Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A sudden school closure in Oakland - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

A sudden school closure in Oakland - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:


A sudden school closure in Oakland

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 5:10 pm in 2 Comments »

photo by Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group
All year long, people have been complaining about the Oakland school board’s decision to close five elementary schools — and how they did it.
Almost everyone who goes through a school closure must suffer to some degree, regardless of the process or the timing. But as I reported the story I wrote today about the closure of Civicorps Elementary School, a publicly funded, independently-run charter school in North Oakland, I couldn’t help but think back to OUSD’s much-