Press Releases

SFUSD is a linguistically diverse school system, with students who speak 71 different languages. This week, more than 65 students at Buena Vista Horace Mann (BVHM) will be celebrated by the school for demonstrating English fluency and being reclassified from English Learner to Fluent English Proficient.

At its regular meeting last night, the San Francisco Board of Education adopted the new “Let Me Learn” resolution calling for high schools with Newcomer Pathways to increase translated signage and allow students to access to their smart phones during the school day for translation support.

Bret Harte Elementary School, Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8, and Spring Valley Elementary School will be honored at City Hall during SF Environment’s annual school award ceremony.

SFUSD is launching the first-ever school district crowdfunding initiative that enables donors to give directly to district schools through one central portal.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced that three San Francisco public schools, Lowell High, Roosevelt Middle and City Arts and Tech High (a public charter school), will be recognized under California’s new Gold Ribbon Schools Awards Program.

Vera Jones is an early-education teacher at Theresa Mahler Early Education School, a San Francisco native, and a graduate of San Francisco’s public schools.

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has updated its wellness policy, which includes recommendations related to nutrition, nutrition education, food and beverage marketing, physical education, physical activity, and staff wellness.

There’s been a flurry of poetic activity across our schools, and Burton High is no exception, with three creative writing clubs taking time to read, write and explore poetry during National Poetry Month.

To celebrate Earth Week, thousands of SFUSD students and families will be biking to school on Tuesday.

Last night the San Francisco Board of Education unanimously approved the largest allocation of the Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEEF) in the fund’s ten-year history.