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Nato Green started hanging out at San Francisco comedy clubs when he was in eighth grade. Nato's parents met when they both still lived in the suburbs of Chicago. They got married in 1968 and moved to San Francisco soon after that. Nato says that they “were in the counter-culture, but bad at it.” What he means by that is they didn't take their subversive lifestyles all the way like many of their peers did. But they were definitely left-leaning folks. They settled in Noe Valley, which was quite a different neighborhood back then. It was much more working-class than it is today. Think: blue-collar Irish- and Italian-American families. They had their first kid, Nato, and five years later, their second, his younger brother. When Nato was in middle school, his parents split up. He went with his dad to live at 22nd Street and Dolores, and then up to Bernal Hill. He split time between there and his mom's house in Noe Valley. Nato is quick to point out that Bernal Heights was also very different back then. There were even unpaved roads on the hill when he was a kid in the Seventies. Today, Nato uses history and some pop-culture references to date his own memories here in San Francisco. He remembers things like the Mosone/Milk murders and ensuing “White Night” riots, to name just one. The Forty-Niners' string of Super Bowl wins in the Eighties are another. Nato admits that he wasn't the best big brother. He lists off some of the SF schools he attended—Rooftop Elementary, MLK Middle School, and Lick-Wilmerding High School, where he went on a scholarship. His dad worked to the SFUSD for 35 years and worked on desegregation, among other things. He also taught in SF public schools. Nato says he was a “sensitive, depressed kid.” He read a lot, especially comic books. He graduated from high school in 1993, when the local music scene was overtaken by thrash/funk. Bands of that genre were plenty. Nato went to those shows, where he was able to, anyway. He wasn't yet 21. The first indie comic book store in The City was on 23rd Street in the Mission—The SF Comic Company, and two doors down was Scott's Comics and Cards. Nato became a Scott's regular. Others who hung out there a lot became his buddies. The SF band Limbomaniacs lived next to Scott's. Nato goes on a sidebar here about how bands in the thrash/funk scene never really blew up, mostly owing to what a uniquely live experience the music was. In 1990, when the Niners won the Super Bowl in a blowout, the Limbomanics played with guitar amps at the windows of their Victorian on 23rd Street, facing out. As Nato tells it, skater kids poured out of that house, and other neighborhood kids flocked to the scene. A mosh pit soon emerged, of course, on the asphalt. Nato goes on another quick sidebar here about all the different neighborhoods and scenes interacting on a regular basis. At least when he grew up, they did. Nato's main modes of transportation in San Francisco were his feet and Muni. The main bus lines were the 24, the 49, and the 67. His high school was on Ocean Avenue, but he mostly hung out in the Mission. One of his good friends lived in Lower Haight and had a car, so Nato would sometimes take Muni over there. That buddy with a car would also swing by and pick up Nato and his friends. They'd often go to the west side of town and hang out in coffeeshops. Nato rattles off several of those shops, also letting us what occupies those spaces today—Farley's (still there), Higher Grounds in Glen Park (still there), Higher Grounds in The Mission (closed), Café Macondo (Gestalt today), Blue Danube (still there), and the Horse Shoe (empty today). There's another sidebar about Jello Biafra. Nato says, “Don't meet your heroes.” As mentioned up top, he started hanging out at comedy clubs in The City when he was in eighth grade. There was a show on KQED called Comedy Tonight that featured local comics. Originally, the show was shot at Wolfgang's (now Cobb's), but it later moved to Great American Music Hall. Alex Bennet was on Live 105 in the morning and Comedy in the Park was drawing 50,000 people to the Polo Fields. There were five seven-nights-a-week clubs in SF, and at least five more around the Bay. People made a living as regional headliners. Around this time, Nato's eighth grade science teacher's roommate was the doorman at Cobb's. Word got around to that guy that a kid was into comedy, and so he started taking him to that club. He saw comedians such as Greg Proops, Dana Gould, Paula Poundstone, Mark Pitta, Johnny Steele, Will Durst, Greg Behrendt, and Margaret Cho. He watched these folks, some of them anyway, become headliners. Check back next week for Part 2 and the conclusion of our episode on Nato Green. We recorded this episode at Nato's home on Bernal Hill in January 2025. Photography by Nate Oliveira

