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"content": "\u003cp>Avi Zellman was supposed to be teaching an advanced math class at Bret Harte Middle School this year; it would have been his 12th year teaching in the Oakland Unified School District. Instead, he has a new job: tech support guy. He’d been doing some IT work on top of his teaching duties for years, but now it’s all tech support, all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He spends his days on the phone and on video chats helping staff, students and their families navigate the transition to distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have the computer in front of you?” he asked a 12-year-old student on the phone as they launch into a troubleshooting session. “All right, what we’re gonna do is we’re going to totally reset the computer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As online school rolls out in Oakland and across much of the country, kids are being forced to contend with the bane of every office worker’s existence: tech issues. And in Oakland, in some cases, it’s teachers like Zellman who’ve been tasked with doing IT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11836103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11836103 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44460_024_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44460_024_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44460_024_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44460_024_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44460_024_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44460_024_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students Xavia Butler and Tamari Smith speak with Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf during a technology giveaway for eligible students in Oakland on Aug. 17, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each of the district’s schools has a new role this year, distance learning lead, which oversees technology distribution and support. Some teachers, like Zellman, have been reassigned to these jobs full time, while other staff, including teachers, administrators, librarians and community schools managers, are being paid to take on the duties on top of other responsibilities, said OUSD Chief Systems and Services Officer Preston Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the district level, OUSD plans to expand its technology team by four full-time equivalent positions, Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-March, the district has fielded an additional 3,041 requests for tech support compared to the same period last year. At this point, district spokesman John Sasaki said, most of the issues families are raising involve the quality of internet connectivity. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Avi Zellman, Tech Support at Bret Harte Middle School in Oakland\"]‘Families get frustrated very easily … A lot of the conversations that I have, I’m playing the role of both support, but also doing a little bit of therapy.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Zellman and other newly minted distance learning leads, the first challenge has been getting technology into students’ hands. Across Oakland Unified, of nearly 25,000 students surveyed, over 19,000 don’t have access to a computer without district help, Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since learning went online in the spring, \u003ca href=\"https://t.e2ma.net/message/5ir8cd/xsl0zg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OUSD has loaned out\u003c/a> 23,000 Chromebooks and 5,000 Wi-Fi hotspots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Bret Harte, survey results show that half of the roughly 550 students don’t have the computer or internet access they need for distance learning without school resources. Some borrowed devices in the spring, and Zellman got loner devices out to most of the rest during the first week of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as students got the tech, another set of issues cropped up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when families get home with that Chromebook in hand or that hotspot in hand, they don’t always know how to use it,” Zellman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, of course, things can go wrong. Seventh-grader Darriah Andrews has been borrowing a Chromebook from her school since the spring. On the phone with Zellman, she explained that it was working fine, then suddenly stopped recognizing her home Wi-Fi network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This internet thing, which is not our internet, keeps popping up and I was trying to delete off the screen, but it wouldn’t come off,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I’m happy to help you,” Zellman said. “This is actually a problem that a lot of the school computers have been having. I actually have a way of fixing it, OK? We’re going to put the computer into what’s called developer mode.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darriah got connected to Zellman in the second week of school because her teachers noticed she hadn’t been able to connect to Zoom. She’d been trying to use her phone, but, “I lost my phone for a minute,” she said. “I’m not gonna lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she and Zellman got the Wi-Fi dilemma fixed, they moved on to enrolling the computer in the district’s network through \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/1360534?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome Enterprise\u003c/a>. This enables the district’s content filtering settings, which block kids from gaming sites and other web material deemed inappropriate, and automatically installs certain browser extensions and apps students need for school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11836104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11836104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44438_002_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44438_002_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44438_002_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44438_002_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44438_002_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44438_002_KQED_Oakland_OUSDTechGiveaway_08172020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">School staff help to handout laptops at three co-located schools, Futures Elementary, Community United Elementary and Coliseum College Prep Academy during the #OaklandUndivided Campaign on Aug. 17, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want you to hit control shift and the letter E, like elephant,” Zellman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darriah was on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right, now, does it say enterprise enrollment?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you’re gonna type in a special email address,” Zellman continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Zellman walked Darriah through logging into her school email account, where her teachers have been sending emails she hasn’t been able to access. Here they hit a familiar snag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s saying the email and password you entered don’t match,” Darriah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to sound silly, but I want you to make sure that you spelled your name correctly,” Zellman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knew there had to be some mistake, he told her, because he tested the login on his end and it worked. “I’m going to spell it out for you. Ready?” he said. “So, S for student, and then underscore — that’s where you have to hit shift and then the key that’s next to the zero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually they got things sorted out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It works!” she said. “Hurray!” Zellman responded, with the enthusiasm of a person who too often sees things work out less well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before hanging up with Darriah, he reminded her to email her teachers to let them know she’s set for class the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole process took less than 15 minutes, but sometimes the problems aren’t so simple. If a phone call doesn’t cut it, Zellman uses Zoom or FaceTime, and in the most complicated cases, meets people in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families get frustrated very easily,” he said. “A lot of the conversations that I have, I’m playing the role of both support, but also doing a little bit of therapy, of ‘It’s OK. This is hard for everybody.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since school started, Zellman estimated he’s helped 40 to 50 students and families. “This feels like all I do,” he said, although his duties also include supporting all Bret Harte’s teachers with their own tech woes. [aside tag=\"education\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Darriah’s case, a couple days later, the Wi-Fi network issue came back. Darriah’s mother ended up having to switch it out for another borrowed school computer, which so far has been working. Three weeks into the semester, Darriah was finally ready to start school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darriah and about 225 other Bret Harte students are expected to get a brand new Chromebook — for keeps — through OUSD and the city of Oakland’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandedfund.org/oaklandundivided/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Undivided\u003c/a>” campaign, which raised $13 million to buy 25,000 computers and 15,000 hotspots for district and charter school students. To date, the district has handed out about 6,500 of those computers and 2,800 of the hotspots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Zellman expects the new devices will be free of some of the problems he sees with the current school loaners, many of which are more than 6 years old, he anticipates a new set of troubles will present themselves. Because these computers won’t be district property, they won’t be enrolled in the district network with its many automatic settings and updates. That’s going to mean more work for parents, and, Zellman suspects, a lot more questions for him.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Some borrowed devices in the spring, and Zellman got loner devices out to most of the rest during the first week of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as students got the tech, another set of issues cropped up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when families get home with that Chromebook in hand or that hotspot in hand, they don’t always know how to use it,” Zellman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, of course, things can go wrong. Seventh-grader Darriah Andrews has been borrowing a Chromebook from her school since the spring. On the phone with Zellman, she explained that it was working fine, then suddenly stopped recognizing her home Wi-Fi network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This internet thing, which is not our internet, keeps popping up and I was trying to delete off the screen, but it wouldn’t come off,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I’m happy to help you,” Zellman said. “This is actually a problem that a lot of the school computers have been having. I actually have a way of fixing it, OK? 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland students are back in virtual classrooms this week, where school officials will be tracking their attendance for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic forced learning online this spring. But there are still questions about how to ensure kids show up — and what happens if they don't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear how many Oakland students were unaccounted for during spring distance learning, because districts weren’t required to report attendance under the circumstances. Before the pandemic, in 2018-2019, about \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/ChronicAbsence_0/Comparison?%3Aembed=y&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3Arender=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1 in 3\u003c/a> Oakland Unified School District students was chronically absent — defined as missing 18 days of school or more — and district officials say anecdotally they know far fewer kids were present during distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For teachers like Madison Park Academy’s Marisa Villegas, the stakes weighed heavily. Getting students to show up regularly is critical, and poor attendance increases the chances a child will struggle academically and be held back. It’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.attendanceworks.org/chronic-absence/the-problem/10-facts-about-school-attendance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leading indicator\u003c/a> a student will go on to drop out of high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Villegas said getting her high school students to attend last spring was the biggest challenge in a semester rife with them. She had 156 students across seven sections and said only a quarter of each class showed up regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually, she said, students weren’t showing up because they couldn’t. Some didn’t have internet or laptops, or multiple kids in a home were sharing one computer. Often her students were taking care of younger siblings, or they had to pick up jobs to help support their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"distance-learning\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would make phone calls, I would email, I would text. I would do my best to get a hold of parents, aunts, grandparents, you name it,” Villegas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she couldn’t reach anyone, she turned to Community School Manager Francisco Alvarado for help. Though Alvarado and other school outreach workers were providing a vital source of support for families — answering questions, providing food, securing social services — those connections did not translate into success getting kids to participate in distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our attendance team, we would meet and say, ‘What do we do here? Half of our school is not in class,’ ” Alvarado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They reminded parents that school was still mandatory, handed out Chromebooks, offered to help get families online, and printed out paper packets of school work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these things we're trying and it just wasn't landing,” said Alvarado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to keeping tabs on who’s participating every day, districts \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will now be required\u003c/a> to come up with a plan to support students who are absent more than three days in a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it going to be perfect when we return? Absolutely not,” said Misha Karigaca, who’s in charge of attendance for OUSD. “Will it be better? Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond bending the student information computer system to the newly mandated measures of attendance, Karigaca said, the district’s role is to provide clear guidelines on meeting new legal requirements while allowing individual schools some freedom in developing plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Hedy Chang, executive director of Attendance Works\"]'We already have some information from last year about who needs extra support and we should start the year off with a deeper plan so those students get extra engagement, extra support.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School attendance teams, like Alvarado’s, will be tasked with monitoring weekly attendance data and pairing students with needed interventions and support. One option, Karigaca said, is to assign mentors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody who's going be that extra special liaison, that's going to be a conduit between the school and the family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The good news is we don't have to reinvent everything, even in a global pandemic,” said Hedy Chang, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.attendanceworks.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attendance Works\u003c/a>, a nonprofit focused on reducing chronic absences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key thing schools can do is use past data on chronic absenteeism proactively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is that we should be thinking about prevention,” Chang said. “We already have some information from last year about who needs extra support and we should start the year off with a deeper plan so those students get extra engagement, extra support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attendance Works is also suggesting \u003ca href=\"https://www.attendanceworks.org/chronic-absence/addressing-chronic-absence/monitoring-attendance-in-distance-learning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">additional metrics\u003c/a> that districts can track to help inform efforts to improve attendance during distance learning, including internet access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what happens if these efforts to monitor and intervene don’t work? What if outreach workers run into the same issues Alvarado faced in the spring? Under normal circumstances, truancy laws eventually kick in, initiating a formal process meant to hold parents accountable. But distance learning has upended that system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law doesn't seem to apply in the same way as when children aren’t physically in a classroom,” said Teresa Drenick, who runs the \u003ca href=\"https://atschool.alcoda.