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I want to become a substitute teacher with SFUSD. What are the requirements? 

To become a substitute, you will need to meet the minimum qualifications described below:

• Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited undergraduate institution
• Negative TB test administered 60 days of hire
• Clearance of fingerprint background check
• Be available for assignments at least once a week, particularly on Mondays and Fridays
• Be flexible and willing to work all SFUSD schools, particularly at our High Potential Schools
• Work at least 5 days during the first semester or a minimum of 10 days by the end of the school year

What is the application process?

The application process begins with your online application , which includes questions about your background and experience. Additionally, references are required and will be contacted via email. The Sub office pre-screensall applications carefully to determine next steps.  

What salary will I earn as a substitute teacher?

• Day-to-Day Substitutes & Retired Teacher Day-to-Day Substitutes daily rate $316.33
• Prop A Substitutes daily rate of $396.33
• Early Ed Substitutes hourly rate of $45.20
• 10 day bonus: an additional $37.91 per day is earned after working ten (10) consecutive days in the same assignment. After the 10th day the additional amount is paid retroactively.
• High Potential School bonus: an additional $20.79 per day is earned for every assignment at a High Potential School
• $200 for teaching at least sixty (60) days per semester
• $400 for teaching at least fifty (50) days per semester in High Potential school(s)

Will I be eligible for benefits as a substitute teacher?

During their first year of hire, Day-to-Day Substitutes are unfortunately not eligible for district-subsidized health or dental benefits. However, in compliance with the Affordable Care Act, at the end of each fiscal year (6/30), the District conducts a "Look Back", in which it calculates the hours that each employee has worked that year.

• Employees who work a minimum average of 20-29 hours per week from the beginning of the school year will be eligible for healthcare coverage for the following school year. You can read more about substitute healthcare coverage here.
• Please note that this only applies to employees who have worked an entire school year; if you are hired mid-school year, you unfortunately won't be eligible for the Look Back that school year.
• Employees must work the same average hours per week minimum the following school year in order to keep health insurance coverage for the current school year.

How do I apply for my substitute permit?

Candidates who receive an offer letter after the interview will receive the onboarding packet with detailed instructions on how to apply for a substitute permit with the California Teaching Commission. We strongly ask that you do not apply or submit your own application documents directly to the CTC as this can cause a delay of up to 9 months.

Here  is a presentation guide of the 4 requirements needed to successfully apply for the permit with the assistance of the Substitute team.

I am a student teacher; do I need to apply or interview?

If you are officially enrolled in a SFUSD Teacher Pipeline Program, please apply to the TK-12 Student Teacher Teacher Substitute Role application here . Once we confirm your enrollment in one of the SFUSD Teacher Pipeline Programs, and your references are verified, the interview is waived and you will receive the onboarding packet. 

If you are not officially enrolled in a SFUSD Teacher Pipeline Program, please apply to the TK-12 Day-to-Day Substitute Teacher role here . 

I never received a reference form. What should I do?

You will not receive a reference form, the individuals you listed as references will receive an email from [email protected] with a questionnaire.

My reference hasn't received the questionnaire. What should I do?

Please have your references search in their inbox and/or spam/junk folder for an email from [email protected]. 

I was a sub for SFUSD in the past; do I need to reapply?

Yes; all individuals who are not currently active substitutes need to submit an application.

I have another position with SFUSD; do I need to reapply?

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Parent Guide to Applying to SFUSD

Tell me everything I need to know about the SFUSD public school lottery

By Parents, For Parents

This guide was compiled by a number of amazing parent volunteers and public school advocates brought together by SF Parent Coalition, which advocates for thriving, equitable schools. It was reviewed by SFUSD’s Enrollment Center for accuracy.

Your child is eligible to enroll in SF’s public schools for kindergarten or transitional kindergarten (a.k.a. “a free year of preschool”) based on these age eligibility guidelines from SFUSD . For reference, this is the official SFUSD page about enrollment: www.sfusd.edu/schools/enroll  

Key dates for starting school in Fall 2024

• Anytime : Sign up for school enrollment updates from SFUSD.
• Thursday October 12, 2023 Pop into the “Lunch and Learn” hosted by SF Parent Coalition and parent advocates from across SFUSD, joined by a representative from SFUSD’s enrollment center.
• Saturday October 21 2023 , Don’t miss the SFUSD Enrollment Fair !!!, 10am-2pm at John O'Connell High School. Each school will have a table and 1-2 representatives present; ask questions! There's also food, music, and free books. Stop by our SF Parent Coalition table to say hello, and pick up a free bookmark! 
• December 15, 2023 : Deadline to apply for 9th grade at specialized high schools (Ruth Asawa SOTA and Lowell)
• February 2, 2024 : Round 1 enrollment application deadline
• More detailed schedule here: www.sfusd.edu/schools/enroll/apply/key-dates

What is the Lottery?

