Each Oakland school is supposed to make its own cuts and determine which programs and services to keep (under OUSD’s Results-Based Budgeting system). So some schools already do without assistant principals — or counselors, for that matter.

Last I checked, the district was hoping to avoid pink-slipping tenured teachers, but I don’t know about principals. More than a dozen principals have left — either quit, retired, fired or reassigned — each year for the last couple of years, so I think they’re always recruiting.

Anyone have more insight on this subject?

Thank you!

The government, using the Community Reinvestment Act, created the current economic disaster. None of the other stuff could have happened, if the Clinton-Dodd-Frank-Polosi gang hadn’t forced the millions of bad loans on which the whole house of cards was based. Now, nobody in political office, including Republicans as well as Democrats, is willing to notice that elephant sitting on the living room sofa, because they all have pet projects that they want to promote as “cures.” It is all snake oil, and the result is going to be horrid inflation of our currency, and we will all lose, including the chronically unemployed, broken families. When the reality of it all sinks in, for those with the grey for it to sink into, it could give legitimate rise to an exponential “widening of drug abuse” among hard working responsible Americans, who will be the REAL VICTIMS.

Create a disaster, then politically profit from it while fill up your political power energizing pork barrels under the guise of responding to disaster you created before the clock runs out on this golden opportunity to fiscally rape the nation and hang mill stones of debt around the necks of generations to come.

Hey Sharon, maybe you should also try feeling a little sorrow and compassion for your children!?

I suppose that’s their problem and not the taxpayers.

Molly, If you have the kids you are supposed to provide care for them. Public School has never been a daycare program. This is why good people don’t have more kids than they can properly take care of.

Now I don’t mind government daycare, especially during time of national mobilization for war. Free Daycare is way optional otherwise. As we move into the Great Depression II we will likely give up many luxuries we had when times were good. Like law and order, power and light, medical care, Meals, etc…

Look on the bright side. The sun will still rise. And maybe families will be closer. A lot closer!!

Education will still go on. But there will have to be some changes. Starting with the after-school care thing perhaps. We will soon be seeing discussions about what is a mission priority and what is not. OUSD isn’t doing service cuts because they want to. Stop speaking of them like they are cruel. I may have policy differences with OUSD but I respect their position as being the elected arbiters of what to do with the budget they have to work with.

If this post sounds sarcastic, it’s not meant to be. We cannot allow ourselves to be angry with our electeds because they do their jobs as well as anybody could. No money means service cuts. Get used to it.

Look at Slide 22 to see a stunning graph of US prison admissions by race from 1930 to 1997. The trends were flat until 1970 and have been steeply climbing since. You’ll be astonished by how much.

Keep in mind that this graph compares pure numbers, not percentages. In this same time period, the Black population ranged from less than 1/7th of the White population to slightly more than 1/9th. The rise started about a decade after the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

I hope at some point we’ll really address what’s wrong with our society. As far as I’ve figured out, at the very least, it must be connected to the chronic unemployment that’s been tolerated, the breakdown of the family and America’s widespread drug use. Minimally funded schools, and teachers trying as hard as they might, won’t ever be able to fix this.

Don’t hide your money in your mattress or you may end up compromising your invetment in a good (increasingly restless) night’s sleep. Sweet lost dreams everyone.

Anyway, thanks for catching that date misttake Teri, I was so caught up with looking at the (Nextset communicated) big picture I hadn’t noticed it. Having an eye for detail (and typos) is what every executive looks for in a good secretary.

P.S. If you want to discredit any of these comments, find my (above) misspelled word and I’ll declare you an inconsequential WINNER here as well!

There was no Weimar Republic in 1937. The Nazis took power in 1933.