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">truancy and attendance program\u003c/a> for the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, noting there are some legal gray areas she hopes to see clarified in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key issue, she said, is that under the new law governing distance learning, there doesn’t appear to be a way to differentiate between excused and unexcused absences, and truancy law is only triggered by unexcused absences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s rare for families to end up in her office — she works with about 100 each year — other parts of the truancy process touch many more. One of the earliest steps in the process is often a hearing with a School Attendance Review Team where families and administrators try to work out a plan to address root causes of truancy. When that's not enough, cases get referred to a district's \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">School Attendance Review Board\u003c/a> for more intensive intervention. In Oakland, Karigaca said, around 200 cases go to the board each year. Usually that’s enough to improve attendance, but not always.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My experience has been that there are certain families and certain students that for one reason or another — and oftentimes it’s due to extreme hardships — they aren't able to turn it around,\" Drenick said. That's when cases end up on her desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though truancy can lead to fines, Drenick and experts like Chang say a punitive approach to discipline isn’t necessarily effective. What works best is addressing the underlying family issues that keep kids out of school. That’s what Alameda County’s truancy system is geared toward — offering support with things like transportation, health care and counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drenick said she hopes that without the court's intervention, school districts can bring the needed services to bear. And she hopes to continue to play a role. “I hope that we, as DAs, can reimagine how we can support our local school districts to make sure that kids are getting what they need,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of a formal truancy process during distance learning, Karigaca said Oakland Unified will still try to follow its general framework, even if it doesn’t have the force of law. Whether the district can successfully do that — by convening families, administrators and social service providers for hearings remotely — remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang sees silver linings in all of this. For her, the fact that the new law requires schools to intervene when students are missing school for any reason, whether the absences are excused or unexcused, is good news. “That's actually an improvement,” she said. “It’s really critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days before school started, Madison Park Academy's Alvarado was busy trying to lay the groundwork to prevent absenteeism. 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One option, Karigaca said, is to assign mentors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody who's going be that extra special liaison, that's going to be a conduit between the school and the family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The good news is we don't have to reinvent everything, even in a global pandemic,” said Hedy Chang, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.attendanceworks.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attendance Works\u003c/a>, a nonprofit focused on reducing chronic absences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key thing schools can do is use past data on chronic absenteeism proactively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is that we should be thinking about prevention,” Chang said. “We already have some information from last year about who needs extra support and we should start the year off with a deeper plan so those students get extra engagement, extra support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attendance Works is also suggesting \u003ca href=\"https://www.attendanceworks.org/chronic-absence/addressing-chronic-absence/monitoring-attendance-in-distance-learning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">additional metrics\u003c/a> that districts can track to help inform efforts to improve attendance during distance learning, including internet access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what happens if these efforts to monitor and intervene don’t work? 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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of students across California who still don’t have access to computing devices and reliable high-speed internet remain at serious risk of being left at the starting gate, as most schools prepare to begin the academic year online in less than a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stubbornly persistent digital divide — separating those with access to the internet and computers from those without — has been overtly highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic as a serious education equity issue. And it remains a formidable hurdle to the successful relaunch of distance learning in many urban and rural school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified officials pledged to overcome that divide after last spring's inconsistent and often problematic efforts. Some 3,400 students were found to have little or no digital connection, with many others left trying to do assignments on their smartphones or sometimes forced to break shelter-in place rules in order to find internet access elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jamila Brooks, teacher at Montclair Elementary School\"]'We have to make sure that the devices are in hand, they're working, there are hotspots, people are adequately trained, before we can hit the ground running.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, when Oakland city leaders \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Twitter-CEO-Jack-Dorsey-gives-10-million-to-15272913.php\">launched a campaign\u003c/a> to raise $12.5 million to ensure that every student who needed it would have laptops and internet hotspots, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded with a whopping $10 million donation, inspiring other donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, the city and school district raised $13 million, and is now working on a short timeline to secure computers and internet connections for every child in the district who needs them, all before school starts on Aug. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you can imagine, supply chains are challenging right now,” said David Silver, director of education for Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who helped seal the deal with Dorsey. “So we do not have the computers yet, but they are on the way. 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Another $3.8 million is being spent on wireless hotspots, one for each student in a family, to ensure high-speed connectivity for streaming video instruction, according to OUSD Chief of Staff Curtiss Sarikey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there are three children, each would have a hotspot just to ensure that there won't be any issues with multiple lines slowing it down to the point kids can't track video,” said Sarikey, adding that the district tested various products and consulted with teachers on the purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard a lot from teachers that they spent a lot of time doing tech support during shelter in place, helping kids troubleshoot things that were coming up,” Sarikey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the district will also provide high-speed broadband to some families at a subsidized rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent board meeting, OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said thousands of students still don't have the digital connections they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Hubbert, executive director of Tech Exchange, an Oakland-based nonprofit working with the district, doesn’t expect those computers and other devices to be delivered until early August. That's when his team will be tasked with entering all the equipment through a data system developed for the district by Salesforce, and then deliver them to school sites where students can pick them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We anticipate about 110 pallets worth of computers, in batches of 1,000, so it's going to be just an awesome visual,” Hubbert said. In preparation, Tech Exchange has leased extra warehouse space and hired temporary staff to help process the computers quickly, while adhering to COVID-19 social distancing protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fill the gap, OUSD distributed some 18,000 district-owned computers to students throughout the spring, and Hubbert said thousands more are still available for students who need a device now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those loaner computers are district property and can’t be gifted to students, said Hubbert. The plan is to swap them out with the new Chromebooks that students can keep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some Oakland teachers remain skeptical about the district’s ability to deliver on its promise of equipping students by the first day of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more education coverage\" tag=\"distance-learning\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, the local teachers union, is currently in negotiations with the district over distance learning working conditions. The contract specifies that teachers have to agree to any change in working conditions, including a switch to distance learning. Some union representatives have said teachers would not agree to start the school year without proof that all students are connected with devices and reliable high-speed internet access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's this push for us to start school on Aug. 10,” said Jamila Brooks, a teacher at Montclair Elementary School who is part of negotiations with the district. “But not every family in our district knows how to use a device, how to access Zoom, and so that's been one of our new challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks said many teachers are highly skeptical of the district's ability to deliver on its promises. She noted the district's recently announced plan to ask families of all OUSD students to fill out an online form outlining their digital needs, scoffing at the flawed logic of asking people without online access to fill out an online form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to make sure that the devices are in hand, they're working, there are hotspots, people are adequately trained, before we can hit the ground running,” Brooks insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandedfund.org/digitaldivide/\">#OaklandUndivided\u003c/a>, the coalition behind the city’s fundraising campaign, is working with roughly 20 community organizations to help families without internet access register for the digital tools they need. Over the summer, parent advocacy group The Oakland Reach, one of the groups involved, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829180/how-an-oakland-parent-advocate-group-is-making-distance-learning-possible-this-summer\">took matters into their own hands\u003c/a>, raising money for devices and distributing them to local families to support summer learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech Exchange's Hubbert is hoping #OaklandUndivided is a step forward toward the concept of universal basic internet, and is encouraged that some Oakland leaders are considering the concept of the internet as a public utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's now a greater number of people working on these problems at (the) local level, state level, federal level. That's certainly a hope of mine, that this (pandemic) kind of wakes people up,” he said. “Digital divide gaps are still huge. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close this spring, and about half of Oakland Unified students didn’t have the tools they needed for online learning, computer shop owner Yakpasua Zazaboi’s phone started ringing off the hook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lakisha Young, Oakland REACH\"]‘We didn’t set out to start a summer school, but a summer school is what’s needed.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our voicemail is still full of people trying to get a hold of computers,” says Zazaboi, the owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SydewayzCafe/\">Sydewayz Cafe \u003c/a>in East Oakland, an internet cafe and tech repair shop that has been closed since shelter-in-place orders in March. “They’re waiting for somebody to say we have the solution. But as we’ve seen, it’s been months. That hasn’t happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/05/14/ousd-oakland-announce-12-5-million-campaign-to-make-computers-internet-available-to-all-students/\">OUSD campaign\u003c/a> this spring that had raised $13 million for devices and WiFi hotspots, about 5,000 students still lacked the basic technology they needed for distance learning as the end of the school year approached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompted Zazaboi and a group of Oakland parents to take matters into their own hands. They have since launched a summer school program in an effort to help provide those students with the necessary technology and make up for lost learning since schools closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829276\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11829276\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43911_004_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43911_004_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43911_004_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43911_004_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43911_004_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43911_004_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yakpasua Zazaboi, owner of Sydewayz Cafe, a computer repair shop and internet cafe, answers tech support calls on July 9, 2020. The shop has been closed since shelter-in-place orders went into effect in March, but Zazaboi now works with Oakland REACH to help make remote learning more accessible for students and their families. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t set out to start a summer school, but a summer school is what’s needed,” says Lakisha Young, who runs The Oakland REACH, the parent advocacy group leading the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the pandemic, Young says, the organization raised more than $300,000 from foundations and individual donations, and distributed small grants of up to $550 to students’ families for basic needs like food and rent\u003cb>. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the process, Young heard how worried parents were about their kids falling behind in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immediately, when COVID hit, you heard so many people saying like, ‘Oh my God, it’s just going to get worse for Black and brown kids,’” she says. “Well, then what are you going to do about it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young recruited 14 Oakland teachers from district and charter schools to run summer school classes for K-8 students, beginning in June, using curriculum and mentorship resources available through the National Summer School Initiative to help guide the project. Supplies were distributed from Zazaboi’s storefront and he will be on hand throughout the summer to provide tech support to families as they learn to navigate distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help run the summer school program, Young hired Omar Wandera, who until recently worked as director of African American Student Achievement at the West Contra Costa Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829281 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland REACH founder Lakisha Young outside Sydewayz Cafe in East Oakland, greeting parents arriving to pick up computers and other summer school supplies. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Wandera, the effort was an opportunity to experiment with an educational model that puts parents center stage. “A lot of schools across the country have tried to figure out ways to bring parents in,” he says. “This is a unique opportunity for parents to really take control of their own students’ lives and their own students’ education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Wandera describes it, his job this summer is to work with teachers to ensure kids get high quality English and math instruction — “Something that they haven’t gotten in many, many months,” he says — to help make up for any losses that occurred during distance learning at the end of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more education coverage\" tag=\"education\"]“This is one of those things that could be a positive reaction to a very negative situation,” he says. “It could be a huge opportunity. We might learn a lot about how to do distance learning really well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deprece Bonilla’s second- and fourth-grade children are among the 200 OUSD students signed up for Oakland REACH’s summer school program. “The challenge with my family was that we did not have internet at all,” she says, noting that was an intentional choice because she wanted her kids playing outside, not glued to screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to do something for them for summer,” Bonilla adds. But both she and her husband were out of work, and money for a summer program was tight. “So when I heard about this, I was like, ‘Perfect.