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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
City College Board Race Still Undecided
Two weeks after the Election, one local race has taken a surprising turn in the late absentee balloting that puts the final outcome into question. Many assumed that College Board member Johnnie Carter had lost his re-election bid to John Rizzo, chair of the San Francisco chapter of the Sierra Club. But the latest unofficial returns as of 2:30 p.m. on November 21st now have Carter ahead by 81 votes. Rizzo remains cautiously optimistic that he will prevail with the final count – which is expect...
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 7:18am PST
Administrative Paranoia Taking Its Toll at UCSC
Administrative Paranoia Taking Its Toll at UCSC
Tens of Thousands Spent on Police for "Disaster" Grad School Event
On October 23, 2006, the administration of UC Santa Cruz spent tens of thousands of dollars bussing in at least three dozen police officers (from UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSC and possibly UCSF) to guard a Graduate & Professional School Fair from the student population. The plan worked magnificently - a solid steel fence was erected outside the fair (located at College 8), with co...
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2006 10:04pm PST
Students Disrupt UC Regents Meeting (video/mpeg 20.9MB)
The Coalition to Demilitarize the UC action at the UCLA Regents meeting on November 16th, 2006, was very inspiring. Nine of us were arrested after about a half-hour of chanting and shouting information and critiques of the UC and the nukes labs, etc. that the Regents (and the other people in the room) had no answer for.
Video durations: 1 minute; 54 seconds; 33 seconds; 23 seconds...
Posted: Sun, Nov 19, 2006 1:21pm PST
School Beat: Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy—A Long Way From Ohio
When the school administrators in Columbus, Ohio, told us our son was low functioning and that Inclusion would not be the "least restrictive environment" for him, we knew we had to look elsewhere. Jack was bored in his special education classroom, and they took his disinterest to mean that he was functioning at a low cognitive level. If he was to have a chance to show us what he was capable of, we'd have to find a community that believed in him....
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 9:46am PST
TONIGHT: SF School Board to Vote to Eliminate ROTC
SF SCHOOL BOARD TO VOTE TO ELIMINATE Junior ROTC - Tuesday, 11/14...
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 8:51am PST
More Background about JROTC in SF Public Schools
Tuesday, November 14th, 7:00 P.M.
(This will be a big meeting. You should show up at 6:00 P.M.)
555 Franklin Street, 1st Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 7:42am PST
Lifting the Fog on 9/11: Experts Present Scientific Evidence at UC Berkeley
An all day symposium, titled "Lifting the Fog", took place Saturday at the Valley Life Science Building at UC Berkeley. To an auditorium full of attentive listeners, a number of experts (most notably Dr. Steven Jones, a renowned physicist) gathered to present their findings about the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001....
Posted: Sun, Nov 12, 2006 3:18am PST
Community Meeting Stirs Up Bad Memories
The Jack Leary Healing Forum was held to support abuse survivors, but may have done more harm than good...
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 4:51pm PST
School Beat: Election Day Not Bad for Schools
The returns from the November 2006 election are in and the results for education in California are quite interesting. Locally, San Francisco's Board of Education (BOE) will have all new members filling the open spots, all of whom are closely connected to students in our schools. Statewide, except for re-electing Governor Schwarzenegger, voters came through for clearly identified needs (facilities bonds Proposition 1D and A) and rejected the strategically unsound and ill-defined fiscal solutio...
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 7:23am PST
Free Skool Santa Cruz DISTRO DAY II (11/8)
You are invited to pick up a Winter 2006 Free Skool Calendar or help pass 'em out at the Farmer's Market this Wednesday, November 8 starting at 4pm. Take 'em to your friends, leave them at the places you hang out, give one to your mom! You can also leave them in our awesome new DIY calendar boxes posted around town (see locations below)....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 12:06pm PST