SF News Gov. Brown Wants to Cut $1 Billion From California Welfare On Thursday, Monsieur Moonbeam prosed slashing a jarring "$1.4 billion in welfare and child care aid for the destitute "while holding voters liable for $5 billion in education funding with a November
SF News Alhambra High School in Martinez Placed on Lockdown for "Safety Search" Martinez police placed Alhambra High School in Martinez on lockdown to conduct a "safety search" around 11 a.m. this morning according to local news site Claycord.com. School officials later reported the
SF News District Attorney's Office Launches Anti-Truancy Program Police chief-turned-District Attorney Gascón hasn't done a whole lot worth mentioning since our dreamy former Mayor put him in the DA's office. (Actually, up until this point, it's what he hasn't done that
SF News In Bernal Heights, Angry Parents Rally Against Unjust Grade School Conditions Add another demonstration to the list of unhappy mobs around town: down in the quiet hillside hamlet of Bernal Heights, some twenty parents of children at the Paul Revere School gathered at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard Lunch Box By Joe Payne Dutiful lunch hour wage earners lined up on Wednesday with the hopes of getting a free Chez Panisee-crafted lunch. If you recall, the fresh food philosophy maven took over Maiden
SF News Bay Area Schools Considering Less Homework, More Coddling of Stressed Out Kids School districts around the Bay Area are mulling changes to their policies regarding homework assigned to students, because new evidence is emerging that we're raising a generation of over-stressed over-achievers who can't sleep.
SF News Ca. Schools Must Teach Gay History, Says Jerry Brown California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation today that would require state schools in include gay history in the curriculum. "The legislation, authored by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, was approved in the Legislature
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 News Another UC Berkeley Sexual Assault UC Berkeley police are asking the public to help catch that man they think responsible for a series of robberies and sexual assaults. The latest incident occurred Friday morning. "Police say it happened
SF News Kids on Bikes Take Over the Streets Today Be extra careful out there today, folks! It's the 3rd Annual Bike to School Day, in which approximately 3,000 students at more than 40 schools throughout town will be pedaling to school
SF News David Lynch Helps S.F. Schools Meditate KALW reports on Visitacion Valley Middle School's implementation of the innovative Quiet Time program, which sets aside fifteen minutes at the beginning and end of each school day for students to meditate. All
SF News One-Hundred-Year-Old Time Capsule Delights Cleveland Elementary School Students A100-year-old time capsule was opened yesterday at Cleveland Elementary School, much to the delight of current and former students and faculty. The time capsule, which was in the form of a copper box,
SF News California Schools Get a C Grade In a national survey released yesterday, schools in California received an overall grade of a 76.2 out of 100, putting the quality of education in the Golden State just below the national
SF News Presidio Middle Schoolers Get Free iPads Students in one algebra class at Presidio Middle School got lucky enough to be chosen for a pilot program by Houghton Harcourt Mifflin publishing in which they get a free iPad with a
SF News Morgan Hill: The New Breeding Ground for Racist Teen Tea Party-ers Five teenage boys showed up at school yesterday at Live Oaks High in Morgan Hill wearing American flag t-shirts in order to express their "patriotism" on Cinco de Mayo. The school principal called
SF News Parents Picket Outside Oakland School In Teacher Protest Parents picketed outside Lazear Elementary School in Oakland yesterday over an allegedly unfit teacher. Parents claim the teacher in question "took a smoking break during class, leaving his students unattended; that he locked
SF News Student Group to Rally for Marijuana Legalization, Say University Police Make Arrests for Medicinal Use As efforts to legalize marijuana for recreational use are underway in Sacramento and possibly on the ballot, a large gathering of student activists from across the country will convene in SF this weekend.
SF News Massive School Walkouts & Rallies Planned for Thursday Billed as a Day of Statewide Action for Public Education, public education students, workers and supporters from Pre-K through PhD are expected to protest the glaring lack of funding aimed at California public
SF News Obama to School Kids: "Be Careful What You Post on Facebook" In that *super controversial* address to school children that had conservatives nationwide saying he would turn our kids into an army of health-care-reform-endorsing zombies, President Barack Obama today advised kids to "be careful
SF News Abstinence-Only Group Battles Department of Education Over Sonoma County Schools CBS5 reports that despite the California Department of Education's strict laws that sex education programs be medically accurate and objective, abstinence-only group Free to Be has been teaching their scientifically-inaccurate curriculum in Sonoma
SF News Elementary School Teacher Accidentally Sends Sex Tape Home with Students Twenty-four Isabelle Jackson Elementary School students in Elk Grove, near Sacramento, went home on the last day of school last Friday with a DVD that was supposed to contain a year in review
SF News Alameda Schools Approve Curriculum on Gay Tolerance Parents of students in the Alameda School District are split down the middle regarding the district's decision to proceed with a new set of classes aimed at curbing anti-gay bullying. Starting next year,
SF News Sixth Grader's Project About Harvey Milk Censored by School Embedded video from CNN Video Natalie Jones, a sixth-grader in Ramona, California, created a Powerpoint presentation about Harvey Milk's life and activism, for which she received a near-perfect score. The day before the
SF News Abusive Teen Slaps 60-Year-Old, Spits in Face, on J Church Muni Diaries just came out with this appalling account via the Noe Valley Voice about Noe Valley resident R. La Rose's encounter with an abusive teen on the J Church on the morning
SF News School Board Votes to Keep JROTC In SF Schools After a weary battle to permanently remove Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) from San Francisco schools, the school board voted 4-3 Tuesday night to reinstate the program. If you recall, the army
