Education Issues

Rage Against The Baconator: Morford Outraged Over Burgers, Americans

Rage Against The Baconator: Morford Outraged Over Burgers, Americans

The District's Plan to Help Minority Kids Excel in School is Groundbreaking. . .to the Extent it Exists

A McDonald's You'll Actually Miss

Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation Evicts SF Booklovers' 'Institution' By Peter Jamison In a section of the Tenderloin just off Market Street and 5th, where check-cashing outfits and strip clubs give way to desolate, garbage-littered streets, is the kind of store that San Franciscans ... More >>

Night+Day

Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation Evicts SF Booklovers' 'Institution' By Peter Jamison In a section of the Tenderloin just off Market Street and 5th, where check-cashing outfits and strip clubs give way to desolate, garbage-littered streets, is the kind of store that San Franciscans ... More >>

Be Green

Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation Evicts SF Booklovers' 'Institution' By Peter Jamison In a section of the Tenderloin just off Market Street and 5th, where check-cashing outfits and strip clubs give way to desolate, garbage-littered streets, is the kind of store that San Franciscans ... More >>

Change Hasn't Come to S.F.

Blacks should look to Washington and not to City Hall for hope.

SF Weekly Letters

Blacks should look to Washington and not to City Hall for hope.

Sex Health Food for Thought

Blacks should look to Washington and not to City Hall for hope.

You're Stupid. No, You're Stupid. No YOU'RE Stupid.

Blacks should look to Washington and not to City Hall for hope.

Filling the Civic Gap

Meet Donald Fisher, the private billionaire with unprecedented sway over ordinary San Franciscans' lives

A Study in Size

Three years ago, San Francisco launched an experiment with a new kind of school. It worked. So why isn't the district pursuing it?

Separate and Unequal

Hidden in the city's special day classes, like the roots of San Francisco's segregation itself, are disproportionately high numbers of African-American and Latino kids.

Goy Gevalt

In Her Shoes is pretty but useless, a Prada with a broken heel

Dream Makers

How teachers, parents, and a young white principal have taken plans for a Dream School in the Bayview and made them a dream of their own

The Ackerman Election

The school board races focus on a superintendent's future and progressive versus downtown political infighting. Kids aren't much mentioned.

Race for Space

An unorthodox school for dropout risks is still searching for a campus, leaving students in learning limbo

The Shaman's Apprentice

Kao Saephanh says he is a typical teenager. But most 15-year-olds aren't learning how to talk to the spirit world and perform animal sacrifices

Class Struggle

New school superintendent Arlene Ackerman has fostered educational excellence -- and ignited political firestorms. Her first major initiative? A significant shift in funding, from wealthier to poorer schools, being planned behind closed doors.

See George Educate

A Texas journalist gives George W. Bush his due

Three Hours on a Saturday Morning

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Desperately Seeking Citizenship

With the advent of new federal welfare rules for elderly immigrants, S.F.'s oldest and poorest are running out of time

Cleaning Slates

Superintendent Bill Rojas is pushing a simple solution for troubled schools: Get rid of everybody.

Urban Farmer (and Dumpster Diver) Novella Carpenter to Read at Omnivore Books

Farm CityNot as idyllic as you might think.​Oakland farmer and Ghost Town Farm blogger Novella Carpenter has a book detailing what it's like to nurture a farm plot -- in an "affordable" part of downtown Oakland. Carpenter is reading from her book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, a ... More >>

List: Standardized skools

Farm CityNot as idyllic as you might think.​Oakland farmer and Ghost Town Farm blogger Novella Carpenter has a book detailing what it's like to nurture a farm plot -- in an "affordable" part of downtown Oakland. Carpenter is reading from her book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, a ... More >>

List: What S.F. students will learn from new school standards

Farm CityNot as idyllic as you might think.​Oakland farmer and Ghost Town Farm blogger Novella Carpenter has a book detailing what it's like to nurture a farm plot -- in an "affordable" part of downtown Oakland. Carpenter is reading from her book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, a ... More >>

Think You Got Gonorhhea? There's An App For That.

​Looking to ward off burning, warts, or other troubling developments down in the nether regions? Well, now there's an app for that. Thanks to the city's Department of Public Health, you can use your cell phone.   STD411 -- available for download on iPhones -- will ale ... More >>

Tony Material? Play at SF State to Dramatize University Budget Cuts

In which the cheer coach makes off with the club's money and goes to Vegas.​Any playwright or screenwriter searching for their next big idea should consider the bizarre case of the San Francisco State cheerleading coach who embezzled the team's money to go to Las Vegas. We're thinking Kirsten Duns ... More >>

The New Retro

In which the cheer coach makes off with the club's money and goes to Vegas.​Any playwright or screenwriter searching for their next big idea should consider the bizarre case of the San Francisco State cheerleading coach who embezzled the team's money to go to Las Vegas. We're thinking Kirsten Duns ... More >>

Food Trucks Slinging Healthy for Mission High

Nextcourse​Second Annual Veggie Fiesta Where: Mission High School parking lot, Dolores Street between 17th and 18th Streets When: Sat., May 14, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: Food items individually priced; a portion of food sales goes to Mission High's nutrition education program The rundown: Susta ... More >>

Schoolhouse Rocked: S.F.'s Most Controversial Charter School Throws Off For-Profit Masters

Nextcourse​Second Annual Veggie Fiesta Where: Mission High School parking lot, Dolores Street between 17th and 18th Streets When: Sat., May 14, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: Food items individually priced; a portion of food sales goes to Mission High's nutrition education program The rundown: Susta ... More >>

List: What Fewer School Buses, More Kids on Muni Means

Nextcourse​Second Annual Veggie Fiesta Where: Mission High School parking lot, Dolores Street between 17th and 18th Streets When: Sat., May 14, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: Food items individually priced; a portion of food sales goes to Mission High's nutrition education program The rundown: Susta ... More >>

Jeb Bush, Rupert Murdoch Tell San Francisco How to Educate Children

​Who better to talk education reform in left-leaning San Francisco than a populist right-wing media mogul and the brother of one of the most reviled Republican presidents in American history? That's right -- News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, brother to form ... More >>

OccupySF to Protest Jeb Bush, Rupert Murdoch in San Francisco Today

Unless, of course, that check has six zeros ​OccupySF is getting its first brush with national -- and very conservative --  figures; protesters are planning to make their way down to the Palace Hotel this afternoon where right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush w ... More >>

Everyone Loses Out When School Lunch Is Privatized

Monkey Business / ShutterstockNo, these kids don't look human to SFoodie, either.The New York Times ran a barnstormer of an opinion piece this weekend detailing how the contracting out of school lunch to management companies and food processors has affected nutrition, wages, and even standardized te ... More >>