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Fewer classrooms, fewer grade levels mean fewer pupils
Fewer than half of elementary and middle school students who need summer school to keep up are actually attending classes this summer — a result some officials say may be due to cutbacks that make the program less accessible.
Jury right about school lottery
An important blow against San Francisco’s ineffective, unfair and costly public school assignment lottery has been struck by The City’s civil grand jury, with their report calling for a return to giving families preference at neighborhood schools. The near-incomprehensible “diversity index” assignment system — which is supposed to somehow desegregate schools without considering race — has been driving local parents crazy since 1999.
City to cut school funds in exchange for services
An annual allocation of city funds approved by voters for San Francisco’s public schools was reduced by $1.75 million and replaced with an in-kind amount of city services, it was announced Thursday at a Board of Supervisors meeting.  Lottery for school assignment comes under fireSan Francisco’s public school system should abandon the complicated school assignment lottery system that attempts to diversify student populations and return to giving families preference at neighborhoods schools, according to a report scheduled for release today.
Truants need court’s intervention
When an unsupervised minor sets off a grass fire or trashes a classroom, it seems appropriate that the parents should be required to pay damages that would otherwise be borne by taxpayers. For the first time, that same principle of responsibility is now being applied to the parents of chronically truant students in San Francisco schools.
Slain teen had ties to area where he was gunned down
The 15-year-old shot and killed in front of Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School on Tuesday was a former Visitacion Valley resident and “good kid” who was in the process of turning his life around, his uncle told The Examiner on Wednesday.
Parents of truant kids hauled to court
Six parents of chronically truant San Francisco schoolchildren — each of whom missed more than 50 days of class — were arraigned Tuesday before a superior court judge on infractions that charged the guardians with failing to make sure their kids receive an education.  School may have to say ‘No thanks’ to $9MA San Francisco charter high school may have to reject $9.1 million in state facility funds — provided for campus renovations for an Excelsior district site the school hoped to occupy — because the school district says it doesn’t have enough money to cover the remaining renovation costs. |
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