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		<title>South San Francisco Unified colleges closed Thursday as a result of storm</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>South San Francisco Unified School District schools will be closed Thursday due to the major storm expected to hit the state today. &#8220;According to the National Weather Service, a major storm will hit the Bay Area at 3 pm on Wednesday, Jan. 4,&#8221; said Superintendent Shawnterra Moore. &#8220;Based on this information and out of an &#8230;</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">South San Francisco Unified School District schools will be closed Thursday due to the major storm expected to hit the state today.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;According to the National Weather Service, a major storm will hit the Bay Area at 3 pm on Wednesday, Jan. 4,&#8221; said Superintendent Shawnterra Moore.  &#8220;Based on this information and out of an abundance of caution, our district is planning to cancel classes on Thursday, Jan. 5.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The district serves the communities of Daly City, South San Francisco and San Bruno.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The storm is expected to bring heavy rain and high winds that could result in flooding and power outages that impact roads and make driving difficult, according to a press release from the district.  Consequently, all extracurricular and athletic activities scheduled for today and Thursday have been canceled.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Jan.  4 is a minimum day, and we highly encourage families to pick up their children from school as soon as possible and to be off the roads and home by 3 pm on that day,” Moore said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After school care will be available this afternoon for essential workers who are unable to take time off, but there will be no extended care services on Thursday.</span></p>
<h2 style="margin:0px">Latest update:</h2>
<h4 class="datetime">Wednesday, January 4, 2023, 3:57 pm</h4>
<h3 class="headline">Pasadena Unified South by Latino civil rights group over school closures</h3>
<h4 class="datetime">Wednesday, January 4, 2023, 11:24 am</h4>
<h3 class="headline">South San Francisco Unified schools closed Thursday due to storm</h3>
<h4 class="datetime">Wednesday, January 4, 2023, 11:14 am</h4>
<h3 class="headline">Castro sworn into as new Alameda County superintendent</h3>
<h4 class="datetime">Tuesday, January 3, 2023, 10:32 am</h4>
<h3 class="headline">Federal spending bill increases maximum Pell Grant by $500</h3>
<h4 class="datetime">Tuesday, January 3, 2023, 10:32 am</h4>
<h3 class="headline">No charges filed following sexual abuse allegations at Ojai prep school</h3>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>South San Francisco Unified School District schools will be closed Thursday due to the major storm expected to hit the state today. &#8220;According to the National Weather Service, a major storm will hit the Bay Area at 3 pm on Wednesday, Jan. 4,&#8221; said Superintendent Shawnterra Moore. &#8220;Based on this information and out of an &#8230;</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">South San Francisco Unified School District schools will be closed Thursday due to the major storm expected to hit the state today.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;According to the National Weather Service, a major storm will hit the Bay Area at 3 pm on Wednesday, Jan. 4,&#8221; said Superintendent Shawnterra Moore.  &#8220;Based on this information and out of an abundance of caution, our district is planning to cancel classes on Thursday, Jan. 5.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The district serves the communities of Daly City, South San Francisco and San Bruno.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The storm is expected to bring heavy rain and high winds that could result in flooding and power outages that impact roads and make driving difficult, according to a press release from the district.  Consequently, all extracurricular and athletic activities scheduled for today and Thursday have been canceled.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Jan.  4 is a minimum day, and we highly encourage families to pick up their children from school as soon as possible and to be off the roads and home by 3 pm on that day,” Moore said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After school care will be available this afternoon for essential workers who are unable to take time off, but there will be no extended care services on Thursday.</span></p>
<h2 style="margin:0px">Latest update:</h2>
<h4 class="datetime">Wednesday, January 4, 2023, 11:24 am</h4>
<h3 class="headline">South San Francisco Unified schools closed Thursday due to storm</h3>
<h4 class="datetime">Wednesday, January 4, 2023, 11:14 am</h4>
<h3 class="headline">Castro sworn into as new Alameda County superintendent</h3>
<h4 class="datetime">Tuesday, January 3, 2023, 10:32 am</h4>
<h3 class="headline">Federal spending bill increases maximum Pell Grant by $500</h3>
