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		<title>Saturday: Career Technical Education Expo in Oakland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laney College is hosting a career tech expo on Saturday, featuring programs from biomanufacturing to culinary arts. It&#8217;s from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 900 Fallon St in Oakland. You can register for the free event and find updates here. &#160; Career and Technical Education Expo]]></description>
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		<title>Paying for college: looking for stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, my colleague Matt Krupnick wrote a story about the ever-rising cost of tuition at California&#8217;s state universities. It&#8217;s cheaper for a student from a middle-income family to go to Harvard (or other top private colleges) than to CSU East Bay, he found. Now that many of the acceptance letters have arrived in the mail, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday: Conference for Oakland&#8217;s African-American families</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents can learn about transitional kindergarten, how to advocate for their children, how to help them at home, and what it will take for them to graduate high school and be ready for college at a free Saturday event for African-American families. The African American Spring Parent Conference, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High school students campaign for free in-state tuition in CA</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/22/college-for-california-a-student-ballot-initiative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monica Mendoza, a 2011 graduate of Oakland&#8217;s Life Academy and a student at Hayward&#8217;s Chabot College, wrote the below piece about a ballot initiative she helped to write. College for California would make state universities free for most full-time, in-state students. The initiative still needs more than 800,000 signatures to qualify for a future ballot. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Dream Act awaits governor&#8217;s signature</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/09/06/california-dream-act-awaits-governors-signature/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/09/where-are-they-now-two-oakland-high-school-grads-four-years-later/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/01/ousd-custodians-start-scholarship-fund/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/04/14/so-many-students-so-few-counselors-but-a-student-proposal-doesnt-call-for-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/04/14/so-many-students-so-few-counselors-but-a-student-proposal-doesnt-call-for-more/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/10/07/close-the-achievement-gap-graduate-college-then-what/</link>
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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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