Tuesday night, hundreds of parents, students, and community members gathered to shed light on the state of emergency for Black and Latino San Francisco Unified School District students. Here’s some of what happened at the meeting:
-Innovate parent leaders gave powerful testimonies on their SFUSD experience and the large achievement gap in SF. They called on the school board to take immediate action.
-SF NAACP members gave testimony advocating for better educational outcomes for Black students.
-The school board acknowledged a state of emergency exists for low-income Black students in SFUSD, but they did not make a formal declaration.
The school board also denied a petition for a new KIPP Bay Area Schools elementary school in the Bayview, despite evidence that KIPP Schools are outperforming the district average for low-income Black and Latino students.