Educational Services Sector

California Culinary Academy Settles Lawsuit With Students for Millions

California Culinary Academy: SF Weekly Exposé Spawns $40 Million Settlement

Some students are getting their money back.​In 2007, SF Weekly investigative reporter Eliza Strickland ran a blockbuster story, demonstrating how the California Culinary Academy urged students to take on tens of thousands of dollars in government loans to pay for what many graduates considered sub ... More >>

Gavin Newsom is no civil service reformer

Some students are getting their money back.​In 2007, SF Weekly investigative reporter Eliza Strickland ran a blockbuster story, demonstrating how the California Culinary Academy urged students to take on tens of thousands of dollars in government loans to pay for what many graduates considered sub ... More >>

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

Some students are getting their money back.​In 2007, SF Weekly investigative reporter Eliza Strickland ran a blockbuster story, demonstrating how the California Culinary Academy urged students to take on tens of thousands of dollars in government loans to pay for what many graduates considered sub ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Some students are getting their money back.​In 2007, SF Weekly investigative reporter Eliza Strickland ran a blockbuster story, demonstrating how the California Culinary Academy urged students to take on tens of thousands of dollars in government loans to pay for what many graduates considered sub ... More >>

Bob's Pickle Pops: Made From Freshly Squeezed Pickles

Some students are getting their money back.​In 2007, SF Weekly investigative reporter Eliza Strickland ran a blockbuster story, demonstrating how the California Culinary Academy urged students to take on tens of thousands of dollars in government loans to pay for what many graduates considered sub ... More >>

Florida Says Evolution Happened: by One Vote

Some students are getting their money back.​In 2007, SF Weekly investigative reporter Eliza Strickland ran a blockbuster story, demonstrating how the California Culinary Academy urged students to take on tens of thousands of dollars in government loans to pay for what many graduates considered sub ... More >>

New College Out of Money: Teachers Unpaid, Not Teaching

Some students are getting their money back.​In 2007, SF Weekly investigative reporter Eliza Strickland ran a blockbuster story, demonstrating how the California Culinary Academy urged students to take on tens of thousands of dollars in government loans to pay for what many graduates considered sub ... More >>

Students file class-action lawsuit against California Culinary Academy

Some students are getting their money back.​In 2007, SF Weekly investigative reporter Eliza Strickland ran a blockbuster story, demonstrating how the California Culinary Academy urged students to take on tens of thousands of dollars in government loans to pay for what many graduates considered sub ... More >>

Chefs' Surprise

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

Letters to the Editor

Week of 6-13-2007

Toothless Watchdog

Week of 6-13-2007

Burnt Chefs

Former admissions representatives at CCA say they preyed on students’ dreams of becoming celebrity chefs and glossed over the painful economic realities of the industry

Been There, Done That

Former admissions representatives at CCA say they preyed on students’ dreams of becoming celebrity chefs and glossed over the painful economic realities of the industry

Filling the Civic Gap

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

Suffer the Little Muslims

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

Best New Locally Produced Documentary

Scouts' Honor by Tom Shepard

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

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.

Unexcused Absence

School leaders snub supervisors, refuse to show at parleys

Off the Books

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

Show Them the Money

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

Making Education Pay

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

Three Hours on a Saturday Morning

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

Megan's Law Goes to Class

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

Unspun

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

Unspun

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

Logic Boards, Not Blackboards

The schools' low-wire act leaves students dangling

Cleaning Slates

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