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San Francisco mom Naomi Laguana has spent the better part of 11 years dedicated to the city's public schools, volunteering in classrooms and the front office, serving as PTA president and leading the time-consuming Parent Advisory Committee, which provides input to the school board. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco mom Naomi Laguana has spent the better part of 11 years dedicated to the city's public schools, volunteering in classrooms and the front office, serving as PTA president and leading the time-consuming Parent Advisory Committee, which provides input to the school board. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At Wallenberg High School on Friday morning, the San Francisco campus remained nearly empty, no happy reunions of classmates or even any evidence that it was supposed to be the first day back for hundreds of seniors across the district. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Wanted: A reopening consultant who can help get San Francisco public school students back to full-time, in-person learning in the fall. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Francisco school board member accused her colleagues and the school district in a suit Wednesday of retaliation, saying they violated her free speech rights by stripping her of her position as vice president and removing her from committees over tweets she posted in 2016 about Asian Americans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco schools threw open their virtual doors Monday, starting a new academic year with a distance learning game plan officials hope will offer more live instruction than the spring. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It looks increasingly likely that few if any San Francisco students will be back full-time in classrooms this fall, but families won't know for sure until the end of July, less than three weeks before the first day of school. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco teachers will be paid for full-time work but only be required to work four hours a day during the coronavirus closures, according to a labor agreement approved this week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco school board voted unanimously Tuesday to destroy a historic mural at Washington High School, but it will be months or perhaps years before the district needs to buy the white paint to cover the controversial work of art. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco school board will take a step closer to deciding the fate of a controversial mural at George Washington High School on Tuesday, with the choices narrowed to covering it up or painting over it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With no other way to feed students this next school year, the San Francisco school board Tuesday approved a new contract with a school lunch company, reversing a previous vote made two weeks earlier. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco school board has refused to renew a contract to provide 30,000 school meals each day, citing frequent complaints that the food doesn't taste good. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco Mayor London Breed chose her own education adviser to fill a vacancy on the city's school board, an appointment that raises questions of a conflict of interest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When San Francisco learned in November it was getting an unexpected $181 million to spread around, the first instinct of the mayor and the Board of Supervisors was to spend it on homeless initiatives, child care and affordable housing. There was no talk of using it for teacher pay raises. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For the first time in memory, the San Francisco school board bypassed the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of its meeting Tuesday night, a purposeful omission by the board's new president. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco school board took a small step toward increasing access to the academically elite Lowell High School, allowing all qualified applicants from a predominantly black middle school to automatically earn admission. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A controversial San Francisco school board candidate withdrew from the race Monday after recent media reports exposed derogatory comments she made in Chinese about transgender rights and the sexuality of her opponents. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two San Francisco schools have new names Tuesday after the school board voted to honor former Mayor Ed Lee and labor leader Dolores Huerta with district namesakes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco teachers will get a raise and a one-time bonus under a new contract approved by the school board. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California high school graduation rates went up for the seventh year in a row, marking a new record high, with notable gains made by English learners as well as African American and Latino students, state education officials said Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's new schools superintendent says he'll spend his first few months listening - to teachers, parents, staff, students and community members. Vincent Matthews grew up in the city, but he moved around quite a bit as he built the resume he needed to return. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco school board Wednesday selected a city native with an eclectic educational background to lead the district, saying Vincent Matthews has the experience and leadership skills to take on the role of superintendent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Francisco teachers union official has been placed on administrative leave following the release of an undercover video Tuesday in which he appears to admit he assaulted a student and covered it up. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A century-old policy requiring Asian American students to attend an "Oriental" school is still on the books in San Francisco, a historical oversight the city's school board intends to rectify Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Good government doesn't usually make the news, but we'll make an exception for especially good government. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Teachers aren't supposed to take sides in politics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Report cards used to be simple - small cards with gold stars or check marks or letter grades to tell parents how their children were doing in math, reading, writing, social studies and maybe penmanship. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Starting in the spring, San Francisco students will be able to earn college credit through courses taught at city high schools during the school day. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's mayor, spurred by city supervisors, has sided with parents in a math war waged against the school district, setting aside city money to help motivated students accelerate through Algebra 1, officials said Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco Unified School District teachers will gain special access to housing and antieviction services under a $300,000-a-year city and school district effort to help educators live in one of the most expensive markets in the country, officials said Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The next San Francisco school board must hire a superintendent, balance a $600 million budget, build a $300 million arts center and decide where to put a couple of elementary schools to accommodate a growing population of students across the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Francisco law preventing city officials and employees from directly soliciting campaign donations from subordinates and colleagues does not apply to the school district, according to a legal opinion issued by the city attorney's office. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco school board voted to bar board members and the superintendent from directly soliciting campaign donations from district employees, a policy aimed at preventing undue influence over subordinates. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco school board member Sandra Lee Fewer, who is running for city supervisor, individually solicited campaign contributions from school district administrators and teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

State money for school construction and repairs ran out four years ago, and education officials up and down California are hoping voters will refill the pot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Year after year, state and local education officials emphasize the good news in California's standardized test scores for public schools, then concede that they're losing the struggle to close the achievement gap for many ethnic groups and poor students. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two years ago, students at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in San Francisco were sent to the principal's office 2,150 times for behavioral problems, an average of more than four trips for each of the 500 children enrolled. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With a teacher shortage hitting many Bay Area districts hard, San Francisco started the school year Monday with a shortfall of 38 teachers despite the district's summer-long scramble to find enough candidates to fill its classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With classes set to start in less than three weeks, San Francisco school officials suddenly find themselves looking for a new leader. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For the second time this year, San Francisco Unified is abuzz over the possible departure of its sought-after superintendent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Desperate to fill well more than 100 teaching positions in the next five weeks, San Francisco schools are taking the unusual step of offering signing bonuses amid a post-recession teacher shortage that is rippling across the Bay Area and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A former San Francisco student has sued the city school district, saying administrators failed to protect her after she was sexually assaulted by a classmate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For three decades, Rachel Norton never told anyone she was raped in college. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The bullying, Da'Nille Lemon said, was unrelenting. Some kids teased her for being light-skinned, while others called her the N-word. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A school bus company has agreed to pay $11.5 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit claiming that the firm used unsafe buses to transport San Francisco students, plaintiffs' attorneys said Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco school board decided to delay a vote on whether to make condoms available to students in district middle schools, saying some concerned parents would not be able to make Tuesday's meeting because of Chinese New Year celebrations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]