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65 Alameda County foster children find permanent homes

now 4. Her two sons, wearing matching argyle sweaters, posed for pictures as the family waited for their names to be called. Judge Willie Lott Jr. (center) starts the final paper work as (l to r) Emkay Bosque holds Ally, 3, who was adopted two-years ...

From KATY MURPHY, Inside Bay Area,  23 Nov 2009

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First black astronaut to walk in space visits Oakland middle school

His first of two missions was in 1993, aboard the space shuttle Columbia. In 1995, while on the Discovery, he walked in space. Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., the first African American astronaut to walk in space, signs the t-shirt of Keion Glover,13, after he ...

From KATY MURPHY, Inside Bay Area,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: ExxonMobil,  Neil Armstrong,  NASA

Education Report: Assets and ethics in the Oakland school district

Oakland's public, noncharter schools were built to hold almost two times the number of students that they have right now. The district's buildings, in all, are 5.8 million square feet, and its property spans 487 acres. The city's school-age ...

From KATY MURPHY, Inside Bay Area,  17 Nov 2009

Oakland schools blog: Young teachers' views on pay, unions and retention

strongly support major salary increases. What if we stopped throwing money at contractors, consultants and textbook companies and redirected it into salaries? If Oakland's teachers began at $60,000 instead of less than $40,000, I believe we no longer ...

From KATY MURPHY, Inside Bay Area,  11 Nov 2009

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Immigrant, refugee teens in Oakland tell their stories

School opened in 2007 on the old Carter middle school campus in North Oakland's Temescal neighborhood. It's part of the Oakland school district, but it also belongs to a network of public schools, mostly located in New York City, designed for high ...

From KATY MURPHY, Inside Bay Area,  10 Nov 2009

Fair to present alternative educational options to school dropouts Saturday

OAKLAND — Organizers of a free event on Saturday aim to help bring the city's school dropouts back into the fold. Oakland's Promise Alliance, a fair to present alternative educational options to dropouts and their families, takes place from 9 a.m. to 4 ...

From KATY MURPHY, Contra Costa Times,  9 Nov 2009

Fair for school dropouts Saturday

OAKLAND — Organizers of a free event on Saturday aim to help bring the city's school dropouts back into the fold. Oakland's Promise Alliance, a fair to present alternative educational options to dropouts and their families, takes place from 9 a.m. to 4 ...

From KATY MURPHY, Inside Bay Area,  9 Nov 2009

Momentum builds to remake Oakland's public school lunches

at almost every school in the district, but nobody was making any headway, because it was just one school at a time," Adey said. "We realized that we could have the leverage to make systemic changes." OAKLAND — Just as good food brings people together, ...

From KATY MURPHY, Inside Bay Area,  4 Nov 2009

Oakland schools blog: Impressions of Oakland Tech's open house

room twice, and when we finally got in, it was standing room only. Every classroom I visited was full, including Health Academy and World Languages. Nia Lozano, a middle school parent, tells us what went through her mind during a recent open house at ...

From KATY MURPHY, Inside Bay Area,  3 Nov 2009

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Education Report: What is necessary for schools, and who gets to say?

took on a broader meaning about the district's budget priorities. Earlier in the evening, the board had discussed a set of goals to help determine where to cut $27 million or more from next year's budget. OUSD cannot indefinitely recruit, retain and ...

From KATY MURPHY, Inside Bay Area,  30 Oct 2009

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