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Celebrating Others' Work

Good work done by readers of this substack

May 29 • Paul Gardiner

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Why is it so hard to count students?

Dubious numbers from advisory committees

May 19 • Paul Gardiner

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Where Californians go to College

We like to stay close to home

May 7 • Paul Gardiner

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April 2026

Distinctive Identities Are Valuable for Schools

But it may not matter what the identity is

Apr 28 • Paul Gardiner

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Revisiting the RAI

A better starting point for the next discussion on school closures

Apr 17 • Philippe Marchand

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March 2026

What caused a sudden change in SF public school enrollment?

As part of a budget update presented to the Board of Education on March 10, SFUSD revised its unduplicated pupil count (UPC) downwards by about 1000…

Mar 24 • Philippe Marchand

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How High School Students Rank the UCs

And how UC Admissions policies skew the results

Mar 17 • Paul Gardiner

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Growth Scores for San Francisco Schools

Too unstable for my taste

Mar 13 • Paul Gardiner

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Growth Scores for Schools

Signal or noise?

Mar 5 • Paul Gardiner

February 2026

Is Compton Unified the best school district in California?

First takeaways from the newly published growth scores

Feb 25 • Paul Gardiner

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Pricing the strike

Are published figures on the cost of the UESF contract and the strike itself credible?

Feb 23 • Philippe Marchand

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What new public data tells us about elementary school choice and assignments at SFUSD

While preparing my previous post, I became aware of a new dataset published last Fall by the SFUSD Enrollment Center: the Main Round applicant success…

Feb 10 • Philippe Marchand

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