{"id":180021,"date":"2026-02-16T11:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180021\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:43:38","slug":"sf-teachers-end-four-day-strike-in-183-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180021\/","title":{"rendered":"SF teachers end four-day strike in $183 million deal\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) ended<\/a> a four-day strike Friday morning. The strike, organized by the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF), was the first of its kind in San Francisco in 50 years and led to citywide school shutdowns. Most of the labor group\u2019s main demands \u2014 fully funded healthcare, increases to teacher salaries and support for special education teachers \u2014 were met by the district.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Stanford students, we all probably have that one educator or teacher that led us towards the path of being ambitious students that strive to learn and change the world,\u201d said Sabrina Deriche \u201926, who attended the strike in San Francisco. \u201cEducators are important, so why don\u2019t we act like it when it comes to finances?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The resulting settlement was<\/a> an $183 million deal, with a two-year contract beginning July 1. It guarantees the 6,000 teachers in SFUSD a 6% raise over the contract\u2019s two years. The path for the city to cover this cost remains unclear.<\/p>\n

The deal did not include extended support for special education teachers and a complete 9% raise, which were among the UESF\u2019s demands.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some Stanford students traveled into the city to provide support. There they coordinated with volunteers, helped community members and worked on small business outreach. As the daughter of an educator, Deriche said it felt natural for her to stand up for the cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was in the city, [I couldn\u2019t] talk to any person, even if they didn\u2019t have children, that wasn\u2019t personally impacted by the strike,\u201d said Deriche. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Additional benefits from the settlement between UESF and the school district include<\/a> relief sanctuary protections for teachers and students and improved working conditions for teaching librarians, substitutes and more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNo educator takes going on strike lightly, this action was years in the making,\u201d wrote Rebecca Tarlau, an Associate Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) and author of the forthcoming book, \u201cTeacher Organizing Across the Americas: Diverse Strategies for Transforming Unions, Schools, and Society,\u201d in an email to The Daily.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tarlau added that the teachers who organized the strike framed their demands as essential to student success in the classroom, writing that \u201cteachers\u2019 working conditions are students\u2019 learning conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just thought it was a monumental success because of how much the community was able to rally behind the teachers,\u201d said strike attendee Juhae Song \u201928. Song\u2019s father is an educator, and she credits his job security and benefits to his union\u2019s continued efforts.<\/p>\n

Public policy lecturer David Crane wrote<\/a> in The San Francisco Standard that the real reason for low teacher salaries and the consequent strike is that \u201cDistrict spending on pensions and other retirement costs has grown at nearly five times the rate of school revenues, squeezing out funds needed for teachers\u2019 salaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have high schoolers pulling up on a day off at 9 a.m. to a picket line \u2026 you know you did something wrong,\u201d Deriche said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) ended a four-day strike Friday morning. The strike, organized…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[85446,6709,15,462,85447,1902,951,85448,845,85449,13,2058,85450,85451,101,103,102,5675,104,106,105,15254,7025,202,86,3183,3797,46621],"class_list":{"0":"post-180021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-david-crane","9":"tag-deal","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-governance","12":"tag-gse","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-high-school","15":"tag-juhae-song","16":"tag-labor","17":"tag-labor-strike","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-protest","20":"tag-rebecca-tarlau","21":"tag-sabrina-deriche","22":"tag-san-francisco","23":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","24":"tag-san-francisco-news","25":"tag-settlement","26":"tag-sf","27":"tag-sf-headlines","28":"tag-sf-news","29":"tag-sfusd","30":"tag-special-education","31":"tag-stanford","32":"tag-strike","33":"tag-students","34":"tag-teachers","35":"tag-uesf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180021","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=180021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}