Imagine a school district experiencing financial challenges. Its staff is contemplating cost-cutting measures, including layoffs. During contract negotiations, the teachers union offers the district a proposal: if teachers and staff agree to a certain number of furlough days, could layoffs be avoided? To those of us in San Francisco, reemerging from a teachers’ strike, this […]
Jennie Herriot-Hatfield
Jennie Herriot-Hatfield is a K-12 education consultant, former elementary school teacher, and public school parent in San Francisco. She chairs the board of directors for SF Parents Coalition, which advocates for a thriving, equitable school system.