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 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 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 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
misc Freaks and Geeks -- So Chic Hey, no one told us that Gavin was giving a State of the City address last night! We totally would have gone! It was all blah blah blah, Tony Hall, blah blah beautification,
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
SF News When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be a Stripper Ahh, career day. There's nothing quite as inspirational as inspirational speakers coming into school to tell you how if you work hard, you too could become a lawyer or a doctor or a
