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SFUSD ‘Staircase of Imagination’ a ‘game-changer’ for neurodivergent students
The San Francisco Unified School District faces a number of challenges as the school year comes to a close: declining enrollment across all campuses, aging facilities in need of repair, and a shortage of resources in special education. One San Francisco public school is addressing all three with a simple but impactful approach by partnering with local technology and design companies. Sherman Elementary School administrators tasked companies with reimaging its...
Reports: Cruise paying up to $12M to woman hit by its car in SF
The woman who was run over by a Cruise autonomous vehicle in downtown San Francisco in October has reached a settlement with the General Motors-owned company, according to multiple reports. Cruise is paying $8 million to $12 million to settle the dispute, Fortune and Bloomberg Law each reported. Company spokesman Erik Moser declined to confirm the settlement or the amount. Instead, in an emailed statement, he said: “The hearts of...
SF pharmacies could soon carry opioid-treatment medication
New legislation in San Francisco would make one of the main medications used to treat opioid withdrawal more accessible to those who need it. The San Francisco Department of Public Health and Supervisor Matt Dorsey introduced a resolution making buprenorphine — one of the most commonly used medications to treat opioid-use disorder, alongside methadone — available in The City’s pharmacies. “It is critical that people in recovery have easy access...
SFUSD’s biggest bond ever has one last step before hitting ballot
San Francisco public schools’ largest-ever bond measure is all but assured of heading to the November ballot after the San Francisco Board of Education unanimously approved the measure Tuesday — but not without debate over its size and priorities. The board now has until Aug. 9 to submit the approved resolution and text to the Department of Elections. Matthew Selby, the elections department’s custodian of records, told The Examiner that...
SFUSD’s biggest bond ever has one last step before hitting ballot
San Francisco public schools’ largest-ever bond measure is all but assured of heading to the November ballot after the San Francisco Board of Education unanimously approved the measure Tuesday — but not without debate over its size and priorities. The board now has until Aug. 9 to submit the approved resolution and text to the Department of Elections. Matthew Selby, the elections department’s custodian of records, told The Examiner that...
Federal regulators investigating Waymo for crashes, breaking traffic safety laws
Federal regulators are investigating yet another autonomous-vehicle company that operates in San Francisco. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Monday it is looking into Waymo’s fleet of 444 self-driving vehicles and the robotaxis’ automated driving systems after receiving 17 reports of single-vehicle crashes and five reports of possible violations of traffic-safety laws. Eight of the 22 incidents cited in the NHTSA’s report occurred in San Francisco over a span...
New Anchor Brewing owner expected to be announced by end of May
The assets of the 127-year-old Anchor Brewing could have a new owner by the end of May, nearly four months after a winning bid was originally expected to be announced. Buyers involved in the bidding process said the assignee in charge of the shuttered beer company’s assets hasn’t yet made a decision, which has led to a delay in publicizing the bid results. Sam Singer, a San Francisco public-relations executive...
Supes push SF officials for ‘larger vision’ for Union Square
With The City facing a huge deficit as it heads toward budget negotiations, a committee of the Board of Supervisors called on officials this week to develop more cohesive plans for investing civic funds to revitalize the historic Union Square shopping district in a time of radically changing retail dynamics. The four supervisors present at the Land Use and Transportation Committee hearing Monday heard from various city officials — particularly from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development — about a litany of initiatives already...
Tesla slashes hundreds more Bay Area jobs as mass layoffs continue
Tesla is letting go of hundreds more Bay Area workers in its latest round of layoffs, according to a notice the company sent to state officials Monday. The cuts are part of the Texas-based electric automaker’s ongoing efforts to slash 10% of its global workforce — which was roughly 140,000 people at the end of last year — as announced at the start of April. The layoffs affect 601 workers...
California releasing more than half of Prop. 1 funding this summer
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that more than half of Proposition 1’s funding to build facilities and housing for mental-health care will become available to counties as soon as July. “Let's move forward, get ready, get those applications going, and let's move these projects forward,” Newsom said Tuesday at a press conference in Redwood City. Voters in March narrowly passed Prop. 1, which Newsom introduced to update the 2004 Mental...
