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"content": "\u003cp>The posters up on display in a downtown club in Oakland last Saturday were startling and thought provoking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than one in eight black students in Oakland Unified School District meet state math standards. Fewer than \u003ca href=\"http://caaspp.edsource.org/sbac/oakland-unified-01612590000000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one in five\u003c/a> meet reading standards. Black students are far more likely to be chronically absent or get suspended than white students in OUSD schools. Nearly \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017HIRDReport-Oakland.2-2-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">70 percent\u003c/a> of Oakland's homeless population is black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these data points were meant as a rallying cry, not a sign of defeat. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who milled about reading them had come to an event billed as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stateofblackeducation.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of Black Education\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when tens of thousands of black residents have left the city and the gulf between black income and white is \u003ca href=\"http://urbanhabitat.org/sites/default/files/UH%20Policy%20Brief2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing\u003c/a>, the conference organizers wanted to refocus attention on longstanding educational inequities and the need for renewed community action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those years when we made up the majority of the school board, or elected successive Black mayors, they are becoming increasingly unlikely,” State of Black Education organizer and education advocate Dirk Tillotson \u003ca href=\"http://greatschoolvoices.org/2018/04/need-talk-state-black-education-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> ahead of the event. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As our political clout declines, so too does the focus on the problems of Black children and families and the will to push for solutions, or even see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-800x472.jpg\" alt=\"Posters on display at the State of Black Education event at Geoffrey's Inner Circle in downtown Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700916\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-520x307.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters on display at the State of Black Education event at Geoffrey's Inner Circle in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tillotson and fellow organizers Charles Cole, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.energyconvertors.org/who-we-are/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">runs a youth organization\u003c/a>, and Oakland Unified School Board Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jumoke Hinton-Hodge\u003c/a> worked with community members to compile research and collect input on how Oakland schools serve black students. They used that work to inform a set of policy recommendations released on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 people spent Saturday afternoon at \u003ca href=\"http://geoffreyslive.com/category/about-gic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoffrey’s Inner Circle\u003c/a> learning about their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to the SoBEO!” Cole told the crowd as the event got underway. “We are so excited to have you here. State of Black Education Oakland is an opportunity for us to take a real look at every crevice and crack of Oakland education and the things surrounding it that involve and affect black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students, parents and teachers shared their insights into Oakland schools. Students raised concerns about being unfairly tracked into less rigorous classes, about having substitutes for months on end and having few teachers of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"The State of Black Education collaborative collected input from students to inform recommendations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700939\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The State of Black Education collaborative collected input from students to inform recommendations. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also talked about how bias, both implicit and explicit, shaped their learning environment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've had several teachers who would show up ... not knowing the background of the students and make racist remarks,” said Haifa Algabri, who graduated from McClymonds High School and now attends Mills College. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our substitute teachers said 'Slavery was 100 years ago. Get over it. Stop using it as an excuse to not do work.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lakisha Young, who worked on the event and heads up a parent advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/theoaklandreach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland REACH\u003c/a>, raised concerns shared by many parents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are the mamas, the grandmammas, the aunties and uncles of the kids at the lowest performing schools,” she said of her organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young, who has three kids in Oakland schools, joined a panel of fellow REACH members in discussing their frustration with abysmal test scores, chronically absent teachers and administrators who don’t stick around. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They talked about the lengths to which they go to escape their poor-performing neighborhood schools, driving across town daily to deliver their kids to charters that promise — but don’t always deliver — better outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"A display at the State of Black Education event traced the impact of redlining and racial segregation through to contemporary outcomes for black students.\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700914\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-800x603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1020x769.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1180x889.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-960x724.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-240x181.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-375x283.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-520x392.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display at the State of Black Education event traced the impact of redlining and racial segregation through to contemporary outcomes for black students. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around the room, maps depicting the legacy of redlining policies grounded the talk of today’s inequities in the intentional discrimination of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problems with quality and black children have been happening since before many folks in this room even set foot in Oakland or were even born,” Young said, echoing a sentiment repeated throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young and her group helped develop a policy recommendation they’re calling the Opportunity Ticket. And it's pegged to Oakland Unified's latest attempt to consolidate schools in order to economize and reduce its deficit. The so-called Opportunity Ticket would allow parents whose local schools get shut down to send their kids to any school in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified may close schools to help manage its budget crisis — and advocates worry black kids will be disproportionately impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black staff and Black families will bear a disproportionate burden, in the district righting itself, while the hills schools will feel nary a thing, unless we organize,” Tillotson wrote in his blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Keta Brown supports the Opportunity Ticket policy and other ideas put forward at the event, like setting public goals for hiring and holding onto black teachers, using the school district’s unused property to help Oakland’s foster youth and homeless, and giving students a chance to participate in teacher hiring and evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland REACH member Keta Brown at the State of Black Education event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700977\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland REACH member Keta Brown at the State of Black Education event. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the black and brown community is underserved and our voices are a lot of times never heard,” Brown said. “We want to make certain that we are a part of having a seat at the table and not just sitting and hearing about it on the outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the county and district listened to the recommendations, answered questions from the community and offered comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Board of Education Trustee \u003ca href=\"https://www.acoe.org/Page/196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amber Childress\u003c/a> pointed to \u003ca href=\"http://cepa.stanford.edu/educational-opportunity-monitoring-project/achievement-gaps/race/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a> that shows black-white achievement gaps persist regardless of socioeconomic status. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The opportunity gap is about students of color,” she said. “This is a system that's doing what it was designed to do, so we have to really tear down this system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified Superintendent \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/domain/4813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyla Johnson-Trammell\u003c/a> went to Oakland schools herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've been in a state of emergency crisis since before I went into school,” she told the crowd, arguing it would take continued community involvement to turn the tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is the system's response for a school that hasn't been serving the community for generations? I wish I had an answer. But to me that’s why these conversations are important,” Johnson-Trammell said. “Because I'm very clear it's not going to be me by myself that's going to have the solutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the State of Black Education collaborative plan to formally present their Opportunity Ticket recommendation to the Oakland school board before the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The posters up on display in a downtown club in Oakland last Saturday were startling and thought provoking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than one in eight black students in Oakland Unified School District meet state math standards. Fewer than \u003ca href=\"http://caaspp.edsource.org/sbac/oakland-unified-01612590000000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one in five\u003c/a> meet reading standards. Black students are far more likely to be chronically absent or get suspended than white students in OUSD schools. Nearly \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017HIRDReport-Oakland.2-2-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">70 percent\u003c/a> of Oakland's homeless population is black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these data points were meant as a rallying cry, not a sign of defeat. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who milled about reading them had come to an event billed as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stateofblackeducation.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of Black Education\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when tens of thousands of black residents have left the city and the gulf between black income and white is \u003ca href=\"http://urbanhabitat.org/sites/default/files/UH%20Policy%20Brief2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing\u003c/a>, the conference organizers wanted to refocus attention on longstanding educational inequities and the need for renewed community action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those years when we made up the majority of the school board, or elected successive Black mayors, they are becoming increasingly unlikely,” State of Black Education organizer and education advocate Dirk Tillotson \u003ca href=\"http://greatschoolvoices.org/2018/04/need-talk-state-black-education-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> ahead of the event. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As our political clout declines, so too does the focus on the problems of Black children and families and the will to push for solutions, or even see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-800x472.jpg\" alt=\"Posters on display at the State of Black Education event at Geoffrey's Inner Circle in downtown Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700916\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-520x307.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters on display at the State of Black Education event at Geoffrey's Inner Circle in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tillotson and fellow organizers Charles Cole, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.energyconvertors.org/who-we-are/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">runs a youth organization\u003c/a>, and Oakland Unified School Board Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jumoke Hinton-Hodge\u003c/a> worked with community members to compile research and collect input on how Oakland schools serve black students. They used that work to inform a set of policy recommendations released on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 people spent Saturday afternoon at \u003ca href=\"http://geoffreyslive.com/category/about-gic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoffrey’s Inner Circle\u003c/a> learning about their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to the SoBEO!” Cole told the crowd as the event got underway. “We are so excited to have you here. State of Black Education Oakland is an opportunity for us to take a real look at every crevice and crack of Oakland education and the things surrounding it that involve and affect black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students, parents and teachers shared their insights into Oakland schools. Students raised concerns about being unfairly tracked into less rigorous classes, about having substitutes for months on end and having few teachers of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"The State of Black Education collaborative collected input from students to inform recommendations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700939\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The State of Black Education collaborative collected input from students to inform recommendations. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also talked about how bias, both implicit and explicit, shaped their learning environment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've had several teachers who would show up ... not knowing the background of the students and make racist remarks,” said Haifa Algabri, who graduated from McClymonds High School and now attends Mills College. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our substitute teachers said 'Slavery was 100 years ago. Get over it. Stop using it as an excuse to not do work.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lakisha Young, who worked on the event and heads up a parent advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/theoaklandreach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland REACH\u003c/a>, raised concerns shared by many parents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are the mamas, the grandmammas, the aunties and uncles of the kids at the lowest performing schools,” she said of her organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young, who has three kids in Oakland schools, joined a panel of fellow REACH members in discussing their frustration with abysmal test scores, chronically absent teachers and administrators who don’t stick around. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They talked about the lengths to which they go to escape their poor-performing neighborhood schools, driving across town daily to deliver their kids to charters that promise — but don’t always deliver — better outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"A display at the State of Black Education event traced the impact of redlining and racial segregation through to contemporary outcomes for black students.\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700914\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-800x603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1020x769.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1180x889.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-960x724.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-240x181.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-375x283.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-520x392.