Pilot program for homeless students expanded despite criticism
Eager children participate in a game of bingo or eat pasta and meatballs, as their families join them for an evening of games, movies, homework …
SF Filipina faces deportation after serving prison sentence
Like many others who go through the prison system, Maria Luna hoped for a fresh start once she was released, and for a while it …
Calle 24 gets a new home and a new executive director
The Calle 24 Latino Cultural District has hired local artist and professor of Latino Studies at SF State Tomás Riley as its new executive director, …
Anti-tax advocacy group tries to block SF voter sponsored funding for education
The “Early Care and Education for All” initiative (also known as Proposition C) that voters approved in June 2018, was supposed to help ease the …
Will we ever hold police accountable for the lives they take?
Officers Terrance Mercadal and Jared Robinet may have been responsible for killing Stephon Clark but (to borrow a phrase from a colleague), it the was …
40 years later Las Sandinistas story retold from the perspective of women
Those of you who are regular readers of my column know that I’ve taught at SF State for a couple years now. Since I began …
Overworked and underpaid, Oakland teachers demand more
Thousands of demonstrators at school pickets across Oakland descended on Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Feb. 21 to demand higher teacher pay, smaller class sizes …
Richmond father detained by ICE for 2 years reunites with family
After being detained for more two years by ICE, Raul Reyes Lopez was finally reunited with his family on the night of Feb. 19. Originally …
Refugee community activist faces deportation from only land he’s ever known
As the rest of the country rang in 2019 with new hopes and resolutions, friends and family of Somdeng “Danny” Thongsy, a Southeast Asian refugee …