In many places outside of San Francisco especially suburban and rural areas, people attend a specific school based on where they live. In S.F., a highly segregated city, there is a lottery system so that families living in segregated, historically underserved neighborhoods have the opportunity to attend school outside of their neighborhood. KQED has an explainer. Still curious about why school integration is important? Check out the Integrated Schools podcast. Need a visual on how the assignment system works? This 8-minute video from SFUSD outlines how the “lottery” works. 

How much do I need to care about this?

Schools throughout the district have the same curriculum, access to special education supports for children in general education, and even breakfast and lunch menus. Schools might have different hours, aftercare programs, and special programs like language immersion and special day classes for some children with higher support needs. Learn more about the common programs and resources across every elementary school. You have to apply through the lottery no matter what, but the amount of effort you put into making your ranked list of school choices depends on your priorities.

Step 1 : What are your priorities?

Figure out what's important for you in a school. For example, you can use the SFUSD School Finder to identify:

• Schools you can walk to. You can also check the name of your local neighborhood (“Attendance Area”) school with this tool . 
• Schools with a start time that works for your family . Elementary schools start at one of three times: 7:50am, 8:40am, or 9:30am.
• Schools that are of the size you are looking for . Elementary schools in SF range from fewer than 200 students to more than 600 students. Schools can start with PreK, TK, or K, and go through 5th or 8th grade. Schools can have anywhere from one to five classes in each grade level. 
• Schools with after care programs that have space for everyone. Some schools have multiple aftercare programs, while other schools only have one. School administrators don’t always know about afterschool programs that are available to students but operate off-site; it may be best to talk to current parents to learn more about those options. See a list of before and afterschool programs by school here .
• Schools with a specific language immersion program.

Note that school ratings most closely correlate to how well-resourced the families who send their kids to that school are, rather than how good that school is at teaching. This video has an explainer. This parent-developed guide has some info on how to examine test scores based on parental education level for a particular school. SFUSD, as a whole, has higher learning rates than national and state averages, based on research from the Stanford Education Data Archive’s Educational Opportunity Project. 

Step 2 : Choose schools based on your priorities

If you can't figure out if a school fits your priorities by looking up the school online, you could:

• Reach out to the school's Parent Teacher Association, if the school has one, with any questions; you can usually find this contact information on each school’s website. 
• Ask parents on social media what the school is like. San Francisco parents can be found in Facebook groups such as: 1) SFUSD Lottery Support Group , 2) SFUSD Families Forum, by SF Parent Coalition , 3) Main Street Mamas , 4) Mom / parent / family groups specific to the neighborhood of the school
• Tour the school . Tours are generally run by the school's Parent Teacher Association, and the vast majority take place during work hours.
• Attend the SFUSD Enrollment Fair! Check out “Key Dates” on P.1 for details.

Step 3 : Figure out if you need to add more schools

By now, you should be able to compile a ranked list of schools you would want your child to attend. If the schools you've listed are in high demand, you may want to list extra schools to make it more likely to get into something on your list.

How difficult will it be to get a seat at your preferred schools?

If a school has not historically had enough spots for everyone in the neighborhood (AA) who applies, it may be difficult to get a seat there. You can check if that's the case for your school on this spreadsheet , with (anecdotal) data crowdsourced from parents in the SFUSD Lottery Support Group. Schools with language immersion programs and schools on the west side of San Francisco have historically had a higher number of applicants per seat. If you are prioritizing these schools it would be wise to include some less in demand choices. TIP: Talk to families at lesser known schools – you will hear they are thrilled with their child’s teachers and the community! 

What "tiebreakers" does your family have?

A “ tiebreaker ” is something SFUSD applies to the pool of applicants for a school when the number of requests for that school is greater than the number of seats available. In most cases, SFUSD gives the highest priority for seats to students who have an older sibling attending a school. After that, there are several considerations for assigning spots at a school with more requests than available seats:

• The test scores of students living in your neighborhood. The idea is to allow students in underserved neighborhoods – identified by low test scores – to attend other schools. These students have priority. You can check if you have the Test Score Area Tie-breaker here . (This is also referred to as living in CTIP1 area.)
• Whether or not you live in the school's neighborhood, called the Attendance Area. You can see the Attendance Area borders for each school here . 
• For language programs , a percentage of seats are reserved for students who are fluent in the target language, and other seats are reserved for non-fluent students. Historically, the demand for fluent speaker seats is somewhat lower. In order to show that your student is fluent, they will be tested via an interview. Also, students who have attended an SFUSD language program PreK or TK have the highest tiebreaker for a seat in an immersion kindergarten.

