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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel Mann, a fourth grade teacher at Allendale Elementary, sat on the concrete steps of the amphitheater in front of Oakland’s City Hall on Friday, among the roughly 200 people gathered to protest the city’s recently announced school closure plans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are a school district,” Mann said. “We should be keeping schools open and cutting everything else we could possibly cut.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of January, the Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWL0ZdDNCWBGV4OgE3oyQ0nNgHi4F-Nj/view?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district’s enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/01/12/how-to-watch-and-participate-in-oakland-school-board-meetings/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgP6PBhDmARIsAPWMq6l80j09E4PPDprx-M-slG7l7Ah3rqM0OtHxTiE_6wHP_MVq0izmCHAaAlsTEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will vote on the plan on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in a meeting open to the public virtually via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/boewatch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Brown, Oakland Education Association President, speaks to the crowd during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the announcement, families and teachers opposing the proposal have demonstrated on school campuses, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/protesters-caravan-to-denounce-ousd-school-closures/\">in car caravans and outside the homes of school board members\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Hutchinson, OUSD school board director\"]‘We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mann said she’d rather see cuts come from the salaries of district administrators or from the money OUSD pays to lease and operate its downtown headquarters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think those things should be cut first before actual humans are made to change their whole entire lives and go to a new school or have no school in their neighborhood,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing nearby was Audrey Darnis, a teacher at Manzanita Community School, which serves students in Fruitvale and East Oakland. The district’s proposal would merge her school with Fruitvale Elementary, starting in the 2023-2024 school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many of the students live right in the neighborhood, right? So they walk to school. A majority of my students’ families do not have cars,” Darnis said, noting that Fruitvale Elementary is about a mile away from Manzanita. “If their school shuts down, it’s going to be very hard for them to get to another school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt='Three young people stand with their signs. One in a purple jacket, one in a red jacket and one person in a jean jacket with a sign saying \"Hands off our schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malou, a Melrose Leadership Academy student, listens to speeches with two friends during a rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she understands the district’s proposal is hard on students and teachers, especially given Oakland’s history of school closures over the last two decades — many of them campuses where the majority of students were Black. \u003c/span>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101887739,news_11900752\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have been through so much trauma and they have every right to feel distrustful and fearful about this decision,” she said in an interview with KQED on Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment in OUSD has declined by nearly 20,000 students over the last two decades, from over 52,000 in 2002 to just under 35,500 now, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And because state funding for public schools is tied to attendance, as students left the district, so did a lot of money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf says consolidating schools is necessary to fix structural problems in the district’s budget. “When you look at districts like Stockton, Fremont, San Jose, they serve roughly the same number of students — about 33,000,” she said. “But they do it in almost half the campuses — between 41 and 48 campuses — in those three districts, whereas Oakland has 80 campuses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Schaaf, the consolidation would allow the district to redirect more funds from building upkeep and redundant administrative costs to student services. “This is an opportunity to do better for our students, our educators, and our families,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School board member Mike Hutchinson, who is opposed to the consolidation plan, said it breaks promises the district made to the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students Resolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a response to longtime efforts by community activists to call attention to the displacement of Black students and the disproportionate impact school closures in the district have had on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the resolution, the board promised, among other things, to work with the newly created Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force to develop an equity impact analysis before announcing additional school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But on January 12, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DPEJIKPw_pyiS_6ZTzya59OpvIAYtPC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the board instructed the superintendent\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to move forward on a consolidation plan, in spite of its commitments made in the Reparations for Black Students resolution. They also instructed the district to do so without consideration for previous resolutions designed to improve community engagement ahead of school closures. Instead, the board asked for a plan as soon as possible, that could be put into action in the next school year and the year after. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1020x751.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1536x1131.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-2048x1508.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1920x1413.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, school board director for District 5, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally there on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says the rush is eroding community trust in the board. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities,” Hutchinson said at a rally on Saturday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prescott, an elementary school in West Oakland, is a prime example. The school, which has served Oakland students for more than a century, is where Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first Black teacher, began teaching in the 1920s. Now it’s on the chopping block.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lavena Brown, who attended a rally at Prescott on Saturday morning, says she lives near the school and was once a student there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There’s a lot of memories here,” she said of Prescott, the only elementary school in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. “All my family, my parents went to this school. I went to this school in the ’70s, my parents way before me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the district’s plan, Prescott students would go to either Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary — about a mile away — or Hoover Elementary — about two miles away — starting next school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904314 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black head scarf and a black hoodie with images from Mario Kart poses for a portrait the a young child wearing glasses. The child is holding a sign that reads, "Don't cut our kids." Stick into the frame above them is the top of a basketball hoop. Behind them are two cream and blue portable classrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Wade and her son Samuel pose for a portrait during a rally at Prescott School on Feb. 5, 2022. Wade is a graduate of Prescott and Samuel is a student at OUSD’s Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says keeping neighborhood schools open is a basic issue of fairness. “Every community pays taxes. Every community deserves the same access to resources,” he says. “If our anchor public elementary schools close, that leaves that community, that neighborhood, without access to public resources.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across town, two OUSD staff members have turned to more drastic methods to protest the closure plan: Moses Omolade, OUSD’s program director for community schools, and Maurice André San-Chez, a choir and dance teacher at Westlake Middle School, have been on a hunger strike since last Monday. The two are camped out on the front lawn of the school, which, under the district’s proposal, would be merged with West Oakland Middle School, roughly two miles away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904317\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg\" alt='Two tents, one gray and one red stand on a lawn above a small retaining wall. A sign next to the tents reads, \"Westlake Middle School, Westlake convocation hunger strike day 5.\" In front of the tents a line of protest signs lines the edge of the retaining wall. Two read, \"No cuts, no closures.\" Behind the tents and one story white and green school building is visible. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OUSD staff members engaged in a hunger strike have set up a camp on the front lawn of Westlake Middle School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omolade says the short timeline for the approval of the plan and the lack of community engagement in the process has backed the families and teachers into a corner. When the plan was announced, he says, his world was turned upside down. “The community was struck. Kids freaking out, parents freaking out, staff freaking out,” he said. “Prescott, 150 years! At the stroke of a pen and a Zoom call, you think you’re about to take Prescott?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In thinking about how to protest, Omolade said he reflected on how his body has always been politicized. “I’m in a really large Black body — 6’8”, 210, and dark as night. And it’s a beautiful thing, but that hasn’t always been the messaging.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904316\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904316 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A waist-up photo of a man wearing a maroon beanie and a gray Westlake Middle School t-shirt. He's sitting in a green armchair. He has two nose piercings and septum piercing. He has beaded necklaces around his neck and his arms are spread out over the arms of the armchair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses Omolade, OUSD program director of community schools, sits in an armchair outside Westlake Middle School. Omolade is one of two OUSD staff members on a hunger strike. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says his decision to go on hunger strike is a way to show the board how much these closures will affect the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is what it looks like when you continue to make choices that create harm that you are so far removed from,” he said. “You don’t get to see those children and those families hurt and cry and travel across Oakland, lose hubs, community hubs, that produced their ancestors. So now this is what it looks like. I want you to see my body.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel Mann, a fourth grade teacher at Allendale Elementary, sat on the concrete steps of the amphitheater in front of Oakland’s City Hall on Friday, among the roughly 200 people gathered to protest the city’s recently announced school closure plans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are a school district,” Mann said. “We should be keeping schools open and cutting everything else we could possibly cut.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of January, the Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWL0ZdDNCWBGV4OgE3oyQ0nNgHi4F-Nj/view?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district’s enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/01/12/how-to-watch-and-participate-in-oakland-school-board-meetings/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgP6PBhDmARIsAPWMq6l80j09E4PPDprx-M-slG7l7Ah3rqM0OtHxTiE_6wHP_MVq0izmCHAaAlsTEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will vote on the plan on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in a meeting open to the public virtually via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/boewatch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Brown, Oakland Education Association President, speaks to the crowd during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the announcement, families and teachers opposing the proposal have demonstrated on school campuses, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/protesters-caravan-to-denounce-ousd-school-closures/\">in car caravans and outside the homes of school board members\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mann said she’d rather see cuts come from the salaries of district administrators or from the money OUSD pays to lease and operate its downtown headquarters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think those things should be cut first before actual humans are made to change their whole entire lives and go to a new school or have no school in their neighborhood,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing nearby was Audrey Darnis, a teacher at Manzanita Community School, which serves students in Fruitvale and East Oakland. The district’s proposal would merge her school with Fruitvale Elementary, starting in the 2023-2024 school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many of the students live right in the neighborhood, right? So they walk to school. A majority of my students’ families do not have cars,” Darnis said, noting that Fruitvale Elementary is about a mile away from Manzanita. “If their school shuts down, it’s going to be very hard for them to get to another school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt='Three young people stand with their signs. One in a purple jacket, one in a red jacket and one person in a jean jacket with a sign saying \"Hands off our schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malou, a Melrose Leadership Academy student, listens to speeches with two friends during a rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she understands the district’s proposal is hard on students and teachers, especially given Oakland’s history of school closures over the last two decades — many of them campuses where the majority of students were Black. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have been through so much trauma and they have every right to feel distrustful and fearful about this decision,” she said in an interview with KQED on Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment in OUSD has declined by nearly 20,000 students over the last two decades, from over 52,000 in 2002 to just under 35,500 now, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And because state funding for public schools is tied to attendance, as students left the district, so did a lot of money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf says consolidating schools is necessary to fix structural problems in the district’s budget. “When you look at districts like Stockton, Fremont, San Jose, they serve roughly the same number of students — about 33,000,” she said. “But they do it in almost half the campuses — between 41 and 48 campuses — in those three districts, whereas Oakland has 80 campuses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Schaaf, the consolidation would allow the district to redirect more funds from building upkeep and redundant administrative costs to student services. “This is an opportunity to do better for our students, our educators, and our families,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School board member Mike Hutchinson, who is opposed to the consolidation plan, said it breaks promises the district made to the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students Resolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a response to longtime efforts by community activists to call attention to the displacement of Black students and the disproportionate impact school closures in the district have had on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the resolution, the board promised, among other things, to work with the newly created Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force to develop an equity impact analysis before announcing additional school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But on January 12, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DPEJIKPw_pyiS_6ZTzya59OpvIAYtPC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the board instructed the superintendent\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to move forward on a consolidation plan, in spite of its commitments made in the Reparations for Black Students resolution. They also instructed the district to do so without consideration for previous resolutions designed to improve community engagement ahead of school closures. Instead, the board asked for a plan as soon as possible, that could be put into action in the next school year and the year after. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1020x751.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1536x1131.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-2048x1508.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1920x1413.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, school board director for District 5, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally there on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says the rush is eroding community trust in the board. