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San Francisco (December 4, 2024) - The San Francisco Department of Elections has certified the results of the Nov. 5, 2024 election. This means San Francisco voters have officially passed Proposition A, a $790 million general obligation school bond measure with 75% of voters approving the measure. The certification of results also confirms three new commissioners have been elected to the San Francisco Board of Education, and incumbent commissioner and Board President Matt Alexander has been reelected.
The 2024 Bond will enhance safety, improve core building functions, and create conditions for modern learning for San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) students. The district has significant building improvement needs, and bonds are the only funding source for the school district to make necessary capital upgrades. Prioritization investment categories for the 2024 bond include school modernizations, core functionality, student nutrition services, technology, security, and schoolyard outdoor learning. A key project is the Student Nutrition Services Food Hub + Shops, which will rebuild SFUSD’s main warehouse and allow the district to better source and prepare food for distribution to schools around the city.
The 2024 Bond will build on the voter-approved bond measures in 2003, 2006, 2011, and 2016, which have funded improvements at every school in the district. Bond investments move SFUSD closer to built environments that are defined in the Facilities Master Plan as the “schools we want” – schools which invite students to learn comfortably, to feel safe at school, and to thrive in their educational journey. Next steps for the Bond Program include completing the security upgrades started in 2021 and delivering on prior modernization commitments that are carried over from prior bond programs due to funding constraints.
The Department of Elections certifying the 2024 election results also confirms that Jaime Huling, Parag Gupta, and Supryia Ray will join the Board of Education as commissioners along with Matt Alexander, current Board President, who was reelected. Elected commissioners will be sworn in in January.
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