Former Giants minor leaguer gives mental health advocacy a familiar face
A former San Francisco Giants minor leaguer is working alongside mental health experts and other professionals to ensure that his ex-teammates’ minds are as strong as their bodies. Drew Robinson has been paramount in the organization’s push to prioritize the mental health of its players, his colleagues said Monday at a panel prior to the Giants’ 6-4 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Oracle Park. A former outfielder who...
Former Giants minor leaguer gives mental health advocacy a familiar face
A former San Francisco Giants minor leaguer is working alongside mental health experts and other professionals to ensure that his ex-teammates’ minds are as strong as their bodies. Drew Robinson has been paramount in the organization’s push to prioritize the mental health of its players, his colleagues said Monday at a panel prior to the Giants’ 6-4 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Oracle Park. A former outfielder who...
Breed joins Peskin in rejecting TogetherSF mayoral debate
San Francisco’s five major candidates for mayor will debate The City’s issues Monday, but on two separate stages. Mayor London Breed announced Tuesday that she will not participate in political advocacy group TogetherSF Action’s planned May 20 debate. Instead, Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin — one of four prominent candidates looking to deny her a second full term in office — will participate in a “conversation” hosted...
Can SF afford a ‘Day Without Child Care’?
Oscar Tang and his family operate six in-home day-care facilities throughout The City. His employees care for about 10 kids at each site, with locations in Mission Bay, SoMa and Portola. If all of them closed or shut down, Tang estimated that more than 100 San Francisco residents would be unable to go to work. “But throughout the state, there are over 26,000 [day-care centers],” he said. “That’s 260,000 employees...
UCSF closes library near removed pro-Palestine tent encampment
UCSF closed the library at its Parnassus campus to all visitors Tuesday as protesting students and faculty calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war continued demonstrating sans tents after they said university police removed the encampment and arrested one demonstrator the night before. Library security would not confirm to The Examiner whether the Parnassus Kalmanovitz Library was closed due to the demonstrations. UCSF spokesperson Kristen Bole told The...
UCSF students, employees set up pro-Palestinian protest encampment
More than two dozen UCSF students and employees set up a tent encampment on the school’s Parnassus campus Monday, joining the nationwide network of collegiate protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and for their universities to cut ties with Israel. Nearly a month after Columbia University students set up an encampment on their New York City campus, around 30 people did the same Monday at UCSF as they held a rally to draw attention to their demands. ...
Self-driving Cruise cars return to roads — but not San Francisco’s
Cruise’s driverless cars are back on the roads — just not in San Francisco. The embattled autonomous-vehicle company announced Monday that two of its robotaxis will operate in self-driving mode in Phoenix, but only with safety drivers behind the wheels. Eight others will continue to be driven manually, as has been the case for about a month. The service will eventually “gradually expand” to include other Arizona cities as Cruise’s...
Feds probe Zoox after collision in San Francisco
Federal regulators opened an investigation Monday into Amazon subsidiary Zoox and its fleet of self-driving robotaxis following two collisions, one of which occurred in San Francisco last month. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will evaluate Zoox’s fleet of roughly 500 Toyota Highlanders equipped with the company’s automated driving system to determine how the technology performs “in crosswalks around vulnerable road users,” and in “other similar rear-end collision scenarios,” according to the agency’s filing. ...
Shreve & Co. closing San Francisco flagship after 170 years in The City
Shreve & Co., the venerable jeweler that has called San Francisco home since 1852, will close its location in The City’s embattled Union Square following a liquidation sale and make its Palo Alto outlet its flagship store, the company’s owner said Monday. The store at 150 Post St., where the company has been since 2016, will cease operations at the end of a multimillion-dollar liquidation sale of jewelry and watches at discounts of up to 60% that will begin Friday and could last just days. ...
Many SF city employees aren’t working in person every day, either
Literally and figuratively, it will never be 2019 again. As the neighborhoods around San Francisco City Hall continue their post-pandemic recovery, there’s little hope that city employees — or those in the private sector, for that matter — will ever be the reliable presence at cafes and restaurants they once were. More than four years removed from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, most city departments have settled into a...
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