San Francisco Mayor London Breed is calling for a stop to school district plans to close or merge more than a dozen schools after this school year.

The San Francisco Unified School District announced last week a list of 13 public schools in the city that are facing closures or mergers as part of what Superintendent Matt Wayne called a “resource alignment initiative” to deal with budget problems amid years of declining enrollment and teacher shortages.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.