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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...

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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...

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It Takes a Village: 361 Volunteers Help Teachers Prep for Day One

August 18, 2025

On Friday, August 15, more than 361 community and corporate volunteers brought classrooms to life across 35 – or nearly 75% of – SF Ed Fund Priority Schools, contributing nearly 750 hours of...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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