SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Round of Lowell High Admissions Drama is Brewing The guy who put up the “Free fentanyl” sign outside a school has been sent to jail, the downtown Target had to be evacuated because of a pepper spray incident, and SFUSD is contemplating another round of sure-to-be contentious changes to Lowell High School admissions policies.
SF News Lowell Teachers Pulled Mass Sickout Wednesday Over Still-Ongoing Payroll Fiasco As many as 90% of Lowell High School teachers, and perhaps a third of the student body, staged a sickout Wednesday over the still-faulty payroll system that is ironically called “EMPower.”
SF News Post-Recall School Board Reinstates Lowell High’s Merit-Based Admissions You can call it “selective admissions” or you can call it “segregation,” but the school board voted 4-3 to reinstate merit-based admissions at Lowell, with all four Yes votes being London Breed appointees.
SF Politics Lowell High Principal Suddenly Quits, as Post-Recall Drama Continues to Rock SFUSD Who ya gonna blame now, recall people? The principal of SF's prestigious Lowell High suddenly up and quit Wednesday, with carefully chosen words that indicate he’s pissed about the payroll problems.
SF Politics More School Board Drama Looming, as Lowell High Sticks to Lottery-Based Admissions Another Year The SFUSD superintendent says there’s not enough time to implement a court order to re-vote on admissions changes at Lowell. That’s likely to further infuriate the alumni groups that sued the district to win that court order.
SF News SF's Lowell High School Could Potentially Return to Merit-Based Admissions Following Judge's Ruling A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled against the San Francisco Board of Education Thursday, dealing another blow to the embattled school board that can hardly afford the attorneys fees it's incurred.
SF News Lowell High Alums Take More Legal Action To Undo Lottery Admissions After already suing the district over changes to Lowell’s merit-based admissions system, a group of Lowell High alumni are seeking a court injunction against attempts to diversify the prestigious high school’s student body.
SF News Lowell High Rocked By Yet Another Wildly Racist Incident, This Time In an Online Class SFUSD is blaming hackers, but Black Lowell students believe it was their fellow students, as an online anti-racism class erupts in n-words and pornography.
misc Ranking Bay Area High Schools So Newsweek's come out with its rankings of "the top public high schools in the country," and the Bay Area has 9 10 schools in the top 300: Magnet school Lowell High in
SF News So You Think You Can Dance (Gavin) Well, look who's in imminent danger of violating the curfew for the kids under 13! Here's a picture of Gavin Newsom cutting a rug at District 4 candidate Doug Chan's kickoff event, first
SF News School Daze You know, we're kind of getting into the week-long series that the Chron's doing on the San Francisco school system. It's a comprehensive look at all the various factors affecting the perception of
Arts & Entertainment The Daily Cho "Everyone who comes to a Margaret Cho show is either gay or Asian," one of our companions said as we fought our way into Symphony Hall on Friday night among the oceans of
