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Caroline Grannan
S.F. Education ExaminerCaroline Grannan was an editor at the San Jose Mercury News for 12 years. Currently she contributes to a number of Internet sites dealing with education and schools. She is a San Francisco public school parent, advocate, and volunteer and has followed education politics locally and nationwide.
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It's crunch time for parents still waiting for an SFUSD kindergarten
Caroline Grannan - S.F. Education Examiner
A seat opened and was filled at Claire Lilienthal.
The wildly popular blog TheSFKFiles has started to get posts from families who got The Call -- so far, posters have mentioned getting spots at Grattan and Claire Lilienthal.
It's impossible to know how many families in the wait pool for various schools are still really in the wait pool. Some move or go private (and presumably a few homeschool); some "park" their kids at another school while waiting, and decide they like that school fine. So for that reason, it may take a while for all the calls to get to every family that's truly waiting.
One poster on the blog has put her child in an available private school and has scaled back her expectations to hopes of getting an opening by Christmas. I hope it happens sooner than that. Best of luck to everyone who's still waiting! That goes for anyone waiting for high schools or middle schools too, though we don't hear anything from or about them.
For more info: Outside of the school district, Parents for Public Schools is your best information source on enrollment and wait pools. .
Topics: enrollment
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Full kindergartens: Good news for SFUSD, alarming news for waiting parents
Caroline Grannan - S.F. Education Examiner
Today's Chronicle story announcing that San Francisco Unified School District kindergartens are full the first week of school, for the first time in 10 years, is great news for our district overall. In contrast to districts with overcrowded schools,... Read More
Topics: San Francisco schools , enrollment
Displaced Flynn/Alvarado kids get new assignments -- not without angst
Caroline Grannan - S.F. Education Examiner
As we’ve reported, 23 incoming kindergartners who had been assigned seats for fall in two popular SFUSD Spanish immersion schools (Alvarado and Leonard Flynn) had those assignments withdrawn after complaints that far too many English-speaking students... Read More
Topics: enrollment , language immersion
SFUSD needs to rescind those kindergarten reassignments
Caroline Grannan - S.F. Education Examiner
San Francisco school district representatives met this evening with the families whose kindergarten assignments to Spanish immersion programs at Alvarado and Flynn elementary schools were rescinded because of a computer coding error.District officials... Read More
Topics: San Francisco schools , enrollment , kindergarten
SFUSD enrollment glitch: Check PPS web page for updates
Caroline Grannan - S.F. Education Examiner
Parents for Public Schools-San Francisco has put up a web page about the enrollment glitch at Flynn and Alvarado schools. They'll keep it updated regularly. ... Read More
Topics: enrollment , language immersion
Kindergarten enrollment glitch at Flynn, Alvarado schools -- meeting TONIGHT
Caroline Grannan - S.F. Education Examiner
A foulup in enrollment threatens to disrupt the assignments of 23 kindergartners who had been placed in Spanish immersion programs at Alvarado and Leonard Flynn elementary schools. A forum TONIGHT will address the problem. A message from Parents for... Read More
Topics: enrollment , language immersion
Private school, personal choices and social impact
Caroline Grannan - S.F. Education Examiner
I was chatting with my neighbors about their preschool search for their toddler, and the question of public vs. private K-12 came up. When I brought up the issue of values and social impact, I realized that the topic requires a lot of background and... Read More
Topics: enrollment , public school
Flawed Grand Jury report on SFUSD: a critique
Caroline Grannan - S.F. Education Examiner
As a veteran SFUSD parent and observer of school issues, I read the San Francisco Grand Jury’s report on San Francisco's public school assignment process, “San Francisco Kindergarten Admissions - Back to the Drawing Board,” and felt... Read More
Topics: San Francisco schools , enrollment , Grand Jury
San Francisco's kindergarten frenzy
Caroline Grannan - S.F. Education Examiner
Right now lots of parents of next year’s San Francisco kindergartners are chewing their nails as they wait for the shuffling around to settle down and hope for a school assignment they like. These are the families who didn’t get a school... Read More
Topics: San Francisco schools , enrollment , public school
