San Francisco is a city literally abuzz with leading edge innovation, world class institutions, natural beauty, and public treasures. And everyday, our public schools are responsible for educating 56,000 children across an amazing array of cultures.

Let’s imagine that we applied the full measure of our city’s vast resources – and its reputation for innovation and creativity– to reinvent our public schools. That we finally mustered the political will and commitment to put our children first.

Let’s imagine that through a fresh burst of energy, new leadership, and a bold strategy based on best practices, we were able to draw together the region’s best and brightest – the Bay Area’s most successful companies, universities, leading foundations and most effective civic and community groups – to ensure that every child had access to a quality education.

Let’s imagine this new team worked with an entrepreneurial spirit, reinventing learning in the 21st century by casting aside old-school practices, and functioned more like a VC firm, helping to raise the intellectual and financial capital necessary to improve the city’s schools.

As a result, every child was given the opportunity to live up to their potential, and could graduate with the knowledge, skills and confidence to prepare them for success in higher education, the 21st century workplace, and as a citizen in our democracy.

At the San Francisco School Alliance, this is our mission. But in order to succeed, we need it to be your mission too.