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Stop the Closure of Oakland Schools: Steps You Can Take
Actions You Can Take to Stop the Closure of the
"Oakland 5" Elementary Schools..
"Oakland 5" Elementary Schools..
Information on School Closures:
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E1726%257E1934427,00.html?search=filter
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E28434%257E1917895,00.html?search=filter
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E28435%257E1920063,00.html?search=filter
1. CALL O'CONNEL AND BROWN
State Superintendent Jack O'Connell
California Department of Education
1430 N Street
Sacramento, California 95814
Phone: (916) 319.0800 Fax(916) 319-0100.
joconnell [at] cde.ca.gov
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown
510-238-3141
jb [at] oaklandnet.com
2. SEND A LETTER TO THE EDITOR (helpful speaking
points are below). LTEs are essential for us to stay
in the public eye and convince people of our
position!!
Oakland Tribune: triblet [at] angnewspapers.com, call to
follow-up on your letter: Katherine Pfrommer, 208-6409
SF Chronicle: letters [at] sfchronicle.com
East Bay Express:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/feedback/index_html?author_email=feedback [at] eastbayexpress.com
3. SPEAK OUT
Thursday, 7PM, Randy Ward will visit OCO at the
Eastmont Mall 7200 Bancroft Ave. to encourage OCO to
support Measure E. Join the Coalition Against School
Closures at 6:45 to participate and speak out against
closures.
3. MEETING with Perata and COMMUNITY PICKET: Friday,
10AM, State Building
A delegation of 15 people will meet with Senator
Perata on Friday, February 13th at 10AM to discus the
need for Perata to take action to stop the closure of
our schools. There will be a community picket outside
this meeting at 1515 Clay Street (the State Building)
*********************************
SOME TALKING POINTS FOR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR...
(1) The closing of the five schools will put 1001
students on the street. For many, there is no close,
comparable school to attend. Without transportation,
students will have to cross some of Oakland's busiest
streets to get to their new schools.
(2) According to Ward's own figures, closing the five
schools will save just $1.28 million. This figure does
not include the costs of closing schools and keeping
them secure, nor does it take into account the losses
of revenue from students leaving the district or
lowered attendance. Many students will not attend
school as regularly if they have to walk a mile or
more to their new schools.
(3) The $600,000 grant for the Burbank school garden
project, which will be lost if Burbank is closed, is
equal to about one-half of the projected savings for
all five schools.
(4) The District's current budget has about $13.0
million in unspent reserves. Instead of closing the
schools, the District can utilize one tenth of the
reserves to keep them open.
(5) The five schools on the closure list are all
improving academically. Toler Heights and John Swett
have API scores of over 600. Foster and Longfellow
have boosted their API scores by over 100 points in
the past three years. Burbank's scores have gone up by
50.
(6) Contrary to what many people say, Oakland does not
have too many schools for its population. In reality,
we should have more schools! Under the District's
small schools policy, elementary schools should have
no more than 350 students. To fully implement that
policy, we would need 72 elementary schools. Today
there are 63.
(7) The bottom line is that closing schools is not
financially necessary and will harm our children,
especially in the flatlands, by forcing them to attend
overcrowded, often dilapidated schools, far from their
homes.
(8) Schools targetted for closure are in low-income
predominately African-American communities, who are
already being under-served by California's schools.
=====
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E1726%257E1934427,00.html?search=filter
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E28434%257E1917895,00.html?search=filter
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E28435%257E1920063,00.html?search=filter
1. CALL O'CONNEL AND BROWN
State Superintendent Jack O'Connell
California Department of Education
1430 N Street
Sacramento, California 95814
Phone: (916) 319.0800 Fax(916) 319-0100.
joconnell [at] cde.ca.gov
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown
510-238-3141
jb [at] oaklandnet.com
2. SEND A LETTER TO THE EDITOR (helpful speaking
points are below). LTEs are essential for us to stay
in the public eye and convince people of our
position!!
Oakland Tribune: triblet [at] angnewspapers.com, call to
follow-up on your letter: Katherine Pfrommer, 208-6409
SF Chronicle: letters [at] sfchronicle.com
East Bay Express:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/feedback/index_html?author_email=feedback [at] eastbayexpress.com
3. SPEAK OUT
Thursday, 7PM, Randy Ward will visit OCO at the
Eastmont Mall 7200 Bancroft Ave. to encourage OCO to
support Measure E. Join the Coalition Against School
Closures at 6:45 to participate and speak out against
closures.
