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Parents and educators press SFUSD board over Buena Vista/Horace Mann safety and special-education staffing
Summary
At the Sept. 28 San Francisco Board of Education meeting, parents, teachers and students urged immediate repairs at Buena Vista/Horace Mann and asked the district to address special-education placement and paraeducator vacancies. The CAC presented priorities and commissioners pressed staff on online program staffing and testing.
Public commenters filled much of the Sept. 28 San Francisco Unified School District board meeting with accounts of unsafe conditions and staffing shortfalls at Buena Vista/Horace Mann and other sites. Parents, teachers and students described recent incidents they say have left classrooms and common spaces unsafe and demanded faster facility repairs and clearer timelines for renovations.
"The gas leak has really worried me out because some students have asthma," said a student speaker, pressing the board to accelerate work at her school. Teachers and paraeducators told commissioners they are seeing students with IEPs placed in settings that lack appropriate supports and that more than 100 paraeducator positions remain…
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