<h4 class="datetime">Tuesday, January 3, 2023, 10:32 am</h4>
<h3 class="headline">No charges filed following sexual abuse allegations at Ojai prep school</h3>
<h4 class="datetime">Thursday, December 29, 2022, 11:04 am</h4>
<h3 class="headline">Grim forecast for public pension funds in California and elsewhere</h3>
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		<title>South San Francisco Unified College District’s $430 million bond measure &#124; Letters To Editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s what the $162 million bond measure promised to do in 2010: &#8220;enhance safety, fire detection and security systems, improve energy efficiency, replace outdated electrical, plumbing and heating systems.&#8221; So, in another eight to 10 years they&#8217;ll be back to solve the same issues &#8230; again? They always include &#8220;tech&#8221; in the bond measures. Tech &#8230;</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s what the $162 million bond measure promised to do in 2010: &#8220;enhance safety, fire detection and security systems, improve energy efficiency, replace outdated electrical, plumbing and heating systems.&#8221;</p>
<p>So, in another eight to 10 years they&#8217;ll be back to solve the same issues &#8230; again?</p>
<p>They always include &#8220;tech&#8221; in the bond measures.  Tech is usually obsolete in five to six years, but bonds last 25 to 30 years.</p>
<p>Ever buy a computer and take out a loan for 25 to 30 years to pay for it?</p>
<p>nuts, right?  But that&#8217;s exactly what the district wants to do.  Nuts!</p>
<p>With the loss of 697 students since the 2016-17 school year, you&#8217;d expect to see fewer teachers, but the district added eight teachers (2018-19 school year according to the latest figures).</p>
<p>And the number of administrators is up from 28 in 2016-17 to 35 in 2018-19 (latest figures).</p>
<p>The ADA spending for the district is 109% of the statewide average at $16,962.  The district is above average in cost, but below average in academics &#8230; by a lot.</p>
<p>Around 53% of students are below grade level in English.  Around 62% of students are below grade level in math.  And bond money can&#8217;t be spent on hiring teachers that are more qualified/better trained.</p>
<p>With the $430 million bond measure, per student, comes to $52,554 plus 30 to 40 years of interest payments.</p>
<p>Parent are voting with their feet and removing their children from this failure of a school district.</p>
<p>Just say no to higher taxes.</p>
<p>The letter writer is the president of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association.</p>
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		<title>San Francisco Unified recall reveals how mother and father can rework a district</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Courtesy: SF Parent Coalition San Francisco Unified parents and students march in a rally calling for the district to reopen schools during the Covid pandemic. Courtesy: SF Parent Coalition San Francisco Unified parents and students march in a rally calling for the district to reopen schools during the Covid pandemic. Meredith W Dodson May 10, &#8230;</p>
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<p><span>San Francisco Unified parents and students march in a rally calling for the district to reopen schools during the Covid pandemic. </span></p>
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<p><span>San Francisco Unified parents and students march in a rally calling for the district to reopen schools during the Covid pandemic. </span></p>
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<h5 class="byline"><span>Meredith W Dodson</span></h5>
<h5 class="date">May 10, 2022</h5>
<p>The San Francisco Unified School Board has been suddenly and uncharacteristically boring ever since three recalled school board members were removed from their positions and replaced by three highly talented, competent public school moms — none of whom have higher political aspirations.  Not surprisingly, the tenor of the meetings has shifted from acrimonious to professional.  It is hard to imagine this new board making international headlines.</p>
<p>For the students of California — who have also seen a surge of parents newly engaged in their education — this is also a good thing.</p>
<p>Fox News had a field day with San Francisco&#8217;s overwhelmingly successful recall results, which was met here with only eye rolls.  This was not a recall about punishing progressive politicians.  This was a recall fueled by parents who had been vilified for wondering why every other major urban district except ours could figure out how to reopen after the Covid lockdowns were lifted.  It was a recall of the loss of the word &#8220;excellence&#8221; from our district&#8217;s vocabulary.  It was a recall about real, objective incompetence and school board actions that caused genuine harm to our students.</p>
