Friday, June 25, 2010

The Education Report Red light, green light: Oakland district says no to charter, county says yes

The Education Report


Red light, green light: Oakland district says no to charter, county says yes

By Katy Murphy
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 3:22 pm in charter schools
The Community School for Creative Education will open in Oakland, after all. The Waldorf-inspired charter school won an appeal last night from the Alameda County Board of Education. In January, the Oakland school board denied the charterupon the recommendation of its charter schools’ office.
It’s the second charter school this year to be rejected by the Oakland school district only to get the green light from the county. The board voted 5-1 to let the Waldorf-inspired school open in Oakland, with Fred Sims voting `no.’ Felix Elizalde wasn’t present.
Last month, the county board also allowed East Oakland’s Cox Academy to remain



The summertime violence continues

By Katy Murphy
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 7:15 pm in crime, violence
This was all happening during last night’s board meeting. So sad. Although Superintendent Tony Smith said yesterday that one of the boys had died, the West Oakland Middle School student — shot in front of his own house — was in critical but stable condition today.
As Tribune Reporter Cecily Burt reports:
OAKLAND — A 17-year-old Berkeley boy was under arrest Thursday as a suspect in a Wednesday evening shooting that left a 13-year-old West Oakland boy in critical

Two Oakland teens shot and killed, others wounded on first week of summer

By Katy Murphy
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 2:12 pm in crimehigh schoolsstudentsviolence
Just after midnight, 19-year-old Rachael Green was killed and five others — 14 to 18 years old — were wounded at a West Oakland vigil for another teenage homicide victim, 17-year-old Damon Williams.
Just last week, Green graduated from Bunche Academy, an alternative school in West Oakland where Williams also was enrolled. Four Bunche students, including Williams, have died violently since the 2009-10 school year began, according to theTribune story.