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SFUSD’s choice of equity over excellence as basis for school closures ignores voices of parents and diminishes student opportunity
The summer will be anything but quiet for the San Francisco Unified School District as it takes on three monumental challenges — getting its fiscal house in order to prepare for $113 million in budget cuts next year; closing schools in response to low enrollment; and passing a $790 million facilities bond measure on the November ballot.
Golden Gate University Faces Legal Battle to Stay Open
A coalition of students and alumni from Golden Gate University filed for a court injunction on Wednesday, aiming to keep the financially troubled San Francisco school open for the upcoming academic year. This legal move is part of a broader lawsuit intending to prevent the planned closure of the university this summer.
Keeping Track of SFUSD’s Three Budget Crises
An unfortunate consequence of addressing multiple crises simultaneously is that it’s easy for the public to get confused, which undermines the credibility needed to build support for painful reforms. SFUSD is addressing three different budget crises simultaneously:. SFUSD needs to cut a substantial amount of money from its 2024-2025...
Summer school offers new teachers a chance to experiment
Are you a new teacher? If you can, teach summer school!. No, your district did not pay me to say this; there is a method to my madness. Summer school gets a bad rap. Its portrayal in movies doesn’t help either. It’s not just a sweaty classroom full of students who are defiant and rude. In my experience, these are students who just need to fix the mistakes they made in the school year. Summer school should be seen as an opportunity for students and teachers. Teaching summer school can be an extremely beneficial choice, especially for new teachers.
Backcourt of Semetri Carr, Andrew Hilman lead Riordan into Cali Live 24 Pool 1-2 championship game
ROSEVILLE, CALIFORNIA — The talent is everywhere on the Archbishop Riordan high school boys basketball roster. But the backcourt of senior Semetri Carr and jun
Board of Education passes proposed amendment to homework policy
The Board of Education voted to pass an amendment to the current MCPS homework policy, June 25. The proposed new policy includes provisions requiring teachers to allocate in-class time for completing homework assignments and regulating the amount of homework teachers can assign over the weekend. The Board of Education Policy...
The SF State Africana Studies Dept. celebrates community engagement
San Francisco State University is the home of the first Black Studies Department in the country – cemented into higher education in 1968 after the Black Student Union-Third World Liberation Front Student Strike. The first director of the Black Studies Department was Dr. Nathan Hare. He was personally recruited by the Black Student Union members for his intellectual aptitude, community engagement and advocacy. We have recently lost a giant in Hare’s passing; however, the Africana Studies Department is determined to preserve his legacy.
Protect the vital Free City College program from deep cuts by the City
San Francisco – The City and County of San Francisco may soon be making cuts to the Free City College program, which is funded by Proposition W, a municipal tax on property transfers worth over $5 million that was adopted into law in 2016. Although the tax generates $30 to $38 million per year for the City and County of San Francisco – and the Free City College program currently receives only about half that amount – the City is considering further reducing its contribution to the program.
ACC Network Is Scheduled To Introduce the New Kids
As the Atlantic Coast Conference expands to an unlikely grouping of 18 schools, (including Notre Dame, sort of), the ACC Network is scheduled to introduce the new kids on the block to its audience. The television network is hosting programming live this Summer from the campuses of SMU, Cal, and...
UC names new chair, vice chair for board of regents
The University of California announced that Janet Reilly is the next chair of the system’s board of regents and Maria Anguiano is the board’s new vice chair. The terms for both began on Monday. Reilly was originally appointed as a regent in 2019. She was formerly an executive...
Empowering the future: LatinXTech brings STEM education to low-income areas
In the heart of Silicon Valley, technology is synonymous with opportunity. But students who can’t learn the fundamentals are often left behind, cutting them off from this field before they’ve even had a chance to try it. When Mountain View High School rising senior Ryan Tellado founded LatinXTech, he wanted to change that — so he went straight to the source of the problem.
High school mentorship programs prepare next generation of medical professionals
If trends and statistics hold true, medical scrubs soon will be commonplace for many American workers. Health care occupations are expected to soar higher than average for all other occupations from 2022 to 2032, with 1.8 million openings on average per year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Good Form & Royal Coffee Team Up To Offer Two Scholarships For The Q Exam
Becoming a Q Grader is perhaps one of the most difficult certifications in all of coffee. It requires rigorous study, 20 different tests—often with multiple retakes—with a pass rate around 25-30%. And it’s prohibitively expensive, sometimes in the thousands of dollars if travel is required to take the exams.
The Oakland Ed Week in Review 6/22/24-6/28/24
We’re back with our roundup of education news from around The Town, the Bay Area, state, and nation for your weekend reading. This is a Dirk favorite and one of the last blogs he published for Great School Voices. As the school year draws to a close across the...
University of California resumes contract negotiations with employee union
Optometrists from the Union of Professional and Technical Employees CWA Local 9119 held a strike protesting the University of California's "bad-faith" bargaining practices earlier this year. Contract negotiations have begun again between the Union of Professional and Technical Employees CWA Local 9119 (UPTE) and the University of California (UC).1 Bargaining...
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