Jill Tucker
Education Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle
Jill Tucker knows the rules of tether ball and sort of gets why one might need to solve for X and so she is the k-12 education writer at the SF Chronicle.
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1 week ago |
sfchronicle.com | Jill Tucker
SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su backed off a plan for a pilot program to look at different ways of grading students after backlash. Lea Suzuki/The ChronicleSan Francisco school officials killed plans Wednesday to test out alternative ways to grade some high school students after politicians and parents panned the proposal in the wake of misinformation about it.
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2 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Jill Tucker
After several years of sharp declines, California’s public school enrollment nearly leveled out this year at just over 5.8 million students after a precipitous fall from 6.2 million over the past decade. Jessica Christian/S.F. ChronicleAfter several years of sharp declines, California’s public school enrollment nearly leveled out this year at just over 5.8 million students after a precipitous fall from 6.2 million over the past decade. Bay Area districts followed the statewide trend.
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3 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Jill Tucker
An empty campus can be see at Lowell High School in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. Brontë Wittpenn/The Chronicle 2021Fewer private school students are sitting in the coveted seats at San Francisco’s Lowell High School than years past, with district students taking 8 out of every 10 spots in the freshmen class, according to district data. It’s a significant shift from just four years ago, when nearly a third of the 2020 ninth graders came from non-district middle schools.
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3 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Jill Tucker
Students’ backpacks hang on hooks outside of their classroom at Hoover Elementary School in Oakland, California Thursday, March 21, 2024. Jessica Christian/The ChronicleParents and district staff slammed the Oakland school board this week after news landed that afterschool programs face devastating cuts due to the board’s last-minute budgeting decisions. The board pushed back, blaming staff for the impact to school sites, which board members said caught them by surprise.
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4 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Jill Tucker |Jessica Flores |J.K. Dineen
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, arrives on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter’s Basilica for the first time on Thursday as the newly elected Catholic leader.
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