Subject: Lowell High School

• Pro-Circumcision AIDS Researcher Left S.F. a Pariah, Came Back a Visionary

  February 22, 2008

• Last Night: John Wayne Memorial Water Balloon Fight

  June 12, 2008

• Blowing Smoke, Breathing Fire (Part II)

  January 31, 1996

• Police Need Your Help Tracking Down Missing, Possibly Suicidal Young Man

  Lawrence ThangUPDATE, Wednesday April 1: Police report that Thang has been located. He is safe and in the care of a relative. The San Francisco Police Department is hoping you can help locate Lawrence Thang, a 19-year-old autistic man last seen Monday -- after threatening suicide. He is 5-foot-5 and 110 pounds. He does not make eye contact and tends to walk with his arms covering his face. He has previously been found at the Lowell High School basketball courts or the vicinity of Bayshore Boulev

  March 31, 2009

• JROTC under fire in S.F. schools

  April 8, 2009

• 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?

  May 3, 2006

• Space, the Final Frontier

  March 22, 2006

• Capital Rap

  From revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again -- the long, strange trip of Paris, aka Oscar Jackson Jr.

  December 3, 2003

• 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

• Cothran

  January 13, 1999

• The Kerouac Obsession

  July 29, 1998

• Chalk Fight

  Teachers' union grand dame Joan Marie Shelley is forced into the campaign of her career by a formerly loyal lieutenant

  May 21, 1997

• Un-Welcome to Mr. Roberts' Neighborhood

  The Chans were set to build a nice, simple home on their own property. Then Chronicle honcho Jerry Roberts and his relentless wife moved next door. Suddenly, everything became very complicated and very nasty.

  April 9, 1997

• Bus to Nowhere

  Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help

  April 2, 1997

• Slap Shots

  November 13, 1996

• They Might Be Giants

  November 15, 1995

• JROTC Is Saved. Its Instructors Are Not.

  JROTC students may have gone home whooping about the 4-3 school board vote last night that reinstated the program, but today the JROTC instructors are doing anything but. That's because although the program will go forward next year, the board also voted to lay off its instructors. District officials say it was a formality in the event some schools don't have enough students to enroll in the program for next year. By law, any employee who isn't laid off by May 15 must be paid for the entire foll

  May 13, 2009

• San Francisco 49ers New On-Field Leader: Department of Public Works Street-Steamer

  Tom TracySteve Mahoney has Niners fandom in his blood (as well as ink)​With hopes high that the San Francisco 49ers can, once again, provide as much or more entertainment as the Piccolo Pete's sandwich and clandestine booze fans smuggle into Candlestick Park, the jury is out on who will be the team's on-field leader. Will it be blue-collar underdog slinger Shaun Hill? Or tarnished golden boy Alex Smith, looking for that last shot at redemption? Actually -- no. The team's on-field leader will b

  July 30, 2009