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   The strike is set.   
      
   Unless there’s a breakthrough at the bargaining table, San Francisco’s   
   roughly 6,000 public school educators will hit picket lines Monday to   
   argue for higher wages, improved dependent health benefits, and   
   increased staffing for special-education students. It would be the first   
   teachers strike in San Francisco since 1979.   
      
   The United Educators of San Francisco announced the work stoppage in an   
   email to educators sent Thursday morning. The San Francisco Unified   
   School District’s 50,000 students will need somewhere else to go   
   starting next week.   
      
   “The growing vacancy and turnover crisis in SFUSD harms students every   
   day,” the union wrote. “District management has not acted with the   
   urgency students deserve.”   
      
   The union and school district have been at loggerheads since March.   
      
   A Public Employers Relations Board fact-finding panel released a report   
   Wednesday recommending that the SFUSD provide educators with a 6% total   
   raise over two years. The teachers union seeks increases as high as 14%.   
      
   The union maintains that the district can tap into its $111 million   
   reserve to pay for salary increases. The SFUSD, which is under state   
   financial oversight, contends that it cannot afford the union’s demands.   
   The district has said its reserve is necessary to show it is fiscally   
   solvent.   
      
   “We didn’t come to this decision easily, and we do not take the next   
   steps lightly,” the union wrote. “We know this truth: the status quo is   
   failing students.”   
      
   Anna Klafter, president of the United Administrators of San Francisco,   
   said she supports educators’ decision to walk off their jobs. “I look   
   forward to a quick resolution,” Klafter said.   
      
   Andrea Pereira, whose two kids attend Sunnyside Elementary School, also   
   spoke in support of teachers at a union press conference Thursday   
   morning. In an interview afterward, Pereira said she believes “a lot of   
   parents are behind the teachers.” When she brought more than 100   
   pro-union posters to her children’s school, parents took them all.   
      
   “My kids are going to be walking the picket line with me in support of   
   our teachers,” Pereira said.   
      
   But the San Francisco Parent Coalition, a nonprofit advocacy group, came   
   out strongly against the decision. “This was the wrong call,” the   
   coalition said in an email to members.   
      
   The group, whose newsletter reaches roughly 10,000 families, said the   
   fact-finding report “identified a clear path forward” and “recommended   
   that now is the cool-down period for final negotiations at the   
   bargaining table.”   
      
   There’s still time to avert a strike. The district and union will meet   
   at 5 p.m. Thursday to continue negotiations.   
      
   “Impossible to say for sure, of course, but I would still bet on some   
   last-minute settlement, even if it defers a real solution on some   
   issues,” said John Logan, professor and chair of labor and employment   
   studies at San Francisco State University.   
      
   In a statement, Superintendent Maria Su reiterated that the district   
   does not want a strike and said she is “committed to working around the   
   clock to reach an agreement.”   
      
   “We are meeting at 5:00 pm today which will allow us to present our   
   proposal that meets many of our educators’ requests, including to fully   
   fund family healthcare and provide wages we can afford,” Su said.   
      
   At Thursday’s press conference, UESF President Cassondra Curiel called   
   on the district to come ready “with the spirit and proposals to make a   
   deal.”   
      
   “The homework is due at midnight,” Curiel said, “and this is 11:59.”   
      
   https://sfstandard.com/2026/02/05/sfusd-teachers-strike-starts-february-9/   
      
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