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Budget Basics: How San Francisco's Public Schools are Funded; Lisa Schiff; sfKids.org

Instructional Calendar for 2010-11 School Year (pdf)

The new school year is starting earlier this year -- Monday, August 16, 2010. The agreement between the teacher's union and the school district calls for four (4) furlough days. These will be non-instructional days that district and school staff will take without pay. Schools and administrative offices will be closed for business on those days.

Please review the 2010-11 Instructional Calendar that was presented to the Board of Education Special Session meeting on June 3rd.

Thank you for your support in passing Prop A!

Thank you to all the parents, PPS-SF members and public school supporters for your help and vote to pass Prop A!

PPS-SF Supports Prop A for June 8, 2010 Ballot

FAQ page about Prop A (pdf)

Proposition A renews funding that prepares our 150 public school buildings from earthquakes, fires and emergency situations. It is a critical step in ensuring that our schools, teachers and our children are safe from disasters.

We can all agree that in order for our kids to achieve educational success we must provide them with safe learning environments.  In 1990, San Franciscans passed a measure to ensure earthquake, fire, and life safety in San Francisco’s 150 public school buildings.  Today, the original measure is up for renewal and in these challenging economic times, we need to be sure our schools stay earthquake and fire safe.  Prop A makes sure our children and teachers don’t suffer even greater cuts at the expense of mandatory earthquake and fire safety work.

Prop A is not a tax increase.  The Mello-Roos tax generates $6.9 million a year towards necessary school safety, maintenance and repairs to our city’s public school classrooms.

These funds help with seismic strengthening, fire and life-safety, including fire alarm systems, fire sprinklers, and paths of exiting.   The measure also funds the salaries of employees who work directly on repairing and keeping schools safe for students and teachers.

Since the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989, the SFUSD has worked hard to make sure our schools are ready to withstand future earthquakes and are well protected from fires.  We have kept our promise to the voters of SF to manage these monies wisely, effectively, and efficiently in order to upgrade our schools seismic and life-safety conditions.  Annual audits have found that we have met all requirements and are in excellent financial standing with all facilities programs.  Voting yes on prop A is a critical step in ensuring that our schools, our teachers and our children are safe.

Please join us in supporting Proposition A

Mayor Gavin Newsom
Joanne Hayes-White, SF Fire Chief
SF Board of Education
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Parents for Public Schools-San Francisco

What the City can do for SF public schools: Parents' recommendations

More than 150 parents gathered on April 22, 2006 at the PPS-SF Annual General Meeting to share their concerns and ideas with Mayor Gavin Newsom on how he and the city can help support our public schools. This report (194kb,pdf) has been used as input into the Mayor's Policy Council on Children, Youth and Families in its efforts to advise the Mayor on city policies to families in San Francisco.

Recommendations from this report were used as input into the resulting Partnership for Achievement between the City of San Francisco and SFUSD.

Special thanks to Rachel Norton, PPS volunteer and former NY Times journalist, who helped write this report, and to all the parents who contributed with their time, thoughts and ideas.

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