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display at the State of Black Education event traced the impact of redlining and racial segregation through to contemporary outcomes for black students. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around the room, maps depicting the legacy of redlining policies grounded the talk of today’s inequities in the intentional discrimination of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problems with quality and black children have been happening since before many folks in this room even set foot in Oakland or were even born,” Young said, echoing a sentiment repeated throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young and her group helped develop a policy recommendation they’re calling the Opportunity Ticket. And it's pegged to Oakland Unified's latest attempt to consolidate schools in order to economize and reduce its deficit. The so-called Opportunity Ticket would allow parents whose local schools get shut down to send their kids to any school in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified may close schools to help manage its budget crisis — and advocates worry black kids will be disproportionately impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black staff and Black families will bear a disproportionate burden, in the district righting itself, while the hills schools will feel nary a thing, unless we organize,” Tillotson wrote in his blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Keta Brown supports the Opportunity Ticket policy and other ideas put forward at the event, like setting public goals for hiring and holding onto black teachers, using the school district’s unused property to help Oakland’s foster youth and homeless, and giving students a chance to participate in teacher hiring and evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland REACH member Keta Brown at the State of Black Education event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700977\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland REACH member Keta Brown at the State of Black Education event. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the black and brown community is underserved and our voices are a lot of times never heard,” Brown said. “We want to make certain that we are a part of having a seat at the table and not just sitting and hearing about it on the outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the county and district listened to the recommendations, answered questions from the community and offered comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Board of Education Trustee \u003ca href=\"https://www.acoe.org/Page/196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amber Childress\u003c/a> pointed to \u003ca href=\"http://cepa.stanford.edu/educational-opportunity-monitoring-project/achievement-gaps/race/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a> that shows black-white achievement gaps persist regardless of socioeconomic status. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The opportunity gap is about students of color,” she said. “This is a system that's doing what it was designed to do, so we have to really tear down this system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified Superintendent \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/domain/4813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyla Johnson-Trammell\u003c/a> went to Oakland schools herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've been in a state of emergency crisis since before I went into school,” she told the crowd, arguing it would take continued community involvement to turn the tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is the system's response for a school that hasn't been serving the community for generations? I wish I had an answer. But to me that’s why these conversations are important,” Johnson-Trammell said. “Because I'm very clear it's not going to be me by myself that's going to have the solutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Raiders \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/08/28/raiders-school-district-donation-boosts-oakland-youth-sports/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced a $250,000 donation Tuesday\u003c/a> to help save Oakland high school sports programs after the district announced it would cut nearly half of them. But some parents are looking for a more permanent solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say no amount of fundraising will fix the fact that the cuts disproportionately impacted girls, and that all of this has unearthed a deeper problem. So, they’re turning to the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don't want to have to do it,” said Oakland parent Shumsha Hanif-Cruz, lamenting Oakland Unified School District's financial straits and emphasizing that she hopes to avoid a costly class action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanif-Cruz's 6th grade daughter was looking forward to playing golf at Skyline High School, just like her big sister had. 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This is a classic story of sex discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After looking at figures for last year’s participation, national Title IX expert \u003ca href=\"http://championwomen.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Hogshead-Makar\u003c/a> agrees. “Before the cuts, girls already had fewer opportunities than boys did,” she said. “It’s 2018 and to not consider the fairness of cutting more girls' programs than boys' programs when girls already weren’t getting as much as boys were is tragic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hogshead-Makar also raises questions about the coach-to-athlete ratio for girls at district schools. \"It appears boys get far more coaches-per-athlete than girl do,\" she wrote in an email. \"There are also lots of men coaching girls, and very few women coaching boys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanif-Cruz and other parents expressed frustration and sadness at the position she and other Oakland parents find themselves in. While keenly aware that legal action against the\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-unified-may-eliminate-nearly-340-positions-in-one-year-to-stay-fiscally-solvent/601091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> already cash-strapped district\u003c/a> could lead to a costly lawsuit, they’re inclined to believe that getting a lawyer involved may be the only way to ensure the district rights its course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any desire to sue Oakland Unified,” said parent Christian Schreiber, an attorney who's handled civil rights cases. “But I also don’t think that they’re above being sued. I hope it doesn’t come to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Hanif-Cruz and other parents move ahead, Kristen said the first step would be to send a demand letter to the district with the intention of spurring negotiations about how to right the alleged Title IX violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen has \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/releases/female-athletes-and-school-district-settle-title-ix-case-after-ninth-circuit-ruling/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">successfully sued districts\u003c/a> for Title IX violations in the past. She said she starts with a demand letter hoping to garner a district's cooperation, rather than end up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really makes sense to try to resolve these things quickly,\" she said. \"High school is a fleeting time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ideally, Kristen said, a demand letter leads to an enforceable settlement agreement. \"We could go to court if they don't follow what they say they’re going to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advantage of a formal legal process, Kristen said, is that it gives parents a seat at the table, allowing them to help shape the scope of any remedy, \"as opposed to letting it just play out the way it may or may not play out behind the scenes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that the district recognizes that its actions create the real threat of Title IX litigation,” Schreiber said, “and they take appropriate and immediate action to reconsider the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, the district announced three fall sports, girls tennis, girls golf and girls lacrosse are coming back, thanks to donations of close to $40,000. That allows about 150 girls to keep playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD spokesman John Sasaki said that helps balance the impact. “We’re certainly more fair than we were a couple days ago,” he said Monday at a press conference. The $250,000 donation from the Raiders will go a long way toward bringing back other sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kristen says reinstating programs temporarily through outside money does not solve the equity issue. \"The problem is the way that it has been packaged as a temporary solution and that girls' sports seem more contingent and less supported by the schools,\" she said. “They’ve sent a message to girls that they aren’t as important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen and Hogshead-Makar point out that Title IX violations are common in high school athletics. \"It's actually rare for us to find a school where they do have parity for girls in sports even though this law has been around for such a long time,\" Kristen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a longtime Oakland resident, Kristen said Oakland Unified's data is particularly frustrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a community that should be committed to equality for girls, so the fact that this has been going on under our noses for all this time is really disappointing.\" She added that in her experience, once she starts looking into a district, she \"usually finds these kinds of athletic participation gaps for girls are really the tip of the iceberg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district declined to comment on the prospect of legal action. 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"content": "\u003cp>A top financial official criticized for his handling of the Oakland Unified School District’s budget is resigning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior business officer Vernon Hal leaves amid a deep deficit that led to $9 million in abrupt midyear cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell praised Hal, who himself graduated from an Oakland high school, for his many years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He worked for the District twice, starting the second time in 2008. In the years since, he helped steer the District back into local control, he helped us regain our bond rating and he helped refinance our bonds, saving Oakland taxpayers millions of dollars. For all that and much more, we are grateful,\" Johnson-Trammell wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Board of Education member Jody London says Hal's was a big job and will leave a sizable vacancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It does definitely leave a big void when someone who has that much institutional knowledge and history leaves; at the same time, these types of departures also present opportunities to rebuild and restructure,\" London says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>London stopped short of criticizing Hal for the district's current predicament, saying \"there's no one person or set of events responsible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a board meeting earlier this year, Che Phinnessee did not hesitate to point fingers at top officials, including Hal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phinnessee is a parent of a sixth-grader at Montera Middle School and a third-grader at REACH Academy. As the district grappled with millions in cuts to school administration and individual sites -- and eventually decided to go ahead with them -- she expressed frustration that Hal was absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The person in charge of OUSD finances is not even here. ... He's been a problem for so long, Vernon Hal,\" Phinnessee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trish Gorham is president of the Oakland Education Association, the union representing Oakland teachers. She says Hal had been out of sight for months, as the crisis unfolded, and that his official resignation is part of the clean sweep that the district needs in order to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Superintendent Johnson-Trammell really wants to build and rebuild trust in the district,\" says Gorham, \"then she has to build that on a foundation that is not riddled with the past mistakes of bad judgment, and Vernon Hal was a part of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An OUSD spokesman says the district hopes to hire for a new streamlined position soon.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Well, in order to achieve integration that means we limit the number of slots that some families have, which reduces access in that school, opens up access to other families, and then we make other schools available to students who otherwise wanted to go to a high-demand schools. In order to make that happen, it requires some sacrifice. Have I noticed a strong desire to make that type of sacrifice? No, I have not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we’re not asking families to give up anything. We’re saying we want to be thoughtful and help people understand the strength in other schools, help them understand the power of having families who have both social capital, political capital, attend those schools and how it benefits all children to be in schools with students of diverse backgrounds, experiences and interests. That takes more time. 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We’re working on a comprehensive effort to address transportation, but we can’t talk about that unless we talk about feeder patterns. Because if we’re just transporting kids the way we’re currently constructed, then you don’t have a thoughtful way of kids moving from elementary to middle to high, which helps reduce transportation costs, which makes using transportation as a potential solution for integration a part of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does Oakland’s enrollment policy reinforce segregated schools?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think neighborhood policy in and of itself is an insurmountable obstacle. I think it does require an expansion of what we consider “neighborhood.” People think of neighborhood as the school down the street. Oakland isn’t really that large geographically, certainly in terms of importance, but geographically not that large. The school down the street, you walk several more blocks, and there’s another school. Many times you have individuals saying they want to go to the school right down the street. Well, in order achieve integration we need to expand what we consider neighborhoods, and say you are guaranteed a slot in one of these schools. Part of the formula involves making sure you have opportunities for students from different Zip codes to have access to schools as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, it requires strategic placement of programs, some exciting programs that might attract people in, and placing those into some neighborhoods that some families aren’t used to seeing programs placed in. And saying we absolutely believe in these programs and students having access, but what we want to do is to have you travel, which really isn’t that far, to this school to receive it. And have those available throughout to two-thirds of our district. It just so happens that some of those programs will be below 580, and it will require that type of reverse choice, as opposed to students to choosing to go up the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you’re going to achieve integration, you have to be intentional about it. What is the district doing to get there?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The No. 1 thing we want is to have a conversation around school quality and access to quality schools, and then create some structure so that we have good options so that families don’t feel like they’re forced to settle when making decisions for their children. That’s the first step. We can say all day long that you have to go to X school or Y school, but given the fact that we have many families who have means to make other decisions other than the places that they’re slotted into by the district, we want to make sure that families know that the options we’re making available to them, although they may not know about them, are places where their children have a good shot at getting a great education. So that’s the first step for us, and there are several more steps after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The White House is offering grants to districts that want to integrate their schools more socioeconomically. 