Can't save everything.
While Proposition 30 and Measure A may have been a bucket of water to City College of San Francisco's financial fire, the initiatives didn't extinguish the budgetary inferno. The institution, which ran a deficit of nearly $6 million last year, is currently considering what it can save and what must go.
One cost-cutting proposal floated: consolidate the college's nine diversity departments.
Some students and progressive leaders, however, aren't having that.
Teenage boys over at Piedmont High School have been engaging in an extracurricular activity that probably won't look great on their resumes.
According to press reports, parents and teachers are rather alarmed after learning about a so-called "Fantasy Slut League" created by the male students at school. The female students were being drafted into the league without their knowledge, and the boys would earn points for "documented sexual activity" with female
students.
Today's college students overwhelmingly think that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden won their debates, according to a new app from the University of California at Davis that measures live student reaction.
Back in 2008, the Millennials flocked to the polls in record numbers, showing that young people actually do care about politics -- or at least more than in previous elections. And pollsters are expecting the same kind of election love from American youngsters this time around.
But how exactly will the Facebook generation vote come Nov. 6? That's the question UC Davis researchers had in mind when they developed a smartphone app to gauge students' reaction to the presidential debates in real-time.
Eugene Ruyle, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate who won a spot on the November ballot for state assembly, is calling for the resignation of UC Regent Richard C Blum. The 15th District Assembly candidate is taking on Blum, who is married to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, claiming he has a conflict of interest since he is presiding as a UC Regent while also being a major shareholder in for-profit colleges.
"On the one hand he's voting to raise fees, while he's driving students to his diploma mills," Ruyle tells us.
San Francisco's District Attorney is trying to give kids something to do besides pick on each other.
In honor of National Anti-Bullying Prevention Month, District Attorney George Gascón is working with the community to launch "Bye Bye Bullying," a video contest for students of local middle- and high schools.
Here's how it works: Contestants will create a 60-second video clip with one of the following themes:
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It seems like Berkeley school officials didn't do their homework.
The Berkeley Unified School District seemed ready to hire Edmond Heatley as the district's new superintendent of schools. And why wouldn't they? He has a rather impressive résumé including a stint as the head of Chino Valley schools.
Well, his résumé is impressive until you read about how Heatley had urged the Chino Valley Board of Education to pass a resolution supporting the passage of Proposition 8, the state's ban on gay marriage, according to Berkeleyside.
Here's a snippet from Heatley's missive to the board in 2008, which came under fire during the public comment period at last night's meeting:
The pilot program to curb truancy began last year, and has helped at least 20 formerly truant students transition from middle school to high school. Students receive individual counseling and support from staff at the YMCA-run Truancy Assessment and Resource Center. Here's the part where Gascón throws numbers at you:
Earlier this month, we introduced you to Deborah Fergin-Mavaega, the Bayview teacher who was being sued for reportedly smacking around her students and stealing their Twinkies. After that drama, San Francisco Unified School District put her on administrative leave and said she would be transferred to some other school.
Well, parents at that "other school" weren't about to let that happen. This week, angry moms and dads demanded Fergin-Mavaega be removed from her latest assignment as a fifth-grade teacher at Sherman Elementary.
The parents had learned of the abuse complaints, which led to criminal charges after Fergin-Mavaega allegedly pushed a child's head into the desk at Bret Harte Elementary. But since those charges were dropped (she made a deal with prosecutors), school officials claim there was no real cause to fire her or keep her out of the classroom.
Welcome to the California school system.
