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Lowell students call for increased bus service to Sunset District high school  San Francisco Examiner

Teens say poor *service* on 29 Sunset makes students late, deters some from enrolling.

SF school board changes Lowell admission policy to increase black enrollment  San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco school board took a small step toward increasing access to the academically elite Lowell High School, allowing all qualified applicants from a ...

Lowell High School’s competitive selection process may violate state law  San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco's Lowell High School, ranked among the best public schools in the nation, has long admitted high academic achievers to secure its elite status, ...

SF High School Bomb Threat: All Clear At Lowell H.S.  Patch.com

SF High School Bomb Threat: All Clear At Lowell HS - San Francisco, CA - The school and neighboring Lakeshore Elementary School were evacuated as a ...

US News Best High Schools 2019: SF Schools Make List  San Francisco, CA Patch

San Francisco Schools Makes Elite US News List - San Francisco, CA - U.S. News & World Report released its 2019 Best High Schools list Tuesday. Here's how ...

San Francisco high school theater program remembers alum Carol Channing  KGO-TV

A Broadway legend has died. Carol Channing who grew up in San Francisco, engaged audiences with her effervescent voice. She was 97 years old.

San Francisco High School Ranked In 2019 Niche List  San Francisco, CA Patch

San Francisco High School Ranked In '19 Niche List - San Francisco, CA - Niche ranked the best public high schools in California. See how high Lowell High ...

SF Preps Tennis: Lincoln boys’ tennis players advance to All-City quarterfinals  San Francisco Examiner

Several members of the Lincoln boys' tennis team advanced in the San Francisco Section All-City Tournament during competition at Lowell High School on ...

The 25 best Bay Area high schools  The Mercury News

These schools were ranked among California's best by U.S. News and World Report this year.

Protesting Racist Incidents, Lowell High School Students Walk Out  Hoodline

29 students at the city's public Lowell High School walked out of class today, in protest of racist incidents that have been occurring at their school. The most ...

32 Bay Area schools on state's 'Distinguished' list  SFGate

The Bay Area laid claim to 32 of the 162 middle and high schools honored as Distinguished Schools by the state Department of Education for 2019. The East ...

The daunting struggle to diversify elite public high schools  PBS NewsHour

San Francisco's Lowell High School is one of the most selective public schools in the country. But the school's selectivity means that black and Latino students, ...

San Francisco sheriff, citing health and family, won't seek second term in November  KGO-TV

San Francisco's first elected female sheriff, Vicki Hennessy, announced she won't seek re-election in November.

Here's how 10 San Francisco high schools performed on the AP exams  SFGate

San Francisco's Lowell High School had the highest number of passing scores on the Advanced Placement exams in 2015-16 and the highest percentage of ...

Students reenter SF's Lowell High School after bomb threat  abc7news.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- Students and staff were allowed back into Lowell High School in San Francisco this afternoon after police searched for a reported bomb, ...

TNH's 50 Wealthiest Greeks in America 2019 List  The National Herald

Welcome to The National Herald's Annual 50 Wealthiest Greeks in America List! It is my honor and privilege to spearhead this project for the first time this year.

Roger Thompson Obituary - Oakland, CA | San Francisco Chronicle  Legacy.com

Roger C Thompson June 1, 1926 - Dec 30, 2018 Former Chronicle reporter Roger Thompson died on Dec 30, 2018. He was born in 1926 in Wisconsin, and ...

National Merit Scholarships: More Bay Area winners revealed  East Bay Times

More Bay Area high school students have been named winners in the National Merit Scholarship program, securing money to help them go to college. After the ...

Lowell High penis letter a senior prank?  SFGate

High school seniors play pranks. And as pranks go, this one's pretty good. Lowell High School officials are trying to find out who wrote a certain letter this week at ...

Burlingame School Named Among Best Public High Schools In CA  Patch.com

Burlingame School Named Among Best Public Schools - Burlingame-Hillsborough, CA - Niche includes traditional, charter and magnet schools in its 2019 list of ...

Lowell Class of '62 reclaims building for reunion  San Francisco Chronicle

Borrowing their beloved brick campus back from City College of San Francisco, the last high school class to walk these halls for four years filed upstairs and into ...

