An Oakland high school’s last AP class is cut, but teachers teach it anyway
By Katy Murphy
Friday, February 11th, 2011 at 12:59 pm in Uncategorized
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Their school is broke, their teaching staff is smaller than ever, and the last advanced placement course has been slashed from the master schedule.
But the two-member English department at Castlemont’s East Oakland School of the Arts decided to teach AP English anyway, before school and during an arts period.
A doomsday scenario, for sure — but how likely?
By Katy Murphy
Thursday, February 10th, 2011 at 2:47 pm in budget
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At last night’s school board meeting, Oakland Superintendent Tony Smith said public schools in California could face a per-student cut of $900 next year. The mind-boggling assertion was promptly tweeted by the district’s communications team and posted on Facebook:
The state is now telling California school districts to prepare for cuts of $900 PER STUDENT for the coming school year. For a school of 400 students, that’s $360,000. We need to get the word to Sacramento that cuts are unacceptable!
But where, exactly, did that figure come from?
