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KQED News Fix
For many San Franciscans, S.F. Unified School District’s student assignment system — the so-called lottery — can be overwhelming, stressful and baffling. In many places around the United States, where a child lives determines where he or she attends school. San Francisco does not use this model because of segregated housing patterns. Creating diverse schools is a school district goal. Read the story at KQED News Fix.
KQED News Fix/CALmatters
Lead, a neurotoxin, causes developmental disorders and brain damage. No amount of lead in humans is considered safe. A new law requires public schools to get their drinking water sampled for lead and notify parents if they find traces of it. Districts have until July 2019 to test all campuses, including charter schools. Read the story at KQED NewsFix/CALmatters.
By JoeBill Muñoz, Mission Local
On an already gloomy and rainy day in San Francisco, Salvadorans with temporary protected status in the city learned that they may be forced to leave the country by Sept. 2019, Trump’s administration announced Monday. The Temporary Protected Status program allowed Salvadorans to live and work in the United States after a devastating 2001 earthquake in their home country. The Department of Homeland Security’s statement said: “The substantial disruption of living conditions caused by the earthquake no longer exist.”
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EdSource
The University of California System, the California State University System, community colleges and private colleges are sticking with their prohibition against marijuana on university grounds or in campus buildings, even though pot is now legal in California for adults. Dispensaries began selling cannabis to recreational users last week, but students and employees caught with marijuana on campus can face discipline, even if the pot would have been legal off campus.
Read the story at EdSource.
The Trump administration on Monday ended a three-decade program that provided temporary protection to more than 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants who built lives in the United States after fleeing civil war, earthquakes and hurricanes. They have until September 2019 to either become permanent U.S. » Read more
The recent wildfires that incinerated areas in Northern and Southern California, killing scores of people and destroying thousands of homes and businesses, were among the deadliest and costliest fires in state history. (Los Angeles Times). As the recovery continues, however, so does the misery of displacement and devastation. » Read more
EdSource
As housing costs keep rising in California and elsewhere, more young people are now homeless, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. Among those homeless, one group has it especially tough: young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Read the story at EdSource.
By Kim Todd, Bay Nature
One night a little more than a year ago coyote 02M took off into the dark. He had been born in the Presidio, San Francisco, likely a year and a half before, in an earth den dug under a log and hidden by English ivy or in the pit left by a windfall cypress. For months he wriggled in a mass of brothers and sisters, playing and fighting, waiting for his parents to show up with a nice dead rat. Then, a bit older, he scampered through the landscape of palm trees and cream-colored buildings with red-tile roofs, the smells of ocean and hot pavement, learning to listen for the scratchings of gophers underground and to catch his own. But for the past while, he’d been restless.
KQED News Fix/The California Report
Some local health professionals are saying that the effect of police violence should be studied and dealt with as a public health issue. Advocates say people of color are the most at risk, yet the responsibility for providing healing resources has fallen on community members to take care of their own. Read the story at KQED News Fix/The California Report.