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So Wicinas decided to start participating at the school, LeConte Elementary, to learn more about what was going on and to meet other parents. It was a pivotal moment. The Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 had propelled Berkeley into raising more money to shore up schools, and there were calls to rethink how schools were integrated. By 1992, parents and the district were deep into an attempt to make schools more equitable across the district. But the process quickly became a personal and political nightmare, Wicinas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280944900″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the beginning of 1993, Berkeley was completely balkanized. There was almost a local war,” he said. “The district tried to handle this themselves, but it was beyond them. The whole city became so divisive. The hills and the north had one idea of what was going to happen and the south, the flatlands, where I live, had another idea. Basically, a number of our schools were naturally integrated so we couldn’t even understand why the district wanted to explode the whole thing in order to improve integration. And we liked our schools the way they were. So it was on the verge of civil war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas started attending meetings, and he could see the district needed help. The district administrator found out he had computer skills and drafted him to write computer code for the district’s archaic software. But he says it took outside facilitators and years of dogged meetings between delegates from each of the district’s elementary schools to hash out how the new enrollment system would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their first attempt, which took three years to agree upon, was to control for three racial populations: white, black and “other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/integration-defended-berkeley-unified2019s-strategy-to-maintain-school-diversity\">The initial results were startling.\u003c/a> “When we first ran the program in 1995, an astonishingly large number of people got their first choices. But that outcome was the result of a lot of back work,” Wicinas said. “Because if everyone chooses the same school as their first choice, it’s not going to happen. You have to make sure as many schools as possible are magnetic and have something to offer, so parents will make different choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”c7zTVooQQAPgt3WyQhBYBBXmLagsvscS”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas said district enrollment went up, defying expectations. Families who had left the district for private schools seemed to be returning. But in 1996, \u003ca href=\"http://acri.org/proposition-209-language/\">California passed Proposition 209\u003c/a>, and the Berkeley district began to worry it would be sued for using race as a criterion for enrollment assignments. The superintendent asked residents to return in 1999 and retool the system to rely mostly on income and education levels. Wicinas was part of that effort, too, which was completed in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/information-on-berkeley-unifieds-student-assignment-plan/\">That plan\u003c/a>, still in effect today, took the step of dividing the district into three socioeconomic levels. The team carved up the city into 445 little chunks and assigned each location a rating based on census information about parents’ income level, education level and “percent nonwhite,” the latter being weighted less in the formula. Parents were given three choices for schools and the assignment process was managed centrally, using the software. No one could drop into the central office and lobby to have their child placed in their favorite school, Wicinas said. Gaming the system was something that had often happened in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s new integration plans survived several lawsuits over the years. It was sued over its initial plan after Proposition 209 passed, and then the revised plan also overcame lawsuits in 2007 and 2009. The courts eventually allowed the retooled assignment formula to stand. Though race was a component, the courts decided the district was not looking at individual student’s racial identity, but rather the racial makeup of the district’s small geographical areas. Berkeley’s integration plan is now seen as a \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/integration-defended-berkeley-unified2019s-strategy-to-maintain-school-diversity\">national model\u003c/a> for districts that want to attempt socioeconomic integration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can Oakland and Other Districts Do the Same?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas believes it would be harder to involve a larger citizenry in this kind of process. But not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To do integration in the community you need people’s buy-in because if they don’t buy in, they will exit. Those who can will,” he said. “Then you have schools with much more of the population’s proportion of poor and nonwhite people. The people have to have lots of authorship and ownership of the process. It can’t be imposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tough process, but Wicinas says choosing to integrate the way Berkeley did is a question that comes down to your basic personal values and what you think is important in life. There is evidence that there are long-term\u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w16664\"> positive impacts\u003c/a> for African-American kids in desegregated schools, and benefits for \u003ca href=\"http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pgurin/benefits.html\">white kids\u003c/a>. Some researchers say it’s \u003ca href=\"http://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/racial-integration-necessary-narrowing-academic-achievement-gap-re-learning-forgotten-history-state\">necessary to close\u003c/a> the achievement gap. There is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/15/berkeley-high-students-get-real-about-race-on-campus/\">still an achievement gap\u003c/a> in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas isn’t convinced desegregating schools by race and class alone closes \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/wp16-10-v201604.pdf\">the achievement gap\u003c/a>. And the district itself acknowledged the ongoing issue with its \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/uploadedFiles/Clerk/Level_3_-_City_Council/2008/06Jun/2008-06-24_Item_24_2020_Vision_for_BerkeleyZs_Children_and_Youth.pdf\">2020Vision\u003c/a> plan. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Bruce Wicinas’ daughter was about to enter kindergarten, he went to visit his neighborhood elementary school in Berkeley. “It was culture shock,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was Berkeley in 1990, decades after the city had first integrated its schools in 1968. Many white parents had left for private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had attended all-white suburban schools near Pittsburgh where kids were pretty submissive,” said Wicinas. He worried about whether to send his daughter: “Our oldest daughter seemed to us fragile. We worried how she would fare in an environment containing lots of kids who had already seen a rough side of life. And I said to my wife, ‘I think we should send her to private school.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his wife was a foreign national who had grown up in schools all over the world. She told him, no way. So Wicinas decided to start participating at the school, LeConte Elementary, to learn more about what was going on and to meet other parents. It was a pivotal moment. The Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 had propelled Berkeley into raising more money to shore up schools, and there were calls to rethink how schools were integrated. By 1992, parents and the district were deep into an attempt to make schools more equitable across the district. But the process quickly became a personal and political nightmare, Wicinas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280944900″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280944900″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the beginning of 1993, Berkeley was completely balkanized. There was almost a local war,” he said. “The district tried to handle this themselves, but it was beyond them. The whole city became so divisive. The hills and the north had one idea of what was going to happen and the south, the flatlands, where I live, had another idea. Basically, a number of our schools were naturally integrated so we couldn’t even understand why the district wanted to explode the whole thing in order to improve integration. And we liked our schools the way they were. So it was on the verge of civil war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas started attending meetings, and he could see the district needed help. The district administrator found out he had computer skills and drafted him to write computer code for the district’s archaic software. But he says it took outside facilitators and years of dogged meetings between delegates from each of the district’s elementary schools to hash out how the new enrollment system would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their first attempt, which took three years to agree upon, was to control for three racial populations: white, black and “other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/integration-defended-berkeley-unified2019s-strategy-to-maintain-school-diversity\">The initial results were startling.\u003c/a> “When we first ran the program in 1995, an astonishingly large number of people got their first choices. But that outcome was the result of a lot of back work,” Wicinas said. “Because if everyone chooses the same school as their first choice, it’s not going to happen. You have to make sure as many schools as possible are magnetic and have something to offer, so parents will make different choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas said district enrollment went up, defying expectations. Families who had left the district for private schools seemed to be returning. But in 1996, \u003ca href=\"http://acri.org/proposition-209-language/\">California passed Proposition 209\u003c/a>, and the Berkeley district began to worry it would be sued for using race as a criterion for enrollment assignments. The superintendent asked residents to return in 1999 and retool the system to rely mostly on income and education levels. Wicinas was part of that effort, too, which was completed in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/information-on-berkeley-unifieds-student-assignment-plan/\">That plan\u003c/a>, still in effect today, took the step of dividing the district into three socioeconomic levels. The team carved up the city into 445 little chunks and assigned each location a rating based on census information about parents’ income level, education level and “percent nonwhite,” the latter being weighted less in the formula. Parents were given three choices for schools and the assignment process was managed centrally, using the software. No one could drop into the central office and lobby to have their child placed in their favorite school, Wicinas said. Gaming the system was something that had often happened in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s new integration plans survived several lawsuits over the years. It was sued over its initial plan after Proposition 209 passed, and then the revised plan also overcame lawsuits in 2007 and 2009. The courts eventually allowed the retooled assignment formula to stand. Though race was a component, the courts decided the district was not looking at individual student’s racial identity, but rather the racial makeup of the district’s small geographical areas. Berkeley’s integration plan is now seen as a \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/integration-defended-berkeley-unified2019s-strategy-to-maintain-school-diversity\">national model\u003c/a> for districts that want to attempt socioeconomic integration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can Oakland and Other Districts Do the Same?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas believes it would be harder to involve a larger citizenry in this kind of process. But not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To do integration in the community you need people’s buy-in because if they don’t buy in, they will exit. Those who can will,” he said. “Then you have schools with much more of the population’s proportion of poor and nonwhite people. The people have to have lots of authorship and ownership of the process. It can’t be imposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tough process, but Wicinas says choosing to integrate the way Berkeley did is a question that comes down to your basic personal values and what you think is important in life. There is evidence that there are long-term\u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w16664\"> positive impacts\u003c/a> for African-American kids in desegregated schools, and benefits for \u003ca href=\"http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pgurin/benefits.html\">white kids\u003c/a>. Some researchers say it’s \u003ca href=\"http://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/racial-integration-necessary-narrowing-academic-achievement-gap-re-learning-forgotten-history-state\">necessary to close\u003c/a> the achievement gap. There is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/15/berkeley-high-students-get-real-about-race-on-campus/\">still an achievement gap\u003c/a> in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas isn’t convinced desegregating schools by race and class alone closes \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/wp16-10-v201604.pdf\">the achievement gap\u003c/a>. And the district itself acknowledged the ongoing issue with its \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/uploadedFiles/Clerk/Level_3_-_City_Council/2008/06Jun/2008-06-24_Item_24_2020_Vision_for_BerkeleyZs_Children_and_Youth.pdf\">2020Vision\u003c/a> plan. But he said, “When you integrate schools, you are basically minting a different type of person.” Kids who attend integrated schools have a different view of the world, he says, one that is needed in a country as diverse as ours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/manzanitaseed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manzanita SEED\u003c/a>, a Spanish-English dual immersion school, opened in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood in 2005, it was serving almost exclusively low-income Latino, Asian and African-American families from nearby neighborhoods. Then, in 2011, the school won an award for closing the achievement gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just got bombarded with middle-class families from other neighborhoods who really had the means,” said parent and after-school director Simone Delucchi. “Maybe their children had gone to, like, fancy dual-language preschools, and now they can come and get this education, free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In three years, the number of white families at Manzanita SEED increased from six to 41. Today, white families make up 11 percent of the school population. In the same period, the number of families that qualified for free and reduced-price lunch dropped from 87 percent to 74 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281834358″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, this looks like a good move toward integration. But Delucchi was worried it could go too far because she was seeing more and more African-American families leave the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”SLBPHXPBJhtkao6WRXqcvwsGpoDLaD6F”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have chunks of people leaving, and [when] we didn’t have that big of a population to begin with, it’s noticeable,” Delucchi said. “I started to openly advocate about us looking at what’s happening with black families as well as what’s happening with our Asian population, because they’re dwindling to nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the number of better-off families that began displacing low-income kids, but the advantages they brought with them when trying to enroll their children. According to district policy, even if middle-class families are from outside the neighborhood, as long as they \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/Page/13841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apply by January\u003c/a>, they still get priority over families in the neighborhood who don’t apply on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11076600\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11076600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a-800x836.jpg\" alt=\"Simone Delucchi greets a mother at Manzanita SEED in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood. Delucchi and a group of parents are working to keep African-American families at the school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a-800x836.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a-400x418.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a-960x1004.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simone Delucchi greets a mother at Manzanita SEED in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood. Delucchi and a group of parents are working to keep African-American families at the school. