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Oakland Unified School District

Affirmative Action for School Discipline?

Michaela Pommells | Posted 01.07.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Institutional Racism, Failing Schools, Teachers, Racism, Oakland Unified School District, Internalized Racism, Education, Activism, Schools, Education Reform, Race Based Discipline, Black Voices News
Michaela Pommells

The outcome of the 2012 presidential election will determine the federal education mandate but the true measure will be whether America can successfully close the racial disparities facing U.S. schools.

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Feds To Monitor Oakland Schools' Discipline Of Black Students

Posted 10.03.2012 | Home
Read More: Oakland School Board, Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, Black Suspension Rates, African American Students, Oakland Unified Schools, School Suspensions, Oakland African American Students, School Suspension, California Schools, Oakland School District, Oakland African American Male Students, Video, Home News

The Oakland Unified School District and the U.S. Department of Education agreed last week to allow for at least five years of federal monitoring as th...

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Bad News For Oakland Private School

Posted 11.07.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: Oakland Unified School District, Schools in Oakland, Oakland Schools, Oakland Private Schools, Oakland California Schools, Oakland School District, Oakland Ca Schools, Private Schools in Oakland, San Francisco News

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Will Evans The Oakland Unified School District is cutting off federal funds benefiting...

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Improving the Conditions for Teaching and Learning

Martin J. Blank | Posted 05.14.2012 | Home
Read More: Public Schools, Teacher Quality, Oakland, Child Poverty, Teacher Evaluations, Oakland Unified School District, Community Schools, Education Reform, Schools, Home News
Martin J. Blank

When there are distractions in the classroom and in children's lives, teachers have a harder time doing their job. That's not an excuse, that's reality.

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Dinner At School: More Public Schools Dish Up 3 Meals A Day

AP | By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH | Posted 02.18.2012 | Home
Read More: School Dinners, Oakland Unified School District, Department of Agriculture, School Meals, Kansas City Schools, Missouri Schools, Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, Garfield Elementary School, School Lunches, Child and Adult Care Food Program, Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, Usda, Barack Obama, Home News

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Too often it is after the fact that teachers discover their students are worrying less about math and reading and more about where...

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Teaching In The Young Lions' Lair

Turnstyle | Posted 01.09.2012 | Home
Read More: New Options, Ousd, Invisible Man, New Options Project, Aam, Push Out Program, Ralph Ellison, Black Male, Students, School, Pendarvis Harshaw, African-American, Teach, African-American Male, Black Men, Education, Oakland Unified School District, Drop-Out, Oakland, High School, Black, Dropout, Teaching, Class, Young Lions' Lair, Home News
Turnstyle

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

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WATCH: Hundreds Protest As Oakland Threatens To Close, Consolidate 13 Schools

Robin Wilkey | Posted 11.28.2011 | San Francisco
Read More: Oakland School Board Closures, Video, Elementary Schools Closing, Oakland Schools, Oakland Unified School District, Oakland Schools Closing, California Schools, Bv-Video, California School Closures, Oakland School Closures, Schools Closing, San Francisco News

On Tuesday night, hundreds of parents, teachers and students crowded an Oakland School Board meeting to protest proposed shutdowns and consolidations ...

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Oakland School District's Top Cop Suspended For Racial Slur

Aaron Sankin | Posted 10.16.2011 | San Francisco
Read More: Oakland Unified School District Police Department, Oakland Unified School District, Oakland School Police Chief Racial Slur, Pete Sarna Suspended, Pete Sarna Racial Slur, Pete Sarna, San Francisco News

Update: In response to the controversy surrounding his remarks, Sarna has announced his retirement. Pete Sarna, the chief of the Oakland Unified Sc...

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California City and Striking Teachers Agree - We're Broke!

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Oakland, Strike, Teachers Strike, Troy Flint, State, Teachers Union, Youthradio, Betty Olson-Jones, Budget Crisis, Students, School, California, Education, Brett Myers, Oakland Unified School District, Youth Radio, Politics News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Brett Myers "The vast majority of t...

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Job Search, Teacher Style

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Oakland, Jobs, Education, Teaching, Oakland Unified School District, Urban Education, Schooling, Class Size, Budget Cuts, Economy, College News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By Maya Cueva Youth Radio profiles a rece...

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