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	<title>The Education Report &#187; budget</title>
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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>Pink slips, 2012: a different story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year by this date, 657 Oakland teachers had slips of paper telling them they were at risk of losing their jobs because of budget cuts &#8212; a traumatic development that hit some schools particularly hard. (When all was said and done, the district eliminated about 95 of the 538 full-time positions originally slated for [...]]]></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>Looking for: Success stories, budget-coping tales</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/30/looking-for-success-stories-budget-coping-tales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/30/looking-for-success-stories-budget-coping-tales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m scheduled to be on KALW&#8217;s Your Call program at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning &#8212; and I could use your help. We&#8217;ll be talking about examples of success in schools despite a bleak and tumultuous economy and budget, and ways that people have coped with diminishing state funding. I don&#8217;t plan to sugarcoat the fiscal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>If the Oakland school district had $1.46 billion&#8230;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/04/if-the-oakland-school-district-had-1-46-billion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project list This evening, after the Oakland school board picks a president and vice president for 2012 (6 p.m.), it moves onto its facilities master plan. The special study session &#8212; no vote on the plan tonight &#8212; is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. at 1025 Second Ave. The presentation posted on the agenda (links [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>K-12 schools spared worst-case `trigger cuts&#8217; scenario</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/12/13/k-12-schools-spared-worst-case-trigger-cuts-scenario/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/12/13/k-12-schools-spared-worst-case-trigger-cuts-scenario/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California school districts will take a $79 million midyear hit &#8212; plus a $248 million cut in home-to-school transportation &#8212; as a result of automatic &#8220;trigger cuts&#8221; set to take effect early next year, according to early news reports, including this story from our Sacramento reporter, Steve Harmon. That&#8217;s far below the $1.5 billion many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it time for OUSD&#8217;s unusual budgeting system to become policy?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/12/08/is-it-time-for-ousds-unusual-budgeting-system-to-become-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To those who don&#8217;t work at schools or compulsively follow education policy, the finer points of school budgeting and resource allocation might sound like painfully dry reading material. But the issue evokes passionate debate in Oakland Unified, which does things differently than most districts. In other districts, it&#8217;s common practice for top administrators to determine [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
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		<title>OUSD&#8217;s rosy enrollment projections</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/29/ousds-rosy-enrollment-projections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oakland school district is closing five elementary schools next year. Two of its other schools might be converted into independently run charters, taking 800 children with them. And at least one &#8212; quite possibly, two &#8212; brand new charter schools open next fall, with plans to admit more than 600 students, combined. But OUSD&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>OUSD&#8217;s budget priorities</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/28/ousds-budget-priorities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/28/ousds-budget-priorities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[6:20 p.m. update: The meeting got started late. Only four of the seven board members &#8212; Jody London, David Kakishiba, Gary Yee and Alice Spearman &#8212; are here. You should be able to catch the live video of the meeting now. ****************************************** The Oakland school board is talking finances tonight, and I&#8217;m heading to a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oakland teachers push for changes beyond charter school conversion</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/18/oakland-teachers-push-for-changes-beyond-charter-school-conversion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/18/oakland-teachers-push-for-changes-beyond-charter-school-conversion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=13848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo by Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group Teachers from two East Oakland elementary schools are on a mission to shake up the status quo in the Oakland school district. This fall, they voted to turn their schools &#8212; ASCEND and Learning Without Limits &#8211; into independently run charters so that they could have more control over staffing, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midyear &#8220;trigger cuts&#8221; likely for California schools</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/16/midyear-trigger-cuts-likely-for-california-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/16/midyear-trigger-cuts-likely-for-california-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OAKLAND UPDATE: OUSD spokesman Troy Flint said the district could be forced to absorb midyear cuts of up to $5.5 million, or $190 per student, as a result of the trigger cuts. He said the 2011-12 budget accounts for this possibility. So for this year anyway, he said, &#8220;Any impact would be slight and we [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>74</slash:comments>
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