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 ›

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 ›

Sorry, Jenny McCarthy, but San Francisco likes their students vaccinated. On Thursday, an estimated 2,000 city students "who still lacked proof of a whooping cough vaccination one month into the school year" were banned from classroom until they got the shot. According to the Chronicle, a new law asks that all kids in grades seven through 12 in both public and private schools be vaccinated this year, "but districts struggling to get families to comply asked for and received a 30-day extension." 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 ›

Buena Vista Elementary in Walnut Creek (2355 San Juan Avenue Walnut Creek) as been evacuated after a bomb scare or suspicious package was found at the school. We'll update as soon as we know more. Until then, police advise people to stay out of the area. Obviously. more ›

In a story that's sure to jolt you awake this morning, the Oakland Tribune reveals: "A second-grade teacher has been placed on administrative leave amid an investigation into a report that two of his students engaged in oral sex during class and that, on a separate occasion, some children took off some of their clothing and were clowning around." 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 ›

Vi Hart, a "recreational mathematician," does some astounding classroom doodling that goes above and beyond your average unicorn and "Mrs. Brock Bieber" notebook scribblings. more ›

San Bruno's Crestmoor Elementary School, located neat the explosion and fire site, has been evacuated this morning. This comes on the heels of two other school evacuations (at Galileo High School in San Francisco and Portola Elementary in San Bruno) over gas leaks that turned out to be false. This morning, two teachers reported turning on the heat and smelling gas. Which is what happened yesterday. Which is what happens whenever you turn on the heat after not using it for awhile. Understandably, we are a bit tense over possible gas links after last week's disaster. more ›

A gas leak scare at Portola Elementary in San Bruno forced an evacuation this morning. Fortunately, according to the fine folks at KRON 4 Morning News, no leak was found. Whew. more ›

Ugh. We hate having to write yet another story about a girl being raped at her school. While class is in session. While school officials are nearby. But we must: There's a $2 million arrest warrant issued for a man (pictured here) wanted on suspicion of "sexually assaulting a young family member on the campus of Sanchez Elementary School on Thursday afternoon." more ›

CBS 5 reports: "George Washington Carver Elementary has been placed on Lockdown in the SF Bayview District after reports of shots fired near campus." more ›

CBS 5's red box of terror alerts us to the following: "San Francisco police have just arrested 3 people near Bret Harte Elementary School at 1035 Gilman Ave. after responding to a report of a person with a gun. No further details are immediately available." more ›

You, that's who. And you can, by participating in the Tech Search Party, which offers as a prize an autographed baseball by the Mayor. Other prizes include tickets to a Bon Jovi concert courtesy of the suddenly cuddly Sarah and Vinnie, or EA video games. more ›

by Jerry James Stone

Contra Costa County has installed 20 man-made perches on land in Concord and Walnut Creek to attract hawks, falcons, and eagles. They hope the predatory birds will hunt down the exploding squirrel population and kill them.

After an 18-year-old man was shot in the butt and back at Skyline College yesterday in San Bruno, prompting the school's evacuation and immediate shutdown, police are looking for three suspects. There was some sort of altercation outside the school, resulting in gunfire. According to KTVU, "the three suspects fled north on Pacific Heights Boulevard, possibly in florescent purple Ford Escort with a paper license plate.' (A purple Ford Escort? How vulgar.) The alleged are described as "three black men all about 18 years old, one of whom had dreadlocks" and "wearing a white shirt, another...a red shirt, and the third a black-and-white shirt." So, if you know a gang of rapscallions who were involved in the Skyline College shooting, ones who look a lot like Color Me Badd, please call 911. more ›

Skyline College in San Bruno has been evacuated after a shooting. One man, a student, has reportedly been hit in the back by an unknown gunman. Police have surrounded the building and are looking for the suspect(s). more ›

Marina Middle School coach Stephen Pedersen, 45, turned himself into authorities yesterday after a warrant was out for his arrested regarding molestation charges of a 13-year-old student. Pedersen has been hit with with "three counts of lewd or lascivious acts and one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child." more ›

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Inexplicably managing not to spray the room with gunfire or hurl himself out of the nearest open window, TMZ's Harvey Levin spoke to students enrolled at the "elite" Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. TMZ, for the few of you not in the know, is a fantastic celebrity news site where you can find images of a beaten Rhianna or a postmortem Anna Nicole Smith; and Levin, a former lawyer and television producer, runs the joint. A few revelations Levin unveiled at Wednesday's talk? He doesn't hire writers, prefers to employs reporters who look like this; was asked by a J-schooler if he would be doing "more serious stories" at TMZ (answer: no); and declared "local news is dying, newspapers are dying." more ›

