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US Supreme Court rules school districts cannot consider race in integration plans Thursday, June 28, 2007 :On Thursday, the last court session before its traditional summer recess, the Supreme Court struck down school integration plans in Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky, ruling for the first time that local school officials cannot constitutionally consider the race of their students when implementing plans to maintain racial balance among public schools within their districts....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 10:33pm PDT
Supreme Court Ruling on School Diversity Not Good, Not Horrible Thursday, June 28, 2007 : In another 5–4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck down school choice plans in two school districts that were designed to bring diversity and avoid racial segregation to the cities' school systems....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 9:16pm PDT
SF Holds Hearing on Controversial Building Plan Wednesday, June 27, 2007 :SAN FRANCISCO -- The City College of San Francisco will hold a community hearing on the controversial building plan in Chinatown, reports the Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao Daily. The public hearing would be a good opportunity for Chinese-American residents to express their opinions, the Ming Pao Daily reports....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 12:07pm PDT
"My Child Just Got Expelled" - What Every California Parent Should Know About School Discipline Wednesday, June 27, 2007 :When it comes to suspensions, expulsions, and police arrests on school campuses, what are students' rights? NAM education writer Carolyn Goossen interviewed Juniper Lesnik, attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, about the rights of students and parents dealing with disciplinary issues in public schools....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 6:19pm PDT
Timely San Francisco Film! 
Film launches campaign to preserve public use on historic San Francisco campus.
Uncommon Knowlede to screen in two upcoming SF Film Festivals!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 12:16pm PDT
Watch Out for the Hug Police at Kilmer Middle School Wednesday, June 27, 2007 : Forget Big Brother. He's got nothing on the scary folks who run Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, West Virginia, where it's against the rules for a kid to hug another kid....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 7:39am PDT
UC Biofuel Grant Expected, Contractor Sought For New Lab Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : Federal officials will announce today whether or not a coalition of UC Berkeley-affiliated labs will capture a $125 million grant to fund a new biofuel lab....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 9:06am PDT
Students Protest Treatment in Terror Cases Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : President Bush was presented with a letter signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:58am PDT
Police spy agencies target Australian universities Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :Last week’s revelation that police intelligence sought to recruit University of Sydney Students Representative Council (SRC) leader Daniel Jones to spy on fellow students points to increasing state surveillance of political activity on university campuses....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:28am PDT
Feminist and Education Equity Pioneer Joy Simonson Dies Monday, June 25, 2007 : Joy Simonson died on June 24, 2007 after many accomplishments on behalf of Title IX and the women's rights movement. From 1975 to 1982, Joy was the executive director of the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs. Under Joy Simonson's leadership the Council helped the Department......
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:11pm PDT
Finkelstein case: Academic freedom loses to Israeli lobby Monday, June 25, 2007 :As an untenured assistant professor on this campus, who thought serious scholarship would find a site of articulation within the university named after St. Vincent de Paul, I have questioned not only my DePaul colleagues’ commitment to academic freedom, but the motivations and rationalizations of many of my colleagues who remain silent in the wake of the grave injustice that took place on 8 June 2007, when Finkelstein and Larudee received their denial letters from Presi...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:10pm PDT
Why They Want to Fire Ward Churchill Monday, June 25, 2007 :T he latest efforts by folks in support of two well known university professors to either receive tenure or retain it is a little foreign to me but I'm workin' with it. I'm from the generation that shut down universities during college strikes in the 1960's. I can't recall anybody chanting during demonstrations for professor so and so to get tenure....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:07pm PDT
ACLU Slams Supreme Court Decision in Student Free Speech Case Monday, June 25, 2007 :WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today criticized the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in , which held that Alaska public school officials did not violate a student's free speech rights by punishing him for displaying a banner during a public event....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 5:55pm PDT
Student loses Supreme Court Ruling over "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" A high school student who was suspended for unfurling a banner saying "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" did not have his rights violated, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in its first major decision on student free-speech rights in nearly 20 years....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 8:22am PDT
No Way Out: Lack of Education Traps China's Rural Youth Monday, June 25, 2007 :China's booming economy has spurred a massive village-to-city migration for its youth seeking a better life, but those without a college education find themselves forced to return home to the village....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:45am PDT
Sri Lankan unions betray university workers' struggle Sunday, June 24, 2007 :The Sri Lankan trade unions have carried out another miserable betrayal. On June 8, just days before a proposed indefinite island-wide strike, the Inter University Trade Union Joint Committee (IUTUJC) called off all industrial action in defence of employees at the University of Colombo who had been disciplined over protest actions....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 9:30pm PDT
Report reveals UK youth abandoned by education system Sunday, June 24, 2007 :The Bow Group, a Conservative Party think tank, published a report on May 25 entitled Invisible Children . Using the government’s own statistics, albeit selectively, it paints a devastating picture of a whole generation of young people being abandoned by the current educational system....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 9:30pm PDT
Free Skool Santa Cruz Summer Calendar now available 
Ok friends! The Free Skool Summer 2007 calendar is out! It is not yet on the website, but you can get a copy at the usual spots around town: Cafe Perg, the downtown library, bookshop santa cruz, the bagelry, kresge co-op, the sacred grove and the bike church!
There are 50 exciting classes, from ninja skills to internet cloak and dagger to animal tracking....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:27pm PDT
FBI targets universities in new scheme to recruit informers Saturday, June 23, 2007 :The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently paid visits to a number of universities in New England as part of an effort to enlist faculty, students and staff in informing for the national police agency. The bureau’s rationale for its campus initiative is the danger posed by foreign spies and terrorists stealing sensitive research....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:33am PDT
Hate Charges Dropped In High School Anti-Gay Flier Case Thursday, June 21, 2007 :(Woodstock, Illinois) Under a plea agreement with prosecutors hate crime charges have been dropped against a 16 year old girl in return for guilty pleas of disorderly conduct and resisting a peace officer....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:27pm PDT
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