"The city said we will purchase it, we rent it to you for a dollar a year, but you are responsible for the tenant build outs and for maintaining the space," Ayala said. The center flourished under the agreement. It became the home of La Raza Graphics, which produced many of the posters and flyers that announced festivals, marches, concerts and other events happening in the Mission.
Being a school principal in San Francisco was already a job with a stress level akin to diffusing unexploded ordinance or directing air traffic. Or perhaps doing both simultaneously. The district's administrators have already reached an impasse in long-running labor negotiations. Mediation failed. Next comes a "fact-finding" panel. If that, too, fails, the next step is a potential strike vote.