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Supervisors approve $2.705M supplemental to help SFUSD students meet A–G graduation requirements
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee amended and forwarded a $2.705 million supplemental appropriation to the San Francisco Unified School District to restore credit‑recovery, evening/summer options and community satellite services for the Class of 2014; the measure passed committee with a 2–1 recorded vote (Kim and Avalos aye; Chair Chu no).
Supervisor Jane Kim introduced an ordinance to appropriate state reserve funds to SFUSD to support the district’s first cohort of graduates required to meet the University of California ’A–G’ eligibility standards. Superintendent Richard Carranza, deputy and school leaders described how state budget cuts since 2009 eliminated summer school, evening school and some after‑school 21st Century programming, and how those cuts reduced opportunities for students to make up required benchmark courses.
District officials presented data showing large groups of current juniors are not on track to meet the new requirements without…
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