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Bonilla’s kids were on track in school and she doesn’t want them to fall behind. 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That hasn’t happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/05/14/ousd-oakland-announce-12-5-million-campaign-to-make-computers-internet-available-to-all-students/\">OUSD campaign\u003c/a> this spring that had raised $13 million for devices and WiFi hotspots, about 5,000 students still lacked the basic technology they needed for distance learning as the end of the school year approached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompted Zazaboi and a group of Oakland parents to take matters into their own hands. 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The shop has been closed since shelter-in-place orders went into effect in March, but Zazaboi now works with Oakland REACH to help make remote learning more accessible for students and their families. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t set out to start a summer school, but a summer school is what’s needed,” says Lakisha Young, who runs The Oakland REACH, the parent advocacy group leading the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the pandemic, Young says, the organization raised more than $300,000 from foundations and individual donations, and distributed small grants of up to $550 to students’ families for basic needs like food and rent\u003cb>. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the process, Young heard how worried parents were about their kids falling behind in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immediately, when COVID hit, you heard so many people saying like, ‘Oh my God, it’s just going to get worse for Black and brown kids,’” she says. “Well, then what are you going to do about it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young recruited 14 Oakland teachers from district and charter schools to run summer school classes for K-8 students, beginning in June, using curriculum and mentorship resources available through the National Summer School Initiative to help guide the project. 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They called for supporters to ready for more pushback as the work of redesigning school safety gets underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we’re very excited to win the removal of the police department from OUSD, we also are embracing this next level of struggle,” said Jessica Black, an organizing director for BOP, who added that it will “require people to change their minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, she said, it’ll require the school district to hand over some decision making power to community stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now have to change our hearts and minds around who the experts are,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly approved \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4564122&GUID=C591BB69-6054-4DCC-8548-69AA1623E643&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department\u003c/a> directs Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell to launch “an inclusive, community-driven process” for developing a new district safety plan by Aug. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution explicitly calls for parents, students, teachers, administrators, the Black Organizing Project and others to be included in the process. Advocates say holding district leaders to that will require steady demands for transparency — something the district’s often been criticized for lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For guidance on how an alternative approach to school safety might work, BOP has looked to the work of organizers in Canada, who successfully \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/school-resource-officers-toronto-board-police-1.4415064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ousted armed police from Toronto schools\u003c/a> in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at Thursday’s press conference, organizer Andrea Vasquez Jimenez of Latinx, Afro-Latin-America, Abya Yala Education Network, who helped lead the Toronto effort, warned against recreating a similar policing system through different means, such as contracts with law enforcement, technological surveillance or security personnel with police-like roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vasquez Jimenez described the Toronto process as a community-guided redistribution of school resources that led to more support staff and programs for students, in addition to policy changes — like limiting the kinds of offenses deemed suspendable, and the hiring of community advocates into leadership positions within the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Community wants to be there,” she said. “What we need are educational spaces to open their arms and say, ‘We need you community.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.tdsb.on.ca/Portals/0/docs/Caring%20and%20Safe%20Schools%20Report%202018-19%2C%20TDSB%2C%2012Feb2020%20Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data from the Toronto District School Board\u003c/a> that show suspensions in the 2018 school year dropped 24% compared to the 2016 school year, the last year student resource officers were on campus. Expulsions dropped 53% over that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data show a modest decrease in the percentage of all suspensions and expulsions of Black students, from 36.2% to 33.0%. Black students make up about 11 % of district students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In voting to lay off all 67 employees of the Oakland School Police Department, including its 10 sworn officers, the board agreed it could funnel those savings towards student support services like counselors and academic mentors. The board’s decision also directs the district to put in place annual implicit bias and anti-racism training for all staff — and in a last-minute addition, for school board members themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s resolution draws in part on a \u003ca href=\"http://blackorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Peoples-Plan-2019-Online-Reduced-Size.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 Black Organizing Project plan\u003c/a> for police-free schools, which calls for moving the safety program to the equity or behavioral health departments and investing more money in mental health and special education staff, plus restorative justice programs. The plan would replace school security officers with “peacekeepers” or “school climate specialists” trained in de-escalation and trauma-informed approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools police department chief Jeff Godown has expressed support for the board’s vote, and his input may help guide the alternative safety plan development. Earlier this year, Superintendent Johnson-Trammell tasked Godown with coming up with guidelines for how the district could function without officers in schools. Last month, the school board also hired Georgetown Law’s Innovative Policing Project to develop recommendations. That report, due in the fall, will likely also shape the safety plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"ousd\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists with BOP want to seize on the momentum to think beyond safety in the traditional sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re proposing to have students learn social skills, to have students learn how to build relationships, to have teachers learn how to build relationships,” said BOP organizer Black. “We’re proposing to change the entire school culture and climate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School leaders have echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police in schools are ultimately a symptom of a much larger issue,” Johnson-Trammell said before the vote. “If we are really going to make progress, we have to transform the underlying conditions within the school system that have brought us to this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Advocates say they’re ready for the work. “It’s gonna take a while to turn this thing around,” said BOP director Jackie Byers. “We’re in for the long haul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article has been updated to clarify the number of armed personnel included in the Oakland School Police Department’s total staff. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s top school official, Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell, announced her support Wednesday night for a plan to dismantle the school district’s internal police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am recommending that we move forward to create a districtwide safety plan to ensure safe, healthy and positive school environments for students and adults without a school district police department,” said Johnson-Trammell. “Together, we can reimagine how to keep our schools safe, healthy and welcoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Oakland Unified school board members have put forward a proposal that aims to do just that, while others who rejected similar moves in the past signaled they’re warming up to the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans to dissolve the department have been floated before, but the momentum of the moment is undeniable. Around the state and country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/06/10/after-george-floyd-some-school-districts-cut-ties-with-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pressure is mounting\u003c/a> for schools to cut ties with police. In Minneapolis, they already have, while Portland and Denver districts are on track to make similar calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the school board is expected to vote on the \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4564122&GUID=C591BB69-6054-4DCC-8548-69AA1623E643&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department\u003c/a> later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists, led by the group Black Organizing Project, have been pushing to get police out of Oakland schools \u003ca href=\"http://blackorganizingproject.org/our-work/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for nearly a decade\u003c/a>, since a black student named Raheim Brown was shot and killed by a school district police sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Project’s director, Jackie Byers, said she sees an opportunity in this moment “to redefine community safety in our schools, to reinvest in our schools, to reinvest in our students and to be a model for this entire country of what is possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday night’s virtual school board meeting, and at a press conference held by activists beforehand, dozens of educators and community members voiced their support for the resolution, arguing that having police in schools does more harm than good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re overdue to transform the idea that in order to keep our schools safe we need to police our young people,” said Sagnicthe Salazar, director of restorative discipline at Elmhurst United Middle School. He added that schools should stop partnering with “a force that historically, and on the daily, inflicts fear and terror on our young people and their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many at the meeting echoed the sentiment that police presence creates a climate of fear in schools and leads to trauma; others referenced the school to prison pipeline and disproportionate arrests of students of color — 73% of district students arrested are black according to a \u003ca href=\"http://blackorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Peoples-Plan-2019-Online-Reduced-Size.pdf\">2019 platform document by the Black Organizing Project\u003c/a>, while only roughly a quarter of the district’s students are black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirroring national calls to defund police, supporters argued that OUSD should invest its money in supportive services like school social workers, psychologists and restorative justice practitioners — services that could better get at some of the root causes of behavioral issues while keeping students out of the criminal justice system. Many pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/oakland-school-board-votes-18-8-million-in-cuts-up-to-100-layoffs-hears-pleas-to-cut-police-force/624679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">painful budget cuts\u003c/a> the district faces to lend urgency to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as adults who are managing the budget — we’ve got to get behind these students, we’ve got to fund education, not police,” said OUSD school board member Roseann Torres, who introduced the resolution named in honor of George Floyd with board vice president Shanthi Gonzales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their proposal would eliminate the district’s internal police force and its 10 sworn police officers. Those armed officers cost OUSD about $2 million dollars a year, and the proposal calls for the savings to be reinvested in student support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland teachers’ union is backing the resolution and over 50 school administrators signed on to a letter supporting it. “Some will say that the OUSD Police Department is necessary because it is used,” it reads. “When school leaders are given only a hammer, they will treat every problem like a nail. Greater investments in school-based support staff will both reduce the need, and the desire, to utilize police as a response to disruption or disorder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"ousd\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday night’s meeting marked a turnaround. Only two months earlier, in March, the school board voted down a resolution to eliminate the police department and declined to reduce the number of sworn officers serving in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, school leaders did express interest in pursuing a plan for how the district could operate without a police force and recently signed a $60,744 contract with Georgetown Law’s Innovative Policing Project to develop recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board member Gary Yee, who voted against moves to cut the force in March, said last night he’d gotten “hundreds of thousands” of emails and phone calls, and protesters had gathered in front of his house. He credited the outcry for shifting his thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve come to realize how shortsighted I was,” he said, “the blinders I had about focusing only on physical safety blocked out the importance of social-emotional and trauma-informed safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a couple members of the public raised concerns about doing away with school police Wednesday night, and their apprehensions echoed those voiced previously. Lee Thomas, president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uaosoakland.org/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Administrators of Oakland Schools\u003c/a>, said a survey showed disagreement among union ranks and concerns over ensuring safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to make sure we have an environment that, yes, is not going to create a school to prison pipeline, but at the same time makes sure that our teachers are going to be safe and our students are going to be safe and we are going to put our staff in the best situation possible when an emergency arises,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also raised concerns about placing additional burdens on administrators as they contend with drastic changes to education wrought by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another speaker who didn’t give her name questioned whether the city’s police department would have the bandwidth to respond to the 1,000 or so calls the school’s police force responds to each semester. The proposed resolution allows for schools to call on the Oakland Police Department in emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What security in Oakland schools would look like if the police force is dissolved isn’t certain. Today, there are around 60 unarmed school security officers managed by the district’s police department and it’s not clear if they’d be fired or retrained if the plan is adopted in its current form. Board member Torres has talked about reimagining the role of security personnel as that of mentors and peacekeepers, in line with Black Organizing Project’s \u003ca href=\"http://blackorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Peoples-Plan-2019-Online-Reduced-Size.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal calls for the district to work with community stakeholders to come up with new strategies for ensuring student safety and well-being, and lay out a blueprint by Dec. 31 for how the district would move forward without a police force. Johnson-Trammell said, pending negotiations with labor unions, she intends to have a plan in hand by then.