LIVE ED THREAD: At 6:30 tonight we'll be on our X account (), live-threading the SFUSD Board of Education meeting. Join us! x.com/TheFrisc The meeting is about to start, folks. No passing notes in the back!

🧵 ALERT: At 6:30 we'll follow the @SFUnified board meeting, first of the new school year. (Wait, what? Isn't it July?) Sorry, families. First day of school is Aug. 18 😱 On the agenda tonight:
✏️ The push for a Mandarin-lang. charter school (& @sfunified's decision to open its own non-charter Mandarin school)
✏️ The new ethnic studies curriculum. News about the old one broke just as school was ending a couple months ago sfstandard.com/2025/05/30/sfu…

🧵 ALERT: We're about to follow this week's @sfbos meeting, which will include @DanielLurie addressing Qs about @SFMTA_Muni funding, city subsidies for free Lunar New Year parking in Chinatown & more. Join us at 2pm, won't you? ➡️ ⌚️ The meeting will start any minute. Here's the agenda sfbos.org/sites/default/…

📆 PROGRAMMING NOTE: At 6:30 tonight we'll be live-threading the @sfunified Board of Education meeting.
Busy agenda: updates on math and literacy reforms, and the budget crisis. Join us! The @sfunified Board of Education meeting is about to begin. The new board president is Phil Kim, taking over at the start of the year from @mattalexandersf. The new members are @jaimenina, @ParagGuptaSF and @RayforBOE.

We’re thankful for Thursday and about to tune into the 10am @sfbos Government Accountability & Oversight Committee meeting. We’re most interested to hear about a push for a full audit of the @sfzoo, which was hit by a scathing report in Oct Join us for a live 🧵 in a few minutes! Here’s the meeting agenda sfbos.org/sites/default/…

🧵 ALERT: Top o’ the Tuesday to you. We’ll be tuning into the @SFMTA_Muni board mtg today. The new Valencia Street bike lane design is up for a vote. There will be a discussion of the new citywide bike plan, and a vote on an expanded Hayes St. closure. Busy! 🐝 The meeting starts at 1, we'll be along soon thereafter. The Valencia item is expected to take a while. Items after that (Hayes St., citywide bike plan) can't start before 4pm. Here's the agenda sfmta.com/media/41102/do…

🧵 ALERT: At 2pm we'll be tuning into a meeting dedicated to @SFMTA_Muni funding. It's an emergency interagency working group, headed by the @sfcontroller office. Their work is even more urgent now that a city measure to give Muni a financial boost has "lost." Wait, 57% voted yes. Why a loss? Because to take effect it needed a better showing than a bigger tax measure, Prop M. M got nearly 70% of the vote.

Yep, the @sfbos is holding its regular meeting today. Join us at *2pm* for a live 🧵 if that's your idea of not going 🦇💩 crazy waiting for election results We'll be starting in a few minutes. Here is today's @sfbos agenda sfbos.org/sites/default/…

🧵 ALERT: At noon we'll check out the @sfplanning Commission mtg for a couple notable proposals:
✅ A change to affordable housing rules
✅ Changes to the Central SOMA plan, which was supposed to deliver a ton of new homes & office space. Planners want to quash the office req's Both proposals are from @LondonBreed. Here's her office's announcement urging the Central SOMA changes sf.gov/news/mayor-bre…

🧵 ALERT: in 15 min we’ll tune into a @sfunified virtual town hall.