Top 100 Public High Schools In CA For 2019  Fremont, CA Patch

Top 100 Public High Schools In CA For 2019 - Fremont, CA - Niche includes traditional, charter and magnet schools in its 2019 list of Top California Public High ...

Beverly Hills School Named Among Best Public High Schools In CA  Beverly Hills, CA Patch

Beverly Hills School Among Best CA High Schools - Beverly Hills, CA - Niche includes traditional, charter and magnet schools in its 2019 list of Top California ...

1,500 CA High Schools Made Elite U.S. News & World 2019 List  Manhattan Beach, CA Patch

These CA Schools Made Elite US News List - Manhattan Beach, CA - U.S. News & World Report ranked more than 17000 schools, an increase from 2700 last ...

Deaths for the week of Feb. 8, 2019  The Jewish News of Northern California

Bea Cahn passed away on Nov. 17, 2018 at the age of 97. A third-generation Californian and native of San Francisco, she attended Lowell High School and the ...

National Merit Scholarships: And the Bay Area winners are …  East Bay Times

Dozens of Bay Area high school students have been named winners in the National Merit Scholarship program, securing money to help them go to college.

The 10 best Bay Area public high schools ranked by SAT scores for 2018  San Francisco Business Times

If you're looking for an academic powerhouse of a public high school, the East Bay and Marin remain your best bets.

Squaring The Circle: Eighth-Grade Algebra and the 2018 School Board Race  thebaycitybeacon.com

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) made headlines with a surprising turnabout on its much-criticized school assignment policy. That leaves ...

San Francisco List: 2019 National Merit Scholarship Winners  San Francisco, CA Patch

SF Winners: 2019 National Merit Scholarships - San Francisco, CA - Here's the list of local students who will receive $2500 scholarships.

Deaths for the week of Sept. 21, 2018  The Jewish News of Northern California

Robert “Bud” Jacob died peacefully at home on Aug. 18 just after his 89th birthday. A San Francisco native, he was born Aug. 4, 1929 to Pearl and Edwin Jacob.

San Francisco's top-performing schools, according to recent test scores  SFGate

State education officials released standardized test scores from the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress Wednesday, and they paint a ...

Twenty-One Bay Area Schools in the Top 100 Public High Schools in California: Report  NBC Bay Area

Twenty-one schools in the Bay Area are in the top 100 public high schools in California, according to a report. U.S. News ranked all of the public schools in the ...

San Ramon School Named Among Best Public High Schools In CA  San Ramon, CA Patch

DVHS Named Among Best Public High Schools In CA - San Ramon, CA - Niche includes traditional, charter and magnet schools in its 2019 list of Top California ...

Carol Channing had unique ideas for a final San Francisco resting place  The Mercury News

Carol Channing, the Broadway legend who grew up in San Francisco, reportedly discussed several unique ideas for returning to her hometown after her death, ...

San Francisco Bay Area schools sending the most kids to Harvard, Princeton and MIT  SFGate

Image 1 of 53. San Francisco Bay Area schools sending the most kids to Harvard and MIT in the state, according to PolarisList. 15) Balboa High School, San ...

La Cañada School Named Among Best Public High Schools In CA  Patch.com

La Cañada School Among Best CA High Schools - La Cañada Flintridge, CA - Niche includes traditional, charter and magnet schools in its 2019 list of Top ...

2 San Mateo Schools Among 100 Best Public High Schools  San Mateo, CA Patch

Area Schools Among '100 Best' Public High Schools - San Mateo, CA - New ratings from Niche rank the 100 best public high schools in California. Six schools ...

Student Press Freedom Day — Jan. 30, 2019  Student Press Law Center

It's time to raise your voice. Make plans now to take part in a nationwide Student Press Freedom Day Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019. Use #StudentPressFreedom on ...

To 'slay' communication with his students, high school teacher makes Gen Z dictionary  KRON4

MASSACHUSETTS (CNN) - Slang can be hard across any generational gap. Baby boomers may have been confused to hear about an "airhead" in the 1980s or ...

Sydney Goldstein, founder of City Arts & Lectures, dies at 73  San Francisco Chronicle

Sydney Goldstein, the founder and driving force behind City Arts & Lectures, the popular onstage conversation series with…

Fearing tobacco and vape bans will tank businesses, corner stores want to sell cannabis  San Francisco Examiner

Cigarettes are out. Cannabis is in. Corner store owners are seeing their futures go up in smoke, as a recent tobacco ban and proposed new vape ban threaten ...

