May 18, 2013

Edition: U.S.

San Francisco Unified School District

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San Francisco Students Playing Hooky For Giants Parade Cost Schools Nearly $160,000

Posted 01.05.2013 | Home

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San Francisco schools are paying a hefty price for last week's Giants World Series parade. Among the tens of thousands who showed up to honor the W...

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Parents And Teachers Protest Administrator Bullying, Teacher Dismissals At San Francisco Middle School

Posted 09.12.2012 | Home

A group of about 30 parents and teachers organized by the United Educators of San Francisco teachers union gathered outside Martin Luther King Jr. Aca...

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Is This The Most Important Person In Town?

HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 09.13.2012 | San Francisco

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Who: Richard Carranza, Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District. Years in SF: Four. Neighborhood: Ingleside Terrace. Curre...

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Bold Leaders for Our Public Schools

Martin J. Blank | Posted 09.23.2012 | Home

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Richard Carranza, Jan Christensen and John Porter are just a few of the many bold superintendents who are changing children's lives by bringing together the entire community to help their student succeed.

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SF Teacher Layoffs (Partially) Averted

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 06.04.2012 | San Francisco

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SAN FRANCISCO -- In an effort to reach out to teachers in the midst of a contentious round of contract negotiations, officials at San Francisco Unifie...

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San Francisco Teachers Approve Upcoming Strike By Overwhelming Majority

Robin Wilkey | Posted 05.11.2012 | San Francisco

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San Francisco teachers voted to approve a strike by 97 percent at a United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) General Membership meeting on Thursday ni...

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Suspensions At Sunset District High School Spark Fiery Free Speech Battle

| Posted 04.12.2012 | San Francisco

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Corey G. Johnson Civil rights groups recently intervened in a free-speech controversy ...

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Why Were Certain San Francisco Teachers Shielded From Mass Layoffs?

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 05.14.2012 | San Francisco

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SAN FRANCISCO--Dozens of teachers, students and administrators flooded Tuesday night's Board of Education meeting to protest the flood of pink slips i...

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San Francisco School Board Approves Hundreds Of Teacher Layoffs

Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.29.2012 | San Francisco

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In a vote held on Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Education approved layoffs for 485 teachers, administrators and other staff members employed by ...

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School Bus Driver To Stand Trial For Molesting Special Needs Students

Aaron Sankin | Posted 01.06.2012 | San Francisco

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A school bus driver is sitting in jail Friday awaiting trail on charges of molesting two 11-year old, female, special-needs students. Long-time San...

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No Vaccine? Don't Come To School

AP | By MARCUS WOHLSEN and SHEILA V KUMAR | Posted 11.17.2011 | Home

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Some California schools are turning away middle and high school students who have not received a required whooping cough vaccine whil...

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San Francisco Joins Other California Districts In Suffering Massive Education Funding Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.19.2011 | San Francisco

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Almost a month after its passage, school districts across California are still trying to make sense of -- and fight against -- an education budget tha...

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Teacher Salaries and Shortage Areas

Christopher Reeve | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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While I am very disappointed that Mayor Bloomberg selected a new schools chancellor with no experience whatsoever in public education, I have to remain optimistic that our NYC kids will not be shortchanged in any way.

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