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In his dreams, he meets a slew of historical figures -- from Sacagawea to Jackie Robinson -- and travels to some of the darkest corners of America's past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The performance, held May 1-3 at Oakland Technical High School, includes 78 characters, several musical numbers, elaborate sets and choreographed dances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t really like how we get called high school theater,\" says senior Jacob Moore, who has performed in five plays at Oakland Tech. He has two roles this spring: Jesus and a Japanese game show host. He's also in charge of costumes. \"We do productions. That’s like one thing, ever since the first show we did, I was like, 'Just a high school play? No! 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(Sara Bernard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It’s challenging material,\" agrees Jessa Brie Moreno, who came to Oakland Technical High School as a drama teacher eight years ago. \"We’re often putting the PG-13 rating on our posters. Because that’s who these students are and what they’re really dealing with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Moreno arrived at Oakland Tech, the school’s 900-seat auditorium was being used for storage. The building had a leaky roof and broken seats, and there was no performing arts program to speak of. Even today, Moreno says, only about a third of students at Oakland's public schools have access to any kind of arts education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Moreno is helping to change that. A few years ago, the American High School Theatre Festival named the OakTech Rep one of the top 50 drama programs in the country. Moreno and her students traveled to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland -- the largest arts festival in the world -- to perform \"Hamlet: Blood in the Brain,\" an adaptation of the Shakespeare classic set in 1980s Oakland. And the troupe routinely earns high praise from professional actors and directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don’t go in with the expectation that these young guys are going to do what they do,\" says Michael Torres, chair of the theater department at Oakland's Laney College. He's been a professional stage actor for the past 26 years and works with some of Moreno's former students. \"I like watching the shows because I can hold onto the through line. It’s like watching a show in many other different places that are professional. It’s special, what’s happening there,\" at Oakland Tech, he says. \"It’s not normal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140927\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/OakTech7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/OakTech7-400x193.jpg\" alt='The play features several choreographed dances. Here, students rehearse a medley that blends \"Ice Ice Baby\" with \"Electric Slide.\" (Sara Bernard/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140927\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The play features several choreographed dances. Here, students rehearse a medley that blends \"Ice Ice Baby\" with \"Electric Slide.\" (Sara Bernard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moreno often brings in local professionals to help coach the students --actors, directors, choreographers. The group frequently writes its own work, too, such as \"99 Years,\" a play about the history of Oakland Tech, based on interviews with alumni. Moreno thinks of this as a pre-professional program, and makes sure that each performance presents new challenges and takes new risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I keep saying, this is the one that's going to get me fired,\" she says, laughing. \"No, this is the one! But it hasn't happened yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s probably because the program has been so successful -- and not only at Oakland Tech. A few years ago, when Moreno was one of the only drama teachers left in the district, she wrote a grant to train 10 English and history teachers in theater techniques and what she calls \"creative inquiry.\" Known as the Oakland Theatre Arts Initiative, the grant helped integrate theater arts into a handful of classrooms and build the drama program at Edna Brewer Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They say that creative thought and critical thinking skills are the most lacking right now in education,\" Moreno says. \"And I think theater is a place where that all comes together and you can make use of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Moreno spends each morning at the Oakland Unified School District office developing curricula that will bring theater techniques into every classroom in the district. For some students, like Jacob Moore, that kind of opportunity is everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140928\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/OakTech9.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/OakTech9-400x296.jpg\" alt='The cast practices their rendition of the Neil Diamond classic, \"Coming to America.\" (Sara Bernard/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"296\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140928\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast practices their rendition of the Neil Diamond classic, \"Coming to America.\" (Sara Bernard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Before I lived here, when I didn’t have theater, my GPA was below a 1,\" says Moore. \"Then I got into reading and working and learning. That’s what you have to do to be in theater; you have to learn a lot about everything in the play. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The 27 actors in the OakTech Rep's spring play are hard at work rehearsing \"American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All right! We really tore through Manzanar last time,\" director Jessa Brie Moreno calls out to the cast. \"I'm really proud of you guys. We're doing great.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tragicomic musical, developed by Richard Montoya of the Chicano performance troupe Culture Clash, portrays a Mexican immigrant who falls asleep as he studies for his U.S. citizenship exam. In his dreams, he meets a slew of historical figures -- from Sacagawea to Jackie Robinson -- and travels to some of the darkest corners of America's past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The performance, held May 1-3 at Oakland Technical High School, includes 78 characters, several musical numbers, elaborate sets and choreographed dances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t really like how we get called high school theater,\" says senior Jacob Moore, who has performed in five plays at Oakland Tech. He has two roles this spring: Jesus and a Japanese game show host. He's also in charge of costumes. \"We do productions. That’s like one thing, ever since the first show we did, I was like, 'Just a high school play? No! This is a lot!'