Student and teacher speakers at Wednesday night’s board meeting raised their concerns about the school redesign process that the district administration has initiated at five Oakland...
Many long-time educators and Oakland parents are raising serious questions about a new Oakland Unified School District plan to turn over five schools – including three...
By Leland Kim, UCSF News After dropping out of college, 20-year-old Rodney Zinn found himself working various restaurant jobs in San Francisco making minimum wage. “I...
The Black Employees Association of Stockton Unified School District (BEAUSD) and the Aquarian Coalition will host activities to celebrate the 95th birthday of Wilhelmina Henry. ...
In advance of six games in the Bay Area, two stars of the world famous Harlem Globetrotters and youth with disabilities played wheelchair basketball Wednesday...
By Doni Bloomfield, Bloomberg Business Gave your kids smartphones for the holidays? You might want to reconsider their bedtime. Children who slept in the same room...
Everybody wants to be successful, but what can you do to become successful? You will have to do one or multiple things that are not just...
USF Dons basketball and baseball are in line for major upgrades, thanks to a $5 million pledge to USF Athletics —the largest in the program’s history....
Community members and elected officials attended the Swearing-In Ceremony on Tuesday for Shamann Walton, who was elected in November to the San Francisco Board of Education.
Today’s society is changing. Back in the day, school would allow you to progress in life. Now, it seems that a college degree has no meaning....
Everybody has that one friend. She’s the person you call in the middle of the night because you don’t know what else to do. He’s your...
Everybody needs a hero in his or her life. Somebody to look up to. Somebody to want to be like some day, to follow and admire...
The Kapor Center for Social Impact recently hosted the 2nd annual Brothers Code, providing over 200 middle and high school students a chance to learn...
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld has presented a $600,000 grant to the Public Health Institute’s Regional Asthma Management & Prevention...
In life, there are times when you are surrounded by negative situations – things that tend to bother you. These conditions may begin to create the...
Wanting their voices to be heard in the rising protests against police impunity, high school students walked out of school and protested Wednesday in front of...
The Vallejo City Unified School District (VCUSD) has been improving students’ access to technology throughout the past several years, with each school now having one or...
By Hassan Russell, Laney College student The shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO has brought to light that this situation is happening all over America....
By Mike Aldax, Richmond Standard The deadline for West County high school seniors to apply for the Chevron Richmond Black History Awareness Scholarship (BHAC) program is...
The Black Student Union (BSU) at Encinal High School in Alameda on Wednesday held a “Black Lives Matter” silent protest and lunchtime forum to stand in...
Oakland Unified School District’s new superintendent Antwan Wilson has released a statement urging educators to look at how their work will be affected by the “Black...
Courtesy of CBS SF A group of inmates at San Quentin are getting a high-tech break. They are learning how to code. They are receiving top-notch...
By Diana Austin, UCSF School of Nursing It was June 1981 when a UC San Francisco nurse educator first heard of an unusual cancer that was...
Three-and-a-half steps. Visualize it: that’s how big your home is. Back against the wall, three-and-a-half steps until you can’t go anymore. Arms straight out at...
By Jane Fong I interviewed Richie Smith as she passed by our signature-gathering table – a long time resident of Berkeley – to discover the reason...