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Superintendent Maria Su has avoided teacher layoffs, slashed central office staff, and promised to ‘make magic happen.’ The real test starts this fall.

Last year, London Breed withheld half of City Hall's subsidy. Will Daniel Lurie restore full funding? The school’s backers say its survival is at stake.

Ruth Asawa cofounded SCRAP 50 years ago. Now its landlord SFUSD is cooking up $200 million plans for the site, thanks to last year's big bond.

The state’s fiscal grip on SF public schools stalls hiring, but the district won’t cop to it. ‘Where’s the communication?’

Officials replaced the missing funds, but the gaffe stymied hiring for positions that were already hard to fill. And the dollars still don’t add up.

Voters said yes to a $790M bond last month, unlocking money for an overdue overhaul. But nothing comes easy in San Francisco.

Parents are left scrambling to find alternatives while pushing for solutions to stop the...

More than 20 years after the push for educator housing began, the San Francisco Unified...

California officials are watching closely as the San Francisco Unified School District...

Two years after a bruising recall, more than half the Board of Education could turn over, all while trying to govern a district facing fiscal crisis and a school overhaul.

SFUSD can’t reform kindergarten zones or start major school repairs until it resolves consolidations. Public opinion and politics add even more complications.

It was March 2023, and Luis Gante was lying in bed and grappling with a moral dilemma. A shooter had recently walked into an elementary school in Nashville and opened fire, killing three 9-year-old children and three teachers. The news had shaken…

Nearly two years after launching a payroll system that continues to affect thousands of its employees, the San Francisco Unified School District is considering starting over. Superintendent Matt Wayne announced at a school board meeting on Tuesday…

Federal funding that paid for students to have internet access during the pandemic is set to end this month, raising questions about how San Francisco can afford to continue offering digital support for families who need it. Spurred by the…

With demand for workers in the artificial intelligence field skyrocketing, Bay Area community colleges are looking to train people to fill those roles. Local community colleges are starting to ramp up AI and machine-learning course offerings so their…

A San Francisco public high school teacher resigned last month after the school district began investigating allegations that he sent three former students salacious messages on social media and had sexual encounters with two of them soon after they…

San Francisco's public school staff just started their third school year with a faulty payroll system, and the district is still slogging through a backlog of 3,000 issues. For employees of the San Francisco Unified School District, a…

Decades before educators began rethinking American education by acknowledging how underlying social issues affect students, Oakland’s Black Panther Party had the same idea. The Black Panthers opened their “community school” in East Oakland in…

After an existential vote in June, Golden Gate University said its struggling law school will stay open and fully accredited, for now. The 122-year-old nonprofit institution has been fighting to stay afloat in recent years amid the deteriorating…

As the fall 2020 semester drew to a close at San Francisco’s prestigious Lowell High School, a student hoping to earn a B in "American Democracy" asked his teacher for an extra credit assignment. The teacher, Adam Michels, obliged. But Michels wanted…