Posted on 05/12/2026 5:56:32 AM PDT by Libloather
San Francisco public school officials’ sneaky new plan for massive school closures was hidden even from the district’s furious school board, according to a new report.
The San Francisco Unified School District plans to close an unidentified number of schools by 2030 to deal with some 14,000 empty seats in the rapidly shrinking district, according to a memo sent to parents last month.
Like other urban districts in California and across the country, the City by the Bay has seen years of enrollment declines in public schools which reflect declining birth rates and other demographic changes blamed on rising prices, migratory shifts and more.
Superintendent Maria Su is expected to announce the outline and timeline for the school closures tomorrow at the district’s school board meeting, but members of the board told a local publication they’re peeved a newspaper caught wind of the story before they did.
Su broke the news of the upcoming closures in a San Francisco Chronicle story published nearly two weeks ago by longtime education reporter Jill Tucker.
“We are ready for this,” Su told the paper of her plan to close schools. “And it’s about time. We’ve been trying to do this for many years now.”
The article states that Su spent the past 18 months getting the district ready for closures, but it doesn’t say why she’s only gone public with the plan recently, or why she gave the news to the paper before she shared it with the board.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
For obvious reasons.
San Francisco is a crazy expensive town - with one of THE most work school districts in the nation.
Those who live there with children usually have the means to send their kids to private schools, my daughter tells me all of her friends with kids send their kids to private schools. All of them. (as they continue to vote in the same lefties...).
Funding schools that are 1/2 full is not sustainable - same is happening Los Angeles, where school enrollment has fallen.
“The Los Angeles School district has lost over 300,000 students in two decades, from a peak of about 737,000.”
ESL hardest hit.
EC
Families with kids have been fleeing SF for decades.
There are none so blind...
NYC spends $44,000 per student withe the same shameful result.
“””NYC spends $44,000 per student withe the same shameful result.”””
I saw that in another posting and fully agree.
In NYC each classroom probably has about 20 students so it is costing NYC $880,000 per classroom per year with one teacher.
A NYC teacher’s salary with all benefits included is probably about $200,000 per year.
So where is the NYC spending the other $640,000 per classroom each year?
And we can’t omit people who LEFT because of the bay area’s political lunacy.
SILLY RABBIT
Who in their right mind would even consider raising children in that hell hole?
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