Education

Berkeley's superintendent of schools testified before a Congressional hearing on antisemitism Wednesday after the district was accused of poorly handling cases of bullying and harassment of Jewish students since the Hamas attack on Israel. 

The San Jose Fire Department said they were called to Sunrise Middle School on Wednesday morning after they received "reports of multiple patients with difficulty breathing."

School board members in San Francisco called a special meeting Tuesday night to hear the results of a state audit on its budget crisis.

The University of California, Berkeley, has reportedly opened a civil rights investigation into an altercation between a law professor and a student, which was captured on video.

Members of the Bay Area chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement held an "All Out for Rafah" rally at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, a day after Israel rejected a ceasefire with Hamas and hours after the IDF took control of Gaza's vital border crossing.

Student protesters at San Francisco State University met with university President Lynn Mahoney on Monday to express their concerns about the conflict in Gaza.

Protesters at San Francisco State University and the administration met on Monday over concerns regarding the Gaza war and the tent encampment demonstration in the center of campus.

As campus tensions escalate over student encampments to protest the war in Gaza -- with canceled classes, violent clashes and mass arrests in recent days -- Republican leaders in the California Legislature are calling for the state to use its upcoming budget process to punish demonstrators who they say have gone too far.   

A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay Area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada.

Trustees of the San Ramon Valley Unified School District (SRVUSD) announced Friday they hired CJ Cammack to be the district's next superintendent.     

Two hospitals on both sides of the Bay held a special prom for their teen patients on Friday night. Benioff UCSF Children's Hospital Oakland and San Francisco hosted the annual event.

A heckler showed up to a pro-Palestine prayer vigil during a peaceful protest at Stanford on Friday night, causing a heated confrontation.

Stanford University officials say they have notified the FBI after a protester on campus was seen wearing what was described as a Hamas headband.

Women's sports have skyrocketed in popularity in the last year. Just last month, the women's NCAA college basketball tournament smashed previous TV viewership records. Now, Stanford's softball team hopes to carry on that torch. 

Protestors camping out at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza on Thursday said they were encouraged by meetings with UC officials.