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Parents and teachers urge SFUSD board not to colocate Gateway Middle School on Creative Arts campus
Summary
Dozens of parents, teachers and students from Creative Arts Charter School told the San Francisco Unified School District board that a proposal to colocate Gateway Middle School at the Golden Gate/CACS campus would overcrowd the site, threaten safety and may not meet Prop 39 facility-equivalency requirements.
Dozens of speakers from Creative Arts Charter School pressed the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education on Jan. 8 to halt a staff proposal to colocate Gateway Middle School at the Golden Gate campus shared with Creative Arts. Fernando Aguilar, interim director of Creative Arts, said the campus already serves about 332 K–5 students and that placing another school with “over 300 students” there would create significant negative impacts. “Is this really the best that staff can do?” Aguilar asked the board.
The speakers, including CACS board president Lisonbee Folk, teachers, parents and…
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