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Substitute teachers tell SFUSD board Red Rover app and pay-date changes are destabilizing
Summary
Substitute teachers and United Educators of San Francisco described a Red Rover assignment system that frequently drops jobs, device incompatibilities, unpaid sick leave access problems, and objected to a last-minute payroll change moving substitute pay from the 5th to the 10th of the month.
Multiple substitute teachers told the board that the district's substitute-assignment system (Red Rover) is unreliable and harms veteran substitutes who depend on consistent assignments. Dennis Fox, a substitute, said experienced substitutes routinely see openings appear and disappear and now average roughly one day of work per week.
"We spend hours and hours hitting the refresh button on the Red Rover screen looking for work," Fox said during public…
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