If you have picked only competitive schools and you also do not have any tiebreakers, it may be worth adding a few more schools. You might add some schools that fit most of your priorities but not all. Consider poking around in the SFUSD Lottery Support Group , for example the thread on "unknown" schools that parents love . If you don’t get a seat at any school you’ve listed, the district will assign you to the school geographically closest to your address, that has more spots than applicants. So decide if there are schools you’d prefer over this randomized assignment, and add those to your list. 

Don't add a school that you really don't want to attend just to have more schools. This won't help you get into the schools you actually want. A more detailed description of the enrollment algorithm is here .

Step 4: Apply!

You can submit an application online , or you can complete a paper application and email it to [email protected] , or drop it off in person to the SFUSD Enrollment Center at 555 Franklin St. Room 100 or the satellite location at 1520 Oakdale, Room 30 (Oakdale is open only on Tuesday and Thursday). 

Step 5 : (Optional) Enter the next rounds

Most people (over 60%) are assigned their first choice school, nearly 90% are assigned one of their other listed choices, and nearly 95% of people who choose their neighborhood school as their first choice are assigned to it. Most applicants will be able to complete the application process after the first round and enroll in the assigned school online, through ParentVue. 

If you want to remain in the lottery to get a different school assignment, SFUSD offers multiple chances to be assigned to a different school. 

• Round 2 : shortly after the first round of assignments has been made, you can submit a new ranked list (or the same list) of schools for the second lottery round. This round works the same as the first, except that there are fewer seats available. Only list schools that you want more than the school to which you were assigned in Round 1. If you are assigned one of the choices on your Round 2 list, you will lose your first round assignment. If you do not get an assignment from your Round 2 list, you will keep your first round assignment. 
• Wait pool: After round 2, you can request to be waitlisted at one school. Around the start of the school year (usually during the two to three weeks of the year), you may be assigned to your waitlisted school if there is room. You would then withdraw from your previously assigned school and enroll in the newly-assigned one.
• Open enrollment: During mid-summer, the Enrollment Center opens up the opportunity to enroll at any school that has open spots and no wait list. You may request to change your assignment to any of those schools. Note that you can request one of these schools AND keep your name in the waitpool of another school. 

What else should I know?

• The district has spent the past decade building a new assignment process. The current plan is for the new system (which will divide the city into zones, and will limit the number of schools a family can apply to) to go into effect for families applying to the ‘26-’27 school year. That date has been changed several times, and could change again.
• Transitional Kindergarten: California is in the middle of expanding eligibility for (free, public) transitional kindergarten. Previously it was only available to students with certain birthdates; by 2026 it will be available for all 4 year olds. The district is adding TK classrooms, and adjusting the policies around TK applications and assignments as the eligibility expands. For the 24-25 school year, students who will turn 5 between September 2, 2024 and June 2025 are eligible for TK.  
• Want more information on the assignment system from an SFUSD parent, documenting her process? A parent lead at Marshall Elementary developed this longer guide ; which includes examples of school rankings that parents chose with explanations.

I need help!

Confused and need to talk to a person? The SFUSD Enrollment Center provides help to parents navigating the process. Reach them by email ( [email protected] ), phone ( 415-241-6085 ) or visit in person at 555 Franklin Street, room 100 of 1520 Oakdale, room 30 (Tuesdays and Thursdays). Also, the Facebook Lottery Support Group is a great place to get questions answered by real parents who have gone through this before; there's tons of misinformation out there but the administrators share accurate, helpful information. 

Acknowledgements

Huge thanks to the parents who volunteered their time to put this guide together, including parent advocates from SF Community, Marshall, Alvarado, Flynn and Sloat elementary schools, and Aptos middle school at SFUSD. 

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SFUSD Sending Out Thousands Of School Assignment Letters Late

March 20, 2017 / 9:46 AM PDT / CBS San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – The San Francisco Unified School District is expected to send out thousands of school assignment letters Monday, several days behind schedule.

Parents have grown impatient wondering where their kids will be going to school, after officials delayed issuing assignments for at least 14,000 students.