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Jeremy Mack (from The Phoenix Project, which exposes dark money in Bay Area politics) is back for a discussion about upcoming elections, TogetherSF, the billionaire-funded, "pro-moderate" astroturfing group behind SF's Prop. D, and Balaji Srinivasan's plan for "The Network State," a techbro-led New World Order complete with a walled-off Hayes Valley.   The Phoenix Project: https://www.phoenixprojectnow.com/  Instagram: @phoenixprojnow | Twitter: @phoenixprojnow   Past episodes mentioned:  -Alison Collins on being recalled from SFUSD: https://www.patreon.com/posts/project-2025-in-111973369  -Anna Kirsch on the billionaire attempt to create a billionaire's compound in Solano County, "California Forever": https://www.patreon.com/posts/video-planning-f-107097104    "The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of 'Blues'" (Gil Duran, The New Republic): https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat   "SF Dems' sexual-misconduct inquiry puts politico Jay Cheng back in the spotlight" (Joe Rivano Barros, Mission Local): https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/sf-dems-sexual-misconduct-committee-puts-allegations-against-politico-jay-cheng-back-in-spotlight/      Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco  

It looks like San Francisco schools superintendent Matt Wayne might not have a job come tomorrow. That's because the city's school board announced a notice for an emergency meeting to vote in closed session on the fate of the superintendent, putting an end to a weeks-long debate over his ability to lead the district. For more on this, KCBS Radio anchor Bret Burkhart spoke with KCBS Insider Phil Matier.

The drama continues for SFUSD today. Plus, a local clown of the day wasn't having a good day on the job at the San Leandro Costco. 

SFUSD's handling of potential school closures is raising concerns. And, Cafe du Nord has brought us local music for over 100 years. Then, a new film about a trailblazing ballet dancer.

00:08 — Joe Eskenazi, managing editor and columnist at Mission Local. 00:20 — Steve Phillips is founder of Democracy in Color. His latest book is How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good.  00:33 — Joseph Sanberg is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur, and represents the Yes on Prop 32 campaign. John Kabateck is the California state director with the National Federation of Independent Business, and represents the No on Prop 32 campaign. 00:50 — Dr. Enrique Lopezlira is the director of the Low Wage Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. The post SFUSD School Closures; Electoral Map Ahead for Harris; Plus, CA Proposition 32 Debate and Explainer appeared first on KPFA.

State of the Bay unpacks the recent chaos at the San Francisco Unified School District, delves into the Bay Area's persistent struggle to provide enough affordable homes for its residents and interviews naturalist & author Obi Kaufmann

Project 2025 soft launched in San Francisco years ago, with successful attempts to replace politicians with people who are obedient to the rightwing. Because it's the Bay, these replacements are registered as Democrats and they virtue signal about diversity, but make no mistake, they are deeply aligned with rightwing forces like the Heritage Foundation.  This episode's guest Alison Collins is a SFUSD teacher and former school board member who was recalled in a rightwing recall campaign in 2022. Ali's Patreon: www.patreon.com/justtalkspodcast Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco  

Dear Loyal Readers,August has arrived. This means (at least) three things are true:* It's my birthday tomorrow. (Because I'm a Leo, I'll be celebrating all month.)* School is starting soon (very soon).* You deserve a blockbuster issue. Because why not?We've had a ton of new subscribers lately, so before launching into today's issue, I want to say thank you for signing up. Welcome to Article Club. We're a kind, thoughtful reading community that believes that reading and discussing the best articles on race, education, and culture will grow our empathy.One thing we do here (if you're interested) is a deep dive on one article a month. We read it, annotate it, listen to the author's viewpoints on it, and discuss it on the last Sunday afternoon of the month, on Zoom.That's what today's issue is all about. No matter if you're a new or longtime reader, I encourage you to participate. If you're feeling extra bold, why not sign up now, even before I reveal the article?All right, in case you need more information before you take the leap, I'm excited to announce this month's article: “Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?” Written by Gail Cornwall and published in The Hechinger Report, the article is perfect for us to discuss as we head into the new school year.If public schools matter to you, if you're a parent or a teacher, if you care about issues of race and class, if you are feeling hopeless, if you want to feel hopeful, if you worry about whether public schools will survive — this article might be for you.Here's what you can expect in today's issue:* My blurb about this month's article* Some information about the author* A double feature podcast episode: interviews with both the author of the article, Gail Cornwall, and the subject of the article, Lauren Koehler* Information on what comes next if you want to join us this monthAll right, let's get to it.

Today we feature stories from SFUSD students. We hear why vaping is exploding in popularity among teens. Then we learn, how videogames are left one high schooler feeling disconnected from his friends. And, why media representation matters to young people.

In today's episode, we hear how one studio is working to make glass blowing more approachable. Then, an update from Superintendent Matt Wayne on San Francisco's Unified School District. And, El Cerrito author Maya Ealey reads from her new book.

