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School Beat: Building Integrated Schools Few things are as of much interest to parents of children who will soon be entering elementary, middle or high school then how students are actually assigned to schools. In San Francisco we have had a system of family-ranked preference, called “school choice,” combined with a lottery based on socioeconomic factors for those schools receiving more requests than available openings. That system, known as the “Diversity Index,” was an effort to accommodate individual preferences while simultaneou...
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 6:48am PDT
Germany: Ten thousand demonstrate against university fees On June 29, ten thousand university students, teachers, school pupils and parents from throughout the German state of Hesse demonstrated in Wiesbaden against plans by the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) state administration to introduce a general study fee of 500 euros per term. A limit of up to 1,500 euros per term is envisaged for graduate courses and foreign students from European Union countries. The law is to be introduced in the state parliament in July....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 6:25am PDT
Greece: Mass demonstrations protest assault on public education Students and academic staff in Greece have mounted demonstrations, rallies and occupations of universities for the past four months against plans by the New Democracy government of Constantine Karamanlis to break up the state system of higher education and introduce private universities....
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 7:20am PDT
SF: Imagine! Another World is Possible! Festivities Start at 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco, ca
www.newcollege.edu...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 30, 2006 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2006 3:19pm PDT
Mercury News Continues Misrepresentation of June UCSC Protest Note: This letter is not about the tragic death of UCSC Chancellor Denice Denton, but rather irresponsible journalism in the wake of her passing. I’d encourage folks to read my much more thought out analysis on Denton and the future of UCSC here: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/02/18284784.php...
Posted: Sun, Jul 2, 2006 11:50pm PDT
A Complex Tragedy: Denice Denton and UC Santa Cruz Note: The intended purpose of this piece is to help various activist communities in Santa Cruz, and the UC system at large, better understand Chancellor Denice Denton’s role at the University, and to spark a community conversation about how we will move forward for the better. I have specifically chosen not to speculate about the circumstances surrounding Denton’s death, focusing instead on discussing her achievements, contextualizing her criticism, and analyzing the potential for radical soc...
Posted: Sun, Jul 2, 2006 9:49pm PDT
Mirkarimi Triumphs -- Launches Plan for Sunday Hours at Branch Libraries Ross Mirkarimi has taken a stand for public service and launched a plan to provide Sunday hours for San Francisco users when the vast majority of libraries are closed. Over the objections of the Public Library Administration and by astute legislative maneuvering Ross Mirkarimi was able corral nearly half a million dollars that could be earmarked to provide Sunday hours at branch libraries. City Librarian wanted to save the money for future diversion to capital projects and was clearly flumm...
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 2:37pm PDT
AT&T Associated Companies Under Attack, Including Citibank and Cingular Wireless A special warning to all people who have data or credit cards associated with AT&T. Cingular Wireless has merged with AT&T and they are releasing numbers to third parties without permission. Citibanks AT&T Universal Card Payments Are Coming Up Missing....Cover Your ASS, It looks like another crooked FDIC Squeeze just like the VA data release and FDIC data release. Details are below. Mobile Audit Club at your service...
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 10:15am PDT
A Little Pearl of Financial Irresponsibility -- Privatization at Work in the Library The safeguards of financial accountability got bypassed to approve a "gift" that transfers the expenses of a corporate-philanthropic advertising rag to public funding. A publication that solicits for the corporate interests of Friends & Foundation was approved by "friendly" supervisors in the "wrong" committee. This is a little pearl of a controversy that shows just how shallow the protections of public review really are. This is why privatization always wins. This is what corporate phila...
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 10:14am PDT
GSA Network News: June 28, 2006 1. Urgent Request from Senator Sheila Kuehl
2. GSA Network Activist Camps! APPLY ONLINE NOW - SPOTS GOING FAST!
3. Join GSA Network at the SF AIDS WALK (San Francisco)
4. GSA Network is Hiring! - Development Coordinator (San Francisco)
Other Announcements
Southern California
5. FREE! Indigo Girls Concert (Santa Monica)
Northern California
6. Going through the coming out process and feeling alone? (San Jose)...
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 10:22pm PDT
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking Open House & Screening of Student Films San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
2331 Third Street San Francisco, 94107...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 23, 2006 12:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 11:21am PDT
Denton's Death What are people's thoughts about the suicide of Denice Denton?...
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 8:16am PDT
BREAKING NEWS: UCSC chancellor Denton dies in suicide leap In San Francisco Embattled UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton died today after jumping from the 44th floor of a San Francisco building, authorities said....
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 6:25pm PDT
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor jumps to her death Denice Dee Denton, the controversial chancellor of the University of California-Santa Cruz, allegedly jumped to her death Saturday from the 44th floor of a San Francisco apartment building, the medical examiner's office confirmed....
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 3:56pm PDT
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking Open House & Screening! San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
2331 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 2:17pm PDT
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking Open House & Screening of Student Films San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
2331 Third Street
San Franicsco, CA 94107...
Event Date: Sun, Jun 25, 2006 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 2:04pm PDT
CA Senate Committee Passes Bill to Defund Schools That Don’t Promote Transsexuality, Bisex this is reposted from a right-wing website, because they are the only ones who seem to have covered this vote...
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 10:46am PDT
Forum on Why to Lock More Oakland Youth in Cages Oakland Citycouncilwoman Jane Brunner and Councilman Larry Reid
are planning a forum to address this issue of "youth
criminal activity", asking "Does it seem to you that when young
people are picked up for illegal activity, they
are back on the streets within hours? Are young people
treated less seriously by the police and the criminal
justice system?"...
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 10:12pm PDT
Support Oaxaca teachers on strike! (Videos + article) Below is some raw fottage of what's happening....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 9:53pm PDT
Burning Cole: NeoCons Try To Silence Dissent And Maintain Control of Academia Neoconservatism is an elite calling. It thrives in think tanks, not union halls; its proponents want most of all to influence the powerful. No wonder Ivy League labels have always been important to neocons. This fixation on intellectual prestige explains the recent neocon uprising over the possibility that Juan Cole, scholar and blogger, would become a Yale professor. It was one thing for Cole to hold forth from the University of Michigan, where he has been a professor for twenty years. But Y...
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 7:36am PDT
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