Assignment letters were supposed to go out last week but didn't happen. The SFUSD said staffing emergencies have delayed the process.

Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco, a local nonprofit working with the district, has been answering questions.

"We've definitely talked to some people who applied to multiple places, so they may have applied to public school, and may have also applied to parochial school or private school," Robin Dutton-Cookston told KPIX 5. "And they've received letters from those schools and they want to make informed choices so they waiting to hear from SFUSD so they can make the best choice for their family."

Parents can choose from 130 schools in the district, but there is no guarantee that families will get the school of their choice, even if that school is in their neighborhood.

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'Border czar'? Kamala Harris assigned to tackle immigration's causes, not border security

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In March 2021, President Joe Biden tasked Vice President Kamala Harris with working alongside officials in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to address the issues driving people to leave those countries and come to the United States.

The Biden-Harris administration said it would focus on five key issues: economic insecurity, corruption, human rights, criminal gang violence and gender-based violence.

Border security and management is the Homeland Security secretary’s responsibility.

Vice President Kamala Harris might soon get a new official title: 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. In the meantime, Republicans have revived a title they gave her in 2021: "border czar." 

Claims that President Joe Biden named Harris the "border czar" and that she is responsible for overseeing U.S. border enforcement gained prominence at the Republican National Convention as the party sought to link her to his immigration policy. 

The refrain intensified once Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris. It was echoed in ads and by Trump campaign surrogates, including Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance , the Republican vice presidential nominee.

"Here’s Biden appointing Kamala Harris to be his border czar to deal with illegal immigration," a narrator says in a video the Republican National Committee posted on its X account, @GOP. "And here are a record number of illegal immigrants — 10 million and counting — flooding over the border after Harris was put in charge of stopping illegal immigration."

We’ve repeatedly fact-checked claims about the number of people entering the U.S. illegally under Biden. The federal data tracks how many times officials encountered a person trying to cross the southern border, but it doesn’t reflect the number of people let in. And if one person tries to cross the border multiple times, that counts as multiple encounters, even if it’s the same person. 

For this fact-check, we’re focused on the scope of Harris’ border responsibilities. 

"Border Czar Kamala Harris' reversal of President Trump's immigration policies has created an unprecedented and illegal immigration, humanitarian and national security crisis on our southern border," Trump campaign National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told PolitiFact in a statement. 

But Biden didn’t put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.

In a meeting with Harris in March 2021 , Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the U.S. Biden said that when he was vice president, he "got a similar assignment" and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.

"One of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there," Biden said then.

Biden asked Harris "to be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countries" and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. 

Managing the border "has always been" the Homeland Security secretary’s role, Mittelstadt said.

Biden tasked Harris with addressing the root causes influencing people’s decisions to migrate to the United States.

"I’ve asked her … to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border," Biden said in March 2021.

Biden held a similar role as vice president to former President Barack Obama. In a 2015 New York Times opinion piece, Biden said he would work with the Northern Triangle’s leaders on security, anti-corruption and investment efforts in the region.

"Donald Trump’s administration didn’t really sustain this strategy, but what Harris sought to revive in 2021 ran along the same lines," said Adam Isacson, defense oversight director at Washington Office on Latin America, a group advocating for human rights in the Americas. 

Within weeks of Biden’s remarks about Harris’ role, Republicans including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., began calling Harris the " border czar " often in tandem with pointing out she had not yet been to the border.

In April 2021, when a reporter asked Harris whether she would visit the border, she said that her role is addressing the factors that make people leave their home countries, not managing the border.

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"The president has asked (Homeland Security) Secretary (Alejandro) Mayorkas to address what is going on at the border. And he has been working very hard at that, and it’s showing some progress because of his hard work," Harris said at an event . "I have been asked to lead the issue of dealing with root causes in the Northern Triangle, similar to what the then-vice president did many years ago."

Harris said she’d focus on economic struggles, violence, corruption and food insecurity in the countries. 

In June 2021, Harris visited El Paso, Texas, with Mayorkas. They outlined their responsibilities to reporters. Harris said she was addressing "the root causes of migration, predominantly out of Central America," and Mayorkas said, "It is my responsibility as the Secretary of Homeland Security to address the security and management of our border."

But this distinction didn’t stop critics from linking Harris with U.S.-Mexico border security. 

"The administration’s messaging on this in mid-2021 was not as clear as it should have been," Isacson said. "But at no time did Harris or the White House state that her duties included the U.S.-Mexico border, or border security."

Immigration experts said it’s hard to measure Harris’ success in her role, and that a "root causes" approach implies that the results will be seen long term, not immediately.