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Have you ever wondered what it was like to grow up in the 1920s? Our guest this week knows, as she was born in 1923! Anne Marie Bosque Collins was a mother of nine children, an SFUSD primary grade teacher, and a San Francisco Native. Anne's childhood days were spent in the avenues of the Sunset/Parkside District where she played street hockey, rode go-karts, slid down the sand dunes, and watched the construction of new houses. The Prohibition, Great Depression, and World War II shaped her coming of age. After graduating from San Francisco College for Women, Lone Mountain, Anne married T. Gregory Collins. She raised their 9 children and grandchildren through the many cultural phases of San Francisco, embracing every moment along the way. Her children's friends became her friends, and she was the first person with whom everyone wanted to share their good news. Anne adored dancing, spending time with children, and continually learning about people around her. In her retirement, she spent time in Europe and joined the Peace Corps. She embodied life-long learning and an open-minded San Francisco spirit. On August 1st, after 100 years of life in the city of her birth, Anne Marie passed away quietly at home. We feel so lucky to have been able to learn from her before she died and will treasure our interview for a long time to come. This episode is a tribute to her. In memory of Anne Marie Bosque Collins April 1923 — August 2023

0:08 — Robert Katzberg, former federal prosecutor, turned defense attorney. Author, most recently of The Vanishing Trial. 0:33 — Bill Frelick, Director of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. 0:45 — Cassondra Curiel, teacher at Visitacion Valley Middle School, and president of United Educators of San Francisco. The post Trump DC Trial Set for March, Saudi Border Guards Massacre of Ethiopian Migrants; Plus, SFUSD Considering School Closures appeared first on KPFA.

The San Francisco Unified School District has gone from one crisis to another, frustrating parents. Many were furious schools didn't return to in-person instruction sooner, while others felt their kids were being pushed back into underprepared schools. Attendance, academic achievement, students' mental health and overall enrollment were all battered by the pandemic, while longstanding racial inequalities in student achievement worsened. Dr. Matt Wayne, the new superintendent, lays out his plans for the district and mending what he calls broken trust with parents. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Fixing Our City is part of the San Francisco Chronicle's SFNext Project Got a tip, question, comment? Email us at sfnext@sfchronicle.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We'll hear about San Francisco Unified School District's ongoing payroll issues, learn how to educate our teens and young adults about fentanyl poisonings, and find out fun facts about Bay Area creatures in your backyard and beyond.

2100 Market Street in San Francisco under construction, 2018. | Image by Gregory Varnum is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 On today's show: 0:08 – We follow up on the Iran Mahsa Amini protests with Fatemeh Shams (@ShazzShams), assistant professor of Persian Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. 0:20 – Christian Benitez head custodian for the SFUSD and chief union steward with SEIU Local 1021 discusses continuing payroll troubles at the District. 0:33 – We host a debate on San Francisco propositions D and E with Sujata Srivastava, San Francisco Director for SPUR—a nonprofit public policy organization and John Avalos (@avalossf), executive director of the Council of Community Housing Organizations, a 21 member organization of community based affordable housing developers. The post Mahsa Amini protestors persist against paramilitary forces; Plus we host a debate on SF Prop D/E appeared first on KPFA.

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A $14M payroll system the San Francisco school district began using at the beginning of the year needs a costly fix after months of errors in paying staff. For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Melissa Culross and Eric Thomas spoke KCBS Insider Phil Matier.

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Summer's over for SFUSD students, who are returning to the classroom this week. After dealing with the pandemic and various school board controversies in recent years, what do students face? Education reporter Jill Tucker joins host Cecilia Lei to discuss the work that the district has cut out for it this year, and what it'll have to prove. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

School starts again at San Francisco Unified next week. But some teachers and staff still haven't been fully paid what they're owed for last year.  Since at least January, SFUSD has had problems with its new payroll system, EmpowerSF. These problems still haven't been fully resolved, and hundreds of teachers and staff say they're still being shortchanged. District leaders, including the new superintendent, say fixing this is a top priority. But this problem has left educators feeling furious, and in some cases demoralized, as another school year begins. Guest: Ida Mojadad, reporter for the San Francisco Standard covering education and housing  

For more KCBS news Radio anchor Melissa Culross is  joined by KCBS Insider Phil Matier.  The San Francisco NAACP is the latest addition to a growing list of officials and organizations calling for the resignation of newly appointed SFUSD school board member, Ann Hsu, over racist comments she made about the academic prospects of black and brown students. Despite that,  Mayor London Breed is continuing to support the embattled school board member. 

