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	<title>The Education Report &#187; kindergarten</title>
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		<title>In Oakland, transitional kindergarten is still a go</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo of transitional kindergarten pilot at Greenleaf Elementary by Laura A. Oda/Staff It&#8217;s been a confusing few months for families with children who are turning 5 in November &#8212; kids who, until this year, would have been eligible to start kindergarten. First, they hear that their local district will be required to offer a two-year [...]]]></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>The Kindergarten Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how I missed this, but in case you did, too: Annelisa Hedgecock wrote this Op-Ed piece in Oakland North a couple of weeks ago about her family&#8217;s school search &#8212; and the reactions she gets from other parents when the name of her kid&#8217;s Oakland public elementary school comes up. Here&#8217;s how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindergarten enrollments in the hills</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/06/22/kindergarten-enrollments-at-oaklands-hills-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I blogged in March about school assignment letters and the spike in neighborhood applications at Oakland&#8217;s high-altitude schools. Well, some people may have just been hedging by applying to their local public school. In some cases, the actual registration numbers at these high-demand schools &#8212; while still high &#8211; are lower they were back then, or have remained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Johnny repeat a grade? No, says OUSD.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[curriculum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I stumbled upon a memo addressed to all elementary school principals, strongly advising them not to retain kids in the same grade for a second year &#8211; particularly kindergartners, English learners and special education students (unless that is part of their education plan). &#8220;First off, the research is clear; retention does not work,&#8221; it says. The memo gives various alternatives, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The vaccination debate</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/29/the-vaccination-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo from Inferis&#8217; photo stream at flickr.com/creativecommons More California families are choosing not to have their kids vaccinated, a trend that is worrying public health officials, according to a Los Angeles Times report this weekend: A rising number of California parents are choosing to send their children to kindergarten without routine vaccinations, putting hundreds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t forget those shots!</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2008/08/11/dont-forget-those-shots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2008/08/11/dont-forget-those-shots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[School starts just two weeks from today, but not for new students without immunization cards. Sherri Willis, the public information officer for the Alameda County Public Health Department, said that when she worked in OUSD, hundreds of kids would miss the first few days of school &#8212; in some cases, more &#8212; as a result.  Some families wait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full-day kindergarten: Should it be mandatory in Oakland?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2007/07/23/full-day-kindergarten-should-it-be-mandatory-in-oakland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[kindergarten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Five-year-olds in Oakland are logging many more classroom hours these days than they used to. The switch to universal full-day kindergarten happened about a year before I came to town, but I understand the move was intended to help working parents while giving kids an academic boost. Has it worked? Carrie McKiernan, a Thornhill mom with an incoming kindergartner and [...]]]></description>
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