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	<title>The Education Report &#187; lawsuits</title>
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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>Settlement in free public schools case</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/12/09/settlement-in-free-public-schools-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Families who are charged by their public schools for elective classes, course materials, uniforms or school activities could soon have a way to file a complaint and get their money back &#8212; without going to the courts. California&#8217;s American Civil Liberties Union affiliates sued the state of California this fall. The plaintiffs argued the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School finance in CA: Will it take a lawsuit (or two) to fix it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people I&#8217;ve spoken to about California&#8217;s school finance system, regardless of their political views, seem to agree that it&#8217;s a mess. The researchers on the Governor&#8217;s Committee on Education Excellence described it as &#8220;the most complex in the country, lacking an underlying rationale and transparency,&#8221; inequitable, inefficient, unpredictable, unstable and inadequate. Mike Kirst, the Stanford University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUSD settles fraud case against law firm</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/10/09/oakland-school-district-settles-fraud-case-against-firm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tribune file photo The legal dispute between the Oakland school district and the Bryant &#38; Brown law firm is over. I&#8217;m still waiting to hear how much money OUSD paid in legal expenses to pursue this case in federal court. What I do know is that the district won $325,000 from Bryant &#38; Brown. The settlement, which was entered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUSD vs. O&#8217;Connell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[DIY court research, anyone? If you want to see the documents for yourself, just click here, then click on the &#8221;Case Summary&#8221; link and enter this case number: RG09440971 Update: A judge denied the Oakland school district&#8217;s request to order a temporary halt to the transfer of funds to charter schools. One reason? The school board might not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racketeering in OUSD?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/01/13/racketeering-in-ousd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit it: The more I learn about the Bryant &#38; Brown law firm controversy, the more confused I become. As I reported in today&#8217;s Trib, the Oakland school district filed a federal lawuit against the small Oakland law firm (pictured here), alleging racketeering, fraud, theft of public funds &#8212; you name it. What I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge puts the brakes on Algebra I plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algebra/Math]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s bold new algebra plan has a new variable. Today, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne Chang ruled that the state board of education would have to temporarily delay the eighth-grade Algebra I testing requirement that it approved in July. (You know, the one that Schwarzenegger pushed for in the 11th hour, over State Superintendent Jack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More allegations, more documents</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2008/10/22/more-allegations-more-documents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I lugged a tall stack of papers out of 1025 Second Avenue. In response to a public records request, the school district released hundreds of documents related to its investigation of payments to the Bryant &#38; Brown law firm (most of which came from construction bond money, for work with facilities projects). Among them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SF federal court: Intern teachers can be deemed &#8220;highly qualified&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2008/06/17/sf-federal-court-intern-teachers-can-be-deemed-highly-qualified/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2008/06/17/sf-federal-court-intern-teachers-can-be-deemed-highly-qualified/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to filling teaching vacancies, the Oakland school district relies heavily on &#8220;interns,&#8221; college graduates who are still working to complete their certification. About 40 percent of new OUSD hires in recent years fall into this category; they come through &#8220;alternate route&#8221; programs such as Teach for America and Oakland Teaching Fellows. Andy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUSD mends its ways, provides school info</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2007/10/15/ousd-mends-its-ways-provides-school-info-to-parents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2007/10/15/ousd-mends-its-ways-provides-school-info-to-parents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may have been prompted by the threat of a lawsuit &#8212; and then, indeed, a lawsuit &#8212; but the Oakland school district has plugged the gaping holes in its state mandated &#8220;School Accountability Report Cards.&#8221; Now, you can see how much money each school (including charters) spent per student, how many teachers were teaching out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California&#8217;s exit exam stays, despite class-action lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2007/07/19/californias-exit-exam-stays-despite-class-action-lawsuit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2007/07/19/californias-exit-exam-stays-despite-class-action-lawsuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[high schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some high school kids had hoped to eliminate California&#8217;s exit exam through a lawsuit filed last year, but it looks as though it&#8217;s here to stay.  State Superintendent Jack O&#8217;Connell, a champion of the two-part test, announced today that a settlement has been tentatively approved by a judge: The exit exam stays in place, but those who fail the test are [...]]]></description>
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