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	Sala Burton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sala Burton (April 1, 1925 – February 1, 1987) was a United States Representative from California.
		She was born Sala Galante in Białystok, Poland.
		Burton served as a delegate to Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1976, 1980, and 1984.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sala_Burton (209 words)

	Overview
		Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School was established in 1984 as a result of a Consent Decree between the City of San Francisco and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
		Burton has a Computer Science, Mathematics and Science focus, and each student is required to follow the rigorous curriculum of four (4) years of math, four (4) years of science, three (3) years of compuer science, and three (3) years of Foreign language (Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish or German).
		Burton also served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict and was a delegate to Democratic National Convention from California in 1968.
	portal.sfusd.edu /template/default.cfm?page=hs.burton.overview (350 words)

	Sala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thong Sala, the principal town on Ko Pha Ngan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand
		Oscar Sala (born 1922), an Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist
		Sala Baker (born 1976), an actor and stuntman from Wellington, New Zealand
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sala (367 words)

	San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council - Organized Labor: Remembering Phil and Sala Burton
		The celebration of the Burton legacy was made more poignant by the young people who attended from the Presidio Dance Theatre holding the flags of the United Nations in a circle around the statue.
		Phil Burton first became politically active in the San Francisco Young Democrats in the late 1940s, was elected to the State Assembly in 1954, and later elected to represent San Francisco in Congress in 1964.
		The late congressman Phillip Burton and his wife Sala Burton who succeeded him in Congress in 1983, were champions of working families and of organized labor.
	www.sfbctc.org /61906-burton.htm (507 words)

	sfweekly.com - News - State and National Candidates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Welcome (back) to the Machine: In 1987, as Congresswoman Sala Burton was dying of cancer -- she was literally on her deathbed -- she called then-Democratic Party fund-raiser Nancy Pelosi to her bedside.
		Sala herself had inherited the seat from her husband, Phil Burton, who had defined S.F. politics for the two preceding decades until his death in 1982.
		John Burton, Phil's brother and a former congressman, is forced from his Assembly seat by term limits.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/1996-10-30/feature2_1.html (845 words)

	Phillip and Sala Burton Center for Human Rights
		The Phillip and Sala Burton Center for Human Rights at the Presidio National Park is a nonprofit human rights research, education and training center dedicated to the legacy of Phillip and Sala Burton.
		Our mission is to promote international human rights, labor and environmental norms to enhance economic and social justice locally, nationally and internationally.
		June 1st, 2006 Tribute to Phillip and Sala Burton in San Francisco.
	www.psburtoncenter.org /index.htm (612 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Burton
		Robert Burton; son of John Burton and Mary (Gordon) Burton; married to Sarah Jones.
		Brother-in-law of Sala Galant Burton; brother of Phillip Burton.
		Burton, Walter — of Terry, Prairie County, Mont. Republican.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/burton.html (994 words)

	Calitics: Soapblox California : California Politics Blog. California Progressive Blog. Progressive California. ...
		Though he evidently intended to bury the rumors Burton nonetheless made little effort to disguise his contempt for Tauscher, suggesting that she was inviting trouble by voicing her concerns.
		Burton described his close relationship with each of the Members in the Bay Area delegation, but pointedly excluded Tauscher from the list, concluding, "Ellen is not one to determine where her district would be."
		In the end, Tauscher's two blunders ended up with Burton creating a new 10th District that would remove any fear of Tauscher losing in a general, but one that was specifically designed to allow her to lose in a primary if she kept undermining Pelosi.
	www.calitics.com /showDiary.do?diaryId=1503 (1217 words)

	CD Baby: SALA BROTHERS: Out Of The Blue
		The Sala Brothers were born in Brooklyn, NY and moved to Long Island as young children.
		The Sala Brothers have their fingers on the pulse of modern post-bop jazz while paying homage to its forefathers and past traditions.
		Joe Sala is ever the lead voice of the quintet, saxophonist Bob Sheppard compliments Sala's tone and clarity of his improvisational logic.
	cdbaby.com /cd/salabrothers (634 words)

	Ms. Magazine \| Nancy Pelosi: Ms. Woman of the Year 2002
		At age 47, in 1987, she made her first bid for elective office, winning the San Francisco congressional seat Sala Burton was vacating.
		It was this self-confidence that prompted her to agree to run for Sala Burton's seat.
		Burton, who had succeeded her husband and was herself dying of cancer, urged Pelosi to step out front, after decades of working behind the scenes.
	www.msmagazine.com /dec02/pelosi_full.asp (703 words)

	PELOSI: Lifetime commitment to politics, Democrats
		John Burton, the former congressman and state Senate president, remembered being summoned in early 1987 to the Washington deathbed of his sister-in-law, Rep.
		Sala Burton, the widow of legendary congressman Phil Burton.
		John Burton was surprised and a little skeptical when he learned Sala Burton meant Pelosi, the former state Democratic chairman noted for her fundraising prowess but untested as a candidate.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/08/MNG8DM7PAK1.DTL&type=politics (725 words)

