Red light, green light: Oakland district says no to charter, county says yes
The Community School for Creative Education will open in Oakland, after all. The Waldorf-inspired charter school won an appeal last night from the Alameda County Board of Education. In January, the Oakland school board denied the charterupon the recommendation of its charter schools’ office.
It’s the second charter school this year to be rejected by the Oakland school district only to get the green light from the county. The board voted 5-1 to let the Waldorf-inspired school open in Oakland, with Fred Sims voting `no.’ Felix Elizalde wasn’t present.
Last month, the county board also allowed East Oakland’s Cox Academy to remain
The summertime violence continues
This was all happening during last night’s board meeting. So sad. Although Superintendent Tony Smith said yesterday that one of the boys had died, the West Oakland Middle School student — shot in front of his own house — was in critical but stable condition today.
As Tribune Reporter Cecily Burt reports:
OAKLAND — A 17-year-old Berkeley boy was under arrest Thursday as a suspect in a Wednesday evening shooting that left a 13-year-old West Oakland boy in critical
Two Oakland teens shot and killed, others wounded on first week of summer
By Katy Murphy
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 2:12 pm in crime, high schools, students, violence
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 2:12 pm in crime, high schools, students, violence
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Just after midnight, 19-year-old Rachael Green was killed and five others — 14 to 18 years old — were wounded at a West Oakland vigil for another teenage homicide victim, 17-year-old Damon Williams.
Just last week, Green graduated from Bunche Academy, an alternative school in West Oakland where Williams also was enrolled. Four Bunche students, including Williams, have died violently since the 2009-10 school year began, according to theTribune story.