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Teachers press for raises as parents and staff call for reinstatement and leadership changes at Grattan and E.R. Taylor
Summary
At the Feb. 14 SFUSD board meeting teachers urged the district to prioritize pay and retention as bargaining opened; long public-comment periods featured parents and students pushing to reinstate a transferred Grattan teacher and multiple speakers calling for removal or investigation of E.R. Taylor’s principal over alleged safety and leadership failures.
A wave of public comment at the San Francisco Unified School District’s Feb. 14 meeting centered on labor negotiations, teacher retention, and two heated school-level controversies.
Opening public comment for the evening featured representatives of United Educators of San Francisco and classroom teachers stressing affordability and retention as bargaining began that day. Union remarks said negotiations started on Valentine’s Day and urged the district to ‘‘find every dollar’’ to stabilize schools. Dante Popolisky, a math teacher, told the board, “I often put in 11 hour days,” and described long commutes and the risk of being priced out of the city if compensation doesn’t improve.
Several speakers focused on a…
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