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School officials in Marin County voted unanimously to approve renaming Drake High School after former teacher, Olympic gold medalist and Tuskegee Airman Archie Williams, on Tuesday night.
San Francisco public high school seniors will be allowed back on campus for the final weeks of the school year, according to a statement released this weekend by teachers union officials.
After months of controversy, a selection committee seeking to rename Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo has made their choice, voting unanimously to name the school for former teacher and Olympic gold medal winner, Archie Williams, whose life was extraordinary and inspiring.
Claudia Yanet Garcia has learned not to let anyone or anything hold her back; it's a can-do spirit that shines through in every part of her life, especially when she steps into the ring.
Resistance to the planned closure and redefined mission of Mills College in Oakland escalated this week when the voting faculty of the institution overwhelmingly approved a resolution of no confidence in the school's administration.
Two long-time middle schools in San Jose are closing, part of a campus consolidation in the Alum Rock School District.
Students Rising Above scholars are exceptional achievers at home, at school and in their communities but this week's scholar Nehemias Gramajo Signor is all that and more. He's also a hero because he saved a life.
Students at a school in San Jose make history again, as the youngest group to advance to the semifinals of a prestigious international robotics competition.
State schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond named an additional 121 schools – including 28 in the greater Bay Area – as 2021 California Distinguished Schools.
Bay Area documentary producers Nicole Newnham and Jim Lebrecht are nominated for an Academy Award for "Crip Camp," a dramatic story of the disability-rights movement which builds to a climax at a weeks-long 1973 sit-in at a federal office in San Francisco.
Composer, pianist and educator Wayne Peterson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for music that was hotly contested because judges had chosen another composer, has died. He was 93.
A senior at Oakland Technical High School is making history as the school's first African American male valedictorian, while being accepted to some of the most prestigious universities in the country.
Students going to the California State University or the University of California this fall will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a joint announcement from the university systems.
California public schools have experienced a sharp decline in enrollment this year as the pandemic forced millions into online school, according to data made public Thursday.
While most schools have struggled with the decision to reopen, one small district on the Peninsula has had students on campus for nearly the entire school year.
