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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>Nostalgia, already: A fifth-grade promotion</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/14/nostalgia-already-a-fifth-grade-promotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a longer-term project about the summertime, I went to a fifth-grade promotion ceremony today at Joaquin Miller Elementary School. Since this just happens to be my favorite age group (Have you ever interviewed an 11-year-old?), I put together a few highlights.]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland elementary school explores gender norms, teaches acceptance</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/05/23/oakland-elementary-school-explores-gender-norms-teaches-acceptance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 02:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland is teaching kids this week that boys and girls don&#8217;t all fit into neat gender norms, and that they shouldn&#8217;t laugh at or tease someone if they do (or wear) something different or unusual. Two parent leaders whom I interviewed for a story about the issue said they knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So much pink, so few layoffs (probably)</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/04/07/so-much-pink-so-few-layoffs-probably/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/04/07/so-much-pink-so-few-layoffs-probably/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adult education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OUSD central office]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=12162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For all of the people who tried to attend the Oakland school board&#8217;s special budget meeting tonight and anyone else who missed the presentation, here&#8217;s the upshot: The Oakland school district is bracing for a 16 percent cut in state general purpose funding for 2011-12. That amounts to $844 per student, or $30.5 million, rather [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>A celebration of peace and harmony in Oakland</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/03/16/a-celebration-of-peace-and-harmony-in-oakland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/03/16/a-celebration-of-peace-and-harmony-in-oakland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents at Manzanita Community School and Manzanita SEED organized an event today to celebrate their community, call for peace and welcome the area&#8217;s community police officers. Here are some clips of the neighborhood walk, which began on East 27th Street and 26th Avenue in East Oakland. (Note: In the confusion of the moment, I neglected [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tough-love parenting</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/01/10/tough-love-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/01/10/tough-love-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[families]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Chua says she won&#8217;t let her daughters play an instrument other than piano or violin, have &#8220;play dates&#8221; with friends or be in a school play, let alone watch TV or play video games. In her Sunday Wall Street Journal essay, the Yale law professor champions the virtues of &#8220;Chinese mother&#8221;-style parenting, an approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To prepare for school&#8217;s opening, Oakland principals step outside</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/08/23/to-prepare-for-schools-opening-oakland-principals-step-outside/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/08/23/to-prepare-for-schools-opening-oakland-principals-step-outside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my latest Flip camera production and story about Superintendent Tony Smith&#8217;s vision for OUSD and a back-to-school bus tour (one of three) for OUSD staff last week. I didn&#8217;t make it on the bus &#8212; no room! too many administrators! &#8212; but photographer Laura Oda and I were hot on their tail, and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A strike on the first day of school? Unlikely.</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/08/19/a-strike-on-the-first-day-of-school-unlikely/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/08/19/a-strike-on-the-first-day-of-school-unlikely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If my inbox is any indication, the rumor mill is humming about the possibility that Oakland teachers will strike on the first week of the school year. (Some parents say they&#8217;ve heard it from teachers they know or other reliable sources.) A new school year can be stressful as it is, without wondering whether it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Considering Oakland High</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/07/23/considering-oakland-high/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/07/23/considering-oakland-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[families]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=9886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nia Lozano, a middle school parent, tells us about a new group that&#8217;s building support for Oakland High School. An interesting new group has formed in the Crocker and Glenview neighborhoods of Oakland. It was formed by some parents from Edna Brewer who would like other neighborhood parents to consider Oakland High. This is truly the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>173</slash:comments>
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		<title>Parent group proposes a &#8220;people&#8217;s takeover&#8221; to keep Oakland preschools open</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/07/20/parent-group-proposes-a-peoples-takeover-to-keep-oakland-preschools-open/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/07/20/parent-group-proposes-a-peoples-takeover-to-keep-oakland-preschools-open/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of the month, if nothing changes, seven of Oakland&#8217;s childhood development centers will close their doors because of massive budget cuts threatened at the state level: Manzanita, Jefferson, Golden Gate, Santa Fe, Piedmont Avenue, Sequoia and Hintil Kuu Ca childhood development centers. Henry Hitz, the director of Oakland Parents Together, has another idea: staff [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>A giant PTA for Oakland schools</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/05/17/a-giant-pta-for-oakland-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/05/17/a-giant-pta-for-oakland-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 17:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the discussion last fall about fundraising inequities in Oakland schools? Some, including Oakland school board member Jody London, said they thought there should be a better way for parents and other interested Oaklanders to support public education in a broader sense (rather than just school-by-school).  Inspired by those discussions, a new group aims to bring together families, parents [...]]]></description>
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