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Tyeastia Green Shortly after moving to Burlington last year for a job in city government, Tyeastia Green pitched her new colleagues on celebrating Juneteenth. Green, the Queen City's first director of racial equity, inclusion and belonging, had fond memories of the holiday from growing up in Minneapolis. Yet Green, who was then the city's only Black department head, says she was met with confused looks when she first mentioned the event. It's a portmanteau of June 19, the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, lea...

School grounds are filling up at recess again as more students ditch virtual learning and return to brick-and-mortar classrooms. But for the many mothers who had to cut back on work during the pandemic as kids stayed home, back to school has not meant back to normal. From sidelined businesses and lost income to night shifts and delayed health care, moms have paid a higher price during the pandemic. Brandy Brager is one of them. The CEO of a five-person construction company, she used to be the kind of person who planned out a whole year ahead. Now, it’s day by day. “The way I think a...

S.F. teachers, district negotiate over how many hours, days a week to return for live instruction FacebookTwitterEmail Alana Lee (left), 6 years old, shows Legos made in the learning hub inside San Francisco’s Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation Center in July. The hubs were opened to help struggling families facing shuttered schools.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less 2of5 Susan Solomon (right), president of UESF, talks to SEIU Local 1021 field representative Kim-Shree Maufas at the San Francisco Unified School District building on March 12.Jana Asenbrennerova / Special to The...

Deal to bring S.F. students back to classrooms leaves many questions unanswered FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 David Thompson, Luis Tamayo and their son, Lucas, 9, head home from Adda Clevenger School in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 15, 2020.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of7 Health Science teacher Evan Mundahl works to educate his students on the coronavirus through group project work in his first period class at Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School in San Francisco, Calif. Wednesday, March 11, 2020.Jessica Christian/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of7...