“Even in San Francisco, our children and their families are not immune to the harmful effects of assumptions or discrimination, even when it comes in the form of a well-intended question from a school staff member who might ask a child with two dads about contacting her mother.”
All kinds of families celebrated in SFUSD [Ex]

“In all, 30 San Francisco schools, public and private, participated in Shop for Schools last year with six schools earning more than $1,000 in revenue, led by Lafayette Elementary, which raked in $1,706.”
SF schools net nearly $20,000 through fundraiser [Ex]

“The public-private project, starting with $100 million next year, will be led by Stanford University’s William Newsome and Rockefeller University’s Cori Bargmann, a former UCSF professor.”
UC Berkeley, UCSF, Stanford researchers all in for Obama’s brain-mapping initiative [Biz Times]

the author

Eve Batey is the editor and publisher of the San Francisco Appeal. She used to be the San Francisco Chronicle's Deputy Managing Editor for Online, and started at the Chronicle as their blogging and interactive editor. Before that, she was a co-founding writer and the lead editor of SFist. She's been in the city since 1997, presently living in the Outer Sunset with her husband, cat, and dog. You can reach Eve at eve@sfappeal.com.

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