3. MEETING with Perata and COMMUNITY PICKET: Friday,
10AM, State Building
A delegation of 15 people will meet with Senator
Perata on Friday, February 13th at 10AM to discus the
need for Perata to take action to stop the closure of
our schools. There will be a community picket outside
this meeting at 1515 Clay Street (the State Building)
*********************************
SOME TALKING POINTS FOR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR...
(1) The closing of the five schools will put 1001
students on the street. For many, there is no close,
comparable school to attend. Without transportation,
students will have to cross some of Oakland's busiest
streets to get to their new schools.
(2) According to Ward's own figures, closing the five
schools will save just $1.28 million. This figure does
not include the costs of closing schools and keeping
them secure, nor does it take into account the losses
of revenue from students leaving the district or
lowered attendance. Many students will not attend
school as regularly if they have to walk a mile or
more to their new schools.
(3) The $600,000 grant for the Burbank school garden
project, which will be lost if Burbank is closed, is
equal to about one-half of the projected savings for
all five schools.
(4) The District's current budget has about $13.0
million in unspent reserves. Instead of closing the
schools, the District can utilize one tenth of the
reserves to keep them open.
(5) The five schools on the closure list are all
improving academically. Toler Heights and John Swett
have API scores of over 600. Foster and Longfellow
have boosted their API scores by over 100 points in
the past three years. Burbank's scores have gone up by
50.
(6) Contrary to what many people say, Oakland does not
have too many schools for its population. In reality,
we should have more schools! Under the District's
small schools policy, elementary schools should have
no more than 350 students. To fully implement that
policy, we would need 72 elementary schools. Today
there are 63.
(7) The bottom line is that closing schools is not
financially necessary and will harm our children,
especially in the flatlands, by forcing them to attend
overcrowded, often dilapidated schools, far from their
homes.
(8) Schools targetted for closure are in low-income
predominately African-American communities, who are
already being under-served by California's schools.
=====
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If those involved with school funding do not smarten up and do some basic cost accounting and fact examination, then quit whining about closures, AND GET ONLINE ED GOING, AND KEEP THE KIDS HOME INSTEAD OF WHACKING UP A CASE OF FLU FOR EVERYONE, OR GETTING ZAPPED BY 21ST CENTURY CRUISE MISSILES BECAUSE DUBYA'S REAL INITIALS ARE 'GB,' just like Godfrey of Boullion, who whacked 40K innocent Muslims in Jerusalem, 1099. Want to show how smart you are? Do your cost
accounting homework, OR SHUT UP AND GO HOME, AND BE GLAD YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PAY DUMMY TEACHERS, WHO ALSO LET DAVIS GET OVER WITH HIS DEALS.
Do you not watch the RAIDERS? Did you not learn Al Davis had to charge fans for all the beef and shysters. Do you not watch the WARRIORS? Fight the power time is LATE. See that lightning-W at center court?
GET WITH THE PROGRAM! Dale Davis got over on GS Warriors for $10+ million, and FANS BOO! It's a write-off. SO WHAT about one guy busting. But how stupid to eat a ticket and concessions price increase, then ignore how the GRAY DAVIS power deals are churning up everyone's costs! Gray vetoed AB 388, so UC DAVIS was prevented from biomass research, that would get California up off 50th out of 50 at credit, same place in IQ among states. Over-rated by PG&E, no doubt.
I have been telling the accounting-deprived and other oblivious persons since deregulation of the power oligopoly, someone would PAY. (There is enough information here in any paragraph, but print enough, to warn the public, you have led on for four years, of spiral costs from energy.)
I have been telling the same folks (everybody), who appear to be retards with no hope of evading the cost spiral boogeyman, since December 2000, that Gov. Davis' energy deals were inflationary; since March 2001, that they were in bad faith due to Davis' insistence they be negotiated, up to and through the 15% grid constriction due to May-June 2001 refurbishing of the two remaining nuclear boondoggles in
California, a 5-year event to be repeated as RICO and Unfair Business Practices grounds, every time a 5-10-15 or 20-year deal falls due!
Why has not UC objected, to fee hikes every semester? Special school, over-RAIDED, as the Red Raiders fans did chant, when their team beat CAL, fair and square, unlike Gov. Davis' deals, which will erode walk-on character at California schools. The CAL stadium may get built in 5 years, but the campus will fail in 10-20, before rising costs and decreasing revenues, for fairyland hotels, which harbor think tanks and
terrorists, and I cannot tell the difference, between these groups.
