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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>Lots of new principals in Oakland schools</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/07/08/lots-of-new-principals-in-oakland-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty of Oakland&#8217;s 98 schools will have new principals next year, according to a list that OUSD&#8217;s spokesman sent to me this afternoon (with a caveat that there might be some errors; it&#8217;s July, and the fact-checkers are on vacation). This is the longest list I&#8217;ve posted in blogging history (See 2007, 2008, 2009 or 2010, though those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet CA&#8217;s new state superintendent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Torlakson was sworn in as California&#8217;s superintendent of public instruction yesterday at Mt. Diablo High School, where he once taught and coached track. It sounds like it was quite a pep rally. Torlakson will likely have more authority than his predecessor, Jack O&#8217;Connell. KQED reports that Gov. Jerry Brown will not appoint a secretary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Native American leader, former Oakland activist, dies at 64</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/04/07/native-american-leader-former-oakland-activist-dies-at-64/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to be elected chief of a major American Indian tribe &#8212; the Cherokee Nation &#8212; was once a Bay Area resident and a strong advocate for Native American children in Oakland&#8217;s public schools. She died Tuesday in Oklahoma at age 64. In our library, I found a small envelope stamped &#8220;MANKILLER, WILMA/ INDIAN LEADER, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oakland school board president steps down</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/05/06/oakland-school-board-president-steps-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alice Spearman, Oakland’s new school board president, won&#8217;t hold that title for much longer. Spearman just called me up to say she was about to resign her presidency, a post she has held for just four months. She said she came to this decision on her own, and that no one else pressured her to do so. She will remain on the school board. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another OUSD veteran who would be chief</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/05/05/another-ousd-veteran-who-would-be-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/05/05/another-ousd-veteran-who-would-be-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denise Saddler, a former Chabot Elementary School principal who now supervises elementary schools in North and West Oakland, tells me that the rumors are true: She, too, is vying for the Oakland superintendency. Like Michael Moore Sr., Saddler is an Oakland native with a long history with the school district, beginning as a teacher in 1979 (She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, their hats are in the ring</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/05/04/yes-their-hats-are-in-the-ring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 21:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a closed session special meeting tomorrow night, the Oakland school board receives a short list of semifinalists from Ray and Associates, Inc., the firm hired to help with the district&#8217;s superintendent search. The rumor mill is churning, of course, and I&#8217;m working to confirm some of the names I&#8217;ve been hearing again and again&#8230; For now, I present [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A safety net, unraveling before our eyes</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/04/10/a-safety-net-unraveling-before-our-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo of a final communications class at Lifelong Medical Care&#8217;s adult day care center by D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group Today marks the end of hundreds of adult education programs for seniors and the disabled &#8212; in Oakland, alone. Across the state, classes that once provided a source of needed stimulation for the elderly are falling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duncan: Big $$, if you&#8217;re willing to change the &#8220;status quo&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/04/01/duncan-big-for-those-willing-to-change-status-quo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/04/01/duncan-big-for-those-willing-to-change-status-quo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this Washington Post interview, our new United States Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, talks about how the Obama administration plans to further its school reform agenda. Of the $100 billion earmarked for schools in the federal stimulus package, Duncan says, the government has about $5 billion in discretionary funds. With that &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; amount of money, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing by their principals (or not, on principle)</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/26/standing-by-their-principals-or-not-on-principle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/26/standing-by-their-principals-or-not-on-principle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The air in the board meeting room was so thick and humid Wednesday night it was almost sticky, and it wasn&#8217;t because of the weather. People jammed the place &#8212; and the overflow room upstairs &#8212; to speak on one of many, many matters. I didn&#8217;t stay until after 2 a.m., when the meeting finally [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>74</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oakland Charter Academy principal named to state board of education</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/18/oakland-charter-academy-principal-named-to-state-board-of-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/18/oakland-charter-academy-principal-named-to-state-board-of-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jorge Lopez, a former school dropout who directs the high-performing Oakland Charter Academy (shown here at his middle school in Fruitvale), has been appointed to the California Board of Education. Lopez is not your typical educrat, if there is such a thing. He&#8217;s all about the hard work and humilation approach to schooling, a la Ben [...]]]></description>
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