Friday, July 29, 2016

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For every celebration, there is dejection, as Washington High’s Mark Rosenberg shows after a loss to McAteer in the 1985 City Championship game. Photographer Eric Luse ~ May 2, 2013 - Photographer-turned-winemaker Eric Luse went from shooting images of ... The award-winning photographer was just starting out with the San Francisco Chronicle, ... Luse serves as winemaker.  At some point in the early 1980s, photographer Eric Luse Now: The centerpiece of the show is called "This Darkroom's Gone to Heaven," a full-size group fogged negative, provides a comment on the loss of the human element in photography. ... http://napavalleyregister.com/wine/a-photographer-falls-for-his-subject/article_06a75c52-b37a-11e2-ace8-0019bb2963f4.html

San Francisco Unified School District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Unified_School_District

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San Francisco Unified School District
Sfusdlogo2011.JPG
Location
San FranciscoCalifornia
United States
District information
TypePublic
Established1851
SuperintendentRichard A. Carranza
Students and staff
Students56,310 (2011-2012)[1]
Other information
Websitewww.sfusd.edu

San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Building at 555 Franklin Street.
San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), established in 1851, is the only public school district within the City and County of San Francisco, and the first in the state of California.[2] Under the management of the San Francisco Board of Education, the district serves more than 55,500 students in more than 160 institutions.[3]
SFUSD utilizes an intra-district school choice system and requires students and parents to submit a selection application. Every year in the fall, the SFUSD hosts a Public School Enrollment Fair to provide families access to information about all the schools in the district.
SFUSD has the second highest Academic Performance Index among the seven largest California school districts in California.[4]Newsweek’s national ranking of "Best High Schools in America" named seven SFUSD high schools among the top five percent in the country in 2007. In 2005, two SFUSD schools were recognized by the federal government as No Child Left Behind Blue-Ribbon Schools.

Student admissions[edit]


Another San Francisco Unified School District building, from Fell st. & Franklin st. crossing.

Windows of that San Francisco Unified School District building covered with photos of jazz legends.
SFUSD previously practiced a race-based admissions system. In 1983 the NAACP sued the school district and won a consent decree that mandated that no more than 45% of any racial group may make up the percentage of students at a single school. At the time, white and black students were the largest demographic groups in the school district. The decree was intended to benefit black children. When it was discovered that Hispanic children also had low test scores, they were added to the decree's intended beneficiaries.[5]
In a five-year period ending in 1999, Asian and Latino students were the largest demographic groups in the SFUSD. In 1994, after several ethnic Chinese students were denied admission to programs because too many ethnic Chinese students were present, ethnic Chinese parents sued SFUSD arguing that the system promoted racial discrimination.[5] On April 15, 1998, the Chinese-American group asked a federal appeals court to end the admissions practice.[6] The system required ethnic Chinese students to receive higher scores than other ethnic groups in order to be admitted to Lowell High School, the city's most prestigious public high school.[6][7] Waldemar Rojas, the superintendent, wanted to keep the decree because the district had received $37 million in desegregation funds. The NAACP had defended the decree. White parents who were against the racial quotas had a tendency to leave San Francisco.[5]
In 1998 a federal appeals court ruled that the race-based criteria should not be ended, but that SFUSD is required to justify why it required higher test scores from ethnic Chinese applicants to gain admission to the school district's most prestigious high school and that the school district is required to prove, during a trial held in the 1999-2000 school year, that segregation is remaining in the school system and that the limitation of the ethnic groups at each school is the only possible remedy.[8] On February 16, 1999, lawyers representing the Chinese parents revealed that the school district had agreed to a settlement that removed the previous race-based admission system; William Orrick, the U.S. district judge, had planned to officially announce the news of the settlement the following day.[5] The district planned to implement a "diversity index" in which race was one factor, but in December 1999 Orrick rejected the plan as unconstitutional. Orrick ordered the district to resubmit the plan without race as a factor or to resubmit the plan under the settlement that had been reached with the Chinese parents.[9] In January 2000 the district agreed to remove race as a factor of consideration for admission.[10] In 2007 theU.S. Supreme Court had ruled that race may not be an admission factor for a K-12 school.[11]
As of 2007 SFUSD admission factors include race-neutral aspects, such as the socioeconomic status of a student's family. Lyanne Melendez of KGO-TV wrote in 2007 "but the local courts and the district have found that race-neutral factors haven't worked in San Francisco's case."[11]

Schools[edit]

Secondary schools[edit]

