S.F. Unified Relying on Homegrown Teachers and Interns to Fill Void

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School district Superintendent Richard Carranza (left) and S.F. Mayor Ed Lee (right) congratulate 22-year-old Tina Yang on her first year as a teacher resident at El Dorado Elementary School. Photo by Ana Tintocalis/The California Report

By Ana Tintocalis, The California Report

San Francisco public school leaders desperately want and need people like 22-year-old Tina Yang.

She was born and raised in the city and knew she wanted to be a teacher when she was 5 years old.

“When I first went to kindergarten here, I didn’t speak English,” Yang recalls. “But my teacher, she worked with me for that year and I did learn English in such a short amount of time.”

Fast forward to this year.

Read the complete story at The California Report. 

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