It turns out those liabilities are approximately $1 billion right now, about $20,000 per student, and given that the district is putting away essentially no money toward these liabilities, they’re on a trajectory to grow to $1.5 billion in just a few years. When I went to poke around on the web regarding a concept raised in the post, the first link that came up was one showing a presentation from district staff about San Francisco Unified’s unfunded health care liabilities. As one who obsesses on how school district budgeting practices tend to perpetuate public education inequity, this makes all sorts of sense – more affluent parents tend to keep their little ones in public elementary schools, but then jump ship as their kids enter adolescence, and to keep these families in the system as long as possible, school districts tend to suck money away older, lower-income, brown and black kids, in order to subsidize schools serving the younger and more affluent. This week, the writer, Paul Gardiner, was looking at the tendency of San Francisco Unified to spend significantly more on small schools, typically small elementary schools, than on larger schools, which tend to be high schools. (Is that a great title for a blog looking at public education in San Francisco, or what?)
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