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	<title>The Education Report &#187; elementary schools</title>
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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>Transitional kindergarten, California confusion</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/27/transitional-kindergarten-california-confusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A transitional kindergarten class at Oakland&#8217;s Greenleaf Elementary. &#8212; Laura A. Oda/ Bay Area News Group The parents of 4-year-olds with fall birthdays &#8212; not yet in the public school system &#8212; have already come face to face with the topsy-turvy ways of Sacramento. Take the parents of kids born in November 2007. Since 2010, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing new attendance boundaries</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/18/drawing-new-attendance-boundaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, the Oakland school district posted maps showing how it might redraw its boundaries for 2012-13, after five elementary schools close. OUSD Spokesman Troy Flint is double-checking on this, but it appears that the remaining schools&#8217; boundaries would only expand &#8212; not shift &#8212; under this plan. In other words, that the only residents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next step for families affected by Oakland&#8217;s school closures</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/07/next-step-for-families-affected-by-oaklands-school-closures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As they come to terms with the upcoming closure of their schools, families from Oakland&#8217;s Lakeview, Lazear, Marshall, Maxwell Park and Santa Fe elementary schools must now decide where to send their children next fall. Typically, OUSD (and prospective OUSD) families submit their top school picks &#8212; mostly for kindergarten, sixth and ninth grades &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Thriller&#8221; lives on</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/31/thriller-lives-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With two hours left of Halloween, I thought I&#8217;d post a video of some sweet dance moves on display at Bridges Academy at Melrose. Students at the East Oakland elementary school first put on this performance in 2009, after Michael Jackson&#8217;s death, and it&#8217;s becoming a Halloween tradition, says Linh Nguyen, the school&#8217;s music teacher [...]]]></description>
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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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		<title>Two Oakland schools to split from OUSD</title>
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		<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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		<title>Science Night: Rock-sorting, butter-making, and slime production</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/20/science-night-rock-sorting-butter-making-and-slime-production/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in West Oakland is taking its science and math lessons up a notch this year &#8212; and to do it, Principal Roma Groves told me, the faculty is enlisting parents&#8217; help. This evening, the school held its first Family Science Night to let parents know about the school&#8217;s new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Oakland teacher&#8217;s thoughts on &#8220;consolidation&#8221; &#8212; and what to call it, instead</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/16/an-oakland-teachers-thoughts-on-consolidation-and-what-to-call-it-instead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/16/an-oakland-teachers-thoughts-on-consolidation-and-what-to-call-it-instead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Braden, a technology prep teacher and Bay Area Writing Project consultant teacher at Oakland&#8217;s Bella Vista Elementary School, wrote this essay after learning two of his colleagues would be moved, or &#8220;consolidated,&#8221; to different schools next week &#8212; in mid-October. I wrote about the issue too, in this story. &#8211; Katy The Merriam Webster app [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</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>
				<category><![CDATA[charter 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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		<title>An Oakland classroom, on national TV</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/03/an-oakland-classroom-on-national-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/03/an-oakland-classroom-on-national-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Algebra/Math]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo of Kristen Casaretto by Hasain Rasheed Photography Did anyone watch Education Nation on NBC last week? It highlighted the work of three teachers, including Teach for America alum Kristen Casaretto, who teaches fourth grade at Think College Now in East Oakland. Talk about courage &#8212; the segment includes a live video feed from Casaretto&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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