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They would just enroll early and ensure they got their spot. While our neighborhood lower-income families who are maybe not formally educated, maybe don’t have any connections with teachers or the central office, they had no idea what the enrollment processes were in Oakland,” Delucchi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a kind of momentum that builds up when more white and middle-class families come to a school in Oakland. The more of these families come, the more the school attracts others of similar backgrounds. People in the city talk about schools “flipping,” like real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to have a plan if you want it to come out differently, because the housing market doesn’t produce very many stable integrated neighborhoods that last,” said Gary Orfield, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Rights Project\u003c/a> at UCLA and an expert on school segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby Berkeley Unified School District voluntarily integrated schools by race in the 1960s, and in 2004 added in household income and parent education. Berkeley Unified’s plan has \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/integration-defended-berkeley-unified2019s-strategy-to-maintain-school-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held up in court\u003c/a>, in part because it takes these factors into account by using a block-by-block analysis of census data instead of by individual student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, like most other school districts, has not yet taken that step. In order to integrate the schools, Oakland Unified officials say they have to improve the quality of schools in low-income neighborhoods by developing programs to attract middle-class families, like the dual-language program at Manzanita SEED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can say all day long that you have to go to X school or Y school, but given the fact that we have many families that have means to make other decisions, we want to make sure that families know that the options we’re making available to them are going to be places where their children have a good shot of getting a good education,” said Oakland Unified Superintendent Antwan Wilson. “So that’s the first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is, there’s no plan in place to ensure that low-income children and children of color don’t get pushed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Top School That ‘Flipped’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11076601\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11076601 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut-800x544.jpg\" alt=\"Nikki Lethridge (left), Aria Lethridge-Gardner and Musashi “Moose” Lethridge look through family photos together from when both Nikki and her brother Moose attended Peralta Elementary School in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut-400x272.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut-1180x803.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut-960x653.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikki Lethridge (left), Aria Lethridge-Gardner and Paul Musashi ‘Moose’ Lethridge look through family photos together from when both Nikki and her brother Moose attended Peralta Elementary School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peralta Elementary in North Oakland is now one of five district schools where more than half the students are white. And that’s remarkable because this is a city where just 9.7 percent of public school children are white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Nikki Lethridge looks at a picture of her sixth-grade class at Peralta in 1984, she gets nostalgic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s fun to think how really blended it was. You know, Asian, Latino, East Indian, black, white kids, mixed kids. I was part of the mixed kids group,” Lethridge laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki and her brother, Paul Musashi Lethridge, are African-American and Japanese-American. They know that the mix of kids at Peralta back then was rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming from Peralta, I had a really specific view on how diversity works,” Paul says. “It’s like, it worked. It worked beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, both siblings are still in the old neighborhood, living in the house they grew up in, just a few blocks from Peralta. But now Peralta’s racial and economic mix is very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki sees it daily because her daughter is in fourth grade there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s having a great time, she has lots of friends,” Nikki said. “There are African-American children, but predominantly white now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11076608\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11076608 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut-800x634.jpg\" alt=\"Musashi “Moose” Lethridge holds a family photo of himself (top center) and his sister (bottom center) as children along with several other friends who grew up in their neighborhood in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut-400x317.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut-1180x935.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut-960x761.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Musashi ‘Moose’ Lethridge holds a family photo of himself (top center) and his sister (bottom center) as children, along with several other friends who grew up in their neighborhood in Oakland.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just 10 years ago, Peralta was 66 percent African-American and 21 percent white. Today, it’s 57 percent white and 16 percent African-American. Latinos make up 11 percent, kids of two or more races make up 12 percent, and Asians make up 3 percent. The free and reduced-price lunch numbers dropped from 53 percent to 22 percent in the last decade. If you look at last year’s kindergarten class, you’ll find it was \u003ca href=\"http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/EthnicGrade.aspx?cType=ALL&cGender=B&cYear=2015-16&Level=School&cSelect=Peralta%5EElementary--0161259-6002109&cChoice=SchEnrAll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">71 percent white\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened? The school became more and more successful, with a schoolwide program that integrates arts into the everyday curriculum. As the school became more attractive, more white and middle-class families began enrolling in the neighborhood school. In 2010 and 2011, Peralta won the same award Manzanita SEED did, for achieving high academic results with a socioeconomically disadvantaged population. Ironically, today Peralta would not be eligible for the same award, because it has too few low-income families. Home prices in the neighborhood have gone up, and many African-Americans have moved out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It happened pretty quick,” Paul said. “It’s kinda cushy up here. But then, one day I wake up and it’s \u003cem>really\u003c/em> cushy, and it’s nothing but Asian and white people. From what I see, it tells me that the people who can afford here look like that. And it’s not black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parents Take On Outreach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of a district plan to keep schools diverse, some parents and teachers have decided to take on the task themselves of doing intentional outreach to families who may otherwise miss the enrollment deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Manzanita SEED, Delucchi spends a lot of time trying to keep African-American parents at the school. She visits local child care and rec centers to tell low-income families of all ethnicities about the school and how to enroll, so they can get in the door during the open enrollment window. She and other parents also started a Black Family Engagement group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they feel like they’re part of a network of people, they’re not in isolation, like swimming among all these other folks with no support,” said Delucchi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At another Oakland school, Sequoia Elementary, teacher Tontra Love says principals have sometimes visited black or Latino churches or Buddhist temples to do outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope,” she said, “that all the little pieces we are doing help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sequoia Teachers Make Diversity Outreach a Priority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sequoiaschool.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sequoia Elementary\u003c/a>, near Dimond Park, is one of a handful of schools in Oakland that actually have a good mix of Latino, Asian, African-American and white students. But Love says in recent years Sequoia has seen a slow decline in African-American students and low-income kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says teachers here are determined to keep their school diverse, so they are not afraid to talk openly and directly about the importance of diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When parents talk about making it a better school,” Love says, “we say we want to make it a better school, too, but we want to make sure you’re interpreting better as still diverse in race, diverse in socioeconomic class, diverse in all different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Love says the school has made an effort to recruit and keep teachers of color, like her. And when potential kindergarten parents come to tour the school, Love always tells them about her son’s first day at Sequoia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His very first comment on the first day of school was, ‘I love my school because there’s kids that look like me,’ ” Love says. “And, you know, as a person of color, I knew how important that was for me. So part of you is so happy that your child has that same thing and you can relate. How sad when at 5, they’ve also been in situations where they already weren’t that, right? So that’s the story I start with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that kind of clear talk that Love thinks attracts parents who value diversity, parents like Joel Tena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a wondrous moment, because we walked into the room, and we saw what we were looking for, which was quite frankly a reflection of Oakland,” Tena said. “My wife is Asian, I’m Latino. Our son is a little brown boy with long hair who loves to play soccer. And we wanted him to be part of a community that reflected our values and where we were coming from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tena likes that at school his son plays soccer with a boy who speaks Arabic. He said Sequoia is teaching kids how to cross lines of race and class that adults in Oakland rarely do. But Tena is worried the neighborhood could be changing — that his school could flip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the people who are moving in are white. When they’re able to go to school and they start looking around, they’re going to see Sequoia as the option for their kids to go to,” Tena said. “And unless there’s a plan in place to ensure that Sequoia retains the diversity it has right now, socioeconomic, class, race, it will be gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: Reporter Zaidee Stavely and OUSD Superintendent Antwan Wilson spoke on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2016/09/07/oakland-public-schools-largely-segregated-by-race-class/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED “Forum”\u003c/a> with host Michael Krasny from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 8. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/manzanitaseed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manzanita SEED\u003c/a>, a Spanish-English dual immersion school, opened in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood in 2005, it was serving almost exclusively low-income Latino, Asian and African-American families from nearby neighborhoods. Then, in 2011, the school won an award for closing the achievement gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just got bombarded with middle-class families from other neighborhoods who really had the means,” said parent and after-school director Simone Delucchi. “Maybe their children had gone to, like, fancy dual-language preschools, and now they can come and get this education, free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In three years, the number of white families at Manzanita SEED increased from six to 41. Today, white families make up 11 percent of the school population. In the same period, the number of families that qualified for free and reduced-price lunch dropped from 87 percent to 74 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281834358″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281834358″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, this looks like a good move toward integration. But Delucchi was worried it could go too far because she was seeing more and more African-American families leave the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have chunks of people leaving, and [when] we didn’t have that big of a population to begin with, it’s noticeable,” Delucchi said. “I started to openly advocate about us looking at what’s happening with black families as well as what’s happening with our Asian population, because they’re dwindling to nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the number of better-off families that began displacing low-income kids, but the advantages they brought with them when trying to enroll their children. According to district policy, even if middle-class families are from outside the neighborhood, as long as they \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/Page/13841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apply by January\u003c/a>, they still get priority over families in the neighborhood who don’t apply on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11076600\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11076600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a-800x836.jpg\" alt=\"Simone Delucchi greets a mother at Manzanita SEED in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood. Delucchi and a group of parents are working to keep African-American families at the school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a-800x836.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a-400x418.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a-960x1004.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/delucci-1920a.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simone Delucchi greets a mother at Manzanita SEED in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood. Delucchi and a group of parents are working to keep African-American families at the school. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They would just enroll early and ensure they got their spot. While our neighborhood lower-income families who are maybe not formally educated, maybe don’t have any connections with teachers or the central office, they had no idea what the enrollment processes were in Oakland,” Delucchi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a kind of momentum that builds up when more white and middle-class families come to a school in Oakland. The more of these families come, the more the school attracts others of similar backgrounds. People in the city talk about schools “flipping,” like real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to have a plan if you want it to come out differently, because the housing market doesn’t produce very many stable integrated neighborhoods that last,” said Gary Orfield, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Rights Project\u003c/a> at UCLA and an expert on school segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby Berkeley Unified School District voluntarily integrated schools by race in the 1960s, and in 2004 added in household income and parent education. Berkeley Unified’s plan has \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/integration-defended-berkeley-unified2019s-strategy-to-maintain-school-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held up in court\u003c/a>, in part because it takes these factors into account by using a block-by-block analysis of census data instead of by individual student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, like most other school districts, has not yet taken that step. In order to integrate the schools, Oakland Unified officials say they have to improve the quality of schools in low-income neighborhoods by developing programs to attract middle-class families, like the dual-language program at Manzanita SEED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can say all day long that you have to go to X school or Y school, but given the fact that we have many families that have means to make other decisions, we want to make sure that families know that the options we’re making available to them are going to be places where their children have a good shot of getting a good education,” said Oakland Unified Superintendent Antwan Wilson. “So that’s the first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is, there’s no plan in place to ensure that low-income children and children of color don’t get pushed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Top School That ‘Flipped’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11076601\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11076601 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut-800x544.jpg\" alt=\"Nikki Lethridge (left), Aria Lethridge-Gardner and Musashi “Moose” Lethridge look through family photos together from when both Nikki and her brother Moose attended Peralta Elementary School in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut-400x272.