"Judging schools by raw admission rates alone can be misleading. Schools that enroll larger shares of students from high-income families and fewer students with disabilities, for example, tend to send more students to UC campuses regardless of school quality."
San Francisco Bay University has secured roughly 4,000 square feet inside the Center for Employment Training on Vine Street and aims to bring the space online later this year. This move establishes the Fremont-based school's inaugural neighborhood campus right near Downtown San Jose.
"OUSD's enrollment patterns reflect both student need and family choice and vary across Oakland, so facilities planning must go beyond utilization and attendance boundaries to account for equity, housing patterns, choice-driven enrollment flows, program location, facility quality, and capacity at local and regional scales."
The late Joe Kapp could make that claim. He played two sports at Cal, best known for leading the Bears to their most recent Rose Bowl following the 1958 season. But the man who later quarterbacked the BC Lions to a Canadian Grey Cup championship and the Minnesota Vikings into Super Bowl IV also played hoops for the Bears. He was an All-American in football, a backup guard on the basketball team. Kapp played the 1956-57 and '57-58 seasons, averaging just 1.8 points each season.
A collaboration of community, government, business and sports organizations helped create the new Sports for All Hub at Los Robles Ronald McNair Academy in East Palo Alto. The grand opening of the full-size football field was celebrated with speakers, a ribbon cutting and a flag football clinic. The Bay Area Host Committee invited the community to the Sports for All Ribbon Cutting event to officially open the first-ever regulation football field in East Palo Alto.
But the city only committed funding through the current 2025-2026 school year, and city leaders made it clear that this was a pilot program they would support for the first few years and then hand over to the district to build into its budget or seek outside funding. That funding cliff has arrived just as OUSD navigates a serious budget deficit and needs to trim $100 million from next year's budget.
Dougherty Valley basketball player Keira Tom is the Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week for Jan. 12-17. In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Tom finished with 52.4% of the vote, topping American basketball player Shirina Shi (36.4%). Congratulations to all the candidates for this week's recognition. Tom, a senior, had a prolific night for DV in a win over Livermore, scoring 31 points to go along with two assists, two steals and two rebounds.
Three Tri-Valley school districts are facing significant financial dilemmas heading into next year, with budget cuts and potential layoffs threatening to hit classrooms. Dublin, Pleasanton and Livermore schools are all grappling with multi-million dollar budget deficits in the 2026-27 school year, with the districts citing declining enrollment and decreased state and federal funding as having created budget holes that will likely lead to difficult decisions.