\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140925\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/OakTech5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/OakTech5-400x413.jpg\" alt='Kevin Covarrubias, who plays the lead in \"American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose,\" practices his lines with fellow performer Jessica Nguyen. (Sara Bernard/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"413\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140925\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Covarrubias, who plays the lead in \"American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose,\" practices his lines with fellow performer Jessica Nguyen. (Sara Bernard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It’s challenging material,\" agrees Jessa Brie Moreno, who came to Oakland Technical High School as a drama teacher eight years ago. \"We’re often putting the PG-13 rating on our posters. Because that’s who these students are and what they’re really dealing with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And the troupe routinely earns high praise from professional actors and directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don’t go in with the expectation that these young guys are going to do what they do,\" says Michael Torres, chair of the theater department at Oakland's Laney College. He's been a professional stage actor for the past 26 years and works with some of Moreno's former students. \"I like watching the shows because I can hold onto the through line. It’s like watching a show in many other different places that are professional. It’s special, what’s happening there,\" at Oakland Tech, he says. \"It’s not normal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140927\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/OakTech7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/OakTech7-400x193.jpg\" alt='The play features several choreographed dances. 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But it hasn't happened yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s probably because the program has been so successful -- and not only at Oakland Tech. A few years ago, when Moreno was one of the only drama teachers left in the district, she wrote a grant to train 10 English and history teachers in theater techniques and what she calls \"creative inquiry.\" Known as the Oakland Theatre Arts Initiative, the grant helped integrate theater arts into a handful of classrooms and build the drama program at Edna Brewer Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They say that creative thought and critical thinking skills are the most lacking right now in education,\" Moreno says. \"And I think theater is a place where that all comes together and you can make use of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Moreno spends each morning at the Oakland Unified School District office developing curricula that will bring theater techniques into every classroom in the district. For some students, like Jacob Moore, that kind of opportunity is everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140928\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/OakTech9.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/OakTech9-400x296.jpg\" alt='The cast practices their rendition of the Neil Diamond classic, \"Coming to America.\" (Sara Bernard/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"296\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140928\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast practices their rendition of the Neil Diamond classic, \"Coming to America.\" (Sara Bernard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Before I lived here, when I didn’t have theater, my GPA was below a 1,\" says Moore. \"Then I got into reading and working and learning. That’s what you have to do to be in theater; you have to learn a lot about everything in the play. So I just kinda got into doing work. And now I’m like a 3.5 GPA, which is really weird for me, because that’s never happened before!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior Ana Ortiz has been acting for the past two years, and she says theater has been pretty transformative for her, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I talk in front of a group of people, I get kind of shy, and when I start talking, I get red. I hate that. But when I'm on stage, that doesn't happen. I get nervous, but it's like, I let my character go. It's not me, it's my character.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The benefits of theater also extend beyond the stage -- and the school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do breathing exercises for warm-up,\" Moreno says. \"And I had one student one year come and say, 'A guy pulled a gun on me in the bus and I used my breathing techniques and I swear it saved my life.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Will Evans, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/district-board-members-urge-oakland/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland school board members are calling for the district to investigate whether a private school accused of abuse is inflating enrollment numbers to get more than its share of taxpayer funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/BayCitizenLogo.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66889\">\u003c/a>The board members were responding to a California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/oakland-school-accused-abuse-overbilling-taxpayers-records-show-16428\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> into a West Oakland K-12 school run by St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church, which sends its students to ask for money at BART stations. Oakland Unified School District allocated $50,000 in federal funds this year based on the school's claim that it had 195 students, including 61 low-income children. Former students and government inspections, however, indicate the actual number is fewer than 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the money is distributed in contracts, approved by the school board, to church leaders such as Robert Lacy Jr., who several former students said physically abused the children there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. has said he has no history of hitting children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Noel Gallo said the district must take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is it a money issue, but it’s really about children,\" Gallo said. \"The minute someone tells me something is questionable or not right, then I'm just as responsible as the person doing it.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo said the money to St. Andrew should be shut off if the district confirms problems at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do provide approval for the use of those public funds. Even though our staff are saying we’re just a pass-through, we’re still liable and responsible,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member David Kakishiba also said the district should withhold funding if it finds the enrollment numbers were falsified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly if there’s fraudulent activity going on, we need to put a stop to it,\" he said. \"There's some basic due diligence that I believe any school district is responsible for doing when we’re transferring funds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members are expecting Superintendent Tony Smith to report back to them on the issue at their next meeting on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District spokesman Troy Flint said there isn't currently a formal investigation and that the board would have to vote on whether the district should take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re attentive to the issue, and right now things are just in the discussion phase,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint said the district did not know about the accusations of abuse of children at the school – and that those allegations make the issue more urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take those with the utmost seriousness,” he said. “And that’s our primary concern at the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Corbitt, who pulled her 12-year-old daughter out of St. Andrew in February, called for even stronger measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They should shut that school down and make them pay back all the money,\" she said. \"Because there’s no education being taught there at all. It’s all a fraud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr., who earlier defended himself and the school