Read on for a sampling of the SF Ed Fund's media coverage, our monthly newsletters, and other stories and research that inspire our work
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...
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...
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...
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...
December 29, 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, we’re grateful for our donors and volunteers and the impact they’ve made for educators and students across our 47 Priority Schools. This support makes high-impact...
December 16, 2025
For the 2025-26 school year, the SF Ed Fund awarded approximately $10,000 in Awesome Fund grants to 10 student-led projects across four Priority high schools: Balboa, John O’Connell, Mission, and...
December 4, 2025
Ten years ago, in partnership with the late Mayor Ed Lee and sf.citi, we launched Circle the Schools (CTS) to bring the city's business and tech community closer to its public schools. What began...
November 22, 2025
The SF Ed Fund is heading into Thanksgiving with deep gratitude for the educators, volunteers, and donors who fuel our work for San Francisco’s public schools. Because of this community, literacy...
