Subject: Educational Services Sector

• Florida Says Evolution Happened: by One Vote

  February 20, 2008

• Bob's Pickle Pops: Made From Freshly Squeezed Pickles

  March 7, 2008

• Eric Mar's students say he's easy like Sunday morning

  February 11, 2009

• The Principal Matter

  July 9, 2008

• SF Weekly Letters

  May 14, 2008

• New College Out of Money: Teachers Unpaid, Not Teaching

  February 13, 2008

• Students file class-action lawsuit against California Culinary Academy

  October 10, 2007

• Chefs' Surprise

  The California Culinary Academy calls a student assembly to respond to our June 6 expose. We sneak in and listen

  June 20, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  June 13, 2007

• Toothless Watchdog

  June 6, 2007

• Burnt Chefs

  June 6, 2007

• Been There, Done That

  December 13, 2006

• Filling the Civic Gap

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

  June 21, 2006

• Suffer the Little Muslims

  A look at the appalling discrimination against Middle Eastern students countenanced by Bay Area public schools

  August 17, 2005

• Best New Locally Produced Documentary

  Scouts' Honor by Tom Shepard

  May 23, 2001

• The Software That Wouldn't Die

  Despite promises and deadlines, the S.F. school district still hasn't driven a stake through the heart of its disastrous PeopleSoft financial program

  May 16, 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.

  January 10, 2001

• Unexcused Absence

  School leaders snub supervisors, refuse to show at parleys

  March 8, 2000

• Off the Books

  A school district administrator's extracurricular foreign recruiting prompts investigations in two countries

  February 23, 2000

• Show Them the Money

  Late reports prompt state to hold S.F. school district head's pay

  January 26, 2000

• Making Education Pay

  For consultants, the S.F. school district ATM is wide open

  September 22, 1999

• Three Hours on a Saturday Morning

  December 10, 1997

• Megan's Law Goes to Class

  Schools plan to tell parents where sex offenders live; is it caution or hysteria?

  October 29, 1997

• Unspun

  April 2, 1997

• Unspun

  March 12, 1997

• Logic Boards, Not Blackboards

  The schools' low-wire act leaves students dangling

  September 25, 1996

• Cleaning Slates

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

  July 31, 1996

• Gavin Newsom is no civil service reformer

  May 6, 2009