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 School Board Member Being Investigated and Teacher Put on Leave Amid Ongoing 'Woke Kindergarten' Dustup In East Bay In case you hadn't heard, a Bay Area school district has been the subject of some national conservative outrage over federal money that it spent on a program that is misleadingly named Woke Kindergarten.
SF News SFUSD Looks Likely to Cut 900 Jobs as District's Deficit Explodes to More Than $400 Million The good news is that SFUSD is scrapping its wildly ineffective EmPower payroll system. The bad news is that they're also likely to scrap 900 job positions too, but at least it means they probably won’t shut down any schools.
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 Stabbing at SF Middle School Comes Amid Uptick In Violence at Local Schools A child was stabbed by a fellow student at Francisco Middle School in San Francisco on Friday, and the incident comes after several weeks of similar cases of violence and threats at Bay Area schools.
SF News With Stunning $97.5 Billion Surplus, Newsom Will Spend Big to Help Beleaguered Schools Governor Gavin Newsom now has an astonishing amount of surplus money to throw around, and he’s throwing a big chunk to bail out California schools with declining enrollment and awash in red ink.
SF News California to Lift School Mask Mandate In Two Weeks; Unvaccinated People Can Go Maskless Indoors This Week The long-awaited lifting of the state's mask mandate for schoolchildren arrives in two weeks — though individual school districts may still decide to keep it in place longer.
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 News East Bay Parents Lose Their Minds Over Teacher Who Wouldn't Teach In Person, But Is Going to Mexico For 12 Days There's been another dustup in the many-months' war between Bay Area parents and their children's teachers and school districts, and this time it's about a kindergarten teacher taking a trip out of the country while she's still supposed to be teaching.
SF News Alameda County Says Middle and High Schools Can Reopen After November 9 Two weeks after it advanced to the state's "Orange" tier, Alameda County announced that middle schools and high schools may reopen on or after November 9, with restrictions.
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 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.
SF News San Francisco Air Remains At 'Unhealthy' Levels Monday Air Quality Orange/Unhealthy. Older adults, kids & ppl w/ heart/lung disease should reduce prolonged/heavy exertion. https://t.co/GkWlfyvpeB pic.twitter.com/I7lsZvZZ3l— San Francisco DEM (@SF_emergency) October 16,
SF News Teacher Arrested For Bomb Threat That Shuttered SF Preschool An arrest has been made in a series of voicemailed bomb threats to a Civic Center-area school, and it turns out that the calls were coming from (figuratively) inside the house. You likely
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Are There Any Notable Rivalries Between SF Schools? Dear Rain, I already know about SF's rivalry with LA, but what about intra-city conflict? Are there schools or neighborhoods that hate each other that newcomers should be aware of? I just moved
SF News SF Unified School District Mass-Voicemail Assures Parents It Will Protect Immigrant Students "We are committed to providing a safe space for learning for each and every one of our students including recent immigrants regardless of immigration status," sounded a voicemail message intended to reassure parents
SF News SF School District Robo Dials Parents To Address 'Clown Rumors' #CreepyClown seen walking around in #Richmond. More photos: https://t.co/L3ROCJKEbU pic.twitter.com/PKV4RGBHDx— Emily Kirschenheuter (@ekirschenheuter) October 7, 2016 As the rumor of "creepy clowns" has parents and the media
SF News Lead-Contaminated Water At Healdsburg Elementary Alarms Parents Toxic levels of lead have contaminated the water at Healdsburg Elementary School since at least November, a fact which school officials are just now making public. The water, with contamination levels reportedly 59
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What High School Did You Go To? Dear Rain, Where did you go to high school?? Most important question to be asked from one native to the other! Signed, Another Native Dear AN, This is probably a question that only
SF News Recology Intentionally Told Schools To Trash Millions Of Recyclable Trays Recology instructed San Francisco school officials to not recycle the recyclable plastic trays the district uses daily to serve students food. So reports the Chronicle, which details the policies of the city-contracted waste
SF News Bay Area English Teacher Says Teen Students Fabricated Tales Of 'Lewd Acts' A 33-year-old English teacher at an East Palo Alto high school has pled not guilty to charges of committing lewd acts on minors, saying that the students who claim they were intimate with
SF News Snapping Squirrel Injures Two During Marin School Rampage Doomsayers have been known to argue that one of the signs that the end times are near is when the animals rise up against us, attacking with fearsome tooth and claw. If you
SF News Middle School's Bikes Stolen For Second Time And Local Businesses Step Up To Replace Them Middle school is hard enough as it is, but that teeming cauldron of hormones and insecurity got a little harder over the Thanksgiving holiday for the students of Visitacion Valley Middle School after
SF News Housing Prices Plus Teacher Shortage Equals Bigger Teacher Shortage When San Francisco public schools open two weeks from Monday, will there be enough teachers for our students? KRON 4 is asking, prompted by the news that there are 51 open positions even
