Richard Carranza will be the next superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District, after the Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of a $245,000, three-year contract for him.
Carranza, who has been the district’s deputy superintendent for the past three years, will take over for retiring Superintendent Carlos Garcia in July.
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The man who will most likely be the next San Francisco Unified School District superintendent has promised a smooth transition with no surprises if he takes the helm this summer.“If anyone’s expecting a radically different direction, that’s not going to be the case,” Richard Carranza, currently the district’s deputy superintendent, said in an interview with The S.F. Examiner.
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An education advocacy group gave the San Francisco Unified School District horrible marks this week for the subpar performance of black and Hispanic students and the size of the so-called achievement gap between these students and their white peers.
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The San Francisco School Board’s hasty action to replace retiring Superintendent Carlos Garcia appears to have run afoul of California’s open meeting law. The board called a closed meeting on March 8 to discuss Garcia’s resignation, but it failed to post a notice about the meeting on the district’s website, as the Brown Act requires. A notice was reportedly posted at district headquarters.
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Mayor Ed Lee reaffirmed Wednesday his desire for a long-term solution to the hundreds of teacher pink slips and other budget headaches that the San Francisco Unified School District scrambles to avoid each year.Speaking at the retirement announcement of Superintendent Carlos Garcia, Lee clarified his recent comments regarding the potential release of about $6 million from The City’s rainy-day fund, which was created in 2003 to fill the district’s funding gaps.
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After leading the San Francisco Unified School District for five years, Superintendent Carlos Garcia announced Wednesday that he will retire in July.
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In what has become an annual ritual, San Francisco’s Board of Education voted Tuesday night to issue pink slips to 485 teachers, administrators and staff. For the first time, the board also voted to skip layoffs at the 14 schools in the Superintendent’s Zone, setting aside seniority in order to preserve jobs at schools the district argues are the neediest.
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At Malcolm X Academy, a small elementary school on top of a hill in the Bayview, more than 90 percent of students qualify for a free or reduced-price lunch. The school is surrounded by housing projects, and the neighborhood has one of the highest rates of violence in The City.
For a chart listing grant amounts awarded to Superintendent's Zone schools, click on the photo to the right.
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By:
George Gascón and Carlos Garcia
10/18/11 9:59 PM
Transitioning from middle school to high school can be a difficult time in a young person’s life. Last year, Jessica was an eighth-grader at an academic middle school in San Francisco. Challenged by family instability and little adult supervision, she missed almost half of her eighth-grade year.
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Educators often note that how a student does in ninth grade is a good indicator of whether he or she will graduate from high school. And showing up for class is a critical part of that.
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