Happy Critical Mass Friday, y'all. Here's some happy bike-related news for you: The San Francisco Unified School District is encouraging students to cycle to school. SFUSD and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition have recently installed new bike racks at Francisco Middle School and teamed up to teach students basic street safety, bike courtesy, and how to blow the perfect snot rocket. According to Leah Shahum of the Bicycle Coalition, "This is really about working regular exercise into your everyday lifestyle so [that] when kids grow up they are living healthy active lives." And while the paranoid, hysterical mother in us wants to take little Cody to school in a monstrous but protective Hummer, the rational cool older brother in us thinks this is a great idea. Kudos, SF Bike Coalition and SFUSD. more ›

According to the breaking news red box over at CBS 5, "3 people were shot on Hillside St. in Oakland around 1 p.m. The shooting took place near Castlemont School. No details on the condition of the victims has been released." More info as it arrives. Update: Oakland Tribune says it was a drive-by shooting, three young men were wounded. None of the victims were students. "The shooting happened about 1 p.m. in the 8700 block of Hillside Street, which runs behind the school campus" and around half a dozen shots were fired. No arrests have been made.

Stepping back in time 20 years, a court ruled in favor of California Lutheran High School in Riverside County after two female students were expelled for having "a bond of intimacy ... characteristic of a lesbian relationship." According to reports, the girls sued the school claiming they had violated some sort of state anti-discrimination law. But not so, said a three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal. The private religious institution was deemed "not a business," so they were above the state law that prohibits businesses from discriminating based on sexual orientation. Which, as a private entity, they are. Alas. more ›

Trouble has popped up in the Sunset district, with sexy results. It seems the Vicente Fitness and Health Care Center, at 1202 Vicente, which is a half a block from Dianne Feinstein Elementary School, is once again being investigated as a house of ill repute. According to reports, parents are freaking out because the spa/gym isn't what it claims to be. "I personally went in and tried to join but they said there is no fitness center there," said school parent Matt Mitguard, who did a little research of his own. Sunset resident Wei Liu also went the center and asked if the fitness center had a gym for jazzercize classes, or whatever. "The woman who worked there didn't understand what gym was," said Liu. ABC 7 has an entire rundown of the downlow whore house.While SFPD conducts an investigation, the Vicente Fitness and Health Care Center remains open, and we do mean open, for business. more ›

School of the Arts (SOTA) might make the move from carefree-but-boring Twin Peaks to the gritty-yet-colorful Civic Center hood. The public performing-arts school, which bases student admission via auditions, needs $60 million to make it happen. According to the Examiner, local artsy types want the school to move closer to San Francisco's apparent arts center, "saying it would allow budding performers to mingle with and learn from San Francisco’s opera, ballet and symphony stars." (Although, not everybody is happy with the school's possible nmove.) more ›

You're in high school and you bring along a gun to school. Fine. That's just plain commonsense. more ›

This Craigslist ad caught our eye. A Hollywood production crew is looking to throw down "free school tuition, nice housing, money for living expenses, and per diems" to one lucky mary jane fan out there willing to attend "the well-known Oaksterdam University in Oakland" to study cannabisology, or whatever, to learn the art of kind bud "growing, dispensing, and medical services." (Some of the class the school offers are "Politics/Legal Issues 101," "Cooking/Concentrates 101," "Budtending/Cannabis Doctors 101, " and "Distribution/Dispensary Management 102.") more ›

Is this for real, or one of those ridiculous made-uppy New-York-Times-imagined-it problems? Apparently, the times reported a month ago that in SF, there are some low-income students who would rather starve than accept government-subsidized food. And now, at last, the SF Schools Blog offers a loooooong rebuttal with loads of context. Here's the gist: yeah, it's a problem, it's a problem everywhere, but we already knew about it and we're trying solve it. (The solution: switch to a debit-card system that makes method-of-payment less obvious. Cost to taxpayers: $1 million, though it'll allegedy "pay for itself.") more ›

The Palme d'Or-robbed gem landed a confused and sick Milpitas' Russell Middle School teacher in the fiery hot waters of bureaucratic hell after he recently screened this anti-abortion film in his chemistry class. According to CBS 5: more ›