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But there are many details to work out, and for now, students like Johnson and their families remain in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't even know how that's going to affect colleges and things like that. So it's kind of frustrating,” said Johnson. “I’m a planner and when things come at me out of nowhere, I tend to panic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont High School teacher Maya Brodkey has known Johnson since ninth grade. “She’s very focused on her goals and she’s overcome a lot of challenges in her life that other students haven’t had,” said Brodney. “The emotional impact of this situation on her is harder, I would think, because she has such a clear vision for her future, and it’s so unclear what this situation will mean right now.”\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fremont High School teacher Maya Brodkey\"]'My students are already under-resourced and underprivileged. 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That will be hard for my friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson predicts the Oakland Unified School District will try to make up for lost learning time over the summer, which is something the district has yet to address. But that could pose a problem for students trying to save for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had plans to do an internship with a company I interned with last year,\" said Johnson, who worked for LCA Architects. \"If I have to go to summer school that probably can't happen. That was my source of money for college because I do get paid for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Fremont High, teacher Brodkey says her biggest worry right now is that the financial impact on her students’ families could roll over and stymie college plans. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District police drew batons and used force as they arrested six people after several protesters charged a barrier at Wednesday night's school board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six were charged with disturbing the peace and taken to school district police offices in West Oakland. One of those arrested was also injured and taken to a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in the evening, about 30 combined OUSD security and police officers, overseen by OPD Police Chief Jeff Godown, arrived to secure the perimeter of the school where the meeting was held. Parents, children and teachers entering had to turn over food or drink and any musical instruments to enter the auditorium. Inside, officers flanked a newly erected barrier around the main stage where board members sit and conduct business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/juliamcevoy1/status/1187222751985070081\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Godown said the police presence was necessary because parents and teachers had successfully disrupted several earlier board meetings, shutting one down. But the police presence created tension from the start during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this sanctuary city, in the home of the Panthers, I am strictly opposed to police officers here to police the community at our meeting,\" Mike Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782301\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Stracey Gordon, parent of a Kaiser Elementary student, watches other parents, teachers and community members speak at an Oct. 23, 2019 Oakland Unified School district board meeting where police arrested and injured protesters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stracey Gordon, parent of a Kaiser Elementary student, watches other parents, teachers and community members speak at an Oct. 23, 2019, Oakland Unified School District board meeting, where police arrested and injured protesters. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assata Olugbala likened the situation to racist policies she experienced in the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm having anxiety right now,\" Olugbala said. \"I grew up under Jim Crow, I grew up on the bus. I had to sit behind a barrier. I could not move beyond that barrier. This is what this feels like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Stracey Gordon from Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, which is being closed and merged with another school, warned the board she is in this fight for the long haul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to disrupt these meetings and there will be no more business as usual!\" Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angry parents and staff from various schools across the district, calling themselves Oakland Not For Sale, are demanding that the school district halt all school closures and consolidations until 2022 to allow time for more community input on those decisions and district finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782305\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer strikes a man with a baton after protesters crossed a barricade at an Oakland Unified School District board meeting on Oct. 23, 2019, at La Escuelita Elementary in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police guard an empty stage at an Oct. 23, 2019, Oakland Unified School District board meeting after board members moved upstairs and broadcast the rest of the meeting to angry parents, teachers and community members below. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school board was able to finish the rest of its meeting Wednesday night in an upstairs room separate from the public. They eventually took comments from the remaining crowd through a microphone at a podium in the auditorium below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening's civil disobedience was carefully planned: The goal was to paralyze the board from conducting business. The clash with police was livestreamed by some, while others filmed and shared it via social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week the newly formed coalition also shut down a City Council education committee meeting. The group has the support of the teachers union, the Oakland Education Association, which is sending members to help with the attempted shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the latest tactic in a drawn-out battle over the OUSD's controversial plan to shutter or merge up to 24 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, parents and students from Roots International Academy, which was on the chopping block, also took over a school board meeting. Oakland teachers took up Roots' cause, making opposition to school closures part of their rallying cry during a weeklong strike. In support of the striking teachers, the Oakland City Council also voted to oppose school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that stopped the district from shuttering Roots at the end of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, parents from Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, which is slated for closure at the end of this school year, are leading the charge against the district's closure plans, spearheading Oakland Not For Sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parent Gordon said even if the district does close Kaiser, she wants to warn other parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to stop it now. It's been traumatic, and its been hard for my kids. I don't want anyone else's kids to go through this. I'm so torn apart by what's happened that I'm inspired to keep fighting,\" Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Targeting Charter Schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Monday evening, Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson donned a blond wig, cat-eye glasses and a black-and-white herringbone jacket in preparation for attending the Oakland City Council Education Partnership Committee meeting. The meeting had nothing to do with school closures, but she and other Kaiser parents didn't care: They planned to shut the meeting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson dressed up as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for an anti-charter school skit\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson dressed up as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for an anti-charter school skit \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson said she had dressed as Betsy DeVos, the U.S. secretary of education who has been accused of championing the privatization of public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and other parents say that closing district-run schools will only push more students toward charter schools, which in turn will drain district schools of badly needed funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5988170/OUSD-Charter-Task-Force-Presentation.pdf\">reported in April\u003c/a> that 27% of district students attend charter schools, the highest proportion of any large district in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Monday night's meeting got underway, the theatrics began. Children hung banners reading \"Oakland Not For Sale\" above City Councilman Dan Kalb’s seat, whose district includes Kaiser Elementary. Kaiser parents bellowed lines from an anti-charter school skit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might wonder why I’m here,” Johnson shouted. “I see councilman Dan Kalb. He supports closing schools in Oakland!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781924\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland City Councilman Dan Kalb was targeted by protesters. Kalb said he does not support school closures.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Councilman Dan Kalb was targeted by protesters. Kalb said he does not support school closures. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the city clerk tried to regain control, boos drowned her out and the play continued until the meeting was adjourned. Hecklers dogged Kalb as he exited the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re perpetuating lies about me!” Kalb shouted as he left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb said he also has concerns about the pace at which the district is consolidating schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing over a period of several years to close a few schools, that happens all over the state on occasion, when the population dips down,\" Kalb said. \"It’s another thing if you’re closing a lot of schools over a short period. That has a tremendous impact on parents, on kids, on our community. I think it is not appropriate and I don’t support that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Criticism of Protests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School board member Jody London criticized the protesters' Monday actions, writing in a statement that it is \"unfortunate that a small group continues to put their self-interest above the broader interests of the children in our city, and is trying to stop the democratically elected School Board and City Council from conducting business, which we are required to do in public. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lakisha Young, who heads the parent group The Oakland REACH, also had little patience for the tactic of shutting down board meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young said The Oakland Reach had attended an earlier school board meeting hoping to discuss opportunities for low-income students to access higher-quality schools, but the meeting was shut down before Reach parents got a chance to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know what I wanted to say that night? A school closure is not the worst thing that can happen to your kids. The worst thing that can happen to your kids is a \u003cem>bad\u003c/em> school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the district's restructuring plan, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/18248\">Blueprint for Quality Schools, \u003c/a>is to provide more quality schools for all students. It argues that reducing the total number of schools by as many as 24 will allow it to reinvest savings in schools that are struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district points to Elmhurst United, a newly merged middle school, as an example of how its plan can work. Teachers at the new school told KQED they were pleasantly surprised by smaller class sizes, while the principal said his students now have access to new classes like Spanish and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside City Hall Monday night, Oakland parent Gerald Sanders defended the protest actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City Council voted to support the teachers strike and in that, said they were against closures,\" Sanders said. \"We want the City Council persons, if they passed that resolution and said they were against closures, be true to yourself, respect yourself. That’s all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oct. 24: This story was corrected to reflect that protesters who were arrested were taken to school district police offices, not Santa Rita jail. And that the police presence included OUSD security officers as well as OUSD police.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Chief Godown said the police presence was necessary because parents and teachers had successfully disrupted several earlier board meetings, shutting one down. But the police presence created tension from the start during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this sanctuary city, in the home of the Panthers, I am strictly opposed to police officers here to police the community at our meeting,\" Mike Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782301\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Stracey Gordon, parent of a Kaiser Elementary student, watches other parents, teachers and community members speak at an Oct. 23, 2019 Oakland Unified School district board meeting where police arrested and injured protesters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stracey Gordon, parent of a Kaiser Elementary student, watches other parents, teachers and community members speak at an Oct. 23, 2019, Oakland Unified School District board meeting, where police arrested and injured protesters. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assata Olugbala likened the situation to racist policies she experienced in the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm having anxiety right now,\" Olugbala said. \"I grew up under Jim Crow, I grew up on the bus. I had to sit behind a barrier. I could not move beyond that barrier. This is what this feels like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Stracey Gordon from Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, which is being closed and merged with another school, warned the board she is in this fight for the long haul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to disrupt these meetings and there will be no more business as usual!\" Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angry parents and staff from various schools across the district, calling themselves Oakland Not For Sale, are demanding that the school district halt all school closures and consolidations until 2022 to allow time for more community input on those decisions and district finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782305\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer strikes a man with a baton after protesters crossed a barricade at an Oakland Unified School District board meeting on Oct. 23, 2019, at La Escuelita Elementary in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police guard an empty stage at an Oct. 23, 2019, Oakland Unified School District board meeting after board members moved upstairs and broadcast the rest of the meeting to angry parents, teachers and community members below. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school board was able to finish the rest of its meeting Wednesday night in an upstairs room separate from the public. They eventually took comments from the remaining crowd through a microphone at a podium in the auditorium below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening's civil disobedience was carefully planned: The goal was to paralyze the board from conducting business. The clash with police was livestreamed by some, while others filmed and shared it via social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week the newly formed coalition also shut down a City Council education committee meeting. The group has the support of the teachers union, the Oakland Education Association, which is sending members to help with the attempted shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the latest tactic in a drawn-out battle over the OUSD's controversial plan to shutter or merge up to 24 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, parents and students from Roots International Academy, which was on the chopping block, also took over a school board meeting. Oakland teachers took up Roots' cause, making opposition to school closures part of their rallying cry during a weeklong strike. In support of the striking teachers, the Oakland City Council also voted to oppose school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that stopped the district from shuttering Roots at the end of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, parents from Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, which is slated for closure at the end of this school year, are leading the charge against the district's closure plans, spearheading Oakland Not For Sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parent Gordon said even if the district does close Kaiser, she wants to warn other parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to stop it now. It's been traumatic, and its been hard for my kids. I don't want anyone else's kids to go through this. I'm so torn apart by what's happened that I'm inspired to keep fighting,\" Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Targeting Charter Schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Monday evening, Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson donned a blond wig, cat-eye glasses and a black-and-white herringbone jacket in preparation for attending the Oakland City Council Education Partnership Committee meeting. The meeting had nothing to do with school closures, but she and other Kaiser parents didn't care: They planned to shut the meeting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson dressed up as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for an anti-charter school skit\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson dressed up as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for an anti-charter school skit \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson said she had dressed as Betsy DeVos, the U.S. secretary of education who has been accused of championing the privatization of public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and other parents say that closing district-run schools will only push more students toward charter schools, which in turn will drain district schools of badly needed funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5988170/OUSD-Charter-Task-Force-Presentation.pdf\">reported in April\u003c/a> that 27% of district students attend charter schools, the highest proportion of any large district in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Monday night's meeting got underway, the theatrics began. Children hung banners reading \"Oakland Not For Sale\" above City Councilman Dan Kalb’s seat, whose district includes Kaiser Elementary. Kaiser parents bellowed lines from an anti-charter school skit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might wonder why I’m here,” Johnson shouted. “I see councilman Dan Kalb. He supports closing schools in Oakland!