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Seattle ON Tap

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The Central Coast Section Just Got Served: Bellarmine's Playoff Game Is ON for Friday Night

Nba logo on gradient background - Created by the Sports On Tap desk | Source : Sports On Tap (team logos property of their respective owners) Bellarmine College Preparatory, on the absolute cusp of their Central Coast Section playoff run, just pulled off a stunning legal upset! A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge granted […]

San Francisco, CA · 1d

Daily Mail

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Outraged millionaire mom sues son's elementary school after he got a bad report card

Weiwei Luo has filed a civil lawsuit against her son's school district, claiming his third grade teacher had been unfair in her comments about him

Palo Alto, CA · 2d

rwcpulse.com

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Redwood City students take home honors in eco poster contest

Three Redwood City students won ReThinkWaste’s 12th annual poster design contest in mid-October. This year’s theme was “Mending Magic,” encouraging youth to draw ways one can fix worn, torn or broken items. First-place posters from the elementary and middle school individual categories will be featured on the side of Recology collection trucks later this year.

Redwood City, CA · 2d
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High schoolers march to downtown Redwood City calling for ICE to leave Bay Area

Over 200 high school students walked out of school on Tuesday morning in protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in the Bay Area. Draped in Mexican flags, student organizers from the Sequoia Union High School District and Midpeninsula School in Menlo Park chanted into a megaphone, “La gente unida jamás será vencida,” their voices echoing among their peers in the streets of downtown Redwood City.

Redwood City, CA · 2d
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Oakland School Board Weighs Fate of East Bay Innovation Academy's High School

East Bay Innovation Academy — Approximate Site Of Grade Elimination. Oakland Unified School District's Board of Education is set to decide Thursday whether East Bay Innovation Academy can permanently shrink from a 6-12 charter school into a middle school serving only grades 6 through 8. The vote caps months of upheaval that began when the school's own governing board moved to eliminate its high school grades before securing district sign-off.

Oakland, CA · 1d

theburlingameb.org

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Football ends three-year Little Big Game losing streak with home victory against San Mateo

Burlingame football (3-2 Peninsula Athletic League (PAL) De Anza, 8-2 overall) defeated its rival, San Mateo High School, in the 99th annual Little Big Game after having lost the previous three clashes in the historic rivalry. Entering the game with a 7-2 record, the Panthers were determined to win and...

Burlingame, CA · 4d

theperennial.org

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Upper Campus Prepares for Historic Renovation

Pinewood will commence its $61.5 million Upper Campus renovation next summer. The renovation will consist of three phases, the last of which will end before the campus reopens for the 2029-30 school year. Throughout the course of the renovation, students will stay on campus. The creation of larger classrooms and...

Palo Alto, CA · 3d

KRON4 News

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Oakland community demands OUSD returns $3.5M in diverted college and career resource funding

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — Students and teachers are accusing the Oakland Unified School District of taking away millions of dollars in funds meant for college prep. However, the school district says the transfer is legal and still supports their students. Oakland students, teachers and commissioners rallied outside OUSD headquarters on Wednesday, demanding the district return […]

Oakland, CA · 2d

SFGate

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For these Gen Z California kids, college's hottest club is Costco

Students are obsessed with the bulk-buying behemoth.

California · 3d

San Francisco Chronicle

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High school football top 10: Ahead of section playoffs, De La Salle retains top spot

The high school football regular season has ended, setting the stage for Metro powers such as No. 1 De La Salle and others to flex their muscles in pursuit of section and even state championships.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA · 4d

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Boys football | Piedmont closes season with win

The Piedmont High School boys football team closed out its season with a 33-0 win at Alameda on Nov. 6. The Highlanders finished the year with a 4-6 record. Vaha Mafi had a big game, rushing for 129 yards and a touchdown on 16 carries. Cyrus Emanuelson completed 13 of 26 passes for 170 yards and a touchdown. Colby Hong returned an interception 27 yards for a touchdown as well.

