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SF school board declines to renew New School petition locally, denies expansion request
Summary
After hours of testimony from families, staff and opponents, the San Francisco Board of Education voted down staff’s local renewal recommendation for New School San Francisco and approved staff’s recommendation to deny a material revision expanding the charter; commissioners cited equity, demographics and facility funding concerns.
The San Francisco Board of Education on Sept. 24 declined to approve a local renewal of the New School of San Francisco’s charter as a K–5 school and separately voted to deny the school’s material-revision request to expand into middle grades.
The board considered two staff items: SP19625 SP1, recommending approval of a K–5 renewal for New School (to serve 288 students at 655 DeHarrell Street for five years beginning July 1, 2020), and SP1999-10 SP2, recommending denial of a proposed material revision adding grades 6–8 because the petition did not demonstrate the capacity to serve middle-grade English learners or meet material-revision requirements. After public testimony that included school founders, parents and students urging local authorization and dozens of minutes of commissioner questioning, the board took two…
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