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Question: How does a school district go broke with $1.1 billion in revenues?  Answer: When it spends $1.3 billion.  This macabre joke is all-too real for San Francisco Unified, where this spring a state oversight panel took control of all budget decisions until the district balances its spending. After reviewing the district’s budget, the oversight […]

Capuchino High School in San Bruno had already handed out more than 100 yearbooks when the discovery was made on Wednesday.

With graduation season in full swing, the class of 2024 is reflecting on a highly unusual four years of school. Their freshman experience was marked by pandemic lockdowns, but that was just the first in a chain of momentous global events. We spoke to some members of this class about how they're looking back and forward.

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Grace Utomo began her journey at California Baptist University as a transfer student in January 2013. She studied healthcare administration and participated in several musical ensembles. It was at CBU that she met her husband, Ivan. Then in December 2016, their hard journey began. The two were newlyweds, accomplished musicians...

After defeating Lincoln-SJ 3-1 to win CCS Div. VI, Menlo School Knights pitcher Ryan Schnell celebrates the final out with catcher Chuck Wynn at Excite Ballpark. It was Knights first title since 2017. Senior right-hander Ryan Schnell threw the complete-game victory, and called out the team’s culture as the driving...

Actor and activist Benjamin Bratt was honored at San Francisco State University's commencement at Oracle Park on Friday night. Bratt received an honorary doctorate degree for his community activism and service. He is best known for his role in shows including "Law & Order.”. Bratt said that he grew up...

For several hours, Oracle Park was home to a giant celebration where the undergraduate journeys of thousands of students ended — at San Francisco State University’s 2024 commencement on May 24. Occasionally, the sun peeked out from behind the clouds, shining on their regalia as brightly as the smiles on their faces. Tens of thousands of their loved ones also filled the stadium, screaming to release their overflowing excitement and pride.

The University of San Francisco administration suspended 22 students who took part in a pro-Palestinian protest encampment that was dismantled this week, according to the students. Fifteen suspensions were initially reported, but students said they learned of more after this article was first published. USF called the action an interim...

NEXTDOOR CONVERSATION. There were several conversation today, May 21st, 2024, on Half Moon Bay’s Nextdoor referring to an overnight party at Poplar Beach. One Poplar area resident reached out to the Gunn High School administration and got an immediate response from the 2024 Gunn Student Leadership. I wrote to...

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SAN BRUNO, California (KPIX) — A chemical leak during a training exercise at the San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno on Tuesday led to students at a nearby elementary school to become sick, officials said. Around 12:45 p.m., the sheriff’s office was holding what they described as a...

On Wednesday, May 2nd, students and faculty from the San Francisco campus of OneSchool Global (OSG) teamed up with Kids Against Hunger to prepare meals for children in need. Volunteers packed 1,980 food bags each containing six meals for a grand total of 11,880 meals at the Pleasanton headquarters of Kids Against Hunger, a nonprofit dedicated to combating child hunger globally. The students from OSG—a network of student-centered, tech-enabled schools—are part of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, hailing from Castro Valley, Hayward, Danville, and San Leandro.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed offered money Thursday — estimated to be between $500,000 and $1 million — to help establish in The City a satellite campus of one of the schools known as historically Black colleges and universities. Breed’s administration announced the funding opportunity while issuing a request for qualifications from HBCUs interested in pursuing such a campus, an idea the mayor first touted in early February when she hosted a group of HBCU representatives to explore the possibility. ...

Davenport, IA – Amy C. Novak, EdD, president of St. Ambrose University, announced today that alumnus Daniel Salazar ’23 has been chosen as a Fulbright finalist, or award winner, for the English teaching assistantship in Spain. The Fulbright Program is a prestigious international grant that gives students, scholars, and professionals the opportunity to teach and study in more than 140 countries. Fewer than 20% of applicants to the Fulbright program achieve finalist status. Salazar graduated from St. Ambrose University in December 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary History Education. The Muscatine, Iowa, native was hesitant to pursue the grant. Teaching abroad was not his intended path. But he was inspired by the sacrifices of his grandfather to seize every opportunity available to him. “As scary as it is to think of leaving all I have ever known, I can see no other way around what I consider my duty and responsibility. A duty to use the opportunities allotted to me thanks to a grandfather who had none,” Salazar says. “Manual labor left my grandfather with little feeling in his fingertips and required several surgeries. I thought about the loneliness he must have felt leaving all he had ever known to find a place abundant with opportunity not for himself but for his descendants.” As Salazar pushed himself to pursue this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, St. Ambrose faculty were there to support him through the Fulbright application process. “The most real moment for me was meeting with St. Ambrose faculty and staff, people I had gotten to know very well along the way, and being interviewed honestly by them. Here I stood before faces I trusted, faces I knew would judge me accurately and could determine the direction of my life entirely.”