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The David Lynch Foundation sponsored the Quiet Time transcendental meditation program at various SFUSD middle and high schools. Visitacion Valley Middle School was the first school to adopt the program in 2007. [7] [8] In 2014, the school district stopped teaching algebra to 8th graders. [9] [10]
The old Visitacion Valley Branch of the San Francisco Public Library was leased out of a small storefront at 45 Leland Ave. The new, permanent branch is now closer to Visitacion Valley Elementary School. It opened on July 30, 2011 at 201 Leland Ave, at the site of the former Super Fair Market. [29] [46]
The San Francisco Chronicle noted that schools named after Cesar Chavez, who called illegal immigrant workers "wetbacks" and other pejoratives, [50] and Malcolm X, who had worked as a pimp, were excluded from renaming. [56] On the other hand, schools named after the mythical El Dorado and U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein were included.
Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School (colloquially Burton High School; BHS) is a public high school in San Francisco, California. The founding of the school was a result of a consent decree ruling in 1984 between the City of San Francisco and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . [ 2 ]
The school is named after writer and activist June Jordan, whom Alice Walker called "the universal poet." [1] June Jordan School for Equity is a part of a nationwide small schools movement, with its parents and staff organized soon after the school was formed to work in helping SFUSD pass a district-wide Small Schools Policy.
Sotomayor is made up of five individual schools. [1] The complex includes the Los Angeles River School (LARS), the School of History and Dramatic Arts (SoHDA), The studio school (middle school or junior high), Early College Academy of Leaders and Scholars (eCALS), and Tennenbaum Tech school (ATAMS). [2] It is named after Sonia Sotomayor.
The Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District is the chief administrative officer of the District selected by the District's Board of Education. Portuguese-American educator and former superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Alberto M. Carvalho, has been serving as the District's superintendent since February 14, 2022.
Pio Pico Span School (K–8)], (formerly Pio Pico Elementary School, Los Angeles, opened 1987 as a K–6 elementary school, expanded to K–8 in 1994–95) (When Central Region ES 13 [Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies] opened in 2010, Pio Pico was reconfigured into a middle school )