Should Oakland Unified apply for a federal grant – money with strings attached — for its schools that made the state’s lowest-performing list?
At 6 p.m. tonight, the school board is holding the first of two hearings on the subject. It’ll be held at
United For Success Academy on the Calvin Simmons campus, 2101 35th Ave.
Explore Middle School, United for Success, ROOTS International, Alliance Academy and Elmhurst Community Prep are the five Oakland schools eligible for the money (an amount still undetermined). To get it, they have to do one of four things: shut down and send their students to other schools; close and reopen as a charter school; fire the principal and half the teaching staff; or fire the principal, extend the school day and make other changes. Principals who have been in place for less than two years are allowed to stay.