I cannot afford state campuses, which 'educate,' so teachers AND kids and parents cannot do simple concept problems, like figuring the Democrats are all done, having borrowed reforms from TR, to give FDR the drunk a chance to let Pearl get bombed. Gov. Davis vetoed AB 388 to thwart biomass research delayed 100 years already, needed to convert
the 2002 anti-pollution law, then he got recalled, FOR TAKING LOUSY $50,000 DONATIONS, much less scale, than any energy payola generated by his long-term frauds, resting with DWS and burning us like tape worms
inside, while revenue constrictors apply deadly cost-spiral coils.
Education has failed, where hospitals and schools close, but no
complaint is raised about the overtly fraudulent energy deals, made
where an already tainted industry deregulated itself. Prepare to LOSE
ALL, as you have failed to note 1. inflationary, 2. anti-competitive,
3. ILLEGAL NATURE OF THE DAVIS POWER DEALS, whose payola now enriches
Republicans, while Democrats collect donations to LOSE THE WHITE HOUSE.
Sorry about your bad luck, A-students who think you are SO SMART, but
now you have procrastinated 4 long years, yet failing to admit Gray
Davis from New York and Stanford has BILKED THE STATE, and we are
already 50th of 50, at credit rating, and right around there, at
average mental intelligence ratings, among the states. At the Holiday
Bowl this year, Texas Tech had to show the Bears some football on the
marsh AND some sass, since CAL has receivership problems it could have
solved with preventing fee hikes, increasing football and other walk-on
participation. Schwarzenegger will take a HIKE, in T-2 more years, and
NOT TO WASHINGTON D.C., as the next President with gerbil-brains and
teeth and an enormous Ostrich in his pants.
Texas Tech's Holiday Bowl victim CAL was pro-RAIDED, by Al Davis who
sued, getting Oakland's and Davis' attorney costs into ticket prices,
foreshadowing what is now happening, with the state power deals, which
illegally ties the energy trade deficit to the mismanaged budget
deficits, while the organized crime connected bureaucrats scheme to
hide the facts and capitalize the bad deals in unwise building scams,
like CAL's proposed new stadium, which will never endure the onslaught
of energy costs and the incitement of terrorism, concurrent with
improvements to online education. Campus-based schools are doomed by
their own corruption, by their lousy think-tanks sponsored to keep
churning fees, which will soon exceed each California school's former
local service clientele's abilities to pay.
Country fans may note that red-neck woman Gretchen Wilson looks kinda
like CAL Athletic Director Sandy Barbour, with bigger hair and recent
hits, including one about the decline of the Grand Ol' Opry, consistent
with BEING IN THE RED UP TO YER NECK, which Wilson's hit producers and
she have projected well enough for CAL people who cannot count how
over-rated they are, by PG&E, and so propose to FAIL, to keep any
campus education alive in California, past 2020 AD. It's Grammy time
for Gretchen, and wake up or go to sleep forever, for CAL AD Sandy
Barbour, who needs to figure out how to keep walk-ons into CAL, now
that football wins so much, despite recent receivership onus.
Please share this with Tedford, since he will probably be the guy who
gets stuck, with talking straight to a lot of people, about what the
CAL administration, Athletic Department, and the rest of California
have stupidly neglected, to our mutual detriment.
accounting homework, OR SHUT UP AND GO HOME, AND BE GLAD YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PAY DUMMY TEACHERS, WHO ALSO LET DAVIS GET OVER WITH HIS DEALS.
Do you not watch the RAIDERS? Did you not learn Al Davis had to charge fans for all the beef and shysters. Do you not watch the WARRIORS? Fight the power time is LATE. See that lightning-W at center court?
GET WITH THE PROGRAM! Dale Davis got over on GS Warriors for $10+ million, and FANS BOO! It's a write-off. SO WHAT about one guy busting. But how stupid to eat a ticket and concessions price increase, then ignore how the GRAY DAVIS power deals are churning up everyone's costs! Gray vetoed AB 388, so UC DAVIS was prevented from biomass research, that would get California up off 50th out of 50 at credit, same place in IQ among states. Over-rated by PG&E, no doubt.