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut-1180x803.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs05-qut-960x653.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikki Lethridge (left), Aria Lethridge-Gardner and Paul Musashi ‘Moose’ Lethridge look through family photos together from when both Nikki and her brother Moose attended Peralta Elementary School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peralta Elementary in North Oakland is now one of five district schools where more than half the students are white. And that’s remarkable because this is a city where just 9.7 percent of public school children are white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Nikki Lethridge looks at a picture of her sixth-grade class at Peralta in 1984, she gets nostalgic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s fun to think how really blended it was. You know, Asian, Latino, East Indian, black, white kids, mixed kids. I was part of the mixed kids group,” Lethridge laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki and her brother, Paul Musashi Lethridge, are African-American and Japanese-American. They know that the mix of kids at Peralta back then was rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming from Peralta, I had a really specific view on how diversity works,” Paul says. “It’s like, it worked. It worked beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, both siblings are still in the old neighborhood, living in the house they grew up in, just a few blocks from Peralta. But now Peralta’s racial and economic mix is very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki sees it daily because her daughter is in fourth grade there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s having a great time, she has lots of friends,” Nikki said. “There are African-American children, but predominantly white now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11076608\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11076608 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut-800x634.jpg\" alt=\"Musashi “Moose” Lethridge holds a family photo of himself (top center) and his sister (bottom center) as children along with several other friends who grew up in their neighborhood in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut-400x317.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut-1180x935.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Lethridge_bhs07-qut-960x761.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Musashi ‘Moose’ Lethridge holds a family photo of himself (top center) and his sister (bottom center) as children, along with several other friends who grew up in their neighborhood in Oakland.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just 10 years ago, Peralta was 66 percent African-American and 21 percent white. Today, it’s 57 percent white and 16 percent African-American. Latinos make up 11 percent, kids of two or more races make up 12 percent, and Asians make up 3 percent. The free and reduced-price lunch numbers dropped from 53 percent to 22 percent in the last decade. If you look at last year’s kindergarten class, you’ll find it was \u003ca href=\"http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/EthnicGrade.aspx?cType=ALL&cGender=B&cYear=2015-16&Level=School&cSelect=Peralta%5EElementary--0161259-6002109&cChoice=SchEnrAll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">71 percent white\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened? The school became more and more successful, with a schoolwide program that integrates arts into the everyday curriculum. As the school became more attractive, more white and middle-class families began enrolling in the neighborhood school. In 2010 and 2011, Peralta won the same award Manzanita SEED did, for achieving high academic results with a socioeconomically disadvantaged population. Ironically, today Peralta would not be eligible for the same award, because it has too few low-income families. Home prices in the neighborhood have gone up, and many African-Americans have moved out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It happened pretty quick,” Paul said. “It’s kinda cushy up here. But then, one day I wake up and it’s \u003cem>really\u003c/em> cushy, and it’s nothing but Asian and white people. From what I see, it tells me that the people who can afford here look like that. And it’s not black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parents Take On Outreach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of a district plan to keep schools diverse, some parents and teachers have decided to take on the task themselves of doing intentional outreach to families who may otherwise miss the enrollment deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Manzanita SEED, Delucchi spends a lot of time trying to keep African-American parents at the school. She visits local child care and rec centers to tell low-income families of all ethnicities about the school and how to enroll, so they can get in the door during the open enrollment window. She and other parents also started a Black Family Engagement group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they feel like they’re part of a network of people, they’re not in isolation, like swimming among all these other folks with no support,” said Delucchi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At another Oakland school, Sequoia Elementary, teacher Tontra Love says principals have sometimes visited black or Latino churches or Buddhist temples to do outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope,” she said, “that all the little pieces we are doing help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sequoia Teachers Make Diversity Outreach a Priority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sequoiaschool.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sequoia Elementary\u003c/a>, near Dimond Park, is one of a handful of schools in Oakland that actually have a good mix of Latino, Asian, African-American and white students. But Love says in recent years Sequoia has seen a slow decline in African-American students and low-income kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says teachers here are determined to keep their school diverse, so they are not afraid to talk openly and directly about the importance of diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When parents talk about making it a better school,” Love says, “we say we want to make it a better school, too, but we want to make sure you’re interpreting better as still diverse in race, diverse in socioeconomic class, diverse in all different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Love says the school has made an effort to recruit and keep teachers of color, like her. And when potential kindergarten parents come to tour the school, Love always tells them about her son’s first day at Sequoia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His very first comment on the first day of school was, ‘I love my school because there’s kids that look like me,’ ” Love says. “And, you know, as a person of color, I knew how important that was for me. So part of you is so happy that your child has that same thing and you can relate. How sad when at 5, they’ve also been in situations where they already weren’t that, right? So that’s the story I start with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that kind of clear talk that Love thinks attracts parents who value diversity, parents like Joel Tena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a wondrous moment, because we walked into the room, and we saw what we were looking for, which was quite frankly a reflection of Oakland,” Tena said. “My wife is Asian, I’m Latino. Our son is a little brown boy with long hair who loves to play soccer. And we wanted him to be part of a community that reflected our values and where we were coming from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tena likes that at school his son plays soccer with a boy who speaks Arabic. He said Sequoia is teaching kids how to cross lines of race and class that adults in Oakland rarely do. But Tena is worried the neighborhood could be changing — that his school could flip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the people who are moving in are white. When they’re able to go to school and they start looking around, they’re going to see Sequoia as the option for their kids to go to,” Tena said. “And unless there’s a plan in place to ensure that Sequoia retains the diversity it has right now, socioeconomic, class, race, it will be gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Walking her daughter to school in their neighborhood of Sobrante Park in East Oakland, Marina Muñoz passes an old mattress on the curb and several abandoned cars. Then she crosses an empty lot covered with old clothes and smelly trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in East Oakland, we are all poor,” says Muñoz in Spanish. “Poor in everything, including education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland prides itself on \u003ca href=\"http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/EthnicEnr.aspx?cChoice=DistEnrEth&cYear=2015-16&cSelect=0161259--Oakland+Unified&TheCounty=&cLevel=District&cTopic=Enrollment&myTimeFrame=S&cType=ALL&cGender=B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diversity\u003c/a>. Students in the district’s public and charter schools are 44 percent Latino, 26 percent African-American, 13 percent Asian and 9.7 percent white. But only a handful of its public schools fully reflect the district’s diversity. They are more likely to \u003ca href=\"http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/EthnicEnr.aspx?cChoice=DistEnrEth&cYear=2015-16&cSelect=0161259--Oakland+Unified&TheCounty=&cLevel=District&cTopic=Enrollment&myTimeFrame=S&cType=ALL&cGender=B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">look like their own neighborhoods\u003c/a>, which are largely segregated by race and class. That’s due in large part to the district’s enrollment policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280792006″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñoz’s kids’ school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/madison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Park Academy\u003c/a>, reflects the neighborhood. It’s 95 percent Latino and African-American, and almost all the kids qualify for free and reduced lunch. More than half the kids in elementary school are English learners. Latino kids make up the biggest ethnic group in Oakland’s public schools. They’re also the most isolated from other races and \u003ca href=\"https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/brown-at-62-school-segregation-by-race-poverty-and-state/Brown-at-62-final-corrected-2.pdf\">the most concentrated\u003c/a> in high-poverty schools, here and across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066041\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11066041 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Seven-year-old Celia Fragoso walks through her neighborhood in Madison Park in the morning on her way to Sobrante Park Elementary in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celia Fragoso, 7, walks through the Oakland neighborhood of Sobrante Park on her way to Madison Park Academy on Aug. 26, 2016. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The principal at Madison Park Academy has made a lot of improvements in recent years, with a health clinic and wraparound services for kids and families. Still, the school has larger-than-average class sizes and low test scores, compared with the top-tier schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bothers Muñoz. She’s convinced her kids are not receiving the same quality education as kids in the wealthy Oakland hills. One of the most frustrating moments for her was last year, when her son was a junior in high school. She said he had a substitute teacher in one of his classes for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would say, ‘They’re not even teaching me anything. Mom, come get me, I’m not doing anything,’ ” Muñoz said. “How are we going to send our kids to college if we don’t have well-trained teachers?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”cAME9l7TY6coxsn97pgKZGFohsAMAHSB”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Integrating schools is one way to give kids of color and low-income kids the same educational experience that white and wealthy kids are getting. But in California most school districts haven’t attempted to integrate, unless they they’ve been taken to court. Oakland is no exception. It offers a semblance of choice: Parents have to turn in six options for schools. But the district gives priority first to siblings, and then to families who live in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñoz never even considered sending her children to one of the top-performing schools in the Oakland hills. When she first moved here from Mexico, it took her two months to even figure out how to enroll her kids, let alone send them to a school outside her neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066042\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11066042 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Abandoned trash sits along the sidewalk and in an empty lot on 105th Avenue in the Madison Park neighborhood in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920-960x638.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abandoned trash sits along the sidewalk and in an empty lot on 105th Avenue in the Sobrante Park neighborhood of Oakland on Aug. 26, 2016. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t have a car, and it would have been too hard to walk far, or pay for the bus,” Muñoz said. “We wouldn’t have had enough money for food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation is a serious issue in this district. Oakland Unified doesn’t offer free travel to get to a school outside your neighborhood, like some other districts. District officials say it would be too costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Muñoz could get to a top-performing school in the hills, many of those schools wouldn’t have space for her kids because they\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRADashboardSchool_FINAL_TServerEmbedded/SchoolChoice?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> fill up with kids\u003c/a> from their own neighborhoods, which are mostly white and wealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very strongly that there needs to be a conversation and a system put in place to desegregate the schools,” said former Oakland teacher Tanya Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris used to teach at one of the top-performing schools in the district, \u003ca href=\"http://crockerschool.org/\">Crocker Highlands Elementary\u003c/a>. It’s a wealthy neighborhood, where the median home price is now more than $1 million. After teaching at Crocker Highlands for five years, Harris began working at schools in high-poverty neighborhoods, like where Marina Muñoz lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I would drive down that hill and past those beautiful, huge homes and tree-lined streets and I would get on the freeway, and get off and … it brought tears to my eyes. I thought, it’s like I live in a Third World country,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris says that stark inequity of poverty and wealth creates a two-tiered system of access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Access to everything,” Harris said. “Access to health care, dental care and eyeglasses, access to, obviously, jobs, access to grocery stores, access to the educational experience that kids and families deserve in order to interrupt these continuous cycles of poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066044\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A view of houses along Grosvenor Place in the neighborhood known as Crocker Highlands in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of houses along Grosvenor Place in the neighborhood known as Crocker Highlands in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And at wealthy schools?