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Ride for a Reason: Bike for school dollars + Jerry Brown’s plan to fund locally - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

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Ride for a Reason: Bike for school dollars + Jerry Brown’s plan to fund locally

By awoodall Thursday, May 9th, 2013 at 1:55 pm in No Comments


For those of you who fought for more school funding and are resting easy after the passage of Prop 30: You might be planning a backyard barbecue or some spring cleaning this weekend but not the annual Ride for a Reason bike to Sacramento, whose organizers would like to remind you that it’s not over ’til it’s over. The group takes off from Oakland Saturday at sunrise to advocate for additional state funding and to raise money for enrichment programs in four North Oakland schools: Claremont Middle, Oakland Technical High, Emerson Elementary, and Oakland International High.
More money? Yes, say the riders, in order for California to get to the national average in state funding per student. California would need three times the revenue expected under Prop 30  to reach the national