Posted on 10/12/2024 9:16:00 AM PDT by CFW
San Francisco is gearing up to shut down 9% of its public schools in a desperate move to fix a massive budget deficit. With student enrollment plummeting and pandemic relief funds drying up, the city is set to close or merge 11 out of its 121 schools, leaving the future of thousands of students and teachers hanging in the balance.
The proposal, which was announced late Tuesday, comes as the school district faces a whopping $113 million in cuts by 2026, or risk a dreaded state takeover. “Without a balanced budget and a plan to consolidate our resources, we risk a state takeover,” warned Superintendent Matt Wayne, adding that such a takeover would “further deplete resources directed to our schools, erode our collective decision-making power, and likely compound educational disparities for our most vulnerable students.”
The schools on the chopping block serve about 2,000 kids, while another two will merge with other locations, according to local reports. And it’s not just the school closures – San Francisco’s school district has already been slashing jobs and cutting back on school supplies. Things could get worse when the final list of schools is voted on next month by the school board, Bloomberg reports.
This is the latest blow to a city grappling with skyrocketing homelessness and a fentanyl crisis. San Francisco’s public school enrollment has plunged by over 4,000 students in the last seven years – costing the district $80 million. By 2032, they’re expecting to lose another 4,600 students thanks to falling birth rates and demographic shifts.
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I wonder what percentage of SF teachers with school age children have their kids enrolled in private schools....? 🤔
Inquiring minds want to know.
Em…as families have all moved to Colorado and Texas to make new liberal hellholes
These school ratios are crazy...We had 40 kids in all my classes from Kindergarten thru 12th grade.
I can think of no one more deserving...
Exactly. How many school-age children are left in San Francisco? Enough to necessitate so many schools?
The public school funding model is the device that will end it. They get paid per head of children in the building. What if half the kids disappear?
The solution is obvious. Add more woke perversion to the staff and curriculum.
The men are all 💅 so they’re not having children.
I see a giant lawsuit coming from the Illegal Aliens being represented by illegal alien “advocates”.
That means people are fleeing the sea of feces and storms of crime that SF has become and are being replaced by the hoards of drug addled homeless and violent illegal aliens.
San Francisco schools are facing several problems. As a center of all things gay, there are going to be fewer kids. Also, across the nation, young couples are just not interested in starting families, rather focusing on ‘enjoying life’. And the cost of living in S.F. is too expensive for the young families that might have kids.
Lots of schools were built in the 50s and 60s because of the baby boom. Back then, schools were built to last. Now these old buildings are getting shut down, not just in S.F. but everywhere.
99% would be better for the chillin
Newsomfornia.
Prepare for 9% smarter kids in SFO.
Unions are us
I don’t know if it’s still true but several years ago the most common occupation of the parents of children enrolled in private schools was a public school teacher or administrator
IF they have children 100%
My chem and physics classes had 125
History had 65
Sometimes you just got to get the seat
Part of the contract with the unions
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