With coaches and teachers on strike, SF students take matters into their own hands
The text messages started flying Friday evening, shortly after the Lowell High School JV baseball team learned that…
Tensions rise as negotiations remain deadlocked
Schools remain closed and encircled by striking teachers, principals, administrators and others as San Francisco’s first educator walkout…
SFUSD teachers strike, bargaining back on, schools closed Tuesday
San Francisco’s public school teachers are on strike for the first time in 47 years. The San Francisco…
Lurie, riding high on Super Bowl, discovers his kryptonite: Organized labor
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Public schools to close Monday as teachers prepare to hit picket lines
After shrugging off responsibility for a looming teachers’ strike when he was asked about it two weeks ago,…
Mayor Lurie pleads for 72-hour delay to S.F. teachers strike
Mayor Daniel Lurie on Sunday afternoon made an 11th-hour appeal for San Francisco teachers and the school district…
Teachers, others, jolted to get SFUSD ‘assignments’ on strike day
On the cusp of Monday’s planned San Francisco teacher work stoppage, teachers were jolted to receive emails from…
Last-ditch talks underway as SFUSD teachers prepare to strike
While walking into a 2 p.m. Saturday negotiation session at the Veterans Building on Van Ness Ave. with…
What parents need to know as city braces for Monday shutdown
The city’s first teachers strike in 47 years has moved from possibility to impending reality. San Francisco Unified…
S.F. principals, maintenance workers will strike alongside teachers
In the event that San Francisco public school teachers walk off the job on Monday, principals and administrators…
SFUSD’s claims about immigrant students beggar belief
Last week, Superintendent Maria Su stood before a large crowd of students, parents and educators and offered her…
SFUSD teachers to walk off jobs Monday
The strike is set. Unless there’s a breakthrough at the bargaining table, San Francisco’s roughly 6,000 public school…