Politics White Teen Sues UCSF Benioff Over Internship For Minority Students Conservative law firm Pacific Legal Foundation, which pursues cases against diversity and inclusion, is suing UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital on behalf of a white high school student in Berkeley.
SF News 350 SFUSD Teachers Lack Proper Credentials, New Report Says Around 350 San Francisco Unified School District teachers have been found to lack an active teaching credential, according to a Friday press release from the district.
SF News San Francisco's School Board Scheduled an Emergency Meeting for Sunday San Francisco's School Board has placed an emergency meeting on their schedule for Sunday morning. The meeting's agenda has only one item listed, a "public employee performance review" for embattled Superintendent Matt Wayne.
SF News Some San Francisco Public Schools Face Closure as Enrollment Plummets The school district of San Francisco, grappling with declining students and a looming budget deficit, is set to close or consolidate an unspecified number of schools by fall 2025, Superintendent Matt Wayne said.
SF News SF School Board To Repeal Long Unobserved Rule Segregating Asian Students The San Francisco Unified School District is using itself as an educational example tonight, ceremonially expunging a racist 1906 rule that's still on the books â though not observed and mostly-but-not-quite-forgotten â that calls for
Arts & Entertainment After-School Program That Did Anti-Tech Musical Now Takes On The Environment In <i>This American Hive</i> Fans of This American Life and loyal readers of SFist will remember CASA (Children's After-School Arts), the local after-school program that was featured because of a provocative musical they created and staged in
SF News <i>Forbes</i> Comes After Academy Of Art, Their Low Graduation Rate, And Their Shady Land Use Dealings Whoa. Forbes has not one but two pieces out today coming after the for-profit Academy of Art University and the multimillionaire Stephens family who have been running it for several generations. It's only
SF News Tom Hanks Lends Support For President's Community College Plan, Says Chabot College 'Made Me What I Am Today' Oscar winner and recent Kennedy Center honoree Tom Hanks has voiced his full support in a NYT op-ed for President Obama's proposal to make two years of free community college available to all
SF News Video: Oakland School Security Officer Beats The Hell Out Of Student In Wheelchair Oakland High School released disturbing video capturing the moments where a freshman with cerebral palsy, handcuffed to a wheelchair, was brutally beaten by a security guard. This student's offense? Moving too slowly to
Arts & Entertainment Art Of Escape Class Will Help You Stay Alive After The Big One Hits If the city you live in fell into dystopia and horror and you had to survive for 72 hours, could you? Many of you, let's face it, will die. Squashed under that Victorian
SF News Law Firm Putting On Another Event To Better Teach Landlords How To Evict Here we go again. The Law Offices of Bornstein & Bornstein and Bay Property Group have invited you to learn the art of kicking out tenants. There's money to be made and those
SF News Safe Passage, Group That Helps 4,000 Kids Get Home Safely In The Tenderloin, Needs Volunteer Oh hey, remember how happy you were cheering along Batkid on Friday? Want to feel that feeling EVERY DAY? Safe Passage, a group that helps 4,000 unaccompanied kids walk home from school
SF News San Mateo Elementary School Worker Busted On Sex Abuse Charge Down in San Mateo, police say that a school employee allegedly kissed and fondled a young student in his care. Michael Renz, 20, of Millbrae was arrested Friday for sexually abusing a young
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This: Spark's Sugar Rush Fundraiser We here at SFist are always on the lookout for ways to stuff out faces with treats, especially if it's guilt-free and for a good cause. Enter the 6th annual Sugar Rush, a
SF News Stanford Prof Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize (Prompting Yet Another Humblebrag) Stanford's Michael Levitt, professor in cancer research and structural biology, nabbed this year's prize in chemistry. He shares the award with Martin Karplus, at the University of Strasbourg and Harvard, and Arieh Warshel,
SF News Loaded Tech Guy Does Nice Thing For S.F. Schools Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff announced today that his company will donate $2.7 million to "the most important resource in San Francisco" â middle school kids. The donation will help bring the math
SF News UC Berkeley Nobel Prize Winner Humblebrags Win On Facebook It's nice to know that even Nobel Prize winners are prone to the occasional humblebrag, superpower smarts and all. Shortly after winning the 2013 prize for medicine on Monday, UC Berkeley's Randy Schekman
SF News UC Berkeley Campus Evacuated After Explosion [Updated] UC Berkeley is being evacuated after an underground fire. pic.twitter.com/XDeuSiI52Kâ Joe Vazquez (@joenewsman) October 1, 2013 A power outage at UC Berkeley prefaced a major explosion on Monday night, resulting
Arts & Entertainment Kink's Armory Studios Now Offering 'Intensive' BDSM Workshop The Armory Studios, local porn titan Kink.com's educational wing, offers a variety of workshops. There's "Yoga for Sex" (flexibility, breathing, etc.) There's "Stripping and Lapdancing" 101 and "201" (sensual movement, putting on
SF News City College's Accreditation Has Been Revoked The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges released news todays that City College of San Francisco's accreditation has been revoked, saying it does not meet program criteria and no longer has "quality
SF News Teacher Accused Of Molesting Students Had 'Cutest Girl List' Alvarado Elementary School third-grade teacher Michael Howey, accused to molesting young children, allegedly isolated his third-grade female students at recess to gve them "long hugs," rub their bellies, and "kiss them on the
SF News 6 Charged With Embezzling Millions From S.F. Schools Six people have been charged with a total of 205 felony counts for allegedly diverting millions of dollars in grant money from S.F. schools. The current and former San Francisco Unified School
Arts & Entertainment Video: Naked Run At UC Berkeley [NSFW] A gaggle of young adults peeled off their clothing for the semesterly Naked Run last week at UC Berkeley. Lots of jiggling breasts and male bits can be seen in this video, so:
Arts & Entertainment New Fbook Page Helps Berkeley Undergrads Identify Drunken Hookups If you haven't already heard, the kids are extra slutty these days. And yes, we're sex-positive and everything. But we'd like to point you to this fine new servicey Facebook page called UC
SF News UC Berkeley Third Most Dangerous College In America Once famous as a hotbed of dangerous political thought and fashion statements, now UC Berkeley is just plain dangerous, or so says Business Insider. The news site ranked colleges in the U.S.
