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SFUSD holds deep-dive workshop on college and career readiness; staff outline dual-enrollment growth, precovery plans and course-matrix responses
Summary
District staff told the board they will expand dual-enrollment access, pilot centrally coordinated 'precovery' (ninth‑grade credit recovery) courses and use a new course matrix to identify gaps in AP/CTE/world language offerings; commissioners pressed for demographic outreach and firm timelines.
The San Francisco Unified School District held a lengthy workshop on student outcomes, progress monitoring and the board’s college-and-career readiness goal. Superintendent Wayne and district staff framed the session as a forward-looking expansion of the board’s work on literacy and graduation that now shifts attention to measures of college and career access and readiness.
Joanna Feitz, executive director of college and career readiness, told the board the district plans two near-term expansions: a centrally led set of precovery/credit‑recovery courses aimed at ninth graders to intervene early in the school year, and an increase in dual‑enrollment offerings in partnership with City College. Feitz said fall dual‑enrollment participation was “a little less than 600” students and that year‑to‑date participation exceeds 1,000; she also said the district has been allotted 10 additional dual‑enrollment classes for the next year and described class-size minimums (20) and maximums (35).
Julie Yu, the district’s data policy manager, read a…
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