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities,” Hutchinson said at a rally on Saturday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prescott, an elementary school in West Oakland, is a prime example. The school, which has served Oakland students for more than a century, is where Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first Black teacher, began teaching in the 1920s. Now it’s on the chopping block.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lavena Brown, who attended a rally at Prescott on Saturday morning, says she lives near the school and was once a student there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There’s a lot of memories here,” she said of Prescott, the only elementary school in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. “All my family, my parents went to this school. I went to this school in the ’70s, my parents way before me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the district’s plan, Prescott students would go to either Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary — about a mile away — or Hoover Elementary — about two miles away — starting next school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904314 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black head scarf and a black hoodie with images from Mario Kart poses for a portrait the a young child wearing glasses. The child is holding a sign that reads, "Don't cut our kids." Stick into the frame above them is the top of a basketball hoop. Behind them are two cream and blue portable classrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Wade and her son Samuel pose for a portrait during a rally at Prescott School on Feb. 5, 2022. Wade is a graduate of Prescott and Samuel is a student at OUSD’s Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says keeping neighborhood schools open is a basic issue of fairness. “Every community pays taxes. Every community deserves the same access to resources,” he says. “If our anchor public elementary schools close, that leaves that community, that neighborhood, without access to public resources.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across town, two OUSD staff members have turned to more drastic methods to protest the closure plan: Moses Omolade, OUSD’s program director for community schools, and Maurice André San-Chez, a choir and dance teacher at Westlake Middle School, have been on a hunger strike since last Monday. The two are camped out on the front lawn of the school, which, under the district’s proposal, would be merged with West Oakland Middle School, roughly two miles away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904317\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg\" alt='Two tents, one gray and one red stand on a lawn above a small retaining wall. A sign next to the tents reads, \"Westlake Middle School, Westlake convocation hunger strike day 5.\" In front of the tents a line of protest signs lines the edge of the retaining wall. Two read, \"No cuts, no closures.\" Behind the tents and one story white and green school building is visible. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OUSD staff members engaged in a hunger strike have set up a camp on the front lawn of Westlake Middle School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omolade says the short timeline for the approval of the plan and the lack of community engagement in the process has backed the families and teachers into a corner. When the plan was announced, he says, his world was turned upside down. “The community was struck. Kids freaking out, parents freaking out, staff freaking out,” he said. “Prescott, 150 years! At the stroke of a pen and a Zoom call, you think you’re about to take Prescott?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In thinking about how to protest, Omolade said he reflected on how his body has always been politicized. “I’m in a really large Black body — 6’8”, 210, and dark as night. And it’s a beautiful thing, but that hasn’t always been the messaging.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904316\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904316 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A waist-up photo of a man wearing a maroon beanie and a gray Westlake Middle School t-shirt. He's sitting in a green armchair. He has two nose piercings and septum piercing. He has beaded necklaces around his neck and his arms are spread out over the arms of the armchair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses Omolade, OUSD program director of community schools, sits in an armchair outside Westlake Middle School. Omolade is one of two OUSD staff members on a hunger strike. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says his decision to go on hunger strike is a way to show the board how much these closures will affect the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is what it looks like when you continue to make choices that create harm that you are so far removed from,” he said. “You don’t get to see those children and those families hurt and cry and travel across Oakland, lose hubs, community hubs, that produced their ancestors. So now this is what it looks like. I want you to see my body.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In Oakland, Aspire Monarch Academy, a charter school, closed through the end of the week to “assess the risk presented by a staff member with potential, but not confirmed, exposure to the coronavirus,” according to the Oakland Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While children seem to be at low risk of getting seriously ill themselves, they could spread the virus to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Alameda County Public Health Department, a single presumptive positive case of the virus among students or staff could trigger a recommendation to close for up to 14 days. 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Berkeley Unified School District officials held a shutdown contingency meeting late this week and there were more questions than answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many districts in California and probably around the country, we currently have no process in place to accommodate distance learning at this kind of a scale,” said district spokeswoman Trish McDermott. “There are a lot of challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all students have internet access she says, pointing out the district serves students who are homeless or whose families can’t afford home internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other districts, Berkeley has assembled a team of administrators to develop contingency plans and assess distance learning options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.pivotlearning.org/2020/03/a-school-playbook-for-responding-to-coronavirus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">education organizations \u003c/a>have stepped in to offer advice, and districts are looking to one another for help. “Everyone is sharing their best practices and their ideas,” McDermott said. “We're all facing similar challenges, and the situation is just moving very quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, where fires and floods have forced emergency closures in the past few years, schools may have a leg up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At The Healdsburg School in Sonoma County, which briefly closed earlier this week out of concerns over the virus, teachers had begun collaborating on academic continuation plans a week earlier. On the day of the closure, teachers conveyed lesson plans to parents, or in the case of middle school students, directly to students via Google Classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One kindergarten teacher recorded a video of herself reading a story and uploaded it to YouTube for parents to show to her students at home. At the middle school level, teachers and students turned to Google Classroom to continue instruction, as well as lessons from Khan Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrie Smith, associate head of school at The Healdsburg School, says she’s gotten positive feedback from families about the approach. “They appreciate our clear communication and quick actions and the access to the curriculum so students can still continue with their learning at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shifting to distance learning at a small private school where internet access is a given for families and online tools are familiar for students is one thing. However, large urban districts have a different challenge on their hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, district leaders are considering providing families with a “menu of resources” including links to local library resources, Khan Academy courses or resources that could be accessed from home, though they acknowledge this only helps students with computers and access to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to address concerns about equity, Sonoma County Office of Education spokesperson Jamie Hansen said school leaders there had been asked to inventory tech capabilities, “including the ability to provide laptops and Wi-Fi to students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen said they are also waiting to hear from the California Department of Education about whether schools would be granted attendance credit for remote learning days. Schools depend on attendance numbers to receive state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond questions about learning and funding, keeping kids home has other implications that make closure a difficult call. For one, many students rely on school nutrition programs. “How would we keep that process in place if we were to close schools?” said Berkeley Unified’s McDermott. \"It's not a decision that would be easily made. It's certainly not something anyone wants to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Julia McEvoy contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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In Oakland, Aspire Monarch Academy, a charter school, closed through the end of the week to “assess the risk presented by a staff member with potential, but not confirmed, exposure to the coronavirus,” according to the Oakland Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While children seem to be at low risk of getting seriously ill themselves, they could spread the virus to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Alameda County Public Health Department, a single presumptive positive case of the virus among students or staff could trigger a recommendation to close for up to 14 days. The department released a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acphd.org%2Fmedia%2F558172%2Facphd-covid-19-childcare-k-12-school-guidance-20200306.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guidance document\u003c/a> for schools Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Expect that this is going to happen,” said Alameda County Office of Education spokesperson Michelle Smith-McDonald. “Don't know who, don't know where, but expect that we're going to have confirmations as we begin to test more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/el/le/yr20ltr0305.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updated guidance\u003c/a> Thursday emphasizing that decisions to close schools are made at the local level and CDE will not be providing directives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the case of COVID-19,\" the letter reads, \"the decision to close a school would either come from the school and/or district, or ideally from their local county public health officials.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, public health officials say they'll be working in partnership with schools on these decisions, but they stress that school and district leaders hold ultimate responsibility for closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a significant COVID-19 exposure occurs on a school site, [Alameda County Public Health Department] will work closely with school and school district administration to evaluate risk and determine steps to protect students, staff, and families by preventing the spread of disease,\" a department spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to determining when to close, schools must also consider alternative educational plans and it's proving no small task. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated: Friday, Oct. 11, 12:35 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a dozen school districts were closed Wednesday and announced plans to close Thursday due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778706/pge-power-shutoffs-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PG&E power shutoffs\u003c/a> in Northern and Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11778706]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is an alphabetized, updated list of school closures:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#northbay\">North Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#eastbay\">East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#southbay\">South Bay and Peninsula\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"northbay\">\u003c/a>North Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>K-12 Schools\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://alexandervalleyusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Valley Union School District\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>Closed\u003c/strong> both Wednesday through Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bvusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bennett Valley Union School District\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>Closed\u003c/strong> Wednesday through Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cloverdale-ca.schoolloop.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloverdale Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools are \u003cstrong>open \u003c/strong>on Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crpusd.org/news/what_s_new/p_g__e_notice_for_c_r_p_u_s_d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cotati-Rohnert Park School District\u003c/a>: All schools are \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> starting Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gusd.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geyserville Unified School District\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>Closed\u003c/strong> both Wednesday and Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://kashiaelementaryschool.weebly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kashia Elementary School District\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>Closed\u003c/strong> both Wednesday and Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinschools.org/cms/lib/CA01001323/Centricity/Domain/154/PGE%20letter%20to%20parents%20-%20signedMJB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marin County Office of Education\u003c/a>: Bolinas-Stinson School, Tam Valley Elementary and Tamalpais High School are \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mwusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark West Union School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be\u003cstrong> open \u003c/strong>on Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nvusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Unified School District\u003c/a>: All district schools will be \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> Wednesday and Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oldadobe.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=32&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=1810&PageID=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Adobe Union School District\u003c/a>: All schools are \u003cstrong>open \u003c/strong>Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pousd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piner-Olivet Union School District\u003c/a>: Schaefer Charter, Jack London Elementary, Olivet Elementary Charter, Piner-Olivet Charter and Northwest Prep were closed Wednesday. Schools are \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rvusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rincon Valley Union School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.srcschools.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa City Schools\u003c/a>: Only Hidden Valley Elementary will remain \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> on Friday, the district said. This means all after-school programs, such as childcare and athletics, are also canceled at these schools.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomaschools.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonoma Valley Unified School District\u003c/a>: Schools will be \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> Wednesday through Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vacavilleusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vacaville Unified School District\u003c/a>: Buckingham Charter will be \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> through Friday. All other schools plan to stay open.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://wesd-ca.schoolloop.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waugh School District:\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Closed\u003c/strong> for non-student days.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://woa.wusd.org/o/windsor-unified-school-district/live_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windsor Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> Wednesday through Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Colleges and Universities:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.santarosa.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Junior College\u003c/a>: All campuses and sites will be \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> on Friday. All activities and classes, including online, will be canceled.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonoma State University\u003c/a>: All classes and activities at Sonoma State remain \u003cstrong>canceled\u003c/strong> through Friday, Oct. 11.