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Discover how Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco (PPS-SF) is expanding parent-led advocacy across four California regions—San Francisco, Greater Los Angeles, Greater Napa, and Greater Sacramento—while launching our new School Readiness Workshop and pushing for equitable enrollment policies. Learn how our Regional Directors and local caregivers are shifting power with integrity to ensure every neighborhood school has the resources and voice it deserves.
Read MoreTrue educational equity requires more than good intentions—it requires shifting how power and resources are shared across San Francisco’s public schools. Discover how PPS-SF is working alongside families to break the zero-sum trap, follow impacted communities, and build multiracial solidarity for every child.
Read MoreWhen parallel, dominant-culture groups step into public education advocacy, they often duplicate effort, drain community resources, and disrupt hard-won progress. Part 2 of our series examines how newly minted organizations bypass established Black, Indigenous, Latino, and AAPI parent leaders. Grounded in critical education scholarship and literature, we challenge paternalistic "white saviorist" dynamics and demand respect for the boundary-setting and governance already led by parents of color.
Read MoreWhere Were You on Tuesday? Part 1 explores accountability, institutional presence, and the real cost of showing up for public schools when it counts
Read MoreWhen we speak of educational segregation in San Francisco, we are addressing a pervasive system of structural violence—one that systematically starves certain communities of resources, strips marginalized families of their voice, and deepens generational inequities.
Look no further than the targeted removal of Dr. Franklin: "This is the precise mechanism of structural violence: employing administrative technicalities to systematically disrupt, devalue, and dismantle transformative Black leadership."
We are not asking for permission, nor are we making polite requests. We are demanding that parents have full agency to determine the direction, values, and environment of their child's education.
Read MoreNo more policy band-aids while our public schools remain systemically under-resourced. PPS-SF is demanding real accountability, family agency, and long-term solutions from San Francisco's leaders and school board candidates. Read our non-negotiable questions and RSVP for the candidate forum.
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