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781924\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland City Councilman Dan Kalb was targeted by protesters. Kalb said he does not support school closures.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Councilman Dan Kalb was targeted by protesters. Kalb said he does not support school closures. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the city clerk tried to regain control, boos drowned her out and the play continued until the meeting was adjourned. Hecklers dogged Kalb as he exited the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re perpetuating lies about me!” Kalb shouted as he left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb said he also has concerns about the pace at which the district is consolidating schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing over a period of several years to close a few schools, that happens all over the state on occasion, when the population dips down,\" Kalb said. \"It’s another thing if you’re closing a lot of schools over a short period. That has a tremendous impact on parents, on kids, on our community. I think it is not appropriate and I don’t support that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Criticism of Protests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School board member Jody London criticized the protesters' Monday actions, writing in a statement that it is \"unfortunate that a small group continues to put their self-interest above the broader interests of the children in our city, and is trying to stop the democratically elected School Board and City Council from conducting business, which we are required to do in public. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lakisha Young, who heads the parent group The Oakland REACH, also had little patience for the tactic of shutting down board meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young said The Oakland Reach had attended an earlier school board meeting hoping to discuss opportunities for low-income students to access higher-quality schools, but the meeting was shut down before Reach parents got a chance to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know what I wanted to say that night? A school closure is not the worst thing that can happen to your kids. The worst thing that can happen to your kids is a \u003cem>bad\u003c/em> school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the district's restructuring plan, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/18248\">Blueprint for Quality Schools, \u003c/a>is to provide more quality schools for all students. It argues that reducing the total number of schools by as many as 24 will allow it to reinvest savings in schools that are struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district points to Elmhurst United, a newly merged middle school, as an example of how its plan can work. Teachers at the new school told KQED they were pleasantly surprised by smaller class sizes, while the principal said his students now have access to new classes like Spanish and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside City Hall Monday night, Oakland parent Gerald Sanders defended the protest actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City Council voted to support the teachers strike and in that, said they were against closures,\" Sanders said. \"We want the City Council persons, if they passed that resolution and said they were against closures, be true to yourself, respect yourself. That’s all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oct. 24: This story was corrected to reflect that protesters who were arrested were taken to school district police offices, not Santa Rita jail. And that the police presence included OUSD security officers as well as OUSD police.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an emotional Oakland school board meeting Wednesday night, parents, students and staff from four schools slated for closure and consolidation made their case for more time to help shape the plans that will radically alter their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://fcmat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/08/Oakland-USD-final-report.pdf\">Under pressure from a state oversight body\u003c/a> to balance its budget, the Oakland Unified School District is crafting plans to reduce its total number of schools by up to 24 and to invest any cost savings in strengthening existing schools. Four schools — Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, Sankofa Academy, Oakland SOL (School of Language) and Frick Impact Academy — are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769908/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students\">targeted to be merged\u003c/a> in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But overwhelmingly the board was scorned by parents who showed up from across the district to express their profound mistrust of the institution that serves their children. Parent after parent asked for evidence that the closures would save the district money and, more importantly, help improve educational outcomes for students. Many cited the district’s own \u003ca href=\"http://grandjury.acgov.org/grandjury-assets/docs/2018-2019/OUSD%20Broken%20Culture.FR-2.pdf\">history of fiscal mismanagement.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees line up to speak at an Oakland school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees line up to speak at an Oakland school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"oakland-schools\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been starving for resources for years now. My son attended Sankofa back in the second grade. He is currently in 10th grade at McClymonds,” said Valerie Manchester, who has a fourth-grader at Sankofa. “You guys have lied to us and deceived us since then. It does not make any sense, I don’t see how you guys can sit on this board and sit here with straight faces and not consider these children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the largest groups in attendance Wednesday night was representing Kaiser Elementary, sporting green T-shirts and carrying signs saying “Do No Harm” to express opposition to the proposed merger of their school with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parents who addressed the board argued that they chose their school because it is small and their children do better in that environment. They also pointed to data showing that their school closes the achievement gap for its black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daryl Guidry, a parent at Kaiser, said that families of color are being underserved in Oakland but not at Kaiser. “When you are closing schools that are taking care of families of color and most importantly children of color, that’s just lack of resources,” Guidry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But school board member James Harris challenged the Kaiser parents — a school that is about one-third white, largely affluent and located in the Claremont Hills — to reconsider their opposition to merging with Sankofa Academy in North Oakland’s Bushrod neighborhood, where the majority of youth qualify for free or reduced-price lunches and are students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re coming from a special place. I would ask you to think about what would it mean to share that experience with people that have not had that special experience,” Harris said. “What would it mean for the community at Kaiser to say: You know what? Oakland needs us to do something differently now. Oakland needs us to show up in a different way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His statement was met with scornful jeers from some in the audience, but Harris rebutted, “I’m presenting this to you to think about as a community. You can take it or leave it. I’m not here to argue with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770915 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019 OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading "Do Not Harm" in opposition to the district's plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1321\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1200x826.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019, OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading “Do Not Harm” in opposition to the district’s plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board seemed united on one thing: forcing change on Kaiser. One option they’re considering is relocating Kaiser to the larger Santa Fe Elementary campus where there is space to expand the model. Reopening Santa Fe is a move strongly supported by parents in that neighborhood, who also turned up in force at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response to the resistance that many Kaiser parents were showing towards any changes, board member Shanthi Gonzales went so far as to suggest the school be eventually phased out, by halting kindergarten enrollment after this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several board members also questioned why district staff had abandoned an earlier idea of merging a different elementary —Peralta — with Sankofa. A Peralta parent gave the board \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EDYw9DJ8ff0fF0NojT8PsayEM2KGDfZD5hqBWPUSiFU/edit?ts=5d4d167c\">a letter\u003c/a> signed by 50 parents who support merging their school with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770918 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Unified School District Vice President Jody London, President Aimee Eng, and Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell (left to right) listen to speakers at a school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-800x592.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-1020x755.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-1200x888.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District Vice President Jody London, President Aimee Eng and Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell (left to right) listen to speakers at a school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are Peralta folks who are interested in a merger with Sankofa, and I think that’s going to lead us to be much more successful,” Gonzales said. “I’m interested in them being at a bigger campus where we can draw more students into OUSD and into a quality program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of two other schools slated for a merger were also discussed at Wednesday’s meeting. Oakland SOL and Frick Impact Academy, both in East Oakland neighborhoods that Gonzales represents, are slated to consolidate onto the Frick campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales seemed to agree with the cries of parents from both schools who say they’re in favor of merging, but insist more time is needed to plan for the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You heard SOL and Frick ask for more time tonight. Is that possible?” Gonzales asked, directing her comments to OUSD Deputy Innovation Officer Yvette Renteria. “You have two brand-new principals at Frick and SOL. What do you anticipate them needing and how are they going to get it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales pointed to the fact that the schools are 1.4 miles apart and that Oakland SOL has a dual-language immersion program while Frick does not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770917\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent\" href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770917 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Parents in attendance at the OUSD board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-1020x737.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-1200x868.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents in attendance at the OUSD board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At stake for some parents is the changing racial makeup of their neighborhoods and schools. Frick Academy’s students are about 41% African American and 53% Latinx, while Oakland SOL has a 71% Latinx student body. Some parents have expressed concern about how merging the two schools will tip the balance toward a much heavier Latinx student ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Sankofa parent concerned about gentrification in a historically black neighborhood said, “I know what I felt like when I went outside and my whole neighborhood changed. I been in that neighborhood for years and years, 40-plus. It’s important that you think of the people before you make moves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting, Renteria and some board members acknowledged earlier mistakes made during the first phase of mergers and closures last year. In merging Alliance Academy and Elmhurst Community Prep\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>district officials admitted that they did not provide enough support for the budgeting or planning process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also failed to relocate all 266 seventh graders displaced by the closure of Roots International Academy into better schools, which had been the intention. In fact, 46 Roots students are now at Oakland SOL and Frick, potentially facing upheaval once again in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria said that to support the current phase of closures, a philanthropic foundation donated $200,000 over the coming two years to help fund the work of reconfiguring smaller schools into larger ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first phase of closures, Oakland-based nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.educate78.org/who-we-are/\">Educate78\u003c/a> paid for a consultant to help Alliance and Elmhurst middle schools combine into Elmhurst United this past school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to dismantle the district’s smaller schools is an ironic twist in the history of school reform efforts in Oakland. In 2000 the Gates Foundation spent millions to help launch the small schools movement across the country, with an initial focus on the Bay Area. The first 10 of those smaller schools opened in Oakland, beginning with a difficult process of breaking apart older, larger schools and their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is scheduled to make a decision Sept. 11 on the current round of closures and mergers, which is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/blueprintforquality\">OUSD’s Citywide Blueprint for Quality Schools.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an emotional Oakland school board meeting Wednesday night, parents, students and staff from four schools slated for closure and consolidation made their case for more time to help shape the plans that will radically alter their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://fcmat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/08/Oakland-USD-final-report.pdf\">Under pressure from a state oversight body\u003c/a> to balance its budget, the Oakland Unified School District is crafting plans to reduce its total number of schools by up to 24 and to invest any cost savings in strengthening existing schools. Four schools — Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, Sankofa Academy, Oakland SOL (School of Language) and Frick Impact Academy — are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769908/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students\">targeted to be merged\u003c/a> in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But overwhelmingly the board was scorned by parents who showed up from across the district to express their profound mistrust of the institution that serves their children. Parent after parent asked for evidence that the closures would save the district money and, more importantly, help improve educational outcomes for students. Many cited the district’s own \u003ca href=\"http://grandjury.acgov.org/grandjury-assets/docs/2018-2019/OUSD%20Broken%20Culture.FR-2.pdf\">history of fiscal mismanagement.