SF Schools Wrestle with Reform Amid Alarming Math, Reading, and High School Rates

Amid all this work, the district has also pledged major reforms at every school level: a literacy overhaul in elementary school; a change in math curriculum, including the potential return of algebra to middle school; and in the district’s 17 high schools, rethinking courses, college and career readiness, and admissions — Lowell High’s controversial status in particular. These three levels of academic reform — elementary, middle, and high school — are all spurred in large part by distressing disparities in <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/CG5V977F8741/%24file/6_28_22%20-%20SFUSD%20Student%20Performance%20Analysis.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">outcomes</a> for Black and brown students. After the <a href="https://thefrisc.com/sfs-new-school-board-members-will-receive-a-budget-baptism-by-fire-ded6a5400458" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">acrimonious 2022 recall</a>, the new board quickly hired Superintendent Matt Wayne, and they all agreed on a five year plan to boost student performance in the three areas. <a href="https://thefrisc.com/sf-schools-wrestle-with-reform-amid-alarming-math-reading-and-high-school-rates-b30b2bead5f1">Visit Now</a>