Keep teachers in our classrooms! Invest $60 million in public schools / ¡Mantengan a los maestros en nuestras aulas! Inviertan $60 millones en escuelas públicas.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors & Mayor London Breed
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SF public schools need your help! Voters passed Prop G and SFUSD gave teachers and staff raises that made sure that for the first time in years, school started with a teacher in every classroom. (1) We are calling on the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Breed to keep teachers in the classroom and to make sure that school sites get much needed funding by giving education its fair share of funding -- $60 million.
San Francisco has money -- the city just got $181 million back in property tax dollars - thanks to gentrification and the low percentage of funding that San Francisco dedicates to education (just 8% of our city budget - frozen where it was in 1979). The Board of Supervisors and Mayor Breed are deciding right now how to spend these funds.
Incoming Supervisors Gordon Mar, Shamann Walton and Matt Haney have publicly committed to fighting for $60 million for public schools - a fair share for education. We thank them for their commitment to public schools!
The other Supervisors and Mayor Breed need to make public schools a priority.
If we don't honor the will of the voters, we risk returning to significant and sudden teacher shortages that would devastate our schools.
Additionally, twenty schools serving half of the city’s African American students across the city (from Carver, Malcolm X, Muir and Willie Brown to Rooftop, Rosa Parks, Everett and Presidio) (2) will get a double hit if we don’t fulfill voters promises under the LWEA. These schools sites stand to lose community school funding as well as teachers and staff.
Finally, this is a chance for San Francisco to assert our right to invest in our communities in the face of right wing attacks on public education and the public good. The LWEA, along with Prop C (childcare) and Prop C (housing) were sued by right wing anti-tax groups out of Orange County. These groups are trying to tell San Francisco voters we can’t invest in our communities. Because of this outside meddling, we are in danger of losing teachers, families, and neighbors who can’t afford to teach, live, and send their kids to preschool in our city. City Attorney Dennis Herrera will be fighting hard to win these lawsuits, freeing up full funding for our priorities, but it could take 1-3 years to get a decision on this issue. San Francisco families can’t wait. With $181 million in ERAF funds, we need to honor voters priorities and get started right away.
We know there are a lot of needs in the city right now, and are not asking that all of these funds go to public schools. We are simply calling on the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Breed to honor the will of the voters and ensure that education gets its fair share - $60 million - of Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund dollars.
(1) http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfusd-scrambling-to-fill-classrooms-amid-teacher-shortage/
(2) The 20 PITCH schools who will get more funding from Prop G are: Bryant ES, Carver ES, Chavez ES, Drew ES, Harte ES, Malcolm X ES, Muir ES, Sanchez ES, Revere K-8, Willie Brown MS and Flynn ES, Ortega ES, Parks ES, Rooftop K-8, Aptos MS, Everett MS, Martin Luther King MS, Lick MS, Presidio MS, and Roosevelt MS. These schools were chosen because they are schools where there is a significant opportunity gap for Black students. High teacher turnover is one of the factors that was considered in choosing schools that needed these additional funds.
(3) One of the organizations suing the city today is the Jarvis Taxpayer Association. This is the same group which passed Prop 13 and froze San Francisco’s contribution to public schools at 8% in 1979. The passage of Prop 13 was closely tied to opposing school integration and ended up hurting California public schools across the state. Dog whistle politics about “desegregating dollars, not desegregating schools” was used to pass tax reform by promising to lower property taxes while sending state tax dollars to poor urban districts serving kids of color. Instead, when Prop 13 passed, it devastated public schools. In San Francisco we had to close about 25 schools and lay off 875 staff. All but the richest suburban and rural districts were hurt too, as their funding was capped.
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Las escuelas públicas de SF necesitan su ayuda! Los votantes aprobaron la Proposición G y el SFUSD realizó aumentos de maestros y personal que se aseguraron de que, por primera vez en años, la escuela comenzara con un maestro en cada salón de clases. (1) Hacemos un llamado a la Junta de Supervisores y a la Alcalde Breed para mantener a los maestros en el aula y para asegurarnos de que los sitios escolares obtengan los fondos tan necesarios al dar a la educación una parte justa de los fondos: $60 millones.
San Francisco tiene dinero (la ciudad acaba de recuperar $181 millones en dólares de impuestos a la propiedad) gracias a la gentrificación y al bajo porcentaje de fondos que San Francisco dedica a la educación (solo el 8% de nuestro presupuesto municipal, congelado donde estuvo en 1979). La Junta de Supervisores y la Alcalde Breed están decidiendo ahora mismo cómo gastar estos fondos.
