Tag Archives: school closures

Parents drop off their kids to Piedmont Elementary in Oakland during the first week of school.

Former Lakeview Elementary parents and students adjust to new schools

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Zarina Ahmad, principal of Piedmont Avenue Elementary in Oakland, put extra effort this year into creating a bright first day of school. She and her staff pasted a class list to the outside wall, with...
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Lakeview protesters finish up last week of People’s School at Splash Pad Park

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Canopies were up for The People’s School For Public Education on Tuesday at Splash Pad Park, where protesters who had previously been camping at Lakeview Elementary School have relocated the volunteer-run summer program to teach...
The encampment at Lakeview Elementary School was raided at 4 a.m. on Tuesday by Oakland and OUSD police officers.

Lakeview Elementary encampment shut down; protesters vow to return

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The tent city at Lakeview Elementary School has been dismantled. At 4 a.m. Oakland Unified School District police and other law enforcement officers raided the encampment where parents, teachers, and community activist had been sleeping...
Community organizer Joel Velasquez addresses protestors at Lakeview Elementary, flanked by a protestor with a bunny named slingshot.

Lakeview Elementary protest draws hundreds of protestors in Oakland

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On Saturday afternoon nearly 200 protestors showed up for a 1.7 mile march organized by a coalition of community organizers, Occupy Oakland supporters and Lakeview Elementary parents to protest the closure of five Oakland elementary...
Parents at Lakeview Elementary School intend to live in a tent city and rally until their demands are met about school closures.

Parents build tent city at Lakeview Elementary with help from Occupy Oakland protesters

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School is out and parents who disagree with the Oakland Unified School District board’s decision to close five elementary schools—Lakeview, Lazear, Marshall, Maxwell and Sante Fe—at the end of this school year are protesting by...
The mutual matching proposal is supported by OUSD Superintendent Tony Smith, who recently penned an op-ed in the Oakland Tribune voicing his support for the plan. (Photo by Mariel Waloff).

OUSD “mutual matching” proposal would change how teachers are assigned to schools

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The idea behind the concept of “mutual matching” is to find the best fit between a teacher and the school community in which they work. That concept is on the bargaining table now in discussions...

Parents to march to school board meeting, petition for recall of 5 board members

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Five Oakland school board members will be receiving more than season's greetings from frustrated parents today. They're getting news that a recall campaign has been launched against them for voting to close five Oakland elementary...
OUSD holds community input meetings for neighborhoods that will be affected by proposed boundary changes in areas that include schools that are slated for closure.

Attendance boundaries will change after OUSD vote for school closures

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This week, OUSD officials are hosting community input meetings on boundary changes that are scheduled to go on until Wednesday. The boundary changes come after the OUSD school board voted in October to close five...
OUSD board member Jody London at a meeting that voted to expand Life Academy, a small health and sciences high school in East Oakland, into a 6th thorough 12th grade school.

Oakland school board votes to expand Life Academy, ends district use of Styrofoam

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A month after the Oakland Unified School District board voted to close five elementary schools, members voted Wednesday night to allow Life Academy, a small health and sciences high school in East Oakland, to expand...
Two school closure protesters held a handmade sign below the stage at Wednesday's meeting. Photo by Amna Hassan.

OUSD board votes to close five elementary schools at contentious meeting

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The Oakland Unified School District board voted 5-2 to close five elementary schools — Lakeview, Lazear, Marshall, Maxwell Park and Santa Fe — and transform or merge several other schools at its meeting at Oakland...
Teachers, parents and students marched from Mosswood Park to the school board meeting at Oakland Tech on Wednesday, protesting the decision to close schools such as Lakeview Elementary next year.

Oakland parents, teachers march to protest school closures

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Roughly one hundred teachers, parents and children marched Wednesday afternoon in protest of the Oakland school board’s decision to close five elementary schools next year, walking from Mosswood Park to the Oakland Tech campus, where...
Gerlen Anderson, a grandmother of Lakeview Elementary School students, describes feeling left out of the school closure decision-making process during a community meeting at Lakeview.

At Oakland schools on the closure list, distraught pleas to reconsider

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The Oakland Unified School District spent a week in October hosting meetings at each public schools recommended for closure: Lakeview, Marshall, Maxwell Park, Lazear and Santa Fe Elementary Schools. These meetings were a chance for...
Brother Boze, co-coordinator of Lakeview Elementary School's after school program, led a march of students from Lakeview to the OUSD board meeting on September 26th.

At OUSD school board meeting, parents and students rallied against proposed school closures

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An emotional Oakland Unified School District board meeting that attracted hundreds of agitated parents and children went on until nearly midnight, though the board took no action in its controversial plan to close or consolidate...
Renee Sanchez, PTA president of Kaiser Elementary School, began to cry after protesting with Kaiser families during an OUSD facilities board meeting last week.

Oakland school board to review school closures list, terms better defined

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The preliminary list of OUSD schools recommended for closure three weeks has changed. Now five elementary schools are recommended for closure while two others are being proposed for "quality expansion."
OUSD board member Jody London listens to Kaiser family concerns after the meeting was adjourned.

OUSD meeting turns into emotional protest

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An OUSD facilities board meeting turned into an emotional protest Tuesday afternoon when parents, faculty and staff from Kaiser Elementary School showed up unannounced, rallying to keep their school open.
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Concerned citizens protest school closures at OUSD board meeting

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Concerned parents, children and community members packed the Oakland Unified School District board meeting Wednesday night. They clutched protest signs that voiced opposition to the recent announcement that OUSD will soon close as many as...