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	<title>The Education Report &#187; charter schools</title>
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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>An old news recap: charter school decisions, mutual matching, blue ribbon nomination</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/23/an-old-news-recap-charter-school-decisions-mutual-matching-blue-ribbon-nomination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education news kept right on happening in the last two weeks. Here are some of the developments I missed while I was visiting old temples and dodging motorbikes: THE OAKLAND SCHOOL BOARD REJECTED the charter school conversion petitions submitted by the faculties of ASCEND and Learning Without Limits, elementary schools in the Fruitvale area. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charter school accountability debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the California Charter Schools Association caused a stir. The pro-charter group came out with a list of 10 independently-run schools it deemed underperforming &#8212; and encouraged their respective school districts to close them when their 5-year contracts expire! That list included West County Community High in Richmond, as my colleague Hannah Dreier reported in today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oakland teacher speaks at the White House</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/12/09/oakland-teacher-shares-her-expertise-at-the-white-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/12/09/oakland-teacher-shares-her-expertise-at-the-white-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura Kretschmar, a newly National Board-certified teacher who teaches math and science at Lighthouse Community Charter School in East Oakland, spoke at a White House forum about the teaching profession this week with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Also there is Dan Brown, whose book (&#8220;The Great Expectations School&#8221;) I just finished reading. Check out [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>OUSD&#8217;s rosy enrollment projections</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/29/ousds-rosy-enrollment-projections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/29/ousds-rosy-enrollment-projections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oakland school district is closing five elementary schools next year. Two of its other schools might be converted into independently run charters, taking 800 children with them. And at least one &#8212; quite possibly, two &#8212; brand new charter schools open next fall, with plans to admit more than 600 students, combined. But OUSD&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oakland teachers push for changes beyond charter school conversion</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/18/oakland-teachers-push-for-changes-beyond-charter-school-conversion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/18/oakland-teachers-push-for-changes-beyond-charter-school-conversion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo by Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group Teachers from two East Oakland elementary schools are on a mission to shake up the status quo in the Oakland school district. This fall, they voted to turn their schools &#8212; ASCEND and Learning Without Limits &#8211; into independently run charters so that they could have more control over staffing, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Oakland: A charter school for black boys, charter conversions and other proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oakland school board holds a special meeting Nov. 21 to hear eight pending charter petitions &#8212; three district schools that would secede from OUSD and run independently; one new school and four existing charters that are up for renewal (KIPP Bridge, Civicorps, ARISE High School and Aspire&#8217;s Lionel Wilson College Prep). NOTE: This is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rumors (and denials) of a rogue charter school opening next week</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/25/a-new-charter-school-opening-in-october-maybe-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/25/a-new-charter-school-opening-in-october-maybe-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I write about the American Indian Public Charter School I feel like I&#8217;ve entered an alternative reality. This is one of those times. For that reason, I can&#8217;t tell you definitively whether an unauthorized elementary charter school will open on American Indian&#8217;s downtown campus on Halloween, as rumored &#8212; though it&#8217;s looking unlikely. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>117</slash:comments>
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		<title>Two Oakland schools to split from OUSD</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/24/two-oakland-elementary-schools-to-split-from-ousd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/24/two-oakland-elementary-schools-to-split-from-ousd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday night at Oakland Technical High School, the Oakland school board votes on a staff resolution to close five elementary schools, Lakeview, Lazear, Marshall, Maxwell Park and Santa Fe. But the board is expected to be presented with another downsizing proposal, too: The faculties at two other schools, ASCEND and Learning Without Limits, have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Montessori charter school to open in Oakland</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/13/montessori-charter-school-to-open-in-oakland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/13/montessori-charter-school-to-open-in-oakland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although its petition was rejected by the Oakland school board, a charter school named Urban Montessori will open in Oakland next year, after all. The Alameda County Board of Education approved the group&#8217;s appeal this week, according to the group&#8217;s blog. Urban Montessori will begin its first year with grades k-2 and grow into a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lazear parents: Close our school, and we&#8217;ll open a charter</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/11/lazear-parents-close-our-school-and-well-open-a-charter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/11/lazear-parents-close-our-school-and-well-open-a-charter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The families at East Oakland&#8217;s Lazear Elementary School have come to a decision, says parent leader Olga Galaviz Gonzalez: If the Oakland school board votes to close it next year, as Superintendent Tony Smith has recommended, they will try to reopen it as a public, independently-run charter school. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been working on it,&#8221; Gonzalez said [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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