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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s top school official, Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell, announced her support Wednesday night for a plan to dismantle the school district’s internal police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am recommending that we move forward to create a districtwide safety plan to ensure safe, healthy and positive school environments for students and adults without a school district police department,” said Johnson-Trammell. “Together, we can reimagine how to keep our schools safe, healthy and welcoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Oakland Unified school board members have put forward a proposal that aims to do just that, while others who rejected similar moves in the past signaled they’re warming up to the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans to dissolve the department have been floated before, but the momentum of the moment is undeniable. Around the state and country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/06/10/after-george-floyd-some-school-districts-cut-ties-with-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pressure is mounting\u003c/a> for schools to cut ties with police. In Minneapolis, they already have, while Portland and Denver districts are on track to make similar calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the school board is expected to vote on the \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4564122&GUID=C591BB69-6054-4DCC-8548-69AA1623E643&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department\u003c/a> later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists, led by the group Black Organizing Project, have been pushing to get police out of Oakland schools \u003ca href=\"http://blackorganizingproject.org/our-work/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for nearly a decade\u003c/a>, since a black student named Raheim Brown was shot and killed by a school district police sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Project’s director, Jackie Byers, said she sees an opportunity in this moment “to redefine community safety in our schools, to reinvest in our schools, to reinvest in our students and to be a model for this entire country of what is possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday night’s virtual school board meeting, and at a press conference held by activists beforehand, dozens of educators and community members voiced their support for the resolution, arguing that having police in schools does more harm than good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re overdue to transform the idea that in order to keep our schools safe we need to police our young people,” said Sagnicthe Salazar, director of restorative discipline at Elmhurst United Middle School. He added that schools should stop partnering with “a force that historically, and on the daily, inflicts fear and terror on our young people and their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many at the meeting echoed the sentiment that police presence creates a climate of fear in schools and leads to trauma; others referenced the school to prison pipeline and disproportionate arrests of students of color — 73% of district students arrested are black according to a \u003ca href=\"http://blackorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Peoples-Plan-2019-Online-Reduced-Size.pdf\">2019 platform document by the Black Organizing Project\u003c/a>, while only roughly a quarter of the district’s students are black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirroring national calls to defund police, supporters argued that OUSD should invest its money in supportive services like school social workers, psychologists and restorative justice practitioners — services that could better get at some of the root causes of behavioral issues while keeping students out of the criminal justice system. Many pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/oakland-school-board-votes-18-8-million-in-cuts-up-to-100-layoffs-hears-pleas-to-cut-police-force/624679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">painful budget cuts\u003c/a> the district faces to lend urgency to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as adults who are managing the budget — we’ve got to get behind these students, we’ve got to fund education, not police,” said OUSD school board member Roseann Torres, who introduced the resolution named in honor of George Floyd with board vice president Shanthi Gonzales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their proposal would eliminate the district’s internal police force and its 10 sworn police officers. Those armed officers cost OUSD about $2 million dollars a year, and the proposal calls for the savings to be reinvested in student support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland teachers’ union is backing the resolution and over 50 school administrators signed on to a letter supporting it. “Some will say that the OUSD Police Department is necessary because it is used,” it reads. “When school leaders are given only a hammer, they will treat every problem like a nail. Greater investments in school-based support staff will both reduce the need, and the desire, to utilize police as a response to disruption or disorder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"ousd\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday night’s meeting marked a turnaround. Only two months earlier, in March, the school board voted down a resolution to eliminate the police department and declined to reduce the number of sworn officers serving in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, school leaders did express interest in pursuing a plan for how the district could operate without a police force and recently signed a $60,744 contract with Georgetown Law’s Innovative Policing Project to develop recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board member Gary Yee, who voted against moves to cut the force in March, said last night he’d gotten “hundreds of thousands” of emails and phone calls, and protesters had gathered in front of his house. He credited the outcry for shifting his thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve come to realize how shortsighted I was,” he said, “the blinders I had about focusing only on physical safety blocked out the importance of social-emotional and trauma-informed safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a couple members of the public raised concerns about doing away with school police Wednesday night, and their apprehensions echoed those voiced previously. Lee Thomas, president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uaosoakland.org/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Administrators of Oakland Schools\u003c/a>, said a survey showed disagreement among union ranks and concerns over ensuring safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to make sure we have an environment that, yes, is not going to create a school to prison pipeline, but at the same time makes sure that our teachers are going to be safe and our students are going to be safe and we are going to put our staff in the best situation possible when an emergency arises,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also raised concerns about placing additional burdens on administrators as they contend with drastic changes to education wrought by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another speaker who didn’t give her name questioned whether the city’s police department would have the bandwidth to respond to the 1,000 or so calls the school’s police force responds to each semester. The proposed resolution allows for schools to call on the Oakland Police Department in emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What security in Oakland schools would look like if the police force is dissolved isn’t certain. Today, there are around 60 unarmed school security officers managed by the district’s police department and it’s not clear if they’d be fired or retrained if the plan is adopted in its current form. Board member Torres has talked about reimagining the role of security personnel as that of mentors and peacekeepers, in line with Black Organizing Project’s \u003ca href=\"http://blackorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Peoples-Plan-2019-Online-Reduced-Size.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal calls for the district to work with community stakeholders to come up with new strategies for ensuring student safety and well-being, and lay out a blueprint by Dec. 31 for how the district would move forward without a police force. Johnson-Trammell said, pending negotiations with labor unions, she intends to have a plan in hand by then.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Galvanized by the nationwide call for police reforms in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, Oakland activists are pressuring the Oakland school board to eliminate the district’s internal police force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Oakland Unified School District board member Roseann Torres will reintroduce a measure to dissolve the department and replace it with non-uniformed “peacekeeping ambassadors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres spoke of the sorrow following Floyd’s death and said, “It’s time to just go for the whole gusto and say look, we don’t even need a police department. Our schools are closed … we’re paying officers to sit at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres tried and failed in the same effort in March, when the board rejected a measure to reduce its police force by half in a vote of 4 to 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The primary argument then was saving money as the district grapples with deep budget cuts. The OUSD police force has been sued in the past — most notably in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10465826/violent-incident-at-high-school-in-oakland-raises-new-questions-about-security-officers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 when a security officer choked and dragged a student\u003c/a>. Now, activists say Floyd’s death underscores the moral argument they have been making for at least a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, we’re calling on the community, our allies, supporters, anyone that wants to stand for black students and black sanctuary to call on the school board members to eliminate school police,” said Jasmine Williams, development and communications manager for the Black Organizing Project (BOP). On Friday, BOP, along with the Anti Police-Terror Project and other coalition members, caravanned to several schools to rally around the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other districts in the Bay Area, Oakland public schools have their own internal force which employs 10 officers, including its police chief, Jeff Godown. He also oversees about 50 school security guards and he estimates these personnel and their benefits cost the district close to $3.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, Godown has argued his officers are needed, citing the large number of calls — 1,000 per semester — his department receives for help. However, this week Godown said he understands why some people don’t want a police department, and he is willing to work with the superintendent on a new safety plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted the schools to be safe,” Godown said. “And if we can make them safe with a hybrid between security officers and restorative justice experts and climate and culture ambassadors or some kind of hybrid … I’m not against that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if it means putting himself out of a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in this business for 40 years,” Godown said. “And if that ends up being the outcome, that ends up being the outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godown, who has overseen social and emotional learning training for his officers, has long made the case that his officers know the students and are better at handling calls than the city’s police force would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not every case of this school is something that restorative justice or social emotional learning will handle,” he cautioned. “There are instances, unfortunately, where crimes occur where uniformed officers with guns and handcuffs have to go on campus and handle that problem over and above the active shooters that have occurred in this country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOP’s Williams said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/08/591753884/do-police-officers-in-schools-really-make-them-safer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police in schools don’t make campuses safer\u003c/a> and that the lack of investment in schools has contributed to students’ behavior issues that surface while in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So by taking away everything that students need to feel safe to even flourish — like after-school programs, nurses, therapists — and then kind of throwing up your hands when you see behavioral issues is kind of contradictory, doesn’t make any logical sense,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"education\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]BOP wants the \u003ca href=\"http://blackorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Peoples-Plan-2019-Online-Reduced-Size.