In Indigenous protocol, we're beginning this week's episode honoring the original stewards of this land that many of us in Frisco now occupy — the ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone. Now, let's take a trip down Valencia Street to La Misión. The neighborhood is home to not one, but two rich cultural districts. Calle 24 Latino Cultural District was first established in 1999. More recently, in 2020, it was joined by the American Indian Cultural District — a home base for the Urban Native community. Its aim is to uplift the culture, history, and continuing contributions of American Indians in San Francisco and beyond. On this week's Rightnowish, we introduce you to some of the people behind this cultural district that's the first of its kind in the Golden State. Mary Travis-Allen (Mayagna, Chortega, Seneca) is the President of the District's Advisory Board and recalls memories of "Little Rez" along 16th Street. Debbie Santiago (Washoe, Osage) and her mother, Alberta Snyder (Washoe) share their memories about the SFUSD's Indian Education Program that ran out of the American Indian Cultural Center on Valencia Street in the 70s and 80s. Karen Waukazoo (Lakota) remembers her late mother and local hero, Helen Waukazoo, who co-founded Friendship House, the oldest social service organization in the United States run by and for American Indians. Last but not least, we venture to the waterfront at Fort Mason to talk with Sharaya Souza (Taos Pueblo, Ute, Kiowa), the Executive Director of the American Indian Cultural District about the legacy of the Alcatraz occupation.  There are so many Native stories alive in La Misión — we hope this is just the start to more of us hearing about them.

Andrew Jordan Nance has been an educator since 1990. He is the author of four published books; The Barefoot King, The Lion in Me, Mindful Arts in the Classroom, and the bestseller, Puppy Mind. He is the founder of Mindful Arts San Francisco; a program of the San Francisco Education Fund that provides volunteer mindfulness educators to teach in SF public schools.  On KTVU's SF Loves Learning Mr. Nance was the featured Mindfulness Teacher and his adapted five-episode series of Puppy Mind premiered on KTVU and is distributed to school districts around the country. For almost thirty years he taught performing arts to students from diverse backgrounds, and for eighteen years he was the Conservatory Director at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center.    Nance is also an award-winning actor and director. He is on the board of directors of several educational nonprofit organizations including Mindful Life Project in Richmond, California and San Francisco's New Conservatory Theater Center. He is the recipient of the Points of Light Award, a national honor recognizing his volunteer efforts to bring mindfulness to youth.   Mindful Arts San Francisco provides volunteer-facilitated mindfulness instruction to SFUSD students through a partnership with the San Francisco Education Fund.  Using a published trauma-informed curriculum that uses storytelling, theatre games, and arts activities, students learn focusing techniques to cultivate the skill of present moment awareness to improve attention, self-regulation, and social-emotional learning so that all students can have the opportunity to thrive.   Join us for this conversation about the connection between theater arts and mindfulness, how giving students actionable tasks helps them to notice their emotions, and how mindfulness can help student's thrive.   IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER: What led Andrew to combining his theater experience with mindfulness practice How mindfulness relates to social emotional skills and awareness   Focus time and actionable tasks to help students notice the sensations of each emotion The importance of taking moments to belly breathe Mindfulness practice and the positive effect on student behaviors in a post-pandemic classroom  How teachers can incorporate mindfulness throughout the school day   RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Connect with Andrew on Facebook and Instagram Visit andrewjnance.com to learn more about Andrew and the work he is doing Check out Andrew's YouTube channel for mindfulness lessons  Visit mindfulartssf.org for resources, volunteering, and more information about their work to bring mindfulness instruction to classrooms  Learn more about Rebel Educator, explore our professional development opportunities for educators and students, sign up for a webinar and check out our project library Visit us at UP Academy to learn more about our personalized and inclusive learning environment Connect with Tanya and UP Academy on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram and learn more about her journey here   We'd love it if you could take a few minutes to fill out this survey to let us know how we can bring you the best possible content:  https://forms.gle/JcKHf9DHTZnYUmQr6    Enjoying the show? Leave us a rating and review and help more people find us! https://bit.ly/RebelEducatorApplePodcasts    Interested in being on the Rebel Educator podcast? Fill out this form and we'll reach out to you if we think you'd be a great fit for an upcoming episode. https://forms.gle/zXR2KGPK3WEmbrRZ6    Want to learn more about opening your own UP Academy? Check out the Rebel Educator Accelerator: https://www.rebeleducator.com/courses/the-accelerator   MORE ABOUT THE REBEL EDUCATOR PODCAST: In each episode of the Rebel Educator podcast, I deconstruct world-class educators, students, and thought leaders in education to extract the tactics, tools, and routines that you can use as teachers and parents. Join me as we discuss how to shift the classroom, the learning environment, the mindset, and the pedagogy, to resist tradition, reignite wonder, and re-imagine the future of education. This podcast is dedicated to all of the educators who work thankless hours to make our next generation the best it can be.  It was designed to begin conversations on how we can redesign education for the future of work and the success of our students.  It is meant for teachers, students, administrators, homeschoolers and anyone who interacts with and teaches youth.

