Turbulent Times for San Francisco’s School District

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The San Francisco Unified School District is having a difficult year. They're contending with falling enrollment, a school naming controversy, a retiring Superintendent and bringing kids back to school in mid-April. There is also an existing recall effort against Board Vice President Alison Collins, given new momentum after recent revelations of old tweets condemned as Anti-Asian. Marisa Lagos talks about the state of the SFUSD and what it all means for parents and students with Heather Knight, reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, and the SF Examiner’s Ida Mojadad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	The From KQAD Public Radio in San Francisco, this is Forum. I'm Marisa Lagos. It's been a rocky year for students, parents, and teachers in San Francisco, and the turbulence doesn't seem to be letting up. Even as the district prepares to welcome its youngest students back to classrooms next month,
1:01.0	controversy over a series of tweets by a school board member is stirring up anger and calls for her to resign.
1:08.0	It's all fueling existing efforts to recall or reconstitute the school board. Meanwhile,
1:13.4	the district superintendent is preparing to retire come June, even as declining student enrollment
1:18.4	imperils the district budget for years to come. We're going to dig into the state of education
1:23.1	in San Francisco. That's next on Forum, right after this news.
1:35.8	Music in San Francisco. That's next on Forum, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Marisa Lagos. San Francisco's school district is in crisis.
1:41.3	More than a year after the pandemic prompted the district to shutter city schools,
1:45.2	students are still learning at home. And while the youngest students are set to return next month,
1:49.5	there's still no plan to bring back middle and high schoolers. Meanwhile, enrollment is dropping
1:54.0	and the district superintendent, Vincent Matthews, says he'll retire at the end of this school year.
1:59.0	On top of all that, the school board has been mired in a series of largely self-inflicted crises,
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