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Despite a video and several witness accounts, police haven't identified or arrested a suspect in the theft of San Francisco school board recall petitions a month ago, with the main witness saying officials believe it could take weeks or longer to decide whether to file charges or make an arrest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco mom Naomi Laguana has spent the better part of 11 years dedicated to the city's public schools, volunteering in classrooms and the front office, serving as PTA president and leading the time-consuming Parent Advisory Committee, which provides input to the school board. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco mom Naomi Laguana has spent the better part of 11 years dedicated to the city's public schools, volunteering in classrooms and the front office, serving as PTA president and leading the time-consuming Parent Advisory Committee, which provides input to the school board. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco classrooms are expected to welcome back all students in the fall, but anger over the closure of district schools during the pandemic has lingered for some families. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco classrooms are expected to welcome back all students in the fall, but anger over the closure of district schools during the pandemic has lingered for some families. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Ahmed Muhammad, the first Black male valedictorian in Oakland Technical High School's history, graduated last month, and in his sendoff message to his classmates - who endured their final year of high school under the cloud of a pandemic - he struck a note of inspiration. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California's COVID vaccination rate is among the highest in the world. And yet, to this day, the state remains the worst in the nation in terms of getting children back to in-person learning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A former student at the exclusive Branson School in Marin County has sued her alma mater for failing to protect her, alleging that an assistant boys basketball coach sexually abused her in the late 1980s and early 1990s and that the head coach, a local legend, knew about the assaults and did not act. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The questions were endless. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco teachers union turned its attention away from city schools and toward international conflict, calling for a boycott of Israel in a strongly worded statement that has angered some families and outraged Jewish organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's public schools are facing an exodus of families during a crisis-filled and difficult pandemic year, which could mean long-lasting fallout for city schools, potentially pitching the district into deeper financial distress in years to come. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When San Francisco high school seniors walk across real stages to receive their diplomas this week, it promises to be bittersweet. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco school district promised a return to five full instruction days a week in the fall and shared new details Tuesday about what a robust reopening will look like. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - State legislators have accused San Francisco's school district of trying to exploit a legal loophole to receive $12 million in state funding to reopen schools for in-person learning, arguing the district did not bring back enough students to qualify for the money. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bay Area high school seniors, who already have endured a most unusual year, face another strange twist: a San Francisco prom night on which there will be "no dancing in the traditional sense," according to city health officials still battling with COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Education advocates are sounding the alarm as state school districts rush to spend roughly $55 billion in state and federal funds aimed to help districts recover from the pandemic and students who struggled academically to catch up. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Alameda County district attorney's office has declined to file criminal charges against the motorist whose SUV fatally struck Catherine Kuo, a mother of two and a Dublin Unified School District trustee, district attorney's officials said Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Education advocates are sounding the alarm as California school districts rush to spend roughly $55 billion dollars in state and federal funds aimed to help districts recover from the pandemic and students who struggled academically to catch up. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The last year has been hectic for Urika Mapusua - but the summer might offer some relief. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At Wallenberg High School on Friday morning, the San Francisco campus remained nearly empty, no happy reunions of classmates or even any evidence that it was supposed to be the first day back for hundreds of seniors across the district. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Close to two years ago, Linh Nguyen found what she thought was her ticket to a job in tech when she enrolled in Lambda School, a San Francisco for-profit coding academy that promises students pay tuition only after they get a good-paying job. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Santa Clara University President Kevin O'Brien, who had been under investigation for alleged misconduct, has resigned from his post after a probe found that he "engaged in behaviors" during dinners with Jesuit graduate students that were "inconsistent with established Jesuit protocols and boundaries," according to a letter obtained by The Chronicle. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Twenty cases of the coronavirus have been recorded among the 20,000 staffers and students who have returned to San Francisco elementary school campuses since the district reopened for in-person learning three weeks ago, health officials said Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Novato grade school has been spared the chopping block following a weeks-long campaign by parents who said their district violated its equity pledge by nominating three of its more diverse campuses for closure. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, have been emphatic that public schools in California must reopen for full-time, in-person learning this fall. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Vallejo High School students were ordered to stay home this week after two students tested positive for COVID-19, a district spokesman said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's school district - flush with nearly $60 million to help students catch up from pandemic-related learning loss - plans to use a large chunk of the federal and state funds to offer expanded summer programming this year and next. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The first coronavirus vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds is expected to receive federal approval in May, and public health and school officials are preparing for how best to reach this young group and persuade kids - and their parents - to get the shots. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Wanted: A reopening consultant who can help get San Francisco public school students back to full-time, in-person learning in the fall. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's 4,000 high school seniors will walk across a real stage this spring to collect their diplomas at in-person, outdoor graduation ceremonies hosted by the city and school district. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California's public schools lost more than 160,000 students amid the pandemic, a striking decline in enrollment that could have a long-term impact on the financial stability of districts across the state. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Opponents of the move to end merit-based admissions at the academically elite Lowell High School are suing the San Francisco school board, claiming it violated the state's open meetings law when it voted in February to accept any student who wins a lottery to attend. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California's public schools lost more than 160,000 students amid the pandemic, a striking decline in enrollment that could have a long-term impact on the financial stability of districts across the state. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Thousands of San Francisco students heading back to their classrooms this month will be carrying their computers to school each day and sitting in front of a screen to learn from their teachers - who will remain at home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's school board has signed on to an unusual agreement to behave "in a dignified and professional manner," ensure that it's "fully informed" so meetings proceed in an "orderly fashion," and eschew extraneous pursuits until the city's schools are, you know, open. In other words, the school board promised to act like a school board. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When San Francisco public schools Superintendent Vincent Matthews agreed to stay on the job for another year just a month after announcing his retirement, he didn't ask for more money. He demanded that the school board behave. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland's teachers union is holding a vote of no confidence in the district's reopening plans, with negotiations breaking down days before a number of elementary, middle and high schools are set to reopen. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The fight over the San Francisco school district's effort to rename 44 schools isn't over yet even though the school board has reversed course. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An employee of a daycare center in San Francisco was charged with possession of child pornography after federal agents said he took and shared videos of partially naked prepubescent girls in the center where he worked. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Schools across California should be ready, willing and able to fully reopen to all students in the fall, albeit with masking, testing and other mitigation efforts, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday at a recently reopened school in Sonoma County. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Thousands of families across San Francisco waved goodbye to their little ones Monday morning, sending them to school for the first time in more than a year and less than eight weeks before the end of the school year, many expressing the same sentiment: Finally. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Daphne Greene was mingling with her former classmates during a reunion at Branson, the private high school in Ross, when her former soccer coach arrived. She spun around and her smile flattened. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco school board voted unanimously Tuesday to reverse its decision to rename 44 schools it deemed were associated with slavery, oppression, genocide and colonization - in a move to avoid an expensive lawsuit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco school board voted unanimously to reverse its decision to rename 44 schools it deemed were associated with slavery, oppression, genocide and colonization in a move to avoid a potentially costly and distracting lawsuit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]