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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
Bay Area joins together in May to "Thank a Teacher Today," Will raise $250,000 for schools The San Francisco Challenge is part of a city-wide Thank a Teacher Today campaign that DonorsChoose is co-leading with the San Francisco Education Fund to honor teachers. Please visit our campaign website to learn more about how you can thank teachers.
Please join us in honoring San Francisco teachers and thanking them for their valuable work!...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 5:05pm PDT
help the food bank School children are setting up gardens to feed the poor and to give fresh produce to food banks. Volunteers needed from around the country....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 11:09am PDT
CA Safe Schools Co-Hosts Advocacy Workshop for Special Needs Children Protecting the Most Vulnerable!...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 8:52am PDT
Arnold Picketed in Santa Barbara The Terminator showed up for an unannounced visit at the Davidson Library at UCSB today....
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 6:35pm PDT
Families of students who feel dogged by military back AB1778 Sacramento -- It was in the spring of 2004 when Darinel Reyes, then a senior at Watsonville High School, got a phone call at his home from a military recruiter....
Posted: Sat, May 6, 2006 3:27pm PDT
University of Central Florida violates students' civil rights!!! At UCF, a PhD student was subject to the harrassment and stalking of the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in 2004. When the student petitioned the court, the student was arrested by UCF police for exercising his civil right to do so. The student was then subjected to a hearing by the Office of Student Conduct, which violated his civil right to face his accuser. After a hard fought battle, the student gained the right to another hearing, where his rights were again violated. This con...
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 10:52pm PDT
CSUMB Conservatives Assert Themselves with Horowitz 
CSUMB hosts David Horowitz and his conservative rhetoric does not lack for intensity...
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 9:40pm PDT
Advocacy Workshop for Special Needs Children Recognizing the need for further parent training and education, parents and community groups, including Learning Disabilities Association of Orange County and California Safe Schools, are organizing the free Parent Workshop at the Goldy S. Lewis Community Center in the city of Rancho Cucamonga....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 9:02pm PDT
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
Six out of 10 young Americans cannot find Iraq on a map The US may be the world's only true superpower but global domination does not equal global knowledge. A new survey shows young Americans have what can only be described as shoddy geography skills, with six out of 10 unable to locate Iraq on a map and almost half incapable of pointing to the state of Mississippi....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 6:13pm 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
Why Leftists Mistrust Liberals Some of my best friends are liberals. Really. But I have found it is best not to rely on them politically....
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 6:18am PDT
School Beat: Of Rhyme and Reason and Fire On Tuesday evening, the Board of Education (BOE) of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) simultaneously took money from one quarter to fight one fire and rejected money from another that was intended to battle yet a different fire....
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 8:41am PDT
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