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School Beat: The Dollars and Cents of SFUSD
Understanding education finance is a challenge for even the most dedicated public school supporters and budget hawks. The complexity is not just at the state level, but also descends into how the budget appears at the local level....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 8:49am PDT
Students Rally to Save Balboa High School
on April 25th, students and faculty of Balboa High School turned out to call upon the school board to save their school. Your calls and emails are still needed, since the school board will be deciding the fate of Balboa on May 9th, 2006....
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2006 11:03am PDT
Wednesday or Thursday; See How We're Growing
See What's Going on With Education Not Incarceration. Pick a meeting:
Wednesday, May 3rd - 6:30-8PM at the Niebyl Proctor Library
(6501 Telegraph Ave, just North of Alcatraz Ave)
Thursday, May 4th - 6:30-8PM at Just Cause Oakland's office
(1212 Broadway, on the 4th floor)
Refreshments will be served. Call us for rides or childcare help!...
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 11:20am PDT
Legal Alert - National Lawyers Guild Sets Up Student Walkout Hotline - 415-285-1011
For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 27, 2006...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 11:56pm PDT
Leaders, Musicians Launch Campaign to Stop "Pushouts" in Our Schools
Aimee Allison, Wilson Riles, and Performers join Education Not Incarceration Coalition to launch a campaign to address the crisis of students pushed out of school and into prison...
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 4:48pm PDT
May 1st UCSC solidarity demonstration
IMPORTANT SANTA CRUZ CITY MOBILIZATIONS!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 5:58pm PDT
Stanford protest videos
Here are two videos made on the Stanford protest of Bush:...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 4:45pm PDT
Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools Candidate Forum (4/27)
Santa Cruz County residents will have the choice of five different candidates for Superintendent of Schools. Come by and get to know them better at the Candidates Forum at the Live Oak Grange this Thursday....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 4:45pm PDT
Santa Cruz County Book Fair, May 20
The first annual Santa Cruz County Book Fair takes place May 20, 2006. It should be a large gathering and there is still time to register for a booth....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 1:24pm PDT
Governor Joins Struggle Against Teachers
Stewart Alexander, candidate for lieutenant governor, oppose Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s move to take control of the LAUSD and says he fully support the position of the teachers, district officials and the union on this important issue....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 9:04pm PDT
Immortal Technique at Youth and Power 2006 (video/quicktime 7.6MB)
On April 17th, 2006, the Watsonville Brown Berets held the 6th annual Youth and Power. The theme was "Brown and Black Pride" and the event, held on a Monday night, brought together more than thousand people from 'Los Atzlan' to the Bay Area.
Below are nine (9) video segments of Immortal Technique speaking and performing at the 6th annual Youth and Power event organized by the Watsonville Brown Berets. Total time of all nice video segments is about 38 minutes.
In the first vid...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 11:07pm PDT
Heads Spin at Youth and Power 2006
On April 17th, 2006, the Watsonville Brown Berets held the 6th annual Youth and Power. The theme was "Brown and Black Pride" and the event, held on a Monday night, brought together more than thousand people from 'Los Atzlan' to the Bay Area....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 10:01pm PDT
School Beat: What do YOU Want Our City to Do for Public Schools?
Public education activists always have more than enough possibilities for engagement, but this week two opportunities particularly standout: the Parents for Public Schools' (PPS) Annual General Meeting and the school district's Community Advisory Committee on Student Enrollment, Recruitment and Retention (CACSERR)....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 9:41am PDT
The War on Terror: A Credible Threat (4/24)
Teach-in at University of California, Santa Cruz
April 24, 2006, 10am-7pm
The Quarry...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 1:34am PDT
STRIKE AVERTED, BUT SCHOOLS STILL CLOSED TOMORROW!!!
Just minutes ago the Oakland Education Association reps confirmed that they have reached a settlement and while teachers will be going to work tomorrow, it is still a non-student day ....because the district cannot assure that everyone will get the word and they cannot guarantee safe staffing levels. An extra day will probably be added at the end of the school year....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 12:40am PDT
Sustainability Lectures @ UCSC
The Education for Sustainable Living Program is host its 3rd season of incredible lectures! Please come join us @ UCSC. All lectures are free!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 8:36pm PDT
Students Against War member, Mara, on the University Grapevine KZSC Talk Show (audio/mpeg 33.6MB)
This is an interview from Wedneday April 19 2006 in which Mara talks about recent SAW events and answers questions about what has been going in the anti-war community at UCSC....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 8:14pm PDT
Oakland Schools Strike tomorrow: Ward caves in: No Scabs
Oakland Adult school still needs picketeers...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 5:15pm PDT