Our guests are Rebecca Fedorko, SPED Teacher at Sutro Elementary School. Co-Author of the Reading Resolution & Doug Rich,Tier 2 Teacher at McKinley Elementary School The initial findings of a much anticipated San Francisco Unified School District curriculum audit were released Tuesday, adding to pressure from parents and educators to change how kids are taught to read. The audit findings point to major deficiencies in the district's K-five English language arts curriculum as it is written and observed inside classrooms. Those who have been pushing for change are not surprised by the findings and are now hopeful that the district will finally acknowledge the deep problems and commit to change. At public comment during the Monday meeting, parent Havah Kelley said, “Nothing about what I heard today surprises me. … I've been trying to help my son for about five years.” Literacy is the foundation of equitable education, and far too many SFUSD students leave elementary school without achieving their basic right to read. The most recent SFUSD performance data indicate that 55% of students do not meet standards in English language arts, and there are huge gaps in performance between subgroups. Only 20% of Black students, 15% of English learners and 16% of students with disabilities met standards in English language arts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guests are Rebecca Fedorko, SPED Teacher at Sutro Elementary School. Co-Author of the Reading Resolution & Doug Rich,Tier 2 Teacher at McKinley Elementary School The initial findings of a much anticipated San Francisco Unified School District curriculum audit were released Tuesday, adding to pressure from parents and educators to change how kids are taught to read. The audit findings point to major deficiencies in the district's K-five English language arts curriculum as it is written and observed inside classrooms. Those who have been pushing for change are not surprised by the findings and are now hopeful that the district will finally acknowledge the deep problems and commit to change. At public comment during the Monday meeting, parent Havah Kelley said, “Nothing about what I heard today surprises me. … I've been trying to help my son for about five years.” Literacy is the foundation of equitable education, and far too many SFUSD students leave elementary school without achieving their basic right to read. The most recent SFUSD performance data indicate that 55% of students do not meet standards in English language arts, and there are huge gaps in performance between subgroups. Only 20% of Black students, 15% of English learners and 16% of students with disabilities met standards in English language arts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Will SF's new Board of Education members make effective change? San Franciscans spoke out loud and clear last month when they recalled three SFUSD board members. The 3-to-1 voting margin was a resounding reflection of the frustration that so many parents and community members felt for almost two years. Mayor London Breed has appointed three public school mothers, from diverse backgrounds, to replace the ousted Board members. They've already attended their first Board meeting and now they are stopping by Manny's to talk about their work, the challenges and the way forward.

Our City Gardens series continues with a visit to Sisterhood Gardens. Located on Brotherhood Way (get it?) in the OMI area of southwest San Francisco, the garden was established in 2016. In this podcast, we meet master gardener and Sisterhood volunteer Jamie Chan. In addition to her work at Sisterhood, Jamie teaches at SF State, where she's also a doctoral student. Jamie shares her story with us. A fourth-generation San Franciscan, she traces her family's history in The City back to the Gold Rush era. Over the years, her ancestors lived mostly in Chinatown, but eventually, they all moved to the Sunset and Richmond. Jamie grew up near Stern Grove and went to SFUSD schools. Her parents grew up in Chinatown, where they knew each other growing up. The two reconnected while at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and got married after graduation. Today, Jamie trains public school teachers (her husband happens to be a teacher, too). As a teenager, she went to School of the Arts and was interested in telling people's stories. She studied documentary film and made movies about ABC (American-born Chinese) identity. She went to art school at CalArts in SoCal but didn't like it. So she came back and went to SF State, where she studied biology. After graduation, Jamie worked at California Academy of Sciences and became interested in education. She and her husband got their home through a city program—an acquisition that came with a yard bigger than the house. She started gardening there after having kids and found herself wanting to connect with food and food systems as a mom. That led to a master gardener program at UC. Jamie helped found Sisterhood Gardens in 2016, The land is owned by SF Department of Public Works, who landscaped the space and got water running before turning it over to neighborhood volunteers. We end this episode with Jamie's thoughts about still being here in San Francisco. For more information on Sisterhood Gardens, including how to get involved, please visit their website: https://sisterhoodgardens.org/. ​We recorded this podcast at Sisterhood Gardens in Oceanview in March 2022. Photography by Jeff Hunt

On this episode of WTF California Podcast, we talk post St. Patrick's Day celebrations as we get into this cockamamie plan of a $400 gas rebate introduced by California Democrats. In Contra Costa County, Antioch man convicted in 1980 cold case rape and murder. Tax groups say San Jose Gun ordinance violates free speech, we get into retail theft and a new bill that targets “high risk” transient parolees. Plus more. Articles from the show $400 gas rebate could be in Californians' future under Democrat proposal How California's $400 gas rebate proposal would work Union reps reach agreement with SFUSD on underpayments to educators, but not without hit to morale Oakland police searching for 3rd suspect wanted in murder of Kevin Nishita Antioch Man Convicted In 1980 Cold Case Rape, Murder of 14-Year-Old Suzanne Bombardier San Jose gun ordinance violates free speech: tax groups 12-year-old Riverside student arrested for firing gun on campus: Police New campaign aims to discourage retail theft California lawmaker's Kate Tibbitts Act targets ‘high-risk' transient parolees A to become safe space for out-of-state trans kids, their parents ‘This is an illegal war': Schwarzenegger delivers message to Russia These are California's safest cities, according to a new report Best cities to live in California: how they rank across U.S.

