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Board approves PEAF spending plan after heated public comments over proposed VAPA admin cuts
Summary
The Board approved the superintendent’s Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEAF) expenditure plan March 12 after several hours of public comment objecting to a curriculum-committee proposal to reallocate VAPA administrative funds toward site services; commissioners called for audits and process reforms.
The San Francisco Unified School District Board on March 12 approved the superintendent’s recommended Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEAF) expenditure plan for 2019–20 after more than three hours of public comment and extended board debate over a curriculum committee amendment that would have redirected central VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) administrative funding to direct student services.
Edwin Diaz, director of PEAF, presented the superintendent’s plan and noted that the district had shared materials and responses to committee questions. "It is my pleasure to recommend that the board approve the ... PEAF expenditure plan," Diaz said. The curriculum committee and the PEAF…
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