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Student Declaration Over Exit Exam Ruling Student response to Court's decision to reinstate California High School Exit Exam...
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 11:11am PDT
School Beat: Making Schools Clean and Healthy So much of the work that we want and need to do to improve public schools for our kids is visible and dramatic and thus readily captures our attention. More money, more staff, more equipment, more supplies. We are all working hard on all of those areas, not to mention working hard to keep that list as short as possible....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 8:42am PDT
City and SF BOE Should Work Together In the recent months and weeks, the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors have been exploring resolutions and initiatives aimed at the San Francisco Unified School District which is a separate independent entity....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 8:12am PDT
UC Regents Meeting reportback 5/17 (audio/mpeg 6.0MB) On Wednesday 5/17 the UC Regents held a meeting at UCSF. Students, Workers and unions were present, primarily in response to UC's plan to cut workers' pensions. The unions were united & unapologetic, cheering loudly as three California State Senators including Figeroa (D) and Maldonado (R), called for Dynes' resignation....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 2:44pm PDT
Youth Empowerment Day: June 3rd International Figure Lennox Hinds and R&B/Pop Star Raz B Join the Education Not Incarceration Coalition (ENI) for Youth Empowerment Day to launch a campaign to address the crisis of students pushed out of school and into prison...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 8:37am PDT
Como Angeles: The Story of the Free Medical School in Havana, Cuba Cedric Edwards MD, the first American graduate of Latin American Medical School in Havana, will talk about his experiences attending the school and participating in an experimental program in Honduras working alongside Honduran doctors trained in Cuba....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 7:06am PDT
Anti-Nuke Activists Disrupt UC Regents Meeting 
Thursday, May 18, 2006 - For the second straight year, anti-nuke/demilitarization activists from around the state disrupted the University of California Regents meeting at UC San Francisco. In addition to concerns of corruption on behalf of top UC officials, students continued the decades old tradition of opposition to UC's vital role in the production of weapons of mass destruction. Through it's management of both Los Alamos National Lab and Lawrence Livermore, UC employees have designed eve...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 5:41am PDT
Free Skool Summer Quarter deadline coming up 
We want you to teach Free Skool Santa Cruz....
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2006 11:48pm PDT
Dear Supporters of Students Against War The Project, Page 5
A thank you letter for the support following the counter-recruitment demonstration on April 11th....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 3:12pm PDT
An Open Letter of Solidarity... The Project, Page 4
This is an open letter of solidarity to Students Against War at San Francisco State University....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 2:51pm PDT
School Beat: The Revised Budget Gives Less Than You Think Once again the Governor is playing the public education community like his favorite set of puppets. Using the end-of-year revenue upsurge to enable a reprise of his role as an education hero, Schwarzenegger has returned (sort of) a piece of what he took from public school coffers and will portion out the rest over the next seven years. And this is not only supposed to make us happy but make us re-elect him too. Hopefully voters in California will be able to see through this obvious sham. It's...
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 9:40am PDT
5/20 at Vandenburg Protect Student Privacy from Military Recruiters When: Saturday, May 20th, 1-3pm
Where: front gate of Vandenburg Air Force Base...
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 8:50pm PDT
Punishing Free Speech: A Travesty of an "Investigation" I have received the report of the Investigative Committee of the University of Colorado and consider it a travesty. This "investigation" has all along been a pretext to punish me for engaging constitutionally-protected speech and, more generally, to discredit the sorts of alternative historical perspective I represent....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 6:45am PDT
Every Kid Deserves a Quality Preschool! (video/quicktime 10.7MB) A Prop. 82 rally at San Francisco City Hall May 9th convinced people that it would soak the super-rich and be part of the remedy for what ails California education. Three-minute QT movie. 11MB....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 11:10am PDT
Students to Protest Militarism and Lack of Democracy at May 18th Regents Meeting FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 15, 2006...
Posted: Mon, May 15, 2006 9:07pm PDT
Controversy Brews at New School Over Pick of McCain as Graduation Speaker Students and faculty at the New School in New York City have objected to the pick of Arizona Republican Senator John McCain as commencement speaker for this year's graduation. We speak with one of the students speaking out....
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2006 8:49am PDT
Princeton: Two-Thirds of Ivy League Adopt Gender Protections According to GenderPAC's GENIUS Index, almost
two-thirds of the nation's most elite institutions of higher education
have added "gender identity" and "gender expression" to their
non-discrimination policies within the past four years....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 11:35pm PDT
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