The troubled San Francisco Unified School District will not be undergoing a change in leadership any time soon, but it is getting some extra help.
On Sunday, Mayor London Breed announced she would be deploying a “School Stabilization Team consisting of top City leaders and trusted subject matter experts in the areas of children, families, education, budgeting, and fiscal oversight” to SFUSD.
Additionally, the mayor announced $8.4 million of unallocated Student Success Funds would be made available to support the school community.
Breed’s announcement followed an emergency school board meeting in which trustees declined to terminate Superintendent Matt Wayne. The schools chief was kept on board to avoid disruption at a critical juncture.
SFUSD is grappling with major fiscal challenges and is set to close multiple schools.
The superintendent’s leadership has come under scrutiny. However, Mayor Breed said her new stabilization team will focus on providing support and developing solutions, not figuring out who’s to blame.