schools

Today on Your Call: What will it take to improve our public schools?

Ali Budner — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Changing the lives of Oakland teens "Ever Forward"

Lizzie Schultz — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:38:37 +0000

“The Ever Forward Club honestly saved my life, to sum it up,” says Oakland high school student Omar Bernall.

What the election results mean for public education

Holly Kernan and Jen Chien — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:24:06 +0000

This past election, San Franciscans voted on 18 state and local ballot initiatives. Arguably the biggest winner was public education.

On the state level, voters approved Proposition 30, which was a tax increase to fund K-12 programs and community colleges across the state. San Franciscans passed local Proposition A, establishing a more secure financial footing for City College.

KALW’s education reporter, Jen Chien, reports on how these measures will be rolled out and what their impact on public education will likely be.

Today on Your Call: Who decides what kids can read in school?

Ali Budner — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

On today's Your Call we’ll talk about how schools decide what students can read in their libraries and classrooms and what happens when books are prohibited. In Arizona, the Tucson Unified School District recently banned a long list of books in the Mexican American Studies program from their schools including Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. So what are the criteria for school reading? And who should make these decisions? And how does this affect freedom in public education? Join us at 10 or email