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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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San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. goes all in to pay for private tutors for 1,500 more city students

January 20, 2026

Amid a national and turbulent debate on how to boost lagging literacy skills, San Francisco is putting its money behind a simple effort that seems to be generating the kind of jaw-dropping results...

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SF Ed Fund, SFUSD, and DCYF Announce Major Expansion of High-Impact Tutoring to Serve More Than 2,700 San Francisco Students

January 20, 2026

The SF Ed Fund, SFUSD, and DCYF today announced a significant expansion of high-impact tutoring, a research-backed intervention program shown to dramatically improve literacy outcomes for...

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National Mentoring Month Spotlight: Gabe Liu

January 7, 2026

January is National Mentoring Month, a time to celebrate the power of meaningful, consistent relationships. In partnership with SFUSD’s Mentoring for Success (MFS) program, SF Ed Fund volunteers...

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