Today is the first day of summer for San Francisco Unified students. It’s one week later than it was supposed to be, thanks to a four-day teacher strike in February, the first in 47 years. The strike was just one dramatic high-stakes event in a school year full of them. The year began and ended […]
Taylor Barton
Taylor Barton is a staff writer at The Frisc supported by the California Local Newsroom Fellowship. She is passionate about covering education, public health, public safety, and the overlap between these topics. Taylor’s work has been supported by UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program and Climate Equity Reporting Project. Before journalism Taylor was an actor, a sexual assault prevention educator for the military, helped run a soup kitchen in Chicago, and led media relations for a former U.S. ambassador to NATO.

