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Families and community groups urge SFUSD to pass AROC MOU, oppose KIPP co‑location at Malcolm X
Summary
Community members representing students, teachers and local organizations packed public comment to press the San Francisco Unified School District to approve a memorandum of understanding with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center and to reject co‑location of a KIPP charter at Malcolm X Academy, saying the proposals threaten neighborhood schools and services.
Hundreds of speakers told the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education on May 8 that allowing a KIPP charter to co‑locate at Malcolm X Academy and delaying approval of an MOU with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) would harm students and local schools.
The board heard repeated requests from parents, teachers and youth organizers who said AROC—an Arab community nonprofit—has provided Arabic language supports, cultural programming and youth services for years and that the district’s three‑year delay in scheduling the MOU amounted to an exclusionary practice. "AROC is a pillar in the community," said Jose Luis de Cumbajia of Coleman Advocates, urging the board to "put this…
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