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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>The Oakland school district might be finished downsizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo by Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group I meant to post this story sooner: OUSD&#8217;s school closure process &#8212; which was supposed to last for two to three years and shrink the district by 20-30 schools &#8212; will likely stop after the first round, when the district is a dozen schools smaller than it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUSD&#8217;s strategic plan &#8212; and your place in it</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday evening, I&#8217;ll be speaking on a panel convened by the League of Women Voters about the strategic plan the Oakland school board adopted last year. The event, from 6-8 p.m. at Oakland City Hall, is titled &#8220;The Promise and the Challenge.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been invited to talk about the role the community should &#8212; or needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUSD board might give local schools more control</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the Oakland school board&#8217;s Special Committee on School-Based Management and Budgeting? It&#8217;s meeting now, and teachers, parents and administrators are at the table to discuss the issues. Oakland Community Organizations &#8212; which believes schools need more control over curriculum, budget, staffing and scheduling &#8212; held a news conference before the session. You can watch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting demographics and a shrinking school-age population</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo by Laura A. Oda/staff photographer We ran a story Sunday about shifting demographics in inner-city neighborhoods such as West Oakland &#8212; changes which have resulted in fewer school-age children in the area and declining public school enrollment. Oakland, as a whole, lost 20 percent of its 5- to 17-year-olds between 2000 and 2010, according [...]]]></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>A Promise Neighborhood in Hayward</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/12/19/a-promise-neighborhood-in-hayward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, in its first round of five-year Promise Neighborhoods grants, the U.S. Department of Education handed out just five awards. One of the recipients was a project focused on the Jackson Triangle neighborhood in Hayward, down the hill from Cal State East Bay. Last year, I wrote about Hayward&#8217;s $500,000 Promise Neighborhoods planning grant. Out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race to Nowhere showing at Oakland&#8217;s Grand Lake</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/12/02/race-to-nowhere-showing-at-oaklands-grand-lake-theatre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/12/02/race-to-nowhere-showing-at-oaklands-grand-lake-theatre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have yet to watch the &#8220;Race to Nowhere&#8221; education documentary, but I hope to catch it this week, when it plays at the Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave. You can see it today through Sunday at 4 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m. or 10 p.m. From Monday through Thursday it screens at 6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sobering statistics on child poverty</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/30/sobering-statistics-on-child-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of school-age children living in poverty soared by 30 percent(!) in California between 2007 and 2010, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. In the United States, nearly 2 million more children between the ages of 5 and 17 fell into poverty during that time. I wrote about that depressing trend [...]]]></description>
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