Los supervisores entrantes Gordon Mar, Shamann Walton y Matt Haney se han comprometido públicamente a luchar por $60 millones para las escuelas públicas, una parte justa para la educación. ¡Les agradecemos por su compromiso con las escuelas públicas!
Los otros Supervisores y la Alcalde Breed necesitan hacer de las escuelas públicas una prioridad.
Si no respetamos la voluntad de los votantes, corremos el riesgo de regresar a una escasez de maestros significativa y repentina que devastaría nuestras escuelas.
Además, veinte escuelas que sirven a la mitad de los estudiantes afroamericanos de la ciudad (desde Carver, Malcolm X, Muir y Willie Brown hasta Rooftop, Rosa Parks, Everett y Presidio) (2) sufrirán doble si no cumplimos las promesas a los votantes bajo la LWEA. Estos sitios escolares pueden perder la financiación de la escuela comunitaria, así como los maestros y el personal.
Estos fondos deben honrar la voluntad de los votantes que aprobaron la Proposición G, la "Ley del Salario Vivo para Educadores" (LWEA), en junio de 2018. Al aprobar la LWEA, los votantes aprobaron fondos para aumentos de maestros, escuelas comunitarias, beneficios para trabajadores a tiempo parcial, y más. Sabemos que hay muchas necesidades en la ciudad en este momento, y no estamos pidiendo que todos estos fondos vayan a las escuelas públicas. Simplemente estamos pidiendo a la Junta de Supervisores y a la Alcalde Breed que honren la voluntad de los votantes y se aseguren de que la educación reciba su parte justa ($60 millones) de los dólares del Fondo de Aumento de Ingresos Educativos.
Finalmente, esta es una oportunidad para que San Francisco haga valer nuestro derecho a invertir en nuestras comunidades frente a los ataques de derecha contra la educación pública y el bien público. La LWEA, junto con la Proposición C (cuidado de niños) y la Proposición C (vivienda) fueron demandadas por grupos anti-impuestos de derecha del Condado de Orange. Estos grupos están tratando de decirles a los votantes de San Francisco que no podemos invertir en nuestras comunidades. Debido a esta intromisión externa, corremos el riesgo de perder maestros, familias y vecinos que no pueden permitirse el lujo de enseñar, vivir y enviar a sus hijos al preescolar de nuestra ciudad. El abogado de la ciudad, Dennis Herrera, estará luchando arduamente para ganar estas demandas, liberando fondos completos para nuestras prioridades, pero podría tomar de 1 a 3 años tomar una decisión sobre este tema. Las familias de San Francisco no pueden esperar. Con $181 millones en fondos ERAF, debemos respetar las prioridades de los votantes y comenzar de inmediato.
(1) http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfusd-scrambling-to-fill-classrooms-amid-teacher-shortage/
(2) Las 20 escuelas PITCH que obtendrán más fondos de la Proposición G son: Bryant ES, Carver ES, Chavez ES, Drew ES, Harte ES, Malcolm X ES, Muir ES, Sanchez ES, Revere K-8, Willie Brown MS y Flynn ES, Ortega ES, Parks ES, Rooftop K-8, Aptos MS, Everett MS, Martin Luther King MS, Lick MS, Presidio MS y Roosevelt MS. Estas escuelas fueron elegidas porque son escuelas donde existe una importante brecha de oportunidades para los estudiantes afroamericanos. El alto movimiento de maestros es uno de los factores que se consideraron al elegir las escuelas que necesitaban estos fondos adicionales.
(3) Una de las organizaciones que demandan hoy a la ciudad es la Asociación de Contribuyentes de Jarvis. Este es el mismo grupo que aprobó la Proposición 13 y congeló la contribución de San Francisco a las escuelas públicas al 8% en 1979. La aprobación de la Proposición 13 estaba estrechamente vinculada a la oposición a la integración escolar y terminó perjudicando a las escuelas públicas de California en todo el estado. La política del lenguaje doble sobre “eliminar la segregación de dólares, no eliminar la segregación de escuelas” se usó para aprobar una reforma de los impuestos al prometer reducir los impuestos a la propiedad mientras que se enviaran dólares de los impuestos estatales a los distritos urbanos pobres que sirven a niños de color. En cambio, cuando la Proposición 13 fue aprobada, devastó las escuelas públicas. En San Francisco tuvimos que cerrar unas 25 escuelas y despedir a 875 empleados. Todos menos los distritos suburbanos y rurales más ricos también resultaron heridos, ya que su financiación fue limitada.
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors & Mayor London Breed
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Deirdre Elmansoumi
We are calling on you to prevent teacher & staff shortages and honor the commitment to invest in school sites by giving education its fair share - $60 million of Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) dollars. We appreciate the public support of incoming Supervisors Gordon Mar, Shamann Walton and Matt Haney, and call on the rest of the board and Mayor Breed to give public schools our fair share of funding.
