{"id":183050,"date":"2026-02-18T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183050\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:59:07","slug":"san-francisco-students-return-to-school-after-teachers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183050\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco students return to school after teacher&#8217;s strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771426747_144_sf-teachers-to-strike-if-demands-not-met.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; Nearly 50,000 students are set to return to classrooms across San Francisco on Wednesday after a weeklong teachers&#8217; strike shuttered schools throughout the district.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Classes and regular school schedules were expected to resume as normal following the strike, which ran Monday through Friday last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">More than 6,000 educators walked picket lines before reaching a tentative agreement with the San Francisco Unified School District on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Students were already scheduled to be off Monday for Presidents&#8217; Day and for the Lunar New Year on Tuesday, meaning many had been out of school for seven days. District officials said they were focused on ensuring a smooth transition back to campus.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Supt. Maria Su was expected to welcome students back at Visitation Valley Elementary School.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Under the tentative agreement, teachers would receive a 5% raise over two years, while paraeducators would receive an 8.5% increase. Beginning in January next year, all 6,500 union members and their families would have 100% of their health care costs covered by the district.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The agreement is not yet final. With the district still under state oversight, state officials could veto portions of the deal.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The district also faces a $100 million budget shortfall and an ongoing structural deficit. Leaders have said difficult decisions lie ahead, potentially including layoffs or school closures. Those decisions have not yet been made.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/education\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; Nearly 50,000 students are set to return to classrooms across San Francisco on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183051,"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-183050","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\/183050","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=183050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}