Dear Diane, As a retired high school librarian I wanted to share my thoughts about how teachers can provide some meaningful and more personalized opportunities...
In San Francisco, KIPP wants to open a new school in a neighborhood where teachers and parents are working together to improve their local schools—and...
Last night, the San Francisco Board of Education voted unanimously to reject an “Innovate” charter school. The Walton Family Foundation has poured many millions into...
The rightwing, anti-union Walton Family Foundation has funded a group called Innovate to push charter schools as the solution to achievement gaps in San...
Here’s an article from a local newspaper about the school board’s decision. http://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/SF-school-leaders-give-Teach-for-America-a-7463170.php The article provides fairly balanced coverage of the issue. (Thanks, Jill Tucker....
Lita Blanc, a veteran teacher in San Francisco, won election as President of the United Educators of San Francisco, the union representing 6,000 employees of...