Author Luis Herrera, San Francisco City Librarian The San Francisco Public Library believes strongly in the power of partnerships and our collaboration with SFUSD is one of the more important priorities we nurture and support. We believe that the public library is an extension of our city’s commitment to invest in public education and a [...]

      Did you know that Summer Learning Loss accounts for more than half of the achievement gap between middle and low-income students? Did you know that Summer Learning Loss results in a significant loss of academic skills— about 2 months worth of achievement— for students not engaged in any summer enrichment activities? New [...]

Author: Milton Chen, Executive Director, George Lucas Educational Foundation George Lucas, founder and chairman of our foundation, has said: “It’s imperative that we create new kinds of schools, freed from an educational system deeply rooted in the distant past and the kinds of schools so many of us attended decades ago.” For more than a [...]