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Everett Middle School Celebrates Yard Transformation in Partnership Between SFUSD, SFPUC, and SF Ed Fund

August 22, 2025

The San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) Everett Middle School will celebrate the grand opening of its newly renovated schoolyard, a nearly $6 million investment in a unique public-private partnership with SFUSD, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and an anonymous donor through the San Francisco Education Fund (SF Ed Fund), in which the organization served as the fiscal sponsor.

August Newsletter: SF Chronicle Highlights High-Impact Tutoring Gains to Kick Off the School Year

August 19, 2025

Our August newsletter marks the start of a new school year with both celebration and urgency. The San Francisco Chronicle spotlighted the success of our high-impact tutoring program, which has already raised $30,000 in new community support — but nearly 800 students remain on the waitlist, and $570,000 is still needed to ensure every child receives the literacy support they deserve. More than 300 volunteers turned out for our 10th annual Back-to-School Setup Day, helping teachers prepare classrooms for thousands of SFUSD students. We’re also opening applications for 2025-26 Educator Impact Grants, preparing new volunteers through fall training sessions, and inviting the community to join us at our September 25 Back-to-School Gala, Voices of Our Schools.

SF Chronicle: Can this ‘jaw dropping’ program fix low literacy rates in San Francisco schools?

August 15, 2025

San Francisco principal Jeremy Hilinski has seen a lot of well-meaning outsiders try to fix struggling schools over the past two decades, shoving money and people at intractable problems with little to show for it. It’s made him a bit cynical. But Hilinski has become a cheerleader ...

SF Examiner: Volunteers help SF teachers get ready for back-to-school

August 14, 2025

As summer winds down and San Francisco children prepare for the coming school year, hundreds of civic-minded volunteers will descend Friday on dozens of The City’s more challenged schools to help teachers set up classrooms for the first day of instruction. ...

SF Examiner: A middle school’s blacktop becomes a recreation oasis

August 13, 2025

When students arrive at Everett Middle School in San Francisco on Monday, they won’t see the nearly two acres of blacktop that used to be the school’s playground and physical education space.The asphalt has been replaced with a nearly $6 million cornucopia of outdoor recreation and education features mixed together with stormwater management systems that use plants, underground drainage and other unobtrusive tactics for preventing runoff. ...

SF Examiner: Four ways you can volunteer in SF public schools

August 13, 2025

There are still plenty of opportunities — and need — for volunteers to help out in San Francisco public schools when students return to classrooms next week. For nearly 50 years, the San Francisco Unified School District has partnered with the nonprofit San Francisco Education Fund to manage and run the majority of its volunteer programs within the school system. ...

High-Impact Tutoring Doubled Literacy Rates Last Year. SF Ed Fund Aims to Scale Up.

July 28, 2025

The only factor preventing access to the single most effective literacy intervention – high-impact tutoring – is funding, and the SF Ed Fund is seeking to raise an additional $600K to meet the urgent literacy needs in San Francisco.

June Newsletter: Progress and Preparation⚡

June 20, 2025

Our June newsletter highlights the collective impact made across San Francisco schools this year — from building a new Sensory Garden at ER Taylor Elementary to unboxing thousands of math curriculum materials with the help of over 100 volunteers. We’re celebrating major milestones, including the success of our high-impact literacy tutoring program, which reached more than 1,000 students with measurable reading gains, and honoring our dedicated volunteers with Giants-sized gratitude. Looking ahead, we’re gearing up for Back-to-School Setup Day on August 15, where the community can once again come together to ensure classrooms are welcoming and ready for students from day one.

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