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.
July 5: Oakland Superintendent Tony Smith and his family weren't home on Tuesday evening when an anti-school closure rally at Lakeview Elementary moved to his front yard. They didn't hear chanting demonstrators demanding that he reopen the closed elementary schools or quit his job, though they might have seen a sign left on his front porch that he was ruining the school district, as shown by KTVU footage.
In an interview last month, Smith told me that some of the behavior in Oakland that "passes as activism" is actually bullying. I imagine he would put a rally outside his home, where his two elementary school-age children live, in the same category.
Would you?
OUSD Spokesman Troy Flint said today that many Oaklanders are encouraged by the district's direction under Smith,