A guest post from our partners at the CORE Collaborative, we always welcome guest writers. Up until recently this was not an easy question to answer for a city in California (several other states make this data publicly available). The data has been available to individual schools and districts who seek it out, but the…
The Oakland Ed Week in Review: 7/22-7/29
All the education news from last week including a tragic rise in homelessness, Oakland parents telling their stories, SFUSD creates housing for vulnerable youth (ahem Oakland), the latest college going data from Oakland high schools, time for Prop 13 reform, listening to principals, and a call to action for Black and Brown youth, all that…
I Am a District School Parent and a Charter School Parent, All I Want Is Quality; Underserved Families Need Options
by Hakeem Bey Oakland public schools failed me and now, as the father of four, I’ll be damned if they are going to fail my children, too. I don’t care about the name or type of school my children attend—I do care about quality. I never had the opportunity to attend a high quality school.…
The Problem with Seeking the Best for Your Kids; The Ethical Crossroads in School Choice
A guest post from Courtney Martin, we always welcome guest submissions Everyone wants the best for their kids. It’s an idea that almost no one — black, brown, or white, rich, poor, or something in between — would take issue with. In fact, most people think this is the bedrock of good parenting: pursuing the best for…
In This War to Educate Black and Brown Kids, Are You in or Are You Out?
A cross post from Charles Cole III, we always welcome guest submissions Recently, Nick Hanauer wrote an article for the Atlantic titled Better Schools Won’t Fix America, where his main argument was that education is not the answer to economic inequality. The article took over my timeline. When I saw that it was going to be…