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SFUSD’s delay in announcing public school closures is a disgrace

Many years ago, the comedian George Wallace ridiculed the notion of the U.S. military developing a faster bomber. Was this, he asked, a problem? Have the many people the United States has bombed been waiting outside and asking “When’s that bomber going to get here?” In related news, the San Francisco Unified School District was, tomorrow, supposed to release its preliminary list of schools that will be closed and/or merged — the moment of truth in a nine-month ordeal. Mission Local has learned that, on Friday, the district realized it would have to delay this announcement. A planned Monday statement from superintendent Matt Wayne instead dropped over the weekend when the news of the delay got out and questions were being asked. And now public school parents are more irate, not less. When’s that bomber going to get here? No need to mince words: […]

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Immigrants Up Against Language Barriers at SF Public Meetings

More than 30 Chinese American residents lined the walls at a recent city Planning Commission meeting to oppose the opening of a cannabis dispensary that they said could bring drugs, crime and violence to their neighborhood, the Bayview, in the southeast part of the city.  In the lead-up to approving the dispensary, commissioners tried to ease the attendees’ concerns. They said the project fit into a local push to decriminalize the cannabis industry, and promised that city staff would work with the dispensary operator to make sure it followed all regulations. But it’s unlikely that their message reached many of the people in the room, because they said it in English — most, maybe all, of the objecting residents were monolingual Chinese speakers. An interpreter, provided by the city, had interpreted only public comments from Chinese into English for the […]

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