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">community to help shape any plan\u003c/a> to replace school police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely don’t think they should be having guns or replicating any kind of punitive, discipline officer,” Williams said. “If they’re supposed to be really protecting students — they should be approachable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams noted that they should make students feel like they could go to them to resolve conflicts, “rather than this kind of punitive, authoritative, disciplined image that we see in schools in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Torres introduces the resolution on June 10, it would go to the board for a vote on June 24. 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I was like, I have a car, I’m in like one of the prime cities that people take Lyft so, I should just do that to help sustain myself through that semester or however long my internship was,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one particular Saturday night, Aleah had a choice to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, damn, I can go out tonight and spend money that I do not have, or I can be an adult and save some money and make some money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She got in her car and turned on the Lyft app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a group of friends in a San Francisco apartment were celebrating their friend’s birthday with Netflix, video games and booze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was like a turning point in the night because about half of us were getting tired because we’d been drinking since 2 o’clock. And then the other half of us were like, ‘Man, what are we going to do next?’ ” said Eugenio Borgeson. “And my friend Adam, whose birthday [it was]. I don’t know what lit his fire, but he just got up and was like, ‘No, let’s go to a dancing bar!’ And we were like, ‘OK, OK!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since there were 14 people that had to get transported to the club, three different Lyfts were in order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily for Eugenio, the birthday guy was looking out for him as the only single friend in the crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was looking at the phone all up to his face. He’s like, ‘Oh, my God. Eugenio! This Lyft driver is super cute.’ He’s like, ‘You’re riding in this car, Eugenio, you’re riding in this car.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the driver rolled up, Eugenio’s friends made him sit shotgun so he could strike up a conversation with the cute driver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that cute driver just so happened to be Aleah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What up, y’all? Happy Saturday. I’m glad I’m getting you to your party!” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugenio proceeded to ask her about how her day was going. Once they got past the small talk, the conversation started flowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eugenio Borgeson\"]‘Aleah seemed to care about a lot of things I cared about. And so we really were like connecting over that.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His students were working on a documentary, and so I was just asking him about how’d [they] get these interviews,” she said. “I was really invested in that conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interest was mutual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aleah seemed to care about a lot of things I cared about. And so we really were like connecting over that,” Eugenio said. “We were just exchanging stories about how digital media is like a really powerful weapon for youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the conversation couldn’t go on for long. Eugenio and his crew had a club to dance in, and Aleah had to make more money picking up passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we rolled up to the spot, my mind was going like a million miles a minute. My friends were making me feel nervous, they were pushing me and everything, saying, ‘Ask her for a number.’ In my head I was saying, ‘No, no,’ ” Eugenio said. “She probably has tons of guys ask her for a number. I do not want to be lumped into that. I want to be different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Eugenio lingered, Aleah could sense the dreaded question: Can I have your number?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801374\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1244px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/E-A-in-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1244\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/E-A-in-2016.jpg 1244w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/E-A-in-2016-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/E-A-in-2016-800x630.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/E-A-in-2016-1020x804.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1244px) 100vw, 1244px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aleah Fajardo and Eugiono Borgeson take a selfie the year they met, in 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aleah Fajardo and Eugenio Borgeson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I have had people when they would get off the car, they’d be like, ‘Hey, can I get your number,’ and umm, it was cool,” Aleah said. “But it also made me feel weird, because we just had a normal conversation and they kind of made our conversations sexualized in a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever that would happen, she’d give her number out, but wouldn’t actually text those guys back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t feel like their intentions were where I wanted them to be,” she said. “But Eugenio didn’t really make me feel that way. We were just kind of like having a great conversation and really like vibing with each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a couple of long, awkward seconds of lingering until his friends got out, Eugenio ditched the script and asked Aleah if he could give her his number. He wanted to continue their conversation over coffee or lunch sometime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t I offer her my number and have the ball be on her court, so she doesn’t feel pressure to give me hers,” he said. “If she wasn’t feeling it, then it’s like, all right, no harm, no foul, [she] doesn’t have to call me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aleah was genuinely caught off guard by him offering his number, and she was into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As she started to [drive away], I was thinking in my head, did I make the right decision?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evening when Aleah got home, she told her roommates about the cute guy she drove and their stimulating conversation. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District police drew batons and used force as they arrested six people after several protesters charged a barrier at Wednesday night's school board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six were charged with disturbing the peace and taken to school district police offices in West Oakland. One of those arrested was also injured and taken to a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in the evening, about 30 combined OUSD security and police officers, overseen by OPD Police Chief Jeff Godown, arrived to secure the perimeter of the school where the meeting was held. Parents, children and teachers entering had to turn over food or drink and any musical instruments to enter the auditorium. Inside, officers flanked a newly erected barrier around the main stage where board members sit and conduct business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/juliamcevoy1/status/1187222751985070081\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Godown said the police presence was necessary because parents and teachers had successfully disrupted several earlier board meetings, shutting one down. But the police presence created tension from the start during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this sanctuary city, in the home of the Panthers, I am strictly opposed to police officers here to police the community at our meeting,\" Mike Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782301\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Stracey Gordon, parent of a Kaiser Elementary student, watches other parents, teachers and community members speak at an Oct. 23, 2019 Oakland Unified School district board meeting where police arrested and injured protesters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stracey Gordon, parent of a Kaiser Elementary student, watches other parents, teachers and community members speak at an Oct. 23, 2019, Oakland Unified School District board meeting, where police arrested and injured protesters. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assata Olugbala likened the situation to racist policies she experienced in the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm having anxiety right now,\" Olugbala said. \"I grew up under Jim Crow, I grew up on the bus. I had to sit behind a barrier. I could not move beyond that barrier. This is what this feels like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Stracey Gordon from Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, which is being closed and merged with another school, warned the board she is in this fight for the long haul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to disrupt these meetings and there will be no more business as usual!\" Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angry parents and staff from various schools across the district, calling themselves Oakland Not For Sale, are demanding that the school district halt all school closures and consolidations until 2022 to allow time for more community input on those decisions and district finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782305\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer strikes a man with a baton after protesters crossed a barricade at an Oakland Unified School District board meeting on Oct. 23, 2019, at La Escuelita Elementary in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police guard an empty stage at an Oct. 23, 2019, Oakland Unified School District board meeting after board members moved upstairs and broadcast the rest of the meeting to angry parents, teachers and community members below. