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America’s Best Childcare and Public Education

San Francisco faces a critical challenge: over 7000 children have left our public schools. Over 5000 have left the City altogether. Uneven schools and uncertainty about school assignments are driving families away.

Many of these families who opt out of our public schools could bring valuable personal and financial resources to our public schools – resources that would benefit the entire public school system.

As Mayor, I’ll work with our city and with our schools to keep more families in our public schools. Every child deserves a school that succeeds and is the center of the community. As a public school parent, I am committed to making our school system vibrant, effective and relevant. As Mayor, I’ll champion the expansion and reauthorization of the Public Education Enrichment Fund, and make sure the City provides critical healthcare, nutrition, afterschool, and support services so that children attend school ready to learn.

To create more jobs in San Francisco, we must focus on creating strong schools that prepare our young people for our economic future. The innovation workforce begins in schools. Our education system must serve today’s families, while training the skilled workforce of tomorrow. We need to do more than ask our leaders to write checks for school programs. We need their guidance to develop career pathways in competitive workforce areas like the building trades’ vocational training at John O’Connell High School and the Biotech program at Lincoln High School.

As Mayor, I will draw on my experience establishing and growing innovative programs like Mission ASAP and Kindergarten to College to galvanize education, business, community leaders and school stakeholders. Together, we can implement a long-term education agenda and develop a new capacity to innovate, scale and sustain effective teaching and learning.