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San Francisco Unified board meeting, Sep 22, 2026

The longest item was Progress Monitoring Workshop on Student Outcomes: Goal 2: 2 h 01 min.

4 h 50 min · 10 agenda items · 29 public speakers

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  1. Agenda · 10 items
What happened

What happened at this meeting

Board approves 2026 Project Labor Agreement for bond-funded projects 2:34:53

  • At public comment, speakers asked the district to move window replacement work at a school with lead concerns to the summer, and others raised concerns about screen time and AI tools in classrooms. 1:50:44
  • The board approved the consent calendar and the 2026 Project Labor Agreement for bond-funded projects. 2:31:06
  • The board held a progress monitoring workshop on Goal 2, 8th grade math proficiency, and a presenter reported a 4% increase in preliminary results and rated progress off track toward a target of 65% by 2028. 2:48:32
Item by item (7)
  1. Opening and closed session 0:03
    • After roll call, the board president called for public comment on closed session items, and no speakers came forward. 0:27
    • The meeting recessed at 5:07 PM for closed session. 1:14
  2. Public comment 1:40:53
    • Several speakers at public comment raised lead concerns tied to construction at a school and asked the district to reschedule window replacement to the summer and wet clean play yards before October 9th. 1:51:16
    • Other speakers asked the board to keep students safe from racial harm, and a speaker said the bond oversight committee needs 7 members before terms end October 10th. 1:58:14
    • Speakers at public comment described a petition supporting a moratorium on student generative AI use and grade-level limits on devices, and asked for more transparency about Amira. 2:03:23
  3. Consent calendar 2:28:24
    • A speaker said the board president has a standing recusal from the consent calendar due to employment with the City and County of San Francisco. 2:29:07
    • The motion covered items E1 through 46. 2:30:28
    • The consent agenda passed on a roll call vote. 2:31:06
  4. Textbook sufficiency resolution 2:31:50
    • The assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction said requests for materials cited as insufficient in surveys had been met with ordering and delivery or pending delivery of additional materials. 2:32:27
    • No speakers addressed the item during the public hearing. ~2:33:27
    • The item was declared so moved after a roll call vote. 2:34:17
  5. Project labor agreement for bond projects 2:34:53
    • A presenter said the 2026 project labor agreement was negotiated over several months and is meant to ensure efficient project delivery, expand apprenticeship and workforce development opportunities and strengthen labor stability. 2:35:35
    • A board member asked how the amended language would evaluate the effectiveness of the policy in giving students workforce experience. 2:37:10
    • The staff member said the prior policy was written in 2013 and was modernized to match current college and career readiness pathways. 2:37:29
  6. Textbook resolution rehearing 2:45:12
    • The board reopened the hearing on the textbook resolution because a public commenter who asked to speak had been missed. 2:45:12
    • A speaker at public comment asked for accessible materials for special education students and English learners and a transparent process for reporting missing tools. 2:46:03
    • The resolution was declared so moved after a second roll call vote. 2:47:48
  7. Eighth grade math progress monitoring 2:48:32
    • A presenter said preliminary 25⁠-⁠26 results showed a 4% increase for 8th graders, that results for African American and Pacific Islander students remained relatively flat, and that the progress monitoring status was rated off track. 2:56:02
    • A board member asked how approximately $30 million in state funds would be deployed, and a district official said about $12.5 million was allocated to education services and had not been used for these strategies. 4:09:23
    • A speaker asked what evidence exists that math ed tech strategies are causing growth in math outcomes, and another speaker said Amira is literacy-based and an AI-based math tutor was piloted at the high school level last year. 4:29:36

Written by software from the meeting's transcript and checked sentence by sentence against it.

Who spoke

Who spoke

Phil KimPresidentFirst speaks at 1:35:15
Jaime HulingCommissionerFirst speaks at 2:29:05
Parag GuptaCommissionerFirst speaks at 2:36:47
Lisa Weissman-WardCommissionerFirst speaks at 2:38:42
Matt AlexanderCommissionerFirst speaks at 3:17:18
Alida FisherCommissionerFirst speaks at 3:32:03
Supryia RayCommissionerFirst speaks at 3:41:05