Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Students to debate charters, criminal justice - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

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Students to debate charters, criminal justice

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 at 6:11 pm in students2 Comments »
High school debater Kwodwo Moore (center). Photo by Ray Chavez/Staff
On Thursday, after you come to the Tribune’s public forum on high school reform and teaching in Oakland, you’ll still have plenty of time to head across town to a different — and decidedly younger — discussion about education and teenagers.
Charter schools and criminal justice are the subjects of debate at the 6-7:30 p.m. Bay Area Urban Debate League event at the St. Augustine Episcopal Church (not to be confused with the Catholic church on Alcatraz) on 29th Street and Telegraph.
Dmitri Seals, the league’s director, says his hard-working orators have been practicing three times a week for