High schools[edit]


Ida B. Wells High School
Comprehensive schools
Alternative schools

Middle schools[edit]

  • Aptos Middle School [1]
  • James Denman Middle School [2]
  • Everett Middle School [3]
  • Francisco Middle School [4]
  • Gateway Middle School (Charter)[5] (located at the former Golden Gate Elementary School campus)
  • A.P. Giannini Middle School [6]
  • Herbert Hoover Middle School [7]
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School [8]
  • James Lick Middle School [9]
  • Marina Middle School [10]
  • Presidio Middle School [11]
  • Roosevelt Middle School [12]
  • Visitacion Valley Middle School [13]

K-8 schools[edit]

K-5 schools[edit]

Former schools[edit]

Secondary schools[edit]

High schools[edit]

Middle schools[edit]

  • Aim High Academy, 2003-2006 (relocated to Luther Burbank MS site and renamed as Small Middle School for Equity at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year)
  • Luther Burbank Middle School (closed at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year) was located at 325 La Grande Avenue. It is currently the home for the June Jordan School for Equity (Small public school), and City Arts and Technology High School (Charter school).
  • Gloria R. Davis College Preparatory Academy (closed at the end of the 2006-2007 academic year) was located at 1195 Hudson Street[14]
  • Excelsior Middle School was merged into International Studies Academy [ISA HS] in the fall of 2008 allowing for a 6-12 grade school.
  • Benjamin Franklin Middle School (closed at the end of the 2004-2005 academic year) was located at 1430 Scott Street and renamed in the fall of 2006 as the Burl L. Toler Campus and is now home to both Gateway High School and KIPP SF Bay Academy (both charter schools).
  • Horace Mann Middle School (was merged with Buena Vista K-5 to form a K-8 program starting in fall 2011 while supporting the 7th & 8th graders who had started at Horace Mann)
  • Enola Maxwell Middle School (closed at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year) (formerly Potrero Middle School) and now home to I.S.A. High School.

K-8 schools[edit]

  • Willie L. Brown Jr. Academy College Preparatory School, 4-8 (formerly Twenty-First Century K-8) (closed at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year for considerable renovations as well as academic issues.)
  • Treasure Island School (closed mid-school year, December 16, 2005)
  • Twenty-First Century K-8 (became Willie L. Brown College Preparatory 2004-2005)

Elementary schools[edit]

  • Cabrillo Elementary School (closed at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year) was located at 750 25th Avenue in the Outer Richmond District. It is now used as a district office.
  • William R. DeAvila Elementary (formerly Dudley Stone Elementary) was located at 1351 Haight Street, between Masonic and Central in the Upper Haight. The school was closed at the end of the 2004-05 school year and briefly rented to City College of San Francisco. Before the start of the 2009-10 school year, the school district re-opened DeAvila as the Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila. Kindergarten and 1st grade students were enrolled for 2009-10, with the plan of gradually expanding the school to comprise grades K-5.
  • Diamond Heights Elementary (currently home to the San Francisco Police Academy & PAL) was located at 350 Amber Drive, just behind the Diamond Height's Safeway. The building was built in the 1960s hugging the Diamond Heights/Glen Park Canyon. Almost immediately upon completion, the property was determined to be unsafe and sliding into the canyon. The school was closed for one year, shored up and reopened. It was closed as a public school in the 1980s. Subsequently, the building was sold to the SFPD and is used for cadet training.
  • Farragut Elementary (closed in the early 1970s) was located on Holloway between Capitol and Faxon in the Ingleside District. Sold off to developers, currently there are townhouses located there.
  • Golden Gate Elementary (closed at the end of the 2004-2005 academic year) was located at 1601 Turk Street between Steiner and Divisadero. Current home to both Gateway Middle School and Creative Arts Charter School.
  • JBBP West (Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program in the Sunset) was located at 3045 Santiago Street at 42nd Avenue for 3 years, after having been housed at William De Avila for 2 years. Due to the small size of the Santiago campus and a growing student population, the program moved to Rosa Parks Elementary at 1501 O'Farrell Street after the 2005-2006 academic year, and was renamed JBBP Rosa Parks.
  • Laguna Honda Elementary was located at 1350 Seventh Avenue in the Inner Sunset.
  • San Miguel Elementary (closed in the 1980s) was located at 300 Seneca Avenue in the Excelsior District.
  • John Swett Alternative Elementary (merged with John Muir after 2005-2006 academic year) was located at 727 Golden Gate Avenue, between Franklin and Gough.