The Urban Legend

The real cost of raising tuition

Viva Wertz, Staff Writer • April 26, 2022

According to the Urban website, in 2021, the school offered a collective $4.65 million in financial aid so students whose families were not able to afford the full Urban tuition could attend. Though there...

Evie Hidysmith’s thesis on socioeconomics at Urban: “Private schools are unethical. Period.”

Mira Chandriani, Editor in Chief, Print • April 26, 2022

Evie Hidysmith, Urban’s Pandemic Coordinator and graduate of Urban in the Class of 2017, wrote a senior thesis for Brown University titled “ .” Her thesis discusses wealth at Urban and San...

Lack of diversity in the Bay Area cannabis business

Tallula Ricciardi, Arts & Culture Editor • December 19, 2018

Since the legalization of recreational marijuana in January of 2018, the Bay Area community and economy have faced drastic changes in the cannabis industry. As more legal dispensaries open in San Francisco...

San Francisco votes to tax the rich to benefit the poor with Prop C

November 27, 2018

On Nov. 6, 2018 San Francisco voters passed Proposition C to tax the city’s wealthiest businesses in an effort to increase funding for homelessness prevention. The proposition is projected to raise $300...

How social class affects social life

Zella Lezak, Guest Writer • June 6, 2018

Ever since I got to The Urban School of San Francisco, I have always been impressed with the way we deconstruct parts of our identities, such as gender, sexual orientation and race, in and out of the classroom....

Historic building classifications further SF housing crisis

Diego Lopez, EIC of Online • May 10, 2018

San Francisco is in the midst of a housing crisis, and community organizations are making it worse. Rents are skyrocketing from already high highs to astronomic levels. Last month, the median price for...