2019 National Merit Scholarship List: California  Walnut Creek, CA Patch

2019 National Merit Scholarship List: California - Walnut Creek, CA - Here's the complete list of California students awarded $2500 scholarships.

Hundreds of Bay Area students named National Merit Scholars semifinalists; see the list  The Mercury News

Hundreds of Bay Area students are semifinalists in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program that honors academic excellence.

OC Schools Named Among Best Public High Schools In CA  Patch.com

OC Schools Among Best Public High Schools In CA - Orange County, CA - Niche includes traditional, charter and magnet schools in its 2019 list of Top ...

SF Glens sign three homegrown youth academy players to USL League Two team  San Francisco Examiner

Xander Sagatelyan, Kevin Estrada, and Diego Grande make the jump from SF Glens Evolution.

How Carol Channing reconnected with - and married! - her high school sweetheart 70 years later  AOL

After marrying three times previously, Broadway and film star Carol Channing found her last love in her high school sweetheart.

This Beauty Queen Uses Her Platform To Ease Mental Health Stigma In Asian American Community  KPBS

Sophia Ng started competing in pageants to raise awareness around mental health, especially among the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

Newport Beach School Named Among Best Public High Schools In CA  Newport Beach, CA Patch

Newport Named Among Best Public High Schools In CA - Newport Beach-Corona Del Mar, CA - Niche includes traditional, charter and magnet schools in its ...

Adele Caroline Stone | Obituaries  San Mateo Daily Journal

Adele Caroline Stone, who celebrated her 100th birthday Sept. 29, 2018, died Dec. 16, 2018.

Harvey Rogers  Tiburon Ark

Longtime Belvedere resident Harvey Sanford Rogers, a two-time Citizen of the Year and master gardener known for creating the richly hued Blackie's Pasture ...

California high school students graduating at record rate  SFGate

High school graduation rates hit a record high across California, with the biggest gains made by students most at risk of dropping out, according to statewide ...

The Bay Area's top 30 public high schools of 2016  SFGate

San Francisco's Lowell High School was rated #1 in the Bay Area in the latest US News and World Report rankings of top public high schools in America.

SF school board election: Collins, Lopez and Moliga win seats  San Francisco Chronicle

Alison Collins, Gabriela Lopez and Faauuga Moliga won seats Tuesday night on the San Francisco school board. Election results showed Collins topping the ...

Deaths for the week of Dec. 14, 2018  The Jewish News of Northern California

Passed away in her warm home from natural causes. Sarah was a beloved mother to Harold, Frances (Kurlan), Joel and Gary; mother-in-law to Lizbeth Davis, ...

St. Gabriel School celebrates 7 decades of memories  Catholic San Francisco

Mercy Sister Janet Rozzano graduated from St. Gabriel School in 1952. (Courtesy Photos) October 25, 2018. Christina Gray Students of St. Gabriel School in ...

San Francisco Middle Schools No Longer Teaching 'Algebra 1'  KQED

Parents of high-achieving students say delaying the course until high school will slow children's progress.

Obituary of Janet Elaine Wright  The Union of Grass Valley

Janet Elaine Wright died on Sunday, March 10, 2019, in Palo Alto, CA. She was 82. She battled with Alzheimer's disease for ten years and is finally at peace.

Lowell Quarter Launch Ceremony Highlights  CoinNews.net

On Wednesday, Feb. 6, quarters celebrating Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts were officially introduced to the public.

Mammoth new CPMC hospital transforms Van Ness corridor  SFBay

Sutter Health's $2.1 billion new California Pacific Medical Center Van Ness campus opens its doors to patients on Saturday just seven months after its Mission ...

California Has 524 U.S. News Best Schools In The Country For 2018  Banning, CA Patch

CA Home To 524 Of Nation's Best Schools: U.S. News - Banning-Beaumont, CA - ​U.S. News & World Report released its annual list of best high schools in the ...

Darius Thomas, a promising young scholar from Bayview Hunters Point  San Francisco Bay View

Statement from his family. Darius Thomas. Darius Ja'Quan Thomas was a promising young scholar from Bayview Hunters Point, whose life was cut short on April ...

