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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>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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		<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>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 the faculties of ASCEND and Learning Without Limits, elementary schools in the Fruitvale area. While [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>If the Oakland school district had $1.46 billion&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/04/if-the-oakland-school-district-had-1-46-billion/</link>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buildings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School board news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Project listvar docstoc_docid="110231620";var docstoc_title="Project list";var docstoc_urltitle="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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/12/19/a-promise-neighborhood-in-hayward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[families]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>0</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>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/12/08/is-it-time-for-ousds-unusual-budgeting-system-to-become-policy/</link>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/29/ousds-rosy-enrollment-projections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>

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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>Drawing new attendance boundaries</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/18/drawing-new-attendance-boundaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/18/drawing-new-attendance-boundaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enrollment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[families]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>38</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>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
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		<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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