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		<title>Michelle Rhee comes to Oakland, is greeted by protesters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The well-known former chancellor of Washington, D.C.&#8217;s public schools spoke tonight at a private event organized by the Oakland Speaker Series at the Paramount Theatre. Michelle Rhee, who founded the Sacramento-based advocacy group StudentsFirst in 2010, after leaving her chancellor&#8217;s post, has challenged many of the labor practices that are commonplace in the nation&#8217;s public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A youth and family center opens at McClymonds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The McClymonds Youth and Family Center, a project years in the making, opened today on the high school campus. I wrote a story about this happy occasion for West Oakland. Tribune photographer D. Ross Cameron took the below photos of the renovated space (the main area above and the dance studio below), which students helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland gets serious about school food</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo by D. Ross Cameron/Staff For the first time in 15 years, the federal government has rewritten the rules for what must &#8212; and can&#8217;t &#8212; be served in its public school lunchrooms. Meanwhile, some OUSD staff, parents and local organizations are formulating some plans of their own, which they presented at the last school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for: Success stories, budget-coping tales</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/30/looking-for-success-stories-budget-coping-tales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m scheduled to be on KALW&#8217;s Your Call program at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning &#8212; and I could use your help. We&#8217;ll be talking about examples of success in schools despite a bleak and tumultuous economy and budget, and ways that people have coped with diminishing state funding. I don&#8217;t plan to sugarcoat the fiscal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transitional kindergarten, California confusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[families]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A transitional kindergarten class at Oakland&#8217;s Greenleaf Elementary. &#8212; Laura A. Oda/ Bay Area News Group The parents of 4-year-olds with fall birthdays &#8212; not yet in the public school system &#8212; have already come face to face with the topsy-turvy ways of Sacramento. Take the parents of kids born in November 2007. Since 2010, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Friday hearing at Oakland City Hall on state takeovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[local control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Sandre Swanson&#8217;s office says they&#8217;ve just learned that West Contra Costa Unified has cut its last check to the state, which means they &#8212; like Emery Unified &#8212; would be free from state receivership. *************************** Only eight California school districts have undergone state financial takeovers in the last 20 years after requesting large emergency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An old news recap: charter school decisions, mutual matching, blue ribbon nomination</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school closures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education news kept right on happening in the last two weeks. Here are some of the developments I missed while I was visiting old temples and dodging motorbikes: THE OAKLAND SCHOOL BOARD REJECTED the charter school conversion petitions submitted by the faculties of ASCEND and Learning Without Limits, elementary schools in the Fruitvale area. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education blogger to flee the country (for two weeks)</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/06/education-blogger-to-flee-the-country-for-two-weeks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/06/education-blogger-to-flee-the-country-for-two-weeks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=14135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the next two weeks, I&#8217;ll be exploring Southeast Asia with my little sister. Which feels like quite awhile. I haven&#8217;t been away for this long in The Education Report&#8217;s history! I couldn&#8217;t pass up this opportunity, though. I (and the blog) return to the business of education writing on Jan. 23. See you then.]]></description>
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		<title>If the Oakland school district had $1.46 billion&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/04/if-the-oakland-school-district-had-1-46-billion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/04/if-the-oakland-school-district-had-1-46-billion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buildings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School board news]]></category>

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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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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Math meets art, music, and pop culture</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/03/math-meets-art-music-and-pop-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/03/math-meets-art-music-and-pop-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[middle schools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This story about a middle school math teacher appeared in the Tribune last week, and I forgot to blog about it. In case you missed it, the piece is about Robert MacCarthy&#8217;s unconventional approach to teaching mathematics &#8212; and getting his sixth-graders to love it. I recently observed one of his sixth-grade classes at Willard Middle [...]]]></description>
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