It took a winding journey to get there, but the Aspire Berkley Maynard Academy (BMA) community ended up in the right place: with a long-term lease from the Oakland Unified School District at the aging facility it has occupied for 15 years, and with the power now to use grant money it already secured to…
Open Charter School Seats as of 5/12, You Can Still Apply
Here are charters schools that still had open seats and the grades that had spots, I asked the district for something similar but haven’t gotten anything. Thanks Oakland Enrolls for this, and check out their site to apply to district and charter schools.
An Easy Fix for OUSD, Make Applying Easier
“Andres” is a newcomer. He needs a great school, that supports his language and other needs. Thankfully, we have just such a school in our neighborhood, Melrose Leadership Academy. Unfortunately, he never applied, and it was OUSD’s unnecessarily intrusive and complex process that was the hurdle. This is totally fixable, would lead to hundreds of…
Skyline High Senior Eleanor Wikstrom Makes History, Becoming First Ever CIF Scholar-Athlete of the Year from Oakland
OUSD press releaseOakland, CA — Eleanor Wikstrom from Skyline High School has a unique set of skills. She studies as hard as anyone, pulling a 4.0 GPA that has her heading to Harvard University in the fall. She is such an effective orator that she has taken first place in OUSD’s Annual Martin Luther King Jr.…
BayTech to Host a Virtual College Planning Session for the Class of 2021
A Guest post from BayTech Charter School looking at college planning in the COVID era “At some point we are going to get back to ‘normal’ and our juniors will want to attend college after they graduate from BayTech” said Dr. Seth Feldman, Executive Director at BayTech Charter. This year, the BayTech class of 2021…