Piedmont, CA · 3d

Mission Local

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SFUSD says Bernal school is ‘transitioning.’ Parents say it’s closing.

Junipero Serra Annex Early Education School will close at the end of the school year, according to letters from San Francisco Unified School District officials sent to parents this fall. SFUSD says Bernal school is ‘transitioning.’ Parents say it’s closing.

San Francisco, CA · 3d

Mission Local

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Viz Valley Middle School had no PTA, so teachers created a nonprofit instead

It was no surprise to music teacher Lauren Schwartz when SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su, announcing the district’s new enrollment system last month, acknowledged that the city’s schools are inequitably resourced.  […] Viz Valley Middle School had no PTA, so teachers created a nonprofit instead

San Francisco, CA · 3d

legis1.com

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Pleasanton District Hires AdvocacyBuild on Education

Pleasanton (Kan.) Unified School District 344 hired AdvocacyBuild LLC to lobby on education (EDU), according to a new client registration signed Sept. 29. The filing lists federal funding, workforce development, career technical education and the Every Student Succeeds Act. ​. The registration names Tyson Elbert as the lobbyist and lists...

Pleasanton, CA · 3d

Seattle ON Tap

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The Yelling Match That Kicked Off a 40-Year Legacy: Chris Kyriacou Wins Inaugural John Beam Award

Ncaab on gradient background - Created by the Sports On Tap desk | Source : Sports On Tap (team logos property of their respective owners) Chris Kyriacou, the physical education teacher at Bishop O’Dowd High School and the powerhouse coach for the Oakland Wildcats youth travel baseball team, just officially snagged the Chronicle’s inaugural John […]

Oakland, CA · 4d

sfstandard.com

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SFUSD’s struggle to recover from COVID, explained in 5 charts

After the pandemic hit in March 2020, San Francisco kept most of its public school students out of classrooms for nearly a year and a half. By the time schools fully reopened in August 2021, the San Francisco Unified School District had lost 5,000 students, and those who stayed had fallen behind.

San Francisco, CA · 5d

Alameda Post

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Alameda High School Brings a Delightful ‘Emma’ to the Stage

My personal Jane Austen fantasy is that I get to wear an empire-cut dress, have ribbons woven into my hair, dance with grace, spit wit, then win the love of my life and retire to a countryside estate with a killer garden. In place of that, what I actually do get to do is see others live that life, most recently onstage, in the wonderful production of Emma, the fall play of the Alameda High School Drama Department, directed by Anneka Fagundes.

Alameda, CA · 3d

The Associated Press

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Takeaways from AP's report on school closures in the US

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — The start of a new school year can be nerve-wracking under any circumstances. But for thousands of students across the U.S., this academic year brought the added difficulty of adjusting to an entirely new school after their previous ones shuttered. As U.S. birth rates continue a multidecade slide and state and federal education funding dries up, an increasing number of cash-strapped school districts around the country have resorted to closing campuses to save money. At the same time, new research shows student enrollment has fallen much faster than schools are closing, suggesting more painful financial choices lie ahead. The Associated Press is covering school closures in partnership with The Hechinger Report and Big Local News at Stanford University. These are some takeaways from their reporting. School closures are accelerating A total of 1,156 U.S. schools closed during the last academic year — the highest number since the pandemic, according to an analysis of federal data by Big Local News at Stanford University. For example, the Vallejo City Unified School District, a working-class district near San Francisco, serves half as many students as it did two decades earlier. District leaders have closed five campuses since 2025 —

Vallejo, CA · 5d

ccspin.net

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Open mic: Pittsburg High club provides platform for young people to express themselves

One by one, each student came to the mic, accepting the warm embrace of the crowd’s encouragement. Previous worries of speaking have gone with the wind as each shared poetry, spoken word pieces, or thought-provoking revelations. The performers are “Off the Streets, Onto Stages” — the motto for the...

Pittsburg, CA · 8d