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21-547: The district was established in 1866 and, as of 2019, has some 350 teachers serving 6,000 students. The district has ten elementary schools and four intermediate/middle schools; high schools in the area are overseen by the Jefferson Union High School District . More than 20 different languages are spoken by students in the school district. The district is overseen by a five member elected Board of Education and an appointed Superintendent. Before

42-469: A bond of $ 180,000 in November 1922 for a new high school building, which was dedicated on May 23, 1925. That building was later demolished in the early 1960s after the opening of the current Jefferson High School building in 1963. It consists of four comprehensive high schools, and one continuation school: The now closed Serramonte High School was open from 1970 to 1981, returning in a limited form for

63-514: A high school requirement had been vetoed by California's Governor the previous fall. In response to academic inequity, the department is recommending elimination of accelerated math classes. Referred to as math tracking, this debate centers on when students should complete Algebra 1, the gateway to more advanced mathematics courses often required for college admission and preparation. The guidance outlines that Algebra 1 should be taken in ninth grade, while recognizing that some might be prepared for

84-919: A more advanced track in eighth. Justice-minded stakeholders argue that tracking pushes struggling students further behind and perpetuates segregation in school, supporting de-tracking instead. Beyond high school course sequencing, the framework also focuses on culturally responsive teaching, data science, and inquiry-based instruction. The Board of Education’s guidance offers “big ideas in mathematics” to help students make connections between topics and use math to address real-world problems. By emphasizing data science, this framework also aims to prepare students for an increasingly tech-driven world. And with cultural responsiveness in mind, educators are encouraged to incorporate students’ cultural and social backgrounds into instruction and curriculum to make content more relevant for all. From there, students can apply mathematics to recognize, and fix, social justice issues. The framework

105-608: A secondary education district for students coming from the Jefferson Elementary School District , Bayshore Elementary School District , Brisbane School District , and the Pacifica School District . The Jefferson Union High School District was formed by voters in a March 1922 election, and the first Jefferson High School opened on August 21, 1922, at an old school house on Alemán at the corner of Hill and Market. Voters approved

126-520: A total of 9,373 pupils and with a cumulative faculty of 462 teachers. Vista Grande school was demolished later. Critic Allan Temko wrote in the Architectural Forum that "These schools appear with sudden brilliance: ... carefully suited, thoughtfully planned". William J. Savage served as superintendent of the district from 1918 to 1931. Prior to this appointment, he was principal of Jefferson School. In 2011, Matteo Rizzo retired from

147-557: Is to provide leadership, assistance, oversight, and resources (via teaching and teaching material) so that every Californian has access to a good education. The State Board of Education is the governing and policy-making body, and the state superintendent of public instruction is the nonpartisan (originally partisan) elected executive officer. The superintendent serves as the state's chief spokesperson for public schools, provides education policy and direction to local school districts, and sits as an ex officio member of governing boards of

168-530: The California Department of Education , the total enrollment for Jefferson Union High School District is 4,862 in the 2016–17 academic year. California Department of Education The California Department of Education is an agency within the government of California that oversees public education . The department oversees funding and testing, and holds local educational agencies accountable for student achievement. Its stated mission

189-581: The Law . ) Among the various entities thus integrated were the State Normal Schools, which lost their boards of trustees, were made subordinate to the department's deputy director for the Division of Normal and Special Schools, and were renamed State Teachers Colleges. This created a rather bizarre administrative situation from 1921 to 1960. On the one hand, the department's actual supervision of

210-534: The department has been focused on regulating and supporting local school districts which directly provide the bulk of K-12 primary and secondary education throughout the state, as well as operating the state's three special schools and three diagnostic centers in support of special education . In March 2021, after four years of development, the State Board of Education unanimously passed a new ethnic studies curriculum. A bill that would have made ethnic studies

231-502: The department. In 1967, the state's junior colleges (which had largely developed as extensions of existing high school districts at the local level) were renamed community colleges and organized into a new system called the California Community Colleges , and that system was then authorized to have its own board of governors and systemwide chancellor who would also be independent of the department. Since 1967,

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252-586: The district's inception, parents in Daly City had to send their children to schools in the San Francisco region. The first school was in the present day Colma area and was a one-room building constructed in 1856. In the following year a new school (named Jefferson School ) was constructed on land donated by Peter Dunks . The school district was established in 1866 and named Jefferson School District after Thomas Jefferson . Woodrow Wilson Elementary School

273-569: The establishment of schools named in honor of Christopher Columbus , General John J. Pershing , Thomas Edison , Daniel Webster , the former US Presidents John F. Kennedy , Abraham Lincoln , and Franklin D. Roosevelt , Fernando Rivera and M. Pauline Brown. Ben Franklin Intermediate School was constructed in Broadmoor on land that had been intended for a street. By 1972, the district had 21 schools under its supervision enrolling

294-598: The legislature enacted a bill creating such a department, to be headed by a Director of Education, and which also concurrently made the State Superintendent of Public Instruction the ex officio director of the new department. (The sole entity exempt from the new department's jurisdiction was the University of California , because of a 1886 court case involving control of the Hastings College of

315-502: The post of superintendent. Jefferson Union High School District The Jefferson Union High School District ( JUHSD ) is a high school district in northern San Mateo County, California , which serves the cities of Daly City , Brisbane and Pacifica , the town of Colma , the CDP of Broadmoor and a section of San Bruno . Its district office is located at the new location of 123 Edgemont Drive, Bldg. A, Daly City. It serves as

336-802: The presidents of the State Teachers Colleges was rather minimal, which translated into substantial autonomy when it came to day-to-day operations. On the other hand, the State Teachers Colleges were treated under state law as ordinary state agencies, which meant their budgets were subject to the same stifling bureaucratic financial controls as all other state agencies (except the University of California). At least one president would depart his state college because of his express frustration over that issue ( J. Paul Leonard , then-president of San Francisco State, in 1957). The State Teachers Colleges were renamed State Colleges in 1935, but retained

357-728: The same legal status. They finally regained full administrative autonomy after the recommendations of the California Master Plan for Higher Education were signed into law as the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960, which created the State College System of California (now the California State University ) and authorized the appointment of a board of trustees and systemwide chancellor who would be independent of

378-418: The state level between 23 separate boards and commissions, with a total of about 160 members. The report recommended the consolidation and centralization of all these entities under the jurisdiction of a single California Department of Education, and also to clarify the exact relationship between the existing State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Therefore, on May 31, 1921,

399-527: The state's higher education system that are otherwise independent of the department. In 1920, the California State Legislature 's Special Legislative Committee on Education conducted a comprehensive investigation of California's educational system. The Committee's final report, drafted by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley , explained that the system's chaotic ad hoc development had resulted in the division of jurisdiction over education at

420-523: The two academic years of 1993–1995. At the time, it was proposed to relocate Oceana to the Serramonte campus to save money to restore a state-mandated $ 750,000 reserve fund for the district. The former campus, now renamed Serramonte Del Rey , serves as the district office. In 2018, district voters passed a bond that allowed the district to build housing for teaching staff. Around 2020, construction began. The facility has 122 apartments. According to

441-464: Was founded in 1917 and rebuilt eighteen years later. General Pershing School, built in 1917, was remodeled in 1960. Colma Primary and Colma Intermediate Schools were established in 1951, followed by Westlake School in 1952 and Benjamin Franklin in the subsequent year. By the end of the decade, three new schools, Olympia (1955), Vista Mar, and Vista Grande (both 1958), had been opened. The 1960s witnessed

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