Teacher also. The they work do is noble work. The work they do is honorable work. The work they do is educating the future generation of San Francisco and how more profound work is that . But we need your help too. This is my opportunity to say as a the board president that we understand your concerns. I want to guarantee i want to tell you we are negotiating in good faith, we want an equitiable solution to this and i really appreciate that you take responsibility also for the School District and for our School Age Children and for the education too and that you have also invested many, many, many, many thousands of hours in your terms as officers of our City Government to help protect our workers and also protect our students as i once again say i wish this was a full chamber so i could tell all of your colleagues how important this is and how the Public School system of San Francisco is actually a part of the infrastructure of San Francisco that makes it so fabulous and why people st
Use that money that has been specifically, again, earmarked for low income English Learners and foster care youth. Having said that, i am glad that i have the opportunity to come here today because respectfully correcting what i just heard is that it isnt all about whats happening in sacramento. It is about whats happening here in San Francisco and the last time i checked, thats your jurisdiction. Because every time i hear testimony at the board of education it is about how our teachers cant live here, how our paraprofessionals cant live here, how the cost of living is too high, they cant find housing here and they have to leave. We lose 50 percent of our teachers within the first 5 years. Every time we lose a teacher its 10 to 20 thousand dollars. We now have 19,000 vacancies in our School District and it is largely because they cant afford the cost of living here. We wish every single schoolaged child in San Francisco would use our wonderful San Francisco Public Schools but when you
Schoolaged child in San Francisco would use our wonderful San Francisco Public Schools but when you cant hire enough teachers to be able to have a qualified teacher in every classroom, then thats a problem. So i do think that the city takes some responsibility in this. Our families cant live here. Our teachers cant live here. Our paraprofessionals cant live here and every time a eusf member comes to the board of education and says i cant live here, i have to move, i want to tell them, go to city hall and tell them that, because that is not our jurisdiction, this is your jurisdiction. The housing issue is your jurisdiction. I dont know if you realize our teachers cant ard 5,000 a month for rent. They are a they dont serve a capitalistic model, they serve the children of San Francisco. And that is noble work and that is hard work and by offering i would love to give them a 300 percent raise. We just dont have the funds to do it. But i want to be honest that even if we did, they still cou
Schoolaged child in San Francisco would use our wonderful San Francisco Public Schools but when you cant hire enough teachers to be able to have a qualified teacher in every classroom, then thats a problem. So i do think that the city takes some responsibility in this. Our families cant live here. Our teachers cant live here. Our paraprofessionals cant live here and every time a eusf member comes to the board of education and says i cant live here, i have to move, i want to tell them, go to city hall and tell them that, because that is not our jurisdiction, this is your jurisdiction. The housing issue is your jurisdiction. I dont know if you realize our teachers cant ard 5,000 a month for rent. They are a they dont serve a capitalistic model, they serve the children of San Francisco. And that is noble work and that is hard work and by offering i would love to give them a 300 percent raise. We just dont have the funds to do it. But i want to be honest that even if we did, they still cou
They said that school would be at the 10 00 a. M. Because kids need to sleep in there would be paid internships but really i wanted to thank the superintendant and a, of course, ms. Marianna and in particular our funders. This wouldnt be possible without the philanthropists and those who created the basis for farreaching thinking and its a great start to thinking about where we want to be in 2025. It helped us to think big. The look forward to participate in the future meetings. One of the homework things was to visit Classroom Teachers and parents along to the next session yes. laughter . I actually really enjoyed the first session the first day and a half and was horrify it actually was well beyond any exception and i want to commend you laura there was a lot of planning going into that and your team pulled off a great event. The Panel Discussions were really great because they were more reflected active of not the common voice we hear but there were some really great commentaries fr