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school board was able to finish the rest of its meeting Wednesday night in an upstairs room separate from the public. They eventually took comments from the remaining crowd through a microphone at a podium in the auditorium below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening's civil disobedience was carefully planned: The goal was to paralyze the board from conducting business. The clash with police was livestreamed by some, while others filmed and shared it via social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week the newly formed coalition also shut down a City Council education committee meeting. The group has the support of the teachers union, the Oakland Education Association, which is sending members to help with the attempted shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the latest tactic in a drawn-out battle over the OUSD's controversial plan to shutter or merge up to 24 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, parents and students from Roots International Academy, which was on the chopping block, also took over a school board meeting. Oakland teachers took up Roots' cause, making opposition to school closures part of their rallying cry during a weeklong strike. In support of the striking teachers, the Oakland City Council also voted to oppose school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that stopped the district from shuttering Roots at the end of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, parents from Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, which is slated for closure at the end of this school year, are leading the charge against the district's closure plans, spearheading Oakland Not For Sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parent Gordon said even if the district does close Kaiser, she wants to warn other parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to stop it now. It's been traumatic, and its been hard for my kids. I don't want anyone else's kids to go through this. I'm so torn apart by what's happened that I'm inspired to keep fighting,\" Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Targeting Charter Schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Monday evening, Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson donned a blond wig, cat-eye glasses and a black-and-white herringbone jacket in preparation for attending the Oakland City Council Education Partnership Committee meeting. The meeting had nothing to do with school closures, but she and other Kaiser parents didn't care: They planned to shut the meeting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson dressed up as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for an anti-charter school skit\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson dressed up as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for an anti-charter school skit \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson said she had dressed as Betsy DeVos, the U.S. secretary of education who has been accused of championing the privatization of public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and other parents say that closing district-run schools will only push more students toward charter schools, which in turn will drain district schools of badly needed funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5988170/OUSD-Charter-Task-Force-Presentation.pdf\">reported in April\u003c/a> that 27% of district students attend charter schools, the highest proportion of any large district in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Monday night's meeting got underway, the theatrics began. Children hung banners reading \"Oakland Not For Sale\" above City Councilman Dan Kalb’s seat, whose district includes Kaiser Elementary. Kaiser parents bellowed lines from an anti-charter school skit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might wonder why I’m here,” Johnson shouted. “I see councilman Dan Kalb. He supports closing schools in Oakland!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781924\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland City Councilman Dan Kalb was targeted by protesters. Kalb said he does not support school closures.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Councilman Dan Kalb was targeted by protesters. Kalb said he does not support school closures. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the city clerk tried to regain control, boos drowned her out and the play continued until the meeting was adjourned. Hecklers dogged Kalb as he exited the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re perpetuating lies about me!” Kalb shouted as he left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb said he also has concerns about the pace at which the district is consolidating schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing over a period of several years to close a few schools, that happens all over the state on occasion, when the population dips down,\" Kalb said. \"It’s another thing if you’re closing a lot of schools over a short period. That has a tremendous impact on parents, on kids, on our community. I think it is not appropriate and I don’t support that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Criticism of Protests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School board member Jody London criticized the protesters' Monday actions, writing in a statement that it is \"unfortunate that a small group continues to put their self-interest above the broader interests of the children in our city, and is trying to stop the democratically elected School Board and City Council from conducting business, which we are required to do in public. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lakisha Young, who heads the parent group The Oakland REACH, also had little patience for the tactic of shutting down board meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young said The Oakland Reach had attended an earlier school board meeting hoping to discuss opportunities for low-income students to access higher-quality schools, but the meeting was shut down before Reach parents got a chance to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know what I wanted to say that night? A school closure is not the worst thing that can happen to your kids. The worst thing that can happen to your kids is a \u003cem>bad\u003c/em> school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the district's restructuring plan, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/18248\">Blueprint for Quality Schools, \u003c/a>is to provide more quality schools for all students. It argues that reducing the total number of schools by as many as 24 will allow it to reinvest savings in schools that are struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district points to Elmhurst United, a newly merged middle school, as an example of how its plan can work. Teachers at the new school told KQED they were pleasantly surprised by smaller class sizes, while the principal said his students now have access to new classes like Spanish and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside City Hall Monday night, Oakland parent Gerald Sanders defended the protest actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City Council voted to support the teachers strike and in that, said they were against closures,\" Sanders said. \"We want the City Council persons, if they passed that resolution and said they were against closures, be true to yourself, respect yourself. That’s all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oct. 24: This story was corrected to reflect that protesters who were arrested were taken to school district police offices, not Santa Rita jail. And that the police presence included OUSD security officers as well as OUSD police.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But the police presence created tension from the start during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this sanctuary city, in the home of the Panthers, I am strictly opposed to police officers here to police the community at our meeting,\" Mike Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782301\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Stracey Gordon, parent of a Kaiser Elementary student, watches other parents, teachers and community members speak at an Oct. 23, 2019 Oakland Unified School district board meeting where police arrested and injured protesters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-gordon.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stracey Gordon, parent of a Kaiser Elementary student, watches other parents, teachers and community members speak at an Oct. 23, 2019, Oakland Unified School District board meeting, where police arrested and injured protesters. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assata Olugbala likened the situation to racist policies she experienced in the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm having anxiety right now,\" Olugbala said. \"I grew up under Jim Crow, I grew up on the bus. I had to sit behind a barrier. I could not move beyond that barrier. This is what this feels like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Stracey Gordon from Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, which is being closed and merged with another school, warned the board she is in this fight for the long haul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to disrupt these meetings and there will be no more business as usual!\" Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angry parents and staff from various schools across the district, calling themselves Oakland Not For Sale, are demanding that the school district halt all school closures and consolidations until 2022 to allow time for more community input on those decisions and district finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782305\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer strikes a man with a baton after protesters crossed a barricade at an Oakland Unified School District board meeting on Oct. 23, 2019, at La Escuelita Elementary in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ousd-meeting-police1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police guard an empty stage at an Oct. 23, 2019, Oakland Unified School District board meeting after board members moved upstairs and broadcast the rest of the meeting to angry parents, teachers and community members below. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school board was able to finish the rest of its meeting Wednesday night in an upstairs room separate from the public. They eventually took comments from the remaining crowd through a microphone at a podium in the auditorium below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening's civil disobedience was carefully planned: The goal was to paralyze the board from conducting business. The clash with police was livestreamed by some, while others filmed and shared it via social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week the newly formed coalition also shut down a City Council education committee meeting. The group has the support of the teachers union, the Oakland Education Association, which is sending members to help with the attempted shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the latest tactic in a drawn-out battle over the OUSD's controversial plan to shutter or merge up to 24 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, parents and students from Roots International Academy, which was on the chopping block, also took over a school board meeting. Oakland teachers took up Roots' cause, making opposition to school closures part of their rallying cry during a weeklong strike. In support of the striking teachers, the Oakland City Council also voted to oppose school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that stopped the district from shuttering Roots at the end of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, parents from Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, which is slated for closure at the end of this school year, are leading the charge against the district's closure plans, spearheading Oakland Not For Sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parent Gordon said even if the district does close Kaiser, she wants to warn other parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to stop it now. It's been traumatic, and its been hard for my kids. I don't want anyone else's kids to go through this. I'm so torn apart by what's happened that I'm inspired to keep fighting,\" Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Targeting Charter Schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Monday evening, Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson donned a blond wig, cat-eye glasses and a black-and-white herringbone jacket in preparation for attending the Oakland City Council Education Partnership Committee meeting. The meeting had nothing to do with school closures, but she and other Kaiser parents didn't care: They planned to shut the meeting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson dressed up as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for an anti-charter school skit\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Alicia-Johnson-e1571791526315.