Author: Justin Van Zandt, PTA Member, father of 5 children, including students at Alamo Elementary and Presidio Middle School. There has been a lot of focus on the achievement gap recently.  Why are we making so little progress on this?  What can we do as a community to really fix the problem? We need to [...]

  When I finished business and law school last June, I didn’t think school would be on my mind for a long time. I don’t have kids, I’m not married, and I have had quite enough of the classroom for the imaginable future.  Like many of my friends, my daily priorities focus around my career, [...]

By Beth Weise Starr King Elementary School parent   So here’s what my third grader learned about in school this week: the solar system, how to summarize a story, her eight-times-tables and a poem about longing for home. Her sister, in first grade, is working on writing words like run, ocean and country, and figuring [...]

  Author:  Richard Carranza, Deputy Superintendent of Instruction, Innovation and Social Justice, SFUSD SFUSD has a new goal for students entering high school in 2010. We want every one of them to graduate eligible to enroll in California’s public university system. This should seem like an obvious goal. But today, only 54% of students in [...]