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San Francisco to Shutter 9% Of Public Schools as Budget Crisis Explodes
TruthBasedMedia ^ | 10/12/24 | Tyler Durden

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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To: lurk

You haven’t been paying attention. It’s been that way from the beginning


21 posted on 10/12/2024 9:49:32 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: CFW

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.


22 posted on 10/12/2024 9:56:52 AM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: Sacajaweau
These school ratios are crazy...We had 40 kids in all my classes from Kindergarten thru 12th grade.

Bingo! Same for me (1950/60's). And no zillions of Ed Assistants or what ever they are called.

23 posted on 10/12/2024 10:01:57 AM PDT by llevrok (Say NO to a fourth Obama term!)
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To: CFW

As long as the illegals are taken care of. That’s the important thing.


24 posted on 10/12/2024 10:02:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: stanne
Em…as families have all moved to Colorado and Texas to make new liberal hellholes

or Canada like Kamala's mom did... where the real socialists go to escape the USA.


25 posted on 10/12/2024 10:02:15 AM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: jdt1138

Looks like the only Black heritage in the family were their slaves. It appears she went to Canada with all the Vietnam draft dodgers.


26 posted on 10/12/2024 10:09:47 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember, the illegal aliens and thieving foreigners don't want AMERICA TO BE GREAT AGAIN.)
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To: CFW

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.


27 posted on 10/12/2024 10:12:13 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: CFW

“San Francisco to Shutter 9% Of Public Schools as Budget Crisis Explodes”

Too bad the other 91% of their Grooming Centers remain open.


28 posted on 10/12/2024 10:15:52 AM PDT by BobL
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To: CFW

If this were not tragic, it would be hilarious. These people are fools.


29 posted on 10/12/2024 10:34:24 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America!--Butler Pa. July 13 "As I was saying..."--Butler Pa. Oct 5)
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To: lurk

>>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.


30 posted on 10/12/2024 11:28:56 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: CFW

Gonna need more gas for them buses.


31 posted on 10/12/2024 11:38:12 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: CFW
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.

32 posted on 10/12/2024 12:54:16 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“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.


33 posted on 10/12/2024 1:39:54 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

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.


34 posted on 10/13/2024 6:53:11 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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