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson dressed up as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for an anti-charter school skit \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson said she had dressed as Betsy DeVos, the U.S. secretary of education who has been accused of championing the privatization of public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and other parents say that closing district-run schools will only push more students toward charter schools, which in turn will drain district schools of badly needed funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5988170/OUSD-Charter-Task-Force-Presentation.pdf\">reported in April\u003c/a> that 27% of district students attend charter schools, the highest proportion of any large district in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Monday night's meeting got underway, the theatrics began. Children hung banners reading \"Oakland Not For Sale\" above City Councilman Dan Kalb’s seat, whose district includes Kaiser Elementary. Kaiser parents bellowed lines from an anti-charter school skit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might wonder why I’m here,” Johnson shouted. “I see councilman Dan Kalb. He supports closing schools in Oakland!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781924\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Dan-kalb-e1571791731579-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland City Councilman Dan Kalb was targeted by protesters. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s school board voted late Wednesday night to close two schools and merge them with two others, following nearly five hours of fierce emotional testimony from parents, students and teachers who packed the meeting to voice their opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls for closing Kaiser Elementary School in the Oakland hills and relocating its students and staff to Sankofa Academy in the Bushrod neighborhood, roughly 3 miles away. It also entails the closure of Oakland SOL, a middle school in East Oakland, and combining it with the nearby Frick Impact Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With opponents shouting “Shame on you,” the board approved the proposal 5-2, with board members Roseann Torres and Shanthi Gonzales dissenting. The board also agreed to consider reopening the closed Santa Fe Elementary campus as part of the next round of school closures, consolidations and expansions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Alicia Johnson, Kaiser parent\"]‘A lot of damage was done intentionally to both communities, and the way forward is unclear.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to appease the many angry attendees at the meeting, Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said that each of the merged and expanded schools in this round of closures would get priority funding in the district’s 2020-21 budget to ensure they have the support they need to succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will talk about what our priorities are,” she said. “We will need to think about the investments we need to make for the next school year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell, who backs the mergers, noted the weight of the decision, acknowledging that the district is expecting to lose students who may not want to stay after their schools have closed. But she also said this created an opportunity to build stronger merged schools that may actually attract new students moving into those neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move follows the board’s recent approval of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/18311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blueprint for Quality Schools\u003c/a> plan to restructure the district and close up to 24 of its roughly 80 schools, many of which are under-enrolled and struggling academically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first round of closures and mergers last year, which included the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721969/school-board-votes-decisively-to-close-east-oaklands-roots-middle-school-by-end-of-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial shuttering\u003c/a> of Roots International Academy, the district admitted it did not provide enough support to staff during the process. This time around, the district said, it has allotted $300,000 to help those school communities with the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Closing schools is not the answer to addressing those inequities,” Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, told the board. “It’s fully funding our schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal to close Kaiser and merge it with Sankofa has proved particularly controversial and racially fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is a diverse school in the more affluent hills with a sizable white population and strong parent involvement. Its excellent academic reputation draws students from largely middle-class families throughout North Oakland. Sankofa, on the other hand, has long struggled academically, with declining enrollment and a largely low-income, African American student body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The months-long debate over their merger has involved heated exchanges about race and equity in Oakland, with some opponents accusing the district of pitting the two communities against each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple parents and teachers from Kaiser gave emotional appeals before the board, pointing to the school as a shining model of success in a district with a less-than-stellar record. They implored the board to instead consider expanding the campus and bringing other schools into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a way to do this so we could be successful, but we don’t have buy-in to do this,” said Gonzales, who voted against the merger. “Without buy-in from teachers, and very little buy-in from parents, I don’t think it’s going to work and I think it’s a little irresponsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oakland-schools\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Kaiser parents have threatened to file lawsuits or initiate recall campaigns against board members. And a group of Kaiser teachers said they would refuse to participate in the redesign process, vowing to continue the fight after the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will take a day to process and decide how to move forward as a community,” said Alicia Johnson, a Kaiser parent. “A lot of damage was done intentionally to both communities, and the way forward is unclear. The board is corrupt and does not care about best outcomes for children and communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa parents and teachers, however, have said they would be happy to merge with anyone, as long as they could stay on their campuses and receive adequate resources to improve their school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johnson-Trammell, the schools will plan their “redesigns” this year and merge in 2020-21 with a goal of first getting the school communities to work together to support the new school and then moving toward improving academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board voted separately to close Oakland School of Language dual-language immersion middle school and merge it with Frick Academy, following Johnson-Trammell’s promise that the two schools could spend more than a year planning their redesigns if necessary after merging onto one campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move, too, while not as contentious, has also drawn ire from community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The children wear uniforms now. It’s a better situation. And all of a sudden you’re going to take the children in my district and move some other kids in there,” one Frick parent told the board. “It’s not fair. You need to stop, man. Seriously. You need to let our children have their school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the board approved expanding the popular Melrose Leadership Academy onto two campuses. It also voted to invest more money in Fruitvale Elementary in East Oakland in the hope that more families in that neighborhood in will choose to send their children there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fruitvale “posted significant double-digit growth” in its Smarter Balanced statewide test scores in English and math for students in grades 3 through 5 in 2018-19, according to the staff report to the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: As a special project, EdSource is tracking developments this year in the Oakland Unified and West Contra Costa Unified school districts as a way to illustrate some of the most urgent challenges facing many urban districts in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last year, Octavio Mendoza attended Roots International Academy, a small school in his East Oakland neighborhood with just over 300 students. This year, the eighth-grader is trying to find his way among 715 students at a new middle school, Elmhurst United.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ady Rios, parent of Octavio Mendoza, a student at Elmhurst United\"]I picked him up on his second day and he came home and didn’t want to eat, didn’t want to do anything.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This transition wasn’t the 13-year-old’s idea. The Oakland Unified School District closed Octavio’s previous school as part of a wave of school restructuring, with the intention of creating a sustainable budget model. But Octavio said the emotional toll of attending a new school has been high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anyone there yet, unlike Roots where I knew a lot of my friends.” he said. “I could be who I wanted at Roots, but at Elmhurst I feel like people could judge who you are because you don’t know the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom, Ady Rios, began to cry as she recalled her son’s distress during the first week at the new school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I picked him up on his second day and he came home and didn’t want to eat, didn’t want to do anything,” Rios said. “Straight two days it was nothing but crying. My husband and myself had to go lay down with him and tell him it was going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771508\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771508\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2-800x698.jpg\" alt=\"Ady Rios said her son found switching schools stressful. "I picked him up on his second day and he came home and didn't want to eat, didn't want to do anything," Rios said.\" width=\"800\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2-800x698.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2-1020x890.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2-1200x1048.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ady Rios said her son found switching schools stressful. “I picked him up on his second day and he came home and didn’t want to eat, didn’t want to do anything,” Rios said. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Middle school is often a tumultuous time for teens, and starting over at a new school only added to Octavio’s stress. “It was hard to get used to the entire school,” he said. “Knowing I was in eighth grade made me feel kind of minimal there. I know I’m supposed to be like a leader of it, but it was just really weird to be there, in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district closed Roots this year as part of its Citywide Blueprint for Quality Schools, a plan to reduce the total number of schools in the district by 24 over the course of several years. The district says that restructuring will help create higher-quality schools throughout the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\">one of the first schools\u003c/a> to be closed under the plan. It had declining enrollment and poor academic outcomes, which the district said put it on the list for closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771090\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 399px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/pasted-image-0.