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"eastbay\">\u003c/a>East Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>K-12 Schools:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acalanes.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acalanes Unified High School District:\u003c/a> All schools will remain \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/2019/10/superintendents-message-possible-public-safety-power-shutoff-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Thursday, according to the district.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cv.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Castro Valley Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Thursday, with a contingency plan in case the district has to close schools due to a power shutoff.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fremont Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Thursday, according to the district.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.husd.us/pf4/cms2/news_themed_display?id=1570438620407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hayward Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools are expected to remain \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mynhusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Haven Unified School District\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> All schools will be \u003cstrong>open \u003c/strong>Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acoe.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&ModuleInstanceID=4398&ViewID=7b97f7ed-8e5e-4120-848f-a8b4987d588f&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=4922&PageID=914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a>: All OUSD Schools will be \u003cstrong>open \u003c/strong>on Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.orindaschools.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orinda Union School District\u003c/a>: All schools \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> and on a regular schedule Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanleandro.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Leandro Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.srvusd.net/pf4/cms2/news_themed_display?id=1570527046388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Ramon Valley Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wccusd.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Contra Costa Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be \u003cstrong>open \u003c/strong>on Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Colleges & Universities:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/campus-alert.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mills College\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>Open \u003c/strong>Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/10/09/classes-will-resume-thursday-unless-there-is-a-power-outage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley:\u003c/a> The university \u003cstrong>canceled\u003c/strong> classes on Friday, with students, faculty and staff \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/UCBerkeley/status/1182359315597758464?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being advised to avoid campus\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"southbay\">\u003c/a>South Bay & Peninsula\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>K-12 Schools:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.arusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alum Rock Union School District\u003c/a>: All 19 schools will be \u003cb>open \u003c/b>Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cuhsd.org/apps/news/article/1102578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Campbell Union High School District\u003c/a>: The district announced no Campbell Union High School District schools are expected to be impacted by the power shutoff and all schools will remain \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ogsd.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oak Grove Elementary School District\u003c/a>: No OGSD schools are currently impacted, according to the district, and schools and offices will remain \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> and follow regular schedule in the event of a power shutoff.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sjusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Unified School District\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> All schools were \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> Wednesday and Thursday despite any potential shutoffs, officials told parents.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sccs.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Cruz City Schools\u003c/a>: All schools are \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated: Friday, Oct. 11, 12:35 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a dozen school districts were closed Wednesday and announced plans to close Thursday due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778706/pge-power-shutoffs-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PG&E power shutoffs\u003c/a> in Northern and Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is an alphabetized, updated list of school closures:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#northbay\">North Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#eastbay\">East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#southbay\">South Bay and Peninsula\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"northbay\">\u003c/a>North Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>K-12 Schools\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://alexandervalleyusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Valley Union School District\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>Closed\u003c/strong> both Wednesday through Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bvusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bennett Valley Union School District\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>Closed\u003c/strong> Wednesday through Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cloverdale-ca.schoolloop.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloverdale Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools are \u003cstrong>open \u003c/strong>on Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crpusd.org/news/what_s_new/p_g__e_notice_for_c_r_p_u_s_d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cotati-Rohnert Park School District\u003c/a>: All schools are \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> starting Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gusd.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geyserville Unified School District\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>Closed\u003c/strong> both Wednesday and Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://kashiaelementaryschool.weebly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kashia Elementary School District\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>Closed\u003c/strong> both Wednesday and Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinschools.org/cms/lib/CA01001323/Centricity/Domain/154/PGE%20letter%20to%20parents%20-%20signedMJB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marin County Office of Education\u003c/a>: Bolinas-Stinson School, Tam Valley Elementary and Tamalpais High School are \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mwusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark West Union School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be\u003cstrong> open \u003c/strong>on Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nvusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Unified School District\u003c/a>: All district schools will be \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> Wednesday and Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oldadobe.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=32&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=1810&PageID=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Adobe Union School District\u003c/a>: All schools are \u003cstrong>open \u003c/strong>Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pousd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piner-Olivet Union School District\u003c/a>: Schaefer Charter, Jack London Elementary, Olivet Elementary Charter, Piner-Olivet Charter and Northwest Prep were closed Wednesday. Schools are \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rvusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rincon Valley Union School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.srcschools.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa City Schools\u003c/a>: Only Hidden Valley Elementary will remain \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> on Friday, the district said. This means all after-school programs, such as childcare and athletics, are also canceled at these schools.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomaschools.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonoma Valley Unified School District\u003c/a>: Schools will be \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> Wednesday through Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vacavilleusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vacaville Unified School District\u003c/a>: Buckingham Charter will be \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> through Friday. All other schools plan to stay open.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://wesd-ca.schoolloop.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waugh School District:\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Closed\u003c/strong> for non-student days.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://woa.wusd.org/o/windsor-unified-school-district/live_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windsor Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> Wednesday through Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Colleges and Universities:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.santarosa.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Junior College\u003c/a>: All campuses and sites will be \u003cstrong>closed\u003c/strong> on Friday. All activities and classes, including online, will be canceled.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonoma State University\u003c/a>: All classes and activities at Sonoma State remain \u003cstrong>canceled\u003c/strong> through Friday, Oct. 11.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"eastbay\">\u003c/a>East Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>K-12 Schools:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acalanes.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acalanes Unified High School District:\u003c/a> All schools will remain \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/2019/10/superintendents-message-possible-public-safety-power-shutoff-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Thursday, according to the district.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cv.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Castro Valley Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Thursday, with a contingency plan in case the district has to close schools due to a power shutoff.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fremont Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Thursday, according to the district.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.husd.us/pf4/cms2/news_themed_display?id=1570438620407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hayward Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools are expected to remain \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> on Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mynhusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Haven Unified School District\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> All schools will be 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All schools \u003cstrong>open\u003c/strong> Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wccusd.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Contra Costa Unified School District\u003c/a>: All schools will be \u003cstrong>open \u003c/strong>on Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Colleges & Universities:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/campus-alert.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mills College\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>Open \u003c/strong>Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/10/09/classes-will-resume-thursday-unless-there-is-a-power-outage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley:\u003c/a> The university \u003cstrong>canceled\u003c/strong> classes on Friday, with students, faculty and staff \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/UCBerkeley/status/1182359315597758464?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being advised to avoid 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"content": "\u003cp>Catherine Stone pulled into a packed parking lot at Middletown High School on the hot and excessively windy Saturday of September 12, 2015. A small but fast-growing fire had erupted hours earlier, a dozen miles away on Cobb Mountain. First responders needed an evacuation center and wanted to use Middletown High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two months on the job in the small Northern California district between Clearlake and Calistoga, the new superintendent of Middletown Unified struggled against gusting wind to open the door of her office. Inside at her window, Stone called the Red Cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her eyes widened. In the 10 minutes it had taken to drive to the school, flames had raced down the mountain and across the ridge, so fast and so close that they now loomed over the field where the girls’ soccer team held a narrow lead, fans nervously eyeing the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related\" postID=news_11774750]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know what, we’re not going to be an evacuation center,” Stone told the Red Cross official before hanging up abruptly. “The fire is here.” She turned on her heel and ran toward the soccer crowd, shouting, “Get out! Get out!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That terrifying weekend made history as the Valley Fire — \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5511/top20_destruction.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California’s fifth-most destructive,\u003c/a> at last count — killed four people and ravenously charred through 76,000 acres in Lake, Napa and Sonoma counties, including the homes of hundreds of Middletown Unified students and teachers. It also marked the statistical start of a new and exponentially challenging moment for the state’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For generations, fire-prone communities have lived with, worked through and even managed to go to school around the wildfires that come with California’s natural ecosystem. But \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-worsening-wildfires-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent years have been different\u003c/a>, as climate change has turned brushfires into megafires and megafires into towering infernos, threatening communities — and core institutions, such as schools — in ways that are more traumatic and less intermittent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since late 2015, wildfires have temporarily shut down thousands of schools statewide, disrupting public education more often, more widely and for longer periods than in years past, according to a CalMatters analysis of \u003ca href=\"https://disasterdays.calmatters.org/california-school-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly two decades of reported school closures.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/6d04df8b-f9fa-44f0-9266-d488a89cde7b?src=embed\" title=\"DISASTER DAYS - Schools / Students Impacted by Year\" width=\"800\" height=\"836\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports filed with the state since the 2002-03 school year, which is as far back as those records have been kept at the California Department of Education, show that, over the past 17 years, wildfires accounted for more than 60% of the school days lost to closures. About half of those closure days have occurred since 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last school year alone, wildfires forced more than 1,900 schools to cancel days — sometimes weeks — of classes, interrupting the education of more than 1.1 million students, or about 1 in 6 California schoolchildren. Some schools have closed for wildfire as many as five times in the last four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the disruptions have become longer. Though massive fires, mostly in San Diego County, caused school closures to spike in 2003 and 2007 in numbers similar to recent school years, no public school site in California had reported losing 15 instructional days or more due to wildfire — equivalent to three weeks — before 2015. Since then, more than 70 schools have reported shutdowns of that duration, and many more have shut down for two to three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paradise Unified School District, for instance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article222505275.