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Saving for college & gender-neutral bathrooms: Highlights for September 1-7, 2015
When it comes to low-income families saving for college, Monroe Elementary school parents are on top of it. They are participating at a greater rate than many others in the ever-growing city savings program called Kindergarten to College. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is coming to visit students and their families to celebrate their participation in the savings program and to urge others to save. The unique award-winning program, also known as “K2C,” automatically opens a college savings account at Citibank with $50 for every kindergarten student attending San Francisco’s public schools. Children who qualify for the Free and Reduced Lunch program receive an additional $50 deposit. Then families are encouraged to grow their child’s college savings accounts. A total of over 18,000 students currently have K2C accounts, and approximately 4,500 additional kindergarten students are enrolled each year.
When: Monroe ES / 260 Madrid St.
Where: Tuesday, September 1 / 9:30-10:30 a.m.
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Miraloma is the first SFUSD elementary school to begin shifting to all gender-neutral bathrooms schoolwide. The kindergarten bathrooms are already gender neutral, and this year the school will expand to the first grade class, with a plan for all students in all grades to eventually use gender-neutral bathrooms. The school community has been supportive of the process, and the principal reports that families with students who identify with non-traditional areas of the gender spectrum especially appreciate the shift. Though the State of California passed a law a few years ago requiring schools to allow transgender youth to use whatever bathroom they wish, SFUSD had policies and procedures on this issue in place prior to the recent state law.
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