In Oakland: A charter school for black boys, charter conversions and other proposals - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

In Oakland: A charter school for black boys, charter conversions and other proposals - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

In Oakland: A charter school for black boys, charter conversions and other proposals

By Katy Murphy
Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 4:49 pm in achievement gap, charter schools.

The Oakland school board holds a special meeting Nov. 21 to hear eight pending charter petitions — three district schools that would secede from OUSD and run independently; one new school and four existing charters that are up for renewal (KIPP Bridge, Civicorps, ARISE High School and Aspire’s Lionel Wilson College Prep).

NOTE: This is a public hearing only — no decisions are scheduled.

You can find the schedule here, and I’ve pasted it below. All of the petitions areposted online, if you want to take a look.

As I reported last month, teachers at East Oakland’s ASCEND and Learning Without Limits elementary schools voted to break away from the district and apply for a conversion charter. The leaders and staff of the new small schools say