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Greatness at John O'Connell Thanks to MLK

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

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 [...]

Grow a mustache, raise cash for San Francisco schools

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

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 [...]

Holiday Cuts

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

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 [...]

Mission District kids learn to love science

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

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

Mayor Ed Lee and kids will walk it out

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

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 wash cars at McKinley Elementary

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

San Francisco Mayoral Candidates washed cars in support for McKinley Elementary on the sunny Saturday of Sept. 17th.

San Francisco bank accounts put children on college path

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

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 [...]

The Stanford/SFUSD Partnership: one pinch of happenstance, four parts strategy

Friday, September 9th, 2011

  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 [...]

Five decades of kindergarten in San Francisco (photos)

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Posted By: Peter Hartlaub (Email, Twitter) | August 25 2011 The Poop | The Chronicle Baby Blog Bill Young/Chronicle 1960 Don’t feel bad, kid. We didn’t feel like we fit in at kindergarten either. This photo was taken on Sept. 8, 1960, on the first day at Winfield Scott School in San Francisco. The conscientious [...]

High School Renamed After Japanese-American Artist

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

By Andy Wright On September 14, the San Francisco School for the Arts will unveil a new marquee and celebrate its new name: The Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. Born in California in 1926, Asawa, along with her family, was a resident of Japanese internment camps for much of World War II. Following her [...]