📚 ICYMI, ETHNIC STUDIES STUDY: This summer, SFUSD rushed to find a new curriculum after its own ethnic studies course caused uproar. Now the district has pushed its first review of the pilot. @taybarton.bsky.social reports on how we got here and what's next. thefrisc.com/sfusds-first...

💻 ICYMI, SPED TECH: “The language of special education itself is like another language,” says one parent who's been testing out a new #AI tool to translate and simplify special ed plans. But as @taybarton.bsky.social reports, SFUSD has privacy concerns. thefrisc.com/this-ai-soft...

✏️ NEW, EVAL BACKTRACK: A few months into its ethnic studies pilot, SFUSD was due to release a report on its progress. Now there's an additional 3-month wait. @taybarton.bsky.social has the scoop on the delay and some of the controversy behind the new curriculum. thefrisc.com/sfusds-first...

🤖 NEW, AI FOR SPED? Mandated special ed plans are long and dense, especially difficult for non-English speakers to wade through while they wait weeks for a translation. An AI tool offers a solution, but SFUSD isn't on board. @taybarton.bsky.social reports. thefrisc.com/this-ai-soft...

🍎 ICYMI, CHARTER SCHOOL'S IN: Last night SFUSD renewed two Bayview charter schools. One, an elementary school, will cede state control to the district. How did these two charters win while Dragon Gate Academy failed? @taybarton.bsky.social reports. thefrisc.com/sfusd-will-r...

Chen wants a hearing to ask if SF employees (libraries, public transit etc) have training to deal w/ ICE agents who enter their domains. @taybarton.bsky.social just wrote about this as it pertains to SF schools. There's a difference between having a policy and a plan thefrisc.com/new-californ...

🚸 NEW: CHARTER COOL? After dismissing the Dragon Gate Academy proposal, charter schools are back on the SFUSD agenda. Read @taybarton.bsky.social's latest before the Board of Ed decides on the fates of two existing Bayview charter schools at 6:30pm. thefrisc.com/sfusd-will-r...

🧪 ICYMI, STEM IN SF: Piper Johnson is spending her high school junior year working on a real-time sensor to test water pollution. As @taybarton.bsky.social reports, with the @bayareascifest.bsky.social this weekend, Johnson's not the only one excited about science. thefrisc.com/this-local-h...

🔬 NEW, H2O NO: SF high school junior Piper Johnson is making a real-time pollution sensor, inspired by Ocean Beach surfers sickened by sewage runoff. At this wkend's @bayareascifest.bsky.social, local students will present projects... and perhaps inspire the next Piper. thefrisc.com/this-local-h...

The lack of poop-related puns in this article is, I feel, a feat. #LocalJournalism #STEM #ScienceJournalism thefrisc.com/this-local-h...

SFUSD has more money than it expected in the budget, but that doesn't necessarily mean it can afford salary raises, which the teachers' union and administrators' union are demanding. Read our update at @thefrisc.bsky.social 👇 thefrisc.com/sfusd-teache...

🍎 SCHOOL UPDATE: As the SF teachers union rallied at Tuesday's SFUSD school board mtg, a district official acknowledged budget forecasts were out of whack. SFUSD has more 💰 than expected, but it can't just bump teacher salaries. @taybarton.bsky.social reports ✏️ thefrisc.com/sfusd-teache...

UESF is one step closer to striking after filing for impasse in bargaining with SFUSD, calling the 2% offer a slap in the face. “That’s not a raise,” said prez Curiel. “That’s ‘how do you rob Peter to pay Paul?’ And Peter & Paul are on our bargaining team together.” thefrisc.com/teachers-uni...

🤺 NEW, 'STRIKE-READY'? In contract negotiations with SUFSD, the teachers union says support for special ed and homeless families is the sticking point vs. pay raises. As for all that strike talk, @taybarton.bsky.social reports, it's one way to get the district to focus. thefrisc.com/teachers-uni...

🧊 ICYMI, ICE V. EDU: A new CA law says that public schools must rebuff ICE agents who try to enter public schools. SFUSD already has a similar policy, but what if a situation escalates? @taybarton.bsky.social reports on how principals and teachers are grappling. thefrisc.com/new-californ...

"We have more kids that are just not coming to school." A new law says schools must bar ICE agents, but how it will be enforced and what that might cost is still TBD. SFUSD rejected UESF's request for more support. My first story for @thefrisc.bsky.social is up! thefrisc.com/new-californ...