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11771090 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/pasted-image-0.png\" alt=\"Students from the now-shuttered Roots Academy were enrolled at other district schools. OUSD was not able to track all former Roots students.\" width=\"399\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/pasted-image-0.png 399w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/pasted-image-0-160x178.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from the now-shuttered Roots Academy were enrolled at other district schools. OUSD was not able to track all former Roots students.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy’s closure meant that 162 rising sixth and seventh-graders needed to be enrolled in new schools before the start of eighth grade, according to the district. District officials said they intended to work with those families to find the most appropriate placement for their children, and highlighted the opportunity to transfer to better-performing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to district data, 40 of those students are now at Elmhurst United, an East Oakland school newly formed by merging Elmhurst Community Prep and Alliance Academy, all part of the first phase of school restructuring. The district estimates 10 students left OUSD-run schools altogether, but can’t confirm whether they went to charter or private schools, elected home-schooling or simply moved out of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for some Roots families, the upheaval may not be over. Twenty-three Roots students now attend Oakland SOL (School of Language) and another 23 attend Frick Impact Academy — both schools are slated for a merger within the next year. The stress and uncertainty of the looming closure is one more hurdle teachers and students have to overcome this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents in the district now say they are wary of picking a school that could end up on a closure list, as plans continue to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Wilson, the district’s former head of enrollment, stands by the decision to close Roots but regrets the compressed timeline. “I wish the decision had been made before the start of the 2018-19 school year so this [relocation of students] could have been carried out more fully,” Wilson wrote in a statement. “I just didn’t have the staff to devote to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"oakland-schools\" label=\"A changing district\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Elmhurst United, principal Kilian Betlach said he and staff strategized on how to make Roots students feel welcome, even as they were trying to figure out the merger of Alliance and Elmhurst Community Prep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put Roots students together when we could. We hired a Roots teacher also,” said Betlach. He also worked with the district to get bus passes for Roots students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Octavio said seeing fellow Roots students at Elmhurst has helped. “I try and socialize with them,” he said. “We just stick together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also helped when former Roots principal Geoff Vu stopped by Elmhurst to check in on the first day of school, said Octavio. “He was wearing a Roots jacket and it just made me so happy,” he said. “He gave me a fist bump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Octavio worries about performing academically with new teachers and more structure than he had at Roots, but he thinks he’ll get used to Elmhurst. “It’s an all right school but I miss Roots, the campus and the feeling of being there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: This story originally reported Roots International Academy had 266 rising seventh graders. The school had 162 rising sixth and seventh graders, according to the district. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This transition wasn’t the 13-year-old’s idea. The Oakland Unified School District closed Octavio’s previous school as part of a wave of school restructuring, with the intention of creating a sustainable budget model. But Octavio said the emotional toll of attending a new school has been high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anyone there yet, unlike Roots where I knew a lot of my friends.” he said. “I could be who I wanted at Roots, but at Elmhurst I feel like people could judge who you are because you don’t know the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom, Ady Rios, began to cry as she recalled her son’s distress during the first week at the new school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I picked him up on his second day and he came home and didn’t want to eat, didn’t want to do anything,” Rios said. “Straight two days it was nothing but crying. My husband and myself had to go lay down with him and tell him it was going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771508\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771508\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2-800x698.jpg\" alt=\"Ady Rios said her son found switching schools stressful. "I picked him up on his second day and he came home and didn't want to eat, didn't want to do anything," Rios said.\" width=\"800\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2-800x698.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2-1020x890.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2-1200x1048.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ady Rios said her son found switching schools stressful. “I picked him up on his second day and he came home and didn’t want to eat, didn’t want to do anything,” Rios said. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Middle school is often a tumultuous time for teens, and starting over at a new school only added to Octavio’s stress. “It was hard to get used to the entire school,” he said. “Knowing I was in eighth grade made me feel kind of minimal there. I know I’m supposed to be like a leader of it, but it was just really weird to be there, in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district closed Roots this year as part of its Citywide Blueprint for Quality Schools, a plan to reduce the total number of schools in the district by 24 over the course of several years. The district says that restructuring will help create higher-quality schools throughout the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\">one of the first schools\u003c/a> to be closed under the plan. It had declining enrollment and poor academic outcomes, which the district said put it on the list for closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771090\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 399px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/pasted-image-0.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11771090 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/pasted-image-0.png\" alt=\"Students from the now-shuttered Roots Academy were enrolled at other district schools. OUSD was not able to track all former Roots students.\" width=\"399\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/pasted-image-0.png 399w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/pasted-image-0-160x178.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from the now-shuttered Roots Academy were enrolled at other district schools. OUSD was not able to track all former Roots students.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy’s closure meant that 162 rising sixth and seventh-graders needed to be enrolled in new schools before the start of eighth grade, according to the district. District officials said they intended to work with those families to find the most appropriate placement for their children, and highlighted the opportunity to transfer to better-performing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to district data, 40 of those students are now at Elmhurst United, an East Oakland school newly formed by merging Elmhurst Community Prep and Alliance Academy, all part of the first phase of school restructuring. The district estimates 10 students left OUSD-run schools altogether, but can’t confirm whether they went to charter or private schools, elected home-schooling or simply moved out of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for some Roots families, the upheaval may not be over. Twenty-three Roots students now attend Oakland SOL (School of Language) and another 23 attend Frick Impact Academy — both schools are slated for a merger within the next year. The stress and uncertainty of the looming closure is one more hurdle teachers and students have to overcome this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents in the district now say they are wary of picking a school that could end up on a closure list, as plans continue to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an emotional Oakland school board meeting Wednesday night, parents, students and staff from four schools slated for closure and consolidation made their case for more time to help shape the plans that will radically alter their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://fcmat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/08/Oakland-USD-final-report.pdf\">Under pressure from a state oversight body\u003c/a> to balance its budget, the Oakland Unified School District is crafting plans to reduce its total number of schools by up to 24 and to invest any cost savings in strengthening existing schools. Four schools — Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, Sankofa Academy, Oakland SOL (School of Language) and Frick Impact Academy — are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769908/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students\">targeted to be merged\u003c/a> in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But overwhelmingly the board was scorned by parents who showed up from across the district to express their profound mistrust of the institution that serves their children. Parent after parent asked for evidence that the closures would save the district money and, more importantly, help improve educational outcomes for students. Many cited the district’s own \u003ca href=\"http://grandjury.acgov.org/grandjury-assets/docs/2018-2019/OUSD%20Broken%20Culture.FR-2.pdf\">history of fiscal mismanagement.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees line up to speak at an Oakland school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees line up to speak at an Oakland school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"oakland-schools\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been starving for resources for years now. My son attended Sankofa back in the second grade. He is currently in 10th grade at McClymonds,” said Valerie Manchester, who has a fourth-grader at Sankofa. “You guys have lied to us and deceived us since then. It does not make any sense, I don’t see how you guys can sit on this board and sit here with straight faces and not consider these children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the largest groups in attendance Wednesday night was representing Kaiser Elementary, sporting green T-shirts and carrying signs saying “Do No Harm” to express opposition to the proposed merger of their school with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parents who addressed the board argued that they chose their school because it is small and their children do better in that environment. They also pointed to data showing that their school closes the achievement gap for its black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daryl Guidry, a parent at Kaiser, said that families of color are being underserved in Oakland but not at Kaiser. “When you are closing schools that are taking care of families of color and most importantly children of color, that’s just lack of resources,” Guidry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But school board member James Harris challenged the Kaiser parents — a school that is about one-third white, largely affluent and located in the Claremont Hills — to reconsider their opposition to merging with Sankofa Academy in North Oakland’s Bushrod neighborhood, where the majority of youth qualify for free or reduced-price lunches and are students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re coming from a special place. I would ask you to think about what would it mean to share that experience with people that have not had that special experience,” Harris said. “What would it mean for the community at Kaiser to say: You know what? Oakland needs us to do something differently now. Oakland needs us to show up in a different way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His statement was met with scornful jeers from some in the audience, but Harris rebutted, “I’m presenting this to you to think about as a community. You can take it or leave it. I’m not here to argue with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770915 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019 OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading "Do Not Harm" in opposition to the district's plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1321\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1200x826.