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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You haven’t been paying attention. It’s been that way from the beginning
It is never a spending problem, right? This is one of the most corrupt school districts in the country. How many times have they been investigated. I know that the FBI has been involved at least once and that the corruption is institutional.
Bingo! Same for me (1950/60's). And no zillions of Ed Assistants or what ever they are called.
As long as the illegals are taken care of. That’s the important thing.
or Canada like Kamala's mom did... where the real socialists go to escape the USA.
Looks like the only Black heritage in the family were their slaves. It appears she went to Canada with all the Vietnam draft dodgers.
Shut down the public system. Outsource it all to private schools, negotiate tuitions and hand out vouchers. Let the private schools expel the behavioral problems and save that money not spent for the prisons.
“San Francisco to Shutter 9% Of Public Schools as Budget Crisis Explodes”
Too bad the other 91% of their Grooming Centers remain open.
If this were not tragic, it would be hilarious. These people are fools.
>>They get paid per head of children in the building. What if half the kids disappear?
>>The solution is obvious
It’s Kalifornia, they’ll just enroll a bunch of “minor attracted” perverts that identify as children to keep the enrollment numbers up.
Gonna need more gas for them buses.
“I suggest that they open a “starter jail” instead—little cells for children to get them accustomed to how they will spend most of their lives.”
It’s either that or return to two-parent families with morals and Godly values taught by those parents; and schools that actually teach the lessons that will help a child succeed in life. Lessons in subjects such as reading, writing, math, and the true history of our nation.
The democrats spent $24 billion on the homeless and cannot say where the money went. That money could have been spent on the schools teaching reading and writing and math and history instead of the sex book that gov Newsom and his sick wife force schools to buy from them.
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