SF News Day Around the Bay: Golden Gate Bridge Tolls to Increase By 50 Cents July 1 California State Parks made its “Historian Passport” featuring 30+ parks available for free for a limited time; Apple prices are due to increase soon; and Golden Gate Bridge tolls are going up by 50 cents starting next month.
Arts & Entertainment SCRAP Creative Reuse Center Buys Building In SF’s Bayview Twice the Size of Old Space Beloved SF art center SCRAP is nearly doubling in size with the purchase of its own 26,000-square-foot building in the Bayview District not far from its current location, and the transition will take place in phases over the summer.
SF News DOJ Opens Inquiry Into Gender and Sex Ed Policies at SFUSD, Three Other Districts Ahead of Maria Su’s DC Visit As SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su prepares to give testimony in Washington DC Wednesday, the DOJ announced it’s performing a compliance review into policies surrounding gender and sexuality at SF public schools along with three other California school districts.
SF News Congress to Grill SFUSD’s Maria Su, Two Others on Parental Rights ‘Abuses’ In Schools All eyes will be on SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su and two other school figures from Chicago and Virginia who are set to speak before a GOP-led committee in DC this week on “inappropriate content” and “legal abuses” in public schools.
SF News Recent Workshop For Educators on ‘Adult Supremacy’ In Classrooms Sparks Backlash A local nonprofit rented an SFUSD high school for an ethnic studies conference for educators, featuring a workshop about “adultism” and power dynamics in the classroom, which has drawn predictable criticism, largely due to the mistaken belief that city funds paid for it.
Arts & Entertainment All SFUSD Educators to Receive $250 From Anonymous SF Tech Donor Educators at San Francisco Unified School District will each be receiving a $250 gift card from an anonymous local benefactor who wanted to convey to local teachers how much they’re appreciated.
SF News SFUSD Schoolkids Getting Five Extra Days of Class in June to Make Up for Strike Kids missed a few days of instruction in last month's SFUSD teachers’ strike, but they’re going to make it up, because the school district submitted plans to extend the school year to June 10 instead of June 3.
SF News Saturday Links: Video Shows Lurie's Bodyguard Shoved Suspect First During Incident Thursday Video footage shows Mayor Lurie's security guard becoming aggressive first; Olympic skier and gold medalist Eileen Gu will be the grand marshal of SF’s Chinese New Year parade; and only one in 10 US residents like daylight saving time.
SF News Lowell High School Teacher on Leave After Giving Students Quizzes Demeaning Girls, ‘Fat Kids’ A math teacher who’s been at SF’s top public high school for 20 years went on leave after giving students quizzes that demeaned girls and “fat kids,” and some parents are unhappy he posted “Grades vs. Dignity” videos on YouTube of students dancing in exchange for extra credit.
SF News Saturday Links: Two Skiers Die in Separate Incidents at Lake Tahoe’s Heavenly Resort SFUSD is expected to announce preliminary layoffs for 42 employees; a celebration of life for Betty Reid Soskin, who died in December at 104, is set to take place in Oakland March 1; and two skiers died in separate incidents at Heavenly Resort in Lake Tahoe Friday.
SF News Still No Deal as SF Teachers' Strike Enters Fourth Day Negotiations went later than they have typically been going on Wednesday night as a deal between the SF Unified School District and the teachers' union remains elusive. And now kids may not be returning to the classroom until next Wednesday, with a long weekend ahead.
SF News District Blames SF Teachers' Union For Leaving the Bargaining Table Early Tuesday Night There is plenty of finger-pointing going on with the SF teachers' strike, but what seems clear is that the union may be sensing their upper hand at this point, and a resolution before Thursday seems unlikely.
SF News SF Teachers’ Strike Is Part of Statewide Campaign Helping 32 Districts Negotiate Contracts San Francisco public school educators made national headlines Tuesday as they announced plans to bring a human banner to Ocean Beach the following day, with talks between union and district representatives slowly progressing and other unions across the state considering similar action.
SF News Striking SF Teachers Rally In Dolores Park as Tensions Mount Over Deal Frustrated parents of SF schoolkids are speaking out in the media, and union reps are keeping up a brave face as a potential third day of the San Francisco teachers' strike looms.
SF News San Francisco Schools Will Remain Closed Tuesday as Strike Negotiations Continue After a rally in Civic Center, and as negotiations continued between reps for the SF Unified School District and the United Educators of San Francisco, the district announced that schools would remain closed a second day on Tuesday.
SF News SF Public School Teachers on Strike Monday, More Negotiations Planned for Noon San Francisco Unified School District officials announced Sunday evening that teachers will go on strike Monday after their demands weren't met and city leaders unsuccessfully pleaded for a 72-hour pause, with negotiations starting back up at noon on Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFUSD Cancels Monday Classes in Anticipation of Teachers' Strike Newsom told Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill “Go f- yourself” this week; Kid Rock is headlining Turning Point USA’s alternative Super Bowl halftime show; and the San Francisco Unified School District cancelled classes Monday, as a deal has yet to be made.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Teachers' Union Says There's Still No Deal The SF teachers' union and the school district failed to reach a deal Thursday night; rain may be coming back to the Bay next week; and Trump posted an extremely racist video of the Obamas appearing as apes in a jungle on social media, then removed it.
SF News SF Teachers Union Announces Strike for Monday, But 11th-Hour Bargaining Continues Following two strike votes and the release of a fact-finding report, the San Francisco teachers' union says it will begin its first labor strike in almost 50 years on Monday.
SF News San Francisco Teachers Could, Maybe, Go On Strike Next Week If teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District go on strike next week, amid an impasse with the district over a new contract, it will be the first time in 47 years that this has happened — which, one could say, suggests a resolution to the impasse is still likely to come.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike Teachers went on strike today in the West Contra Costa school district; SF Unified teachers have taken a vote to authorize a strike, but this may not be imminent; and a car crashed into a doggy day care in Alameda.
SF News Saturday Links: Father Dies, 5-Year-Old Missing After Being Swept Away by Large Waves in Big Sur Researchers are skeptical that Anthropic’s recent cyberattack was 90% autonomous; a San Jose teacher was mistakenly flagged as a convict in a background check; and a father has died and his 5-year-old daughter is missing after being swept away in Big Sur.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teddy Bear Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o Tells Kids How to Find Knives, Pills California Governor Gavin Newsom is sounding very biblical these days; Trump is reversing tariffs on coffee, avocados, and several other food products; and a consumer advocacy group warns parents about the dangers of toys that use AI chatbots.
SF News SFUSD to Open New Mission Bay Elementary School Next Year, Despite Declining Enrollment Wait, weren’t we just trying to close some SF schools? We were, but the SF Unified School District is still opening another elementary school this fall in the burgeoning Mission Bay neighborhood.
SF News Saturday Links: State Bill Would Relax Height Limits Within Half-Mile of Transit Hubs About 100 people gathered to protest the detainment of a 73-year-old grandmother Friday night; SFUSD said it will fill its vacant school crossing guard roles by the end of the year; and a new bill would allow for apartment buildings up to nine stories adjacent to transit stations.
