Author: Michelle Tam, 2009 Graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School

College. It has always been my parents’ dream for their children to attend college. The reason we moved across the Pacific Ocean to adapt to this brand new environment was due to the belief of better education. Our low-income family has no money to provide us [...]

Author:  Patricia Gray, Executive Director, Leadership and Equity Initiative for the San Francisco Unified School District

When I transferred to Balboa High School (which I’ll always call BAL) in September 1996 as a Head Counselor/Dean, I never thought that I would spend more than a decade there, with ten years as principal.  Like the late Don [...]