Education
SAN FRANCISCO — Dr. Maria Su, formerly Executive Director of the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, was appointed by the San Francisco Board of Education with 6-1 votes to immediately take over the position as the new Superintendent for the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD).
SAN FRANCISCO — The list of public school closures and mergers in San Francisco was finally released with 11 schools proposed to be permanently closed. Three of the 11 schools are elementary schools serving students in Chinatown and surrounding neighborhoods. A total of 4 schools proposed to be closed are high Asian enrollment schools. The Asian community has questioned if the list is unfairly targeted and impacted the Asian American families.
(SAN FRANCISCO) Under the approved resolution, non-citizen students at San Francisco City College might have a chance to participate in voting at future City College Board of Trustees elections.
（SAN FRANCISCO) On February 25, 2024, Recall School Board movement hero Kit Lam returned to the same old spot at Clement Street Farmers Market where he used to gather thousands of signatures for the recall petitions in 2021. This time Lam was a volunteer of Proposition G campaign to bring back algebra classes for students in San Francisco public schools.
(SAN FRANCISCO) By a vote of 6-3, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 29 against affirmative action considering race in college admissions and affirmed that the admissions programs were unconstitutional violating equal protections.
(SAN FRANCISCO) After two-year criminal and civil legal proceedings, volunteer parent Kit Lam's fighting for justice on the recall school petition stealing incident has come to a conclusion by accepting $1 compensation and a public apology published in three local newspapers in San Francisco.
(SAN FRANCISCO) Ann Hsu, one of the three incumbents who were appointed by Mayor London Breed earlier this year to the Board of Education, loses her re-election race to challenger Alida Fisher who caught up with more votes in the last few days when more election results were released.
(SAN FRANCISCO) Three candidates, Anita Martinez, Vick Chung and Susan Solomon, who were running as a team to challenge the incumbents, captured all top three seats in the San Francisco Community College Board race.
- San Francisco Independent Media Coalition hosts Congressional candidate forum to discuss issues of Great Highway closure, immigration policy, wealthy tax, AI regulations, and more
- $25 million Downtown Business Fund launched offering grants, loans and expert support to entrepreneurs for revitalizing San Francisco Downtown
- San Francisco offers grants to Chinese-speaking business owners citywide who fill vacant storefronts
- Opinion: Yet the Auxiliary Water Supply System has not been expanded, leaving ⅔ of San Francisco vulnerable to post-earthquake catastrophic fires
- A robbery against an elderly Chinese woman in Sunset District leads to 4 arrests linked to 5 criminal incidents in one single day in San Francisco
- San Francisco Human Service Agency welcomes you to its new service center for food stamps and other services
- 30 Family Child Care centers in SF receive advanced heat pump water heaters which California strongly promotes as one of the best clean technologies to improve air quality
- Small business owners applying for SBA loans must be U.S. citizens effective March 1, 2026
