Did you know the big terracotta-roofed building on Vicente Street in the Sunset was once home to the San Francisco Orphan Asylum? That’s what it was called a century ago. Today it's still there. Now called the Edgewood Center for Children and Families, it is the Bay Area's oldest provider of behavioral health services for youth and teens. And it’s poised to tackle some of the present day’s biggest challenges when it comes to mental health.
Read MoreDispatch from Lincoln High is a series that features the reporting of journalism students at Lincoln High School and their student newspaper the Lincoln Log.
Read MoreLowell High School’s student choir traveled to New York City during spring break to compete in a music festival called WorldStrides. They were named “Outstanding Choir” after receiving the highest overall score.
Read MoreToo many skateboards were piling up in front of the secretary’s desk at A.P. Giannini Middle School (kids aren’t allowed to roll down the hallways). So a handy parent solved the gnarly problem with some ingenuity welcomed by school staff.
Read MoreThe streets of the Sunset can use some cleaning. That’s why residents are organizing to clean the streets themselves. Volunteers armed with rubber-tipped grabbers and garbage bags scour the streets for trash several times a month.
Read MoreCan 5th graders write and publish a book? Sunset Elementary teacher Jason Parmele knows they can. His students have spent months creating and illustrating the 12-chapter, 12,000 word tome called Dog Land. It’s an imaginative tale where dogs rule the world.
Read MoreDispatch from Lincoln High is a series that features the reporting of journalism students at Lincoln High School and their student newspaper the Lincoln Log
Read MoreDispatch from Lincoln High is a series that features the reporting of journalism students at Lincoln High School and their student newspaper the Lincoln Log.
Read MoreVisiting all 12 public schools in the Sunset was a priority in my first weeks in office.
Read MoreIt’s an honor to be given the opportunity to lead the next steps as a newly elected city supervisor. How we won.
Read MoreI believe San Francisco’s best days are ahead. We deserve to live in a city that works. Here’s how.
Read MoreDo you still believe in San Francisco? I do. I’m running for supervisor to create our best San Francisco.
Read MoreWe must ensure merit-based admissions remain at Lowell High School and create more pathways and incentives to increase the diversity of applicants. We should also commit to creating more high schools like Lowell with high academic standards.
Read MoreOur children’s well-being and the future of our city is at stake. That’s why we won an epic school board recall. But we’ve only just begun. Next, we need to elect new city supervisors. Most of our supervisors stood by an incompetent school board, which became a glaring example of how they do not represent the will of the voters. We deserve better.
Read MoreWhen the story is written about the historic effort to recall San Francisco’s school board, it must include the Chinese/API parents and grandparents who organized their community to vote for the first time. It's a political earthquake in the making with no going back.
Read MoreThe greatest indictment against San Francisco’s school board is that it neglected its core job: Getting students safely back into classrooms to avoid the harmful learning loss and mental health stress of being isolated at home on Zoom for more than a year.
Read MoreSan Francisco residents are finally pushing back on elected officials who say things are fine when schools, public safety, and housing are in crisis.
Read MoreSan Francisco’s school board remains defiant while facing a recall and refuses to change course in a fiscal crisis that threatens a state takeover. The result is continued enrollment decline, which further reduces revenue and puts the school district into a death spiral. Children suffer the most.
Read MoreSan Francisco’s school board suffers from a self-inflicted “crisis of governance.” Reform is needed, which starts with recalling the most problematic commissioners. The recall is down to the wire in the final month.
Read MoreTwo moms call out the politicians who played games with school reopening while exhausted parents had to organize and protest to become their own heroes in the fight to reopen schools.
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