🎒 NEW, SCHOOLS & ICE: If ICE agents show up at SF schools, staff must turn them away. What if agents refuse? There is state/local assurance of help. But there's a difference, say some educators, between having a policy and a plan, @taybarton.bsky.social reports. thefrisc.com/new-californ...

We're now hearing more of the arguments around ethnic studies and the Mandarin immersion charter school. In case it wasn't clear, here's this year's policy on the ethnic studies requirement www.sfusd.edu/departments/...

🧵 ALERT: At 6:30 we'll join the regular mtg of the SF school board. The big item tonight is a board vote on a Mandarin immersion charter school that a parent group wants to start. SFUSD staff and superintendent are recommending against the proposal. Background here ✏️ thefrisc.com/charter-or-n...

Folks looking to cover & learn about addiction and recovery in the #BayArea: this one's for you! @thefrisc.bsky.social #LocalNews #LocalJournalism #SanFrancisco #PublicHealth #JournalismSky

A new group of early-career journalists and newsrooms were selected for the 2025-2027 California Local News Fellowship! Thank you, California, for supporting local journalism — an essential public service. Congrats to our fellows and newsrooms! fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/cafellows/ne...

📣 We're thrilled to welcome @taybarton.bsky.social, @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social grad, to The Frisc in Sept. Taylor joins us via the Calif. Local News Fellowship and will tackle SF's big civic issues for us. With her experience covering schools, the environment & more, we can't wait to get going!

Must-read alert from @themarshallproject.org's Shoshana Walter, Jill Castellano and @dduret.bsky.social!

Today I learned that @newyorker.com editor Nimal Eames-Scott is a fellow #LucyDacus obsessive, and that is why today is a decent day.

Bay Area #ClimateSky community! Come by the Metro Center on April 22 to catch our lightning talks with @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social. Registration is filling up fast, but we anticipate wait lists opening up if needed. DM me with questions!

Certainly hope no *actual* crime needs fighting today, all the police in Berkeley seem to be at the Tesla store, protecting property (from peaceful protesters). #HandsOff

if you can't attend protests on April 5th due to being disabled, have to work, or can't get there you can still attend virtually Virtual Protest - hosted by Mobilize US Time Saturday, April 5 2 – 4pm PDT Location Virtual event Join from anywhere Hosted in Berkeley, CA 94703 mobilize.us/s/GpMfvo

“Ultimately, the harm is that not enough community resilience hubs & customer-owned renewables will be built,” said Del Chiaro. “That leaves Californians exposed to grid outages, PG&E’s record-high rates & the detrimental health & economic effects of climate change.” richmondside.org/2025/03/21/p...

Far and away the best answer I’ve heard yet to the “how scared should we be (and what to do about it)” question. Big thanks to @fivefourpod.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @fleerultra.bsky.social @aywarhiannon.bsky.social for sharing this one w/ the masses. ❤️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

Despite leading the nation in solar energy, California still relies on natural gas when the sun goes down because much of that energy isn’t being stored. Bidirectional charging could turn electric vehicles into a network of mobile batteries, letting cars feed energy back to the grid.

Fellow budding journalists looking to cover migration and human rights—this one's required reading. Thanks @citationsneeded.bsky.social @nimashirazi.bsky.social @ahjohnson.bsky.social @nomoredeaths.bsky.social!

“If we don’t prepare a workforce, and if we don’t prepare the jobs to be quality jobs for that workforce, we’re just not going to meet our climate goals.” TY to @twyspy.bsky.social for supporting this labor + climate change deep dive! @baycitynews.bsky.social localnewsmatters.org/2025/01/11/w...

Home electrification work is rarely done by unionized workers. Now, a group of advocates and contractors are pushing to ensure that the industry decarbonizing homes also creates good jobs for the people most impacted by #climatechange. @taybarton.bsky.social localnewsmatters.org/2025/01/11/w...

Should we be using EVs to offset the rising demand on the energy grid? @taybarton.bsky.social explored bidirectional EV charging with J=Kurt Johnson from The Climate Center for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social www.kneedeeptimes.org/the-solar-ba... #climatesky

A new law could allow EV owners in California to use their cars for bidirectional charging—meaning that the energy they store could flow into and out of the vehicles to power homes or the grid. @taybarton talked to Kurt Johnson at The Climate Center www.kneedeeptimes.org/the-solar-ba... #climatesky

If even a portion of the EVs expected on the road by 2030 were bidirectionally capable, they could generate and store as much as 70 gigawatts. That’s over 30x the capacity of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. Read our Q&A w/ Kurt Johnson for KneeDeep Times! ⤵️ www.kneedeeptimes.org/the-solar-ba...