against what he called hearsay, said his attorney advised him not to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board Vice President Jumoke Hinton Hodge wrote by e-mail that the California Watch report \"gives us pause, of course, on any further support of the school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hinton Hodge, whose district includes West Oakland, wrote that she was saddened that parents and students \"might not have gotten what they needed from West Oakland (public) schools that are steadily improving. I hope that families will reconsider coming back to West Oakland schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo and Kakishiba said they want to review the district's disbursement of federal funds in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This school year, Oakland Unified allocated $784,000 in federal Title II money to 29 private schools in Oakland, based on the schools' total enrollment, according to district records. The money is supposed to provide teacher training, and in St. Andrew's case \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357636-banks-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">goes to\u003c/a> Carrie Banks, who married the church's pastor and teaches kindergarten through third grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also allocated $441,000 in Title I funds to 16 private schools, based on the number of eligible low-income students at the schools. That money funds additional instruction for struggling students. The school board approved a $7,400 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357635-lacy-jr-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">contract\u003c/a> in January for Lacy Jr. to provide the tutoring at $40 per hour. In April, district staff approved an additional $8,000 contract for Lacy Jr. that will go to the school board for final approval soon, said William Nownes, who administers the funding for Oakland Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board typically signs off on a long list of these contracts as part of its consent agenda, which allows approval of routine items, bunched together, without discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo said district staff should at least spot check a sampling of the schools receiving money to verify enrollment figures and the quality of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take it for granted that what we’re voting for is a good thing, and I think we need to pay greater attention to exactly what we're supporting,\" Gallo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Noel Gallo said the district must take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is it a money issue, but it’s really about children,\" Gallo said. \"The minute someone tells me something is questionable or not right, then I'm just as responsible as the person doing it.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo said the money to St. Andrew should be shut off if the district confirms problems at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do provide approval for the use of those public funds. Even though our staff are saying we’re just a pass-through, we’re still liable and responsible,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member David Kakishiba also said the district should withhold funding if it finds the enrollment numbers were falsified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly if there’s fraudulent activity going on, we need to put a stop to it,\" he said. \"There's some basic due diligence that I believe any school district is responsible for doing when we’re transferring funds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members are expecting Superintendent Tony Smith to report back to them on the issue at their next meeting on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District spokesman Troy Flint said there isn't currently a formal investigation and that the board would have to vote on whether the district should take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re attentive to the issue, and right now things are just in the discussion phase,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint said the district did not know about the accusations of abuse of children at the school – and that those allegations make the issue more urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take those with the utmost seriousness,” he said. “And that’s our primary concern at the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Corbitt, who pulled her 12-year-old daughter out of St. Andrew in February, called for even stronger measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They should shut that school down and make them pay back all the money,\" she said. \"Because there’s no education being taught there at all. It’s all a fraud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr., who earlier defended himself and the school against what he called hearsay, said his attorney advised him not to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board Vice President Jumoke Hinton Hodge wrote by e-mail that the California Watch report \"gives us pause, of course, on any further support of the school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hinton Hodge, whose district includes West Oakland, wrote that she was saddened that parents and students \"might not have gotten what they needed from West Oakland (public) schools that are steadily improving. I hope that families will reconsider coming back to West Oakland schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo and Kakishiba said they want to review the district's disbursement of federal funds in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This school year, Oakland Unified allocated $784,000 in federal Title II money to 29 private schools in Oakland, based on the schools' total enrollment, according to district records. The money is supposed to provide teacher training, and in St. Andrew's case \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357636-banks-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">goes to\u003c/a> Carrie Banks, who married the church's pastor and teaches kindergarten through third grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also allocated $441,000 in Title I funds to 16 private schools, based on the number of eligible low-income students at the schools. That money funds additional instruction for struggling students. The school board approved a $7,400 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357635-lacy-jr-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">contract\u003c/a> in January for Lacy Jr. to provide the tutoring at $40 per hour. In April, district staff approved an additional $8,000 contract for Lacy Jr. that will go to the school board for final approval soon, said William Nownes, who administers the funding for Oakland Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board typically signs off on a long list of these contracts as part of its consent agenda, which allows approval of routine items, bunched together, without discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo said district staff should at least spot check a sampling of the schools receiving money to verify enrollment figures and the quality of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take it for granted that what we’re voting for is a good thing, and I think we need to pay greater attention to exactly what we're supporting,\" Gallo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Joanna Lin, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/oakland-schools-chronic-absence-derail/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High rates of chronic absence, suspension and poor academic performance signal that more than half of African-American male students in the Oakland Unified School District are at risk of dropping out, according to new research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/school.