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…
The Oakland Education Week in Review: 11/18-11/24
Last week–the latest polling on Oakland education, the NAACP’s literacy campaign, a brother bring computer science to the masses, looking at charter renewals, the success of the AAMA, Afrocomicon, all that and much more, please read, share and get involved Oakland: Celebration of Black Educators with the State of Black Education in Oakland Quality and…
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…
How Will OUSD Make Decisions on Charter School Renewals?
*Lea en español abajo A guest post from Daisy Padilla the policy and communications manager from GO Public Schools If you’ve been following Oakland education, news about merging, expanding, and consolidating district schools has been front and center. There are also big decisions on the horizon that will impact over 2,500 students who attend the…
The Oakland Education Week in Review: 11/11-11/17
last week, building community at Sankofa/Kaiser, lots of discussion of the board meeting disruptions, a superintendent update, how Aurum got a 75% Black male teaching staff, the challenges and successes of the supe, reading scores are down but what does it mean, Black and Brown families are doing a go fund me to meet Elizabeth…