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled classes for nearly a month\u003c/a> after last year’s Camp Fire devastated its Butte County community, damaging or destroying eight of the nine school sites. By the time\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/students-return-to-dramatically-different-paradise/616330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> classes resumed\u003c/a> on Aug. 15, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-15/bittersweet-back-to-school-in-paradise-reeling-from-camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than half \u003c/a>of the district’s 3,400 students had moved to new schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Paradise is just the best known example. Mary Sakuma, superintendent of the Butte County Office of Education estimated that more than 5,300 students and 500 staff from multiple school districts in the county lost their homes in the Camp Fire — and many more are still struggling, long after the resumption of classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, a 2018-19 county education office survey found that about 3,000 students and more than 400 educators were still showing signs of increased anxiety, stress, depression, behavioral problems or decreased academic performance resulting from the 2017 Tubbs Fire in wine country. Across the county’s schools, there had been an increase in suicide attempts and referrals for mental health over the past two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators say the situation, which so far has largely been dealt with county-by-county, is crying out for comprehensive solutions, from statewide requirements that schools make up at least some of the days lost to closures to formal, ongoing budget protection for fire-prone districts. And, they say, more must be done to address ongoing trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now seeing these impacts of not just children,” Sakuma said, “but their entire families in crisis really struggling with the aftermath of all of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Everyone was traumatized’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three years and two months before California’s deadliest wildfire roiled Butte County schools, Middletown got a preview of the era to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Mary Sakuma, superintendent of the Butte County Office of Education\"]‘We are now seeing these impacts of not just children, but their entire families in crisis really struggling with the aftermath of all of this.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The start of the school year had already been delayed by the Jerusalem Fire, which had forced schools in Middletown Unified, about two and a half hours southwest of Paradise, to cancel the first week of classes. Now the Valley Fire had \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4494017-181/middletown-at-a-crossroads-as?artslide=4&sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made that blaze look minor. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middletown Unified closed for another two weeks — 10 school days that state law does not require schools to make up. It was mid-October before the flames were fully contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said she felt as if the earth beneath her schools had tilted on its axis. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4517518-181/in-wake-of-valley-fire?sba=AAS&artslide=15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More than 200 students and district employees\u003c/a> in the community of 1,300 had lost their homes, scattering to communities across Lake and Napa counties. The fire’s rapid spread caught many off-guard, and some students and families had driven through flames to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the district’s school sites had extensive damage. So much smoke, soot and ash had infiltrated Cobb Mountain Elementary that it would be uninhabitable for much of the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of dollars’ worth of food rotted in the district’s freezers, one of which broke down a year later because smoke crept inside its vents and festered. The fire took the fleet of maintenance vehicles and equipment. Days after schools reopened, sewage spilled out of several restrooms — the result of fire damage to the schools’ water and septic systems — and portable toilets had to be brought in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of going along in our school year and thinking about reading scores and athletics and all the usual kinds of things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis, we were dealing with a very primal need for support because of the trauma,” Stone said. “And everyone was traumatized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaleigh Alves, a soccer forward who had watched from the field that day as the fire rose up over the ridge, recalled that the grieving began almost before her then-teenaged mind could grasp what had happened: “My teammates found out on the field after the whistle was blown that their house had burned down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she learned that her house, too, was gone. For two days, she said, her white-and-purple soccer uniform was her only clothing. She and her two sisters had to share a room at their grandmother’s house for the rest of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/htnVDjgZA4o\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmed school officials, she said, lacked the bandwidth to help much with college guidance, and cancelled senior year rituals that might have been normalizing out of fear of retriggering trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long after graduation, she said, anxiety lingered. When the Tubbs Fire swept Sonoma County two years later, she was a student at Santa Rosa Junior College and, again, evacuated. Feeling “super-paranoid,” she said, she frantically filled her car with belongings, fearing she might lose everything again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A direct impact of climate change’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not unusual for schools to close for wildfire in California, but never has the impact from fires been so sustained and intense as in the last several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015-16 — the year of the Valley Fire — nearly 100 schools serving a combined 23,000-plus students closed due to wildfires, including a rural Fresno County charter school that lost 21 instructional days to the Rough Fire. The following fall, schools in Lake County closed again for a week during the Clayton Fire, which incinerated parts of Lower Lake about a half-hour north of Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2016, more major fires — including Cedar in Tulare County, Blue Cut and Pilot in sprawling San Bernardino County and the Gap Fire in Klamath National Forest — kept more than 91,000 kids home from school, with some closures lasting 12 school days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, school closures resulting from massive fires burning across the state, particularly in late fall, affected more than 865,000 students. That following March, closures due to flooding and mudslides resulting from the Thomas Fire in Ventura County affected 19,000 kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of students affected by emergency closures tallied more than 1 million in the year of the Camp Fire, as thick, hazardous smoke spread across Northern California counties and polluted dense urban areas with multiple large school systems. Fires in Shasta, Riverside and Lake counties prompted weeklong closures that affected some 80,000 kids in the first few weeks of the 2018-19 term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, school districts that close for emergencies are able to request waivers from the state that essentially protect schools from taking a financial hit in their attendance-based funding for having to temporarily shutter. Schools are incentivized to report closures to the state, but not required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And schools that receive state-approved attendance waivers are not required to make up those days of lost instruction. Nor are schools required to budget extra days in their academic calendars in case of emergencies. In an era of increasingly severe and lengthy closures, perhaps that should change, some educators say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though academic research — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w20221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much of it focused on snow days \u003c/a>— indicates that students can lose a day or two of instruction without much damage to test scores, studies show \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/defense-snow-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longer absences do make a difference\u003c/a>, especially for disadvantaged students. In districts hardest hit by recent wildfires, CalMatters found, attendance often dropped precipitously even without an official school closure, or — if a school did close — morphed into high rates of chronic absenteeism after schools reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re supposed to teach 180 days and we keep erasing five or six days out of every school calendar, we’re not giving our students a competitive educational advantage that they deserve,” said Steve Herrington, superintendent of the Sonoma County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That to me is a direct impact of climate change issues that we’re dealing with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A gift that keeps on giving’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For a while, the Middletown schools were overcome with sympathy and support. The Oakland Raiders came and replaced the damaged football equipment. A team of San Francisco mental health professionals embedded themselves for two weeks to help with trauma counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as one blockbuster California fire gave way to the next, and the community became yesterday’s news, that support quietly receded. In 2015, the state had yet to forcefully react to schools affected by fires the way it would just two years later, after California’s wine country went up in flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the state has used emergency declarations and targeted legislation to help insulate individual districts severely impacted by wildfire from immediate budget cuts as a result of lost enrollment. In Paradise, for instance, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation\u003c/a> to protect funding for fire-ravaged schools \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/students-return-to-dramatically-different-paradise/616330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is preventing layoffs and preserving \u003c/a>as much as 60% of the district budget through the 2020-21 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middletown’s fires largely predated those kinds of supports, and as families relocated, enrollment sank and its budget imploded. The year after the Valley Fire, the district put off buying new textbooks to fund a third school psychologist, which it couldn’t afford, long-term. By last year, the district of 1,500 students had only one mental health counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is wrong,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Newsom-press-release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stone wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> in an unsuccessful March plea to broaden fire relief and extend more of it to districts still recovering from past fires. “We can’t afford to hire a lobbyist to get post-wildfire assistance, much less the extra teachers we need in order to provide things like AP classes and electives or the mental health professionals to support our traumatized students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Substance abuse has ticked up among older students, she said, and fear of the losses the next wildfire might bring has become a constant. When she visited elementary classrooms last year, she noticed some kids were overstuffing their cubbies, “like little hoarders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11775781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01-1020x696.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middletown Unified School District Superintendent Catherine Stone in her office on the first day of school in Middletown on August 15, 2019. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a gift that keeps on giving, if you will,” she said, echoing educators throughout the increasingly broad swath of California now prone to wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Valley Fire, every subsequent school year has brought fires that either have prompted evacuations, required use of the high school as an evacuation center or caused more school closures altogether. The persistent threat and the missed instructional time have taken a toll, \u003ca href=\"https://www.caschooldashboard.org/reports/17640551736008/2018/academic-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state accountability data shows.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year of the Valley Fire, Middletown’s reading proficiency remained steady with 48% of students meeting state standards. But math proficiency measured by the state’s standardized exams plummeted 7 percentage points in a testing cycle in which the state’s schools experienced overall gains. The school year after the fire, the proportion of graduating seniors in the district deemed “college and career ready” by the state dropped from about 50% to 27.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last four school years, Middletown Unified schools have closed for 25 days because of fires, the equivalent of five weeks of instruction. And each new trauma resurrects old ones, says Middletown’s school psychologist, Jessica Morita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 8, 2018, she said, when a plume of smoke drifted over one of the elementary school playgrounds, children at recess stood still “like little frozen statues” and looked skyward. Running full tilt into the school library, one announced frantically that something was on fire and everyone needed to go outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the Camp Fire burning through Paradise, 130 miles away, but the sense memory was embedded. “You can smell it and you can see it,” said Morita, “and it feels like the end of days all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know what, we’re not going to be an evacuation center,” Stone told the Red Cross official before hanging up abruptly. “The fire is here.” She turned on her heel and ran toward the soccer crowd, shouting, “Get out! Get out!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That terrifying weekend made history as the Valley Fire — \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5511/top20_destruction.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California’s fifth-most destructive,\u003c/a> at last count — killed four people and ravenously charred through 76,000 acres in Lake, Napa and Sonoma counties, including the homes of hundreds of Middletown Unified students and teachers. It also marked the statistical start of a new and exponentially challenging moment for the state’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For generations, fire-prone communities have lived with, worked through and even managed to go to school around the wildfires that come with California’s natural ecosystem. But \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-worsening-wildfires-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent years have been different\u003c/a>, as climate change has turned brushfires into megafires and megafires into towering infernos, threatening communities — and core institutions, such as schools — in ways that are more traumatic and less intermittent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since late 2015, wildfires have temporarily shut down thousands of schools statewide, disrupting public education more often, more widely and for longer periods than in years past, according to a CalMatters analysis of \u003ca href=\"https://disasterdays.calmatters.org/california-school-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly two decades of reported school closures.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/6d04df8b-f9fa-44f0-9266-d488a89cde7b?src=embed\" title=\"DISASTER DAYS - Schools / Students Impacted by Year\" width=\"800\" height=\"836\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports filed with the state since the 2002-03 school year, which is as far back as those records have been kept at the California Department of Education, show that, over the past 17 years, wildfires accounted for more than 60% of the school days lost to closures. About half of those closure days have occurred since 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last school year alone, wildfires forced more than 1,900 schools to cancel days — sometimes weeks — of classes, interrupting the education of more than 1.1 million students, or about 1 in 6 California schoolchildren. Some schools have closed for wildfire as many as five times in the last four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the disruptions have become longer. Though massive fires, mostly in San Diego County, caused school closures to spike in 2003 and 2007 in numbers similar to recent school years, no public school site in California had reported losing 15 instructional days or more due to wildfire — equivalent to three weeks — before 2015. Since then, more than 70 schools have reported shutdowns of that duration, and many more have shut down for two to three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paradise Unified School District, for instance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article222505275.