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School Beat: A Bigger, Better School Board The rough ride we've all taken this academic year has mobilized the public school community, raising anger but also the level of expectations. Much of the frustration with the recent string of crisis-level events is being taken out on the Board of Education (BOE). Some of this is justified. They are the policy making body and the problems that have come to a head have not been sprung on us suddenly, but for the most part were lurking unpleasantly in the background for quite some time....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 7:00am PST
Randy Ward's Agenda of Charterizing, Privatizing & Impoverishing Oakland Schools 
With a looming strike by teachers in the Oakland Schools, more background on Randy Ward and his roots in the Broad Foundation is necessary. Broad’s goals are to reduce overall funding for public education while using his foundation’s grants to promote high stakes standardized testing and widespread charterization....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 6:12pm PST
Community Meeting Thurs to Save Our Languages! (2/23) ** SAVE OUR LANGUAGES ***...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 2:29pm PST
This School MUST NOT be moved!!! 
Students, parents and families of the Fill-no-mo/Western Addition face more displacement and removal . This time its from the San Francisco School Board...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 10:18am PST
Oaklander stages 5-day, 24-hour protest against war in park 
On Monday morning, February 20, Hyim Jacob Ross unfolded his camping chair in Splash Pad Park across from the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California and began a five-day, around the clock one-person vigil to oppose the war on Iraq, and for peace and education. At Splash Pad tonight and tomorrow: Wednesday night, February 22, 5:30 pm vigil "Lies, Torture, Spying? Not in Our Name!" * Thursday night, February 23, 6:30 pm vigil in solidarity with Hyim on the last night of his protest...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 12:11am PST
ISOnuts: One Stop Activism and the Gentrification of the Left A student activist's take on meddling in student activism by the International Socialist Organization....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 12:38pm PST
Indian Groups Contest California Textbook Content HAYWARD, Calif. – Even as the California Board of Education (CBE) is trying to grapple with the contentious and loudly debated issue of what corrections requested from Hindu groups in proposed textbooks for sixth-graders, another group is trying to make its voice heard over the din....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 7:22am PST
How an Oakland Teacher's strike can be won A suggestion for an obvious, easy and effective step in the event of an Oakland school walk-out......
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 4:26pm PST
School Beat: Is Inclusive Education a Privilege or a Right? Despite laws prohibiting such discrimination and segregation, more than 65% of San Francisco Unified School District schools ban children with special needs from being educated in classrooms alongside their typical peers....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 8:13am PST
UCSC Military Recruitment Debate Reportback 
On Wednesday, Feb. 8, UCSC's Colleges 9 and 10 hosted a tightly-controlled debate on the issue of military recruitment. The two speakers were William Griffin, in charge of Army recruitment for the Monterey Bay area, and Mario Ramirez Hardy, a long-time counter-recruitment organizer and GI Rights Hotline counselor....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 4:32pm PST
UCSC Academic Senate releases Tent City Report that includes anonymous spy testimony The USCS Academic Senate task force investigating the "Tent City" events released its report to the public today. The report implicates activist David Solnit and quotes a statement by an "unnamed individual who attended the workshop at the Resource Center for Nonviolence."...
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 8:45pm PST
CANDIDATE CHARGES "REPUBLICAN COUP" The Republican Party, and the appointee of Schwarzenegger, is resorting to illegal politics to keep third party candidates off the ballot....
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 10:25am PST
School Closures and Beyond The formal decisions regarding school closures have come and gone, but an unsettled feeling still lingers. The process that we all endured over these past several months exposed some brutal truths regarding continued inequities in our district and heartfelt passions about our schools. From this maelstrom, two important realities have emerged....
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 8:02am PST
ACLU of Northern California Seeks Pentagon Files on Peace Groups ACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SEEKS PENTAGON FILES ON PEACE GROUPS
ACLU Launches Nationwide Effort to Uncover Details of Pentagon Domestic Spying Program...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:13pm PST
Oakland Schools to Continue Hiring Scabs 
The Oakland Unified School District ended it's scab hiring at the Airport Hilton, but has resumed it at district offices at 314 E. 10th Street in Huerta Hall. These will continue through Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. All are encouraged to go there to let the educational bureaucrats know what the Bay Area working class thinks about hiring scabs in our community....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 12:04am PST
Only Fifteen days until Spring Quarter deadline 
We want you to teach Free Skool Santa Cruz...
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 4:07pm PST
Black History ~ Negro Hill, California Historical Legacy of Black Pioneers in Early California Comes Alive
Negro Hill, California was a vibrant community in 1850 when California became a state.
Let us continue the journey to give dignity, honor and respect to early Black Pioneers....
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 3:42pm PST
Jan 31: New College Media Studies MA Program Open House Jan 31 at 6:30 PM: New College Media Studies MA Program Open House. Learn about New College's innovative media studies education for social change. New College, 766 Valencia St., Room 11B, San Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2006 8:52pm PST
Students help AB 606 pass in the Assembly! GSA Network is pleased to announce that AB 606, the Safe Place to Learn Act, passed out of the California State Assembly yesterday, with a vote of 45-32. The bill now moves on to the Senate...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 9:45pm PST
Charter School Unionizes Edison Brentwood Academy and Edison-McNair Academy in East Palo Alto are the first Edison Schools Charter schools to unionize. Contract was ratified, and includes increase in pay and limited protection for 5th-year teachers....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 7:34pm PST
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