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	<title>The Education Report &#187; finances</title>
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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>Despite hopes to the contrary, OUSD rejects Lazear charter</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/04/25/despite-hopes-to-the-contrary-ousd-rejects-lazear-charter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, the Oakland school board voted to block Lazear Elementary School from becoming a charter school (with Spearman and Gallo dissenting). Lazear is one of five elementary schools slated to close in June as part of a school district downsizing plan. To keep it open, parents submitted an application to become an independently run charter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuit to halt closure of Santa Fe</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/04/06/lawsuit-to-halt-closure-of-santa-fe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before the Oakland school board agreed to lease Santa Fe Elementary School to Emery Unified for $500,000 a year (for three years), the law firm Siegel &#38; Yee filed a lawsuit to keep it open. The plaintiffs plan to ask the Alameda County Superior Court for an injunction. If it goes through, this will [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Children from soon-to-close Oakland schools: where they might land</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/04/05/children-from-soon-to-close-oakland-schools-where-they-might-land/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/04/05/children-from-soon-to-close-oakland-schools-where-they-might-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[school closures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can say what you like about the Oakland school district&#8217;s policies and tactics &#8212; say, its decision to close schools &#8212; but when it comes to putting out granular data in user-friendly maps and charts, you&#8217;ve got to hand it to them. Below is a series of five maps that show where the children [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>A teacher&#8217;s perspective on OUSD job showcase</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/26/a-teachers-perspective-on-ousd-job-showcase/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/26/a-teachers-perspective-on-ousd-job-showcase/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[OUSD central office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school closures]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=14517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Von Ehrenkrook teaches at Santa Fe Elementary, one of the five Oakland elementary schools slated for closure in June. Below, he gives us his account of event the Oakland school district held on Friday evening for displaced teachers like himself. The Advisory Matching School Showcase was indeed an opportunity for the displaced elementary school teachers [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tomorrow: a showcase for displaced teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/22/tomorrow-in-oakland-a-showcase-for-displaced-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/22/tomorrow-in-oakland-a-showcase-for-displaced-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[school closures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After school tomorrow, the Oakland school district is holding an event for the dozens of Oakland teachers who find themselves in the so-called &#8220;talent pool&#8221; because of school closures, a leave of absence or other reasons. The informational interview fair, which is voluntary, will give displaced teachers a chance to meet someone from each school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pink slips, 2012: a different story</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/15/pink-slips-2012-a-different-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>

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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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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Oakland school district might be finished downsizing</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/13/oakland-school-district-might-be-finished-downsizing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/13/oakland-school-district-might-be-finished-downsizing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kindergarten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OUSD central office]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=14457</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>88</slash:comments>
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		<title>OUSD board might give local schools more control</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/02/13/ousd-board-might-give-local-schools-more-control/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/02/13/ousd-board-might-give-local-schools-more-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[initiatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OUSD central office]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=14282</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=14199</guid>
		<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>An old news recap: charter school decisions, mutual matching, blue ribbon nomination</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/23/an-old-news-recap-charter-school-decisions-mutual-matching-blue-ribbon-nomination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/23/an-old-news-recap-charter-school-decisions-mutual-matching-blue-ribbon-nomination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school closures]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=14144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The school board later approved the amended petitions of ASCEND and Learning Without Limits. Education news kept right on happening in the last two weeks. Here are some of the developments I missed while I was visiting old temples and dodging motorbikes: THE OAKLAND SCHOOL BOARD REJECTED the charter school conversion petitions submitted by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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