Communities rally to save schools
Today the SF Examiner published an article on communities rallying to save schools, in which our efforts to save Daniel Webster are mentioned:
With only one week to go before the board makes decisions, communities that have organized in recent weeks to campaign for their schools are working overtime to pack meetings, send in letters and petitions and contact board members and other city leaders.
Even parents who don’t yet have kids in the public schools are defending their neighborhood school. Potrero Hill parent Jennifer Betti said she and her husband bought a house within walking distance of Daniel Webster Elementary School several years ago specifically with their now-preschool-aged
daughterson in mind.“The board has not paid attention to the changing demographics of Potrero Hill,” Betti said. “We’ve got all these young families here now.”
January 6th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
We live very close to Daniel Webster Elementary and also have a close to preschool aged daughter. Like the Betti family, when we purchased our home in Potrero Hill several years ago, one of the attractive factors was the proximity of Daniel Webster Elementary to our home. We can’t believe the City is talking about taking this away from us now!