San Francisco’s first standalone district Mandarin immersion school will open at 1670 Noe Street in fall 2027, starting with transitional kindergarten and kindergarten before expanding through eighth grade.

San Francisco approved 15 and 20 mph speed limits near schools, with six campuses first and a citywide rollout planned over two years.

SFUSD passed a $1.36 billion budget in a 4-3 vote, but the real story was the split on the board: Parag Gupta, Jaime Huling, and Matt Alexander voted no over weak strategic alignment, while Phil Kim and Supryia Ray voted yes as a matter of fiscal triage.

SFUSD added five school days after February’s teachers strike, but many high school students reportedly skipped the extra week once grades and graduations were already finished.

Congress hauled SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su into a culture-war hearing just as the district is trying to stabilize its budget, expand Algebra 1, and improve reading and math outcomes.

SFUSD now says its student assignment overhaul will not reach the Board until 2027 and would not take effect until 2028-29, leaving the current citywide-choice system in place and pushing any closures or mergers to 2029-30 or later.

SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su will testify before a House committee as Republicans target the district's ethnic studies and transgender-related policies, bringing national culture-war politics to San Francisco schools.

California is expected to eventually require one semester of ethnic studies in high school. SFUSD is choosing to mandate a full year for all ninth graders, taking up an entire elective slot at a time when the district is dealing with deep budget cuts and weak academic outcomes.

SFUSD restored eighth-grade Algebra for 2026–27, but only by a narrow 4-3 vote. That makes the change politically fragile — especially with Board President Phil Kim on the June 2, 2026 ballot and the risk that a future board could backtrack.

Bay Area school leaders are right to press Sacramento for a more realistic funding formula. Let's learn from other big states, not pretend we're unique.

Thanks to your emails, SFUSD reversed its worst-case algebra plan. But only two middle schools — Hoover and Alice Fong Yu — will get the compressed math pathway that lets students take Algebra without doubling up. Every other school still has more work to do.

SFUSD is set to send 42 preliminary layoff notices as it confronts declining enrollment, state oversight, and new labor costs the district must still show it can afford.

After SFUSD’s new labor deal, a teacher argues the district must finally close or merge under-enrolled schools to avoid deeper cuts to educators and classroom quality. With enrollment down for years and state scrutiny still looming, the real choice is orderly consolidation now—or chaotic layoffs later.

SFUSD and United Educators of San Francisco ended the Feb. 2026 strike with a tentative two-year agreement worth about $183M. We reviewed the 13-page contract, and here’s what it says.

SFUSD’s teacher strike hit day three as the union abandoned late-night bargaining without reviewing the district’s updated offer, prolonging school closures 50,000 students.

A neutral third-party fact-finding report recommends 3% raises in each of the next two years and a temporary, parcel-tax-funded path to cover dependent health care—while warning that SFUSD’s finances are still precarious and that some union proposals don’t belong in a labor contract. The question now: can SFUSD and UESF compromise quickly enough to avoid a strike and keep schools open?

SFUSD says teachers union leaders ended fact-finding without a counteroffer, even as a final strike-authorization vote continues. With SFUSD under state fiscal oversight, any contract that creates deficit spending could be rejected—raising the risk of a strike over demands the district may not legally be able to accept.

With many classrooms sitting empty, SFUSD is considering merging some schools to reduce costs and improve instruction. Superintendent Maria Su and the Board of Education are sketching out a multi‑year “Strong Schools” plan that could consolidate under‑enrolled campuses by 2027–28 to keep the district solvent and redirect dollars back into classrooms.

Two-year contract rewards stability after school district crisis.

School board unanimously rejects parent-led effort to expand Chinese-language education as district launches competing program.

San Francisco schools welcomed 49,000 students back to classrooms Monday with a renewed focus on core academics.

The new K-8 Mandarin immersion school will help meet the growing demand for bilingual education in San Francisco.

The California Department of Education has partially lifted the teacher hiring freeze for SFUSD, signaling growing confidence in the district’s financial stability.