<p>The recall would not have been successful if parents had not found one another and formed a new, unique voting block.  Parents, only out of desperation, found each other in social media forums in the summer and fall of 2020, eventually forming their own groups to talk about what to do about a school board that not only wasn&#8217;t listening but was even actively harassing public school parents online.  Connection and community were found through DMs and Messenger and brought into new Facebook groups, and the rest, well, became history.  Parents like Siva Raj and Autumn Looijen wondered if a recall might be worth attempting, and a sea of ​​families swelled up behind them.  A new understanding of “education politics” sunk in for parents.  Without the pandemic, very few of us would have ever come to understand how much the school board actually impacts our children&#8217;s education, and why we should care about who is on it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to extrapolate anything about San Francisco to places beyond San Francisco.  We are a truly special place (which shade of blue are you today?).  But the true lessons must not be forgotten in our own district.</p>
<p>San Francisco Unified has another school board election right around the corner, yet the parent energy that achieved the recall is already waning.  Our students need parents to keep paying attention, and the broader city needs to keep listening to public school families for direction on voting for the future of the school board.</p>
<p><h3>Related</h3>
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<p><h2>It&#8217;s long past time to tone down the behavior at school board meetings</h2>
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<p>The district has a unique opportunity at this moment that it must seize.  Though it has been teetering on the brink of state takeover, early signs with this new board show movement towards more effective fiscal management.</p>
<p>Already conversations around equity and excellence going hand in hand have returned to the room.  At Lowell High School, can we have a merit-based process that also incorporates into its policy mechanisms to increase diversity and sensitivity to the needs of its diverse student body?  Yes, if we try, we can.</p>
<p>Can we focus on implementing our long-term vision for the district finally, incorporating a focus on student outcomes into all of our decision-making, rather than passing a dozen or more toothless resolutions per year?  Yes, we know other districts more effectively than us do, and so we can.  Can we rebuild community trust in our district and turn around this steep enrollment decline?  Yes, and we must.</p>
<p>The parent movement that ousted the San Francisco school board members is much bigger than San Francisco.  It is the key to keeping things moving forward for public school students all over California.  School boards shouldn&#8217;t be political stepping stones used for higher office aspirations.  Serving on a school board should be about one thing only: ensuring excellent and equitable education for its district&#8217;s students.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">•••</p>
<p><strong>Meredith W Dodson</strong> is a public school parent and executive director of SF Parent Coalition and affiliate SF Parent Action, a broad and diverse network of public school families that advocates for an equitable and thriving San Francisco public school system.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>San Francisco students will soon be able to remove their masks on campus as San Francisco Unified School District and teachers&#8217; union officials announced plans Friday to lift in-school mask requirements. Mask requirements will be lifted for central district offices as well as middle and high schools in the city on March 12, when the &#8230;</p>
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<p>San Francisco students will soon be able to remove their masks on campus as San Francisco Unified School District and teachers&#8217; union officials announced plans Friday to lift in-school mask requirements.</p>
<p>Mask requirements will be lifted for central district offices as well as middle and high schools in the city on March 12, when the state will also lift its indoor mask mandate for K-12 schools.</p>
<p>The district will then lift mask requirements at all other schools and worksites on April 2. At all district schools and worksites, the use of masks will still be recommended.</p>
<p>The district jointly announced the plan to lift its mask mandate with officials from labor unions representing its workers, including the United Administrators of San Francisco and the United Educators of San Francisco.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are committed to following public health guidance, and our health officials have stated that masks in schools are no longer required but still recommended,&#8221; SFUSD Superintendent Vincent Matthews said.  &#8220;We are starting with middle and high schools, where there are higher vaccination rates, in order to give more time for families of younger students to get their children vaccinated.&#8221;</p>
