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		<title>No plans Saturday night?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/07/no-plans-saturday-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday is the second annual Uptown Oakland Block Party and school fundraiser. It&#8217;s from 5 to 8 p.m. Organizers aim to raise $60,000 for five Oakland schools (including two that are slated for closure): Manzanita SEED, Cleveland, Piedmont Avenue, Lakeview and Thurgood Marshall. Last year, they raised $13,000 for another group of schools. Thirty-dollar tickets are available online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper galore at Lakeview Elementary School</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lakeview Elementary School should not run out of copy paper this year. Today, the charitable arm of the 78-year-old Lake Merritt Breakfast Club dropped off $2,000 worth of school supplies at Lakeview. According to the breakfast club, the savings will help Lakeview pay for someone to look after the kids at lunchtime &#8212; the kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A celebration of peace and harmony in Oakland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents at Manzanita Community School and Manzanita SEED organized an event today to celebrate their community, call for peace and welcome the area&#8217;s community police officers. Here are some clips of the neighborhood walk, which began on East 27th Street and 26th Avenue in East Oakland. (Note: In the confusion of the moment, I neglected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweat equity in Oakland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This spring, as California schools face yet another round of budget reductions, some are giving this fundraising formula a try: Oakland pride + a fitness challenge + a way to help a school in need. Dagmar Serota was in a meeting at the Sankofa Academy library when she noticed the bare shelves. The few books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Saturday: a chance to weigh in on the plan for Oakland schools</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/01/17/this-saturday-a-chance-to-weigh-in-on-the-plan-for-oakland-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have an opinion on the superintendent&#8217;s &#8220;Full Service Community Schools&#8221; vision, if you&#8217;re not quite sure what it means, or if you want to offer your feedback before a plan is etched in stone, you might want to check out an upcoming conference at the Cesar Chavez Education Center in Fruitvale. The Youth and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oakland school district&#8217;s think tank</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along one wall at the Oakland Educational Center at Tilden is a series of questions that begin with: &#8220;How do you know if a school is _?&#8221; (Choose your adjective: effective, supportive, healthy, safe) Sticky notes underneath contain the answers, at least of those who took part in the exercise. The last time I visited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on mentoring &#8212; and being mentored</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/12/06/thoughts-on-mentoring-and-being-mentored/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/12/06/thoughts-on-mentoring-and-being-mentored/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Clark met Carmen Avila-Hernandez, a fifth-grader at Sankofa Academy in North Oakland, last fall through a mentoring program at UC Berkeley. Cynthia writes about her experience &#8212; and then asks Carmen what it&#8217;s been like for her. The Sage Mentorship Project has been a life-changing experience that has given me the opportunity to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oakland police chief&#8217;s middle school strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/12/01/the-oakland-police-chiefs-middle-school-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/12/01/the-oakland-police-chiefs-middle-school-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts is in Washington, D.C. right now, lobbying the federal powers that be to give him $6 million for a pilot community policing program at four Oakland middle schools. Batts’ plan is to hire 24 police officers and to assign them to four Oakland middle schools: Frick, Madison, Roosevelt and Westlake. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>East Oakland moms ask police for help</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/11/16/east-oakland-moms-ask-opd-for-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/11/16/east-oakland-moms-ask-opd-for-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oakland schools have a reputation for being dangerous. But for some families, they&#8217;re an oasis of security in an otherwise frightening and unpredictable world. A group of East Oakland mothers told Oakland Police Capt. Ersie Joyner this morning that they live in perpetual fear &#8212; that they rarely feel safe, even in their own homes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime, punishment, grief, payback &#8212; and compassion?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/11/04/crime-punishment-grief-payback-and-compassion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/11/04/crime-punishment-grief-payback-and-compassion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So often &#8212; in life, in politics, in causes, on blogs &#8212; we end up in us-versus-them mode, so sure of the other side&#8217;s wrongness (and/or evilness) that we dehumanize them, at least to some degree. That&#8217;s what I found so interesting about this story by my colleagues Scott Johnson and Angela Woodall. When I [...]]]></description>
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