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Board amends and approves Teach For America support; consent items pass with several motions
Summary
After debate, the board amended a Teach For America resolution to remove promotional language and then approved a corrected resolution to support 14 TFA teachers in hard-to-fill areas; the consent calendar and other items (minutes, naming resolution) were also approved as recorded.
At the May 15 meeting the San Francisco Unified School District Board considered several consent items and two related resolutions concerning Teach For America (TFA) support and administrative bookkeeping.
Board staff explained the actions as a housekeeping amendment to a prior contract resolution and a request to add a small cohort of new TFA participants focused on hard-to-fill subjects such as special education and secondary math and science. Several commissioners and public speakers pressed for…
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