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019, OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading “Do Not Harm” in opposition to the district’s plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board seemed united on one thing: forcing change on Kaiser. One option they’re considering is relocating Kaiser to the larger Santa Fe Elementary campus where there is space to expand the model. Reopening Santa Fe is a move strongly supported by parents in that neighborhood, who also turned up in force at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response to the resistance that many Kaiser parents were showing towards any changes, board member Shanthi Gonzales went so far as to suggest the school be eventually phased out, by halting kindergarten enrollment after this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several board members also questioned why district staff had abandoned an earlier idea of merging a different elementary —Peralta — with Sankofa. A Peralta parent gave the board \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EDYw9DJ8ff0fF0NojT8PsayEM2KGDfZD5hqBWPUSiFU/edit?ts=5d4d167c\">a letter\u003c/a> signed by 50 parents who support merging their school with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770918 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Unified School District Vice President Jody London, President Aimee Eng, and Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell (left to right) listen to speakers at a school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-800x592.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-1020x755.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-1200x888.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District Vice President Jody London, President Aimee Eng and Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell (left to right) listen to speakers at a school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are Peralta folks who are interested in a merger with Sankofa, and I think that’s going to lead us to be much more successful,” Gonzales said. “I’m interested in them being at a bigger campus where we can draw more students into OUSD and into a quality program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of two other schools slated for a merger were also discussed at Wednesday’s meeting. Oakland SOL and Frick Impact Academy, both in East Oakland neighborhoods that Gonzales represents, are slated to consolidate onto the Frick campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales seemed to agree with the cries of parents from both schools who say they’re in favor of merging, but insist more time is needed to plan for the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You heard SOL and Frick ask for more time tonight. Is that possible?” Gonzales asked, directing her comments to OUSD Deputy Innovation Officer Yvette Renteria. “You have two brand-new principals at Frick and SOL. What do you anticipate them needing and how are they going to get it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales pointed to the fact that the schools are 1.4 miles apart and that Oakland SOL has a dual-language immersion program while Frick does not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770917\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent\" href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770917 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Parents in attendance at the OUSD board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-1020x737.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-1200x868.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents in attendance at the OUSD board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At stake for some parents is the changing racial makeup of their neighborhoods and schools. Frick Academy’s students are about 41% African American and 53% Latinx, while Oakland SOL has a 71% Latinx student body. Some parents have expressed concern about how merging the two schools will tip the balance toward a much heavier Latinx student ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Sankofa parent concerned about gentrification in a historically black neighborhood said, “I know what I felt like when I went outside and my whole neighborhood changed. I been in that neighborhood for years and years, 40-plus. It’s important that you think of the people before you make moves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting, Renteria and some board members acknowledged earlier mistakes made during the first phase of mergers and closures last year. In merging Alliance Academy and Elmhurst Community Prep\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>district officials admitted that they did not provide enough support for the budgeting or planning process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also failed to relocate all 266 seventh graders displaced by the closure of Roots International Academy into better schools, which had been the intention. In fact, 46 Roots students are now at Oakland SOL and Frick, potentially facing upheaval once again in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria said that to support the current phase of closures, a philanthropic foundation donated $200,000 over the coming two years to help fund the work of reconfiguring smaller schools into larger ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first phase of closures, Oakland-based nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.educate78.org/who-we-are/\">Educate78\u003c/a> paid for a consultant to help Alliance and Elmhurst middle schools combine into Elmhurst United this past school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to dismantle the district’s smaller schools is an ironic twist in the history of school reform efforts in Oakland. In 2000 the Gates Foundation spent millions to help launch the small schools movement across the country, with an initial focus on the Bay Area. The first 10 of those smaller schools opened in Oakland, beginning with a difficult process of breaking apart older, larger schools and their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is scheduled to make a decision Sept. 11 on the current round of closures and mergers, which is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/blueprintforquality\">OUSD’s Citywide Blueprint for Quality Schools.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an emotional Oakland school board meeting Wednesday night, parents, students and staff from four schools slated for closure and consolidation made their case for more time to help shape the plans that will radically alter their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://fcmat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/08/Oakland-USD-final-report.pdf\">Under pressure from a state oversight body\u003c/a> to balance its budget, the Oakland Unified School District is crafting plans to reduce its total number of schools by up to 24 and to invest any cost savings in strengthening existing schools. Four schools — Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, Sankofa Academy, Oakland SOL (School of Language) and Frick Impact Academy — are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769908/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students\">targeted to be merged\u003c/a> in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But overwhelmingly the board was scorned by parents who showed up from across the district to express their profound mistrust of the institution that serves their children. Parent after parent asked for evidence that the closures would save the district money and, more importantly, help improve educational outcomes for students. Many cited the district’s own \u003ca href=\"http://grandjury.acgov.org/grandjury-assets/docs/2018-2019/OUSD%20Broken%20Culture.FR-2.pdf\">history of fiscal mismanagement.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees line up to speak at an Oakland school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees line up to speak at an Oakland school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been starving for resources for years now. My son attended Sankofa back in the second grade. He is currently in 10th grade at McClymonds,” said Valerie Manchester, who has a fourth-grader at Sankofa. “You guys have lied to us and deceived us since then. It does not make any sense, I don’t see how you guys can sit on this board and sit here with straight faces and not consider these children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the largest groups in attendance Wednesday night was representing Kaiser Elementary, sporting green T-shirts and carrying signs saying “Do No Harm” to express opposition to the proposed merger of their school with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parents who addressed the board argued that they chose their school because it is small and their children do better in that environment. They also pointed to data showing that their school closes the achievement gap for its black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daryl Guidry, a parent at Kaiser, said that families of color are being underserved in Oakland but not at Kaiser. “When you are closing schools that are taking care of families of color and most importantly children of color, that’s just lack of resources,” Guidry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But school board member James Harris challenged the Kaiser parents — a school that is about one-third white, largely affluent and located in the Claremont Hills — to reconsider their opposition to merging with Sankofa Academy in North Oakland’s Bushrod neighborhood, where the majority of youth qualify for free or reduced-price lunches and are students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re coming from a special place. I would ask you to think about what would it mean to share that experience with people that have not had that special experience,” Harris said. “What would it mean for the community at Kaiser to say: You know what? Oakland needs us to do something differently now. Oakland needs us to show up in a different way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His statement was met with scornful jeers from some in the audience, but Harris rebutted, “I’m presenting this to you to think about as a community. You can take it or leave it. I’m not here to argue with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770915 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019 OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading "Do Not Harm" in opposition to the district's plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1321\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1200x826.