Just a Little List

 In SFUSD, right now:

• Third year of payroll drama (current issues: second year of mistake-laden W2s, folks on leave are not getting paid, raises retroactive to 7.1.23 and ratified 11.23 unlikely to be paid until 5.24)
• Due to massive staffing shortfalls, extreme expenditures on independent contracting firms to complete basic functions, especially in Special Education - higher cost, more privatization, increasing number of children moving to private specialty schools at district expense because we can't meet their needs
• Absolute failure of onboarding, leading to hired staff waiting months to be cleared for classroom work and ultimately leaving for other districts that will pay them
• Gutting cuts to sites, some as large as 50%, leaving schools unmanageable and unsafe

AND YET! Our highest-paid staff received two raises in the last twelve months. For some of these folks, all of whom make more money than teachers with 22 years or more of service, that added up to a 33% increase in pay. 

This is SFUSD under Matt Wayne: a total failure to manage basic functions like payroll being rewarded, while the folks who do the work drown under ever-increasing responsibilities and fewer people to complete them.

One might wonder where the Board of Education is on all this, and the answer is: HA HA HA HA HA. Under the supervision of the lavishly-paid, resume-light AJ Crabill (known for presenting his own unvetted work as a roadmap to success, but under his old legal name so we think he's relying on outside experts), the Board has given up authority to the Superintendent and their "Goals and Guardrails". It boggles the mind to consider that they may believe rubber-stamping raises for the same folks who can't submit a fingerprint check to the Department of Justice are the folks who most need more money, but this is what happens when you recall the educators of color on the Board for well-monied Mayoral appointees.