefrisc.com/sfusd-will-r...

New California Law Puts Anti-ICE Enforcement on Schools. Educators Want More Backup The burden is on teachers and principals to turn away federal agents. That will require training, resources, and perhaps a lot of legal help.

Chen wants a hearing to ask if SF employees (libraries, public transit etc) have training to deal w/ ICE agents who enter their domains. @taybarton.bsky.social just wrote about this as it pertains to SF schools. There's a difference between having a policy and a plan thefrisc.com/new-californ...

SFUSD Will Reconsider Two Bayview Charter Schools Tonight KIPP’s two schools, open since the 2010s, got a positive recommendation. ‘We’re under the assumption both will be renewed.'

🚸 NEW: CHARTER COOL? After dismissing the Dragon Gate Academy proposal, charter schools are back on the SFUSD agenda. Read @taybarton.bsky.social's latest before the Board of Ed decides on the fates of two existing Bayview charter schools at 6:30pm. thefrisc.com/sfusd-will-r...

This Local High Schooler Is Building a Sewage Sensor to Help Swimmers and Surfers As San Francisco welcomes a big science festival this weekend, one Richmond District high schooler wants to make waves in water safety.

🧪 ICYMI, STEM IN SF: Piper Johnson is spending her high school junior year working on a real-time sensor to test water pollution. As @taybarton.bsky.social reports, with the @bayareascifest.bsky.social this weekend, Johnson's not the only one excited about science.
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This Local High Schooler Is Building a Sewage Sensor to Help Swimmers and Surfers As San Francisco welcomes a big science festival this weekend, one Richmond District high schooler wants to make waves in water safety.

🔬 NEW, H2O NO: SF high school junior Piper Johnson is making a real-time pollution sensor, inspired by Ocean Beach surfers sickened by sewage runoff. At this wkend's @bayareascifest.bsky.social, local students will present projects... and perhaps inspire the next Piper. thefrisc.com/this-local-h...

This Local High Schooler Is Building a Sewage Sensor to Help Swimmers and Surfers As San Francisco welcomes a big science festival this weekend, one Richmond District high schooler wants to make waves in water safety.

The lack of poop-related puns in this article is, I feel, a feat.

#LocalJournalism #STEM #ScienceJournalism

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SFUSD, Teachers Union Hit Stalemate In Contract Negotiations The union presented a ‘strike ready’ petition at Tuesday’s school board meeting, while the district said it spent less money last year than expected.

SFUSD has more money than it expected in the budget, but that doesn't necessarily mean it can afford salary raises, which the teachers' union and administrators' union are demanding. Read our update at @thefrisc.bsky.social 👇
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SFUSD, Teachers Union Hit Stalemate In Contract Negotiations The union presented a ‘strike ready’ petition at Tuesday’s school board meeting, while the district said it spent less money last year than expected.

🍎 SCHOOL UPDATE: As the SF teachers union rallied at Tuesday's SFUSD school board mtg, a district official acknowledged budget forecasts were out of whack. SFUSD has more 💰 than expected, but it can't just bump teacher salaries. @taybarton.bsky.social reports ✏️

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Teachers Union Cools Off SFUSD Strike Talk Days Before Protest UESF has been ‘strike ready’ for weeks, with signatures to prove it. They also say support for special-ed staff and homeless families is more important than a big pay boost.

UESF is one step closer to striking after filing for impasse in bargaining with SFUSD, calling the 2% offer a slap in the face.

“That’s not a raise,” said prez Curiel. “That’s ‘how do you rob Peter to pay Paul?’ And Peter & Paul are on our bargaining team together.” thefrisc.com/teachers-uni...