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees line up to speak at an Oakland school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees line up to speak at an Oakland school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been starving for resources for years now. My son attended Sankofa back in the second grade. He is currently in 10th grade at McClymonds,” said Valerie Manchester, who has a fourth-grader at Sankofa. “You guys have lied to us and deceived us since then. It does not make any sense, I don’t see how you guys can sit on this board and sit here with straight faces and not consider these children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the largest groups in attendance Wednesday night was representing Kaiser Elementary, sporting green T-shirts and carrying signs saying “Do No Harm” to express opposition to the proposed merger of their school with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parents who addressed the board argued that they chose their school because it is small and their children do better in that environment. They also pointed to data showing that their school closes the achievement gap for its black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daryl Guidry, a parent at Kaiser, said that families of color are being underserved in Oakland but not at Kaiser. “When you are closing schools that are taking care of families of color and most importantly children of color, that’s just lack of resources,” Guidry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But school board member James Harris challenged the Kaiser parents — a school that is about one-third white, largely affluent and located in the Claremont Hills — to reconsider their opposition to merging with Sankofa Academy in North Oakland’s Bushrod neighborhood, where the majority of youth qualify for free or reduced-price lunches and are students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re coming from a special place. I would ask you to think about what would it mean to share that experience with people that have not had that special experience,” Harris said. “What would it mean for the community at Kaiser to say: You know what? Oakland needs us to do something differently now. Oakland needs us to show up in a different way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His statement was met with scornful jeers from some in the audience, but Harris rebutted, “I’m presenting this to you to think about as a community. You can take it or leave it. I’m not here to argue with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770915 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019 OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading "Do Not Harm" in opposition to the district's plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1321\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1200x826.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019, OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading “Do Not Harm” in opposition to the district’s plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board seemed united on one thing: forcing change on Kaiser. One option they’re considering is relocating Kaiser to the larger Santa Fe Elementary campus where there is space to expand the model. Reopening Santa Fe is a move strongly supported by parents in that neighborhood, who also turned up in force at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response to the resistance that many Kaiser parents were showing towards any changes, board member Shanthi Gonzales went so far as to suggest the school be eventually phased out, by halting kindergarten enrollment after this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several board members also questioned why district staff had abandoned an earlier idea of merging a different elementary —Peralta — with Sankofa. A Peralta parent gave the board \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EDYw9DJ8ff0fF0NojT8PsayEM2KGDfZD5hqBWPUSiFU/edit?ts=5d4d167c\">a letter\u003c/a> signed by 50 parents who support merging their school with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770918 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Unified School District Vice President Jody London, President Aimee Eng, and Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell (left to right) listen to speakers at a school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-800x592.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-1020x755.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-1200x888.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District Vice President Jody London, President Aimee Eng and Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell (left to right) listen to speakers at a school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are Peralta folks who are interested in a merger with Sankofa, and I think that’s going to lead us to be much more successful,” Gonzales said. “I’m interested in them being at a bigger campus where we can draw more students into OUSD and into a quality program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of two other schools slated for a merger were also discussed at Wednesday’s meeting. Oakland SOL and Frick Impact Academy, both in East Oakland neighborhoods that Gonzales represents, are slated to consolidate onto the Frick campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales seemed to agree with the cries of parents from both schools who say they’re in favor of merging, but insist more time is needed to plan for the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You heard SOL and Frick ask for more time tonight. Is that possible?” Gonzales asked, directing her comments to OUSD Deputy Innovation Officer Yvette Renteria. “You have two brand-new principals at Frick and SOL. What do you anticipate them needing and how are they going to get it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales pointed to the fact that the schools are 1.4 miles apart and that Oakland SOL has a dual-language immersion program while Frick does not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770917\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent\" href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770917 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Parents in attendance at the OUSD board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-1020x737.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-1200x868.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents in attendance at the OUSD board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At stake for some parents is the changing racial makeup of their neighborhoods and schools. Frick Academy’s students are about 41% African American and 53% Latinx, while Oakland SOL has a 71% Latinx student body. Some parents have expressed concern about how merging the two schools will tip the balance toward a much heavier Latinx student ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Sankofa parent concerned about gentrification in a historically black neighborhood said, “I know what I felt like when I went outside and my whole neighborhood changed. I been in that neighborhood for years and years, 40-plus. It’s important that you think of the people before you make moves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting, Renteria and some board members acknowledged earlier mistakes made during the first phase of mergers and closures last year. 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In fact, 46 Roots students are now at Oakland SOL and Frick, potentially facing upheaval once again in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria said that to support the current phase of closures, a philanthropic foundation donated $200,000 over the coming two years to help fund the work of reconfiguring smaller schools into larger ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first phase of closures, Oakland-based nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.educate78.org/who-we-are/\">Educate78\u003c/a> paid for a consultant to help Alliance and Elmhurst middle schools combine into Elmhurst United this past school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to dismantle the district’s smaller schools is an ironic twist in the history of school reform efforts in Oakland. In 2000 the Gates Foundation spent millions to help launch the small schools movement across the country, with an initial focus on the Bay Area. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District's radical plan to downsize by closing and merging schools includes a key component to making sure displaced students end up in better schools. It's a policy change that could result in diversifying some of the city's most in-demand schools. But details of the so-called opportunity ticket have yet to be hammered out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opportunity ticket is the brainchild of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandreach.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland REACH\u003c/a>, a parent group committed to getting underserved communities into high-quality schools, and was approved by the OUSD Board of Education last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Lakisha Young, co-founder and executive director of The Oakland REACH\"]'The intent behind the policy has always been clear. It’s to provide a new chance for folks who have been disadvantaged in the system.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District enrollment currently gives priority to siblings entering a school and then to children of families that live in the school's neighborhood. The opportunity ticket would change that, allowing displaced students from schools that are geographically relocated to get priority enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An advisory group, including parents, met with OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell last week to recommend a fair way to implement the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The data’s very clear. Kids do better after a closure only if they go to a better school,\" said Katherine Lee, parent of a first-grader at Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary School and a parent in the advisory group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve heard the district say a lot, ‘We need to start doing things differently.’ Well closures and mergers aren’t different, but this opportunity ticket is different. It’s the one different thing that they are doing when it comes to how they are implementing these.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, school closures have hit schools harder that have a majority of black and brown students. That's why The Oakland REACH came up with the opportunity ticket idea, along with Dirk Tillotson of the \u003ca href=\"https://greatschoolvoices.org/author/dirk/\">State of Black Education Oakland\u003c/a>, said group co-founder and executive director Lakisha Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The intent behind the policy has always been clear,\" Young said. \"It’s to provide a new chance for folks who have been disadvantaged in the system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new enrollment policy has the potential to integrate some of the city's top schools by race and class. Currently, white students make up just 11.4% of the district-run public schools \u003ca href=\"https://greatschoolvoices.org/2019/02/buying-way-oakland-public-school-ally-equity-addresses-privilege-opportunity-race-need-opportunity-ticket/\">but are concentrated in a handful of top-performing schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reviewing the policy over the summer, the advisory group told Johnson-Trammell they are sticking with the original recommendations of no more than 10% of any grade level, nor more than 51% of open seats in any given school during an enrollment period, going to students with opportunity tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said she was told the district convened the working group to take another look at how many opportunity ticket students would get priority over neighborhood students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11769908,news_11735304,news_11766985,news_11721015,news_11716967,news_11711497\" label=\"Restructuring at the Oakland Unified School District\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wanted specifically for us to revisit those percentages because some of them had gotten some calls from parents at high-demand schools specifically,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how it might play out: If there are 100 open seats in a school, and 20 siblings enroll, then of the 80 remaining seats, at most 41 of them would go to children from outside that attendance area, using the opportunity ticket. As some critics see it, that's 41 neighborhood kids who would be displaced. Elmhurst United Middle School Principal Kilian Betlach, who was on the district's advisory committee, disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Neighborhood preference is not a guarantee. It’s preference,\" Betlach said. \"I wouldn't choose the word displacement. That’s the way it’s being framed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the district moves ahead with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769908/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students\">its plans\u003c/a> to merge Kaiser Elementary School with Sankofa Academy at the Sankofa site, and Oakland SOL with Frick Impact Academy at the Frick site, just the 280 students from Kaiser and 136 from SOL would get opportunity tickets to move to any of the city's top schools. Students from Sankofa and Frick would not have that option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that Kaiser parents at a school that is 31% white and already high-achieving would see their students get an opportunity ticket to another high-performing school is an irony not lost on Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a bunch of privileged families take a loophole in the policy to take this ticket to get a further leg up for their families, then I think folks need to take a long look in the mirror and revisit the signs in the window,\" Young said, of Kaiser parents who are resisting the merge with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advisory group considered limiting the ticket to affected students who fall into \"disadvantaged student\" categories defined by the Local Control Funding Formula, but backed off, said Lee. Betlach agreed with that move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to be policy leader in place like OUSD, where it’s incredibly segregated and a huge part of your community is not well served, and at same time the kids going to school in the hills and those young people ... we are also accountable to them,\" Betlach said. \"We can’t be hostile to them or to their privilege. They are part of community. It's a line to walk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several on the advisory board spoke of the opportunity ticket as a mechanism to soften the blow of the hardship of changing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"School closure kids go through negative experiences, and these structural changes are understood to be for the greater good. It makes sense to offer something for the sacrifice,\" Betlach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Elementary parent Katherine Lee said it was still unclear how her fellow parents were thinking about the choice between moving to Sankofa and creating a newly merged school or taking an opportunity ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, it's [Kaiser] an academically well-performing school. And so there might be a desire to go to another school that is as well performing or better,\" Lee said. \"And unfortunately, in Oakland, that tends to mean whiter schools. Ultimately, I don't know what each family's going to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Kaiser Elementary parents are already threatening to sue or leave the district altogether, should their school be merged, opportunity ticket or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is expected to weigh the recommendations before a final vote in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District has unveiled plans for its second round of school restructuring, and it is already hearing from incensed parents who don't want to see their schools altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shuttered Roots International Academy Middle School\u003c/a>, which became a rallying point for teachers and families at school board meetings during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the teachers' strike\u003c/a>. This Wednesday's board meeting is now the first opportunity for district staff, parents and students to weigh in on the latest recommendations in front of the full board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11735304,news_11766985,news_11721015,news_11716967,news_11711497\" label=\"Restructuring at the Oakland School District\"]The district has been rolling ahead on a controversial plan to pare down its number of schools by as many as 24. In the first phase of the citywide plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/18243\">six schools were targeted for change\u003c/a> with roughly 1,500 students affected. Beyond closing Roots, two other schools in East Oakland were merged, another two are still in the planning stages and a third, Met West, has expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This second round of closures and mergers, expected to affect another 1,324 students, took some by surprise when it tagged a small, successful and diverse school in the Oakland hills, Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721070/oakland-unified-announces-plans-to-merge-kaiser-and-sankofa-elementary-schools-as-part-of-major-downsizing-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merge with Sankofa Elementary\u003c/a> on the Sankofa campus in North Oakland. In addition, Oakland SOL in East Oakland, which offers a dual-language immersion program, will merge with Frick Impact Academy on the Frick campus, also in East Oakland. And Melrose Leadership Academy (MLA), another dual-language program, would expand to upper and lower campuses across Maxwell Park and Sherman facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district used a variety of factors to determine which schools would be affected, including the potential for cost savings, how well a school was performing academically, teacher retention, enrollment trends and demand for certain programs. The district is under pressure to reduce the number of schools it has in order to save money, but officials and school board members have maintained the restructuring is also an opportunity to create more equitable schools across the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all parents see it that way. Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson said parents at both Kaiser and Sankofa would be sending a letter to the board opposing their merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"OUSD staff continues to use misinformation, unscientific 'data' and conflicting rhetoric to justify their closing of Kaiser Elementary and starving Sankofa of much needed resources,\" Johnson wrote in an email. \"The school board has the opportunity to do the right thing and demand that OUSD stop this flawed and deceptive process and truly engage their community to tackle the problems OUSD is facing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parents are scheduled to meet again with OUSD officials Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district held a series of meetings over the summer with parents from all of the schools involved, in order to discuss the possible changes. The final recommendations were made public just a few days ahead of the Aug. 28 board meeting, when the board will take public comment. The board is then scheduled to vote on the recommendations on Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents from Kaiser and Sankofa \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11766985/its-all-about-race-parents-want-say-in-how-oakland-schools-integrate\">have expressed skepticism\u003c/a> that the district can successfully pull off a consolidation of two school cultures. The district reported some MLA families shared that concern and that some SOL parents are worried about the lack of safe routes to Frick for students who live near SOL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/26/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11769976\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11769976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Principal Kilian Betlach is already overseeing the merger of two schools into Elmhurst United. \u003ccite>(Olivia Obeneme/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Principal Kilian Betlach has overseen the merger of Elmhurst and Alliance middle schools in the first phase of the district's plan. The two newly merged schools, renamed Elmhurst United, opened three weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betlach said that after his schools' merger was announced, the district seemed to take a \"do-it-yourself\" approach when it came to supporting the two schools through the planning process. Betlach said he hopes this time around the district is more intentional in the planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of what would be interesting to me would be to see what level of detail staff goes into, what support they will offer. With us it was incredibly vague, it was pretty much nothing, in terms of support, and with a really small amount of money,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betlach, though, considers the outcome of the merger to be positive so far. Elmhurst United has increased enrollment to 715 students this year, beyond district expectations, he said. And the school was able to bring in new resources to hire an assistant principal, two science teachers, and add music, dance and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are supportive of the potential mergers as well. Lakisha Young, who runs Oakland Reach, a parent group representing many families in East Oakland, said she supports the efforts to remake schools if it leads to more quality schools for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district has been trying to get Kaiser down off that hill for years,\" said Young, referring to earlier attempts to close Kaiser, which the school fended off. \"This sends a big message. The will and the courage to do what’s right for all students, that is the leadership that is needed. I think it’s important that all communities, not just all flatland communities, are impacted by this shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is estimating the second round of mergers will save $1,147,117 over five years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District has unveiled plans for its second round of school restructuring, and it is already hearing from incensed parents who don't want to see their schools altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shuttered Roots International Academy Middle School\u003c/a>, which became a rallying point for teachers and families at school board meetings during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the teachers' strike\u003c/a>. This Wednesday's board meeting is now the first opportunity for district staff, parents and students to weigh in on the latest recommendations in front of the full board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The district has been rolling ahead on a controversial plan to pare down its number of schools by as many as 24. In the first phase of the citywide plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/18243\">six schools were targeted for change\u003c/a> with roughly 1,500 students affected. Beyond closing Roots, two other schools in East Oakland were merged, another two are still in the planning stages and a third, Met West, has expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This second round of closures and mergers, expected to affect another 1,324 students, took some by surprise when it tagged a small, successful and diverse school in the Oakland hills, Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721070/oakland-unified-announces-plans-to-merge-kaiser-and-sankofa-elementary-schools-as-part-of-major-downsizing-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merge with Sankofa Elementary\u003c/a> on the Sankofa campus in North Oakland. In addition, Oakland SOL in East Oakland, which offers a dual-language immersion program, will merge with Frick Impact Academy on the Frick campus, also in East Oakland. And Melrose Leadership Academy (MLA), another dual-language program, would expand to upper and lower campuses across Maxwell Park and Sherman facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district used a variety of factors to determine which schools would be affected, including the potential for cost savings, how well a school was performing academically, teacher retention, enrollment trends and demand for certain programs. The district is under pressure to reduce the number of schools it has in order to save money, but officials and school board members have maintained the restructuring is also an opportunity to create more equitable schools across the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all parents see it that way. Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson said parents at both Kaiser and Sankofa would be sending a letter to the board opposing their merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"OUSD staff continues to use misinformation, unscientific 'data' and conflicting rhetoric to justify their closing of Kaiser Elementary and starving Sankofa of much needed resources,\" Johnson wrote in an email. \"The school board has the opportunity to do the right thing and demand that OUSD stop this flawed and deceptive process and truly engage their community to tackle the problems OUSD is facing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parents are scheduled to meet again with OUSD officials Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district held a series of meetings over the summer with parents from all of the schools involved, in order to discuss the possible changes. The final recommendations were made public just a few days ahead of the Aug. 28 board meeting, when the board will take public comment. The board is then scheduled to vote on the recommendations on Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents from Kaiser and Sankofa \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11766985/its-all-about-race-parents-want-say-in-how-oakland-schools-integrate\">have expressed skepticism\u003c/a> that the district can successfully pull off a consolidation of two school cultures. The district reported some MLA families shared that concern and that some SOL parents are worried about the lack of safe routes to Frick for students who live near SOL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/26/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11769976\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11769976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Principal Kilian Betlach is already overseeing the merger of two schools into Elmhurst United. \u003ccite>(Olivia Obeneme/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Principal Kilian Betlach has overseen the merger of Elmhurst and Alliance middle schools in the first phase of the district's plan. The two newly merged schools, renamed Elmhurst United, opened three weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betlach said that after his schools' merger was announced, the district seemed to take a \"do-it-yourself\" approach when it came to supporting the two schools through the planning process. Betlach said he hopes this time around the district is more intentional in the planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of what would be interesting to me would be to see what level of detail staff goes into, what support they will offer. With us it was incredibly vague, it was pretty much nothing, in terms of support, and with a really small amount of money,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betlach, though, considers the outcome of the merger to be positive so far. Elmhurst United has increased enrollment to 715 students this year, beyond district expectations, he said. And the school was able to bring in new resources to hire an assistant principal, two science teachers, and add music, dance and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are supportive of the potential mergers as well. Lakisha Young, who runs Oakland Reach, a parent group representing many families in East Oakland, said she supports the efforts to remake schools if it leads to more quality schools for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district has been trying to get Kaiser down off that hill for years,\" said Young, referring to earlier attempts to close Kaiser, which the school fended off. \"This sends a big message. The will and the courage to do what’s right for all students, that is the leadership that is needed. I think it’s important that all communities, not just all flatland communities, are impacted by this shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is estimating the second round of mergers will save $1,147,117 over five years. This would be slightly offset by an expected $100,000 increase in spending with expanding MLA over the five-year time frame. The district has also stated it hopes to find ways to increase revenue from the vacated Kaiser and SOL buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read through the district's proposed recommendations below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Saturday afternoon in Dover Park in Oakland's Bushrod neighborhood, a couple dozen parents formed a circle and sat in the shade under a tree, their children playing behind them on the playground. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"oakland schools coverage\" tag=\"ousd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their children attend radically different schools, but they had come together over a shared purpose. Frustrated with a lack of information from the school district about its controversial plans to merge or move their schools, they are creating an alliance in the hopes of gaining more control over the decision-making process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana Garrett's children attend Sankofa Elementary. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that white, black, Asian, whatever, we can stand taller than anybody if we build our own home,\" she said. \"And we can build it with multiple colors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several parents nodded in agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday's meeting was the latest in a series organized by a group of families that each face potentially huge changes to their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett-800x910.jpg\" alt=\"Dana Garrett's children attend Sankofa Elementary, one of the schools Oakland Unified School District has identified for a possible merger.\" width=\"800\" height=\"910\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11767573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett-800x910.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett-160x182.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett-1020x1161.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett-1054x1200.jpg 1054w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana Garrett's children attend Sankofa Elementary, one of the schools Oakland Unified School District has identified for a possible merger. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, one merger proposed by Oakland Unified School District would mean that Kaiser Elementary, located in the Oakland hills near the Caldecott Tunnel, would move in with Sankofa elementary, a school with a majority African American student population about two miles down the hill, roughly between Telegraph and Shattuck streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser has high test scores, more well-resourced parents and is racially diverse. Sankofa is struggling with a recent change in its principal and poor academic outcomes, and 90% of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"ON KQED FORUM 88.5 FM\" postID=\"forum_2010101872709\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't trust [the district],\" said Kaiser parent Alicia Johnson. \"And we don't trust any plans that they give us. And right now we are not willing to move until we see they are taking it seriously and thoughtfully implementing plans for change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of what it would take to integrate across a racial and class divide, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11059974/two-moms-choose-between-separate-and-unequal-schools-in-oakland\">whether parents of privilege are willing to do so\u003c/a>, is a problem \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/news/stanfordcornell-study-shows-increasing-segregation-income\">facing other urban districts\u003c/a> across the county: How can the district create equitable schools in districts shaped by a history of redlining and racially segregated housing? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, white students are 11.4% of the district-run public school population \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735304/oakland-schools-offer-enrollment-choices-but-not-everyone-knows-how-it-works\">but are concentrated in a small handful of top-performing schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD argues that merging a stronger school with a weak one is a path to creating more equity. But the district is also relying heavily on an economic rationale for the changes, saying it must shrink the number of schools it operates to save money and avoid a state takeover. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents-800x848.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser parent Katherine Lee and Sankofa parent Subodh Nijsure talked frankly about privilege and race.\" width=\"800\" height=\"848\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11767579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents-800x848.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents-160x170.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents-1020x1082.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents-1132x1200.jpg 1132w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser parent Katherine Lee and Sankofa parent Subodh Nijsure talked frankly about privilege and race. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district has been cited by the state's Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) for operating too many schools. For comparison, OUSD has twice the number of schools as Fremont's school district, but the same number of students, an Alameda Grand Jury \u003ca href=\"http://grandjury.acgov.org/grandjury-assets/docs/2017-2018/SKM_C364e18101213460.pdf\">found\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kaiser-Sankofa merger plan has morphed since January, after Kaiser parents lobbied heavily against being sent to Sankofa. Now the district is considering merging Sankofa and Peralta Elementary instead, but keeping both campuses open, with K-2 grades at Peralta and 3-5 grades at Sankofa. Peralta is a popular, high-achieving school whose wait list typically has 200 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is not off the hook, however, as the district is proposing to move them to a larger school facility at Santa Fe Elementary near the Oakland-Emeryville border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these gyrations have built confidence among the parents meeting at Dover Park. Many in the group doubted that the school district could pull off complicated mergers of different school cultures successfully. No one from the any of the above schools had seen details for the proposed mergers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Elementary parent Katherine Lee pointed to the example of the merger between Elmhurst Community Prep and Alliance Academy middle schools, which has been in planning stages for the last year. Lee said the schools had to figure out much of the merger on their own. