We are heartened and encouraged by Eric Mar’s (President of SF Board of Education) recent comments on this website, with regard to our efforts.
Our community has a unique opportunity to help advocate for equal educational opportunity for disadvantaged youth, while simultaneously saving a neighborhood school for Potrero Hill’s children. Please continue with your calls […]

The pre-school kids of Potrero Hill (and hopefully future students of Daniel Webster Elementary School) are lending their support to save the school by sporting t-shirts.
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Dena & Jennifer sent out an update to Potrero Hill Parents and Neighbors today:

Dear Potrero Parents & Neighbors,

We have been working hard to do all we can to keep Daniel Webster open and wanted to update you as to where we are, where we go from here, and what you can do to help.

We’re encouraged and optimistic because this issue is no longer invisible thanks to our continued drum beating. Thanks to everyone who volunteered to help with this effort. We are doing our best to inform the Board and those who represent us that the demographic in Potrero Hill has changed dramatically over the last five to seven years. They are just now learning about the existence of the PHPA (Potrero Hill Parents Association) and the over 200 families who are a part of it - most of whom have preschool age children and many of whom would like to send their children to public school right here in this neighborhood. Daniel Webster has been a troubled school in the past, but under the guidance of new principal Linda Anderson, it’s moving in the right direction with improved test scores and greater integration among kids who speak different languages. There are parents in our group who want to get involved with Daniel Webster NOW, several years before our kids are ready for kindergarten, so that by the time they are ready, it will be a desirable and flourishing school.

But we can’t do it if there isn’t a school to go to.

Click here to buy a Save Daniel Webster Elementary School Adult or Kid sized t-shirt, and show your support at these following meetings:
Community Meeting to discuss closures
Friday, Jan 6, 2006, 7 - 8pm
Thurgood Marshall High School
45 Conkling Street (off of Silver Ave)
Special Board Meeting to vote on closures
Thursday, Jan 12, 2006, 6pm
Everett Middle School Auditorium
450 […]

Save Daniel Webster Elementary School flyers have been created to get our message out to the community, and many supportive Potrero Hill merchants now have them posted. We’ve also started to distribute the flyers amongst neighbors, and will continue our outreach efforts.
Please help us out by signing the petition (available at Farley’s, Klein’s Deli & […]

Today Dena and Jennifer hand delivered a letter to Ms. Margaret Brodkin (Director of the Mayor’s Office of Youth, Children and Families).
The letter, in part, asks for her assistance to inform the mayor and solicit his advocacy; and her help in gathering more pertinent data on the population growth of families and children (elementary […]

Lisa Schiff of Parents for Public Schools posted about a series of regional community meetings about school closures, mergers and relocations. Our meeting is set for Friday, Jan. 6, 2006.
What will happen at these meetings?
• School district staff will provide information to school communities about the Board of Education’s upcoming decisions on school closures, mergers […]

Dena & Jennifer sent out a letter to Potrero Hill Parents and Neighbors today:
Dear Potrero Residents:
A hearty group of 8 - including 6 month old Annabel Bartlett - stayed at the School Board meeting until 11:30 - many thanks to Mike Lin who stuck it out ’til the very end….and to all the Potrero families […]

Today, Potrero Hill mothers Dena Fischer and Jennifer Betti sent out an e-mail to the 200+ members of the Potrero Hill Parents Association:
Dear Potero Parents,
Having begun the process to organize a community group to revitalize Daniel Webster Elementary School with the goal to make this a desirable and flourishing educational environment for the kids on […]

The following letter was posted to the PotreroHillSF.com message boards, notifying the community of the SF School District’s intentions of closing Daniel Webster Elementary:
Dear Friends, Families and Supporters of Daniel Webster Elementary School,
I am writing to inform you that the SF school district intends to close Daniel Webster Elementary School. The plan involves moving […]