In July 2021, the administration published a strategy , with Harris writing the lead message, for confronting the factors that drive migration in Central America. The plan focused on economic insecurity, corruption, human rights, criminal gang violence and gender-based violence.

In March 2024, the administration said it secured more than $5.2 billion in private sector investments to the region. However, only about $1 billion has been distributed, the Partnership for Central America, a group working with the administration, reported .

The White House said the investments have generated more than 70,000 new jobs in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, provided job training to 1 million people and expanded digital access to 4.5 million people. 

"Still, her engagement on this issue has been sporadic," Isacson said. "She has not traveled very often to the region or otherwise sought to make ‘root causes in Central America’ a central theme of her vice presidency."

Illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador has dropped since 2021. Encounters with people from other countries, Venezuela, have risen . 

"But it’s hard to prove that U.S. assistance is a central reason" for the Northern Triangle countries’ decline, Isacson said.

The issues pushing people to leave Central American countries "are extremely complex and require deep restructuring of so much in those societies," said Cecilia Menjivar, a sociology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who specializes on immigration. "So it’s very difficult for one person to change all that, even if it is a powerful person."

Immigration patterns at the U.S.-Mexico border have more to do with conditions in Latin American countries than "any U.S. policy," Mittelstadt said. 

For example, a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has displaced nearly 8 million people since 2014, according to the United Nations. Political, economic and security crises in Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Ecuador have also led to more migration from these countries, Mittelstadt said. 

In contrast, immigration encounters with people from El Salvador have dropped in past years, partly because of the country’s crime crackdown .

The Republican National Committee said Biden appointed Harris "to be his border czar to deal with illegal immigration...Harris was put in charge of stopping illegal immigration."

Biden tasked Harris with addressing the root causes that drive migration to the United States. He did not task her with controlling who and how many people enter the southern U.S. border. That's the Homeland Security secretary’s responsibility.

Experts say that seeing the results of addressing root causes driving people out of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras  — violence, economic insecurity and corruption — takes time.

The statement contains an element of truth, but it ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it Mostly False.

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Sfusd sending school assignments to thousands of students for 2021-22 school year, press release details.

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Families Must Respond to their 2021-22 School Year Assignment by April 9

San Francisco (March 22, 2021) - The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) sent out nearly 14,000 school assignment letters to students, primarily rising transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, 6th grade and 9th grade students.

SFUSD has a choice-based enrollment system, meaning families can list the schools they want to attend in order of preference. More than 59% of students who applied for kindergarten, 6th grade and 9th grade will receive an offer to their first choice school, and more than 80% will receive one of their top three choices. Families have until April 9, 2021, to accept or decline the assignment.

Last year, the share of first round applicants that were African American was 4.6%, which this year increased to 5.8%. Last year, 25.9% of families that applied in the first round were Latinx; this year, that number increased to 27.4%. There were 500 fewer kindergarten applications this year compared to last.

“Families applied to schools this year with an unprecedented amount of uncertainty. We want families to know that we are committed to offering in-person school next fall ,” said Superintendent Dr. Vincent Matthews. “I want to applaud our staff and families for navigating a new online enrollment process. Our team did a lot to support families with the application process during the pandemic.”

Applying in the first round, also called the Main Round, is important because that’s when the most number of school seats are available. After the Main Round, most school seats have been assigned, which leaves families a much smaller number of schools to choose from. 

The District also saw success in moving the application process online. In the past, applications had to be submitted in person and SFUSD was in the process of developing a secure and accessible process for families to apply online. After the pandemic began, the District moved to an online system and increased staff support to help families with the new process.

“We knew that moving to an online application system so quickly may be difficult for families, especially our newcomer immigrant families, so we increased the number of staff and support resources available to help families,” said Jeff Kang, executive director of the Educational Placement Center. “Our efforts helped and 85% of all applications came in online.”

The Main Round period for submitting applications ended on February 5, 2021. Families who have yet to apply for a school for their student for next year can apply for Round 2 by May 7 by going online at sfusd.edu/apply or by reaching out to the Educational Placement Center. Educational Placement Center staff members are ready to help families find a school that meets their needs. They speak English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Samoan. To get enrollment help, families may email [email protected] or call 415-241-6085. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.

About SFUSD

SFUSD is the seventh largest school district in California, educating over 56,000 preK-12 students every year. San Francisco is both a city and a county; therefore, SFUSD administers both the school district and the San Francisco County Office of Education (COE). This makes SFUSD a “single district county.”

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