T.-7 22-1627 Adoption by the Board of Education of Resolution No. 2122-0096 - Reversal and Rescission of School Consolidations.*
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*Introduced by named Requestors pursuant to Board Bylaw 9322.
We need to do better for our children! How can we expect our students to be at their best when can’t even provide them a neighborhood school? A child’s basic right is to have access to a quality education…one that they can walk to, that they don’t have to constantly fight for and one that they don’t have to live in constant fear that the board is going to take away. If we don’t care for Oaklands youth now how can we expect Oaklands future to be thriving and bright. I support the communities not closure resolution and encourage the board to have the courage to stand up for what is right and fight for our kids education!
Access to local neighborhood schools and the communities that are formed from them are essential to our children's development. By taking away these schools you are not only limiting access to education, but also continuing the racist, classist, ableist policies of the past. Do better OUSD board.
I support the adoption of the communities not closure resolution and encourage the board to fulfill commitments made to families, educators, and kids to engage the community and complete the diligence necessary prior to making closure recommendations, let alone decisions. Help us help you create equitable options.
I wholeheartedly support the Community Not Closure Resolution. Please listen to those most impacted by these school closures. Our youth need your courage to do the right thing!
There is still time to make this right. All communities in Oakland deserve access to safe schools in their neighborhoods. We need to prioritize communities, not money. Please do what your constituents are asking of you, as we are the ones that elected you to uphold the education and safety of ALL OUSD students. Don’t let decades of racist policy be the norm. Be radical and humanely just in your decision today. Please keep Parker Community School open. We need Community Day School. And La Escualita deserves their K-8!!!
I wholeheartedly support the community resolution to reverse school closures. Please ask yourself what you stand for and use your position of power to keep Parker and other Oakland public schools open and fully funded.
Our kids deserve so much more than what we have given and shown them. Neighborhood schools are the backbone of our communities. The outright racism is evident and disturbing in a progressive city like Oakland. Education like housing is and always should be a human right. Please reconsider this absurd notion that kids of color in underserved communities are not worthy. Please vote your heart and mind and forget about money and help stop these closures. If all else fails close your eyes and imagine these are your kids and you family suffering and then make the right decision. Keep schools in Oakland open! Thank you!
Do you have the opportunity to undo the harm that you have done to the communities of Parker K8, Community Day, La Escuelita, Horace Mann, Grass Valley, Korematsu, & Munck. To persist in closing schools while you simultaneously give central administrators raises and grant the superintendent a paid leave is obscene.
As one who taught in the Oakland Adult Ed for over 20 years and watched it be ripped apart, closing educational opportunities for @35,000 adults with parenting and job responsibilities; and watching the relentless closures of school after school after school particularly in East and West Oakland--EOC, Ravenswood, Robeson Lakeview, etc---and the destabilization of their neighborhoods, putting children and youth at risk,
I strongly support the Community, Not Closures resolution. Make Fisher & Shorenstein pay for schools---not speculate on their property.
As an OUSD teacher, I am 100% in support of the Community, Not Closures resolution. School change decisions should be community processes. The current school closure decisions, which were not community processes, need to be reversed. Board members: it's OK -- in fact honorable and brave -- to change your mind as a result of new learning.
It is outrageous to think OUSD has even considered closing any elementary school and forcing children to endure such an abrupt change in such an important developmental time in there life.. funding is not an acceptable excuse for closing public schools.. consistency and stability are very important for children, not to mention the fact that we did not have any oppertunity for a fund raiser this last school year.. Parker particularly is a land mark school that services children TK-8 enabling siblings to attend the same school for a longer period of time, thus providing a comfortable, farmiliar environment for the students, after all school is a huge part of their lives.. Also, how can it be expected for the students to go to 3 different schools in 3 years and stay on track (ex. 4th grade parker, 5th grade new school, then middle school). Please reconsider this horrendous unfair decision and do what is best for our children!
Listen to your constituents and reverse and rescind the decision to close Parker, La Escuelita 6-8, and Community Day! Do the right thing and adopt Resolution No. 2122-0096.
Mis hijos están en LA ESCUELITA , es imposible estar llevando a 3 niños en 3 escuelas diferentes ,no hagan más difícil las cosas a nosotros como madres , nuestros hijos merecen sus escuelas abiertas .
