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Caroline Grannan was an editor at the San Jose Mercury News for 12 years. Currently she contributes to a number of Internet sites dealing with education and schools. She is a San Francisco public school parent, advocate, and volunteer and has followed education politics locally and nationwide.

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Young at Art showcases SF students' talents; they'll be here all week

The San Francisco Unified School District presents...Young at Art at the de Young MuseumFriday, May 15 to Sunday, May 24,9:30 am - 5 pm daily (closed...
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The school search: Avoid the lottery blues -- check out lesser-known prospects

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Families who want seats in San Francisco’s most popular public schools need to get in line – or, more precisely, into the lottery. The...
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Two chances to plunge in and learn more about our schools

SFUSD invites all and sundry to a community summit this Saturday. Here's the district's info, though you don't have to be a hardened cynic to cringe...
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Bill Gates' money threatens to do harm to San Francisco schools

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The not-yet-established Bayview Essential School of Music, Art and Social Justice had a table at Saturday's school fair. The plan for this high school...
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Carol Channing and Aptos Middle School: a plug for both of them

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.Today's Chronicle Sunday Datebook (aka the Pink Section) has a cover story on the legendary musical theater star Carol Channing, for which writer...
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Full kindergartens: Good news for SFUSD, alarming news for waiting parents

Today's Chronicle story announcing that San Francisco Unified School District kindergartens are full the first week of school, for the first time in...
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SFUSD needs to rescind those kindergarten reassignments

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San Francisco school district representatives met this evening with the families whose kindergarten assignments to...
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Are neighborhood schools the panacea?

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San Francisco's Mission High School. (Photo by KC Jones from the San Francisco Schools blog.)A reader praises the...
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Flawed Grand Jury report on SFUSD: a critique

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As a veteran SFUSD parent and observer of school issues, I read the San Francisco Grand Jury’s report on San...
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Is it awful inside those schools?

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I was chatting with an SFUSD middle school teacher this morning, and she commented that people who aren’t...
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