Noted private school St. Ignatius College Preparatory canceled classes for the day after an outbreak of the stomach flu struck an estimated 50 students. Ugh. According to SF Examiner, "the campus will be closed and all events, including sports games, are canceled for Wednesday because the Public Health Department advised school officials it would be appropriate to 'thoroughly' sanitize and 'deeply clean' the campus." more ›

Fix UC, a group of students at UC Riverside, have come up with a rather impressive proposal that would delay students' tuition until after they graduate, which they say could triple UC's revenue over 20 years. UC President Mark Yudof says the plan is "a constructive idea," and the university's best "number crunchers" are currently reviewing it. more ›

On Thursday, Monsieur Moonbeam prosed slashing a jarring "$1.4 billion in welfare and child care aid for the destitute "while holding voters liable for $5 billion in education funding with a November tax measure." It's all part of Brown's (impossible?) effort to fill our $9.2 billion general fund deficit. more ›

On the heels of Saturday's brutal pepper spraying of peaceful Occupy student protesters at the at UC Davis campus, the Board of the Davis Faculty Association called for the immediate resignation of UCS Chancellor Linda Katehi. Now the school's English Department has also called for the booting of Katehi. more ›

A UC Davis graduate filed a lawsuit against UC Davis for not taking action on his numerous complaints about a Jewish fraternity's sexually-charged and abusive hazing rituals. Ryan Clifford claims that he was "punched, stripped naked, molested and forced to drink 'inordinate amounts' of alcohol" while pledging the Chi Delta chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi back in 2008. more ›

Cheese. It's why we live. Is there anything better than cheese? Probably not. Even some vegan cheeses are good. Very good. So is (dare we say) the occasional yellow jar cheese bought and consumed at a liquor store under the duress of binge drinking. Oh please. Don't you judge us. For we, like you, love cheese. And since you love it so much, isn't it high time you learned how to make it yourself? Enter Italian cheese expert Arcangelo "Lino" Esposito of Belfiore Cheese in Berkeley. He will head Urban Kitchen SF's fall cheese workshop, teaching you the secrets of making ricotta and pulling mozzarella from curd. more ›

A brutal gay bashing inside an Ohio high school classroom was captured on video last week. more ›

Police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman inside a vacant classroom at Skyline College on Tuesday night. "The female victim told police she was alone in a classroom when a man entered the room and sexually assaulted her," reports SF Examiner. "The suspect fled the room following the assault." more ›

Folks involved in the rapidly-growing Occupy SF and Occupy Wall Street movements will converge on the Palace Hotel today. Why? Well, nothing to do with the hotel itself, that's for sure. (The Palace is simply too gorgeous for ire.) Because Florida Governor Jeb Bush and media ghoul Rupert Murdoch will fly over on their brooms to take part in the Foundation for Excellence in Education conference, a nonprofit headed by Bush. more ›

Media rascal and likely criminal Rupert Murdoch will be in town on Friday, kicking it at the Palace Hotel (2 New Montgomery) while "addressing the National Summit on Education Reform at the invitation of a nonprofit run by presidential brother and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush," reports SF Examiner's Amy Crawford. more ›

Hey there, folks. You know what blows, and not in a good way? Being afraid to speak in class. It's dreadful, and can have longterm effects. So it is with great empathy--far too much empathy, sadly--that we bring to you yesterday's article in the New York Times concerning a stuttering college student whose professor asked him to shut up. (Richard Perez-Pena's "Stutterer Speaks Up in Class; His Professor Says Keep Quiet"). more ›

Governor Jerry Brown today signed the controversial California Dream Act, which will make it legal for undocumented immigrant college students to get public financial aid. The Sacto Bee notes: "The California Dream Act allows access to public financial aid, including Cal Grants, for undocumented students who came to the country before turning 16 and attended California high schools. Those students already are eligible for in-state tuition, and Brown in July signed a companion measure affording them access to private financial aid." more ›

School districts around the Bay Area are mulling changes to their policies regarding homework assigned to students, because new evidence is emerging that we're raising a generation of over-stressed over-achievers who can't sleep. Parents these days are pressuring kids earlier and earlier with getting good grades and taking AP classes in order to get into better colleges, and as a result their childhoods are getting destroyed. more ›

According to Forbes Magazine, Gavin Newsom's alma mater is a better place for higher education than UC Berkeley. NBC Bay Area notes: "Santa Clara University received its highest-ever ranking from Forbes's 2011 list of the best colleges in America, jumping nearly 60 places from the 2010 list to No. 67 -- three spots ahead of the University of California, Berkeley." more ›