Linda Parker Pennington: Why I moved to the Hunters Point Shipyard  San Francisco Bay View

by Linda Parker Pennington. Linda Parker Pennington. “So you're going to be part of the gentrification,” my friend declared when, in late 2014, I told him that my ...

Why is San Francisco the state’s worst county for black student achievement?  CALmatters

San Francisco, a progressive enclave and beacon for technological innovation, has the worst black student achievement of any county in California. Only 19 ...

15 things you might not know about Marc Benioff  SF Gate

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff has attracted quite a bit of attention as of late. Benioff was raised in Hillsborough and attended Burlingame High School. A young ...

When Asian women marry outside of their culture, the harshest criticism they face sometimes comes from Asian men  89.3 KPCC

Last week, novelist Celeste Ng wrote an essay that made waves online detailing her personal experience being harassed for being a Chinese-American woman ...

Mark Alan Schlesinger  Sierra Sun

September 11, 1950 ~ June 28, 2018After growing tired of his battle with cancer, Mark Schlesinger moved on to the ski slopes of the great beyond during the ...

Raymond James Malispina  Union Democrat

We mourn the loss and celebrate the life of Raymond James Malispina of Sonora, a loving, gentle man who passed away on Feb. 9 at the age of 84, surrounded ...

Bay Area Soccer: SF Glens add youth players, Quakes take on SKC, Napa Valley & Oakland Stompers host  SFGate

The SF Glens created their USL2 team last year to offer a development path for their youth academy. On Wednesday that process started in earnest with the ...

As Courts Flip-Flopped on School Integration, Diversity Has Remained Elusive  San Francisco Public Press

By 2005, when a federal judge lifted the most recent desegregation orders, San Francisco Unified School District had been trying for more than three decades to ...

Nearly 4250 Apply to New Harvard Early Admission Program  New York Times

Last week, The Choice published a chart with early admission application figures — most of them increases over last year — at 25 colleges. That chart has now ...

How many homeless S.F. schoolkids? Enough to fill 70 classrooms  SFGate

One out of every 25 San Francisco schoolkids is homeless. In other words, if you put all those 2,100 students together, they would fill 70 to 80 classrooms and ...

Marine Mike Myatt’s rescue mission keeps Fleet Week afloat  San Francisco Chronicle

In 2009, the Fleet Week tradition on San Francisco Bay was about to die from disinterest. The Parade of Ships had shrunk to a Parade of Ship, and the U.S. Navy ...

The Yankees’ Asst. GM Jean Afterman has to be a candidate for the Giants’ GM search  McCovey Chronicles

It's not too early to speculate about the GM search because the Giants need to hire someone before the end of October. Larry Baer has said multiple times ...

Natural methods help overcome infertility  Catholic San Francisco

Rose Oaferina and family. (Courtesy photo) May 10, 2018. Valerie Schmalz This is the sixth in a series on the 50th anniversary of the papal encyclical “Humanae ...

Ivy League or Bust / What does it take to make it through today's college marketing mill? And can we stop it?  San Francisco Chronicle

In 1990, my husband and I made a terrible academic mistake. We gave birth to our daughter. Had we been more strategically adept parents, we would have ...

Remembering Frederick Street's Polytechnic High School  Hoodline

A look back at the former Polytechnic High School and its unique history in the neighborhood.

Here's 11 possible candidates for Giants' baseball ops job  NBCSports.com

The Giants' biggest decision this offseason won't be about a player. Their most important decision will be who they hire to run the baseball operations. And it will ...

School chief gets reacquainted with Sequoia | Local News  San Mateo Daily Journal

Mary Streshly hit the ground running with her ear to the street as soon as she was hired as superintendent of the Sequoia Union High School District.

Facebook Gives Every 8th Grader at Everett a Laptop  Mission Local

Principal Lena Van Haren called 8th graders at Everett Middle School to the auditorium to hear about high school applications. They filed in, sat, and.

Longtime coach named Heritage's athletic director | Sports  thepress.net

Heritage High School teacher Nate Smith, a veteran high school and college coach, has been named the Patriots' new athletic director.

