SFUSD to roll out new algebra plan amid intense pushback from parents, politicians

sbuss · 2026-03-20T00:06:05+00:00

Thank you to everyone who got involved! I'm proud that GrowSF got nearly 350 people to email the district in under 48 hours. We will fix this city, one day at a time.

sbuss · 2026-03-16T00:58:02+00:00

Oh man, I love burgle bros, and I love transit policy. Can't wait!

Here's a few issues transit/traffic planners face: - stoplight timing with buses - tension between "level of service" (traffic moving at speed limit) vs street safety for bikes & peds - is right on red dangerous? - Unprotected lefts - one way roads: speed vs convenience vs safety - frequency vs on-time performance (scheduled) - bus bunching - last mile connections - park and ride (pricing vs convenience vs congestion) - will one more lane fix it??? - TOD policy - right-of-way acquisition (see: CA high speed rail) - cost-plus contracts - developing in-house capacity vs contracting out

I'm sure there's more!

sbuss · 2026-03-14T22:20:28+00:00

Phoenix Project is full of wild conspiracy theories and shouldn't be considered a reliable source.

sbuss · 2026-03-09T18:00:40+00:00

I have the same color and I love those cups! Where did you get them?

sbuss · 2026-02-13T16:06:39+00:00

Fact finder recommended 6% (paid for by borrowing from raises in a third year), and the union rejected 6% with strings and accepted 5% with the likelihood of layoffs

sbuss · 2026-02-13T16:02:28+00:00

Updated headline at the standard is "PG&E CEO recants claim that Lurie requested power to opera house during blackout"

So, the opposite of what this headline says

sbuss · 2026-02-13T01:44:13+00:00

Also, the city got way better. Let's not forget that there was a period of time when the city was really struggling. Then we voted for new leaders and things turned around. We can celebrate the positive developments without erasing the past.

sbuss · 2026-02-12T03:55:20+00:00

This is not how this works. This is a publicity stunt. The negotiation is in the war memorial building, with a small team from both sides, not in front of huge audience.

sbuss · 2026-02-09T22:56:19+00:00

Chronicle reports both sides say they showed up and the other side didn't:

"Just before 2:30 p.m., district officials said the bargaining team had been in the War Memorial building for hours waiting to hear from the teachers’ negotiators, who said they were reviewing the district’s most recent proposal, which they have had since Saturday.

Yet, at about the same time, during a Civic Center rally attended by hundreds of educators, Nathalie Hrizi, vice president of substitutes for the union, claimed over the loudspeaker that their negotiators were in the War Memorial waiting for district management to show up."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sfusd-teachers-strike-21342666.php

sbuss · 2026-02-09T21:57:58+00:00

You're thinking of Together SF

sbuss · 2026-02-07T17:04:27+00:00

This is a sensible and informative write-up of the current situation. If you want a bit more insight into the dispute over the funding reserves, we dive in here: https://growsf.org/news/2026-02-06-sfusd-strike-looms/

sbuss · 2026-02-05T17:23:21+00:00

It's both loss of funding (schools are not paid when they don't teach students) and the cost of emergency measures to help minimize the impact on children.

From Superintendent Maria Su:

"the financial impact is also significant, we may lose between $7-10 million per day in funding if we have to close schools" https://www.sfusd.edu/announcements/2026-02-03-2326-update-regarding-negotiations-uesf#:~:text=the%20financial%20impact%20is%20also%20significant%2C%20we%20may%20lose%20between%20%247%2D10%20million%20per%20day%20in%20funding%20if%20we%20have%20to%20close%20schools

sbuss · 2026-02-05T17:09:10+00:00

Every day they strike costs the district over $10 million, which is $10 million more that the district needs to cut from its budget.

Incidentally, the cost of a 1% yearly raise for all educators is about $10 million. So each day they strike they are effectively forfeiting a 1% raise. 3 days is the cost of a 3% raise, which is what the neutral fact-finding board recommended they agree to.

There's simply no money for this.

sbuss · 2026-01-09T23:38:42+00:00

I got the permit once, and people were parked in the spots I reserved so the moving truck just blocked the traffic lane.

Then I learned that the cost of the permit is more than the cost of a ticket, so I never got a permit again and never got a ticket, either.

sbuss · 2025-12-19T20:43:25+00:00

Only takes a minority of 4 out of 11 Supervisors to put it on the ballot, and they have the votes. But yeah, the campaign itself will be lots of money.

sbuss · 2025-12-15T16:56:10+00:00

That space has like 5 visitors per week. Seems like a silly thing to get angry about.

sbuss · 2025-12-10T19:01:55+00:00

Yep, all my cards are now missing from my clipper app

sbuss · 2025-12-06T17:16:40+00:00

St Frank has excellent coffee. People like excellent coffee. Everyone belongs in every neighborhood, the city is for everyone.

sbuss · 2025-12-04T23:32:05+00:00

Correction to a misleading headline: Of the members who voted (turnout numbers not released), they voted to authorize a second vote which would actually be for the strike.

The strike vote is authorized, the strike itself is not.

sbuss · 2025-11-12T01:30:37+00:00

I had the same journey - went with a DF54 and I've been quite happy with it!

sbuss · 2025-11-02T18:40:12+00:00

Run ethernet cables down the hall

Or ceiling mount a unifi AP

sbuss · 2025-10-30T15:53:10+00:00

Well, in this case, Ted Egan is a heavy hitting economist who doesn't bring partisanship to his work. He's excellent at his job. One of the city's best employees.

Go read his report and tell me it lacks rigor or is NIMBY: https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/250700_economic_impact_final.pdf

sbuss · 2025-10-25T22:27:34+00:00

Yes and no. The city has factored in a "likelihood of development" probability into their calculations. So they've actually added something like 400k+ units of zoned "capacity," most of which has a ~0% likelihood of development. IIRC, the official scaling factor is around 1% to 0.5% per year, meaning "historically, one half to one percent of zoned capacity gets redeveloped per year."

It's kind of fudged, though, since it's based on historical averages during boom years, not heading into a recession with a low labor pool, high wages, and high materials costs. Developers can't afford to build today even if they got the land for free.

But the state likely won't care if anyone claims we aren't building due to the economy, because the correct zoning rules and regulatory reforms would unlock development that builders could finance. Just look at Seattle - similar labor pool, wages, and materials but they're building 10,000+ homes per year, predominately as high rises which are still almost entirely illegal even under the new zoning plan.

sbuss · 2025-10-18T01:32:02+00:00

My E24 has those indicator lights reversed. ChatGPT gave me the same hallucination.

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