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Parents, teachers and students press board on placements, Willie Brown closure, arts cuts and layoffs
Summary
More than two dozen public commenters urged the board to stop layoffs, reconsider program cuts to arts and after-school services, address placement lottery problems (siblings/twins separated), and investigate the administrative leave of a Bayview parent liaison tied to Willie Brown Academy closure.
During an extended public-comment period the board heard sustained testimony from students, parents, teachers and community leaders about multiple district challenges: layoffs and program cuts, the student assignment lottery and feeder-pattern proposals, community impacts from Willie Brown Academy’s closure, and the administrative leave of parent liaison Fred Franklin.
Speakers described emotional and practical harms from proposed or implemented cuts. Wallenberg students and teachers testified in defense of art teacher Emily Van Dyke and the STAR Visual Art program; itinerant art teachers said the STAR…
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