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October 2, 2009 – 4:39 pm
Concerned dads are stepping up and getting involved at Sankofa Academy, a small school that’s making big strides toward addressing Oakland’s student achievement gap. Story by Jake Schoneker/Oakland North
The Week That Was: Education
May 22, 2009 – 2:49 pm
A new superintendent, API scores and more. By ALEXIA UNDERWOOD
Town Hall Audience Prefers Local Candidate for School District Superintendent
May 21, 2009 – 11:25 am
Roots mattered when the three finalists met Oakland students and residents. By ALEXIA UNDERWOOD
Career: Take 2 at Laney College
February 25, 2009 – 4:48 pm
Career: Take 2 from Gaelle Faure/Special to Oakland North on Vimeo.
Gambling for one of Oakland’s small schools
February 24, 2009 – 7:25 pm
Tamara Arroyo, a young woman with her hair in a ponytail, pulled up the corners of the two cards she’d been dealt, an ace and a jack, and then looked at her dwindling pile of chips. With a gleam in her eyes and a slight smile, she obviously did not know the meaning of a [...]
Teaching Obama: in classrooms, lesson is vast
December 4, 2008 – 5:16 pm
In this audio slide by Anna Bloom, local classroom teachers and their students reflect on the classroom promise and challenges of this extraordinary election. Click here to play.
Halloween fun and fund-raising at Children’s Hospital
October 15, 2008 – 7:47 pm
video by CLARE MAJOR
Oct. 14 — Scary was fun at Children’s Hospital Oakland this afternoon. At a costume party, sponsored by national retailer Spirit Halloween, the kids decorated pumpkins and played games. Donations collected at Spirit Halloween stores will be presented to hospitals around the country, including Children’s Hospital Oakland, in early December.
Friends of newly-reopened art center fret over its future
October 13, 2008 – 6:31 pm
After a $10 million renovation, North Oakland’s reopened Studio One is still waiting for the community to come back at full strength. Click here for the story and a historic timeline of the century-old building.
School board to parents: No closures for now
October 9, 2008 – 8:17 pm
By LINNEA EDMEIER
Oct. 8 — The anxiety over the possibility of some school shutdowns played out in tonight’s Oakland Board of Education meeting as individuals and groups took the microphone to passionately say, “Don’t close our small schools.”
In the wake of announcing a plan to study closing certain schools in order to increase fiscal stability, [...]
School board at Tech tonight to make room for all
October 7, 2008 – 7:11 pm
By LINNEA EDMEIER
Oct. 8—Money is the focus of this evening’s Board of Education (BOE) meeting—both how to save it and how to spend it. While the District looks for ways to secure its financial future through cuts and possible school closures, it must also approve current funding needs for student programs and teacher training. [...]
Girls’ rowing team puts oars within reach
October 6, 2008 – 3:23 pm
story by MARTIN RICARD
audio slides by ISABEL ESTERMAN
Sept. 7—About a dozen girls huddled in front of the boathouse at the Jack London Aquatic Center Sunday afternoon giggling and chatting away as though they’d known one another for years.
Who’s the cute new crew instructor? Who’s afraid of the water? Is rowing really that hard? they asked [...]
Official pleads for fall immunizations, despite “misinformation”
October 1, 2008 – 3:36 pm
By MAGGIE FAZELI FARD
Renee Cheney-Cohen, the coordinator of Alameda County’s immunization program, says the words with conviction. The phrase is her mantra as she reaches out to community groups, organizes free immunization clinics and works through the busy back-to-school vaccination season, insisting to parents that just because a disease isn’t common doesn’t mean it’s [...]
HPV vaccine recommended for pre-teen girls
October 1, 2008 – 3:35 pm
By MAGGIE FAZELI FARD
While California state guidelines list required immunizations for school-aged children, there are also several optional vaccines available, such as the flu shot. The one making the biggest waves in medicine today, as much for its flashy advertisements as for its taboo nature, is a vaccine marketed widely as Gardasil, which protects girls and [...]
Vaccinations, as recommended by the CDC
October 1, 2008 – 3:34 pm
By MAGGIE FAZELI FARD
Measles, mumps and polio may sound like plagues of days long past, but they are among the infections that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) aims to hold at bay to this day through required and recommended immunizations, for children and adults alike.
At North Oakland’s Civicorps, “working green” is part of school
September 21, 2008 – 11:44 pm
story and audioslides by LINNEA EDMEIER
Sept. 21 — Reading, writing, arithmetic and recycling? For students of Civicorps Elementary School, in North Oakland, Saturday’s Coastal Cleanup Day wasn’t just another day at the beach. It was another day of fulfilling Civicorps’s mission of “participating in the life of the community.”
At Saturday’s event, Resek, a third [...]