School Beat: Last Day Of School

by Lisa Schiff‚, Beyond Chron (reposted)

Thu, Jun 15, 2006 7:11AM

It's official. Today is the last day of the school year and most of us are breathing a sigh of relief. This was a tough one. Paired with continued successes throughout classrooms all over the City was enough heartbreak for all of us to have an ample portion. We all need and would like a bit of a summer vacation from the challenges around us. But, the upcoming year is already too packed with significant issues for us not to take advantage of the relative quiet of these interim months to become familiar with the substance behind the catch phrases that are already whizzing by. Everything begins and ends with the budget. The proposed financial plan for the 2006-2007 school year was given its first reading at this past Tuesday's Board of Education (BOE) meeting. This year's budget document, posted on the SFUSD website (http://tinyurl.com/zgrjh), is much more comprehensive and comprehensible than last year's. Reading through this document is only a first step.

Yes, it's true, there really is supposed to be a new student assignment policy this fall. School board members, staff and expert advisers have been meeting for months to determine what a new plan might look like that could better meet the goals of diversity, equitable program distribution and support of academic achievement for all students, as well as satisfying as many families as possible with competing desires for both school choice and neighborhood schools.

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