Lunar New Year begins this week, and Lakeshore Elementary’s kindergartners are ready to put on a parade. Each year, the school’s four kindergarten classes put on a lion dance to ring in the new year.

Last night the San Francisco Board of Education voted unanimously to renew San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) Superintendent Richard A. Carranza’s contract for another three years.

Students at International Studies Academy have been hard at work learning through hands-on projects, and they’re ready to exhibit what they’ve learned.

New data from the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) show that efforts to build a safer school climate and reduce the disproportionate number of suspensions of African-American students are starting to pay off.

Graduation rates and test scores have been steadily climbing for African American students in SFUSD. However, there still is an “opportunity gap” resulting in too many African American students faring worse than their peers in school.

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.

The San Francisco Board of Education elected Emily Murase to serve as president and Matt Haney to serve as vice president.

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.