Jill Tucker

@jilltucker.bsky.social

San Francisco Chronicle reporter, mostly education, but also wildfires and other forms of mayhem, big breaking news. Bay Area native. Peace Corps volunteer. I'm not as patient as I used to be.

"The activists who want to bully the handful of transgender kids out of sports in the name of 'saving women’s sports' don’t really care about women’s sports. They don’t care about funding or facilities or abusive coaches or the real issues facing women athletes." www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annki...

The future of women’s sports is at stake at San Jose State, but trans athletes aren’t the problem

A frenzy over San Jose State’s transgender volleyball player led to court fights, absurd claims. The danger isn’t to her opponents, but to all women in sports.

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The parents of a former student of a San Jose charter school and six families in a wealthy Bay Area high school district have filed separate lawsuits charging “rampant” civil rights violations resulting from bullying, taunting, ostracism and other forms of antisemitic conduct.

Lawsuits charge antisemitism, civil rights violations at California charter school and high school district

Lawsuits against University Preparatory Academy and Sequoia Union High School District charge administrators ignored blatant bullying and taunting.

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Here’s the latest on the powerful storm headed for NorCal from @sfchronicle.bsky.social meteorologist @gporterwx.bsky.social. ☔️🌧️☔️ And if you like weather vocabulary like I do: A bomb cyclone is driving an atmospheric river into California. www.sfchronicle.com/weather-fore...

Will the atmospheric river bring extreme impacts to California? How to know

Northern California is bracing for a powerful storm, but the SF Bay Area's expected rainfall totals are in flux.

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Scoop: Republicans are quietly delaying more than $1 billion in planned funding for a life-saving HIV program — demanding changes to terms like abortion, sexual reproductive health, even "human rights" in the program’s documents. It’s the latest hurdle facing PEPFAR. More here.

Republicans delay more than $1 billion in HIV program funding

The funding delays are the latest complication facing PEPFAR, a life-saving program that has been ensnared in a broader political fight around abortion.

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