OUSD Says No to Renewing EOLA’s Charter, Concerns on Police Chief’s Report - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

OUSD Says No to Renewing EOLA’s Charter, Concerns on Police Chief’s Report - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

An Oakland Unified parent’s wish list for 2013

Friday, February 15th, 2013 at 1:54 pm in No Comments

Stacey Smith is an Oakland school district parent and volunteer who has served on the District GATE Advisory Committee, the school board’s Special Committee on School Based Management, and the Community Advisory Committee for Special Education. What she writes about does not reflect the view of any group.
I know it’s late, but I was just at the check-out counter reading magazine covers still touting magical resolutions that would change us for the better in 2013. I was musing about what I would list for OUSD to tackle in 2013 that would benefit students with disabilities. My partial list, in no order:
1. Identify and publicly celebrate those achieving positive results for these students. There are a lot of 

OUSD Says No to Renewing EOLA’s Charter, Concerns on Police Chief’s Report

By Serena Valdez
Friday, February 15th, 2013 at 6:00 pm in Uncategorized.

At Wednesday night’s Oakland school board meeting, there were few empty seats and dozens of people with speaker cards to discuss the several adult education programs that may be cut. Adult education, however, was not on the agenda and the board did not make any comments regarding any cuts.

Instead, the board approved to deny the charter renewal for East Oakland Leadership Academy High.

Philip Dotson, acting director of the Office of Charter Schools, read the reporthighlighting why the charter should not be renewed for EOLA based on figures developed over the five years the charter has been in place.

Some of those points included:

• Failure to meet enrollment target of 200 students and is under-enrolled.
  • Currently 54 students are enrolled in grades 9-12; the most enrolled in one year was 67 students last school year.
• Failure to retain students.
• Failure to maintain a 95 percent attendance rate.