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019, OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading “Do Not Harm” in opposition to the district’s plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board seemed united on one thing: forcing change on Kaiser. One option they’re considering is relocating Kaiser to the larger Santa Fe Elementary campus where there is space to expand the model. Reopening Santa Fe is a move strongly supported by parents in that neighborhood, who also turned up in force at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response to the resistance that many Kaiser parents were showing towards any changes, board member Shanthi Gonzales went so far as to suggest the school be eventually phased out, by halting kindergarten enrollment after this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several board members also questioned why district staff had abandoned an earlier idea of merging a different elementary —Peralta — with Sankofa. A Peralta parent gave the board \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EDYw9DJ8ff0fF0NojT8PsayEM2KGDfZD5hqBWPUSiFU/edit?ts=5d4d167c\">a letter\u003c/a> signed by 50 parents who support merging their school with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770918 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Unified School District Vice President Jody London, President Aimee Eng, and Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell (left to right) listen to speakers at a school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-800x592.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-1020x755.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-1200x888.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District Vice President Jody London, President Aimee Eng and Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell (left to right) listen to speakers at a school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are Peralta folks who are interested in a merger with Sankofa, and I think that’s going to lead us to be much more successful,” Gonzales said. “I’m interested in them being at a bigger campus where we can draw more students into OUSD and into a quality program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of two other schools slated for a merger were also discussed at Wednesday’s meeting. Oakland SOL and Frick Impact Academy, both in East Oakland neighborhoods that Gonzales represents, are slated to consolidate onto the Frick campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales seemed to agree with the cries of parents from both schools who say they’re in favor of merging, but insist more time is needed to plan for the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You heard SOL and Frick ask for more time tonight. Is that possible?” Gonzales asked, directing her comments to OUSD Deputy Innovation Officer Yvette Renteria. “You have two brand-new principals at Frick and SOL. What do you anticipate them needing and how are they going to get it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales pointed to the fact that the schools are 1.4 miles apart and that Oakland SOL has a dual-language immersion program while Frick does not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770917\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent\" href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770917 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Parents in attendance at the OUSD board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-1020x737.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-1200x868.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents in attendance at the OUSD board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At stake for some parents is the changing racial makeup of their neighborhoods and schools. Frick Academy’s students are about 41% African American and 53% Latinx, while Oakland SOL has a 71% Latinx student body. Some parents have expressed concern about how merging the two schools will tip the balance toward a much heavier Latinx student ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Sankofa parent concerned about gentrification in a historically black neighborhood said, “I know what I felt like when I went outside and my whole neighborhood changed. I been in that neighborhood for years and years, 40-plus. It’s important that you think of the people before you make moves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting, Renteria and some board members acknowledged earlier mistakes made during the first phase of mergers and closures last year. In merging Alliance Academy and Elmhurst Community Prep\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>district officials admitted that they did not provide enough support for the budgeting or planning process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also failed to relocate all 266 seventh graders displaced by the closure of Roots International Academy into better schools, which had been the intention. In fact, 46 Roots students are now at Oakland SOL and Frick, potentially facing upheaval once again in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria said that to support the current phase of closures, a philanthropic foundation donated $200,000 over the coming two years to help fund the work of reconfiguring smaller schools into larger ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first phase of closures, Oakland-based nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.educate78.org/who-we-are/\">Educate78\u003c/a> paid for a consultant to help Alliance and Elmhurst middle schools combine into Elmhurst United this past school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to dismantle the district’s smaller schools is an ironic twist in the history of school reform efforts in Oakland. In 2000 the Gates Foundation spent millions to help launch the small schools movement across the country, with an initial focus on the Bay Area. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District's radical plan to downsize by closing and merging schools includes a key component to making sure displaced students end up in better schools. It's a policy change that could result in diversifying some of the city's most in-demand schools. But details of the so-called opportunity ticket have yet to be hammered out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opportunity ticket is the brainchild of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandreach.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland REACH\u003c/a>, a parent group committed to getting underserved communities into high-quality schools, and was approved by the OUSD Board of Education last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Lakisha Young, co-founder and executive director of The Oakland REACH\"]'The intent behind the policy has always been clear. It’s to provide a new chance for folks who have been disadvantaged in the system.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District enrollment currently gives priority to siblings entering a school and then to children of families that live in the school's neighborhood. The opportunity ticket would change that, allowing displaced students from schools that are geographically relocated to get priority enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An advisory group, including parents, met with OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell last week to recommend a fair way to implement the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The data’s very clear. Kids do better after a closure only if they go to a better school,\" said Katherine Lee, parent of a first-grader at Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary School and a parent in the advisory group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve heard the district say a lot, ‘We need to start doing things differently.’ Well closures and mergers aren’t different, but this opportunity ticket is different. It’s the one different thing that they are doing when it comes to how they are implementing these.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, school closures have hit schools harder that have a majority of black and brown students. That's why The Oakland REACH came up with the opportunity ticket idea, along with Dirk Tillotson of the \u003ca href=\"https://greatschoolvoices.org/author/dirk/\">State of Black Education Oakland\u003c/a>, said group co-founder and executive director Lakisha Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The intent behind the policy has always been clear,\" Young said. \"It’s to provide a new chance for folks who have been disadvantaged in the system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new enrollment policy has the potential to integrate some of the city's top schools by race and class. Currently, white students make up just 11.4% of the district-run public schools \u003ca href=\"https://greatschoolvoices.org/2019/02/buying-way-oakland-public-school-ally-equity-addresses-privilege-opportunity-race-need-opportunity-ticket/\">but are concentrated in a handful of top-performing schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reviewing the policy over the summer, the advisory group told Johnson-Trammell they are sticking with the original recommendations of no more than 10% of any grade level, nor more than 51% of open seats in any given school during an enrollment period, going to students with opportunity tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said she was told the district convened the working group to take another look at how many opportunity ticket students would get priority over neighborhood students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11769908,news_11735304,news_11766985,news_11721015,news_11716967,news_11711497\" label=\"Restructuring at the Oakland Unified School District\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wanted specifically for us to revisit those percentages because some of them had gotten some calls from parents at high-demand schools specifically,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how it might play out: If there are 100 open seats in a school, and 20 siblings enroll, then of the 80 remaining seats, at most 41 of them would go to children from outside that attendance area, using the opportunity ticket. As some critics see it, that's 41 neighborhood kids who would be displaced. Elmhurst United Middle School Principal Kilian Betlach, who was on the district's advisory committee, disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Neighborhood preference is not a guarantee. It’s preference,\" Betlach said. \"I wouldn't choose the word displacement. That’s the way it’s being framed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the district moves ahead with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769908/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students\">its plans\u003c/a> to merge Kaiser Elementary School with Sankofa Academy at the Sankofa site, and Oakland SOL with Frick Impact Academy at the Frick site, just the 280 students from Kaiser and 136 from SOL would get opportunity tickets to move to any of the city's top schools. Students from Sankofa and Frick would not have that option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that Kaiser parents at a school that is 31% white and already high-achieving would see their students get an opportunity ticket to another high-performing school is an irony not lost on Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a bunch of privileged families take a loophole in the policy to take this ticket to get a further leg up for their families, then I think folks need to take a long look in the mirror and revisit the signs in the window,\" Young said, of Kaiser parents who are resisting the merge with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advisory group considered limiting the ticket to affected students who fall into \"disadvantaged student\" categories defined by the Local Control Funding Formula, but backed off, said Lee. Betlach agreed with that move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to be policy leader in place like OUSD, where it’s incredibly segregated and a huge part of your community is not well served, and at same time the kids going to school in the hills and those young people ... we are also accountable to them,\" Betlach said. \"We can’t be hostile to them or to their privilege. They are part of community. It's a line to walk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several on the advisory board spoke of the opportunity ticket as a mechanism to soften the blow of the hardship of changing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"School closure kids go through negative experiences, and these structural changes are