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
SF News Bizarre Vandal Caught On Tape At Mission District School Why vandalize a school? And if you're going to vandalize a school, why have your vandalism take the form of theft of some worthless light bulb covers? That's what officials at the Children's
SF News SF, Oakland, And Marin Public Schools To Close Because Of Predicted Rainpocalypse Because of the biblical rain* predicted for tonight and tomorrow, the public school districts of San Francisco, Oakland, and Marin have all cancelled classes for Thursday. Is this just what happens when it
SF News Headmaster Of Highbrow Marin School Busted With Meth, Coke, Heroin, And 21-Year-Old Parents pay $39,475 for their children to be educated at The Branson School, a tony private high school in Marin County that's produced such notables as Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Olympic Gold Medalist
SF News Jose Ortega Elementary School Evacuated Over 'Possible Threat' [Updated] According to an alert sent to media by the San Francisco Police Department, San Francisco's Jose Ortega Elementary School was evacuated on Monday morning for over two hours, as police searched for a
SF News Suspicious Backpack Prompts Evacuations At Stanford [Updated] UPDATE: Police have determined said backpack to be harmless. Whew. Back to class, kids. Police have determined there is no threat to campus. Buildings will slowly be reopened. Please respect police perimeter in
SF News Stanford Tries To Burn Michigan State With Snapchat Logo At Rose Bowl The notoriously loopy Stanford marching band created a stir at yesterday's Rose Bowl game after (incorrectly) forming the Snapchat ghost during halftime. Why? Well, company founders, Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy, created the
SF News Safe Passage, Group That Helps 4,000 Kids Get Home Safely In The Tenderloin, Needs Volunteer Oh hey, remember how happy you were cheering along Batkid on Friday? Want to feel that feeling EVERY DAY? Safe Passage, a group that helps 4,000 unaccompanied kids walk home from school
SF News More Details About Nevada School Shooting: Semiautomatic Weapon Involved, Teacher Praised for Heroism Very little is yet known about the 12-year-old student responsible for yesterday's tragic shooting at Sparks Middle School, just outside Reno, but today we learn that he brought a semiautomic weapon to school
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This: Spark's Sugar Rush Fundraiser We here at SFist are always on the lookout for ways to stuff out faces with treats, especially if it's guilt-free and for a good cause. Enter the 6th annual Sugar Rush, a
SF News Loaded Tech Guy Does Nice Thing For S.F. Schools Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff announced today that his company will donate $2.7 million to "the most important resource in San Francisco" â middle school kids. The donation will help bring the math
SF News UC Berkeley Campus Evacuated After Explosion [Updated] UC Berkeley is being evacuated after an underground fire. pic.twitter.com/XDeuSiI52Kâ Joe Vazquez (@joenewsman) October 1, 2013 A power outage at UC Berkeley prefaced a major explosion on Monday night, resulting
SF News Trans Male Teenager Prevails Over California School District, Will Be Treated As Male A California school district has been ordered by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education to treat a trans male ninth grader as male, despite his being born female. The teenager, who
SF News City College's Accreditation Has Been Revoked The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges released news todays that City College of San Francisco's accreditation has been revoked, saying it does not meet program criteria and no longer has "quality
SF News Trial Begins In Richmond High School Gang Rape Nearly four years after a 16-year-old girl was beaten, robbed and raped for over two hours outside of her Richmond High School homecoming dance, a rare dual trial will begin today for two
SF News Teacher Accused Of Molesting Students Had 'Cutest Girl List' Alvarado Elementary School third-grade teacher Michael Howey, accused to molesting young children, allegedly isolated his third-grade female students at recess to gve them "long hugs," rub their bellies, and "kiss them on the
SF News 6 Charged With Embezzling Millions From S.F. Schools Six people have been charged with a total of 205 felony counts for allegedly diverting millions of dollars in grant money from S.F. schools. The current and former San Francisco Unified School
SF News Sunnyvale Schools On Lockdown After Gunman Spotted [Updated] UPDATE: Search has shut down. According to NBC Bay Area: "New info indicates gunman was fabricated. Police said the student who made the inital report recanted his story. They would not say if
SF News Gunman Prompts Hayward Middle School Lockdown King Middle School was put on lockdown this morning after a gold-chain robbery suspect was allegedly seen with a gun near the school. "About 10:20 a.m., officers were called to an
SF News Second Petition Effort to Repeal Gay History Law Fails The California law requiring public schools to acknowledge the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in history lessons will live on without challenge another few years. A petition drive to get
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: How Many Bake Sales Does It Take To Run S.F. Public Schools? By D. Hanousek Whether it's raffle tickets, silent auction items, gala tickets, or school carnivals, it seems that the San Francisco public school system runs on practically nothing but the blood, sweat, and
SF News Oakland School On Lockdown After Gunman Opens Fire Roosevelt Middle School (1926 East 19th Street) is on lockdown after somebody nearby carrying several guns fired shots at around 10:30 today. "The incident began about 10:30 a.m. in the
SF News Oakland Elementary School On Lockdown [Updated] Maxwell Park Elementary (4730 Fleming) in Oakland is on lockdown, with students being evacuated, after a neighbor reported seeing a man with a shotgun roaming around the area. No reports of any injuries
Arts & Entertainment Jeremy Lin, James Franco: Palo Alto High Boasts Impressive Alumni Jeremy Lin, now a member of the New York Knicks, played on the 2006 Palo Alto High School basketball team before attending Harvard. While at Palo Alto HS, he helped his team win
SF News City College Perv Videos, Then Assaults Man In Locker Room An apparent amateur porn stylist turned into an assault suspect in the men's locker room at CCSF last weekend. Police are looking for a guy who was allegedly attempting to take video of
