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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>If the Oakland school district had $1.46 billion&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Group aims to recall five OUSD board members</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Oakland, recall is in the air. As some citizens collect signatures to recall Mayor Jean Quan, another group named Concerned Parents and Community Coalition is trying to oust five of the seven Oakland school board directors. It&#8217;s targeting those who voted `yes&#8217; on the proposal this fall to close elementary schools: Jody London, David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With free admission, more Oakland students taking field trips to Chabot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Build it, and they will come &#8212; if you offer free admission. As part of its business deal last year with the Oakland school district, to which it still owed $8 million for a construction loan, the Chabot Space &#38; Science Center agreed to offer free field trips to Oakland&#8217;s public schools. (Before, it had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUSD&#8217;s latest personnel report</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/07/01/ousds-latest-personnel-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 06:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you have asked for the district&#8217;s latest official reporting of new hires, promotions, departures, etc. I know this list isn&#8217;t up to date &#8212; e.g. Ash Solar, who headed the effective teaching task force, has left OUSD, but his name wasn&#8217;t on there &#8212; but here you go: Personnel Report June 2011var docstoc_docid="83424664";var [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from a long and eventful board meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/23/notes-from-a-long-and-eventful-board-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/23/notes-from-a-long-and-eventful-board-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s &#8212; or should I say, last night&#8217;s &#8212;  5 p.m. Oakland school board meeting went till midnight. I observed so much from my ergonomically incorrect wooden seat: The NAACP&#8216;s Oakland branch showed up in force to register their concerns about complaints they&#8217;d heard from students and alumni about problem teachers, institutional racism and African [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A OUSD board member&#8217;s proposal: No further cuts to adult education</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/17/a-ousd-board-members-proposal-no-further-cuts-to-adult-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adult education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Kakishiba doesn&#8217;t think the Oakland school district should swipe another $3.3 million from the adult education fund. Such a move would all but shut down adult education in Oakland, leaving only about $1 million in ongoing funds for a program that once had a budget of more than $11 million. Kakishiba will suggest that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Plan for Oakland schools up for approval Saturday</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/16/plan-for-oakland-schools-up-for-approval-saturday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/16/plan-for-oakland-schools-up-for-approval-saturday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, the Oakland school board is scheduled to vote on the superintendent&#8217;s five-year strategic plan &#8212; the product of 14 task forces and, according to the document, some 350 task force and community meetings. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the board room at 1025 Second Ave. It&#8217;s supposed to run about two [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>OUSD budget trends and another central reorg</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/08/ousd-budget-trends-and-another-central-office-reorg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/08/ousd-budget-trends-and-another-central-office-reorg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first reading of the Oakland school district&#8217;s 2011-12 budget proposal happens at tonight&#8217;s 5 p.m. board meeting (Catch it live here). So I did some number crunching, building on an analysis from earlier in the year that compared 2009-10 spending and 2010-11* budget estimates. You&#8217;ll find the combined totals toward the bottom of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Four more years for Tony Smith?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/06/four-more-years-for-tony-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[superintendent search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEDNESDAY UPDATE: The Oakland school board unanimously extended the superintendent&#8217;s contract through June 2015. The Oakland school board votes Wednesday whether to extend the current, three-year contract for Superintendent Tony Smith (which expires in June 2012) for another three years. No changes in pay &#8212; $265,000 salary &#8212; or benefits. You can see the full [...]]]></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>
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		<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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