Latest News and Comment from Education

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Protest at Oakland child care centers dropped

Protest at Oakland child care centers dropped

Protest at Oakland child care centers dropped

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

A standoff between parents, community activists and the Oakland Unified School District over the closure of two low-income child care centers has ended with the children being diverted to other programs in the district.

Members of the community group By Any Means Necessary had planned to occupy the two North Oakland centers all weekend and open them on Monday, but police evicted them late Friday. By then, parents and district officials and talked further, and though nobody was happy about the closures, most agreed to abide by the new arrangement, representatives of both sides said.

The district had planned to shut seven of its 31 early childhood development centers



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/31/BA7J1F5SV0.DTL&type=education#ixzz0yHQsso5u