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EPISODE · Feb 23, 2026 · 18 MIN

When one door closes, another school moves in

from Crosscurrents · host KALW

This fall, SFUSD announced it would close a small alternative high school, called The Academy. KALW’s Education reporter, Julia Haney, wanted to find out why there was such a big reaction to the closing of this small school. And in the process, she uncovered a different story. One about how the district’s decision to close this school is making room for another school’s expansion and resurfacing a decades-old tension.

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