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled classes for nearly a month\u003c/a> after last year’s Camp Fire devastated its Butte County community, damaging or destroying eight of the nine school sites. By the time\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/students-return-to-dramatically-different-paradise/616330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> classes resumed\u003c/a> on Aug. 15, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-15/bittersweet-back-to-school-in-paradise-reeling-from-camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than half \u003c/a>of the district’s 3,400 students had moved to new schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Paradise is just the best known example. Mary Sakuma, superintendent of the Butte County Office of Education estimated that more than 5,300 students and 500 staff from multiple school districts in the county lost their homes in the Camp Fire — and many more are still struggling, long after the resumption of classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, a 2018-19 county education office survey found that about 3,000 students and more than 400 educators were still showing signs of increased anxiety, stress, depression, behavioral problems or decreased academic performance resulting from the 2017 Tubbs Fire in wine country. Across the county’s schools, there had been an increase in suicide attempts and referrals for mental health over the past two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators say the situation, which so far has largely been dealt with county-by-county, is crying out for comprehensive solutions, from statewide requirements that schools make up at least some of the days lost to closures to formal, ongoing budget protection for fire-prone districts. And, they say, more must be done to address ongoing trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now seeing these impacts of not just children,” Sakuma said, “but their entire families in crisis really struggling with the aftermath of all of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Everyone was traumatized’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three years and two months before California’s deadliest wildfire roiled Butte County schools, Middletown got a preview of the era to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It was mid-October before the flames were fully contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said she felt as if the earth beneath her schools had tilted on its axis. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4517518-181/in-wake-of-valley-fire?sba=AAS&artslide=15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More than 200 students and district employees\u003c/a> in the community of 1,300 had lost their homes, scattering to communities across Lake and Napa counties. The fire’s rapid spread caught many off-guard, and some students and families had driven through flames to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the district’s school sites had extensive damage. So much smoke, soot and ash had infiltrated Cobb Mountain Elementary that it would be uninhabitable for much of the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of dollars’ worth of food rotted in the district’s freezers, one of which broke down a year later because smoke crept inside its vents and festered. The fire took the fleet of maintenance vehicles and equipment. Days after schools reopened, sewage spilled out of several restrooms — the result of fire damage to the schools’ water and septic systems — and portable toilets had to be brought in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of going along in our school year and thinking about reading scores and athletics and all the usual kinds of things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis, we were dealing with a very primal need for support because of the trauma,” Stone said. “And everyone was traumatized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaleigh Alves, a soccer forward who had watched from the field that day as the fire rose up over the ridge, recalled that the grieving began almost before her then-teenaged mind could grasp what had happened: “My teammates found out on the field after the whistle was blown that their house had burned down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she learned that her house, too, was gone. For two days, she said, her white-and-purple soccer uniform was her only clothing. She and her two sisters had to share a room at their grandmother’s house for the rest of the school year.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/htnVDjgZA4o'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/htnVDjgZA4o'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Overwhelmed school officials, she said, lacked the bandwidth to help much with college guidance, and cancelled senior year rituals that might have been normalizing out of fear of retriggering trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long after graduation, she said, anxiety lingered. When the Tubbs Fire swept Sonoma County two years later, she was a student at Santa Rosa Junior College and, again, evacuated. Feeling “super-paranoid,” she said, she frantically filled her car with belongings, fearing she might lose everything again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A direct impact of climate change’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not unusual for schools to close for wildfire in California, but never has the impact from fires been so sustained and intense as in the last several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015-16 — the year of the Valley Fire — nearly 100 schools serving a combined 23,000-plus students closed due to wildfires, including a rural Fresno County charter school that lost 21 instructional days to the Rough Fire. The following fall, schools in Lake County closed again for a week during the Clayton Fire, which incinerated parts of Lower Lake about a half-hour north of Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2016, more major fires — including Cedar in Tulare County, Blue Cut and Pilot in sprawling San Bernardino County and the Gap Fire in Klamath National Forest — kept more than 91,000 kids home from school, with some closures lasting 12 school days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, school closures resulting from massive fires burning across the state, particularly in late fall, affected more than 865,000 students. That following March, closures due to flooding and mudslides resulting from the Thomas Fire in Ventura County affected 19,000 kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of students affected by emergency closures tallied more than 1 million in the year of the Camp Fire, as thick, hazardous smoke spread across Northern California counties and polluted dense urban areas with multiple large school systems. Fires in Shasta, Riverside and Lake counties prompted weeklong closures that affected some 80,000 kids in the first few weeks of the 2018-19 term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, school districts that close for emergencies are able to request waivers from the state that essentially protect schools from taking a financial hit in their attendance-based funding for having to temporarily shutter. 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In 2015, the state had yet to forcefully react to schools affected by fires the way it would just two years later, after California’s wine country went up in flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the state has used emergency declarations and targeted legislation to help insulate individual districts severely impacted by wildfire from immediate budget cuts as a result of lost enrollment. In Paradise, for instance, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation\u003c/a> to protect funding for fire-ravaged schools \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/students-return-to-dramatically-different-paradise/616330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is preventing layoffs and preserving \u003c/a>as much as 60% of the district budget through the 2020-21 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middletown’s fires largely predated those kinds of supports, and as families relocated, enrollment sank and its budget imploded. The year after the Valley Fire, the district put off buying new textbooks to fund a third school psychologist, which it couldn’t afford, long-term. By last year, the district of 1,500 students had only one mental health counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is wrong,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Newsom-press-release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stone wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> in an unsuccessful March plea to broaden fire relief and extend more of it to districts still recovering from past fires. “We can’t afford to hire a lobbyist to get post-wildfire assistance, much less the extra teachers we need in order to provide things like AP classes and electives or the mental health professionals to support our traumatized students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Substance abuse has ticked up among older students, she said, and fear of the losses the next wildfire might bring has become a constant. When she visited elementary classrooms last year, she noticed some kids were overstuffing their cubbies, “like little hoarders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11775781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/081519_Middletown_AW_sized_01-1020x696.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middletown Unified School District Superintendent Catherine Stone in her office on the first day of school in Middletown on August 15, 2019. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a gift that keeps on giving, if you will,” she said, echoing educators throughout the increasingly broad swath of California now prone to wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Valley Fire, every subsequent school year has brought fires that either have prompted evacuations, required use of the high school as an evacuation center or caused more school closures altogether. The persistent threat and the missed instructional time have taken a toll, \u003ca href=\"https://www.caschooldashboard.org/reports/17640551736008/2018/academic-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state accountability data shows.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year of the Valley Fire, Middletown’s reading proficiency remained steady with 48% of students meeting state standards. But math proficiency measured by the state’s standardized exams plummeted 7 percentage points in a testing cycle in which the state’s schools experienced overall gains. The school year after the fire, the proportion of graduating seniors in the district deemed “college and career ready” by the state dropped from about 50% to 27.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last four school years, Middletown Unified schools have closed for 25 days because of fires, the equivalent of five weeks of instruction. And each new trauma resurrects old ones, says Middletown’s school psychologist, Jessica Morita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 8, 2018, she said, when a plume of smoke drifted over one of the elementary school playgrounds, children at recess stood still “like little frozen statues” and looked skyward. Running full tilt into the school library, one announced frantically that something was on fire and everyone needed to go outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the Camp Fire burning through Paradise, 130 miles away, but the sense memory was embedded. “You can smell it and you can see it,” said Morita, “and it feels like the end of days all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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>When Toni Rochelle moved to Oakland in 2017, she didn't know much about the local school system. It was a busy time for her — it was late summer, she was in the middle of a divorce and she was juggling two jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did everything late because of what was going on at the time,\" she admitted. That included enrolling her daughter, Talia, for transitional kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rochelle decided to simply go with her neighborhood school, Sankofa Elementary. It checked off a lot of boxes: It was right down the street from her job, right around the corner from her house, and it had an after-school program. It seemed perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once school started, however, Rochelle began to have concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we had maybe two or three principals at the time during that school year,\" said Rochelle. \"It was just a lot of things. Coming in, picking up my child and she's watching TV!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't until Rochelle met parents from a local activist group called Oakland Reach that she learned the school's test scores were far below state standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same parents also told her about a way to try to enroll her children in better schools, through a process called \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bvi9-eyv1UNmhNVC5NLhFH6oqLsmpMBGyTz_5qfF698/edit#heading=h.1d9hubvmtqh0\">open enrollment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no public announcement for this,\" said Rochelle. \"It's a secret. A well-kept secret.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Oakland's open enrollment period, parents of kindergartners and students transitioning into middle or high schools can indicate and rank their school preferences. It's also when students in any grade can try to change schools. Parents must submit applications between November and February for both OUSD and charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ww2.kqed_.orgRootsIntlAcademy-904e89000bb3a3b5faf9d7ed22495b4925880e47.jpg\" label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Follow our coverage of Oakland schools\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents are notified of their child's placement in mid-March and must make a final decision about enrollment by April 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland parents who understand the enrollment process can start researching their options months in advance, and not surprisingly, most who apply request the city's best-ranked schools, both district-run and charter. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRA1718_7CHOICE_0/Applications?iframeSizedToWindow=true&:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no\">half of these applications\u003c/a> come from parents living in Oakland census tracts where residents are wealthier and more educated, according to district data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And timing matters. Parents who apply during the initial enrollment window have a real advantage. According to the district's enrollment director, Charles Wilson, 66 percent of families who applied during the main enrollment period last year got their first choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who don't know about open enrollment or miss the deadline can find themselves in long lines trying to switch schools right before the beginning of the school year, when most in-demand schools have already filled up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Concentration of Advantage'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Peralta Elementary is one of the most requested schools in Oakland and is located in a neighborhood where homes are valued at over $1 million. One parent of a Peralta student,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Jonathan Osler, is questioning Oakland's current enrollment system, which is largely based upon neighborhood boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What this means is, if you can't afford to live in the neighborhood, you have very little chance of getting into this school,\" Osler said. \"We are in a district where the kids are segregated along lines of race and class, and resources are segregated along those lines as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osler said he was able to afford a house in a neighborhood that is within Peralta's attendance zone, which meant his child had priority to be enrolled there. Eighty percent of Peralta's students live nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You also have about 60 elementary schools in the district, and 70 percent of all white kids attend only 10 of those schools,\" said Osler, who works for the Oakland Public Education Fund. \"As a white person I feel the responsibility to lift up these questions of what has led to this concentration of advantage, and what are those of us in these positions going to do to ensure there are more equitable opportunities and outcomes for kids across the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4cVOH4kCYXjWGxrVmNRc0tpdDlKOHZ0LTRZV2FobGtLTHhV/view\">report\u003c/a> by the Oakland-based GreatSchools, a national nonprofit that rates schools, only 2% of African American students and 6% of Latino students in the state attend what GreatSchools defines as a high-performing and high-opportunity school — that's compared to 59% of white and 73% of Asian students. 