Allyson Aleksey
SF Examiner
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Applications to UC schools decrease slightly this year
UC received 245,768 applications for admission for fall 2023, a 2.2% decrease from last year. → Read More
SF public schools to recognize Eid after lawsuit threat
The plan is to move spring break 2024 in order to accommodate the Eid holiday — next year, Eid al-Fitr starts on sundown Tuesday, April 9 following the month of Ramadan. → Read More
The lawsuit that could change California math education
Parents say the data presented by Palo Alto and San Francisco’s public schools is incomplete or bogus. → Read More
S.F. school district to propose largest bond in city history
San Francisco Unified School District plans to present voters with a $1 billion general obligation bond as soon as November to fund facilities and school building improvements. → Read More
Kevine Boggess becomes president of S.F. Board of Education
The vote signals a win for “progressive” faction of commissioners. Lisa Weissman-Ward voted as vice president → Read More
SFUSD commissioners can’t agree on how to organize their monthly meeting
SFUSD commissioners spent less time discussing what practices will lead to positive student outcomes at workshop, and more time on how, when and where those workshops would take place. → Read More
No plans in SF to reinstate masks as new variant takes hold
Predicting a winter surge, large school districts like Philadelphia and Boston Unified have reinstated mask policies. So far, there are no plans to do the same in San Francisco. → Read More
UC reaches agreement with workers, but not all are satisfied
More than 50% of union members must approve the agreement for it to go into effect. If the contract is not ratified and an agreement isn’t reached, the strike could continue indefinitely. → Read More
SFUSD recruits record number of internal candidates to teach in classroom
The Pathway to Teaching program eliminates barriers to the profession, a timely effort given teacher shortage → Read More
SFUSD is controversial case study for statewide proposed math guidelines
Education professionals explored why math scores are so low at SFUSD for Black students at recent town hall → Read More
San Francisco private school enrollment up, SFUSD's is down
What is clear — through surveys, studies and local school board elections — is that parents’ perspective of education has shifted. → Read More
‘They want us to be adults in the room.’ Breed’s school board appointees face a district in crisis
Newly elected SFUSD commissioners must surmount a state of emergency and an unfair labor complaint from the teachers union → Read More
Stern Grove is ground zero of the S.F. tennis-pickleball wars
There are 11 dedicated pickleball courts in The City, but players are demanding more and tennis advocates are pushing back → Read More
San Francisco School Board’s game of musical chairs heats up
Voters will decide the competence of Breed’s appointees on Nov. 8 → Read More