OUSD could cut 150 staff positions
By Katy Murphy
Monday, May 2nd, 2011 at 5:28 pm in budget.
More bad news for Oakland’s public schools and the people who work in them: At least 150 clerks, school security officers, technicians and other support staff could soon lose their jobs.
A resolution detailing the layoff of school support staff was added to the agenda of a 6 p.m. special school board meeting (originally about Race to the Top grant applications for two middle schools: ROOTS and Alliance Academy) tonight at ROOTS International, a middle school on the Havenscourt campus.
You can find the resolution here.
These layoffs, of course, will have all kinds of ripple effects on schools and employees across the district — just like last year.
A teachable moment
By Katy Murphy
Monday, May 2nd, 2011 at 4:05 pm in high schools, history, middle schools,students, teachers
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Social studies classrooms were abuzz today with debate and analysis of Osama bin Laden’s death. (See Tribune story here.)
Some teachers asked students to compare media coverage of the development. Others supplied basic facts about the raid and the broader conflict with terrorist