Jill Tucker

In the race to attract more families to San Francisco’s public schools, district officials are in the process of opening a Mandarin immersion school next year, starting with just under 90 transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students. If the distric... See more

A Catholic school with a 138-year history in San Francisco has shut down for lack of funds, with the city’s Archdiocese informing parents last week they will need to find educational alternatives for their atypical learners in the short time before the st... See more

The man, with a bit of grey in his beard, asked my name. I told him. As he stared into my face, and despite the additional 35 years of life he found there, he smiled. “You were my teacher,” he said. I might have blacked out for a second. Advertisement Art... See more

In a twist to the ongoing dysfunction within the Oakland school district, the superintendent’s chief of staff, a former city councilwoman, mysteriously stopped showing up for work several weeks ago and on Wednesday morning submitted her resignation after ... See more

The city’s school board is expected to keep the current cellphone policy, which requires devices to be off and put away during instructional time and between classes, with a few exceptions. The vote ensures San Francisco Unified meets the state’s July 1 d... See more