NYC-based Skillshare, a community marketplace in which you can "learn anything from anyone" offline, in a casual setting and on the cheap, just announced the service is going to soon be available in San Francisco. They anticipate it catching on even more here than it has in New York. more ›

Ohio University topped this year's list of America's Top Party Schools by Princeton Review. The Athens-based institution of higher learning landed on the the party school list 12 times since 1997. This is the first time it's reached the top. (So... kudos?) While no Bay Area schools made the esteemed list (nerds!), one California college did manage to crack the top 20. Can you guess what it is? The entire depraved list is as follows: more ›

In a highly scientific study released by GQ, noted Palo Alto community college Stanford came in as the 4th douchiest college in the country. Notable douchbag alums include: Herbert Hoover, Mike Mussina, John Elway, William Rehnquist, and Tiger Woods. (Notable non-Summer's Eve alums include the delectable Sergey Brin and daring Jennifer Siebel-Newsom!) GQ describes the learning institution thusly: more ›

California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation today that would require state schools in include gay history in the curriculum. "The legislation, authored by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, was approved in the Legislature along party lines, with Democrats in favor and Republicans opposed. The governor's office announced this morning that Brown had signed the bill," reports Sacramento Bee. This would include queer studies, if you will, into social sciences along with education about "disabilities and members of other cultural groups." more ›

The future school kids of California will soon learn the valuable contributions to history by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by reading about them in their textbooks. Yesterday, the Assembly approved a bill okaying the addition of the info to our state's textbooks, and that bill lands on the desk of Governor Jerry Brown today. more ›

Special education teacher Jerry Johnson, 56, of Vallejo was pinched by the police for allegedly raped an 18-year-old female assistant on campus during school hours. The "heinous" act reportedly took place at Loma Vista Elementary School. The victim, who helps Johnson out with the kids, has the mental capacity of a seven-year-old, notes KTVU, who go on to say that Johnson "didn’t seem too surprised by the arrest." more ›

Hot on the heels of news that San Francisco USD will be laying off 139 educators at the end of the school year, comes a report from Sacramento that over two dozen teachers were arrested at the Capitol last night after they refused to leave the building as part of a demonstration against education cuts in the state budget. California Teacher's Association President David Sanchez, who led the group, told the press he was willing to be arrested, "to let the public understand the seriousness, the state of emergency that California public schools are under right now." more ›

Another blow for public education unfurled in the East Bay last night. The Oakland School Board approved 500 layoffs notices for Oakland teachers. Said notices will go to 231 elementary school teachers, 41 English teachers, 45 social science teachers, 28 sixth-grade teachers, 25 P.E. teachers, 13 social workers, and the entire adult education staff. more ›

After 17 protesters were arrested last week during UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall occupation, 14 were smacked with misdemeanor charges on Monday. "Eleven protesters were charged on a single count of trespassing by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, reports Daily Cal. "Three were charged on both trespassing and obstructing a peace officer, after allegedly having to be carried out of Wheeler Hall by the police in order to be arrested." Protesters' demands ranged from halting budget cuts to the democratization the UC Board of Regents. [Daily Cal] more ›

Outside Governor Jerry Brown's office in San Francisco today, a union of California community college teachers protested Brown's proposed $10 per unit (or $300 per year) tuition fee hike. That total comes to around this many packages of Top Ramen, a vile/cherished college student pantry staple. more ›

We're not going to claim to know how Australia works, it being the land of theives and tax evaders and all, but their Attorney General is supporting a law that, "exempts private schools from any obligation to enroll or deal fairly with students who are homosexual." Meaning they can just kick those kids right out of their fancy Anglican schools without so much as a "disruption, harassment [or] even the flaunting of sexuality. Being homosexual is enough." more ›

KALW reports on Visitacion Valley Middle School's implementation of the innovative Quiet Time program, which sets aside fifteen minutes at the beginning and end of each school day for students to meditate. All but a few of the kids practice the voluntary activity and report finding it enjoyable. The school has experienced a small but encouraging rise in test scores and attendance rates so far. more ›

"You know, you can make Kombucha yourself, right?" more ›

Days after Gov. Jerry Brown proposed cutting $500 million from the UC system next year, UC Berkeley plans to prune 150 managers and support staff this year. This comes on top of the some odd 600 jobs hacked since last year. more ›

Two UCSC alumni and The University of California at Santa Cruz have set up a scholarship in the name of Gabriel Zimmerman, the former banana slug/congressional staffer who was shot and killed in Arizona on Saturday. According to reports, The fund has had a Facebook page since about noon [on Wednesday] and has already garnered more than $3,000 through Facebook donations." more ›