Parents make the difference

San Francisco Unified School District recently published its 2017 Financial Report and Second Interim Reports for 2017–18 here and here. The results are startling:

• Retirement costs are consuming $2,000 per student this year.

• Retirement liabilities grew 15 percent in one year, to nearly $1 billion.

Smart parents accept the cuts and respond with PTA based solutions.  

They are teacher assistant volunteers, field trip managers and drivers,  fund raisers for music programs and organizers of after school sports and music and scouting.