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Backpacks with donated supplies filled for thousands of students
OAKLAND, Calif. - The 25th annual Stay-in-School packing event is sending 6,000 fully-stocked backpacks to Oakland Unified students after Saturday's packing party. Volunteers with Lend a Hand filled thousands of backpacks with supplies. Bags for younger students include crayons and drawing paper. For the older students, their supplies include writing...
California College of the Arts Accused of Antisemitism
In June, The Deborah Project, a Massachusetts-based public interest law firm, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the California College of the Arts (CCA), naming CCA art history professor Karen Fiss as plaintiff. The lawsuit alleges that, starting October 7, CCA transformed its Eighth Street campus into an “ideologically orthodox factory enforcing a single acceptable view” that encourages negative perceptions of Jews and Israel.
Unsafe Drinking Water Plagues Bryant Elementary
For the entire 2023-2024 academic year Bryant Elementary School students, teachers, and staff contended with classroom disruptions. Not from COVID-19 but from the absence of something basic: clean drinking water. Bryant is one of seven elementary schools at which tap water tested positive for harmful lead levels, including Buena Vista...
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory hosts 21 Oakland middle schoolers for free 1-week camp
An incredible one-week experience just wrapped up for more than 20 local kids.Each of them got to spend time at one of the most advanced laboratories in the world for a summer science camp.It was an unforgettable experience, not just for the students, but for the scientists and staff."This is one of the most advanced laboratories in the world, the highest powered x-ray free electron laser over two miles long," said Dorian Bohler, a SLAC staff scientist who helped develop the camp. His children are now also participants.MORE: High school students get hands-on experience with internships at UCSF Kanbar Center...
‘UC Berkeley regents have no time to address Jew-hatred’
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is opposing the University of California, Berkeley’s effort to dismiss the Brandeis Center’s complaint accusing the public school of pervasive Jew-hatred. “Amazingly, the UC Berkeley regents have the nerve to claim that they shouldn’t be held accountable because...
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