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Mayor Newsom outlines city–school 'Partnership for Achievement' and offers resources
Summary
Mayor Newsom addressed the Board, proposing a formal city–school partnership to coordinate services, increase funding and expand wraparound supports; he described six strategic areas and asked the board to send the plan to committee for review.
Mayor Newsom presented a framework the City and County of San Francisco calls the "Partnership for Achievement," offering the mayor’s office as a continuing liaison to the district and proposing six strategic focus areas to support student success: community engagement, teacher and principal support, promoting adequate school funding, expanding wraparound services and after‑school programs, 21st‑century workforce preparation and reinforcing schools as community hubs.
The mayor said the city already invests more than $40 million annually in programs that touch public schools — from after‑school and preschool to public‑health and library programs — and argued that an institutional framework could better coordinate those resources without infringing on board authority. He described pilot ideas including teacher loan assistance, teacher recognition programs, expanded internship pipelines in biotech and green jobs, and shared facility maintenance and planning alignment.
Board members responded favorably and moved the mayor’s proposal to the curriculum committee for further review and possible digestion into a memorandum of understanding. Superintendent Chan and several commissioners thanked the mayor for the outreach and emphasized the need to preserve school board authority while formalizing interagency collaboration.
Next steps: the measure was slated to go to the curriculum committee for review with the goal of returning to the full board after committee consideration.
