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Deja Vu: Proposal Aims to Change Student Placement to Desegregate Schools

Racial segregation in San Francisco public schools is back in the news. For parents, however, it’s never gone away.
School Board commissioners Matt Haney and Rachel Norton, and Vice President Stevon Cook, will ask the board Tuesday to end the system the district has been using since 2008 to place students into elementary school. » Read more

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Charters vs. District: The Battle for San Francisco Public Schools

This article was updated Dec. 20 and appears in the winter 2019 print edition of the Public Press.
Charter boosters cite results, but critics say they drain funds, manufacture support and cherry-pick students.
When students at Malcolm X Academy returned to their elementary school in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco in August to begin a new year, they came back to a changed environment. » Read more

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Bayview School Feeling Squeezed by New Charter

Malcolm X Academy sits atop one of the peaks that gives the Bayview district its name. It has commanding views of the bay and downtown San Francisco. The front of the school is decorated with brightly colored murals of the school’s namesake, maps of Africa and the motto of both the slain black leader and the school: “by any means necessary.” » Read more

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Climate Summit Coverage: A Roundup of Links

San Francisco hosted the two-day Global Climate Action Summit, which ended Friday. The gathering, at the Moscone Convention Center, featured dozens of prominent officials, scientists, business leaders and innovators. Here’s a sampling of articles from, about or related to the official summit, the scores of affiliated events happening around the city and region, and climate-related news and research. » Read more

Against the Algorithm

Lila LaHood, publisher, and Michael Stoll, executive director. Photo by Daphne Magnawa // San Francisco Public Press
Though the newspaper and sfpublicpress.org are still the main ways we communicate with readers, like many news organizations we’re always looking ahead toward changes in how people consume local news. We recently tried a new way of connecting directly with readers craving insider info on city politics: Project Text, a two-month pilot in partnership with the Alpha Group at Advance Digital. We deployed veteran political reporter Joe Eskenazi to serve up daily text message tidbits — and several scoops! — around the June election.