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The resignation this week of Lawrence Summers from the post he has held for the last five years as president of Harvard has provoked an extraordinary firestorm of political controversy far from the ivied halls of what has long been considered one of the premier US universities....

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....

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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...

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....

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....

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....

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."...

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....

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....