In San Francisco, where the cost to cover a long-term substitute teacher is $203.16 per day, one public school teacher must pay for her substitute while coping with a serious illness. The practice, which has been mandated in California since the early 1970s, occurs in nearly one-fifth of U.S. school districts. If the provision is removed from California’s Education Code, the state’s cash-strapped school districts would need to substitute alternative funding.

KQED

Joshua Pawlik, a homeless San Francisco resident with mental health and addiction problems, was sleeping in an alley with a pistol in his right hand. Dozens of police officers showed up. As he woke, police told him to drop his gun. He raised his shoulders, and officers fired 22 rounds. Pawlik’s death is one of around a dozen cases in the last several years where Northern California police have dealt with a person sleeping with a firearm.

The Appeal

The city charter calls for Muni to be punctual 85% of the time, but that hasn’t stopped the agency’s vehicles from scoring a 55% on-time rate in March, a 2% dip compared to last year, according to the latest Muni On-Time Performance scores. Muni was marked late 13% and very late 6% of the time in the same period. Muni’s light-rail service was punctual 46% of the time in the same month. Curbed San Francisco

Upon hearing the news that San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Director Ed Reiskin will resign this summer, Muni streetcar and bus operators rallied outside SFMTA headquarters for a new agency leader to advocate for them. The employees, who are involved in contract negotiations, want higher wages, better staffing, improved staffing and fixes to faulty equipment. "We have city workers who are homeless, we have city employees who live out of their car, we have city employees who are being forced to move out of San Francisco," said Roger Marenco, the president of Transportation Workers Union Local 250A, which represents Muni workers. SFGate

San Francisco’s latest high-profile startup, WePark, had the trappings of a joke. Hoping to make the statement that city streets prioritize cars over people, founder Victor Pontis paid a parking meter and set up a desk on a parking space. He later invited others to do the same near City Hall. The stunt was mimicked in France and Santa Monica.

Curbed San Francisco

San Francisco offers prescription drugs that are 14% more expensive than the national average, according to an analysis released by the website GoodRX, which tracks prescription drug prices. The analysis, which looked at the 500 most commonly prescribed prescription drugs in 30 cities, ranked San Francisco the second most expensive city for prescription drugs, behind New York.

San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Giants had never won a championship in San Francisco until the arrival of their manager Bruce Bochy. Since his 2006 recruitment, they've won three World Series. Now, with Bochy set to retire at the season end, a number of last hurrahs have piled up. “He left 40 years ago to play baseball and never had a summer off,” said former third-base coach Tim Flannery, a longtime friend of Bochy's.

San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco-based Lyft's progressive, pink mustache belies a yearlong battle against a class action lawsuit alleging that the ride-hail giant be required to serve disabled people. The company argues it should not have to comply with the Americans for Disabilities Act because "it is not in the transportation business."

“According to their public filings their mission is to improve people’s lives with the world's best transportation,” said Meera Joshi, the former New York City Taxi Commissioner.

Politico

San Francisco-based Uber will go public this Friday, and former CEO Travis Kalanick wants to take part in Wall Street’s opening bell ceremony. But his successor Dara Khosrowshani decided that he isn’t welcome. Khosrowshani’s decision is his latest move to prove that the ride-hail giant has separated from its notorious tech-bro culture.

New York Times