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/school.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"school\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64778\">\u003c/a>The Urban Strategies Council, an Oakland-based community advocacy organization, found significant disparities between African-American boys and their peers: Fifty-five percent of black boys in the 2010-11 school year were falling off course from graduation or were at risk of doing so, compared with 37.5 percent of students overall in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From kindergarten through 12th grade, researchers found that black boys struggled with regular attendance and suspensions and scoring proficiently on standardized tests or maintaining grades above a C average – warning signs that they might drop out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among African-American males who were not on track to graduate, 73 percent in elementary school were chronically absent, missing 10 percent or more of school days for any reason, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbanstrategies.org/aamai/\" target=\"_blank\">findings\u003c/a> released this week. In middle school, the same percentage had been suspended at least once. Nearly two-thirds of high schoolers were chronically absent and had less than a C average; 41 percent had been suspended at least once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to understand what's going on if we're going to effectively intervene and improve outcomes and graduation and success of African-American males,\" said Junious Williams, chief executive officer of the council. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council's reports on dropout indicators are part of Oakland Unified's African-American Male Achievement Initiative, an effort launched in 2010 to improve academic and social equity for black boys. The findings provide \"a sense of urgency\" for the district, said Chris Chatmon, executive director of the district's Office of African-American Male Achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/05/24/95054/oakland_unified_considers_worrisome_absenteeism_suspensions?source=oakland+local&category=bay+area\">Oakland Unified Considers Absenteeism, Suspensions Stats for African-American Males\u003c/a> (Oakland Local)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Chatmon, who plans to hold a community meeting next month to discuss the council's findings, said improving attendance among black boys requires working with other agencies and the community and presents different challenges in different age groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In kindergarten and first grade, African-American boys in the district were more than four times as likely as their white peers to be chronically absent, the council found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Five-year-olds don't miss school without an adult knowing at home,\" said Hedy Chang, director of Attendance Works, an initiative that seeks to improve student success by reducing chronic absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families might face hurdles, such as transportation or health problems, in getting their young children to school, or they might not understand the importance of kindergarten, said Chang, who has worked with Oakland Unified to address chronic absenteeism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once you miss a month or more of school, and you miss a month or more in kindergarten and first, you're not on track for reading in third grade,\" she said. \"We've got to make sure kids have a chance to start on the right track.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way the district has tried to target chronic absenteeism among young black students is by working with the Oakland Housing Authority. Forty percent of students at four West Oakland schools live in public housing; 30 percent of those students were chronically absent in 2010-11. Chatmon said the district saw an uptick in school registration by reaching out to West Oakland families living in public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time black boys reach middle and high school, different factors begin to undermine attendance, Chatmon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Street culture becomes more attractive than learning and school culture,\" he said. \"How do we define school culture? What is it? What would get our students getting up at 5 in the morning, running to school? … You get school culture right, then you will produce African-American boys that produce high academic outcomes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural clashes and misunderstandings also factor into high rates of suspension among black boys, Chatmon and Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still have a teaching and administrative body that doesn't … understand the cultural context of where our students come from,\" Chatmon said. \"We have to do a lot of work with our adults to authentically engage with our boys, with our families, to understand our community context.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-American boys made up 17 percent of Oakland Unified students in 2010-11, yet they represented 42 percent of students suspended. Disruption or defiance of authority was the most common reason for discipline, accounting for 38 percent of their suspensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subjective standards for disruption and defiance – the reason behind \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/07/defiance-seen-as-cause-of_n_1409982.html?ref=topbar&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009\" target=\"_blank\">more than 40 percent of suspensions\u003c/a> in California and the recent target of criticism and \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/bills-reform-school-suspensions-advance-15763\" target=\"_blank\">legislative action\u003c/a> – could be contributing to high suspension rates among black boys, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council recommended that Oakland Unified carefully monitor such offenses and clearly define what constitutes impermissible behavior. 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What would get our students getting up at 5 in the morning, running to school? … You get school culture right, then you will produce African-American boys that produce high academic outcomes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural clashes and misunderstandings also factor into high rates of suspension among black boys, Chatmon and Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still have a teaching and administrative body that doesn't … understand the cultural context of where our students come from,\" Chatmon said. \"We have to do a lot of work with our adults to authentically engage with our boys, with our families, to understand our community context.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-American boys made up 17 percent of Oakland Unified students in 2010-11, yet they represented 42 percent of students suspended. 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The issue is so hot, it came up at \u003ca title=\"OUSD board meeting\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/29/oakland-school-board-meeting-ends-in-shouting/#more-60772\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday night's board meeting.\u003c/a> It wasn't on the agenda, but plenty of people showed up to air grievances during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last night the \u003ca title=\"Oakland Tribune\" href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> hosted a community forum including guest speakers Superintendent Tony Smith, Oakland Education Association President Betty Olson-Jones, teachers and administrators. 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