Board Sets Enrollment Reform Deadlines as Galileo Teachers Demand Justice for Assaulted Colleague

SFUSD's Board of Education locked in a two-year governance calendar with the district's first binding deadlines on enrollment system overhaul — a reform passed in 2019–2020 that two previous superintendents failed to implement. But the meeting's emotional center was an hour of public comment dominated by more than a dozen Galileo Academy teachers who packed the room to demand reinstatement of a colleague punished after defending himself from a student attack.

• Board unanimously adopts two-year governance calendar with an October 2026 enrollment policy direction vote and an April 2027 student assignment system vote — the first concrete deadlines on long-delayed reform

• Galileo Academy teachers and staff rally for PE teacher Matt Mendoza, suspended and involuntarily transferred after a student assault, presenting a 90-signature petition and warning the district's response incentivizes violence against educators

• $270M bond official statement corrected and approved 7-0 after Citizens Bond Oversight Committee audit chair flagged inaccurate language about the committee's name and role; credit agencies upgraded the district's rating for the first time in four years

• Governance self-evaluation reveals significant backslide, with consultant warning the board against "transparency theater" and confirming staffing gaps in the board office

• Superintendent reports 96% classroom fill rates, rising test scores, and a full executive cabinet ahead of Monday's first day of school

• Parents push to limit elementary screen time, with Tech in Check coalition citing 62 districts nationally that have eliminated one-to-one devices in early grades