SFUSD Budget Pain Prompts Talk of PTAs Sharing Funds Across Schools, Like Portland

SFUSD Budget Pain Prompts Talk of PTAs Sharing Funds Across Schools, Like Portland

Some San Francisco public schools are fundraising powerhouses, with parents who bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to beef up staff and supplies. Other schools’ parent associations raise far less, and some schools don’t have PTAs at all.Many schools were counting on PTA funds to buffer against staff shortages, which the pandemic and a payroll system meltdown have exacerbated. On Haight Street, the Chinese Immersion School at De Avi…