<p>State officials announced Monday that mask requirements for students would be lifted March 11 at 11:59 pm but said individual school districts would have carte blanche to continue requiring the use of masks indoors.</p>
<p>SFUSD officials initially said the district would not change its masking policy on March 12, arguing that health officials still strongly recommended the use of masks and that masking is &#8220;one of the least burdensome&#8221; ways schools can reduce the virus&#8217; spread.</p>
<p>On Friday, union officials said they supported the swift reversal, arguing that existing safety standards like regular testing and improved classroom ventilation will also help reduce the virus&#8217; spread even if students are no longer required to wear a mask.</p>
<p>&#8220;With all of those multilayers of mitigation outlined in our ongoing health and safety agreement still in place, we support an ease in the mask mandate that still provides time for our youngest students to get vaccinated,&#8221; UESF president Cassondra Curiel said.</p>
<p>The district also announced that it will change its contact tracing policy for students, beginning March 24, allowing them to remain in class if they&#8217;ve been exposed to the virus unless they have or develop symptoms.</p>
<p>Students will also be required to test regularly after being exposed to determine if they contract the virus themselves.</p>
<p>According to the district, the policy will allow students to avoid missed school days, as previous policies required students exposed to the virus to stay home even if they did not show symptoms or test positive.</p>
<p>The district plans to distribute rapid COVID tests to students and staff during spring break, scheduled for the last week of March.  Students and staff will be expected to use the tests prior to returning to school on April 4, regardless of if they are symptomatic.</p>
<p>&#8220;We recognize changes in masking and contact tracing practices will be a transition for our community,&#8221; Matthews said.  &#8220;Throughout this pandemic we have had to constantly change but I trust we are moving in the right direction when we follow the science.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Training shouldn&#8217;t be a precedence for San Francisco Unified College Board, says recall chief Siva Raj</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ritu Jha- Siva Raj, an Indian-American father of two, faced a difficult decision when the pandemic hit in 2020: rebuild his start-up business that fell victim to COVID-19, or face the sudden downfalls of his children to focus on prolonged school closures; he chose the latter. That decision all these months ago has resulted in &#8230;</p>
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<p>Siva Raj, an Indian-American father of two, faced a difficult decision when the pandemic hit in 2020: rebuild his start-up business that fell victim to COVID-19, or face the sudden downfalls of his children to focus on prolonged school closures;  he chose the latter.</p>
<p>That decision all these months ago has resulted in Raj, a data scientist by training, taking on the Herculean task today of recalling the board members of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD).</p>
<p>Only speak to <strong>shows</strong>, Raj [Above with his children]expressed surprise and concern that the board was more focused on changing school names for political expediency than on ensuring better educational outcomes in a desperate situation.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with changing names, he said, but is this the right time to do so when parents and students are grappling with the pandemic and its impact on education?  Furthermore, the process was superficial and flawed without involving the community and parents.</p>
<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t just the wrong time, it was the wrong way,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;With billions of dollars in the school system in one of the wealthiest cities in the world, we&#8217;re fighting to get basic rights.&#8221;</p>
<p>Siva Raj with Autumn Looijen.</p>
<p>Raj is joined in his campaign by his partner Autumn Looijen.  Both had relocated to San Francisco in December 2020 to join the ecosystem the city offers for startups.  Both have now shelved their start-up idea in order to use a grassroots campaign to recall the school board.</p>
<p>Solarium told <strong>shows</strong>, “Siva and I have seen in our own family what a difference it makes to have open schools.  My kids were happily studying personally down on the peninsula while he was stuck at home, depressed and falling behind.  It was deeply unfair.</p>
<p>&#8220;Siva&#8217;s children are my children too and it was heartbreaking to see them fight,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>The voting decision will be made on February 15;  Postal ballots begin January 17.  Three San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) board members were named in the special election: Gabriela López, Faauuga Moliga, and Alison Collins.  According to the city&#8217;s elections office, more than 500,000 mail-in ballot packages are on the way and voters should expect them starting this week.</p>
