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Bret Harte Elementary Stacey Gonzalez TK teacher reads a United Educators of San Francisco newspaper as Bret Harte Elementary School teachers. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (Photo by Jessica Christian\/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) <\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco Unified School District teachers walked off the job this week in a historic strike over higher wages, health benefits, and more resources for students with special needs.<\/p>\n
The United Educators of San Francisco and the district have been negotiating for nearly a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What are San Francisco teachers striking about? <\/p>\n
Pay and benefits continue to be major sticking points, with teachers asking for an 8% raise and fully-covered family health care.<\/p>\n
The union initially asked for a 9% raise over two years, which they said could help offset the cost of living in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What does the district say? <\/p>\n
The district\u2019s most recent offer included a 6% raise paid over three years and a $24,000 benefits allowance to help offset health care costs. However, the proposal would require teachers to accept cuts to their retirement plan in exchange.<\/p>\n
The district has said it is grappling with a $100 million budget deficit and declining enrollment, factors officials say constrain what it can offer.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Chronicle <\/a>noted that SFUSD has a total budget of about $1.4 billion for its 48,000 students, but a lot of that is essentially already spent on mandatory items like pensions, special education services, food programs and base salaries and health benefits.<\/p>\n Not including benefits, the Chronicle said the average teacher salary in the city is $103,472. That is 30% higher than it was five years ago given recent raises. Teachers who don’t have much experience earn about $70,000 and those with the most experience can earn $131,700.<\/p>\n Have the two sides agreed on anything? <\/p>\n The district and teachers have come to an agreement on three issues, including the use of artificial intelligence, services for families experiencing homelessness and steps toward putting long-term special education teachers in place.<\/p>\n What’s happening to students with no school? <\/p>\n Families have to find childcare for their children. Some afterschool programs are offering full-day care, but at the parents’ expense. City programs and food banks <\/a>were offering free lunches.\u00a0<\/p>\n The City of San Francisco and libraries are providing free lunches to SFUSD students during teachers strike. SF Marin Food Bank is also providing temporary home delivery of 20-25 lbs of food for students impacted by strike and school closures.\u00a0<\/p>\n When did the strike start? <\/p>\n The strike started on Feb. 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n How many union members are on strike? <\/p>\n There are nearly 6,000 teachers, paraeducators, counselors and other support staff in the San Francisco Unified School District who are on picket lines this week.<\/p>\n When was the last San Francisco teachers strike?\u00a0 <\/p>\n The last time San Francisco teachers went on strike was 47 years ago in 1979.\u00a0<\/p>\n San Francisco<\/a>Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Bret Harte Elementary Stacey Gonzalez TK teacher reads a United Educators of San Francisco newspaper as Bret…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,15,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-173904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"San](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2a4iytezucbhsful.jpg\")
How much do SFUSD teachers get paid? <\/p>\n![\"Free](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kiuzmubbayppfokf.jpg\")
Free food for SFUSD students at library during strike<\/a> <\/p>\n