Next on the CA chopping block: opportunity?
Yesterday afternoon I visited two East Oakland schools that offer hope, support and opportunity to people who are trying to make it in urban America. I wish I was out on a feel-good story, but I...
View ArticleBudget breakdown for Oakland schools
The Oakland school board will be asked on Wednesday to pass a budget with 505 fewer full-time positions (about 10 percent) and deep reductions in almost every department and program, particularly adult...
View ArticleOUSD’s worst-case scenario for pre-k, adult ed
The other week, we visited the Highland Childhood Development Center in East Oakland for a story about the possible elimination of state-subsidized, all-day preschool for the children of low-income...
View ArticleA new coalition to bring back adult education
If you read this blog regularly, you probably know that adult education in California has been decimated in recent years. You might also know that the Oakland school board voted in June to shift...
View ArticleSo much pink, so few layoffs (probably)
For all of the people who tried to attend the Oakland school board’s special budget meeting tonight and anyone else who missed the presentation, here’s the upshot: The Oakland school district is...
View ArticleOakland schools to cancel more layoff notices
A week after announcing that none of its elementary school teachers would be laid off strictly for budget reasons, the Oakland school district is gearing up to cancel more layoff notices — though not...
View ArticleLayoff update and Oakland teachers of the year
May 15 is upon us, and it doesn’t look like the Oakland school district plans to rescind any more layoff notices of teachers and counselors than it already has. (See my April layoff update here.) Here...
View ArticleA OUSD board member’s proposal: No further cuts to adult education
David Kakishiba doesn’t think the Oakland school district should swipe another $3.3 million from the adult education fund. Such a move would all but shut down adult education in Oakland, leaving only...
View ArticleNotes from a long and eventful board meeting
Tonight’s — or should I say, last night’s — 5 p.m. Oakland school board meeting went till midnight. I observed so much from my ergonomically incorrect wooden seat: The NAACP‘s Oakland branch showed up...
View ArticleShould Oakland restore funds to GED, family literacy?
The Oakland school district can keep family literacy and GED programs at 2010-11 levels next year if the school board gives back $900,000 that the school district administration has proposed taking...
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