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"content": "\u003cp>Despite fierce opposition, the Oakland Unified school board voted overwhelmingly on Monday night to close Roots International Academy by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s decision, which follows weeks of community backlash, marks the first confirmed school closure in the district’s controversial plan to shutter up to 24 school sites, an effort to chip away at its massive budget deficit and achieve a degree of financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing emotional pleas from students and teachers for more than two hours at Monday’s meeting, board members voted 6-1 in favor of the proposal to close Roots, a small middle school in East Oakland that opened its doors in 2006. There are currently 266 students enrolled, according to school staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CornellBarnard/status/1090105920837668864\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board president Aimee Eng appeared pained after the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, we’re in this untenable position as a school board where we cannot adequately resource all 87 of our schools, and we’re having to make these difficult and terrible trade-offs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, just before winter break, the district abruptly announced its intention to close the school, citing declining enrollment and consistently dismal test scores. Pressed about why it wasn’t delaying the closure for another year, as it will likely do for some of the other school sites, the district’s deputy chief of innovation, Yvette Renteria, explained that there simply wasn’t enough of a budget to keep the school open past the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside align=right label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" tag=ousd-news]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Roots were to stay open next year to accommodate current students, but not include an incoming sixth grade class, she said, “we would only have a budget of 4.25 teachers for 140 students, which is not a sufficient amount of teachers to run a school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria also assured Roots’ teachers that they would not lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have job openings all the time,” she said. “We want to first and foremost support our teachers so they get placed into those positions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the decision is likely to further inflame tensions between the district and the teachers’ union, which is staunchly opposed to school closures. Teachers are voting this week on whether to give union leadership authority to call a strike if last-ditch bargaining efforts fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding that this proposal be pulled and that this issue be brought to the bargaining table,” Oakland Education Association president Keith Brown told board members ahead of last night’s vote. He warned the board that the California Teachers Association, the statewide union, would get involved and “seek the necessary legal actions to prevent the closure of Roots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students impacted by the closure will be given priority to enroll in nearby better-performing schools, the district said. That includes Coliseum College Prep Academy, a sixth- through 12th-grade school located on the same campus, which the district said will be able to accommodate 79 Roots students next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s little consolation for Roots parent Silvia Ornelas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just upset,” she said. “The kids are so cared for at our school, and I feel they’re just going to be pushed to the side in\u003cbr>\nany other school they go to.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Roots were to stay open next year to accommodate current students, but not include an incoming sixth grade class, she said, “we would only have a budget of 4.25 teachers for 140 students, which is not a sufficient amount of teachers to run a school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria also assured Roots’ teachers that they would not lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have job openings all the time,” she said. “We want to first and foremost support our teachers so they get placed into those positions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the decision is likely to further inflame tensions between the district and the teachers’ union, which is staunchly opposed to school closures. Teachers are voting this week on whether to give union leadership authority to call a strike if last-ditch bargaining efforts fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding that this proposal be pulled and that this issue be brought to the bargaining table,” Oakland Education Association president Keith Brown told board members ahead of last night’s vote. He warned the board that the California Teachers Association, the statewide union, would get involved and “seek the necessary legal actions to prevent the closure of Roots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students impacted by the closure will be given priority to enroll in nearby better-performing schools, the district said. That includes Coliseum College Prep Academy, a sixth- through 12th-grade school located on the same campus, which the district said will be able to accommodate 79 Roots students next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s little consolation for Roots parent Silvia Ornelas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just upset,” she said. “The kids are so cared for at our school, and I feel they’re just going to be pushed to the side in\u003cbr>\nany other school they go to.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003ch2>Roots Academy is the first of several schools that OUSD intends to close in the next few years. Many in Oakland are closely watching how the district handles this transition a model for what’s to come. Some parents feel left out of the decision-making process.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Jan. 29, 10 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CornellBarnard/status/1090105920837668864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amid angry protests\u003c/a>, the Oakland Unified school board voted 6-1 \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/28/roots-middle-school-to-close/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to close Roots International Academy\u003c/a> middle school at the end of the school year. Students will have the option of attending better-performing schools in the 2019-20 school year, the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original post\u003c/b>: Oakland Unified school board meetings these days are rarely without drama. Chanting, protest signs, booing: That’s all par for the course. But even by those standards, the emotional outpouring at the most recent meeting, which took place last week in the packed auditorium of La Escuelita Elementary School, was pretty exceptional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District’s plan to shutter Roots International Academy in East Oakland is alarming some parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board had convened to discuss the potential closure of Roots International Academy, a small, relatively new middle school in East Oakland beset with consistently poor test scores and dwindling enrollment. In a move that caught the community largely off-guard, the district announced the proposal in December, just before the holiday break, and plans to vote Monday on whether to close the school by the end of this academic year. If the motion is approved, all the students and staff at Roots Academy will be placed in other district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside align=right label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" tag=ousd-qa]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy students, with the support of hundreds of teachers and parents from across the district, marched into the meeting and quickly took over the agenda. They persuaded Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell and members of the school board to join them in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/restorativejustice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restorative justice\u003c/a> circle — a kind of conflict resolution process — and implored them to keep the school open. Over two emotional hours, a succession of students made poignant statements about the positive role the school has played in their lives and the distress they would feel from being forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You closing down Roots, to me, is like putting me up for adoption,” said seventh-grader Tenai Harris. “Roots made me who I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever Pablo, also an eighth-grader at Roots, added: “They picked me up when I was down, they helped me. It’s like a second home where I could go and tell any teacher how I felt because I trusted them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials responded sympathetically, but offered little indication of how they plan to ultimately vote. Protesters, meanwhile, have been trying to pressure the board to postpone Monday’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why is the potential closure of an academically ailing school with fewer than 300 students causing such a stir? Here’s a brief primer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the bigger story here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD has a huge budget deficit — to the tune of roughly $30 million. Under intense pressure to cut spending and encourage fiscal responsibility, the district recently proposed a controversial plan to pare down the number of schools it runs by as many as 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots is the first school to be placed on the chopping block, and how that situation plays out could indicate the way the district handles other schools on its list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on the Strike\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719763/photos-oakland-teachers-paint-prepare-to-vote-on-strike,PHOTOS: Oakland Teachers Paint and Prepare to Vote on Strike\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations,Oakland Teachers Rally and Hold One-Day Sickout Over Stalled Contract Talks\" link3=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718940/teachers-strike-looming-in-oakland-anger-boils-over-into-wildcat-moves,Teacher Sickout Looming in Oakland as Anger Boils Over\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school opened its doors in 2006 as part of an earlier district reform effort to break large, underperforming campuses into smaller schools that could, in theory, better support at-risk students. Nearly all of its pupils are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed-data.org/school/Alameda/Oakland-Unified/ROOTS-International-Academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minorities who qualify for free or reduced lunch\u003c/a> and a large percentage are English language learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots, though, has long struggled with declining enrollment and low academic performance. Just \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">309 students were enrolled\u003c/a> during the 2017-18 school year, the majority of whom did not meet grade-level standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/24/supporters-of-oaklands-roots-middle-school-briefly-shut-down-school-board-meeting/\">Wednesday’s school board meeting\u003c/a>, OUSD Deputy Chief of Innovation Yvette Renteria noted that Roots’ test scores are among the lowest in the district, calling it an “unsustainable small school with limited resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her presentation, Renteria said that closing Roots would save the district more than $345,000 next year, and expected that amount to increase over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the district hasn’t yet released the list of the other schools it’s considering closing, it is preparing a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4813&ModuleInstanceID=26172&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=25745&PageID=16608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citywide plan\u003c/a>” that compares factors like density, school enrollment and performance metrics. That likely means that most of the schools slated for closure will, like Roots Academy, be in underserved neighborhoods in the city’s flatlands, particularly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in East Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents in these communities see this as a disturbing pattern and have said that, despite the district’s promises to include them in these discussions, they feel largely left out of the decision-making process. Many teachers and parents have also said they want to see the district invest more in struggling schools rather than shuttering them and busing their kids to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complicate matters further, the situation is unfolding against the backdrop of a looming teachers’ strike. Tensions between OUSD teachers and their employer have reached a boiling point. Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has also expressed its staunch \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/2db40532-0bde-4b8b-8636-f7164cbfad57.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition to closing schools\u003c/a>, casting it as an equity issue. So the Roots Academy decision has become a kind of rallying cry for Oakland teachers and a focal point for their showdown with the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, the teachers’ union, plans to hold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/videos/2158304011096753/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strike authorization\u003c/a> vote at the end of this month. In an early warning shot, hundreds of teachers and students walked off the job — and out of the classroom — in a one-day sickout on Jan. 18. A full-fledged strike could begin as soon as early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the district thinking about closing so many schools?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district currently operates 87 school sites, and is considering closing up to 24 of them. The idea is part of the school board’s long-term effort to chip away at its massive budget deficit and establish some degree of financial sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teachers Join Parents to Fight Closure of Oakland’s Roots Academy\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0979-e1547162102621-1020x658.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents and students opposed to the school district’s plan to close Roots International Academy in East Oakland are vowing to fight to keep it open.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Much of that stems from intense pressure from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, California’s Legislature approved a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-risks-state-takeover-if-it-fails-to-make-budget-cuts-state-and-county-officials-warn/604183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bailout\u003c/a> for the financially ailing district of up to $34 million, as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">education finance bill\u003c/a> signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. But that money comes with some strict conditions, including a significant reduction of OUSD’s overhead costs. Failure to do so could result in another state takeover of the district, which last occurred \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/us/dream-ends-for-oakland-school-chief-as-state-takes-over.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2003\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state bailout plan comes on the heels of an \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/grandjury/final2017-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County civil grand jury\u003c/a> report released in June 2018, which found the district had “lost control of spending” and was operating far more schools than its declining enrollment could justify. In the last 15 years, as the district lost a growing number of students to charter schools and other factors, enrollment fell from 54,000 to under 37,000, according to the report. Even so, the district continued to add schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More schools mean more administrators and other non-teaching staff, as well as additional overhead expenses. A major consolidation could therefore lead to significant cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report noted that OUSD, compared to other similarly sized districts in the Bay Area, has an outsized proportion of schools for its student body. The average district school has 412 students, it found. In contrast, Fremont Unified, a similarly sized district that’s more financially stable and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Fremont-Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much higher overall academic performance metrics\u003c/a>, has only 42 schools, or about 833 students per school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is also looking at other cost-saving options to help whittle down its deficit, including trimming administrative staff, selling off surplus properties and increasing enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing schools, in and of itself, is certainly not a magic bullet. In 2011, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-board-votes-to-close-5-schools-2325158.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUSD shuttered five elementary schools\u003c/a> in an effort to save about $2 million annually. Some critics of the move, though, say it led more students to leave the district, which ultimately offset most of the savings. School district funding from the state is, after all, based primarily on enrollment, and if enough displaced students decide to go to charter schools or even move to other districts, that could defeat the whole purpose of closing the schools to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens to Roots Academy students and teachers if it closes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School district officials say that if the school closes, they intend to work with Roots Academy families to find the most appropriate placement for their children, with the opportunity to transfer to a better-performing school. School board members at Wednesday’s contentious meeting also stressed that no employees at Roots would be at risk of losing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district wants to expand Coliseum College Prep Academy (CCPA), a higher-performing sixth- through 12th-grade school located on the same campus as Roots. Under the proposal, the school would double the number of sixth-grade seats it offers, taking on an additional 79 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district said that CCPA would definitely not be able to accommodate all of Roots’ current students. Some students would also likely be sent to Elmhurst Community, Greenleaf, Madison Park Upper and Urban Promise Academy schools, according to OUSD spokesman John Sasaki, and potentially offered Clipper cards to get there.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch2>Roots Academy is the first of several schools that OUSD intends to close in the next few years. Many in Oakland are closely watching how the district handles this transition a model for what’s to come. Some parents feel left out of the decision-making process.