By: Catherine Al-Meten In mid-August, children from all over San Francisco began the school year. Among them were a group of youngsters entering kindergarten at Yick Wo School in San Francisco. Today is the 100th Day of School in the San Francisco Unified School District. For over a month now, 5 and 6 year olds [...]
By: Amy Crawford | 01/18/12SF Examiner Staff Writer The half-dozen teenage boys in a classroom at John O’Connell High School were looking forward to their trip to Yosemite National Park. For most it would be their first time in the wilderness, so they were unsure what to expect. Would it be cold? What’s it like [...]
By: Kate Elston On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, more than 200 Bay Area students, community members and Google employees (50 of them) volunteered at John O’Connell High School. The event was hosted by the Center for Music National Service, a music education nonprofit, in partnership with the school. Kiff Gallagher, CEO and founder of [...]
By: Amy Crawford Mike Koozmin/The SF Examiner Lip service: El Dorado Elementary Principal Tai-Sun Schoeman’s mustache raised about $2,000 for school supplies such as copier paper, P.E. equipment and storybooks. Tai-Sun Schoeman, principal at El Dorado Elementary School, wanted to help his teachers buy supplies that the Visitacion Valley school’s budget couldn’t cover. So he [...]
By: Alicia Avila & Molly Oleson Three community friends teamed up with Cesar Chavez Community Schools Coordinator Carlo Solis to host a free haircutting event for children and adults on Sunday, Nov. 21. They were inspired by a documentary chronicling similar charitable events coordinated by the Nation of Islam in the 1930s. Although this was [...]
By Lyanne Melendez SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Children living in San Francisco’s Mission District are often underserved. One organization though is offering a special enrichment program to help students who live there, not just interested in science, but excited about it. Read more at: http://abclocal.go.com
By: Stephanie Lee So this must be what Mayor Ed Lee means by being able to walk the talk. That’s what we call walking in style. (Mike Kepka/The Chronicle) On Wednesday — International Walk to School Day — the mayor and other city leaders will walk alongside students and families to Marshall Elementary School and [...]
San Francisco Mayoral Candidates washed cars in support for McKinley Elementary on the sunny Saturday of Sept. 17th.
By: Amy Crawford | 09/13/11 4:00 AM Examiner Staff Writer School fund: San Francisco is the first city to start accounts for kindergartners. (AP file photo) Some 2,400 kindergartners have their own bank accounts courtesy of the city of San Francisco. The city program, Kindergarten to College, is now in its second year, after a [...]
YourSFPublicSchools.org Guest Blog Columnist: Laura Wentworth, PhD Director of the Stanford University/San Francisco Unified School District Partnership A project of California Education Partners and the Silver Giving Foundation Contact: laura@caedpartners.org What’s the recipe for a strong partnership between a school district and a university? – Combine one superintendent, one dean, and one [...]