	San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council - Organized Labor: A Tribute to the Late Phil and Sala Burton
		The late congressman Phillip Burton, who died in 1983, and his wife Sala Burton, who died in 1987 after having been elected to her husband’s congressional seat after his death, were among the greatest champions of working families, of organized labor, and of human rights in our nation’s history.
		The Center is planning to hold a day-long tribute to the Burtons on June 1st to commemorate their accomplishments at Upper Fort Mason in San Francisco.
		At the age of 20 in 1946, Phil Burton became a leader in the Young Democrats in San Francisco immediately after his return to San Francisco, after graduating from the University of Southern California.
	www.sfbctc.org /12306-burton.htm (729 words)

	San Francisco's far-left Pelosi will lead Democrats in House Human Events - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The pivotal moment in Burton's career came in 1976, when he lost the race for House majority leader by one vote to Rep. Jim Wright (D.-Tex.), who went on, a decade later, to succeed the late Rep. Tip O'Neill (D.-Mass.) as speaker of the House.
		Burton was a liberal icon and, as the late John Jacobs wrote in his much-praised biography of the Californian, A Rage for Justice, "Never before had anyone of the left combined Burton's ideological commitment, love of combat, and operational ability to get things done."
		But the Democrats turned Burton back, Jacobs concluded, because they were obviously nervous about giving such a confrontational leftist such a high profile in their party.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200211/ai_n9150309 (756 words)

	BwB: Press Room
		Shots are fired from the approaching van, killing the young man driving and sending the other young man in the passenger seat to the hospital.
		However, at Burton High School in San Francisco, there is a pervading culture of hope.
		The program at Burton has raised over $2,000 this year through local fundraisers to support the construction of a new schoolhouse in a small village in Mali, West Africa, where most children and adults have no access to formal education.
	www.buildingwithbooks.org /press/features/id=cali_106.shtml (412 words)

	Web Article
		She spoke of when she first came to Burton as a student teacher, saying "I fell in love with the students and the population."
		The world-renowned Burton choir kicks off their assembly with a song by the Jackson Five.
		Kathleen Vasquez's Award notification at Burton began with a performance by the school's world-renowned "Touch of Class" choir, which has performed across Europe and even at the White House.
	www.mff.org /newsroom/news.taf?page=381 (953 words)

	Geotimes - September 2003 - Reaching Out to Communities and Kids with Science
		We started with the students and faculty at Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School (Burton High School) in southeast San Francisco and designed a community-centered, multifaceted education and research program to study four watershed sites that are adjacent to the school: the Islais, Yosemite, Mission, and Lobos creek watersheds.
		During the 2002-2003 academic year at Burton High School, for example, more than 100 students participated in the rain-gauge project by collecting and reporting rainfall from simple rain gauges installed in the backyards of their homes (http://sf-rocks.sfsu.edu/ozlp_1.htm).
		Assessment and revision of the lesson plans and associated activities are ongoing, and the teachers and interns have provided valuable feedback about their effectiveness.
	www.geotimes.org /sept03/feature_SFROCKS.html (1409 words)

	UESF News
		Os-Maun Rasul, Dean of Students at Philip and Sala Burton Academic High School, greets students during his daily rounds.
		His appointment by Governor Gray Davis to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing was confirmed by the State Senate in September.
		Os-Maun Rasul, Dean of Students at Philip and Sala Burton Academic High School was appointed by Governor Gray Davis to serve on the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC).
	www.uesf.org /rasul.html (455 words)

	BURTON HS
		Although it opened its doors in the Silver Terrace neighborhood, today it is located at 400 Mansell Avenue, in the Southeastern corner...
		Spring of 2002 the STAR (Standardized Testing and Reporting) testing results are in.
		The hard work has paid off -- Burton scholars scored higher this year than last year.
	portal.sfusd.edu /template/?page=hs.burton (255 words)

	Headbob.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		You will never be successful at anything outside His will." With that in mind, Tachina went on to perform in a most exemplary and memorable fashion in several entertainment mediums that included church choirs, radio, musical theater, and television.
		During this time, Tachina was educated at San Francisco's Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School, San Jose State University.
		In January 1998, Tachina was unanimously named the winner of the Gospel Music Association West Coast Regional Competition in Los Angeles, CA and secured her place in the Nationwide Finals Competition in Nashville, Tennessee in April 1998.
	www.headbob.com /indies/gospel/danielle.htm (305 words)

