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Students and parents urge SFUSD board to save teachers as preliminary layoffs loom
Summary
Students, parents and teachers urged the San Francisco Board of Education to reverse preliminary layoff notices affecting support staff and teachers of color at Dr. William L. Cobb and other schools, saying cuts would harm students’ learning and representation.
Students, parents and teachers packed the public-comment period to plead with the San Francisco Board of Education to rescind preliminary layoff notices and preserve support staff and teachers of color.
Fifth-grader Tiana Evans told the board she was speaking for Cobb Elementary when she asked the district to stop cuts that would take “our teachers away,” saying, “Please let us keep all our teachers.” Zia Marie Langton, a fourth grader at the same school, asked why the district is “pink slipping” teachers of color while…
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