Stop the Circus

by: Rita Beamish There’s a comfortable sameness to Fred Brundage’s arrival around 9 a.m., two days each week, in Christina Harger’s third-grade classroom. The sight of Brundage walking in her Monroe Elementary School door means the handful of children at Table Two “are going to get a little extra attention that day,” Harger said. It’s [...]

By: Jill Tucker Mathew Sumner / Special to the Chronicle A little enthusiasm goes a long way in the job market, and there’s no shortage from these Juma employees. It was still a half hour before game time at AT&T Park, but Jason Wong was already scanning the still sparse crowd above right field, a [...]

By Nora Fleming California is officially launching a statewide summer learning initiative today, spearheaded by the Partnership for Children and Youth, a Bay-area-based nonprofit, and with the support of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The initiative, or the Summer Matters campaign will support summer programs that focus on combating summer learning loss for low-income [...]

When San Francisco voters passed the three phases of the Proposition A facilities upgrade bond in 2003, 2006, and 2011, they approved money to cover the design and construction of green schoolyards for at least 83 San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) elementary, middle, and high schools. SFUSD is the first urban school district to [...]

No matter where you are in California, chances are your neighborhood public school is hurting for money. That’s challenging parents to think a bit more creatively about how they fundraise for their child’s school. Reporter: Ana Tintocalis        

By: Kristin Smith S.F. Bicycle Coalition 2011 Young riders prepare for the “bike train,” a large group of parents and children riding to Peabody Elementary School in the Richmond District. Bike to School Day is coming up April 12. April 12 is San Francisco Bike to School Day, the biggest youth bicycling day of the [...]

We started riding our bikes in large part to solve the riddle involved in getting our son to his elementary school. For the first year, we all went to kindergarten together. Our daughter was in child care downstairs at my office, so we’d drive to school, play on the yard until the bell rang, then [...]

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 [...]