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President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA) today, ushering a new era of federal accountability for schools and eliminating many of the most onerous aspects of the antiquated No Child Left Behind policy (NCLB).

The San Francisco Board of Education plans to install plaques at three of San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) Chinatown-area schools to commemorate the contributions Chinese have made to San Francisco and public education.

Inclusive Schools Week celebrations began in both classrooms and on the steps of City Hall this week.

San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros will join Dr. William L. Cobb Elementary students at the school's monthly Honor Assembly where he will award “students of the month” with an additional $10 deposit into their Kindergarten to College (K2C) savings accounts.

Wearing their best clothes, dozens of newly-emigrated elementary students will gather to enjoy a feast of turkey, mashed potatoes, vegetables, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie to celebrate Thanksgiving for the first time.

In 1998, a survey of San Francisco’s youth identified a need for safe, easily accessible health services on high school campuses. Since then, Wellness programs have grown steadily at SFUSD high schools, offering free, confidential physical and behavioral health services to students where they can easily get to them – inside their schools.

Last spring, thousands of students took the new Smarter Balanced assessments online, replacing the old paper-and-pencil standardized tests of the past, and now aligned with the new Common Core curriculum.

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has been awarded two Golden Bell Awards from the California School Boards Association (CSBA).

Eighteen SFUSD schools will be awarded with funding in recognition of their impact and innovation.

At Argonne Elementary, the fourth- and fifth-grade students dress up as idioms and participate in a social mixer where they guess each other’s idiom costume.