Fwd: Friday 6/1; Public Hearing on Oakland Schools

[Peter Farruggio <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>]

> From: jzern1@yahoo.com
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> Last night's action at the Oakland School Board was a success! Listen
> to us at http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=20494 at
> approximately the 40th  minute.  Please join us on June 13 at 5PM at
> the Oakland School Board meeting as the Board votes on the resolution
> introduces last night for a moratorium on local control.
>
> Please join us tomorrow at the following...
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> Public Hearing on Oakland Schools:
> Four Years after State Takeover Coalition calls for an end to the
> state takeover, a return to local, democratic control of Oakland
> schools, and a moratorium on school closures.
> http://novometro.com/news_details.php?news_id=2205
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> WHEN: Friday, June 1st, 4:00-6:30pm
> WHERE: 1025 2nd Avenue, Oakland, Board of Education Chambers
> WHAT: A panel of elected officials, union leaders, and community
> representatives has been invited to hear stories and take testimony
> from those involved in the day to day act of educating our youth ­
> teachers, parents, and the students themselves.
> Visual grades on school conditions will be given out.
> PANELISTS: Mayor Ronald V. Dellums
> State Assemblymembers Sandré Swanson and Loni Hancock
> Alameda County Supervisors Keith Carson and Nate Miley
> Alameda County School Board Member Gay Plair Cobb
> Board of Education Members Chris Dobbins, Noel Gallo, Kerry Hamill, Greg
> Hodge, David Kakishiba, Alice Spearman
> Union Leaders Sharon Cornu (Central Labor Council), Betty Olson-Jones
> (OEA),
> Mynette Theard (SEIU)
> ACORN Leader Fannie Brown
> SPEAKERS: Teachers and other District employees, parents, students,
> community members
> WHO: Organized by the Ad Hoc Committee to Restore Local
> Control/Governance
> to the Oakland Schools, which includes the Oakland Education Association,
> Education Not Incarceration, ACORN, the Oakland Schools Coalition of the
> Central Labor Council, AFT 771, CalCARE and BAMN.
>
> (Oakland, CA) ?Four years after Oakland schools were taken over by
> the state, how are they measuring up?? asks Cassandra Martin, a
> parent at Sherman Elementary School, ?Teachers, parents, students
> and community members will be giving out our own grades on the
> conditions in our schools.? The impact of school closures, the
> creation of multiple charter schools, the conditions for students
> in Special Education, the impact of ?Results Based Budgeting,?
> and the effects of the federal No Child Left Behind law will be
> highlighted through verbal illustrations of what life is really
> like in Oakland?s schools at a public hearing this Friday
> afternoon.
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> Contact: Betty Olson-Jones, 510.763.4020
> President, Oakland Education Association
> Nuri Ronaghy, 510.533.3204
> Executive Director, Education Not Incarceration