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A life behind the scenes at Golden Gate Fields

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By Allyson Aleksey Verified
| albanyscanner.com
Community Faith Taylor's first Clydesdale race, riding double with jockey Brian Johnson in 1975. Courtesy When Faith Taylor got a job as a hot walker at Golden Gate Fields in 1973, it was "a dream come true." "I just thought, 'I'm getting paid to work with horses?'" she told Albany Scanner. More than 50 years later, Taylor's career had taken her from hot walker to exercise rider to trainer, where she worked alongside some of the track's most established trainers.
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Childcare advocates urge SF to release $500M in unused funds

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By Allyson Aleksey Verified
| The San Francisco Examiner Verified
Seven years after San Francisco voters embraced an ambitious plan to make The City the first in the nation to offer free, publicly funded child care to all residents, regardless of income, the promise of that measure remains largely unfulfilled. The program has reached only a fraction of the families it was designed to serve, and child care advocates are increasingly frustrated as the fund’s reserves swell past half a billion dollars.
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California transitional kindergarten growing pains hit SFUSD

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By Allyson Aleksey Verified
| The San Francisco Examiner Verified
San Francisco’s public schools are feeling the growing pains of California expanding its nation-leading transitional-kindergarten program statewide, according to frustrated parents and educators. Starting this school year, California law allows for all 4-year-olds to attend transitional kindergarten — a grade between pre-kindergarten and kindergarten for children who aren’t old enough to enroll in the latter — free of charge in their local school districts.
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