22-0575 Approval by the Board of Education of Resolution No. 2122-0195 - Finding That Yu Ming Charter School Cannot Be Accommodated At A Single Site and Written Statement Of Reasoning; Adopting Issuance of Proposition 39 Facilities Offers and Directing Staff to Issue Written Final Offers in Compliance with Proposition 39. Or alternatively, Resolution No. 2122-0195A or Resolution No. 2122-0195B.
While sympathizing with the difficulty the Oakland community faces, I am hoping that everyone can come together in support of all children in the community, regardless of school choice. Supporting this allows for students at Yu Ming to have a location to learn from next year rather than abandoning these students.
I live in east Oakland and I am the black mother of a recently admitted kindergartner at Yu Ming. Please support and approve a facility for Yu Ming in the upcoming school year. I am a strong supporter of public schools and want to see how families like mine can work in partnership with other families attending OUSD schools. The lack of certainty concerning a facility for Yu Ming is highly concerning. It is imperative that Yu Ming is allocated a space in order to continue serving students like my son.
I feel for the pain and frustration felt by so many in the OUSD community, but I don't think it should be taken out on Yu Ming. Yu Ming attempted to have a private location but was denied-it is simply trying to find space for Yu Ming students to learn next year with the limited options available.
Let's think about the children first and foremost (both at OUSD and Yu Ming) and serve as role models in coming up with a mutual solution.
I am opposed to Yu Ming Charter School or any charter school using the campus or the classrooms of any Oakland public schools. The public school communities in East Oakland are already suffering from the closures and mergers that you have already mandated at the end of this school year. Now you are taking away classrooms (a sneaky way to merge or close public schools) at Markham and potentially Prescott and other schools. You are doing this again with out advance public notice and in a virtual setting where the Oakland community does not have a fair opportunity show its opposition. You should cease and desist from all giveaways to charter schools. We need to fully fund and support our public schools not fund their privatization.
The "utilization" formula is does not address the needs of our most vulnerable student. All of these colocations will displace OUSD's most vulnerable students with disabilities from classrooms into closets. School sites were not even given the courtesy of a heads up before this meeting was scheduled, let alone be consulted about what is best for students. Correct the problem you have created. No co-locations. Reverse the decision to close schools.
As a person that has taught at a school that was co-located, it truly creates a dystopian like reality for staff and students. You have areas like bathrooms and water fountains that are sectioned off for the kids of one of the schools but not the other. This then creates a toxic atmosphere that is not beneficial to anyone involved. This move should be strongly opposed and there should be more community engagement in terms of how to proceed.
If OUSD truly does want students to “reach their highest potential” and “have equitable access to the tools they need to succeed” they will not relocate Yu Ming on the Garfield campus. We would no longer have space for students to access tutoring, newcomer classes, our family resource center, and afterschool programming. The Garfield Elementary School community is opposed to the relocation of Yu Ming Charter School on our campus.
Please support Yu Ming in approving a facility that supports the stability of Yu Ming’s student program and which will support bridge building between the OUSD and Yu Me Ng communities.
Please proposed an offer that does not divide our communities but combines the need for Yu Ming to have a singular site and yet serves OUSD existing school communities who like to remain where they are and also students are being welcomed.
Until Charter schools stop the demolition of the public school frame work ( whether purposely or ignorantly) they should not be allowed to use public resources/infrastructure. Let's annex Yu Ming as a non-charter OUSD public school to have a free public school Mandarin Emersion programming accessable for scholars. This would give the opportunity to pay and protect their staff through Unionization and Benefits.
The Garfield Elementary School community is opposed to the relocation of Yu Ming Charter School on our campus. At Garfield, we strive everyday to fully embody OUSD's vision of a full-service community school. To that end, we have a family resource center, the EBAYC afterschool program, academic mentoring, a newcomer teacher, and more. All of these resources require space for staff to meet with these groups of students and families, which would be completely taken away if Yu Ming is co-located at our school. Furthermore, we are working to build and expand our enrollment--if Yu Ming came into this building, this would impede our own ability to grow. We know it is not the preference of Yu Ming to be partly housed at multiple schools, so we encourage all parties to make sure that we are supporting all schools and communities. This will hopefully be done by allowing our school communities to flourish in their spaces and giving Yu Ming the space to continue to grow and thrive in community.
