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Rescuing Social Work in City Schools
Elderly couple’s million dollar donation will help create better learning environment
By Neela Banerjee
Seventy-one-year-old Diana Ming Chan has spent her entire career working with children and families in and around San Francisco — from heading up the Family Service agency in Chinatown to working as a counselor in schools. Now, she and her husband Clarence are rejuvenating the school social work program by donating their life savings to start a progressive new program in San Francisco’s public schools.
Ever since voters passed a 1978 statewide ballot measure that capped the increase in property taxes to 1 percent per year, funding for many health and human services have been cut, especially in schools.
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