Last night during a five-hour meeting at Everett Middle School, San Francisco’s Board of Education voted to close, merge and relocate more than a dozen public schools.
In a unanimous vote, all 7 commissioners voted against the merger of Daniel Webster and Starr King elementary schools.
It’s time to celebrate!
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• Many S.F. schools closed or merged […]

The San Francisco Chronicle published a front page article about our neighborhood’s efforts to save Daniel Webster Elementary School. The article is well-timed as tonight is when the Board of Education is expected to make their decision about Webster’s future.
Potrero Hill mothers Jennifer Betti and Dena Fischer (with the guidance of Art Agnos) have been […]

On the eve of the Board of Education’s vote to merge, close and relocate schools we’re providing links to opinions from the Guardian and Lorraine Woodruff-Long.
• Bail out the schools – once [Guardian]
• S.F. schools valued, but need help [The Examiner]

The Board of Education was scheduled to vote on school closures and mergers on Thursday evening. After 6 hours of public comments, the board voted to take a recess and continue the discussion on Thu, Jan 19. In the interim, the S.F. education board will wait to see if the Board of Supervisors approves a […]

ABC 7 news aired a piece about the school closures on Thursday evening in which they mentioned our efforts and interviewed Dena and Jennifer:
“San Francisco’s Potrero hill neighborhood is thriving with new families. In 2-4 years these toddlers will start kindergarten at their neighborhood school. That’s if the school district keeps Daniel Webster elementary open.”
Dena […]

As part of our data gathering for the Board of Education, Stacey Bartlett conducted 2 online surveys about the San Francisco public school systems. Click on the links below to read the results:
• For Potrero Hill Parents (66 participants)
• For people who left San Francisco (120 participants)

Left in SF has a great summary of what happened at our regional meeting on Fri Jan 6.
Key decision makers were present (Mar, Sanchez, Lipson and Yee), in addition to Sophie Maxwell (our District 10 Supervisor), Willie Brown, Art Agnos and a representative from Assemblyman Mark Leno’s office.
Principal Rosenberg from Starr King spoke […]

Board of Education Commissioner Sarah Lipson attended a meeting with prospective and current parents of Daniel Webster at the Potrero library today. We presented to her our reasons for why Daniel Webster should stay open.
We’d like to thank the 60+ Potrero Hill parents and neighbors for attending this standing room only event.
Your presence was […]

The San Francisco Unified School District’s Meeting on School Closures, Mergers and Relocations happens tomorrow for our region.
Please wear a white or ‘Save Daniel Webster’ t-shirt to display our support of the school as a group.
Community Meeting to discuss closures
Friday, Jan 6, 2006, 7 - 8:30 pm
Thurgood Marshall High School
45 Conkling Street (off of […]

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 […]