You have gotten yourself into a mess and now You Ming and CCSA are looking to capitalize on it. Yu Ming is an affluent charter school looking for way more classrooms than they actually need (for all of their Oakland students, even tho they have 2/3 other locations as well) taking from low income Black and Brown families suffering from the destabilization caused by school closures and general lack of coherent planning and leadership by this board. The number of classrooms identified as "underutilized" at these schools is a joke and will result, as the EBIA offer already is resulting, in OUSDs most vulnerable students being pushed from classrooms to closets. Start now to do the right thing by telling staff that these offers are unacceptable. Welcoming schools, schools struggling bc of OUSD targeting for closure, schools looking to build their enrollment so as not to be closed. Stand with them now. Yu Ming Charter Schl can find a private space instead of displacing poor black & brown kids
I understand that colocation would have implications on both sides but we should work together to support all of our children. Yu Ming desires to have a partnership with OUSD. I hope for a vote of support to help Yu Ming find an Oakland facility where our students can continue to thrive.
We should all OPPOSE this proposal. We have way too many charters that are destroying our public schools and finances. We should have a diverse set of schools with offerings like dual language programs, but in the existing school system! Not as a separate system that pits school against school, students against students. Please oppose this proposal.
I do not understand how classrooms can be offered to Yu Ming and students from closed campuses at the same time. If you close schools as planned, how will this work? Will Yu Ming get the classrooms and these no longer be available as "Welcoming Sites" for our displaced students? This is exactly what happens when you do not take time to plan out school closures and haphazardly follow a model of another district that closed schools. HOW ARE THERE 8 CLASSROOMS AVAILABLE AT PARKER NEXT YEAR? If you are closing us wouldn't it be 22 (or is it 21? I guess it depends on which inaccurate report you are viewing) since we'd be empty or do you already plan to have those rooms filled by non-Parker students next year leaving 8 available? Will OUSD ever get rid of bad data collection, egregious errors of statistical analysis, and misusing statistics to fulfill agendas that are grounded in privatizer and SB Directors self-interests?
While sympathizing with the difficulty the Oakland community faces, I am hoping that everyone can come together in support of all children in the community, regardless of school choice. Supporting this allows for students at Yu Ming to have a location to learn from next year rather than abandoning these students.
I live in east Oakland and I am the black mother of a recently admitted kindergartner at Yu Ming. Please support and approve a facility for Yu Ming in the upcoming school year. I am a strong supporter of public schools and want to see how families like mine can work in partnership with other families attending OUSD schools. The lack of certainty concerning a facility for Yu Ming is highly concerning. It is imperative that Yu Ming is allocated a space in order to continue serving students like my son.
I feel for the pain and frustration felt by so many in the OUSD community, but I don't think it should be taken out on Yu Ming. Yu Ming attempted to have a private location but was denied-it is simply trying to find space for Yu Ming students to learn next year with the limited options available.
Let's think about the children first and foremost (both at OUSD and Yu Ming) and serve as role models in coming up with a mutual solution.
I am opposed to Yu Ming Charter School or any charter school using the campus or the classrooms of any Oakland public schools. The public school communities in East Oakland are already suffering from the closures and mergers that you have already mandated at the end of this school year. Now you are taking away classrooms (a sneaky way to merge or close public schools) at Markham and potentially Prescott and other schools. You are doing this again with out advance public notice and in a virtual setting where the Oakland community does not have a fair opportunity show its opposition. You should cease and desist from all giveaways to charter schools. We need to fully fund and support our public schools not fund their privatization.
No school closure and no co-locating a chapter that’s no right
The "utilization" formula is does not address the needs of our most vulnerable student. All of these colocations will displace OUSD's most vulnerable students with disabilities from classrooms into closets. School sites were not even given the courtesy of a heads up before this meeting was scheduled, let alone be consulted about what is best for students. Correct the problem you have created. No co-locations. Reverse the decision to close schools.
No school closures! Offer charters vacant buildings from past closures.
