Local: In Oakland : Edward Shands School to Close, Adult Education Faces Severe Cutbacks in Oakland (Community Voices)

Local: In Oakland : Edward Shands School to Close, Adult Education Faces Severe Cutbacks in Oakland (Community Voices)

Edward Shands School to Close, Adult Education Faces Severe Cutbacks in Oakland (Community Voices)

By Oakland Local Contributor Pamela Drake
Thursday night may have been the last graduation the Edward Shands Adult School puts on. After 139 years of free basic adult education and ever-expanding offerings, including its high school diploma program, Oakland Unified School District has decided to close almost the entire adult school department.
All that may be left would be skeletal literacy training for ESL students whose kids attend the school where they study. Some GED programs would be saved, but the complex in East Oakland named after Oakland's beloved adult education leader, Edward Shands, will be shuttered.
Shands has offered ESL programs, nursing assistance training classes, morning and evening GED classes, and the high school subject program in which students may take regular high school

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