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At Crocker, our kids had access to all kinds of enrichment. There was so much teacher autonomy for us to teach how we wanted to teach, and art was an integral part of everything we did. It was really hands-on, and kids did really amazing things,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says at other schools there was less parent fundraising to provide resources and materials for those kinds of enrichment projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2003, when Harris first started teaching at Crocker Highlands, she says there was space for kids from outside the neighborhood, because many families living in the neighborhood were sending their kids to private school. So Crocker Highlands was more evenly divided, with about 40 percent African-American and 40 percent white students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first PTA meeting, I’ll never forget it, the PTA members were talking about how important diversity was,” Harris said. “And then, several years into my experience there, that narrative shifted significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened was that Crocker Highlands families started working to get more of their neighbors to send their kids to Crocker, to invest in the neighborhood school and improve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was an active group that was working with the local Realtor, who was really intentional about selling homes to people who were going to be committed to sending their kids to Crocker,” Harris said. “So there was a real shift in the culture and climate in terms of accepting and embracing folks that were outside the little Crocker Highlands bubble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, more and more African-American kids from outside the neighborhood were squeezed out. Today, 60 percent of Crocker Highlands’ students are white, and only 10 percent are black. Just 3 percent are English learners, compared with 30 percent districtwide, and only 8 percent qualify for free and reduced lunch, compared with more than three-quarters districtwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0b4qh/4/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our schools really reflect what is a housing segregation issue,” said Janelle Scott, an associate professor of education at UC Berkeley. “Our embracing of neighborhood schools, without any affirmative plan to interrupt neighborhood racial segregation patterns, means that our schools are largely going to look like our neighborhoods look, and our neighborhoods are quite segregated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That neighborhood segregation wasn’t by accident. Like in other cities across the country, segregation in Oakland was by design. In the early 20th century, real estate agents and mortgage companies refused to give loans to people of color, and homeowner associations had specific policies against renting or selling to African-Americans and Asian-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the \u003ca href=\"http://lakeshorehomes.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oldest of these homeowner associations\u003c/a> west of the Mississippi was founded in the Crocker Highlands neighborhood in 1917. The federal government outlawed racial covenants in 1968, but this Oakland neighborhood didn’t officially lift them until 1979. African-Americans have moved in and out of Crocker Highlands over the years, but today the neighborhood is mostly white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified’s executive director of enrollment, Charles Wilson, recognizes that the existing neighborhood boundaries reinforce the legacy of housing segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the challenge for us is how do we push against that, at the same time recognizing that everyone has a right to attend school close to their home?” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the district plans to apply for a federal grant to try to integrate the schools socioeconomically, maybe offering spaces at high-performing schools to kids from low-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if we were to say, we will never allow a school to become more than 80 percent free and reduced lunch or less than 60 percent?” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s still in the early planning stages, but Wilson says integration is a priority for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also a very thorny issue that is going to require a lot of delicate movement to include the community in,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Integration Is a Hard Sell\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School integration plans are often met with lawsuits, and white and wealthy parents fleeing to private schools. Neighboring \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/integration-defended-berkeley-unified2019s-strategy-to-maintain-school-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley’s plan, however, held up in court\u003c/a>. It has neighborhood zones that run from the wealthy hills to the lower-income flatlands and uses block-by-block information to pull students from a wide range of races, incomes and levels of parent education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Oakland is a different city. It has fewer white students and more students from low-income families. But Janelle Scott says that’s not a reason not to integrate. Oakland’s diversity, she says, is an incredible opportunity for people to really understand each other, across lines of race and class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have large numbers of Latino, African-American and Asian students, but we see that many of those students never even go to school together. So for me, it really comes back to what kind of society do we want to have?” Scott said. “Do we want our children as young adults to be able to get along with each other, to know about each other, to be respectful of each other? And that is one of the reasons why advocates early on focused on schools, because it was a place where children could grow together and learn together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don Clyde contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Walking her daughter to school in their neighborhood of Sobrante Park in East Oakland, Marina Muñoz passes an old mattress on the curb and several abandoned cars. Then she crosses an empty lot covered with old clothes and smelly trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in East Oakland, we are all poor,” says Muñoz in Spanish. “Poor in everything, including education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland prides itself on \u003ca href=\"http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/EthnicEnr.aspx?cChoice=DistEnrEth&cYear=2015-16&cSelect=0161259--Oakland+Unified&TheCounty=&cLevel=District&cTopic=Enrollment&myTimeFrame=S&cType=ALL&cGender=B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diversity\u003c/a>. Students in the district’s public and charter schools are 44 percent Latino, 26 percent African-American, 13 percent Asian and 9.7 percent white. But only a handful of its public schools fully reflect the district’s diversity. They are more likely to \u003ca href=\"http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/EthnicEnr.aspx?cChoice=DistEnrEth&cYear=2015-16&cSelect=0161259--Oakland+Unified&TheCounty=&cLevel=District&cTopic=Enrollment&myTimeFrame=S&cType=ALL&cGender=B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">look like their own neighborhoods\u003c/a>, which are largely segregated by race and class. That’s due in large part to the district’s enrollment policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280792006″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280792006″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñoz’s kids’ school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/madison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Park Academy\u003c/a>, reflects the neighborhood. It’s 95 percent Latino and African-American, and almost all the kids qualify for free and reduced lunch. More than half the kids in elementary school are English learners. Latino kids make up the biggest ethnic group in Oakland’s public schools. They’re also the most isolated from other races and \u003ca href=\"https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/brown-at-62-school-segregation-by-race-poverty-and-state/Brown-at-62-final-corrected-2.pdf\">the most concentrated\u003c/a> in high-poverty schools, here and across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066041\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11066041 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Seven-year-old Celia Fragoso walks through her neighborhood in Madison Park in the morning on her way to Sobrante Park Elementary in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia2-1920-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celia Fragoso, 7, walks through the Oakland neighborhood of Sobrante Park on her way to Madison Park Academy on Aug. 26, 2016. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The principal at Madison Park Academy has made a lot of improvements in recent years, with a health clinic and wraparound services for kids and families. Still, the school has larger-than-average class sizes and low test scores, compared with the top-tier schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bothers Muñoz. She’s convinced her kids are not receiving the same quality education as kids in the wealthy Oakland hills. One of the most frustrating moments for her was last year, when her son was a junior in high school. She said he had a substitute teacher in one of his classes for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would say, ‘They’re not even teaching me anything. Mom, come get me, I’m not doing anything,’ ” Muñoz said. “How are we going to send our kids to college if we don’t have well-trained teachers?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Integrating schools is one way to give kids of color and low-income kids the same educational experience that white and wealthy kids are getting. But in California most school districts haven’t attempted to integrate, unless they they’ve been taken to court. Oakland is no exception. It offers a semblance of choice: Parents have to turn in six options for schools. But the district gives priority first to siblings, and then to families who live in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñoz never even considered sending her children to one of the top-performing schools in the Oakland hills. When she first moved here from Mexico, it took her two months to even figure out how to enroll her kids, let alone send them to a school outside her neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066042\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11066042 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Abandoned trash sits along the sidewalk and in an empty lot on 105th Avenue in the Madison Park neighborhood in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MadisonPark1920-960x638.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abandoned trash sits along the sidewalk and in an empty lot on 105th Avenue in the Sobrante Park neighborhood of Oakland on Aug. 26, 2016. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t have a car, and it would have been too hard to walk far, or pay for the bus,” Muñoz said. “We wouldn’t have had enough money for food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation is a serious issue in this district. Oakland Unified doesn’t offer free travel to get to a school outside your neighborhood, like some other districts. District officials say it would be too costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Muñoz could get to a top-performing school in the hills, many of those schools wouldn’t have space for her kids because they\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRADashboardSchool_FINAL_TServerEmbedded/SchoolChoice?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> fill up with kids\u003c/a> from their own neighborhoods, which are mostly white and wealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very strongly that there needs to be a conversation and a system put in place to desegregate the schools,” said former Oakland teacher Tanya Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris used to teach at one of the top-performing schools in the district, \u003ca href=\"http://crockerschool.org/\">Crocker Highlands Elementary\u003c/a>. It’s a wealthy neighborhood, where the median home price is now more than $1 million. After teaching at Crocker Highlands for five years, Harris began working at schools in high-poverty neighborhoods, like where Marina Muñoz lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I would drive down that hill and past those beautiful, huge homes and tree-lined streets and I would get on the freeway, and get off and … it brought tears to my eyes. I thought, it’s like I live in a Third World country,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris says that stark inequity of poverty and wealth creates a two-tiered system of access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Access to everything,” Harris said. “Access to health care, dental care and eyeglasses, access to, obviously, jobs, access to grocery stores, access to the educational experience that kids and families deserve in order to interrupt these continuous cycles of poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066044\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A view of houses along Grosvenor Place in the neighborhood known as Crocker Highlands in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Crockerhighlands_1920-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of houses along Grosvenor Place in the neighborhood known as Crocker Highlands in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And at wealthy schools?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At Crocker, our kids had access to all kinds of enrichment. There was so much teacher autonomy for us to teach how we wanted to teach, and art was an integral part of everything we did. It was really hands-on, and kids did really amazing things,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says at other schools there was less parent fundraising to provide resources and materials for those kinds of enrichment projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2003, when Harris first started teaching at Crocker Highlands, she says there was space for kids from outside the neighborhood, because many families living in the neighborhood were sending their kids to private school. So Crocker Highlands was more evenly divided, with about 40 percent African-American and 40 percent white students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first PTA meeting, I’ll never forget it, the PTA members were talking about how important diversity was,” Harris said. “And then, several years into my experience there, that narrative shifted significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened was that Crocker Highlands families started working to get more of their neighbors to send their kids to Crocker, to invest in the neighborhood school and improve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was an active group that was working with the local Realtor, who was really intentional about selling homes to people who were going to be committed to sending their kids to Crocker,” Harris said. “So there was a real shift in the culture and climate in terms of accepting and embracing folks that were outside the little Crocker Highlands bubble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, more and more African-American kids from outside the neighborhood were squeezed out. Today, 60 percent of Crocker Highlands’ students are white, and only 10 percent are black. Just 3 percent are English learners, compared with 30 percent districtwide, and only 8 percent qualify for free and reduced lunch, compared with more than three-quarters districtwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0b4qh/4/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our schools really reflect what is a housing segregation issue,” said Janelle Scott, an associate professor of education at UC Berkeley. “Our embracing of neighborhood schools, without any affirmative plan to interrupt neighborhood racial segregation patterns, means that our schools are largely going to look like our neighborhoods look, and our neighborhoods are quite segregated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That neighborhood segregation wasn’t by accident. Like in other cities across the country, segregation in Oakland was by design. In the early 20th century, real estate agents and mortgage companies refused to give loans to people of color, and homeowner associations had specific policies against renting or selling to African-Americans and Asian-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the \u003ca href=\"http://lakeshorehomes.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oldest of these homeowner associations\u003c/a> west of the Mississippi was founded in the Crocker Highlands neighborhood in 1917. The federal government outlawed racial covenants in 1968, but this Oakland neighborhood didn’t officially lift them until 1979. African-Americans have moved in and out of Crocker Highlands over the years, but today the neighborhood is mostly white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified’s executive director of enrollment, Charles Wilson, recognizes that the existing neighborhood boundaries reinforce the legacy of housing segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the challenge for us is how do we push against that, at the same time recognizing that everyone has a right to attend school close to their home?” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the district plans to apply for a federal grant to try to integrate the schools socioeconomically, maybe offering spaces at high-performing schools to kids from low-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if we were to say, we will never allow a school to become more than 80 percent free and reduced lunch or less than 60 percent?” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s still in the early planning stages, but Wilson says integration is a priority for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also a very thorny issue that is going to require a lot of delicate movement to include the community in,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Integration Is a Hard Sell\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School integration plans are often met with lawsuits, and white and wealthy parents fleeing to private schools. Neighboring \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/integration-defended-berkeley-unified2019s-strategy-to-maintain-school-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley’s plan, however, held up in court\u003c/a>. It has neighborhood zones that run from the wealthy hills to the lower-income flatlands and uses block-by-block information to pull students from a wide range of races, incomes and levels of parent education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Oakland is a different city. It has fewer white students and more students from low-income families. But Janelle Scott says that’s not a reason not to integrate. Oakland’s diversity, she says, is an incredible opportunity for people to really understand each other, across lines of race and class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have large numbers of Latino, African-American and Asian students, but we see that many of those students never even go to school together. So for me, it really comes back to what kind of society do we want to have?” Scott said. “Do we want our children as young adults to be able to get along with each other, to know about each other, to be respectful of each other? And that is one of the reasons why advocates early on focused on schools, because it was a place where children could grow together and learn together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Eleanor Wohlfeiler’s son, Eero, was in kindergarten, he was already talking openly about race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He came home from school one day and he said, ‘Mom, am I white?’ ” Wohlfeiler said. “I said, ‘Yeah, you’re white.’ And he paused and he said, ‘Are you white?’ I said, ‘Yep, that’s how it is in our family, we’re all white.’ And I was interested in that, because 6 is pretty old to figure out your race, but it’s a lot younger than a lot of white people. I know it’s older than people of color figure it out, but at least he got it before 13.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For two years Eero attended \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/sankofa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sankofa Academy\u003c/a>, where 73 percent of the students are African-American and 11 percent are Latino. \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRADashboardSchool_FINAL_TServerEmbedded/SchoolDemographics?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Close to 90 percent qualify for free and reduced-price lunch\u003c/a>. That’s pretty unusual for white kids in Oakland. Eero was one of only two white kids in his class the first year. The second year he was the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280615613″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of our white neighbors didn’t look at Sankofa,” Wohlfeiler said. “They wouldn’t even walk in the door. To us we wanted to not only walk in the door, but really look at what that meant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What it meant was complicated for Wohlfeiler. She said Eero was happy. Her family felt welcome at the school. But there were challenges common in schools that serve mostly low-income kids. Eero had an inexperienced teacher the first year, frequent substitutes the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like the bottom-of-the-barrel substitutes. Sankofa did not have the resources to retain like a full-time sub,” said Wohlfeiler. “What I saw of it when I volunteered was real disrespect for the children as a form of crowd control. I was watching the children just shut down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11064878\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11064878 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Eleanor Wohlfeiler (center) and her husband Eric Pankonin with their three children Thistle, Esme and Eero (from left to right) in front of Peralta Elementary School before bicycling home. Both Eero and Esme are currently students at Peralta Elementary.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eleanor Wohlfeiler (center) and her husband, Eric Pankonin, with their three children, Thistle, Esme and Eero (from left to right) in front of Peralta Elementary School before bicycling home. Both Eero and Esme are currently students at Peralta Elementary. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wohlfeiler said she didn’t think of Sankofa as a failing school. She just didn’t feel like it had the support it needed from the district. And there was another layer: Because Eero had gone to preschool, he was more prepared for kindergarten than many of his classmates who hadn’t. Wohlfeiler worried that he was getting the incorrect message that he was inherently smarter than other kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got a lot of feedback about that, like, ‘You’re so smart,’ and that felt really complicated for us. He’s the only white kid in his class, and I bet we had a lot more books on our shelf than other kids in his class, and that just did not feel right,” Wohlfeiler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually decided to move Eero to another school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.peraltaschool.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peralta Elementary\u003c/a>, three blocks away. He started there last year. Peralta is an award-winning school. It has higher test scores and lower teacher turnover. There is art all over the walls and in the classrooms, and parents raise money to pay for classroom helpers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Z4Y6trR259pzH8MkRON9UvULIGSdGweH”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he was quick to tell me, there’s not a lot of black people in his class,” Wohlfeiler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Double Segregation by Race and Poverty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRADashboardSchool_FINAL_TServerEmbedded/SchoolDemographics?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Almost 60 percent of the students at Peralta are white\u003c/a>. Less than a fourth qualify for free and reduced-price lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eero had ended up in a pretty typical situation for a white child in Oakland. Only 9.6 percent of Oakland’s public school students are white — that includes charter students. But they’re concentrated in a handful of schools, where they are the majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PSbyI/1/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"748\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s very high segregation of blacks and Latinos in the schools in Oakland,” said Gary Orfield, co-director of the UCLA Civil Rights Project and an expert on school segregation. “I would characterize it as severe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/segregating-california2019s-future-inequality-and-its-alternative-60-years-after-brown-v.-board-of-education/orfield-ee-segregating-california-future-brown-at.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to data compiled by the UCLA Civil Rights Project\u003c/a>, the average white student in Oakland goes to school with 37 percent low-income classmates. In contrast, African-American students in Oakland attend schools where 72 percent of fellow students are low income; for Latinos, it’s 84 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/62sly/1/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"748\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When you concentrate poverty and wealth like that, it creates separate and unequal schools, like Sankofa and Peralta. In fact, the larger the difference in the poverty rate at schools for kids of different races, \u003ca href=\"http://www.irp.wisc.edu/dispatch/racial-achievement-gap-and-high-poverty-schools/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the larger the racial achievement gap, according to some researchers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Segregation, as you can see by these Oakland statistics, is double segregation by race and poverty, which is really crippling for a school,” said Orfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s crippling because schools with more poverty tend to have fewer parents with college degrees and fewer parents with time on their hands to volunteer in the classroom and raise funds. These schools have a harder time attracting and keeping quality teachers, and have kids dealing with a lot more social and emotional issues in the classroom because they may come to school hungry, or be hurting or scared because they live in neighborhoods that experience a disproportionate amount of gun violence, police brutality and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our kids are used to broken promises,” said Dana Saks, who directs Sankofa’s after-school program. “Our middle school students have been waiting since they first had a sixth grade for lockers. And the district keeps saying, ‘We’re going to get you lockers, we’re going to get you lockers, and they haven’t gotten them.’ And our kids are like, ‘Yeah, they’re not going to get us lockers. They don’t really care about us.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified recently renovated part of Sankofa and its playground. This year, the district is focusing on improving academics at Sankofa and a handful of other poor-performing schools. This has pretty much been the equity strategy here: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/domain/3466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Make neighborhood schools more attractive and improve academic outcomes\u003c/a> for all kids, no matter where they attend school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system is broken and diseased,” said OUSD’s director of enrollment, Charles Wilson. “If everybody went to their neighborhood schools, then we might see greater mixing, but there is sort of this pantheon of five or six schools that everyone wants to get into, all above Highway 13.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRADashboardSchool_FINAL_TServerEmbedded/SchoolDemographics?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check the demographics of every public school in the Oakland Unified School District.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wilson said the district is looking into ways to integrate the schools socioeconomically, including redesigning programs at schools like Sankofa to make them more appealing to middle-class families, and changing the priority system to give kids from higher-poverty Zip codes more of a chance to enroll in high-performing schools. But that’s still in the planning stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lack of District Policy Puts Onus on Parents to Integrate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glaring concentration of race and poverty exists in schools all over the city. But these two schools, Peralta and Sankofa, bring the inequities into stark focus because they’re so close. The streets directly around Sankofa are actually zoned for both schools. It’s historically an African-American neighborhood. The former headquarters of the Black Panthers was nearby. But the neighborhood is rapidly becoming whiter and more affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRADashboardSchool_FINAL_TServerEmbedded/LiveGoGo?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Most public school parents in the area\u003c/a> lobby to get into high-performing schools, as Eleanor Wohlfeiler did, or they choose charters, many of which are \u003ca href=\"http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/EthnicEnr.aspx?cChoice=DistEnrEt2&cYear=2015-16&cSelect=0161259--Oakland%20Unified&TheCounty=&cLevel=District&cTopic=Enrollment&myTimeFrame=S&cType=ALL&cGender=B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least as segregated as district schools\u003c/a>. Nationwide, charters have been found to be \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/choice-without-equity-2009-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more segregated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orfield said middle-class parents shouldn’t be afraid of sending their kids to a high-poverty school. “One of the things that particularly white and Asian families don’t understand is that there is overwhelming evidence that privileged kids don’t lose [in a high-poverty school], because low-income kids are much more affected by school opportunity than middle-class kids,” said Gary Orfield. “You can have one group gain a lot and the other group not lose and win a lot in understanding of society. If done correctly, integration is a very powerful tool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘One of the things that particularly white and Asian families don’t understand is that there is overwhelming evidence that privileged kids don’t lose [in a high-poverty school], because low-income kids are much more affected by school opportunity than middle-class kids.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite> Gary Orfield, co-director of the UCLA Civil Rights Project \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Like most school districts in California that have not been taken to court over segregation, OUSD has never implemented a full integration plan. So the school district relies on parents to do it of their own free will. But that puts parents in a position where they have to decide between a school that has everything they want for their kids, and a school where they would have to work to make it good for all kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Middle-class parents are experts at gaming things,” said Janelle Scott, associate professor of education at UC Berkeley. “They have benefited from their own higher education, but also families who have taught them how to navigate complex systems. School districts have to be pretty savvy to make sure there is not this sense that one school is not dramatically better to get into, because parents will find a way to game that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said part of any district’s integration plan has to be committing to spreading funds and teachers fairly across all schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that Oakland will mix it up a little bit,” said Sankofa parent leader Kristin Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the concentration of poverty at Sankofa makes it hard to compete with a school like Peralta, where the kids have fewer needs, and where wealthier parents raise money and lobby the district to support the school. She said Sankofa’s principal has worked hard to get grants and work with community organizations to renovate the playground, build a music program and offer French classes, but she would like to have a full science program, more art and classroom aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For OUSD’s portion of it, I would think they would want to make sure all schools at least appear to parents to be equitably served, so parents are choosing among a large pool of schools,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Wealthier Schools Must Welcome Parents of Color\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith moved her son to Sankofa last year, the same year Eleanor Wohlfeiler moved her son out. Smith’s son previously attended a more diverse school in the Oakland hills called Kaiser Elementary. Smith misses the diversity but chose to leave after she found out her son had been pulled out of class for reading help for months and no one had notified her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11064877\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11064877 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kristin Smith (left) jokes with her daughter, 6-year-old Juliana Smith, while Kristin’s boyfriend Armando Diaz reads with Kristin’s 4-year-old daughter Gabriella Smith and 11-year-old son Dominic Smith.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristin Smith (left) jokes with her daughter, 6-year-old Juliana Smith, while Kristin’s boyfriend, Armando Diaz, reads with Kristin’s 4-year-old daughter, Gabriella Smith, and 11-year-old son, Dominic Smith. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like perhaps if I had not been an African-American parent, I may have received information sooner,” said Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How Smith felt is important, because to successfully integrate schools, it’s not just about getting more white parents to choose low-performing schools. High-performing schools also need to do a better job of welcoming families of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Sankofa, Smith said her kids were excited to see so many other kids who look like them and Sankofa is giving them something they couldn’t get at just any school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As African-American students get older, you can lose yourself in the world,” said Smith. “Because you just don’t know anything about your history, you don’t know anything about your past. You don’t know you came from a strong people, or the triumphs they’ve had or the struggles they’ve had, so you have no frame of reference with which to project yourself in the world. And that’s something that all the students here receive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa is serving a lot of African-American families who feel unwelcome at other schools, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor Wohlfeiler gets that. She knows families of color who have decided not to go to her son’s new school, Peralta, because there aren’t enough African-American teachers or students there. She knows her own children lost something when she moved them to a majority white school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This seems to me like the most important project of our time, to deal with equity and to deal with racism and to deal with privilege,” said Wohlfeiler. “And, you know, kids getting shot all over the country. And it’s so easy to ignore it. And I’m worried that the more white of a community my kids are in, the easier it is to ignore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don Clyde contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Eleanor Wohlfeiler’s son, Eero, was in kindergarten, he was already talking openly about race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He came home from school one day and he said, ‘Mom, am I white?’ ” Wohlfeiler said. “I said, ‘Yeah, you’re white.’ And he paused and he said, ‘Are you white?’ I said, ‘Yep, that’s how it is in our family, we’re all white.’ And I was interested in that, because 6 is pretty old to figure out your race, but it’s a lot younger than a lot of white people. I know it’s older than people of color figure it out, but at least he got it before 13.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For two years Eero attended \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/sankofa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sankofa Academy\u003c/a>, where 73 percent of the students are African-American and 11 percent are Latino. \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRADashboardSchool_FINAL_TServerEmbedded/SchoolDemographics?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Close to 90 percent qualify for free and reduced-price lunch\u003c/a>. That’s pretty unusual for white kids in Oakland. Eero was one of only two white kids in his class the first year. The second year he was the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280615613″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280615613″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of our white neighbors didn’t look at Sankofa,” Wohlfeiler said. “They wouldn’t even walk in the door. To us we wanted to not only walk in the door, but really look at what that meant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What it meant was complicated for Wohlfeiler. She said Eero was happy. Her family felt welcome at the school. But there were challenges common in schools that serve mostly low-income kids. Eero had an inexperienced teacher the first year, frequent substitutes the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like the bottom-of-the-barrel substitutes. Sankofa did not have the resources to retain like a full-time sub,” said Wohlfeiler. “What I saw of it when I volunteered was real disrespect for the children as a form of crowd control. I was watching the children just shut down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11064878\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11064878 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Eleanor Wohlfeiler (center) and her husband Eric Pankonin with their three children Thistle, Esme and Eero (from left to right) in front of Peralta Elementary School before bicycling home. Both Eero and Esme are currently students at Peralta Elementary.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/Wohlfeiler-1920-3-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eleanor Wohlfeiler (center) and her husband, Eric Pankonin, with their three children, Thistle, Esme and Eero (from left to right) in front of Peralta Elementary School before bicycling home. Both Eero and Esme are currently students at Peralta Elementary. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wohlfeiler said she didn’t think of Sankofa as a failing school. She just didn’t feel like it had the support it needed from the district. And there was another layer: Because Eero had gone to preschool, he was more prepared for kindergarten than many of his classmates who hadn’t. Wohlfeiler worried that he was getting the incorrect message that he was inherently smarter than other kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got a lot of feedback about that, like, ‘You’re so smart,’ and that felt really complicated for us. He’s the only white kid in his class, and I bet we had a lot more books on our shelf than other kids in his class, and that just did not feel right,” Wohlfeiler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually decided to move Eero to another school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.peraltaschool.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peralta Elementary\u003c/a>, three blocks away. He started there last year. Peralta is an award-winning school. It has higher test scores and lower teacher turnover. There is art all over the walls and in the classrooms, and parents raise money to pay for classroom helpers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he was quick to tell me, there’s not a lot of black people in his class,” Wohlfeiler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Double Segregation by Race and Poverty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRADashboardSchool_FINAL_TServerEmbedded/SchoolDemographics?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Almost 60 percent of the students at Peralta are white\u003c/a>. Less than a fourth qualify for free and reduced-price lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eero had ended up in a pretty typical situation for a white child in Oakland. Only 9.6 percent of Oakland’s public school students are white — that includes charter students. But they’re concentrated in a handful of schools, where they are the majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PSbyI/1/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"748\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s very high segregation of blacks and Latinos in the schools in Oakland,” said Gary Orfield, co-director of the UCLA Civil Rights Project and an expert on school segregation. “I would characterize it as severe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/segregating-california2019s-future-inequality-and-its-alternative-60-years-after-brown-v.-board-of-education/orfield-ee-segregating-california-future-brown-at.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to data compiled by the UCLA Civil Rights Project\u003c/a>, the average white student in Oakland goes to school with 37 percent low-income classmates. In contrast, African-American students in Oakland attend schools where 72 percent of fellow students are low income; for Latinos, it’s 84 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/62sly/1/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"748\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When you concentrate poverty and wealth like that, it creates separate and unequal schools, like Sankofa and Peralta. In fact, the larger the difference in the poverty rate at schools for kids of different races, \u003ca href=\"http://www.irp.wisc.edu/dispatch/racial-achievement-gap-and-high-poverty-schools/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the larger the racial achievement gap, according to some researchers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Segregation, as you can see by these Oakland statistics, is double segregation by race and poverty, which is really crippling for a school,” said Orfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s crippling because schools with more poverty tend to have fewer parents with college degrees and fewer parents with time on their hands to volunteer in the classroom and raise funds. These schools have a harder time attracting and keeping quality teachers, and have kids dealing with a lot more social and emotional issues in the classroom because they may come to school hungry, or be hurting or scared because they live in neighborhoods that experience a disproportionate amount of gun violence, police brutality and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our kids are used to broken promises,” said Dana Saks, who directs Sankofa’s after-school program. “Our middle school students have been waiting since they first had a sixth grade for lockers. And the district keeps saying, ‘We’re going to get you lockers, we’re going to get you lockers, and they haven’t gotten them.’ And our kids are like, ‘Yeah, they’re not going to get us lockers. They don’t really care about us.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified recently renovated part of Sankofa and its playground. This year, the district is focusing on improving academics at Sankofa and a handful of other poor-performing schools. This has pretty much been the equity strategy here: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/domain/3466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Make neighborhood schools more attractive and improve academic outcomes\u003c/a> for all kids, no matter where they attend school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system is broken and diseased,” said OUSD’s director of enrollment, Charles Wilson. “If everybody went to their neighborhood schools, then we might see greater mixing, but there is sort of this pantheon of five or six schools that everyone wants to get into, all above Highway 13.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRADashboardSchool_FINAL_TServerEmbedded/SchoolDemographics?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check the demographics of every public school in the Oakland Unified School District.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wilson said the district is looking into ways to integrate the schools socioeconomically, including redesigning programs at schools like Sankofa to make them more appealing to middle-class families, and changing the priority system to give kids from higher-poverty Zip codes more of a chance to enroll in high-performing schools. But that’s still in the planning stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lack of District Policy Puts Onus on Parents to Integrate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glaring concentration of race and poverty exists in schools all over the city. But these two schools, Peralta and Sankofa, bring the inequities into stark focus because they’re so close. The streets directly around Sankofa are actually zoned for both schools. It’s historically an African-American neighborhood. The former headquarters of the Black Panthers was nearby. But the neighborhood is rapidly becoming whiter and more affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRADashboardSchool_FINAL_TServerEmbedded/LiveGoGo?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Most public school parents in the area\u003c/a> lobby to get into high-performing schools, as Eleanor Wohlfeiler did, or they choose charters, many of which are \u003ca href=\"http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/EthnicEnr.aspx?cChoice=DistEnrEt2&cYear=2015-16&cSelect=0161259--Oakland%20Unified&TheCounty=&cLevel=District&cTopic=Enrollment&myTimeFrame=S&cType=ALL&cGender=B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least as segregated as district schools\u003c/a>. Nationwide, charters have been found to be \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/choice-without-equity-2009-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more segregated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orfield said middle-class parents shouldn’t be afraid of sending their kids to a high-poverty school. “One of the things that particularly white and Asian families don’t understand is that there is overwhelming evidence that privileged kids don’t lose [in a high-poverty school], because low-income kids are much more affected by school opportunity than middle-class kids,” said Gary Orfield. “You can have one group gain a lot and the other group not lose and win a lot in understanding of society. If done correctly, integration is a very powerful tool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘One of the things that particularly white and Asian families don’t understand is that there is overwhelming evidence that privileged kids don’t lose [in a high-poverty school], because low-income kids are much more affected by school opportunity than middle-class kids.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite> Gary Orfield, co-director of the UCLA Civil Rights Project \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Like most school districts in California that have not been taken to court over segregation, OUSD has never implemented a full integration plan. So the school district relies on parents to do it of their own free will. But that puts parents in a position where they have to decide between a school that has everything they want for their kids, and a school where they would have to work to make it good for all kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Middle-class parents are experts at gaming things,” said Janelle Scott, associate professor of education at UC Berkeley. “They have benefited from their own higher education, but also families who have taught them how to navigate complex systems. School districts have to be pretty savvy to make sure there is not this sense that one school is not dramatically better to get into, because parents will find a way to game that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said part of any district’s integration plan has to be committing to spreading funds and teachers fairly across all schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that Oakland will mix it up a little bit,” said Sankofa parent leader Kristin Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the concentration of poverty at Sankofa makes it hard to compete with a school like Peralta, where the kids have fewer needs, and where wealthier parents raise money and lobby the district to support the school. She said Sankofa’s principal has worked hard to get grants and work with community organizations to renovate the playground, build a music program and offer French classes, but she would like to have a full science program, more art and classroom aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For OUSD’s portion of it, I would think they would want to make sure all schools at least appear to parents to be equitably served, so parents are choosing among a large pool of schools,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Wealthier Schools Must Welcome Parents of Color\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith moved her son to Sankofa last year, the same year Eleanor Wohlfeiler moved her son out. Smith’s son previously attended a more diverse school in the Oakland hills called Kaiser Elementary. Smith misses the diversity but chose to leave after she found out her son had been pulled out of class for reading help for months and no one had notified her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11064877\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11064877 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kristin Smith (left) jokes with her daughter, 6-year-old Juliana Smith, while Kristin’s boyfriend Armando Diaz reads with Kristin’s 4-year-old daughter Gabriella Smith and 11-year-old son Dominic Smith.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/kristin-smith-1920-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristin Smith (left) jokes with her daughter, 6-year-old Juliana Smith, while Kristin’s boyfriend, Armando Diaz, reads with Kristin’s 4-year-old daughter, Gabriella Smith, and 11-year-old son, Dominic Smith. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like perhaps if I had not been an African-American parent, I may have received information sooner,” said Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How Smith felt is important, because to successfully integrate schools, it’s not just about getting more white parents to choose low-performing schools. High-performing schools also need to do a better job of welcoming families of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Sankofa, Smith said her kids were excited to see so many other kids who look like them and Sankofa is giving them something they couldn’t get at just any school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As African-American students get older, you can lose yourself in the world,” said Smith. “Because you just don’t know anything about your history, you don’t know anything about your past. You don’t know you came from a strong people, or the triumphs they’ve had or the struggles they’ve had, so you have no frame of reference with which to project yourself in the world. And that’s something that all the students here receive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa is serving a lot of African-American families who feel unwelcome at other schools, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor Wohlfeiler gets that. She knows families of color who have decided not to go to her son’s new school, Peralta, because there aren’t enough African-American teachers or students there. She knows her own children lost something when she moved them to a majority white school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This seems to me like the most important project of our time, to deal with equity and to deal with racism and to deal with privilege,” said Wohlfeiler. “And, you know, kids getting shot all over the country. And it’s so easy to ignore it. And I’m worried that the more white of a community my kids are in, the easier it is to ignore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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