<p>As to why only three are named in the recall election, Looijen said: &#8220;When we started recalling, only 3 members were eligible for recall &#8211; you have to wait 6 months after they were sworn in (in this case it would have meant waiting until July).&#8221;</p>
<p>Both Raj and Looijen believe the recall is important because every kid in San Francisco deserves a top-notch education — and that&#8217;s not going to happen with this board.</p>
<p>&#8220;This school board is letting kids fall behind during Zoom school and has no plan to help them catch up,&#8221; Looijen said.  &#8220;They didn&#8217;t spend the money wisely and evicted families, and now they&#8217;ve taken $125 million out of our budgets.  They treat parents like enemies when we all want the best for our children.</p>
<p>&#8220;It will take more than the recall to get our schools back on track &#8211; but getting better guidance is a crucial first step,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p>Raj said the deteriorating system at SFUSD was not due to a lack of money or talent, but rather a lack of political will.  “For us, it&#8217;s been a real learning in terms of understanding why it&#8217;s happening.  I&#8217;ve never bothered with politics in the past and lived here (San Francisco) for work,&#8221; he said.<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-25517 alignright" src="https://indicanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/sf-boad-members-300x177.png" alt="" width="468" height="276" srcset="https://indicanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/sf-boad-members-300x177.png 300w, https://indicanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/sf-boad-members-230x136.png 230w, https://indicanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/sf-boad-members.png 472w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px"/></p>
<p>Raj, who came to the US in 2010, initially lived in New York before moving to California to start a business.  Before the pandemic hit, he worked in tech healthcare, selling specialty bikes to health clubs and gyms.</p>
<p>He worked with Looijen, a software developer, on another start-up and experimented with some ideas and apps to start a business until they decided to call it back.</p>
<p>Raj believes SFUSD stayed closed because he had no plan to reopen.  Private schools reopened in 2020, as did schools in the Bay Area and Los Altos.  They were ready because they had done the preliminary work in the summer of 2020.</p>
<p>In San Francisco, the school board was supposed to hire a &#8220;reopening consultant,&#8221; but declined.  Raj said even Superintendent Vincent Matthews was furious with the board, saying it made reopening impossible.</p>
<p>When asked if she was with Dr.  Matthews, he said they didn&#8217;t have direct access to the superintendent.  In any case, it is not he who decides, but the school board.  The Superintendent&#8217;s role is limited to executing the decisions of the Board of Directors.</p>
<p>San Francisco has a very diverse school district.  Many of the students had little or no support at home.  Some families had to go to work and simply giving a laptop was the starting point.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was lucky that I was home and able to supervise my kids and make sure they were on Zoom,&#8221; Raj said.  “There were Wi-Fi issues and a lot of work.  It was difficult.&#8221; The children, who came from disadvantaged families, were simply left behind, he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We realized they just weren&#8217;t interested in the schools reopening, so we thought we should do something,&#8221; he explained of the reasons for the recall.</p>
<p>SFUSD elementary schools reopened in April last year, while middle and high schools reopened in the current school year in August 2021.</p>
<p>When asked why the recall election was called after schools reopened, Raj gave a number of reasons.  &#8220;It was a tremendous learning loss for our children,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and even today, the board is unwilling to acknowledge the learning loss.</p>
<p>“You have to identify children and put in place a plan to help them catch up with their peers or their future is in jeopardy forever.</p>
<p>“What would they (the students) do when they graduate and have no future to look forward to?  We can&#8217;t allow that,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>School enrollments have fallen due to the prolonged shutdown, he continued, leading to severe budget cuts that could result in staff and teacher cutbacks.</p>
<p>A third major issue is racism on the board.  &#8220;In March, we discovered that former San Francisco School Board Vice President Alison Collins made anti-Asian tweets that she refused to acknowledge until asked to resign, and then sued SFUSD schools for $87 million, because she said this violated her first edit rights.</p>
<p>“The level of dysfunction happening here at (the SFUSD) is exorbitant,” exclaimed Raj.</p>