	Students make a difference during spring break
		The Burton students learned a great deal about leadership, teamwork, trust and communication through a day full of games on the SFSU campus.
		Tiffani Tamaru, a 16-year-old Burton sophomore, said she learned lessons that wouldn't have been as fun or valuable taught inside a classroom.
		The SFSU and Burton students also displayed teamwork after one of them lost an earring in the grass.
	www.sfsu.edu /~news/2003/44.htm (605 words)

	Statement by Congresswoman Pelosi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She was a patient, savvy problem solver who specialized in immigration issues.
		After Congressman Burton's death she worked for his wife, Congresswoman Sala Burton.
		She contributed her political expertise to many campaigns, including those of Philip Burton, Sala Burton, Frank Jordan, Jesse Jackson, and my own.
	www.house.gov /pelosi/flDorisThomas072502.HTM (315 words)

	The Blog \| Hilary Rosen: Madame Speaker \| The Huffington Post
		She was a dear friend of Dianne's and an even closer friend of former Reps. Phil and Sala Burton who she followed into Congress.
		And when Sala was dying, she anointed Nancy to be her successor.
		If Pelosi is even 25% as effective as Burton was, the world will be so much better off a year from now, after the Democrats are back in some power.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /hilary-rosen/madame-speaker_b_31833.html (2211 words)

	BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News » Reformers Happily Join the San Francisco Democratic ...
		The former School Board member and longtime progressive supervisor is already an electoral lock for the November 2008 race, adding to San Francisco’s trend of virtually uncontested races for major offices.
		The notion of a “Brown-Burton” machine was never a good way of explaining San Francisco politics, since Phil and John Burton were among the leading progressives of their eras while Willie Brown left the solidly progressive camp in the mid-1970’s.
		Dianne Feinstein was never a member of “the machine,” and it certainly did not hurt her political career.
	www.beyondchron.org /news/index.php?itemid=3647 (1146 words)

	Francisco da Costa - Articles
		Then all of a sudden the same school was baptized and it was called Philip and Sala Burton.
		In 1994 lo and behold Philip and Sala Burton Academic High School the official name of the school was baptized Thurgood Marshall High School after the famous fl Supreme Court Judge.
		I could not fathom the stupidity and foolishness of changing names of schools that I knew and saw in this madness a sense of fleeting moments and no strong commitment to tradition and permanency.
	www.franciscodacosta.com /articles/thurgood.html (1911 words)

	91.7 KALW & SFUSD
		Over the past sixty-five years, KALW has played an evolving role in SFUSD's educational mission, broadcasting the District's Board meetings, creating programming focused on educational issues, and providing opportunities for student learning and expression.
		KALW's studios are located on the campus of Philip & Sala Burton Academic High School, on the ridge between the Portola District and Visitation Valley.
		Election Day is coming up -- now's the time to educate yourself about the candidates for running for the open seats on Board of Education in San Francisco.
	www.kalw.org /sfschools.html (193 words)

	Francisco da Costa - Articles
		He tried to tell everyone present that Phillip Burton was his mentor but failed to state that Phillip Burton was not corrupt and did not amass wealth from special interests, as did Willie Brown.
		There is no doubt that Phillip and Sala Burton were good people.
		I cannot say that of Willie Brown, Nancy Pelosi and a few other Democrats who have disowned the constituents who use to vote for the Democratic Party.
	www.franciscodacosta.com /articles/willie.html (743 words)

	1999-2000 API Growth / San Francisco Unified - Burton (Phillip & Sala) Academic High School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Full reporting will be available in December 2000.
		Burton (Phillip & Sala) Academic High School's Full Report from California Department of Education
		The Academic Performance Index is a set of raw numbers from 200 to 1,000.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2000/10/04/SanFranciscoSanFranciscoUnifiedBurtonPhillipandSalaAcademicHigh.txt (196 words)

	CIFSF - Partners
		The dedication ceremony for Rosenberg Stadium and the new synthetic turf field on the Burton High School campus was held October 20, 2006.
		The Academic Athletic Association/CIF San Francisco Section (the athletic governing body for the SFUSD) has initiated the Burton Fields Project, a campaign to create world-class athletic facilities at Philip and Sala Burton Academic High School.
		John York of the San Francisco 49ers and Stephanie Forbes of Bay Area LISC present a check for $200,000 on behalf of the NFL Grassroots Program to Burton High School students and the Puma mascot.
	www.cifsf.org /partners-donors.htm (375 words)

	10.23.96 - Interactive Grant Builds an Internet Bridge
		Held at Phillip and Sala Burton High School in San Francisco, the unveiling of the Interactive University grant brought together many supporters, including San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
		Brown's presence at Burton High was met with surprise and enthusiasm by students, who peeked out of classrooms whispering, "Is that the mayor?" and calling, "Hi, Willie!"
		Last spring the project permitted 10th-grade students in San Francisco's Hunters Point to talk remotely with Sir Brian Urquhart, former undersecretary-general of the United Nations.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/1996/1023/internet.html (586 words)

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