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Tests, Pizza, Bald Principal--PARTY!!! High School Administrations bribe the students to take tests with food and silly promises. Students do not want to take standardized tests because they recoqnize the futility in them. Standardized tests do not actually manage to evaluate either the students or the schools accurately. Most students do not care about the results, so they do not really even try. How does this really show how well the public educational system is functioning?...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 6:53pm PDT
Teachers Rock at a United Educators of SF Rally (video/quicktime 42.3MB) Hilltop School, Raging Grannies, the Teachers' Union Band from Hayward -- all joined San Francisco teachers, paras, and bus drivers in a rollicking rally outside the SF Unified School District on April 24, 2007. Three-minute QT movie. 42MB....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 5:53pm PDT
Free The UC Banners 
Two UC Berkeley students descended from the heights of a redwood tree near Sproul Plaza Wednesday and submitted themselves for arrest by the UCPD after one week of tree-sitting....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 5:24pm PDT
SFSU Students Protest Privatization of Education On Thursday, April 26th, Students at SFSU engaged in a five hour long march today to protest the impending fee hikes as well as class size and funding cuts to EOP programs. Students also protested the administration in general for its lack of support for students....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 5:19pm PDT
To Educate or Not to Educate? Comprehensive sex education should be taught at schools nation wide. There are many consequences to students not getting all of the facts which include high pregnancy and abortion rates as well as high STD and STI numbers. There are other countries where comprehensive sex ed. is taught and their numbers on all are lower. It also breaks down what is really being taught in all inclusive sex ed. programs....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 3:13pm PDT
Student tree-sitters descend from redwood tree to accept arrest by UCPD Wednesday April 25th, 2007 – At 12:30pm, UC Berkeley students Jason Ahmadi and Mike Schuck plan to return their feet to the ground after a one-week occupation of a Redwood Tree on Sproul Plaza on behalf of The Phoenix Coalition to Free the UC. After UC Police threatened them with arrest yesterday, the two students decided to ‘turn themselves in’ to the police and accept arrrest on behalf of the Coalition and its mission to democratize and demilitarize the University, and divest it from unethi...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 1:49pm PDT
Support the lost children The state has no record of how many foster children have died. This needs to change....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 12:39pm PDT
Get a Degree to Change the World! 780 Valencia Street, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, May 19, 2007 12:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 11:16am PDT
Sonoma State: National Student Walkout to Promote Peace and Immigration Reforms 1721 E. Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Sonoma State University, at the quad between Darwin and Stevenson....
Event Date: Tue, May 1, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 10:28am PDT
Cal tree sitters cited for trespassing BERKELEY — Two University of California, Berkeley, students who had been living in a single redwood tree on Sproul Plaza on the campus came down from their perches Wednesday and were cited for trespassing....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 9:24am PDT
Cheney Facing Widespread Opposition at BYU Commencement Address Dick Cheney is heading to Utah today to give a commencement address at one of the most conservative schools in the country -- Brigham Young University. More than 3,000 students, professors and alumni at the Mormon school have signed a petition to oppose the selection. We speak with a BYU graduate student....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 8:45am PDT
ANGRY TIRED TEACHERS and supporters rally in SF: Part I 
Tuesday April 24th: More than 300 people rallied for a fair contract for San Francisco teachers and paraprofessionals, supporting the striking Hayward teachers in the same Rockin' Demo....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 3:14am PDT
Hundreds Rally for Hayward Teachers 
Hundreds of striking teachers, parents and students rallied today in downtown Hayward demonstrating their militancy once again....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:31pm PDT
Solidarity Action with Hayward Teachers 4/27 Several carpools are going to Hayward High School this Friday, April 27, at 8:00 a.m. to walk the picket line with striking Hayward teachers....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 9:34pm PDT
Banks’ profit drive spurs student loan scandal Each month, Jennifer Pae, forks over hundreds of dollars in payments on $40,000 in student loans she owes for her education at the University of California, San Diego. Pae, president of the United States Student Association (USSA) spoke to the World as she led a National Day of Action April 17 demanding that Congress reauthorize the Higher Education Act and also provide relief for millions of students struggling with crushing debts....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 8:07pm PDT
Crisis of the California Commons conference this weekend in Berkeley 
What exactly are commons? How do they work? How can we protect them? Join scholars, activists, scientists and writers from around the state to examine the crises of California’s commons, recover their history and imagine their possible futures.
Friday, April 27, 2007 - Sunday, April 29, 2007 at Berkeley City College, 2050 Center St., Berkeley, CA...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 2:39pm PDT
4/20 intrigue Trying to stop the event on campus on 4/20 is futile....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 11:52am PDT
Are We Safe Anywhere? Could something similar to the V-Tech shootings happen at my school?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:24am PDT
Response to Article about Oakland teen violence The Oakland Council wants to fund programs for students to get them off the street, where they encounter gang violence....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:17am PDT
Rebellion and Rhyme: An Evening of Poetry and Resistance Mills College - Staff/Faculty Dining Hall
Directions available at http://www.mills.edu/maps/index.php...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 9:33am PDT
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