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Education Standards

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    June 1, 2011

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

    ​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 >>

  • News

    August 18, 2010

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

    ​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 >>

  • News

    March 17, 2010

    List: Standardized skools

    ​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 >>

  • News

    November 12, 2008

    Change Hasn't Come to S.F.

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

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2008

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

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

  • News

    May 3, 2006

    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?

  • News

    January 25, 2006

    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.

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    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

  • News

    October 27, 2004

    The Ackerman Election

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

  • News

    January 10, 2001

    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.

  • News

    March 1, 2000

    See George Educate

    A Texas journalist gives George W. Bush his due

  • News

    December 10, 1997

    Three Hours on a Saturday Morning

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

  • News

    July 31, 1996

    Cleaning Slates

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

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