Last week-charter renewals, a recall effort on a school board member, should Yu Ming expand, a couple of Oakland tragedies, the Kaiser issues linger, how a local school is achieving diversity, housing, celebrating Black educators and more, please read, share and get involved
Oakland:
- School board considers renewal of three charter schools
- Protesters collecting signatures to oust Oakland board member who backed school closing
- Politics over School Quality in Oakland; The Curious Case of Yu Ming
- Life Of Oakland Football Star Ramone Sanders Honored At Musical Celebration
- Oakland Unified facilities department head dies at age 63
- Protesters file excessive force claim against Oakland Unified
- This School Hired the ‘Best Person’ for the Job and Ended Up With a 75% Black Male Teaching Staff
- Hundreds March for Housing Now in Oakland
- Wednesday’s Briefing: Oakland will appeal Measure AA ruling; Parents file excessive force claim against OUSD
- Celebration of Black Educators Event
California:
- Open Forum: Why ethnic studies is essential for a realistic California education
- California Teacher Trashes Students’ Black Lives Matter Posters
- The Battle Over the Future of Proposition 13 Is Underway
Other Stories:
- Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving at Home
- Minority Voters Chafe as Democratic Candidates Abandon Charter Schools
Oakland:
- School board considers renewal of three charter schools
- At a special meeting on Wednesday night, Oakland school board members voted to deny one charter school a petition for renewal and failed to approve renewals for two others, planning to consider both again at the December 2 meeting.
- Protesters collecting signatures to oust Oakland board member who backed school closing
- As opposition to school closures in Oakland Unified gains traction among some community members, a group of protesters is initiating a recall campaign against acting school board president Jody London.
- Politics over School Quality in Oakland; The Curious Case of Yu Ming
- One of Oakland’s best public schools wants to serve more students and specifically more disadvantaged students. It is the ONLY Oakland school that won the prestigious National Blue Ribbon. It was the top academic school in Oakland and Alameda County and in the top .2% of all California schools. 96% of its economically disadvantaged students are reading at or above grade level (the number is 24% in OUSD) and 81% of special needs students are reading as well (8.5% in OUSD).
- Life Of Oakland Football Star Ramone Sanders Honored At Musical Celebration
- Former McClymonds High and Laney College football standout Ramone Sanders Jr., 19, died Friday after a yearlong battle with bone cancer. He was honored at a musical celebration in Oakland on Sunday.
- Oakland Unified facilities department head dies at age 63
- Oakland Unified’s facilities department head Tim White, who worked for the district for 15 years, died suddenly Tuesday of leukemia complications, district officials announced.
- Protesters file excessive force claim against Oakland Unified
- Nine Oakland Unified parents and staff members have filed a claim against the district alleging “use of excessive force” by police during a school board meeting last month.
- This School Hired the ‘Best Person’ for the Job and Ended Up With a 75% Black Male Teaching Staff
- As he moves around his seventh grade math classroom, Aurum Preparatory Academy (“Aurum Prep”) teacher, Salif Doubare, is crackling with energy. He’s tall, thin, wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a big smile, as he walks around a large table in the center of the classroom, encouraging students. When it comes to his class, he wants to meet students where they’re at.
- Hundreds March for Housing Now in Oakland
- Hundreds of East Bay residents gathered at Mosswood Park in Oakland around noon on Sat., Nov. 23, 2019, to participate in The March for Housing Now, which called for the City of Oakland to house its unhoused residents.
- Wednesday’s Briefing: Oakland will appeal Measure AA ruling; Parents file excessive force claim against OUSD
- News you don’t want to miss for Nov. 27
- Celebration of Black Educators Event
- Please join the State of Black education in Oakland on 12/9 at Kingston 11 to celebrate this year’s award winners, with food, drinks and community
California:
- Open Forum: Why ethnic studies is essential for a realistic California education
- Castlemont High School in southeast Oakland looks more like a small county jail than a school. There are metal cages over the windows. An iron fence with locked gates surrounds the campus. Shattered glass from broken car windows cover the streets. Adults loiter in groups on surrounding streets; some catcall the girls. This is the reality David Flores, a teacher in his mid-20s, faces every day. To meet the challenges of teaching an underserved district, Flores unapologetically admits that he’s commandeered English and social studies as ethnic studies classes.
- California Teacher Trashes Students’ Black Lives Matter Posters
- A teacher at Del Paso Manor Elementary School in Sacramento, California, decided to give sixth-graders a lesson on white supremacy as he threw away four student art projects because of their “political nature.”
- The Battle Over the Future of Proposition 13 Is Underway
- While some took the weekend as an opportunity to decompress from the workweek, others took it as a chance to get a jump start on what may be the largest political battle over state taxes in next year’s election: the future of Proposition 13.
Other Stories:
- Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving at Home
- Holidays on the inside are just like those on the outside, but they aren’t. The feelings are the same but the sterile setting, armed guards and air of control are stifling. And for these thanksgivings, there is a time clock ticking, with shifts of visitors coming in and out.
- Minority Voters Chafe as Democratic Candidates Abandon Charter Schools
- The front-runners for the presidential nomination are moving away from the charter school movement, and Black and Latino families ask why their concerns are lost.
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