I have been telling the accounting-deprived and other oblivious persons since deregulation of the power oligopoly, someone would PAY. (There is enough information here in any paragraph, but print enough, to warn the public, you have led on for four years, of spiral costs from energy.)
I have been telling the same folks (everybody), who appear to be retards with no hope of evading the cost spiral boogeyman, since December 2000, that Gov. Davis' energy deals were inflationary; since March 2001, that they were in bad faith due to Davis' insistence they be negotiated, up to and through the 15% grid constriction due to May-June 2001 refurbishing of the two remaining nuclear boondoggles in
California, a 5-year event to be repeated as RICO and Unfair Business Practices grounds, every time a 5-10-15 or 20-year deal falls due!
Why has not UC objected, to fee hikes every semester? Special school, over-RAIDED, as the Red Raiders fans did chant, when their team beat CAL, fair and square, unlike Gov. Davis' deals, which will erode walk-on character at California schools. The CAL stadium may get built in 5 years, but the campus will fail in 10-20, before rising costs and decreasing revenues, for fairyland hotels, which harbor think tanks and
terrorists, and I cannot tell the difference, between these groups.
I cannot afford state campuses, which 'educate,' so teachers AND kids and parents cannot do simple concept problems, like figuring the Democrats are all done, having borrowed reforms from TR, to give FDR the drunk a chance to let Pearl get bombed. Gov. Davis vetoed AB 388 to thwart biomass research delayed 100 years already, needed to convert
the 2002 anti-pollution law, then he got recalled, FOR TAKING LOUSY $50,000 DONATIONS, much less scale, than any energy payola generated by his long-term frauds, resting with DWS and burning us like tape worms
inside, while revenue constrictors apply deadly cost-spiral coils.
Education has failed, where hospitals and schools close, but no
complaint is raised about the overtly fraudulent energy deals, made
where an already tainted industry deregulated itself. Prepare to LOSE
ALL, as you have failed to note 1. inflationary, 2. anti-competitive,
3. ILLEGAL NATURE OF THE DAVIS POWER DEALS, whose payola now enriches
Republicans, while Democrats collect donations to LOSE THE WHITE HOUSE.
Sorry about your bad luck, A-students who think you are SO SMART, but
now you have procrastinated 4 long years, yet failing to admit Gray
Davis from New York and Stanford has BILKED THE STATE, and we are
already 50th of 50, at credit rating, and right around there, at
average mental intelligence ratings, among the states. At the Holiday
Bowl this year, Texas Tech had to show the Bears some football on the
marsh AND some sass, since CAL has receivership problems it could have
solved with preventing fee hikes, increasing football and other walk-on
participation. Schwarzenegger will take a HIKE, in T-2 more years, and
NOT TO WASHINGTON D.C., as the next President with gerbil-brains and
teeth and an enormous Ostrich in his pants.
Texas Tech's Holiday Bowl victim CAL was pro-RAIDED, by Al Davis who
sued, getting Oakland's and Davis' attorney costs into ticket prices,
foreshadowing what is now happening, with the state power deals, which
illegally ties the energy trade deficit to the mismanaged budget
deficits, while the organized crime connected bureaucrats scheme to
hide the facts and capitalize the bad deals in unwise building scams,
like CAL's proposed new stadium, which will never endure the onslaught
of energy costs and the incitement of terrorism, concurrent with
improvements to online education. Campus-based schools are doomed by
their own corruption, by their lousy think-tanks sponsored to keep
churning fees, which will soon exceed each California school's former
local service clientele's abilities to pay.
Country fans may note that red-neck woman Gretchen Wilson looks kinda
like CAL Athletic Director Sandy Barbour, with bigger hair and recent
hits, including one about the decline of the Grand Ol' Opry, consistent
with BEING IN THE RED UP TO YER NECK, which Wilson's hit producers and
she have projected well enough for CAL people who cannot count how
over-rated they are, by PG&E, and so propose to FAIL, to keep any
campus education alive in California, past 2020 AD. It's Grammy time
for Gretchen, and wake up or go to sleep forever, for CAL AD Sandy
Barbour, who needs to figure out how to keep walk-ons into CAL, now
that football wins so much, despite recent receivership onus.
Please share this with Tedford, since he will probably be the guy who
gets stuck, with talking straight to a lot of people, about what the
CAL administration, Athletic Department, and the rest of California
have stupidly neglected, to our mutual detriment.
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