Since the summer of 2020, SFUSD has seen waves of protests against sexual harassment and assault. Students say a familiar pattern has emerged: survivors share experiences of sexual abuse on Instagram, more people pay attention and talk about it, and then the conversation dies down for a few months. But the issue is still on many students' minds. And while some changes have been made — including some student-led efforts at accountability — many students feel that administrators and district officials haven't done enough. Guest: Holly J. McDede, KQED reporter and producer This episode was produced by Maria Esquinca and Alan Montecillo, and hosted by Ericka Cruz Guevara.

This Week: It's America in 2022, and while right wing folk are literally threatening to kill kids of school board members across the country, we find ourselves in a media frenzy over the recall of three San Francisco Unified School District Board members. And what's to blame? Well, the LA Times, SF Chronicle, NY Times, the Atlantic, and the AP sort of agree. Kinda. Was it the effort to rename dozens of schools named after problematic, and arguably problematic, white folk? Was it the effort to make the legendary Lowell High School, an elite and predominantly Asian American school, a lottery based admissions school so its demographics would be more representative of the city? Was it the pandemic safety practices that resulted in SFUSD having distance learning longer than most districts? Was it backlash against an equity and racial justice agenda? Is it the end of “woke” politics and doom for Dems in the midterms??!?!?!?! Manuel and Jeff attempt a reasoned discussion. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aota/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aota/support

John sticks around for an extra 30 minutes to talk with his callers about the SF School Board recall that is dominating the headlines. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whether you have a kid in San Francisco public schools or not, if you're a registered voter, you'll have a say in the potential recall of three San Francisco Board of Education commissioners. Voters have between now and Feb. 15 to choose whether to individually vote ‘Yes' or “No' on recalling Commissioners Alison Collins, Gabriela Lopez and Faauuga Moliga. Recall supporters say the many SFUSD controversies over the years reflect a lack of competence overall. Opponents of the recall say the campaign is a coordinated political attempt to remove progressive educators. Guests: Vanessa Rancaño, KQED education reporter and Guy Marzorati, KQED politics and government reporter This episode was produced by Ericka Cruz Guevarra and Alan Montecillo, and hosted by Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Links: KQED San Francisco School Board Recall Coverage How We Got Here: The Road to the Recall Election of 3 SF School Board Members How to Vote in the Recall Election as a Noncitizen Parent

In What's New & What's Next, the Civic team offers a roundup of San Francisco news and a look at what's ahead on the city's calendar. The news: SFUSD and unions reach agreement on masks, testing and sick leave; pandemic depletes certain tax revenues but SF projects budget surplus; point-in-time count of homeless people delayed. Coming up: School board to discuss COVID safety and get an update on elementary school diversity policy; Health and Planning Commissions to meet jointly to discuss CPMC development agreement compliance.

In What's New & What's Next, the Civic team offers a roundup of San Francisco news and a look at what's ahead on the city's calendar. The news: Massive coronavirus case spike; schools scramble to find substitute teachers; hospitals strained by COVID-related staff absences; homeless shelters see outbreaks. Also: Money pours in to February election campaigns. Coming up: Q&A session between supervisors and Mayor about Slow Streets; supervisors to weigh open-source voting pilot program.

