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	<title>The Education Report &#187; charter schools</title>
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		<title>Answers about AIMS summer school</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably already know, AIMS got a reprieve yesterday that will at least keep the schools operating during the summer session while the controversial board fights OUSD&#8217;s decision to yank its charter. Jim Mordecai, who many followers know from OUSD board of education meetings, noted: The FCMAT audit found problems with the summer program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Tony Smith and AIMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 6 p.m. tonight, the OUSD board is expected to speak publicly for the first time about the resignation of schools superintendent Tony Smith last week. There is nothing on the agenda but the board will say a few words and maybe we should expect some public comment. In the meantime, at 5 p.m., AIPCS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite hopes to the contrary, OUSD rejects Lazear charter</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/04/25/despite-hopes-to-the-contrary-ousd-rejects-lazear-charter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, the Oakland school board voted to block Lazear Elementary School from becoming a charter school (with Spearman and Gallo dissenting). Lazear is one of five elementary schools slated to close in June as part of a school district downsizing plan. To keep it open, parents submitted an application to become an independently run charter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Smith, on OUSD schools turning into charters</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/04/19/tony-smith-on-oakland-schools-turning-into-charters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011 file photo by Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group At a meeting with principals and other administrators before spring break, Oakland Superintendent Tony Smith apparently said he didn&#8217;t care how many of the city&#8217;s schools became independently run charters. After reading the comments a couple of you posted about those remarks, I asked OUSD Spokesman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live blog: American Indian charter hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/04/04/live-blog-american-indian-charter-hearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, the Oakland school board went against its staff&#8217;s recommendation and renewed the charter for American Indian Public Charter School II. There was an overflow crowd at the meeting. Its director, Ben Chavis, entered the board room to applause. 10:00: The vote on Alice Spearman&#8217;s motion to approve the charter, with conditions, just passed, 4-3. Spearman, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Oakland&#8217;s top-scoring school be closed?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/04/02/will-oaklands-highest-scoring-school-be-closed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a 6 5:30 p.m. special meeting Wednesday night, the Oakland school board considers the fate of American Indian Public Charter School II, a middle school in downtown Oakland with a near-perfect Academic Performance Index of 990. American Indian Public Charter School II, one of three schools run by American Indian Model Schools, is up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students to debate charters, criminal justice</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/27/students-to-debate-charter-schools-criminal-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High school debater Kwodwo Moore (center). Photo by Ray Chavez/Staff On Thursday, after you come to the Tribune&#8217;s public forum on high school reform and teaching in Oakland, you&#8217;ll still have plenty of time to head across town to a different &#8212; and decidedly younger &#8212; discussion about education and teenagers. Charter schools and criminal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On this week&#8217;s OUSD board agenda: school facilities, police review, charters and grading policy</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/26/on-this-weeks-ousd-board-agenda-school-facilities-police-review-charters-and-grading-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m gearing up for a long night on Wednesday. Among many other agenda items, the Oakland school board will hear a report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Police Services (it hasn&#8217;t been posted as of this afternoon); a discussion about possible revisions to the district&#8217;s student grading policies and regulations; an update on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUSD board considers charter school conversions tonight</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/07/ousd-board-considers-charter-school-conversions-tonight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/07/ousd-board-considers-charter-school-conversions-tonight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The OUSD board voted 6-0 (board member Alice Spearman wasn&#8217;t present) to approve the charter conversions of both ASCEND and Learning Without Limits. You can find the full story here. As a result of the higher-than-normal facilities rate the schools will pay OUSD to remain in their buildings ($2.50 per square foot, compared to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland considers a different kind of charter school</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/02/23/oakland-considers-a-different-kind-of-charter-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/02/23/oakland-considers-a-different-kind-of-charter-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Oakland elementary schools whose attempted breakaway from the district was recently denied (by the district) are taking a different approach in their quest for independence. Tonight, the principals of ASCEND and Learning Without Limits turned in revised charter conversion applications &#8212; this time, for &#8220;partnership charters,&#8221; which would work closely with OUSD and its [...]]]></description>
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