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Students and parents urge SFUSD to spare teachers, counselors and programs amid budget cuts
Summary
More than 100 in-person commenters, many students, told the San Francisco Board of Education that proposed reductions would disproportionately harm vulnerable students, naming reading intervention teachers, counselors and after-school programs.
Hundreds of members of the San Francisco school community filled the board chamber Wednesday and made an hour of public comment about proposed reductions that could affect teachers, counselors and student support programs.
Many commenters were students. Students from Mission High School, Dr. William L. Cobb Elementary and other campuses told the board that cuts to reading interventionists, counselors, after-school supports and elective courses would harm students who rely on them.
Varo Yanes, a tenth-grader at Mission High School,…
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