@SFUSD_Supe will talk about the school closure list, and try to explain the financial and logistic somersaults SFUSD is hoping to pull off. In case you missed, the school list is here thefrisc.com/sfusd-releases… If you want to ask a question, here's the form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1AOHCb…

🌞 Happy #SF summer! We'll be shining more local light on #Election2024 tonight with a live 🧵 from the mayoral debate. 4 of 5 candidates will be there. Organizers @LWVSF said today that @LondonBreed has backed out. Festivities start at 6 - join us! us9.campaign-archive.com/?e=ab53bddf75&… Before the debate kicks off, a reminder that local journalism is the backbone of civic engagement. Support this work! We count on readers and followers like 🫵 the-frisc.fundjournalism.org/support-100-pe…

✏️ TONIGHT: Join us for a live 🧵 of the @sfunified Board of Ed meeting. It's 2 days since the board spared @SFUSD_Supe his job (for now) but brought in an emergency repair team from City Hall - @philginsburgsf and Maria Su @SF_DCYF - to help fix a school district in crisis /1 @philginsburgsf and Su are working with the former superintendent of Long Beach & San Diego public schools @carlcohn. (See PR from @LondonBreed) Note: This isn't the first City Hall help @Sfunified has asked for recently. In June, @jennyhlam tapped ... /2 sf.gov/news/mayor-lon…

Can't get enough @sfunified info? Join us at 6:30 for a live 🧵from the Board of Education meeting.

There's nothing else going on, right?

One agenda item: SFUSD's attempts to solve its classroom staffing shortages. Hint: It's not going as hoped The meeting has started, and @SFUSD_Supe has begun his regular report. If you want to read ahead (so to speak), here's tonight's agenda go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board…

COMING SOON: They're baaaack. The @sfbos returns from summer break today. We'll follow with a live 🧵 starting at 2pm. Join us! The agenda is here ⬇️ sfbos.org/sites/default/… The meeting is about to start, and @SFGovTV is playing hold music that sounds like an instrumental ripoff of "Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting" (that's @eltonofficial)

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🗓️ Sorry to be the bearer of bad news: Summer vacation is almost over for @sfunified students, staff & families.

That means the Board of Ed's first regular meeting of the school year is 👉 tonight 👈

We'll be following with a live thread starting at 6:30. Join us, won't you? The @sfunified board meeting has begun. Commissioner @alidafisher and @WWLisaN are joining virtually. The agenda is here go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board…

It's Tuesday, and in half an hour we'll put away the @VP memes 🥥 🌴 and follow as the @sfbos tackles a full agenda. Hot topic: An @SFPD retirement measure for the Nov. ballot that's the subject of what Sup. Ronen in a special session earlier today called "shenanigans" The measure would amend the SF charter and give @SFPD cops big pay bumps for delaying retirement. As Rules Cmte chair, Ronen tried to kill it but was outmaneuvered by @AaronPeskin. Ronen quit the chair in protest last week

🗓️ If this is Tuesday, it must be the @sfbos regular meeting. We're here to follow a busy slate, so join us! The agenda is here sfbos.org/sites/default/… We're creeping closer to the supervisors' August recess, so anyone who needs their fix of legislative bickering, mollycoddling, sausage-making, peacekeeping, and politicking, we've got you covered.

And a good Tuesday to you all! We're about to follow the @sfbos weekly meeting. @LondonBreed will take Qs from @DeanPreston about rent control, then the supes will vote on a resolution about ... rent control. (Funny how that works.) Here's some background: thefrisc.com/california-vot… Also on the agenda:

👉🏼 the city budget
👉🏼 fees for entertainment licenses, canna-biz, etc
👉🏼 city contracts

Join us, won't you? sfbos.org/sites/default/…

We’re at the mayoral debate tonight in Golden Gate Park. We won’t be live-tweeting, but we’ll offer tidbits here and there. Everyone entering the county fair building has to run the gauntlet The guy in the blue sweater in front of me walked from 9th and Lincoln to the front door yelling “Eat the rich!” I was s so curious: Would that be like 🥗 or 🍜 or 🍑

Join us at 2pm for the 🎇 2nd of July 🎇 meeting of the @sfbos. No word if we'll have fireworks, but supes are slated to continue their debate over a November ballot measure asking Calif voters to repeal state rent-control limits. Some background: thefrisc.com/california-vot… Also on the agenda:
➡️ Mission street vending rules
➡️ @LondonBreed's Tenderloin retail hours limit
➡️ A resolution about @sfunified school closures
sfbos.org/sites/default/…