SF News Saturday Links: Berkeley Police Arrest Man in Texas Connected to Seven East Bay Cold Cases The SF sector of the US Coast Guard is looking for the owner of a surfboard that turned up at Ocean Beach Friday; a man was killed and a woman critically injured by a teenage driver in Gilroy; and Berkeley police cracked some cold sexual assault cases, largely due to a state grant.
SF News San Jose School Apologizes After Board Trustee Sings Off-Color 1940s Song at Christmas Program At a San Jose elementary school concert, school board trustee and teacher Brian Wheatley went off-book and sang an unapproved, old-timey Christmas parody mentioning guns, which he’s reportedly sung over the years. The school principal swiftly cut him off and sent out an apology.
Arts & Entertainment Authors Visiting Bay Area to Promote Kids’ Book About Banned Books Told Not to Discuss Banned Books In an ironic twist indicative of our times, authors Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin-Pritchard were about to go on stage to discuss their new kids’ book 'The Day the Books Disappeared' at a San Ramon elementary school when they were told not to mention banned or queer books.
SF News Oakland Private School Wins Fight for Giant Expansion After Years of Neighborhood Pushback The Head-Royce School has won permission to expand their Oakland campus from 14 to 22 acres, despite their neighbors’ concern that the expansion could create additional wildfire risk.
SF News Oakland’s Chabot Elementary School Shut Down Tuesday Over Bomb Threat With ‘Racial Undertone’ A Rockridge elementary school was forced to close Tuesday after a bomb threat police described as having “a racial undertone,” the day after a prominent right-wing social media account made the inaccurate claim the school had an event that excluded white students.
SF News An Elementary School In Richmond Is Getting Named For Michelle Obama Some Black Girl Magic is applied to the West Contra Costa Unified School District, as Wilson Elementary School will be renamed for former First Lady Michelle Obama.
SF News Protest Cleared At Closed Oakland Elementary School, Two Arrested It's been seventeen days of sit-in, Occupy-style protest at Oakland's Lakeview Elementary School, where teachers and parents have been camping since mid-June to call attention to the closure of Lakeview and four other
