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Shared School Yards program faces a funding cut in mayor’s proposed budget; SFUSD warns service would shrink
Summary
San Francisco Unified School District told the Board of Supervisors’ Budget & Appropriations Committee that the Shared School Yards program — a city-funded effort serving about 45 sites with roughly $600,000 a year — was omitted from the mayor’s proposed budget and could not operate at its current scale without restored funding.
San Francisco Unified School District officials told the Board of Supervisors’ Budget & Appropriations Committee on June 10 that the city-funded Shared School Yards program — which opens neighborhood schoolyards to the public and supports free weekend programming — was omitted from the mayor’s proposed budget and would have to shrink if $600,000 in annual funding is not restored.
Dawn Kamala Navin, head of facilities at SFUSD, said the district pivoted during the pandemic to manage the program citywide and that the program now runs 45 schoolyards with a budget of about $600,000 a year. "We were finally able to fully realize the potential of this program," she said, describing pandemic-era improvements including monitored sites, restrooms and handwashing stations.
Katie Poy…
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