It’s 6:30 a.m., 56° and going to 66°. Details are here.
School bells will soon be ringing for two new schools in the Mission — Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 and Mission Preparatory School.
Horace Mann Middle School and Buena Vista Alternative Elementary School joined forces to form the new Buena Vista Horace Mann, which will now offer a Spanish immersion program through the eighth grade.
As for Mission Preparatory School, Amy Crawford at the Examiner reports that it’s a public charter in the Excelsior district that will be open “to kindergartners this year and plans to add one grade annually until it’s a K-8.”
Crawford spoke to Mission Prep’s founder, Jane Henzerling, who said the school is needed in that area:
“The achievement gap is widest in southeast San Francisco,” she said. “We wanted to site our school in the area where people really need access to an excellent public school.”
Mission Prep’s goal is to get kids to college, Henzerling said. Each classroom is named after the teacher’s alma mater — UC Berkeley, Yale, etc. — and the students will visit college campuses even in kindergarten. The idea, Henzerling said, is to immerse students in a college-going culture to instill in them the idea that they themselves will go on to higher education one day.
BART commuters, you should know that another protest is planned to start today at 5 p.m. at Civic Center station. On their website, “anonymous” protest organizers wrote that they will be “wearing ‘blood’ stained shirts for remembrance to the blood that is on the hands of the BART police.”
Protesters aren’t taking any chances this time: Some tweeted that a mobile hot spot will be set up in case BART shuts down cell service again, while others say they are downloading apps that will allow them to send messages without cell service (has anyone heard about this app?).