After a national search, San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Superintendent Richard A. Carranza has hired Landon Dickey, an SFUSD and Harvard Business School graduate, to serve as his Special Assistant for African American Achievement and Leadership.
Several tech professionals have been starting their days in SFUSD classrooms as volunteers, helping SFUSD computer science teachers prepare students for future tech careers.
The old “fill in the bubble” tests have left SFUSD classrooms and are being replaced by “Smarter Balanced Assessments,” which align with the new Common Core State Standards.
SFUSD now has 252 National Board Certified teachers, a greater percentage than any other California district, and this number is growing at a faster rate than the national average.
Hydra Mendoza-McDonnell, Dr. Emily Murase and Shamann Walton will be sworn into office today at 6:00 p.m. by San Francisco officials at the Tenderloin Community School.
This fall the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) calculated how much water large organizations were using on average for landscaping and other needs and asked them to reduce usage by 10 percent.
