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Foothill 2024 Transfer Map
As the 2023-2024 school year comes to a close, many Foothill students are taking the next step in their education and transferring to four-year universities. We at The Script wanted to celebrate our peers’ accomplishments and display the incredible universities that our classmates will be attending in the fall. With this interactive map, students, teachers, and other Foothill community members can see which universities students will be attending, and what major they will be pursuing. This map also allows students to see who else from Foothill may be transferring to the same schools, keeping the Foothill community alive around the world. Good luck to our Class of 2024 transfers!
Major cuts are coming for OUSD’s budget. But there is some good news
Oakland school leaders will need to make massive reductions in spending over the next few school years to avoid insolvency. On Wednesday the Oakland Unified School District board approved its budget for the 2024-2025 school year. While the district will remain afloat next year, projections show a growing deficit beginning in the 2025-2026 year. Declining enrollment and attendance rates, costly new labor contracts, expiring one-time funds, and flat state funding have all contributed to the district’s circumstances.
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
Berkeley teacher a state finalist for presidential award in STEM teaching
A Berkeley teacher is among the finalists for the highest honor given by the U.S. government for teaching science, mathematics, engineering, and computer science in k-12 schools. Cherene Fillingim-Selk, a teacher at Berkeley Arts Magnet School is among three California finalists for the award, called the 2024 Presidential Awards for...
School Board approves rental plan for high school’s Performing Arts Center/Alan Harvey Theater
The completion of the new Performing Arts Center (PAC), and the Alan Harvey Theater within it, in 2022 using Measure H1 Bond proceeds was the culmination of years of planning and construction by the school district. To allow wider community use of the space, PUSD has now developed a facilities use agreement to govern rental of the facility to outside groups for a base rental fee of $355 per hour, with a refundable security deposit of $1,000. (The district is using a new platform — “Facilitron” — to manage facilities rentals.) The School Board approved the agreement at its June 26 meeting.
SRA scholar juggles Cal studies with family duties
SAN FRANCISCO -- Samir Hooker doesn't take days off. He is constantly fighting a battle with his body and his mind. That battle began when Samir was just nine years old. In 2012, his stepfather was shot and killed in the Western Addition neighborhood in San Francisco."It was rough," Hooker recalled. "Prior to that (shooting), my family -- we didn't have it all but we were financially secure with my father providing anything that my mother couldn't. But once he was shot and killed that's when things got financially pretty hard on my mother as well as all of us. ...
New Piedmont athletic director brings wide-ranging experience to new job
Tyler Small and his family were trying to find Witter Field for a soccer game about six years ago. It was their first time in town. “Piedmont is such a special place and we kind of stumbled upon it,” Small said. “’What is this place? We’re gonna move here if we can.’”
UAW strike formally ends after agreement with university
UC academic employee union UAW 4811’s strike against the UC system has formally ended after the union and the university agreed to extend a temporary restraining order against strike activity through June 30. The agreement was brokered June 25, just five days before the end of UAW's call to...
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