Twenty percent of the incoming senior class within the San Francisco Unified School District — a total of 882 students — have failed the state’s exit exam — a standardized test that public school students are required to pass in order to get a diploma.
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Twenty percent of the incoming senior class within the San Francisco Unified School District — a total of 882 students — have failed the state’s exit exam — a standardized test that public school students are required to pass in order to get a diploma.
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In unrelated incidents Tuesday afternoon, two people allegedly jumped in front of Bay Area Rapid Transit trains, killing one victim but leaving the other unscathed.The incidents took place almost within an hour of each other, first at the Union City station and then at West Oakland, BART spokesman Linton Johnson reported Tuesday.At Union City, a man described only as a "white man in his 40s," made his way onto the tracks at about 1:25 p.m. Johnson said it is unclear whether he jumped from the platform or got there some other way. The man was hit by a train and killed.
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The replacement of Muni tracks older than 30 years in front of the West Portal station scheduled for Labor Day weekend has been postponed, according Muni spokeswoman Maggie Lynch.The San Francisco Municipal Railway had intended to replace the tracks in front of West Portal over the three-day weekend because "ridership is lowest on the holiday weekends," Lynch said.
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A proposal to remake the Coyote Point Museum into a global warming science exhibition has been withdrawn after a competing group launched a fundraising effort to save the museum.The 11th Hour Project, based in Silicon Valley, announced Tuesday the withdrawal of its pitch to construct an IMAX theater, upscale organic restaurant and global warming education center on the financially troubled museum’s site.
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It could feel like switching from a boxy gas-guzzler to a sleek, luxurious, new built-to-order hybrid car when San Mateo residents step through the doors of their new library this weekend.The new San Mateo Public Library will open its doors Sunday at noon with a special ribbon-cutting ceremony, more than five years after the old building was torn down.
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SAN MATEO — The percentage of San Mateo County sophomores passing the California High School Exit Exam on their first try increased slightly in 2005-06, and Peninsula students continued to pass at higher rates than their statewide peers, according to information released by the California Department of Education on Tuesday.
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While most seniors in San Mateo County’s class of 2006 passed the California High School Exit Exam and earned their diplomas, school officials are developing strategies for students who don’t pass the first time — or by the end of their senior year.
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Despite a state appeals court decision earlier this month that upheld California’s high school exit exam, the lawyers who filed lawsuits against the high-stakes test said on Tuesday that they haven’t given up their legal fight."The bottom line is we are not going away and neither is the lawsuit," said attorney Arturo Gonzalez of the San Francisco-based law firm Morrison & Foerster.
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The shooting death of a shopkeeper in San Francisco’s Richmond district has police searching for witnesses and neighbors mourning their loss.On Saturday, a customer at the New California Market at 5701 California St. found Jinsun Lee, 54, unconscious and slumped over behind her counter. The customer called 911, and paramedics transported Lee to St. Mary’s hospital, where it was discovered she had been shot, police said Monday.
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