U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan paid a visit Wednesday to 826 Valencia, the Mission-based writing nonprofit founded by educators and authors Níneve Calegari and Dave Eggers. “This is [like] coming home,” Duncan told the volunteers, teachers, parents...
The smell of a savory home-cooked meal filled the air near Marshall Elementary School on Saturday afternoon as nine women peeked into steaming pots filled with dozens of tamales. The women, mothers of Marshall students,...
For the next two weeks, all membership fees for 18 Reasons, the Mission-based nonprofit dedicated to programs on food and community, will go directly to funding scholarships for a food and culinary education camp for...
“Do the cats really watch TV?” asked local eighth-grader Fernando as he stared at a television set inside a cat “apartment” at the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “It’s actually...
One way to get students excited about learning math is to create a holiday for one of the discipline’s most iconic numbers: pi, or 3.14. March 14 was National Pi Day, and Ann Lyon’s ninth-grade...
Mission High School Principal Eric Guthertz has received the annual Dreamcatcher Award from the San Francisco Unified School District Arts Festival for his support of the arts in schools and in the community. The award...
Young women filled the halls of Mission High School on Saturday for a daylong conference organized by Ignite, a California-based organization that encourages young women from low-income communities to become civically engaged and pursue careers...
Dozens of San Francisco youths and several city leaders, including supervisors David Campos and John Avalos, gathered Wednesday afternoon on the steps of Everett Middle School to celebrate a new pilot program that will allow...
