SF News Sunday Links: SFUSD Partially Ends Teacher Hiring Freeze, Launches 2025–26 Recruitment Musk's SpaceX site in Texas is now called the city of Starbase, which is already making moves to restrict public access to local beaches; Black Oakland business owners rally to support restaurant Pierre Pierre following a shooting there on Friday; and SFUSD has partially lifted its hiring freeze.
SF News Oakland Teens Push School District To Act On Lead In Drinking Water Four Oakland high school students are demanding action on lead-contaminated drinking water in schools, saying it threatens the health and futures of thousands of youths. Their call echoes the lead crisis in SF’s Bayview-Hunters Point and the Mission.
SF News Saturday Links: Arson and Vandalism Abound At Tesla Sites Nationwide And In France Seven Telsa charging stations in Boston and a Tesla dealership in France were set on fire; sources say the Trump administration has been falsely flagging the business expenses of USAID and EPA employees as "fraud;" and Walgreens has been acquired by a private equity firm.
SF News California Legislature Passes Bill to Ban or Limit Cellphone Use in Schools California will likely soon become the fifth state in the nation to ban students from using smartphones in schools, though the full ban likely would not go into effect until the 2026-27 school year.
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 A Few NorCal School Districts Are Now Just Flat-Out Defying the Mask Mandate Kids walked out of class in one school district near Sacramento to protest the mask mandate, while other districts are just refusing to enforce mask-wearing, as tension grows over California dropping mask mandates in general — but not for schools.
SF Politics Newsom Appears to Backtrack on Hardline Mask Guidance for Schools, State Will Leave Rules Up to Districts After announcing guidance for California public schools on Monday that had been leaked out on Friday, and facing backlash from critics of Governor Newsom's pandemic response in general, the state's public health department is backtracking a bit.
SF Politics California’s Largest-Ever $15 Billion School Bond Ballot Measure, Explained There’s only one state ballot measure on the usually-crowded March 3 election slate, so let’s school ourselves up on what the $15 billion school construction bond proposes to do.
Arts & Entertainment <i>This American Life</i> Highlights SF After-School Program That Put On A Children's Musical About Gentrification The theme of this week's episode of NPR's This American Life, which premieres Friday, is "The Poetry of Propaganda," and one of the stories centers on a unique after-school program in San Francisco
SF News History is So Gay: LGBT Americans to Be Added to CA Textbooks The future school kids of California will soon learn the valuable contributions to history by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by reading about them in their textbooks. Yesterday, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Schools Still Need Better Food Although the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is being served up a Balboa High, San Francisco public schools still serve junk to kids. It's a big problem. Of what little money goes to
SF News Day Around the Bay Bay Area men all "rich, metrosexual brainiacs"? What about all the poor bartenders, and the 25% who are gay? (NBC Bay Area) Free couch. (Sex Pigeon) 4-alarm brush fire raging in Vallejo. (ABC
