The San Francisco Unified School District is expected to extend its school year by five additional days, according to Friday evening emails from the school district and teachers union.
The extra days would help make up for time lost during February’s four-day educators walkout.
The school district wrote that it would recommend the extension to the school board, which must technically approve it. The board would take up the issue at its March 24 meeting.
The extension would end the academic year on Wednesday, June 10, rather than June 3.
The district said that high school finals week and graduation would be unaffected. It said it was still working to “address the impacts” of other “end-of-year activities and summer plans” and would share more information when available.
The extension would give students time to make up for days at home during the strike, the first such educator walkout in the city since 1979. It would ensure students get their state-mandated 180 instructional days.
The extension would also help fill in lost pay for “classified” employees, like paraeducators and technical staff, the teachers union said. Those workers took part in the February strike, but were not paid for the four days off the job because they are hourly employees.
Full-time teachers, or “certificated” employees, are salaried and will be paid in full.
The union has been in ongoing talks with the school district after the strike, and the strike’s impact on classified employee pay was a topic of discussion.
Too bad.
4 strike days = 5 make up days of school?
Is one of those a remedial math day for the superintendent and her staff?
Sir or madam —
While the strike was only four days, there was no school on the fifth day because the agreement was struck in the wee hours.
Best,
JE
Hi Joe,
There are implications for SFUSD Summer School Session (Extended School Year, ESY) too, because you can’t hold Summer School while the regular school year is in still in session.
Also, many teachers, admins and classified staff also take a ESY often because they need it to make ends meet.
Summer is also when SFUSD can perform maintenance or remodeling projects. If there’s any slippage in timeline and it bleeds into the start of school there will be more scrambling.
Can you explain the pay implications? I’m not sure I follow. Are the teachers paid for the 4 days of strike and for the five additional make up days? While the classified employees are only going to be paid for the 5 make up days?