It’s not on the school reform menu, but the Oakland school district might order it anyway: the status quo.
This is a new development in OUSD, a shift in thinking that followed a conference call with state education officials late last week, said Oakland school district’s spokesman, Troy Flint.
Oakland school administrators had assumed the district would be eventually required to adopt one of four drastic changes prescribed for the schools on the state’s “persistently lowest-achieving” list – including closure, charter school conversion or the replacement of the school principal or staff. That, despite the fact that all of the Oakland schools on the list are new,
products of similar reforms. At a
town hall meeting on March 24, Superintendent Tony Smith called the
