March 5, 2024
The city’s public-school enrollment has shrunk. Here’s how one district employee is fighting privatization, bad PR, segregation, and population loss to stem the tide.
Lauren Koehler, executive director of San Francisco Unified School District’s Enrollment Center, invites a family from the waiting room to a counseling session in a sunny conference room two days before the start of the 2023–24 school year.
(Sonya Abrams for The Hechinger Report)
A mother-of-two controversially won’t give her children the MMR vaccine because she fears the jab would do ‘more harm than good’.
Stacey Victoria, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, claims the vaccine — proven to be extremely safe and credited with saving the lives of tens of thousands of kids — was made too quickly.
‘Forcing’ her daughters Emily (nine) and Isabella (six) to get jabbed is ‘not fair’, she added. Neither have had any NHS-approved vaccines.
The 36-year-old, who herself hasn’t
Lance Weiler is preparing his students at Columbia University for the unknown. “What I’m going to show you might disturb you,” he warned the class in January, at the beginning of his graduate course on digital storytelling.
A filmmaker who made his reputation on the frontiers of entertainment technology by inventing a popular augmented reality game around his film, “Head Trauma,” Weiler parlayed his experiments into a job at the School of the Arts, where he shows how computers might
