City College of San Francisco faces its future
City College of San Francisco is just hours away from its March 15 deadline to fix its budgetary and managerial problems — and chart its future. That’s the date that the Accrediting Commission for...
View ArticleWill City College stay or go?
After a bond measure, board elections, and student marches, City College faces its biggest test ever in the fight over losing its accreditation. Will an oversight agency buy the financial and...
View ArticleCalifornia schools — new direction or doubling down?
Few names are so sure to insure a flood of sfgate.com comments and Chronicle letters to the editor as that of education reformer Michelle Rhee. Rhee, the former schools superintendent of the...
View ArticleCuriosities inspire wonder here and in the Mideast
Before museums gathered up fascinating art and objects for public wonderment and viewing, aristocrats and wealthy individuals in the 16th and 17th centuries filled cabinets with treasured items. In...
View ArticleCalifornia frozen out of Obama administration education initiatives
Teachers have never wavered in their rallying cry to end No Child Left Behind, the Bush era law aimed at closing the achievement gap between high income and low income public school students (and...
View ArticleGetting on board with online education
Concerns that the middle class is being priced out of the public university education that will secure the family future has spurred the Legislature to look at ways to control costs. The silver bullet...
View ArticleAcademic underperformance
The biggest sticking point in education reform in California is the push to link academic performance of the students to the evaluation of the teachers. Reformers, including Michelle Rhee and her...
View ArticleWhat works at troubled schools — play
Call me Pollyanna, but I’m always looking for column ideas that feature simple ways for individuals to address complex social problems. I wrote a few weeks ago about how offering opportunities to...
View ArticleFeds grant a waiver from No Child Left Behind
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced Tuesday that he was granting a waiver from the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind program to eight California school districts including San...
View ArticleFeds ready to pull California school funding over pause in testing
The Obama administration looks ready to make good on its threat to fine California for choosing to suspend school testing required under the No Child Left Behind Law. In a letter sent to California...
View ArticleSpreading The Word on campus (video)
As part of a week-long Kiplinger program that trains journalists in understanding and using digital tools, fellows were assigned to find a scene and shoot it from different angles. We had just received...
View ArticleJerry Brown signs bill to expel school suspensions
When it comes to elementary school students, it just doesn’t make sense to suspend them for a minor infraction. What is the lesson being learned? Is this the only way to deal with adversity? There may...
View ArticleLive chat: Is higher UC tuition justified?
UC president Janet Napolitano and Gov. Jerry Brown are on a collision course over a plan to boost university tuition by up to five percent in each of the next five years. Is it a reasonable way to make...
View ArticleChron quiz: the smokey Senate
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View ArticleChron quiz: Lying & spying
Congress rewrote post-Sept. 11 surveillance laws after a long debate. What’s one major change? Drones will be banned Phone records will stay with telecom firms, not Washington Terrorist suspects in the...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court looks for the union label
After dispensing with health care and same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court signaled where it wants to go next session: straight at the heart of organized labor. The court agreed to decide on a case by...
View ArticleChron quiz, Mexican style
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