Campaign News
Welcome to our Campaign News page. Here you can find news coverage of Eric's campaign and his work on the school board, as well as news releases straight from campaign headquarters.
BeyondChron (September 4, 2007) — One of San Francisco’s most beloved community leaders Bill Sorro passed away on August 27th. Bill was a fierce activist in many labor, social justice, housing rights, and neighborhood struggles for many decades but is best known as a leader in the struggle to save and rebuild SF’s International Hotel (‘I-Hotel.') He was one of the warmest and most positive people I have ever met, who worked tirelessly nurturing younger activists like me and generations of others in our movements.
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San Francisco Chronicle (June 29, 2007) — The president of San Francisco's school board, once a leading advocate for using a student's race to make school assignments, said he is likely to abandon that stand in the wake of Thursday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that all but banned race as a factor.
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San Francisco Examiner (June 13, 2007) — After a six-month-long search, the San Francisco school board has hired a new superintendent for an annual $255,000 — a salary and benefits package that is less than what former embattled Superintendent Arlene Ackerman received before she left the district last June.
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San Francisco Chronicle (April 10, 2005) — Tuesday night is meeting night at the San Francisco Board of Education, so Eric Mar will be there until midnight or later. That's no surprise as Mar, 42, is the board president. The surprise is that at 8 a.m. Wednesday, he'll be lecturing 50 or 150 undergraduates at San Francisco State University.
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San Francisco Chronicle (August 25, 2004) — Public schools in the Bay Area seem to have lost access to the greatest teacher of all: nature. Often housed in prefabricated portable classrooms -- intended to be temporary structures 30 years ago -- such schools are virtually windowless, artificially lit and finished with unhealthy synthetic materials. Older school buildings may be more imposing -- harking back to a time when California education was laudable (see story, page 11) -- but they are equally inward- looking, frequently polluted and barricaded against social ills.
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