On today's show: 0:08 – Yuba County Jail is once again being used to detain immigrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The last person held there was freed on October 27, 2021. Now, the jail is being repopulated, and as of this week, at least two immigrants are detained inside. Yuba is notorious for retaliating against those who hunger strike or file complaints over the abysmal conditions — it's also known for suicides. Advocates say responsibility lies squarely with Biden administration Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who could have canceled the contract between ICE and the Yuba County Sheriffs' Department. We're joined by two guests: Minju Cho, staff attorney for the Immigrants' Rights Program at the ACLU of Northern California (@ACLU_NorCal) and Carlos Sauceda, who survived two years inside the Yuba County Jail. Sauceda shares harrowing stories of medical neglect, environmental danger, and brutality by guards inside the facility. ICE appealed his case, and he was forced to accept deportation and is now fighting his case from outside the U.S. He's now fighting for others to be freed from the dangerous and dismal facility. Find out more about the #FreeTheYuba11 Coalition here. 0:33 – San Francisco teachers staged a wildcat sickout this week. United Educators of San Francisco President Cassondra Curiel and Rori Abernethy, a math teacher at James Denman Middle School with over 20 years of teaching experience, talk about conditions inside classrooms and the need for high quality masks, ventilation, testing, and paid Covid leave. Read more about Rori's story here: Why one SFUSD teacher skipped school to join the ‘sick out' (SF Examiner) 0:48 – Randy Joseph, Richmond Community Police Review Commission Chair, joins us to discuss the high number of dog bites among Richmond Police's K-9 Unit as revealed through public records requests made by the Bay Area News Group / Mercury News. Richmond activists have been organizing to reallocate public funds away from police and are demanding answers about how these dog attacks are being allowed to continue. photo: Pixabay The post Notorious Yuba County Jail once again being used to detain immigrants; SF teachers stage sickout; Records show: Richmond Police dogs bite people in high numbers appeared first on KPFA.

In 2014, when Berkeley, CA passed the nation's first soda tax, advocates and public health practitioners in San Francisco made a parallel effort to enact a similar tax on sugar sweetened beverages in their city. A testament to the beverage industry's massive funds, the measure failed in San Francisco in 2014. It would take another two years for the city to pass this measure successfully. Janna Cordeiro from San Francisco's Wholesale Produce Market discusses her public health work on sugar sweetened beverages in San Francisco and the struggles of taking on the well-resourced soda industry. As the SFUSD parent representative to the San Francisco's Soda Tax Advisory Committee, Janna speaks to the ways soda taxes can be reinvested to advance health equity and reduce prevalence of preventable chronic diseases in working-class communities of color. She advocates for the use of soda tax revenues to support small business owners and to fund community organizations working on the ground to directly address the most urgent health issues of communities hardest hit by the beverage industry's exploitation. This episode of In Praxis is a part of Season 2: Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes. The information, opinions, views, and conclusions proposed in this episode are those of our podcast guests.

You are in for a special treat and special guest Joe Truss joins the CPT conversation to dismantle a few things likeC: Culture ConferencesP: Putting Policy To PracticeT: The Truss TransitionRegardless of the alliteration, you need to pay close attention to the knowledge passed down on this drop. Joe Truss is committed to dismantling white supremacy culture in schools. He is married to a High School teacher and a father of 2, soon to be 3 children. He brings 16 years of education experience, and originally grew up in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. A first-generation college student, he graduated from UC Berkeley, before attending Tufts University where he got his teaching credential. He began as a high school Spanish teacher in East Oakland. After attending UC Berkeley's PLI program, he started school leadership work and now has been the Principal of Visitacion Valley Middle School in SFUSD, for 6 years. There, he has worked to grow Project Based Learning, restorative practices, and reading intervention. In 2018, he started his blog CulturallyResponsiveLeadership.com, where he writes about school leadership and racial equity. He also offers workshops on antiracism and provides team coaching. Last summer he trained over 3000 educators and has presented keynotes to nearly 10,000. He works to empower educators to engineer for equity.Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in Schools Conference 2021June 14th-18thwww.DismantleWSC.comTwitter: @TrussLeadership

According the the SFUSD, acronyms like VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) are inherently racist. Mike tried to understand their thinking process.

Proverbs 20:24 says, “A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?” It can be puzzling to wrap our head around the idea that there is human agency in our choices, yet God supremely reigns over everything. In discerning, we determine to know what's good, and even in a broken world, there can be delight in discerning His good, pleasing, and perfect will. Listen as guests Liz Lee and Michelle Tze talk with us about what discernment is, why we need it, and how we get it. Guests: Liz Lee was born in Hong Kong and raised in San Francisco, California. God has led her to teach English in Osaka, Japan, be stay-at-home mom of 2 children for 10 years and more recently to return to teaching elementary school in SFUSD. She also helps with women's and young mom's ministries at Sunset Church. Michelle Tze was changed forever when a friend explained that Jesus' death on the cross was not just a martyr's death but actually what she needed to be made right with God. She and her husband have been living and serving for 10+ years in a group of people needing the same message, but communicated in their own language and worldview. The Tze's have three kids and if you join them at the dinner table you may be asked to give your opinion on a variety of topics including, "If Adam and Eve didn't eat the fruit, would we be here right now?" "Who is your favorite: Anna or Elsa?" and "Can you eat pepperoni or do you live with Muslims too?" For show notes, click here. Connect with Sherise! Blog: Life as He Reveals Instagram: @lifeashereveals