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They had to do a lot of individual fundraising to make those design hours happen,\" said Lee. \"Teachers were volunteering additional hours.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee-800x835.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser Elementary parent Katherine Lee said she doesn't trust the school district's ability to handle merging two very different school cultures.\" width=\"800\" height=\"835\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11767593\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee-800x835.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee-160x167.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee-1020x1065.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee-1149x1200.jpg 1149w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser Elementary parent Katherine Lee said she doesn't trust the school district's ability to handle merging two very different school cultures. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peralta Elementary parent Tierney Freed echoed these concerns. If OUSD is going to create a split campus between Peralta and Sankofa, with parents and children walking between them, why aren't city planners and transportation thinkers part of the strategy, she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freed, like some of the other parents, also questioned the district's argument that merging schools would save money. She pointed out that creating a split campus between Sankofa and Peralta doesn't eliminate a school, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They actually have financial data, finally, that says it's the most expensive option,\" said Freed, whose son is entering kindergarten this year. \"Which means they are not going to save money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Subodh Nijsure, Sankofa Elementary parent\"]'There are so many people that I see every day walking by Sankofa, going to Peralta or driving their kids to Kaiser, and nobody wants to say it, but I'm going to say it: it's all about race.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the optics of wealthier and whiter parents balking at merging with a majority black and brown school is not lost on these parents, especially in a town that prides itself on being progressive. At the recent gathering, parents tried to converse respectfully about questions of race and class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Kaiser parent, who doesn't want to see her school merged with Sankofa, denied that her opposition is due to race. Alicia Johnson, who is in a mixed race marriage, said she wants her school to stay small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean my husband is black and we are a mixed couple. We looked at all areas in the East Bay up to Danville and San Ramon when we were looking at housing here, and we thought those areas don’t quite fit our family,\" Johnson said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re beautiful and there is some diversity there but not as much as Oakland. And we felt like we hit the jackpot with Kaiser because we have so many different family types.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sankofa parent Subodh Nijsure said he thinks there is no denying that race is a factor when both Kaiser and Peralta parents say they don't want to merge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"Sankofa Elementary parent Subodh Nijsure said he thinks race is a factor in why parents at Kaiser and Peralta elementaries don't want to merge with his school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11767599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure.jpg 1192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sankofa Elementary parent Subodh Nijsure said he thinks race is a factor in why parents at Kaiser and Peralta elementaries don't want to merge with his school. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nijsure said it doesn't feel good to be 'begging' other schools to join with them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many people that I see every day walking by Sankofa, going to Peralta or driving their kids to Kaiser, and nobody wants to say it, but I'm going to say it: it's all about race because Sankofa is predominantly African American and non-Caucasian kids school,\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people feel uncomfortable so they will drive three miles to a predominantly Caucasian school and nobody wants to say it but that's what the bottom line is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nijsure and other Sankofa parents recently voted that they would prefer to merge with Peralta, some saying they were put off by Kaiser parents' reaction to the suggested merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peralta parents at the meeting shared a survey they conducted that concluded that the majority in their community don't want to be part of a merger. They also said teachers were opposed to a merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collaboration group made of parents from Kaiser, Sankofa, Peralta and Santa Fe schools plan to meet again on Sept. 7, when they hope to hold a town hall. They have invited school district officials to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board is next scheduled to vote on a merger plan Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent Saturday afternoon in Dover Park in Oakland's Bushrod neighborhood, a couple dozen parents formed a circle and sat in the shade under a tree, their children playing behind them on the playground. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their children attend radically different schools, but they had come together over a shared purpose. Frustrated with a lack of information from the school district about its controversial plans to merge or move their schools, they are creating an alliance in the hopes of gaining more control over the decision-making process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana Garrett's children attend Sankofa Elementary. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that white, black, Asian, whatever, we can stand taller than anybody if we build our own home,\" she said. \"And we can build it with multiple colors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several parents nodded in agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday's meeting was the latest in a series organized by a group of families that each face potentially huge changes to their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett-800x910.jpg\" alt=\"Dana Garrett's children attend Sankofa Elementary, one of the schools Oakland Unified School District has identified for a possible merger.\" width=\"800\" height=\"910\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11767573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett-800x910.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett-160x182.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett-1020x1161.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett-1054x1200.jpg 1054w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-parent-Garrett.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana Garrett's children attend Sankofa Elementary, one of the schools Oakland Unified School District has identified for a possible merger. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, one merger proposed by Oakland Unified School District would mean that Kaiser Elementary, located in the Oakland hills near the Caldecott Tunnel, would move in with Sankofa elementary, a school with a majority African American student population about two miles down the hill, roughly between Telegraph and Shattuck streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser has high test scores, more well-resourced parents and is racially diverse. Sankofa is struggling with a recent change in its principal and poor academic outcomes, and 90% of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't trust [the district],\" said Kaiser parent Alicia Johnson. \"And we don't trust any plans that they give us. And right now we are not willing to move until we see they are taking it seriously and thoughtfully implementing plans for change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of what it would take to integrate across a racial and class divide, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11059974/two-moms-choose-between-separate-and-unequal-schools-in-oakland\">whether parents of privilege are willing to do so\u003c/a>, is a problem \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/news/stanfordcornell-study-shows-increasing-segregation-income\">facing other urban districts\u003c/a> across the county: How can the district create equitable schools in districts shaped by a history of redlining and racially segregated housing? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, white students are 11.4% of the district-run public school population \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735304/oakland-schools-offer-enrollment-choices-but-not-everyone-knows-how-it-works\">but are concentrated in a small handful of top-performing schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD argues that merging a stronger school with a weak one is a path to creating more equity. But the district is also relying heavily on an economic rationale for the changes, saying it must shrink the number of schools it operates to save money and avoid a state takeover. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents-800x848.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser parent Katherine Lee and Sankofa parent Subodh Nijsure talked frankly about privilege and race.\" width=\"800\" height=\"848\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11767579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents-800x848.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents-160x170.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents-1020x1082.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents-1132x1200.jpg 1132w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Sankofa-Kaiser-parents.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser parent Katherine Lee and Sankofa parent Subodh Nijsure talked frankly about privilege and race. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district has been cited by the state's Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) for operating too many schools. For comparison, OUSD has twice the number of schools as Fremont's school district, but the same number of students, an Alameda Grand Jury \u003ca href=\"http://grandjury.acgov.org/grandjury-assets/docs/2017-2018/SKM_C364e18101213460.pdf\">found\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kaiser-Sankofa merger plan has morphed since January, after Kaiser parents lobbied heavily against being sent to Sankofa. Now the district is considering merging Sankofa and Peralta Elementary instead, but keeping both campuses open, with K-2 grades at Peralta and 3-5 grades at Sankofa. Peralta is a popular, high-achieving school whose wait list typically has 200 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is not off the hook, however, as the district is proposing to move them to a larger school facility at Santa Fe Elementary near the Oakland-Emeryville border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these gyrations have built confidence among the parents meeting at Dover Park. Many in the group doubted that the school district could pull off complicated mergers of different school cultures successfully. No one from the any of the above schools had seen details for the proposed mergers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Elementary parent Katherine Lee pointed to the example of the merger between Elmhurst Community Prep and Alliance Academy middle schools, which has been in planning stages for the last year. Lee said the schools had to figure out much of the merger on their own. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They had to do a lot of individual fundraising to make those design hours happen,\" said Lee. \"Teachers were volunteering additional hours.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee-800x835.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser Elementary parent Katherine Lee said she doesn't trust the school district's ability to handle merging two very different school cultures.\" width=\"800\" height=\"835\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11767593\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee-800x835.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee-160x167.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee-1020x1065.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee-1149x1200.jpg 1149w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kaiser-parent-Katherine-Lee.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser Elementary parent Katherine Lee said she doesn't trust the school district's ability to handle merging two very different school cultures. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peralta Elementary parent Tierney Freed echoed these concerns. If OUSD is going to create a split campus between Peralta and Sankofa, with parents and children walking between them, why aren't city planners and transportation thinkers part of the strategy, she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freed, like some of the other parents, also questioned the district's argument that merging schools would save money. She pointed out that creating a split campus between Sankofa and Peralta doesn't eliminate a school, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They actually have financial data, finally, that says it's the most expensive option,\" said Freed, whose son is entering kindergarten this year. \"Which means they are not going to save money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the optics of wealthier and whiter parents balking at merging with a majority black and brown school is not lost on these parents, especially in a town that prides itself on being progressive. At the recent gathering, parents tried to converse respectfully about questions of race and class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Kaiser parent, who doesn't want to see her school merged with Sankofa, denied that her opposition is due to race. Alicia Johnson, who is in a mixed race marriage, said she wants her school to stay small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean my husband is black and we are a mixed couple. We looked at all areas in the East Bay up to Danville and San Ramon when we were looking at housing here, and we thought those areas don’t quite fit our family,\" Johnson said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re beautiful and there is some diversity there but not as much as Oakland. And we felt like we hit the jackpot with Kaiser because we have so many different family types.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sankofa parent Subodh Nijsure said he thinks there is no denying that race is a factor when both Kaiser and Peralta parents say they don't want to merge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"Sankofa Elementary parent Subodh Nijsure said he thinks race is a factor in why parents at Kaiser and Peralta elementaries don't want to merge with his school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11767599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Subodh-Nijsure.jpg 1192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sankofa Elementary parent Subodh Nijsure said he thinks race is a factor in why parents at Kaiser and Peralta elementaries don't want to merge with his school. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nijsure said it doesn't feel good to be 'begging' other schools to join with them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many people that I see every day walking by Sankofa, going to Peralta or driving their kids to Kaiser, and nobody wants to say it, but I'm going to say it: it's all about race because Sankofa is predominantly African American and non-Caucasian kids school,\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people feel uncomfortable so they will drive three miles to a predominantly Caucasian school and nobody wants to say it but that's what the bottom line is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nijsure and other Sankofa parents recently voted that they would prefer to merge with Peralta, some saying they were put off by Kaiser parents' reaction to the suggested merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peralta parents at the meeting shared a survey they conducted that concluded that the majority in their community don't want to be part of a merger. They also said teachers were opposed to a merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collaboration group made of parents from Kaiser, Sankofa, Peralta and Santa Fe schools plan to meet again on Sept. 7, when they hope to hold a town hall. They have invited school district officials to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board is next scheduled to vote on a merger plan Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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