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 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...
January 25, 2026
Through five- to 15-minute, in-class sessions, the district hopes to get more elementary students reading at grade level.
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...
