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Volunteer Spotlight: Nandini Ravindran

March 11, 2026

At the San Francisco Education Fund, we are fortunate to work with an incredible community of weekly volunteers who show up in classrooms across the city to support students and educators. Through...

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February Newsletter: Back to Classrooms, Forward for Students

February 24, 2026

Like many across San Francisco, we can all breathe a sigh of relief that the teachers’ strike has come to an end and students are back in classrooms. Moments like this remind us just how much our...

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The 74 Million: In San Francisco, Short Bursts of High-Impact Tutoring Support Young Readers

February 19, 2026

The benefits of high-impact tutoring are on full display at this Spanish immersion public school on the edge of San Francisco’s Bernal Heights and Mission District neighborhoods. Flynn introduced...

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J Serra Unveils Beautiful New Mural, Funded through Educator Impact Grant

January 28, 2026

At Junipero Serra Elementary, Community School Coordinator Nisha Kapadia used a school-wide Educator Impact Grant to bring students, staff, and families together to create a large mosaic mural...

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January Newsletter: High-Impact Tutoring Expansion!

January 26, 2026

When we first set our goals for the 2025-26 school year, we dared to imagine providing high-impact tutoring to 3,000 K-5 San Francisco students not yet meeting literacy standards. At the time, that...

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SF Standard: SFUSD doubles down on private tutors to reach ambitious literacy goal

January 25, 2026

Through five- to 15-minute, in-class sessions, the district hopes to get more elementary students reading at grade level.

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Hoodline: SF Rushes Reading Tutors Into Classrooms As Kids Slip Behind

January 21, 2026

San Francisco is racing to wipe out a months-long waitlist for a high-intensity literacy tutoring program, moving trained reading tutors into more of its highest-need elementary classrooms as soon...

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KQED: SF Schools Expand Tutoring Program to Get More Students Reading at Grade Level

January 20, 2026

San Francisco’s school district is expanding a tutoring program that more than doubled students’ reading proficiency rates last year, a bright spot in the district’s push to raise literacy scores...

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