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Jan. 29, 10 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CornellBarnard/status/1090105920837668864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amid angry protests\u003c/a>, the Oakland Unified school board voted 6-1 \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/28/roots-middle-school-to-close/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to close Roots International Academy\u003c/a> middle school at the end of the school year. Students will have the option of attending better-performing schools in the 2019-20 school year, the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original post\u003c/b>: Oakland Unified school board meetings these days are rarely without drama. Chanting, protest signs, booing: That’s all par for the course. But even by those standards, the emotional outpouring at the most recent meeting, which took place last week in the packed auditorium of La Escuelita Elementary School, was pretty exceptional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District’s plan to shutter Roots International Academy in East Oakland is alarming some parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board had convened to discuss the potential closure of Roots International Academy, a small, relatively new middle school in East Oakland beset with consistently poor test scores and dwindling enrollment. In a move that caught the community largely off-guard, the district announced the proposal in December, just before the holiday break, and plans to vote Monday on whether to close the school by the end of this academic year. If the motion is approved, all the students and staff at Roots Academy will be placed in other district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy students, with the support of hundreds of teachers and parents from across the district, marched into the meeting and quickly took over the agenda. They persuaded Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell and members of the school board to join them in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/restorativejustice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restorative justice\u003c/a> circle — a kind of conflict resolution process — and implored them to keep the school open. Over two emotional hours, a succession of students made poignant statements about the positive role the school has played in their lives and the distress they would feel from being forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You closing down Roots, to me, is like putting me up for adoption,” said seventh-grader Tenai Harris. “Roots made me who I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever Pablo, also an eighth-grader at Roots, added: “They picked me up when I was down, they helped me. It’s like a second home where I could go and tell any teacher how I felt because I trusted them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials responded sympathetically, but offered little indication of how they plan to ultimately vote. Protesters, meanwhile, have been trying to pressure the board to postpone Monday’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why is the potential closure of an academically ailing school with fewer than 300 students causing such a stir? Here’s a brief primer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the bigger story here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD has a huge budget deficit — to the tune of roughly $30 million. Under intense pressure to cut spending and encourage fiscal responsibility, the district recently proposed a controversial plan to pare down the number of schools it runs by as many as 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots is the first school to be placed on the chopping block, and how that situation plays out could indicate the way the district handles other schools on its list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school opened its doors in 2006 as part of an earlier district reform effort to break large, underperforming campuses into smaller schools that could, in theory, better support at-risk students. Nearly all of its pupils are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed-data.org/school/Alameda/Oakland-Unified/ROOTS-International-Academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minorities who qualify for free or reduced lunch\u003c/a> and a large percentage are English language learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots, though, has long struggled with declining enrollment and low academic performance. Just \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">309 students were enrolled\u003c/a> during the 2017-18 school year, the majority of whom did not meet grade-level standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/24/supporters-of-oaklands-roots-middle-school-briefly-shut-down-school-board-meeting/\">Wednesday’s school board meeting\u003c/a>, OUSD Deputy Chief of Innovation Yvette Renteria noted that Roots’ test scores are among the lowest in the district, calling it an “unsustainable small school with limited resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her presentation, Renteria said that closing Roots would save the district more than $345,000 next year, and expected that amount to increase over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the district hasn’t yet released the list of the other schools it’s considering closing, it is preparing a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4813&ModuleInstanceID=26172&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=25745&PageID=16608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citywide plan\u003c/a>” that compares factors like density, school enrollment and performance metrics. That likely means that most of the schools slated for closure will, like Roots Academy, be in underserved neighborhoods in the city’s flatlands, particularly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in East Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents in these communities see this as a disturbing pattern and have said that, despite the district’s promises to include them in these discussions, they feel largely left out of the decision-making process. Many teachers and parents have also said they want to see the district invest more in struggling schools rather than shuttering them and busing their kids to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complicate matters further, the situation is unfolding against the backdrop of a looming teachers’ strike. Tensions between OUSD teachers and their employer have reached a boiling point. Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has also expressed its staunch \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/2db40532-0bde-4b8b-8636-f7164cbfad57.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition to closing schools\u003c/a>, casting it as an equity issue. So the Roots Academy decision has become a kind of rallying cry for Oakland teachers and a focal point for their showdown with the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, the teachers’ union, plans to hold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/videos/2158304011096753/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strike authorization\u003c/a> vote at the end of this month. In an early warning shot, hundreds of teachers and students walked off the job — and out of the classroom — in a one-day sickout on Jan. 18. A full-fledged strike could begin as soon as early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the district thinking about closing so many schools?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district currently operates 87 school sites, and is considering closing up to 24 of them. The idea is part of the school board’s long-term effort to chip away at its massive budget deficit and establish some degree of financial sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teachers Join Parents to Fight Closure of Oakland’s Roots Academy\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0979-e1547162102621-1020x658.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents and students opposed to the school district’s plan to close Roots International Academy in East Oakland are vowing to fight to keep it open.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Much of that stems from intense pressure from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, California’s Legislature approved a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-risks-state-takeover-if-it-fails-to-make-budget-cuts-state-and-county-officials-warn/604183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bailout\u003c/a> for the financially ailing district of up to $34 million, as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">education finance bill\u003c/a> signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. But that money comes with some strict conditions, including a significant reduction of OUSD’s overhead costs. Failure to do so could result in another state takeover of the district, which last occurred \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/us/dream-ends-for-oakland-school-chief-as-state-takes-over.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2003\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state bailout plan comes on the heels of an \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/grandjury/final2017-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County civil grand jury\u003c/a> report released in June 2018, which found the district had “lost control of spending” and was operating far more schools than its declining enrollment could justify. In the last 15 years, as the district lost a growing number of students to charter schools and other factors, enrollment fell from 54,000 to under 37,000, according to the report. Even so, the district continued to add schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More schools mean more administrators and other non-teaching staff, as well as additional overhead expenses. A major consolidation could therefore lead to significant cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report noted that OUSD, compared to other similarly sized districts in the Bay Area, has an outsized proportion of schools for its student body. The average district school has 412 students, it found. In contrast, Fremont Unified, a similarly sized district that’s more financially stable and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Fremont-Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much higher overall academic performance metrics\u003c/a>, has only 42 schools, or about 833 students per school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is also looking at other cost-saving options to help whittle down its deficit, including trimming administrative staff, selling off surplus properties and increasing enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing schools, in and of itself, is certainly not a magic bullet. In 2011, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-board-votes-to-close-5-schools-2325158.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUSD shuttered five elementary schools\u003c/a> in an effort to save about $2 million annually. Some critics of the move, though, say it led more students to leave the district, which ultimately offset most of the savings. School district funding from the state is, after all, based primarily on enrollment, and if enough displaced students decide to go to charter schools or even move to other districts, that could defeat the whole purpose of closing the schools to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens to Roots Academy students and teachers if it closes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School district officials say that if the school closes, they intend to work with Roots Academy families to find the most appropriate placement for their children, with the opportunity to transfer to a better-performing school. School board members at Wednesday’s contentious meeting also stressed that no employees at Roots would be at risk of losing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district wants to expand Coliseum College Prep Academy (CCPA), a higher-performing sixth- through 12th-grade school located on the same campus as Roots. Under the proposal, the school would double the number of sixth-grade seats it offers, taking on an additional 79 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As part of a controversial consolidation effort, Oakland’s school district recently revealed a plan to merge two distinct elementary schools located in different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls for shuttering Kaiser Elementary School in the Claremont Hills and relocating its students to Sankofa Academy, which is located in a roomy building in Oakland’s Bushrod neighborhood. If approved by the school board, the move would combine schools with dramatically different socioeconomic and racial profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, all 275 students at Kaiser, along with its teachers, would join the 187 students at Sankofa by the start of the 2020-21 school year. The school board is tentatively expected to vote on the proposal in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser teachers said district officials informed them of the move last Wednesday, and told the school’s families the following day. Sankofa teachers were not informed until Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents and teachers at Kaiser have already expressed fierce opposition to the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s heartbreaking that they would take away a really beautiful, well-functioning school that is a choice for Oakland children and just end it,” said Mary Grace McGhee, a second grade teacher who has worked at Kaiser for 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not how OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell sees it. She’s billing the move as a way to give more students the opportunity to attend a good school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to put a high quality school in every neighborhood that’s accessible to every family who wants their student to attend,” she said in a statement to KQED on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">Oakland’s School Closure Plans Off to a Rough Start for Some Parents\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proposed merger is part of Oakland Unified’s contentious plan to close up to 24 of the district’s 87 school sites in an effort to regain financial stability and improve school quality. In December, the district announced that Roots International Academy, a small middle school in East Oakland, would be the first school on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser and Sankofa are only about three miles away from each other, but in many respects the two schools are leagues apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa has an abysmal academic performance record: only about 4 percent of students met state math standards last year, while less than 8 percent met English language arts standards, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=0110254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=6001895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well over half\u003c/a> of Kaiser students met both math and reading standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This discrepancy is not surprising given the schools’ differing demographics: About \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612590110254&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y&ro=y&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90 percent\u003c/a> of Sankofa’s students are economically disadvantaged, as compared to \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612596001895&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only a quarter\u003c/a> of those at Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ample body of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/equal-resources-equal-outcomes-the-distribution-of-school-resources-and-student-achievement-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research has found\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/school-district-socioeconomic-status-race-and-academic-achievement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strongest predictor\u003c/a> of test scores in a school isn’t teacher quality or curriculum, but rather the percentage of its students who live below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa also has a much higher percentage of students with special needs: 17 percent vs. 7 percent at Kaiser. And unlike at Kaiser, the school reports having several homeless students and foster youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District officials cite limited space for expansion as one reason to merge Kaiser with another school with room to grow. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s lots of trauma and food insecurity in our kids,” said Marisa Mills, a Sankofa teacher. “We are academically failing, but we’re not nothing, and we bristle at that idea. We have some extremely talented students. We’re also the hardest working teachers I’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparities between the two schools are also striking along racial lines. At Kaiser, roughly 22 percent of students are black, 17 percent are Latino and 34 percent are white, according to state data. By comparison, Sankofa is about 67 percent black, 13 percent Latino and 4 percent white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills said she’s not surprised that Sankofa has been targeted by the district. The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/12/20/two-oakland-schools-escape-closure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrowly escaped closure\u003c/a> in 2007, and for years has performed poorly and been consistently under-enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been fighting so hard and so long to try to save Sankofa,” she said. “There’s a sense of inevitability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills raised some concerns about the possible merger, including the fact that Kaiser teachers and parents were notified about the plan first. She also expressed concern about whether Sankofa would remain eligible for Title I grant funding that’s reserved for schools with high proportions of low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mills said the merger could have real benefits for Sankofa’s students if it’s executed thoughtfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47765/how-socioeconomic-diversity-in-schools-helps-all-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research suggests\u003c/a> that socioeconomic integration is good for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s far from clear, though, if the majority of Kaiser parents would warm to the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parin Shah’s daughter is a fourth-grader at Kaiser and lives within walking distance of Sankofa. He said his family considered Sankofa before deciding Kaiser’s tranquil setting was a better fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great learning environment, it’s incredibly diverse. It represents much of why we moved to Oakland,” he said of his daughter’s school. “To merge Kaiser with any school and rip that fabric apart brings up a mix of real deep sorrow and loss, and then anger turning to creativity about how we’re not going to allow that to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In justifying the merger, district officials point to a recent analysis that found relatively few Kaiser students actually live in the Claremont Hills neighborhood. But a significant number live in Sankofa’s attendance zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said he’s deeply distrustful that the district can actually pull off what sounds like a well-intentioned proposal. He thinks it should focus on improving Sankofa, not disrupt a school that’s already working well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The notion that a merger and bringing resources from one school and blending them with another will improve both is a little bit false,” said Shah. He referenced an informal poll of Kaiser parents at a recent PTA meeting suggesting that many would pull their kids out of the district before sending them to a merged school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a conscious choice to come to this learning environment,” he said. “We’re ready to care for the community we’ve all created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district, Kaiser parents who don’t want to send their kids to the merged school may be able to take advantage of a policy being considered by the school board — what’s being called an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712318/oakland-considers-opportunity-ticket-to-funnel-more-minority-students-into-top-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opportunity ticket\u003c/a>” that would give them priority enrollment at a school of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kaiser fourth and fifth grade teacher Steve Neat, a 16-year veteran of the school, said he plans to ensure Kaiser parents won’t have to look elsewhere. Neat said he was around when the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-proposes-eliminating-13-schools-2308672.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considered closing \u003c/a>Kaiser in 2011 because of its small student body and limited potential for expansion. He credited a strong mobilization by the school community for saving it, and said he expects the same this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have families who live in every school board member’s district,” Neat said. “We have people who are very familiar with the legal system and know how to use it. We have people who don’t play around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there is some community support for the district’s efforts to create quality options in the city’s flatlands. Lakisha Young, who runs the parent advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandreach.org/\">Oakland REACH\u003c/a> has been working with Sankofa parents for months in preparation for a change at the school. She had expected Sankofa to merge with Peralta Elementary School, a high performing, in-demand school located just blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new proposal came as a surprise to Young, but she said her group will keep working to support Sankofa parents as it moves forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us it’s ultimately about these kids getting a great education,” Young said. “They could do something amazing on that Sankofa campus, but a lot of people don’t trust the system to merge schools and keep quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “At the end of the day, parents are going to be thinking about what’s best for their babies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As part of a controversial consolidation effort, Oakland’s school district recently revealed a plan to merge two distinct elementary schools located in different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls for shuttering Kaiser Elementary School in the Claremont Hills and relocating its students to Sankofa Academy, which is located in a roomy building in Oakland’s Bushrod neighborhood. If approved by the school board, the move would combine schools with dramatically different socioeconomic and racial profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, all 275 students at Kaiser, along with its teachers, would join the 187 students at Sankofa by the start of the 2020-21 school year. The school board is tentatively expected to vote on the proposal in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser teachers said district officials informed them of the move last Wednesday, and told the school’s families the following day. Sankofa teachers were not informed until Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents and teachers at Kaiser have already expressed fierce opposition to the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s heartbreaking that they would take away a really beautiful, well-functioning school that is a choice for Oakland children and just end it,” said Mary Grace McGhee, a second grade teacher who has worked at Kaiser for 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not how OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell sees it. She’s billing the move as a way to give more students the opportunity to attend a good school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to put a high quality school in every neighborhood that’s accessible to every family who wants their student to attend,” she said in a statement to KQED on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">Oakland’s School Closure Plans Off to a Rough Start for Some Parents\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proposed merger is part of Oakland Unified’s contentious plan to close up to 24 of the district’s 87 school sites in an effort to regain financial stability and improve school quality. In December, the district announced that Roots International Academy, a small middle school in East Oakland, would be the first school on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser and Sankofa are only about three miles away from each other, but in many respects the two schools are leagues apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa has an abysmal academic performance record: only about 4 percent of students met state math standards last year, while less than 8 percent met English language arts standards, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=0110254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=6001895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well over half\u003c/a> of Kaiser students met both math and reading standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This discrepancy is not surprising given the schools’ differing demographics: About \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612590110254&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y&ro=y&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90 percent\u003c/a> of Sankofa’s students are economically disadvantaged, as compared to \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612596001895&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only a quarter\u003c/a> of those at Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ample body of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/equal-resources-equal-outcomes-the-distribution-of-school-resources-and-student-achievement-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research has found\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/school-district-socioeconomic-status-race-and-academic-achievement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strongest predictor\u003c/a> of test scores in a school isn’t teacher quality or curriculum, but rather the percentage of its students who live below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa also has a much higher percentage of students with special needs: 17 percent vs. 7 percent at Kaiser. And unlike at Kaiser, the school reports having several homeless students and foster youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District officials cite limited space for expansion as one reason to merge Kaiser with another school with room to grow. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s lots of trauma and food insecurity in our kids,” said Marisa Mills, a Sankofa teacher. “We are academically failing, but we’re not nothing, and we bristle at that idea. We have some extremely talented students. We’re also the hardest working teachers I’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparities between the two schools are also striking along racial lines. At Kaiser, roughly 22 percent of students are black, 17 percent are Latino and 34 percent are white, according to state data. By comparison, Sankofa is about 67 percent black, 13 percent Latino and 4 percent white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills said she’s not surprised that Sankofa has been targeted by the district. The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/12/20/two-oakland-schools-escape-closure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrowly escaped closure\u003c/a> in 2007, and for years has performed poorly and been consistently under-enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been fighting so hard and so long to try to save Sankofa,” she said. “There’s a sense of inevitability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills raised some concerns about the possible merger, including the fact that Kaiser teachers and parents were notified about the plan first. She also expressed concern about whether Sankofa would remain eligible for Title I grant funding that’s reserved for schools with high proportions of low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mills said the merger could have real benefits for Sankofa’s students if it’s executed thoughtfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47765/how-socioeconomic-diversity-in-schools-helps-all-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research suggests\u003c/a> that socioeconomic integration is good for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s far from clear, though, if the majority of Kaiser parents would warm to the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parin Shah’s daughter is a fourth-grader at Kaiser and lives within walking distance of Sankofa. He said his family considered Sankofa before deciding Kaiser’s tranquil setting was a better fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great learning environment, it’s incredibly diverse. It represents much of why we moved to Oakland,” he said of his daughter’s school. “To merge Kaiser with any school and rip that fabric apart brings up a mix of real deep sorrow and loss, and then anger turning to creativity about how we’re not going to allow that to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In justifying the merger, district officials point to a recent analysis that found relatively few Kaiser students actually live in the Claremont Hills neighborhood. But a significant number live in Sankofa’s attendance zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said he’s deeply distrustful that the district can actually pull off what sounds like a well-intentioned proposal. He thinks it should focus on improving Sankofa, not disrupt a school that’s already working well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The notion that a merger and bringing resources from one school and blending them with another will improve both is a little bit false,” said Shah. He referenced an informal poll of Kaiser parents at a recent PTA meeting suggesting that many would pull their kids out of the district before sending them to a merged school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a conscious choice to come to this learning environment,” he said. “We’re ready to care for the community we’ve all created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district, Kaiser parents who don’t want to send their kids to the merged school may be able to take advantage of a policy being considered by the school board — what’s being called an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712318/oakland-considers-opportunity-ticket-to-funnel-more-minority-students-into-top-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opportunity ticket\u003c/a>” that would give them priority enrollment at a school of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kaiser fourth and fifth grade teacher Steve Neat, a 16-year veteran of the school, said he plans to ensure Kaiser parents won’t have to look elsewhere. 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"disqusTitle": "PHOTOS: Hundreds Rally in Oakland Over School Funding, Closures and Pending Strikes",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of educators, parents and labor organizers filled Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland on Saturday to rally on a number of issues including increased funding in public education, improved teacher contracts and the expected closure of up to two dozen schools in the Oakland Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were inspired by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/15/609734857/north-carolina-teachers-join-the-march-how-did-we-get-here-what-s-next\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"Red4Ed\" movement\u003c/a> that sparked teacher activism and strikes last year in conservative states including West Virginia and Oklahoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they were also marching in solidarity with teachers in Los Angeles who are expected to go on strike \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/684420036/i-m-a-little-stressed-la-teachers-brace-for-a-possible-strike\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this week\u003c/a>. At the same time, Oakland teachers are preparing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711221/oakland-high-school-teachers-planning-non-union-sanctioned-work-stoppage\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their own strike\u003c/a> as early as next month as contract negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">As Potential Closures Loom, Oakland Parents Want ‘Opportunity Ticket’ to Access Better Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Lakisha-Young-e1541535688680-1180x938.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“In Oakland and L.A. we are fighting for the same things: essential resources for our students. Our students deserve good teachers,” said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Educators Association. Brown says Oakland teachers are asking for a wage increase, smaller class sizes and more social services — such as counselors and nurses — in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s teachers are some of the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2017-18/599272\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lowest paid\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, many say the cost of living is too high for them to live in Oakland forcing them to commute long distances to their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of these long-simmering issues, OUSD recently announced plans to close up to 24 public schools, many of them in East Oakland. Staff at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roots International Academy\u003c/a> were notified of its closure recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are trying to fight that and keep it open because in East Oakland there’s not many middle schools,” said Silvia Orneles, a parent of an eighth grader at the school. “A lot of parents are really upset. They're saying, 'Where’s my child gonna go?' 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They are supporting their teachers at the rally. "We could use more counselors at our school," says Levitt. "We have 500 students to a counselor. Many students have mental health issues they can't deal with at home."\" width=\"637\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125848.jpg 637w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125848-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casey Levitt and Theodore Zarobell, seniors at Oakland Tech, were supporting their teachers. \"Teacher pay is really important,\" says Zarobell. \"Many of our teachers have to live hours away in the suburbs. 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Cherene Fillingim-Selk is a teacher at Berkeley Arts Magnet. "At an event like this with hundreds of people, you realize you're not alone." \" width=\"637\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_130517.jpg 637w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_130517-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area teachers were also marching in solidarity with teachers in Los Angeles, who are expected to go on strike next week. \"At an event like this with hundreds of people, you realize you're not alone,\" says Cherene Fillingim-Selk a teacher at Berkeley Arts Magnet. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717880\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11717880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland teachers are asking for a wage increase and smaller class sizes in the latest contract negotiations with the district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers are asking for a wage increase and smaller class sizes in contract negotiations with the district. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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