understood to be for the greater good. It makes sense to offer something for the sacrifice,\" Betlach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Elementary parent Katherine Lee said it was still unclear how her fellow parents were thinking about the choice between moving to Sankofa and creating a newly merged school or taking an opportunity ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, it's [Kaiser] an academically well-performing school. And so there might be a desire to go to another school that is as well performing or better,\" Lee said. \"And unfortunately, in Oakland, that tends to mean whiter schools. Ultimately, I don't know what each family's going to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Kaiser Elementary parents are already threatening to sue or leave the district altogether, should their school be merged, opportunity ticket or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is expected to weigh the recommendations before a final vote in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wanted specifically for us to revisit those percentages because some of them had gotten some calls from parents at high-demand schools specifically,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how it might play out: If there are 100 open seats in a school, and 20 siblings enroll, then of the 80 remaining seats, at most 41 of them would go to children from outside that attendance area, using the opportunity ticket. As some critics see it, that's 41 neighborhood kids who would be displaced. Elmhurst United Middle School Principal Kilian Betlach, who was on the district's advisory committee, disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Neighborhood preference is not a guarantee. It’s preference,\" Betlach said. \"I wouldn't choose the word displacement. That’s the way it’s being framed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the district moves ahead with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769908/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students\">its plans\u003c/a> to merge Kaiser Elementary School with Sankofa Academy at the Sankofa site, and Oakland SOL with Frick Impact Academy at the Frick site, just the 280 students from Kaiser and 136 from SOL would get opportunity tickets to move to any of the city's top schools. Students from Sankofa and Frick would not have that option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that Kaiser parents at a school that is 31% white and already high-achieving would see their students get an opportunity ticket to another high-performing school is an irony not lost on Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a bunch of privileged families take a loophole in the policy to take this ticket to get a further leg up for their families, then I think folks need to take a long look in the mirror and revisit the signs in the window,\" Young said, of Kaiser parents who are resisting the merge with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advisory group considered limiting the ticket to affected students who fall into \"disadvantaged student\" categories defined by the Local Control Funding Formula, but backed off, said Lee. Betlach agreed with that move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to be policy leader in place like OUSD, where it’s incredibly segregated and a huge part of your community is not well served, and at same time the kids going to school in the hills and those young people ... we are also accountable to them,\" Betlach said. \"We can’t be hostile to them or to their privilege. They are part of community. It's a line to walk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several on the advisory board spoke of the opportunity ticket as a mechanism to soften the blow of the hardship of changing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"School closure kids go through negative experiences, and these structural changes are understood to be for the greater good. It makes sense to offer something for the sacrifice,\" Betlach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Elementary parent Katherine Lee said it was still unclear how her fellow parents were thinking about the choice between moving to Sankofa and creating a newly merged school or taking an opportunity ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, it's [Kaiser] an academically well-performing school. And so there might be a desire to go to another school that is as well performing or better,\" Lee said. \"And unfortunately, in Oakland, that tends to mean whiter schools. Ultimately, I don't know what each family's going to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Kaiser Elementary parents are already threatening to sue or leave the district altogether, should their school be merged, opportunity ticket or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is expected to weigh the recommendations before a final vote in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District has unveiled plans for its second round of school restructuring, and it is already hearing from incensed parents who don't want to see their schools altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shuttered Roots International Academy Middle School\u003c/a>, which became a rallying point for teachers and families at school board meetings during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the teachers' strike\u003c/a>. This Wednesday's board meeting is now the first opportunity for district staff, parents and students to weigh in on the latest recommendations in front of the full board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11735304,news_11766985,news_11721015,news_11716967,news_11711497\" label=\"Restructuring at the Oakland School District\"]The district has been rolling ahead on a controversial plan to pare down its number of schools by as many as 24. In the first phase of the citywide plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/18243\">six schools were targeted for change\u003c/a> with roughly 1,500 students affected. Beyond closing Roots, two other schools in East Oakland were merged, another two are still in the planning stages and a third, Met West, has expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This second round of closures and mergers, expected to affect another 1,324 students, took some by surprise when it tagged a small, successful and diverse school in the Oakland hills, Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721070/oakland-unified-announces-plans-to-merge-kaiser-and-sankofa-elementary-schools-as-part-of-major-downsizing-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merge with Sankofa Elementary\u003c/a> on the Sankofa campus in North Oakland. In addition, Oakland SOL in East Oakland, which offers a dual-language immersion program, will merge with Frick Impact Academy on the Frick campus, also in East Oakland. And Melrose Leadership Academy (MLA), another dual-language program, would expand to upper and lower campuses across Maxwell Park and Sherman facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district used a variety of factors to determine which schools would be affected, including the potential for cost savings, how well a school was performing academically, teacher retention, enrollment trends and demand for certain programs. The district is under pressure to reduce the number of schools it has in order to save money, but officials and school board members have maintained the restructuring is also an opportunity to create more equitable schools across the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all parents see it that way. Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson said parents at both Kaiser and Sankofa would be sending a letter to the board opposing their merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"OUSD staff continues to use misinformation, unscientific 'data' and conflicting rhetoric to justify their closing of Kaiser Elementary and starving Sankofa of much needed resources,\" Johnson wrote in an email. \"The school board has the opportunity to do the right thing and demand that OUSD stop this flawed and deceptive process and truly engage their community to tackle the problems OUSD is facing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parents are scheduled to meet again with OUSD officials Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district held a series of meetings over the summer with parents from all of the schools involved, in order to discuss the possible changes. The final recommendations were made public just a few days ahead of the Aug. 28 board meeting, when the board will take public comment. The board is then scheduled to vote on the recommendations on Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents from Kaiser and Sankofa \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11766985/its-all-about-race-parents-want-say-in-how-oakland-schools-integrate\">have expressed skepticism\u003c/a> that the district can successfully pull off a consolidation of two school cultures. The district reported some MLA families shared that concern and that some SOL parents are worried about the lack of safe routes to Frick for students who live near SOL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/26/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11769976\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11769976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Principal Kilian Betlach is already overseeing the merger of two schools into Elmhurst United. \u003ccite>(Olivia Obeneme/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Principal Kilian Betlach has overseen the merger of Elmhurst and Alliance middle schools in the first phase of the district's plan. The two newly merged schools, renamed Elmhurst United, opened three weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betlach said that after his schools' merger was announced, the district seemed to take a \"do-it-yourself\" approach when it came to supporting the two schools through the planning process. Betlach said he hopes this time around the district is more intentional in the planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of what would be interesting to me would be to see what level of detail staff goes into, what support they will offer. With us it was incredibly vague, it was pretty much nothing, in terms of support, and with a really small amount of money,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betlach, though, considers the outcome of the merger to be positive so far. Elmhurst United has increased enrollment to 715 students this year, beyond district expectations, he said. And the school was able to bring in new resources to hire an assistant principal, two science teachers, and add music, dance and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are supportive of the potential mergers as well. Lakisha Young, who runs Oakland Reach, a parent group representing many families in East Oakland, said she supports the efforts to remake schools if it leads to more quality schools for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district has been trying to get Kaiser down off that hill for years,\" said Young, referring to earlier attempts to close Kaiser, which the school fended off. \"This sends a big message. The will and the courage to do what’s right for all students, that is the leadership that is needed. I think it’s important that all communities, not just all flatland communities, are impacted by this shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is estimating the second round of mergers will save $1,147,117 over five years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The district has been rolling ahead on a controversial plan to pare down its number of schools by as many as 24. In the first phase of the citywide plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/18243\">six schools were targeted for change\u003c/a> with roughly 1,500 students affected. Beyond closing Roots, two other schools in East Oakland were merged, another two are still in the planning stages and a third, Met West, has expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This second round of closures and mergers, expected to affect another 1,324 students, took some by surprise when it tagged a small, successful and diverse school in the Oakland hills, Henry J. 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