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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>California Dream Act awaits governor&#8217;s signature</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[College-bound California high school students who are in the United States illegally will soon be eligible for taxpayer-funded financial aid if the governor signs AB 131, a bill known as the California Dream Act. (Read the full text of the most recent version of the bill here.) The New York Times reported that this bill, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETS finds cheating took place on AP tests at Skyline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education Testing Service investigators believe some Skyline High School students cheated on their advanced placement tests, Principal Troy Johnston told families in a letter he sent out this week that details some of the findings (see below). The Skyline Oracle published a story in June about the ETS&#8217;s investigation into possible procedural breaches. In its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are they now? Two Oakland high school grads, four years later</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Henry Grant and Darielle Davis were high school seniors in 2006-07, we wrote about their college aspirations. Grant, then an Oakland High School student and All-City Council president, was looking at private, out-of-state colleges. Davis, valedictorian of EXCEL High School in West Oakland, was headed for UC Berkeley. This spring, we learned they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUSD custodians start scholarship fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the superintendent&#8217;s call to action, Oakland school custodians have decided to do their part to help Oakland&#8217;s African-American students achieve. They&#8217;ve sold Raiders tickets, organized a talent show and held a raffle to raise scholarship money. So far, they have collected $10,000, which they will award to 11 African American boys and girls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So many students, so few counselors. But a student proposal doesn&#8217;t call for more.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kids who enter Oakland high schools this fall will need to complete the UC/CSU `a to g&#8217; course requirements to graduate in 2015. A major shift, considering that less than half of the district&#8217;s 2009 grads had done so. But a survey by Californians For Justice found that nearly 1 in 4 of students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close the achievement gap and graduate college. Then what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zeus Yiamouyiannis is an Oakland-based learning consultant and former professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Carroll College. He gives us his take on education reform in general and &#8220;Waiting for Superman&#8221; in particular &#8212; and the film-maker&#8217;s assertion that 120 million new high-paying jobs await us in 2020. American Education has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the screens of the Peralta Community Colleges board: Reporter finds some telling e-mails</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/09/15/behind-the-screens-of-the-peralta-colleges-board-reporter-finds-some-telling-e-mails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Krupnick, my colleague who covers higher education for the Bay Area News Group, requested e-mail correspondence from the public accounts of Linda Handy, Marcie Hodge and William Riley, trustees for the Peralta Community College District who are running for re-election or, in Hodge&#8217;s case, for mayor. He tells us what he found. A stack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A higher ed dispatch from UC Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/08/26/a-higher-ed-dispatch-from-uc-berkeley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Krupnick, our higher education reporter, tells us about the entering class at UC Berkeley, from the chancellor&#8217;s point of view, on the first day of classes. A variety of media types gathered at UC Berkeley today – the first day of classes – to get Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s annual take on the university’s state [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Suburban mom reports substandard ACT administration at West Oakland high school</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/07/07/suburban-mom-disturbed-by-substandard-act-administration-at-west-oakland-high-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/07/07/suburban-mom-disturbed-by-substandard-act-administration-at-west-oakland-high-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharon Fingold&#8217;s family lives in Los Altos, but by the time her son registered for the June 12 ACT, the only testing center available was McClymonds High School in West Oakland. Fingold figured the administration of the college entrance exam at McClymonds would be no different than it was for the SATs and ACTs her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dave Eggers&#8217; idea to help kids pay for college</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/05/20/dave-eggers-idea-to-help-kids-pay-for-college/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 02:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Eggers is a famous author and publisher, but he&#8217;s also a teacher, an advocate and a philanthropist. His 8-year-old writing project, named after its address &#8211;  826 Valencia &#8212; offers free writing and editing workshops, a great books/&#8221;Best American Nonrequired Reading&#8221; class, field trips and drop-in tutoring. (And a pirate store, in case you [...]]]></description>
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