Still a work in progress, the trick is to make Temple Beautiful sing to enough people — including a few with deep pockets. — In 2012, San Francisco rock musician Chuck Prophet released Temple Beautiful, a 12-song shout-out to his hometown’s highs and lows, from raging history to personal moments, which at the time I lauded for including Willie Mays — and for being the best musical expression ever about the city.

The ‘long shot’ effort, as one former union president calls it, exposes tension over behavior, internal business, and a payroll snafu. — Dissent in the powerful San Francisco teachers union, United Educators of San Francisco, has spurred a push to recall the group’s top leaders, who have been in office less than a year. A small batch of union members calling themselves San Francisco Educators Associated has posted a list of complaints…

UESF endorsements have loomed large in recent years, but its objection to the ouster failed to sway voters. — San Francisco’s bruising school board recall is barely in the rear view mirror, but the next board election is coming fast, and it will shape the future of a school district that is at a crossroads. The board, whose members get a $6,000 annual stipend, isn’t all-powerful. Nevertheless, its decisions…

A long, strange 12-hour trip of a day ends with 7 supervisors doing the right thing for people and for our planet. — Politics are sometimes framed as a society’s way of making tough decisions. At his 2009 inauguration, President Barack Obama pointed to America’s “collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age.” In voting to permanently restrict cars on 1.5 miles of Golden Gate Park road…

SFUSD needs more construction and repair money. Watchdogs are still digging into the $744 million that voters approved in 2016. — A contentious recall. A budget crisis and teacher payroll fiasco. Shrinking schools and pandemic learning loss. A new superintendent and school board elections coming in November. …

The new members have a few months to prove they deserve a full term. Hsu’s priorities include a return to Lowell High’s recent past. — On Feb. 15, San Francisco voters recalled three school board members for controversial behavior and decisions, many of them coming while the district was slow to return students to in-person school. The recall was a landslide. …

The post-recall board could see more state money and deeper administration cuts to patch a $125M deficit. Will it be too late to save school jobs? — When the San Francisco Board of Education voted in December to close the district’s $125 million deficit with drastic cuts, the members held their noses and held out hope for a different outlook in a few months’ time. They got it, and more. Since then, a landslide recall removed three…

We searched city streets and handed out socks, blankets, and more. The people I was with made it clear — this was a chance to save lives. — Last Wednesday night, I joined about 250 volunteers and observers who fanned out across San Francisco to count our city’s homeless population. This was important business: Imperfect as it may be, the every-other-year tally helps guide the city’s programs and policies, which are now bolstered by a billion-dollar budget.