SF News First Cohort of Lowell High ‘Lottery Kids’ Just Graduated, and They Did Pretty Well Academically SF's Lowell High School has already reversed its short-lived lottery admission policy, but the first graduating class from that era just graduated, with grades that were more or less close to the "merit-based" admissions students.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Lowell High Admissions Demographics Once Again Disproportionate A gunshot victim died in Oakland Saturday afternoon; the Chronicle alerts us to dogs overdosing on fentanyl; and the incoming class at Lowell High School is once again disproportionately white and Asian.
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 Hundreds of SF High School Students Stage Walkout In Protest of Israel's Bombing of Gaza An unknown number of high school students in the San Francisco Unified School District are staging a walkout today in protest of the violence in the Middle East, and saying they demand a ceasefire.
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 News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF School Board Likely to Extend Lottery Admissions at Lowell Another Year The SF school board is having a special meeting to debate extending lottery admissions at Lowell High, bus drivers for the VTA say they're being targeted for attack, and former San Jose Mayor Norman Mineta will be laid to rest today.
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 Incoming Lowell High School Class to Better Reflect San Francisco's Diversity With More Black and Latinx Students The San Francisco Unified School District has released some numbers on the incoming ninth grade class at Lowell High School, now that the school will no longer have merit-based admissions but will operate on a lottery system.
SF News SF School Board Votes to Permanently End Merit-Based Admissions at Lowell High, Citing Equity San Francisco stepped into a larger national debate about merit-based admissions to public schools late last year when a fight erupted over a proposal to temporarily suspend a merit-based policy the city's elite Lowell High School, and now the change has been made permanent.
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.
SF News SF School Board Members Suggest Racism Is at Play In Blowup Over Lottery Admissions for Lowell High A virtual school board committee meeting erupted into chaos Tuesday evening with passionate — and arguably racist — public comments reacting to a recent announcement about a proposed one-year shift away from merit-based admissions at SF's elite Lowell High School.
Arts & Entertainment Laughable Local Teens Pull Penis Prank An unknown teen (or worse: a group of teens!) from San Francisco's Lowell High School is thought to be responsible for a prank flyer announcing "mandatory penis inspections on all male students, faculty
SF News Lowell HS Students Counter Protest Westboro Church While the mentally-disturbed and soul-free members of the Westboro Church protested several San Francisco hot spots on Thursday, the students at Lowell High School beat them at their own game. And how. SFist
