I understand there is a budget crisis but it is time to stop balancing your budget on the backs of black and brown children. These “under enrolled” schools deserve to stay open. The communities and neighborhoods of these schools are historically underserve and this just perpetuates that. These children deserve to have small class sizes, it is a benefit to their education. The budget calculations for schools treats black and brown children like dollar signs. These are children and families and the ripple effects entire communities. Figure out a different way, maybe make some sacrifices
Closing OUSD public schools to re-open as charter schools will only perpetuate OUSD's budget deficits. See the report of 5/2018 "Breaking Point: the Cost of Charter Schools for Public School Districts" by In The Public Interest" a research and policy center: "...Over the past two decades,
the growth of charter schools has steadily drained money away from traditional public schools and school districts. By 2016-17, charter schools were costing the OUSD a total of $57.3 million per year—a sum several times larger than the entire deficit that shook the system in the fall of 2017. Put another way, the expansion of charter schools meant that there was $1,500 less funding available per year for each child in a traditional Oakland public school...." https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_Breaking_Point_May2018FINAL.pdf
Black students in the neediest neighborhoods deserve smaller schools and class sizes as remedies to close the achievement gap. CA must pay off the debt.
I understand there is a budget crisis but it is time to stop balancing your budget on the backs of black and brown children. These “under enrolled” schools deserve to stay open. The communities and neighborhoods of these schools are historically underserve and this just perpetuates that. These children deserve to have small class sizes, it is a benefit to their education. The budget calculations for schools treats black and brown children like dollar signs. These are children and families and the ripple effects entire communities. Figure out a different way, maybe make some sacrifices
Closing OUSD public schools to re-open as charter schools will only perpetuate OUSD's budget deficits. See the report of 5/2018 "Breaking Point: the Cost of Charter Schools for Public School Districts" by In The Public Interest" a research and policy center: "...Over the past two decades,
the growth of charter schools has steadily drained money away from traditional public schools and school districts. By 2016-17, charter schools were costing the OUSD a total of $57.3 million per year—a sum several times larger than the entire deficit that shook the system in the fall of 2017. Put another way, the expansion of charter schools meant that there was $1,500 less funding available per year for each child in a traditional Oakland public school...." https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_Breaking_Point_May2018FINAL.pdf
Black students in the neediest neighborhoods deserve smaller schools and class sizes as remedies to close the achievement gap. CA must pay off the debt.