{"id":446295,"date":"2026-08-28T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446295\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:14:13","slug":"minor-reading-gains-arent-enough-to-get-san-franciscos-third-graders-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446295\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor reading gains aren\u2019t enough to get San Francisco\u2019s third graders on track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New data shows fewer than half of San Francisco\u2019s third graders can read at grade level, according a presentation San Francisco Unified staff gave at the Aug. 25 board meeting. That&#8217;s a decline from a few years ago, though an uptick from last year.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"A slide presented at the Aug. 25 SFUSD meeting compared third-grade reading performance to the district's targets by year.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787937251_200_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Unified School District <\/p>\n<p>        A slide presented at the Aug. 25 SFUSD meeting compared third-grade reading performance to the district&#8217;s targets by year. <\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Dr. Maria Su presented the preliminary <a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/san.francisco.unified.school.district\/viz\/SFUSDPublicDataDashboard\/Story1\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">literacy data<\/a> and acknowledged that the numbers are not great.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the data, like I said, hurts our heart,\u201d she said<\/p>\n<p>The district hosts this data in a <a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/san.francisco.unified.school.district\/viz\/SFUSDPublicDataDashboard\/Story1\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">public dashboard<\/a>, which Su said \u200astaff is working to make more user-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers are significantly off SFUSD\u2019s aggressive target: to get 70% of third graders reading proficiently by 2028.<\/p>\n<p>That goal was originally set for 2027, but the district pushed the deadline back a year.<\/p>\n<p>English Language Learners were the lowest-performing group, with just 10% reading proficiently.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Third grade reading performance broken down by program groups. \"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787937253_884_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Unified School District<\/p>\n<p>         Third grade reading performance broken down by program group.<\/p>\n<p>The district says it\u2019s trying different strategies to improve reading, including tracking reading instruction more closely and offering teachers professional development opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>California will release the state\u2019s finalized literacy data in the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New data shows fewer than half of San Francisco\u2019s third graders can read at grade level, according a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-446295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446295","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=446295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}