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PITTSFIELD — The city’s leadership this week will delve into a traffic project and waste management proposal that are already generating strong opinions in the community. The city has for years been looking for ways to rein in curbside waste disposal costs, and the newest proposal aimed at achieving just that will be outlined and no doubt scrutinized at Wednesday’s 7 p.m. Committee of the Whole meeting. At-Large Councilors Peter Marchetti, Earl Persip III and Pete White proposed ...

The tentative agreement to safely reopen public schools is a major step in a contentious,...

After nearly two months of bargaining, a tentative agreement has been reached for teachers in San Francisco to return to their classrooms safely and be...

San Francisco teachers union lays out demands for resuming in-person instruction KTVUs Christien Kafton reports. SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - The San Francisco teachers union and school district met on Friday to try and nail down an agreement on when and how to resume in-person instruction.  Union leaders laid out the conditions for what needs to happen to get teachers back into classrooms, but there is still no timeline. For 11 months San Francisco public school students have been distance learning...

Negotiations between school district, unions over school reopenings resume Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this file photo, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera listens to questions during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco. The city of San Francisco took a dramatic step Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in its effort to get children back into public school classrooms, suing its own school district to try to force open the doors amid the coronavirus pandemic. Cit...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Some S.F. teachers are ready to go back to the classroom. But theyve been too scared to speak up until now FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 David Moisl greets his West Portal Elementary kindergartners, whom he teaches online from home. He is ready to return to the classroom as soon as all the necessary safety precautions are in place.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Kevin Robinson, a substitute teacher with San Francisco Unified School District, ...

San Francisco teachers and the district are still at an impasse over when in-person classes should resume as more parents push for face-to-face instruction.

The city of San Francisco is suing its own school system to force education leaders to produce a reopening plan after the district neglected to do so, according to its plans released Wednesday.

Herreras suit raises question: Who decides when conditions are safe to return kids to school? FacebookTwitterEmail City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued the San Francisco Unified School District on Wednesday, demanding that it come up with a plan to reopen the city’s schools.Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press The lawsuit that City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed Wednesday against the San Francisco Unified School District and its leaders was unprecedented in California and perhaps nationwide: a ...

  The United Educators of Pittsfield has filed an Open Meeting Law complaint with the School Committee and the city clerk in relation to the Jan. 27 vote.    Their complaint states the committee used an executive session during its regular meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 27, to deliberate the return of students. The committee and the UEP agreed to a memorandum of understanding detailing when and how instruction would occur during the pandemic at the start of the school year.    "This deli...