The closure school affects a student ,family,parents and community is no fair with public schools don’t have strong reason for this action is humans y our rights to maintain the school public
The Closures of Schools affect Students emotionally and academically Not Only will they be separated from their teachers and friends but they will see their parents Struggle to get them to different schools and manage to have extra income to cover the extra expenses to take their kids other schools
We need to do better for our children! How can we expect our students to be at their best when can’t even provide them a neighborhood school? A child’s basic right is to have access to a quality education…one that they can walk to, that they don’t have to constantly fight for and one that they don’t have to live in constant fear that the board is going to take away. If we don’t care for Oaklands youth now how can we expect Oaklands future to be thriving and bright. I support the communities not closure resolution and encourage the board to have the courage to stand up for what is right and fight for our kids education!
Access to local neighborhood schools and the communities that are formed from them are essential to our children's development. By taking away these schools you are not only limiting access to education, but also continuing the racist, classist, ableist policies of the past. Do better OUSD board.
I support the adoption of the communities not closure resolution and encourage the board to fulfill commitments made to families, educators, and kids to engage the community and complete the diligence necessary prior to making closure recommendations, let alone decisions. Help us help you create equitable options.
I wholeheartedly support the Community Not Closure Resolution. Please listen to those most impacted by these school closures. Our youth need your courage to do the right thing!
There is still time to make this right. All communities in Oakland deserve access to safe schools in their neighborhoods. We need to prioritize communities, not money. Please do what your constituents are asking of you, as we are the ones that elected you to uphold the education and safety of ALL OUSD students. Don’t let decades of racist policy be the norm. Be radical and humanely just in your decision today. Please keep Parker Community School open. We need Community Day School. And La Escualita deserves their K-8!!!
Do not devastate communities to balance the budget! Reopen schools!
I wholeheartedly support the community resolution to reverse school closures. Please ask yourself what you stand for and use your position of power to keep Parker and other Oakland public schools open and fully funded.
I support the community not closure resolution.
Our kids deserve so much more than what we have given and shown them. Neighborhood schools are the backbone of our communities. The outright racism is evident and disturbing in a progressive city like Oakland. Education like housing is and always should be a human right. Please reconsider this absurd notion that kids of color in underserved communities are not worthy. Please vote your heart and mind and forget about money and help stop these closures. If all else fails close your eyes and imagine these are your kids and you family suffering and then make the right decision. Keep schools in Oakland open! Thank you!
I support this. Communities over closures-closing schools will hurt our kids!
Community First!!
Do you have the opportunity to undo the harm that you have done to the communities of Parker K8, Community Day, La Escuelita, Horace Mann, Grass Valley, Korematsu, & Munck. To persist in closing schools while you simultaneously give central administrators raises and grant the superintendent a paid leave is obscene.
As one who taught in the Oakland Adult Ed for over 20 years and watched it be ripped apart, closing educational opportunities for @35,000 adults with parenting and job responsibilities; and watching the relentless closures of school after school after school particularly in East and West Oakland--EOC, Ravenswood, Robeson Lakeview, etc---and the destabilization of their neighborhoods, putting children and youth at risk,
I strongly support the Community, Not Closures resolution. Make Fisher & Shorenstein pay for schools---not speculate on their property.
As an OUSD teacher, I am 100% in support of the Community, Not Closures resolution. School change decisions should be community processes. The current school closure decisions, which were not community processes, need to be reversed. Board members: it's OK -- in fact honorable and brave -- to change your mind as a result of new learning.
It is outrageous to think OUSD has even considered closing any elementary school and forcing children to endure such an abrupt change in such an important developmental time in there life.. funding is not an acceptable excuse for closing public schools.. consistency and stability are very important for children, not to mention the fact that we did not have any oppertunity for a fund raiser this last school year.. Parker particularly is a land mark school that services children TK-8 enabling siblings to attend the same school for a longer period of time, thus providing a comfortable, farmiliar environment for the students, after all school is a huge part of their lives.. Also, how can it be expected for the students to go to 3 different schools in 3 years and stay on track (ex. 4th grade parker, 5th grade new school, then middle school). Please reconsider this horrendous unfair decision and do what is best for our children!
Listen to your constituents and reverse and rescind the decision to close Parker, La Escuelita 6-8, and Community Day! Do the right thing and adopt Resolution No. 2122-0096.
Don't close ours schools I support agenda Item No 2122-0096
Mis hijos están en LA ESCUELITA , es imposible estar llevando a 3 niños en 3 escuelas diferentes ,no hagan más difícil las cosas a nosotros como madres , nuestros hijos merecen sus escuelas abiertas .
The closure school affects a student ,family,parents and community is no fair with public schools don’t have strong reason for this action is humans y our rights to maintain the school public
The Closures of Schools affect Students emotionally and academically Not Only will they be separated from their teachers and friends but they will see their parents Struggle to get them to different schools and manage to have extra income to cover the extra expenses to take their kids other schools