Why San Francisco Needs a YIMBY Ballot Measure, According to One YIMBY  thebaycitybeacon.com

Pro-development activists partner with affordable housing developers to streamline affordable housing construction. So how does it work?

Carol Channing remembered by Harlan Boll  Los Angeles Blade

(Editor's note: Gay Hollywood publicist B. Harlan Boll was close with his friend and client Carol Channing for forever, it seemed. When the Broadway icon died ...

SF student killed by alleged DUI driver  San Francisco Chronicle

A 17-year-old girl crossing Sloat Boulevard was struck and killed by a car driven by a suspected drunken driver, San Francisco police said Monday. The driver ...

Bruce Bochy on Giants’ next boss: ‘My job is to make it work’  San Francisco Chronicle

Bruce Bochy has managed in the big leagues for 24 years and worked with just four general managers, all with different backgrounds, different ideas and ...

Deaths for the week of April 6, 2018  Jweekly.com

Regina “Rifka” Dombek born May 7, 1926 to Joseph Sofnoski and Edith Fishman. Passed from this life on March 30, 2018. Loving mother to Bobbie Dombek ...

Another Pedestrian Killed at Sloat and 36th  Streetsblog San Francisco

The intersection on Sloat where a man was struck and mortally wounded by a motorist yesterday. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick. Facebook · Twitter · Google Plus ...

High schools curb driver's ed as interest dies  San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco school board is looking to abolish the graduation requirement, offering the classroom course only as an elective. In the late 1980s, virtually ...

Bill Evers, SF environmentalist and attorney, dies at 90  San Francisco Chronicle

During a long and distinguished career, Mr. Evers switched between private practice and public *service*. An activist in eradicating urban blight, he chaired the ...

DA: Suspect in SF killing shot victim in neck while cousin showered  San Francisco Chronicle

A suspect in a Christmas-weekend killing in San Francisco's Excelsior neighborhood shot the victim in the neck while a third man inside the home took a shower, ...

A Hawaiian war god statue that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff bought for $7 million and donated to a museum could be a Tiki bar tchotchke worth just $5000 (CRM)  SFGate

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's love for the Hawaiian islands knows no bounds. The San Francisco billionaire and island enthusiast purchased a rare carving of ...

Dorothy Barker Rouse | Obituaries  San Mateo Daily Journal

Dorothy Barker Rouse, of Redwood City, born on Jan. 7, 1925, in San Francisco, died May 30, 2018.

2018 USTFCCCA High School T&F Coaches of the Year (State-By-State Winners)  U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association

NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced the state-by-state winners of its fifth annual High ...

Meet the Mayor: Amy Harrington has firm grip on the gavel  Sonoma Index-Tribune

When Mayor Amy Harrington moved from San Francisco to Sonoma she became deeply committed to keeping it as she considers it to be: the best place in the ...

FULL LIST: Top 100 High Schools in California As Reported by U.S. News  Patch.com

The time of year has come once again for public high schools nationwide to see how they stack up against their peers. U.S. News & World Report's 'Best High ...

San Francisco officials asking residents to shelter in place on 30th Ave. near Irving  San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco officials are asking residents to shelter in place on 30th Avenue between Irving and Judah streets as they negotiate with a man who is refusing ...

HS Football, Week 4: O'Rourke, Seymour carry Sharks past Harker School  Register Pajaronian

(Players react as St. Francis' Joseph Ramirez (12) intercepts a Harker throw in the endzone Friday. Photo by Carlos Torres/For the Register-Pajaronian).

Judge for a day at the Mission Pie baking contest  Mission Local

Mid-August I accept the offer almost before it lands in my inbox: I'm going to be a judge in Mission Pie's 12th Annual Community Pie Baking contest!

Boys' Wrestler of the Year: Burlingame's Kyle Botelho  San Mateo Daily Journal

Burlingame's Kyle Botelho is playing lacrosse this spring just so he can take a break from his wrestling training.

Here Are The Best Public Schools In California For 2017  Patch.com

Best Public Schools In California For 2017 - Beverly Hills, CA - The rankings were released this week. See how your child's school performed.

In Their Words: Discovering The Past Of NoPa's Lowell Pharmacy  Hoodline

The city was once covered with small pharmacies run by true San Franciscan characters. Here's a glimpse into one of them, which is now Bread and Butter Cafe.

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