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SFUSD unveils progress‑monitoring plan and equity‑enhanced targets; board presses for resources and scaling
Summary
District staff presented a progress‑monitoring framework that cascades district targets to school‑level and equity‑enhanced targets, emphasizes data conferences and a new review protocol, and includes incentives for school artifacts. Commissioners and public commenters pressed for clearer resource alignment and immediate interventions for struggling students.
San Francisco Unified School District leaders on Monday presented a new progress‑monitoring approach that pairs district goals with site‑level targets and a set of interim guardrails designed to move the district from analysis to action.
Superintendent Doctor Wayne opened the workshop by saying the governance team’s purpose is to improve student outcomes and that doing so requires changing adult behaviors. He summarized district performance: third‑grade literacy at about 52% (target 55% next year), a decline in math to roughly 40% for all students, 26% of students chronically absent and declines in measures of sense of belonging. ‘‘We are off track,’’ he said, and framed the session as an effort to show evidence and a plan for improvement.
Ritu Khanna, head of Research, Planning and Accountability (RPA), described guardrail 3.2, which focuses on regular use of implementation and impact data for continuous instructional improvement. ‘‘Data use should be prevalent at all levels of the district,’’ Khanna said, and outlined a theory of action that pairs implementation measures (what schools do) with impact measures…
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