This is a sampling of The Education Report, Katy Murphy's Oakland schools blog. Read more atwww.IBAbuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/KatyMurphy.
May 1: It's election week for the Oakland teachers union, and that has extra significance this year. Betty Olson-Jones, the Oakland Education Association president since 2006 (since I've been covering Oakland schools!), has reached her term limit. She will be succeeded by Mark Airgood or Trish Gorham.
Olson-Jones has endorsed Gorham -- as well as Steve Neat, Chaz Garcia, Vincent Tolliver, Janan Apaydin, Manny Lopez and Andy Young for seats on the union's 16-member executive board.
You can find the complete list of candidates and their statements on the blog, as well as the election's outcome, when it's reported.
A year ago, I wrote about a small group of teachers called Oakland TIES (Oakland Teachers for Innovative and