The State - News from Feb. 2, 1989
San Francisco school Supt. Ramon Cortines decided to reverse himself and allow circulation of a Potrero Middle School student magazine that includes articles about drugs, suicide and prostitution. He had ordered more than 700 copies of the publication withheld because he believed that it did not allow the school to “put its best foot forward.” But he changed his mind, he said, after “it became a tempest in a teapot.
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