by David Mamaril Horowitz : 48hills – excerpt
This story is being updated through Wednesday evening.
Traffic was halted on Franklin Street as well over 200 educators across some 20 school sites filled the street in front of the school district headquarters at 3 p.m. to protest the Empower pay crisis. Chants quickly overpowered the music.
“What do we want?” shouted Evelyn Sanchez, a teacher at San Francisco Community School and a protest organizer.
“Paychecks!” responded the crowd.
“When do we want them?”
“Now!”
More than 3,000 educators have been impacted across the San Francisco School District by the EMPowerSF payroll debacle, according to Alvarez & Marsal, the firm recently hired to assess and fix the EmPowerSF payroll system.
At the corner of 555 Franklin St., teachers took turns at the mic to share their stories…(more)