Effort to rename S.F. schools could have been history lesson, but it placed politics over learning
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1of3Bryan McDonald and his second grade son, Travis, outside Dianne Feinstein Elementary School in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, January 10, 2021. McDonald objects to the school board s demand that the school change its name.Photos by Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of3Bryan McDonald and his second grade son, Travis, walk home after being photographed at Dianne Feinstein Elementary School in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, January 10, 2021. McDonald objects to the school board s demand that the school change its name.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Following a year of racial protests over police killings of Black Americans, both in the Bay Area and across the country, San Francisco s top two political leaders will be African Americans born and raised in the city.
Friday the Board of Supervisors unanimously elected District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton as its next president, the first Black man to serve in the role. He succeeds former District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee, who was termed off the board after eights years in office and served as president of the 11-member body the last two years. I look forward to serving this body as president with the compassion and values we together guard very fiercely, said Walton, pledging to his 10 colleagues he would work with them on issues that matter most to your district and to our precious city.
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Susanna Lau (left) and Lana Nguyen started SupplyHopeInfo. (Photo courtesy of Florante Masangcay via Bay City News)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA It s no secret 17-year-old girls can be boy-crazy. But instead, Susanna Lau and Lana Nguyen, seniors at San Francisco s Washington High School, are crazy about aiding low-income students like themselves. To dispense free basic school supplies that might lead to academic success, the two last May founded SupplyHopeInfo, a charity that aims to solve a new problem wrought by the pandemic: that low-income students can t rely on school resources for distance-learning.
The organization, according to Lau, its head of communications, can help those students cope with not having access to [sufficient] finances at home.
Earl Sanders, first Black San Francisco police chief, dies at 83
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Then-Assistant Chief of Police Earl Sanders investigated the 101 California mass shooting when he was in the homicide unit.Deanne Fitzmaurice / The Chronicle 1998Show MoreShow Less
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Assistant Chief of Police at SFPD, Earl Sanders investigated the 101 California shootings July 1, 1993, when he was in the homicide unit. Sanders, who would later be elevated to chief of police, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2021.Deanne Fitzmaurice / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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San Francisco Police Chief Earl Sanders and his wife, Espanola Sanders, appear at the San Francisco Hall of Justice Tuesday, March 4, 2003.Noah Berger / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
San Francisco police have arrested an 18-year-old accused in the shooting of a 6-year old boy who was killed while outside enjoying fireworks on July 4.