PG&E is urging state regulators to fund pipeline safety improvements by increasing customer fees.Company officials made their case Tuesday to the California Public Utilities Commission, responding to testimony by ratepayer advocates and watchdogs who argued customers should not be on the hook for required safety upgrades.
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Facing another year of funding cuts, the Board of Education will vote tonight on whether to issue preliminary layoff notices to 450 teachers, administrators and staff.The board is legally obligated to notify employees of potential layoffs by March 15. In previous years, the majority of layoffs were rescinded by the time the board voted on a final budget.
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When the Tenderloin Health Clinic announced in January that budget woes were forcing it to close, officials assured clients they would be referred to other agencies. But their fate remains uncertain as city officials and nonprofits figure out how to accommodate the 3,000 poor and homeless people who rely on the clinic for primary care, housing assistance and other services.
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The owners of the Gold Dust Lounge are suing their landlord, charging Handlery Hotels with deception, breach of contract and elder abuse after the company evicted the storied Union Square drinking establishment.In a civil complaint, filed in San Francisco Superior Court Thursday, Gold Dust’s lawyers reject the typically staid style of legal paperwork. Using florid and emotional prose, the Burlingame-based attorneys of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy detail alleged injustices perpetrated against the elderly Bovis brothers, who have owned the bar since 1966.
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San Francisco’s elementary school students are not getting enough physical education, according to UC San Francisco researchers who spent several months last year observing gym classes at 28 San Francisco Unified School District campuses.The researchers, led by Dr. Kristine Madsen, an assistant professor of pediatrics, found fifth-graders at some elementary schools were getting as little as 15 minutes of physical activity each week. Only four of the 20 elementary schools the researchers visited provided children with the 100 weekly minutes of PE that California law requires.
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Student protesters have long bemoaned the California State University trustees’ votes to raise tuition. But new legislation might give them more voices on the board that oversees the 427,000-student system.State Sen. Leland Yee announced a bill Wednesday that would require nine of the 25 trustees to be students, faculty or staff. At present, two trustees must be students and one represents faculty. Yee’s bill would require the governor to appoint four students, three faculty and two non-faculty employees.
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At George Washington Carver Elementary in the Bayview, children don’t just learn reading and math. They also get therapy, counseling, asthma screenings and access to a weekly food pantry.“You talk about the achievement gap, but you also have to look at the health disparities,” said Principal Natasha Flint-Moore. “It’s not just the cognitive development, it’s the mental and behavioral health. It’s really looking at the whole child now.”The concept, called community schools, is increasingly popular in education circles.
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Last May, The City’s public schools completed a network connecting them to the Internet at more than 650 times their former speed. Today, almost every school district building is plugged into a citywide ring of fiber optic cable. “We’re finally in the 21st century,” said Erik Heinrich, the San Francisco Unified School District’s director of technology infrastructure.But many schools can’t say the same thing about the computers they use to connect to their new network.
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Students at Lowell High School, San Francisco’s elite public magnet, are known for spending long hours on their studies. But members of the robotics team have recently taken that dedication a step further. “They work until 10, they come home and start homework at 11-ish,” marveled Christina Lee, whose son, Justin, is on the team. “They’re back at school at 7:30. You see how much passion it takes.”
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Students, faculty and staff at San Francisco State University told the presidential search committee Monday that they wanted a leader who will share the campus’s progressive values. “Overwhelmingly, I think I would just want someone who reflects the values endemic to S.F. State University,” student Crystal De La Roca said, during public comment at the committee’s first and only open meeting Monday. The university is looking for a successor for Robert Corrigan, who plans to step down at the end of this semester after 24 years.
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Students, faculty and staff at San Francisco State University on Monday told the presidential search committee they want a leader who will share the campus’s progressive values. “Overwhelmingly, I think I would just want someone who reflects the values endemic to S.F. State University,” student Crystal De La Roca said during public comment at the committee’s first and only open meeting. The university is looking for a successor for Robert Corrigan, who plans to step down at the end of this semester after 24 years on the job.
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Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Gillian Welch and The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore are among the dozen Hardly Strictly Bluegrass regulars who will play at a tribute concert Sunday for Warren Hellman, the Bay Area philanthropist and festival founder who died late last year.The free concert will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Great Highway at Ocean Beach, between John F. Kennedy Drive and Lincoln Avenue. Performances will alternate between two stages.
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Seizure patients have a better chance of surviving without brain damage when paramedics inject them directly with medication, rather than starting an IV on the way to the emergency room, according to a nationwide study involving San Francisco paramedics and hospitals.“It’s going to make it more likely the seizure will stop by the time they get to the hospital,” said Dr. Claude Hemphill, a neurologist at San Francisco General Hospital. “There’s really no reason for agencies not to switch to this method right away.”
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San Bruno city officials accused PG&E Wednesday of walking out of negotiations over compensation for the 2010 gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed a neighborhood in the Peninsula city.“You can call it an impasse, you can call it what you want,” San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane said at a news conference Wednesday morning.
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When new immigrants with young children arrive in San Francisco, they find schools that bear little resemblance to ones in other countries. Here, parents have a say in how their children are educated — but they also must act as advocates for their kids in a diverse school district governed by multiple tiers of administrators and committees. Yue Tan came to San Francisco from China three years ago. At first, she found it daunting to get involved at Gordon J. Lau Elementary, where her daughter attends fifth grade.
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