<p>He explained why the three board members were chosen: &#8220;The three that we remember made bad decisions at every step.  Instead of focusing on the students&#8217; education, they focus on all sorts of shenanigans.  They are more interested in advancing their political careers.</p>
<p>“They could have apologized and offered corrections, but they took the opposite approach.  The children will be badly affected,” he added.</p>
<p>Getting the recall going wasn&#8217;t easy considering how difficult it has been to get signatures during the pandemic.  Raj, Looijen and their supporters collected personal signatures from April 1st to September 7th.  &#8220;In San Francisco, we had to submit 51,325 valid signatures to get the recall on the ballot,&#8221; Raj said.  &#8220;We have almost 80,000.&#8221;</p>
<p>Last July, the San Francisco Chronicle published an opinion poll showing that 71 percent of San Francisco residents disapproved of the school board and 69 percent of public school parents supported the recall.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-25523" src="https://indicanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/school-ballot-300x142.jpeg" alt="" width="318" height="150" srcset="https://indicanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/school-ballot-300x142.jpeg 300w, https://indicanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/school-ballot-1024x483.jpeg 1024w, https://indicanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/school-ballot-768x362.jpeg 768w, https://indicanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/school-ballot-230x109.jpeg 230w, https://indicanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/school-ballot.jpeg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px"/>Raj has received a wave of support from Mayor London Breed for former California Democratic Party leader John Burton.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re a grassroots organization run mostly by parents and some teachers and people interested in public education,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;We Are Nonpartisan&#8221; Nearly 1,000 people volunteered to collect signatures for the recall petition.  &#8220;We&#8217;ve had people standing in grocery stores and farmers markets all over the place,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Raj was hopeful for the February 15 result.  &#8220;We have so many crises that need to be resolved,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;We feel safe and we&#8217;re out there every weekend talking to people and educating them.&#8221;</p>
<p>If all three members are removed, the mayor of the city appoints three new members in their place.</p>
<p>Possibly the first Indian-American to initiate such civic action and become a catalyst for change, Raj said, “This is very important to us.  Education is central to Asian Americans, and that&#8217;s why so many come to America because we&#8217;re educated.”</p>
<p>“Many of us come from poor backgrounds.  We are in San Francisco, we have money because of our education and skills, and we want our next generations to have a similar opportunity.”</p>
<p>The campaign was also supported by the Chinese American Democratic Club.  &#8220;People are united and they feel very strong in this recall election,&#8221; Raj said.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In line with other Bay Area school districts that have been forced to close schools after facing staff shortages, low test availability and high COVID-19 case rates this week, Milpitas schools will open for most students from Monday through mid-January go back online temporarily. The Education Committee of the Milpitas Unified School District voted on &#8230;</p>
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<p>In line with other Bay Area school districts that have been forced to close schools after facing staff shortages, low test availability and high COVID-19 case rates this week, Milpitas schools will open for most students from Monday through mid-January go back online temporarily.</p>
<p>The Education Committee of the Milpitas Unified School District voted on Thursday evening to send children back to virtual learning healthy to school by January 18.</p>
<p>&#8220;This week we had an exorbitant number of positive student and employee cases, which led to even more students and employees being quarantined,&#8221; said a letter from the school management to the school community.  &#8220;In view of the number of cases, the possibility of being in close contact with a positive case has increased.&#8221;</p>
<p>The district is also struggling with a lack of teachers and staff.  The district had 167 substitute teacher positions and 107 auxiliary positions that week, leaving administrative staff to teach instead of the teachers who stayed at home.</p>
<p>In Oakland, an organized teacher outage Friday caused the Oakland Unified School district to close at least 11 schools for the day.  Teachers are calling for better safety measures for students, staff and teachers, and encouraging the district to teach online instead of face-to-face for two weeks.</p>