Manny's LIVE is bringing together the Supervisor Shamann Walton, the only black member of the SF Board of Supervisors, and Sheryl Evans Davis, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Commission to discuss how they are thinking about the process to redirect funds from the SFPD into the communities they are charged with protesting and serving.The movement to "defund" the police has risen to the tip of national conversation. To some it's a call to substantially reduce or completely remove funding of the police force, to others it's a call to move certain funds and responsibilities away from the police and into community based organizations in the black community.Mayor Breed and Supervisor Walton announced plans to do just that on June 4th but many questions remain:1) How do you actually engage in the process of redirecting funds from the police?2) Where should the funds go?3) How should the roles and responsibilities of the police change in kind?4) What does the interplay look like between the police, the city, the community serving organizations, and the people themselves?5) How involved can and will the public be in this process?The City has not figured out yet how this process will happen. We don't know that yet. This is a conversation about priorities and goals.About Supervisor Walton:Supervisor Shamann Walton was born in San Francisco and lived in public housing at an early age in Bayview and Potrero Hill. He has worked in District 10 neighborhoods for decades and has witnessed firsthand the challenges our community faces from long-time residents being pushed out of the city to losing childhood friends to violence and incarceration. As an accomplished and experienced community leader, Shamann has dedicated his life to improving these realities in our community and is committed to identifying solutions to our pressing issues. He has a proven track record of creating positive change in the community he serves.As the former president and member of the San Francisco Board of Education, Shamann spearheaded the effort to close the achievement gap for Black, Latino, and special needs students and helped secure the funding for the school district's first African American Achievement and Leadership Initiative. He worked to protect undocumented students, decreased teacher turnover, increase graduation rates across the district for Black, Latino and Pacific Islander students, secured the financing and identified a site for our first affordable housing units for educators, and fought to make sure that Mission Bay will have its first school built in the next few years.As the former Executive Director at Young Community Developers (YCD), Shamann worked vigorously to build close relationships with labor to provide job and career opportunities for residents and bring 100% affordable housing units to District 10. Under his leadership, YCD increased their annual budget by more than $10 million dollars and used those funds to better the lives of District 10 residents by placing them in jobs and careers, developing affordable housing, eliminating employment barriers and increasing education outcomes with credit recovery and tutorial services for students.Shamann is passionate about quality public education, options for living-wage jobs, safer neighborhoods, affordable housing, support services for the homeless, and universal healthcare. As a member of the Board of Supervisors, he will strongly advocate for communities from low-income and working-class neighborhoods. He will also work to improve our schools, bring more jobs to the district, increase access to affordable housing, bridge relationships amongst all diverse communities, stop gun violence, and ensure we have safe open spaces.Shamann is a proud father to his two adult children, Monique and Malcolm, who are both graduates of Bay Area public schools. He lives in the Bayview with his wife, Mesha, and his two stepsons--one who is a graduate of SFUSD and one who is currently in high school.Shamann has a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Morris Brown College and a Master's Degree in Public Administration from San Francisco State University.About Executive Director Sheryl Davis :Sheryl Evans Davis is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC). Director Davis previously served as Commissioner between 2011 and 2016, including a tenure as Vice Chair of the Commission.Prior to joining the HRC, Director Davis was Executive Director of Collective Impact, a community-based organization in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco. As Executive Director, she oversaw Mo'MAGIC, Magic Zone, and the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center. Mo'MAGIC, a collaborative of non-profit organizations, addresses challenges facing low-income children, youth and families in the areas of economic development, community health, and violence prevention. Magic Zone provides education and wraparound services to K-12 students and transitional aged youth. The Ella Hill Hutch Community Center provides community-building services and workforce development opportunities to neighborhood residents. During her tenure at Collective Impact, Director Davis forged private and public sector partnerships to provide critical health and social services to historically underserved communities across San Francisco.Director Davis has also served on the SFPD Fair & Impartial Policing and Community Policing Advisory Committees, Fillmore Community Benefits District, and Redevelopment Agency's Western Addition Citizen Advisory Committee. She holds a BA degree from San Francisco State University and Master's in Public Administration from the University of San Francisco.

Coming up, SFUSD is back in session today. As the kids go back to school, we've got a story about the surprising history of early childhood education. Learning with toys inspired by nature. Then, regret and reflection in a new story from Solano State Prison.

• SFUSD fires up Bayview teachers in hopes they will stick around

Niki is a San Francisco native and works in education at SFUSD. We talked about her work, resegregation, charter schools, and Nikole Hannah-Jones's article, "The Resegregation of Jefferson County." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/highlightercc/support This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit articleclub.substack.com/subscribe

A talk with the superintendent of SFUSD, San Francisco Trolley Dances, and local musician Barbara Dane.