Tag Archives: Small schools movement

Trish Gorham, the new president of the Oakland Education Association, sits down with Oakland North.

Q&A: Meet new Oakland Education Association president Trish Gorham

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With the new school year approaching, Oakland North sits down with the newly hired Oakland Education Association (OEA) president, Trish Gorham. In this wide-ranging interview, the new head of the teachers' union discusses school closures,...
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...
Parents became outraged, while board member Noel Gallo sat in the back, during a contentious meeting that included teachers and OUSD staff in the auditorium of Lakeview Elementary last week.

Oakland parents on school closures: Where do we go?

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Three weeks after the OUSD board voted 5-2 to close five elementary schools—Lakeview, Lazear, Marshall, Maxwell Park and Santa Fe—and relocate or merge several other schools, parents and staff affected by the closures are working...
Taylor Carriedo, a kindergarten student at Lazear Elementary, colored at an OUSD board meeting last week while her parents protested against school closures. On Wednesday, the board will approve or reject superintendent Tony Smith’s recommendations for closures.

OUSD school closures vote Wed follows years of creating small schools, then having to pay for them

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The Oakland Unified School District's controversial proposal to close five elementary schools this fall, and more in coming years, follows a multi-year program of encouraging small small schools--subdividing bigger facilities into multiple smaller ones, each...