<p>In Milpitas, parents are required to sign an independent study contract so that their children can virtually go to school while the school is closed.  The district also offers parents who have to work or whose household has insufficient internet connection the possibility of sending their children to school, where they can take part in classes virtually on the laptops provided by the district.  All students enrolled in the classroom option will be mentored, said Scott Forstner, a district spokesman.</p>
<p>West Contra Costa schools and some private and charter schools are also temporarily closing, and others in the Bay Area are making efforts to keep classrooms open amid testing and staff shortages.</p></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>John Baker Amid the uncertainty and disruption of police services in the South San Francisco Unified School District, school officials have signed a new agreement with the city and its law enforcement agency detailing how and when officers should be on campus. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s perfect, but it&#8217;s leaps and bounds beyond what we &#8230;</p>
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<p>Amid the uncertainty and disruption of police services in the South San Francisco Unified School District, school officials have signed a new agreement with the city and its law enforcement agency detailing how and when officers should be on campus. </p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s perfect, but it&#8217;s leaps and bounds beyond what we had before,&#8221; said Trustee John Baker during a special meeting of the SSFUSD Board of Trustees Tuesday. </p>
<p>For more than a year now, county and city officials have been drafting a letter of intent to clearly define when or not to involve school liaison officers in disciplinary matters and student programming. </p>
<p>Failing to come to an agreement before the new school year, the SSFUSD trustees decided to suspend the use of SLOs on school grounds this summer until a formal letter of intent could be adopted by both parties. </p>
<p>During Tuesday&#8217;s meeting, Superintendent Dr.  Shawnterra Moore said the district has had some issues since suspending the use of SLOs on campus.  Without a letter of intent, teachers and administrators were &#8220;rightly&#8221; reluctant to contact the police.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it has created some confusion and challenges across the board because people need clarity,&#8221; said Moore, noting that neighbors have also complained about increasing traffic problems. </p>
<p>Dr.  Ryan Sebers, director of the student union, said teachers and school administrators had hesitated to call the police even in the cases clearly outlined in the education law.  Although the board has suspended the SLO program on campus, school staff are still required and instructed to follow the disciplinary protocol set out in the code, Moore said. </p>
<p>Instead, Sebers said he and other district administrators had received calls asking school staff for instructions on whether a call to law enforcement was acceptable.  The calls and hesitation have resulted in delayed responses to issues that require quicker responses, he said. </p>
<p>&#8220;While everyone could have different definitions of security and so on, I think it&#8217;s pretty clear that the administrators are very interested in the physical and emotional safety of the students and the school staff,&#8221; Sebers said.  &#8220;So we have the question of where administrators would normally exercise their instincts.&#8221; </p>
<p>Given that the county and police have had some kind of relationship for decades, vice president of the board Mina Richardson said the community has gotten used to the program and needs time to adjust to the changing partnership. </p>
<p>“We have had the police force in our district for over 40 years.  That&#8217;s a generation, ”said Richardson.  &#8220;If we resign, these programs will continue, they will continue.&#8221;</p>
<p>Moore said responsiveness and communication between the two agencies are also tense, making district officials wonder if they&#8217;ll get a response when services are requested. </p>
<p>In response to the concerns, Baker accused the police department of &#8220;metaphorical baton swinging&#8221; by senior management.  He suggested that the department hadn&#8217;t responded quickly to issues like traffic assistance as the role was previously the responsibility of an SLO, adding, &#8220;It was very worrying&#8221;. </p>
<p>As the trustee who recommended most of the changes to the MOU, he doubled three deal-breaker issues that he needed to see in the document before he could give his approval to the agreement. </p>
<p>To earn his support, agencies must agree to review the document annually without an automatic renewal process, share data demonstrating the effectiveness of the program, and agree that officials would not enter campus for occasional disciplinary action or without an adequate complaint process. </p>
