Students at Wallenberg High School now have no excuse for missing the most important meal of the day. Starting last week, the school began handing out bagels, muffins and breakfast burritos at the door for students to eat in their first-period classes.The Western Addition campus is the latest participant in the San Francisco Unified School District’s Grab ‘n’ Go Breakfast program, which was already operating at Balboa and Mission high schools. Read More
Private heritage schools, which educate children in the language and culture of foreign countries, are being asked to register with the California Department of Education to comply with a new state law.
“We want to get the word out,” said Jane Ross, an education programs consultant with the department. “It’s still relatively new.”
Ross said only 164 schools out of a few thousand statewide registered in 2011, the first year they were asked to do so. Read More
California’s two largest teachers unions can’t get behind a new state law that allows nonmedical school employees to administer a rectal injection to epileptic students having seizures. Until now, only medical practitioners could administer such anti-seizure medication. But since many California schools and most San Francisco public schools don’t employ nurses every day, school employees have had to wait for paramedics when students have a seizure. Read More
School and college officials across California are bracing themselves for bad news about state revenue, which could mean deep midyear cuts to education. Read More
In Rachel Kayce’s classroom at Dianne Feinstein Elementary, students illustrate cards depicting their dreams.
“I want to be on Broadway one day.” “My goal is to be a soccer player.” “I will follow directions the first time I’m told.”
As that final dream suggests, this is no everyday classroom. It’s a special day class for third- through fifth-graders considered “emotionally disturbed,” a category within special education. Read More
Although most California schools posted gains on standardized tests this year, federal law requires the majority to be labeled as failing, according to data released Wednesday by the California Department of Education.
It is a contradiction that has California education officials beseeching Washington for a waiver from the controversial No Child Left Behind law. Read More
The number of students who pass the California High School Exit Examination has held steady, but more are passing it on the first try, according to data released Wednesday by the California Department of Education.
In The City, 95 percent of seniors with enough credits to graduate had passed the test by the time May rolled around. That was on par with the statewide figure, though city students were slightly less likely than their California peers to pass the first time. Read More
About 95 percent of San Francisco high school seniors passed the state’s graduation exams last year, according to numbers the California Department of Education released today.The passage rate, which was about the same as last year, was based only on students who had enough credits to graduate. Read More
Public schools in San Francisco have made impressive strides toward meeting the state’s proficiency goals for standardized testing, but new test results also highlight the district’s stark achievement gaps from campus to campus. Read More
