Press Releases

For the first time ever, the Game Design Academy class at Marshall High will be using an industry-grade program called Unity, which was used to make Angry Birds and other popular games.

The 2016-17 Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEEF) budget was recently approved by the SF Board of Education and includes a $3.17M increase over the 2015-2016 budget.

Spring has arrived, and 28 SFUSD schools currently have access to nearly 40,000 gallons of water collected by cisterns installed in their schoolyard gardens.

High schoolers will get hands-on experiences as they are introduced to potential future careers in the Bay Area's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) professions.

The San Francisco Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution to provide more staff training, curriculum and services to meet the needs of students with incarcerated parents.

Sixteen students in the Culinary Arts and Management class at O’Connell High are preparing to compete in the ProStart Cup competition. The four teams design a restaurant, create a storyboard, put together a business plan, and then present and defend their plan in a pitch to industry leaders.

Business and civic leaders will be at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy to celebrate Read Across America Day where thousands of new "leveled books" (reading material for each student that focuses on words and sentences of increasing complexity) are being delivered to all classrooms.

Students will be posing with the Golden State Warriors World Championship team trophy at the African-American Honor Roll celebration, which honors the approximately 1,200 students in grades 3-12 who are earning a 3.0 grade point average or higher.

Events have been unfolding at Lowell High School over the past few weeks that shine a light on deep and systemic problems we have in this country and right here in our own community and in our schools. An offensive display put up by one student for Black History Month has been a catalyst for students and families to speak up about ongoing concerns

The San Francisco Board of Education has unanimously approved a resolution to expand its Condom Availability Program to all district middle school youth.