<p>The board supported Baker&#8217;s key inquiries but also agreed to a request from Trustee Patricia Murray to remove granular language from the document.  Instead, the Board agreed that details regarding the handling of disciplinary matters or officials should be included in an internal manual.  </p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the job of the board of directors or the city council to micromanage this process,&#8221; said Murray. </p>
<p>Board chairman Daina Lujan and trustee Chialin Hsieh also noted that the district catered for students from kindergarten through adulthood, whose experiences are likely to vary widely, and recommended that data collected across campus be collected in a tier-appropriate manner. </p>
<p>Additional language will be included in the document to further elaborate on protections for undocumented students who may interact with SLOs, as requested by Student Trustee Samantha Avila Gomez. </p>
<p>Murray also suggested the district resume the program after receiving complaints from some parishioners who said they felt unsafe without the officials on campus. </p>
<p>Police presence on campus has been greatly reduced, but officers have been recruited from counselors or local child protection services.  Moore said she could count on one hand the number of times that had happened that school year. </p>
<p>Murray&#8217;s motion did not find widespread support on the board and left the suspension of the SLO program in effect until both parties could agree on a letter of intent.  The latest draft contract will now be presented to the city for review after Moore and the lawyer signed the document. </p>
<p>If the city does not approve of the updated version of the MOU, the revisions will again be sent back to the board for further consideration. </p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The San Francisco Unified School District reopened campus on Monday for the beginning of the 2021-22 school year with applicable COVID-19 protocols. Approximately 50,000 students and 10,000 teachers and staff were back for in-person lessons after more than a year of mostly virtual lessons. The return to school came with an entirely different look due &#8230;</p>
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<p>The San Francisco Unified School District reopened campus on Monday for the beginning of the 2021-22 school year with applicable COVID-19 protocols.</p>
<p>Approximately 50,000 students and 10,000 teachers and staff were back for in-person lessons after more than a year of mostly virtual lessons.</p>
<p>The return to school came with an entirely different look due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  Some of the health protocols included the following:</p>
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<li>All employees must be fully vaccinated or have weekly tests by September 7;  the district is considering a vaccination mandate for students aged 12 and over.</li>
<li>Students must self-screen for COVID-19 symptoms every day and wear a mask at all times.</li>
<li>All classrooms will be equipped with air purifiers.</li>
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<p>Although some were nervous about returning, there was also some excitement.</p>
<p>							The San Francisco Unified School District reopened campus on Monday for the beginning of the 2021-22 school year with applicable COVID-19 protocols.  Cierra Johnson reports.
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<p>&#8220;The most exciting time,&#8221; said kindergarten teacher Lauren Goss.  &#8220;We are happy to have them and love that they are excited to learn and families are ready to rejoin the community and help the students.&#8221;</p>
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I look forward to joining our community and city as we welcome our children back to school!  We had to get our young people back to their classrooms where they will get the personal learning they deserve and we did!  I wish all of our students a nice first day!  #firstdayofschool pic.twitter.com/YpTABNGect</p>
<p>&#8211; London Breed (@LondonBreed) August 16, 2021</p>
<p>The Mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, expressed excitement at the students&#8217; return to the classroom, stressing that “It is important that children also have the ability to socialize, be with and in one another with other children To learn classrooms, &#8220;she said,&#8221; what do we?  don&#8217;t want to do is that their mental health continues to decline. &#8220;</p>
<p>San Francisco Unified was just one of the few school districts in the Bay Area that resumed face-to-face classes on Monday.  Others were West Contra Costa Unified, Berkeley Unified, Dublin Unified, and Vallejo Unified.  It was also move-in day at UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>For parents in San Francisco who were still concerned about COVID-19 or the Delta variant and weren&#8217;t quite ready to get their kids back to the classroom, the district still offered an online learning option.  These students would still have the option to return to campus when they are ready.</p>
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