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Free Skool Two-Year Anniversary 
You are invited to our quarterly potluck picnic. Students, teachers, organizers, and folk from the community get together for a fun day in the park....
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 9:08am PST
Free Skool Spring Quarter deadline is one month away Spring Quarter runs March 1st to May 31st. The Free Skool Spring Quarter teacher registration deadline is coming up February 10th. If you are interested in teaching a class or would like to help, contact us soon....
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2007 1:01am PST
GSA Network News: January 10, 2007 GSA Network Highlight
Countdown to the Expression NOT Suppression Conference!
GSA Network Announcements
1. This Weekend - GSA Network Leadership Training! (Orange County)
2. Legally Blonde Benefit on January 25! (Bay Area)
3. Save the Date - GSA Network Leadership Training! (Concord)
4. Queer Youth Advocacy Day 2007 Leader Applications Available Soon!
5. Free Resources for New or Re-Registered GSAs!
6. GSA Network is Seeking a Winter Intern! (San Francisco)
7. GSA Network Youth Cou...
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 3:42pm PST
UC Santa Cruz Administration Sabotages Student-Run Career Event FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 09, 2007...
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 12:17pm PST
New School Board Offers Legitimate Reason to Hope On Friday, January 5, the three newest School Board members -- Jane Kim, Hydra Mendoza, and Kim-Shree Maufas -- were sworn into office. With this, San Francisco can now look at its public schools with hope that the new leadership will blow new life into the old challenges of public education. The first School Board meeting is tonight at 7:00 pm at 555 Franklin St, and can be heard live on 91.7 FM. The three new Commissioners share notable similarities in their roots and hearts in the communit...
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 9:02am PST
Toxic School Buses: Stop Your Idling! Children riding on school buses are exposed to high levels of cancer-causing pollutants, due to the old diesel buses. Many scientific organizations, activists, etc., have joined the push to clean up school buses...The first steps in this cleaner school bus awareness campaign are: 1) Replacement of the oldest fleet buses, 2) Retrofitting of the older models, and 3) Anti-idling policies. These 3 steps can help reduce pollution *while* improving kids' health......
Posted: Mon, Jan 8, 2007 5:17pm PST
Free Skool Radio News: Winter 2006 (audio/mpeg 25.6MB) The student reporters of Radio Journalism 101 present, Free Skool Radio News, a collection of reports, interviews and sounds from just a handful of the dozens of classes and workshops offered through Free Skool Santa Cruz. We'll hear about the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra, Improv Contact Dance, Spanish Conversation, Tray Boarding, the Punk Sewing Circle and more. This program is the final project of Radio Journalism 101, Free Skool class on the basics of broadcast news production, facilitated ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 8, 2007 10:48am PST
Student Enrollment Greatest Challenge for Incoming School Board by Peter Lauterborn and Amanda Piercy‚ Jan. 05‚ 2007...
Posted: Fri, Jan 5, 2007 7:46am PST
Aging Prisoners and Classrooms Without Glue Sticks With draconian sentencing laws, California’s prisons are filling up with aging and ill lifers whose full custody costs taxpayers a million dollars each. Meanwhile, the state’s public schools often go without the basic necessities, writes Nell Bernstein, author of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated, and an editor at New America Media....
Posted: Fri, Dec 29, 2006 6:03pm PST
University of California, UC Berkeley Hall of Shame - Stupid Research on Animals 
University of California, UC Berkeley Hall of Shame - Stupid Research / Experiments / Testing on Animals
Shameless superstars: Yang Dan, Jack Gallant, Ralph Freeman, Frederic Theunissen, Jeffery Winer, John Casida...
Posted: Sun, Dec 24, 2006 5:08pm PST
Pre-School Parents Gain Right to Know - AB 2865 (Torrico) VICTORY ! On January 1, 2007, a new state law (AB 2865, Torrico) will require private
child day care facilities to comply with new pesticide use recordkeeping and
notification requirements....
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2006 1:54am PST
Growing Concern over Special Education Conditions in Oakland The Oakland Education Association (OEA) Special Education Caucus is collecting signatures to raise awareness and build solidarity for addressing alarming special education conditions in Oakland Unified School District....
Posted: Mon, Dec 11, 2006 8:27pm PST
Berkeley High Human Rights Teach-In (World Can't Wait) Berkeley High School, Little Theater, 1980 Alston Way, Berkeley CA...
Event Date: Mon, Dec 11, 2006 8:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2006 8:41am PST
Students, Faculty Rally for Change at CSUS Multi-Cultural Center Eight students in Coalition for Cultural Opportunities in Leadership and Overall Rention of Students rallied with six faculty members at California State University, Sacramento in mid-October to voice concerns about the direction of the Multi-Cultural Women's Resource Center....
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2006 2:05am PST
UAW Local 2865 support for teaches in Oaxaca, Mexico UAW LOCAL 2865 RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF SECTION 22 OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF EDUCATION WORKERS AND THE POPULAR ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLES OF OAXACA...
Posted: Sun, Dec 3, 2006 1:08am PST
American Indian Child Resources Center PowWow (video/quicktime 10.3MB) AICRC held a powwow today at Laney College.
Dancing and drumming were impressive. Dec 2, 2006...
Posted: Sat, Dec 2, 2006 7:42pm PST
12/7 Local Youth Document Teen Use of MySpace A project created by area teens on the culture of Myspace in youth lives, will be the focus of an event held at Terronez Middle School at 7:00 p.m. (2300 S Willow Ave, Fresno). Evening includes a short documentary film & a panel discussion including youth, parents and school officials. Door prizes include an Ipod Nano! Sponsored by Fresno County Public Library and the California Council for the Humanities....
Posted: Sat, Dec 2, 2006 12:00pm PST
UC Student Assoc. Condemns Police Brutality - Demands Charges Dropped, Officers Suspended IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 27, 2006
STATEMENT FOR RELEASE
REGARDING POLICE BRUTALITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA...
Posted: Thu, Nov 30, 2006 1:54am PST
Drop the Charges! Stop Police Brutality! 
These flyers have been posted all around the UCSC campus. Be on the lookout for updates!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 30, 2006 1:47am PST
ROTC Supporters Threaten JROTC Opponents "Hey you stupid hatin azz bitch!!! Better watch ur fkn bk ya dumbazz whore!" This was just one of the threatening MySpace messages directed at Mara Kubrin, a senior at Lowell High School, following the vote by the San Francisco school board to phase JROTC out of the City's public schools. On Tuesday evening, November 14, Mara presented a petition to the board opposing JROTC, signed by over 800 students. The next morning her picture appeared in the online edition of the San Francisco Chronicle...
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 7:30am PST
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