Staff reports, The Examiner
2007-04-24 10:00:00.0
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SAN FRANCISCO -

The San Francisco Unified School District and three charter schools in The City have recently been awarded grants through the state’s Enhancing Education Through Technology program.

The district and campuses were among more than 1,200 recipients of the grants, which totaled $32 million this year. The schools, which include Gateway High School, the KIPP Bay View Academy and the KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy, will receive a total of $2,235, while the district will receive $170,360.

The grant program is designed to help every student become technologically literate by the eighth grade.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Hearing will look at ways to improve city’s golf courses

A Board of Supervisors committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on ways to improve the operation of The City’s public golf courses, which are losing money.

Most of The City’s courses, overseen by the Recreation and Park Department, are in average to below-average condition, and $1.4 million of city money was sunk into their operation this year to offset a deficit. The committee will examine a variety of options for future operation of the courses, including privatization.

The Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee will hold a hearing on the golf courses on Wednesday, at 1 p.m., at City Hall, Room 250.

Saturday park road closure plan faces final vote today

Portions of Golden Gate Park might be closed to automobiles on Saturdays as well as Sundays this summer after the Board of Supervisors' meeting today. In a preliminary vote last week, the board passed a measure to close parts of John F. Kennedy Drive and other surrounding streets in the park on Saturdays on a trial basis from May 26 to Sept. 29 of this year.