What is the FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit program? On May 12, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) program to help families pay for broadband internet access for their education and work-from-home needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many families don’t even know this program exists. So Great School Voices has joined…
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GO’s What’s Happening in Public Ed
¿Qué está pasando en la educación de Oakland?: Mayo 2021 Lea en español aquí. A guest post from Go Public Schools Welcome to What’s Happening in Oakland Education? volume 2, a newsletter to keep the community informed. We know how busy families and educators are. The typical OUSD board meeting stretches past midnight and few parents or…
The Oakland Ed Week in Review: 5/3-5/9
Last week, congrats to Oakland’s 3 distinguished schools, a look at how LIFE Academy is fighting absenteeism, parents talk reopening, a look at API chronic absence, the Spring tests, an opportunity for teachers interested in jazz and democracy, high schools with high college eligibility rates for Black students, charter schools with open seats, and more,…
The Jazz and Democracy Project is Enrolling Teachers Apply by May 17th for priority Discount
“I definitely learned about the impact of Jazz, but in a way I didn’t expect. I was thinking J&D would be more about how jazz movements gave way to greater democracy, but I think I learned about how current jazz standards or skills can be used as a framework to create/understand what an equitable democracy…
Where are our students? Life Academy intervention team combats chronic absenteeism
A guest post from Thomas Maffai and Go Public Schools Oakland April 27, 2021 Haz clic aquí para leer en español As part of our Numbers & Narratives: Year in Review series, we’ll be releasing new data reports and stories to better understand the toll of the pandemic on Oakland education, lift the experiences of families, and…