Thanks to Prop G and the district's commitment to raises, this is the first year that every SFUSD classroom had a teacher on the first day of school. We need to make sure that we can keep teachers in classrooms, build community schools, and make sure part time staff have benefits. These funds stabilize our schools, educators and families at a time when so many are being pushed out. If teachers and staff lose their raises and benefits we will return to serious shortages in school sites.
San Francisco this money - $181 million back in property tax dollars - thanks to gentrification and the low percentage of funding that San Francisco dedicates to education (just 8% of our city budget - frozen where it was in 1979).
Twenty schools from across the city which serve half the Black families in the city will also lose community school funding. These schools, from Carver, Malcolm X, Muir and Willie Brown to Rooftop, Rosa Parks, Everett and Presidio are anchors for our families and can't wait for the promises of Prop G to be fulfilled.
San Francisco is under attack from the same forces that froze our city contribution to education at 8% in 1979. These ERAF funds give us a chance to respect the will of the voters and get to work on all our priorities, education, preschool and housing.
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We call on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Breed to give education its fair share of Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) dollars - $60 million - so we can keep teachers in classrooms, stabilizing San Francisco schools and families.
This funding should honor the will of voters who passed Prop G, the “Living Wage for Educators Act” (LWEA), in June 2018. In passing the LWEA, voters approved funding for teacher raises, community schools, benefits for part time workers, and more.
For the first time in years, we started school in 2018 with a teacher in every classroom because of SFUSD’s commitment to raise teachers salaries right away.(1) We can’t afford to lose the teachers counting on these raises, when we have the money to keep them in our schools.
The city is getting $411 million back in property taxes because of gentrification and the fact that historically only 8% of San Francisco’s budget goes to public education -- the second lowest percentage in the state.(2) Some of this money is committed, but $181 million in discretionary ERAF funding creates an opportunity to correct this historic wrong, invest in education, and to honor the will of voters who passed Prop G. We know our public schools need more money, and deserve our support!
If education doesn’t get it’s fair share of $60 million dollars, we risk returning to significant and sudden teacher shortages that would devastate our schools. Additionally, twenty schools serving half of the city’s African American students across the city (from Carver, Malcolm X, Muir and Willie Brown to Rooftop, Rosa Parks, Everett and Presidio) (3) will get a double hit if we don’t fulfill voters promises under the LWEA. These schools stand to lose community school funding as well as teachers and staff.
Finally, this is a chance for San Francisco to assert our right to invest in our communities in the face of right wing attacks on public education and the public good. The LWEA, along with Prop C (childcare) and Prop C (housing) were sued by right wing anti-tax groups out of Orange County. These groups are trying to tell San Francisco voters we can’t invest in our communities. Because of this outside meddling, we are in danger of losing teachers, families, and neighbors who can’t afford to teach, live, and send their kids to preschool in our city. City Attorney Dennis Herrera will be fighting hard to win these lawsuits, freeing up full funding for our priorities, but it could take 1-3 years to get a decision on this issue. San Francisco families can’t wait. With $181 million in ERAF funds, we need to honor voters priorities and get started right away.
We know there are a lot of needs in the city right now, and are not asking that all of these funds go to public schools. We are simply calling on the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Breed to honor the will of the voters and ensure that education gets its fair share - $60 million - of Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund dollars.
(1) http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfusd-scrambling-to-fill-classrooms-amid-teacher-shortage/
(2) One of the organizations suing the city today is the Jarvis Taxpayer Association. This is the same group which passed Prop 13 and froze San Francisco’s contribution to public schools at 8% in 1979. The passage of Prop 13 was closely tied to opposing school integration and ended up hurting California public schools across the state. Dog whistle politics about “desegregating dollars, not desegregating schools” was used to pass tax reform by promising to lower property taxes while sending state tax dollars to poor urban districts serving kids of color. Instead, when Prop 13 passed, it devastated public schools. In San Francisco we had to close about 25 schools and lay off 875 staff. All but the richest suburban and rural districts were hurt too, as their funding was capped.
(3) The 20 PITCH schools who will get more funding from Prop G are: Bryant ES, Carver ES, Chavez ES, Drew ES, Harte ES, Malcolm X ES, Muir ES, Sanchez ES, Revere K-8, Willie Brown MS and Flynn ES, Ortega ES, Parks ES, Rooftop K-8, Aptos MS, Everett MS, Martin Luther King MS, Lick MS, Presidio MS, and Roosevelt MS. These schools were chosen because they are schools where there is a significant opportunity gap for Black students. High teacher turnover is one of the factors that was considered in choosing schools that needed these additional funds.