As a person that has taught at a school that was co-located, it truly creates a dystopian like reality for staff and students. You have areas like bathrooms and water fountains that are sectioned off for the kids of one of the schools but not the other. This then creates a toxic atmosphere that is not beneficial to anyone involved. This move should be strongly opposed and there should be more community engagement in terms of how to proceed.
If OUSD truly does want students to “reach their highest potential” and “have equitable access to the tools they need to succeed” they will not relocate Yu Ming on the Garfield campus. We would no longer have space for students to access tutoring, newcomer classes, our family resource center, and afterschool programming. The Garfield Elementary School community is opposed to the relocation of Yu Ming Charter School on our campus.
Please support Yu Ming in approving a facility that supports the stability of Yu Ming’s student program and which will support bridge building between the OUSD and Yu Me Ng communities.
Please proposed an offer that does not divide our communities but combines the need for Yu Ming to have a singular site and yet serves OUSD existing school communities who like to remain where they are and also students are being welcomed.
No School Closures and no co-locating a charter at a so called, "Welcoming Schools"
Co-location is an act of aggression that displaces Black and Brown communities and disrupts students’ education.
Until Charter schools stop the demolition of the public school frame work ( whether purposely or ignorantly) they should not be allowed to use public resources/infrastructure. Let's annex Yu Ming as a non-charter OUSD public school to have a free public school Mandarin Emersion programming accessable for scholars. This would give the opportunity to pay and protect their staff through Unionization and Benefits.
The Garfield Elementary School community is opposed to the relocation of Yu Ming Charter School on our campus. At Garfield, we strive everyday to fully embody OUSD's vision of a full-service community school. To that end, we have a family resource center, the EBAYC afterschool program, academic mentoring, a newcomer teacher, and more. All of these resources require space for staff to meet with these groups of students and families, which would be completely taken away if Yu Ming is co-located at our school. Furthermore, we are working to build and expand our enrollment--if Yu Ming came into this building, this would impede our own ability to grow. We know it is not the preference of Yu Ming to be partly housed at multiple schools, so we encourage all parties to make sure that we are supporting all schools and communities. This will hopefully be done by allowing our school communities to flourish in their spaces and giving Yu Ming the space to continue to grow and thrive in community.
You have gotten yourself into a mess and now You Ming and CCSA are looking to capitalize on it. Yu Ming is an affluent charter school looking for way more classrooms than they actually need (for all of their Oakland students, even tho they have 2/3 other locations as well) taking from low income Black and Brown families suffering from the destabilization caused by school closures and general lack of coherent planning and leadership by this board. The number of classrooms identified as "underutilized" at these schools is a joke and will result, as the EBIA offer already is resulting, in OUSDs most vulnerable students being pushed from classrooms to closets. Start now to do the right thing by telling staff that these offers are unacceptable. Welcoming schools, schools struggling bc of OUSD targeting for closure, schools looking to build their enrollment so as not to be closed. Stand with them now. Yu Ming Charter Schl can find a private space instead of displacing poor black & brown kids
I understand that colocation would have implications on both sides but we should work together to support all of our children. Yu Ming desires to have a partnership with OUSD. I hope for a vote of support to help Yu Ming find an Oakland facility where our students can continue to thrive.
The OUSD school board/ administration and city leadership are corrupt. The gentrification and direct attacks on low income communities have to stop.
We should all OPPOSE this proposal. We have way too many charters that are destroying our public schools and finances. We should have a diverse set of schools with offerings like dual language programs, but in the existing school system! Not as a separate system that pits school against school, students against students. Please oppose this proposal.
I do not understand how classrooms can be offered to Yu Ming and students from closed campuses at the same time. If you close schools as planned, how will this work? Will Yu Ming get the classrooms and these no longer be available as "Welcoming Sites" for our displaced students? This is exactly what happens when you do not take time to plan out school closures and haphazardly follow a model of another district that closed schools. HOW ARE THERE 8 CLASSROOMS AVAILABLE AT PARKER NEXT YEAR? If you are closing us wouldn't it be 22 (or is it 21? I guess it depends on which inaccurate report you are viewing) since we'd be empty or do you already plan to have those rooms filled by non-Parker students next year leaving 8 available? Will OUSD ever get rid of bad data collection, egregious errors of statistical analysis, and misusing statistics to fulfill agendas that are grounded in privatizer and SB Directors self-interests?