I’ve been out of commission the last couple of days, so you’ve probably heard this news already, but in case you haven’t:
Those arrested in Thursday night’s protest included Oakland school board member Jumoke Hinton Hodge — who was playing chess at the intersection of Broadway and 14th Street and refused to stop, the
East Bay Express reported — and Susan Harman, a former school principal and activist.
Pamela Drake, an adult education teacher who
The D.C.-based advocacy group
Alliance for Excellent Education has come out with a new report that estimates the San Francisco-Oakland metro area would gain $8 million in tax revenues and generate 350 jobs by cutting its high school dropout rate in half.
You can read the Bay Area report, which estimates additional earnings (and
