Sentences with phrase «oakland education»

The teachers union, Oakland Education Association (OEA), and the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) collective bargaining teams have released their initial proposals for the new... Read More

In the latest bargaining update from the the Oakland Education Association, they outlined three areas where they feel proposals from each side are very far from agreement: Class size and Special Education Caseloads, Hours of Work, and Compensation.

Representatives on the executive board of the Oakland Education Association — the teachers» union — which hasn't taken an official vote because of the summer holiday, argue that charter schools shouldn't receive any of the money, since they operate independently of the school district.

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In 2011, we helped organize a broad coalition of partners, including the Oakland Education Association (OEA), SEIU Local 1021, Youth UpRising, National Equity Project, California Teachers Association, Urban Strategies Council, Oakland Parents Together, Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network (PLAN), Oakland Schools Foundation, and Teach for America to support AB 609 to reverse millions of dollars in audit fines to OUSD incurred during the period of state administration.

Oakland Education Association (OEA)-- The Oakland Education Association is committed to improving wages, working conditions, and professional standards for all unit members.

The tax would raise $ 10 million annually to boost teacher pay, but the Oakland Education Association is against it.

To be fair, the Oakland Education Association is really «out there,» even for an NEA affiliate.

«On top of that, there is a great likelihood of additional one - time money for this school year and then ongoing salary increases and one - time moneys for the» 15 - ’16 school year,» said Trish Gorham, Oakland Education Association president.

In my role as president of the Oakland Education Association, I worked closely with Smith for three years.

between the Oakland Education Association and the district begin, we must continue to push for new teacher support to be included in the renegotiated contract.»

She also called for unity saying that GO, Oakland Education Association and «Diane Ravitch's funded organization» need to find a way to work together.

As the teacher contract negotiations between the Oakland Education Association and the district begin, we must continue to push for new teacher support to be included in the renegotiated contract.»

Betty Olson - Jones, a teacher and former President of the Oakland Education Association, the city's teacher union, testified about poor working conditions in the district and the high rate of teacher turnover and burnout.

This has been an incredibly painful fall for the Oakland education community.

What happens when the Oakland Unified School District and the Oakland Education Association work together?

Working with the Oakland Education Cabinet and Attendance Works, district leaders are getting the message out to parents that Every Day Counts and that parents have a positive and important role to play in helping their children get to school.

The school district works with the Oakland Education Cabinet, which brings together education, business and labor leaders, social service agencies, higher education leaders, workforce development providers and foundations to address Oakland's critical education needs.

Trish Gorham, president of the Oakland Education Association, said the actions of a small group of activists pale in comparison with the uncertainty created by some of the sweeping changes Wilson has proposed.

«Nobody had the gumption to say no to Antwan Wilson,» said Trish Gorham, president of the Oakland Education Association, the local teachers union.

The Rogers Family Foundation has recently released a new strategic plan for Oakland education focused on increasing quality school options, expanding blended personalized learning, and improving early literacy.

All the news that's fit to link in Oakland and beyond — this week - The All City Council Youth Forum, Segregation in Oakland and it's effects, making sure your special needs child gets the summer services they deserve, an upcoming youth led event covering school quality, mental health, and the experiences of Black students, the widely... Continue reading The Oakland Education Week in Review - 5/4/18

Both the 3,500 - member Oakland Education Association, which went on strike Feb. 15, and school district officials held out little hope late last week of a quick resolution to their differences over pay and class sizes.

Not exact matches

Oaksterdam University is your source for that kind of education, and it's based in Oakland, too.

To promote education and career development, Town Kitchen started the Youth Food Project, a nonprofit in partnership with Oakland - based ISEEED's Step to College Program.

He presently serves as pastor of the Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church in Oakland, California, and as adjunct professor of Preaching and Field Education at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley.

«There are more students of colors playing, but having financial help like this scholarship will definitely facilitate making tennis and higher education more possible for them,» said Kindness Nwakudu of Oakland, the 2013 Althea Gibson Scholarship recipient.

His father, Bayard, who had only a fourth - grade education, worked for C&H Sugar on a loading dock in Crockett, Calif., near Oakland, and Jim grew up poor.

Our diverse families come to our campus from Oakland, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Vallejo, Napa and San Francisco and every place in between, to experience a renaissance education, creative and warm community, and nature, lots of nature.

FROM THE FIELD Alliance President Liz Beaven reports on a visit to the Community School for Creative Education in Oakland, CA and her conversation with Dr. Ida Oberman: Fidelity & Flexibility

Liz Beaven reports on her recent visit and interview with Ida Oberman at the Community School for Creative Education in Oakland, CA.

Dr. Eastwood works as Senior Director of Intensive and Special Education Services at Lincoln Child Center in Oakland, and partners with Whole Child Wellness to provide psychotherapy and psycho - educational services for our families.

Community School for Creative Education Fruitvale District in Oakland www.communityschoolforcreativeeducation.org /

In addition to her Mindfulness - Based Childbirth and Parenting Education Program, Nancy has taught Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA and Kaiser in Oakland, CA.

PRE-SCHOOL THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL Almaden Country School, San Jose, CA The Berkeley School, Berkeley, CA The Blake School, Minneapolis, MN Canadian Teachers Federation, National Status of Women Conference, Ottowa, Ontario Catlin Gabel School Family Montessori School, El Cerrito, CA Gender Equity Council, Dade County, FL Georgetown Day School, Washington, DC Greater Edmonton Teachers Convention Association, Edmonton, Alberta The Laurel School for Girls, Cleveland, OH Head Royce School, Oakland, CA Educational Leadership Association, Toledo OH Epiphany School, Seattle, WA The Julia Morgan School for Girls, Oakland, CA Katherine Delmar Burke School, San Francisco, CA Lexington Community Education, Lexington, MA.

The school has been made possible by hardworking pioneering parents and teachers who have worked with joy, vision, and dedication in the mission to bring an independent school inspired by Waldorf education to the Berkeley - Oakland - Emeryville area.

A psychologist in Oakland, CA, Dr. Reischer specializes in family therapy and parent education.

Sherry A. Wells Office: State Board of Education City: Ferndale County: Oakland State: Michigan Election date: 11/08/2016 Elected: No

Amendment 2 «is a lawyer's dream» because of its vagueness, says Joshua Rosenau, programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, which tracks efforts by groups that oppose evolution.

Santorum's defeat will further reduce the influence of ID proponents on the national level, predicts Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California.

The next time Texas purchases science textbooks, this standard could be used to reject books that do not include a degree of climate change scepticism, says Steven Newton, programmes and policy director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a non-profit organisation based in Oakland, California.

Commenting on the panel and its critics, Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, which has campaigned successfully for the teaching of evolution in schools, objected to the «hijacking» of science for arguments about religion: for or against.

So anyway, we headed down the canyon, and I should say that the reason we did this particular trip was because it was put together by the National Center for Science Education, which is the Oakland based group that really does the frontline work with protecting evolution education in the nation's publicEducation, which is the Oakland based group that really does the frontline work with protecting evolution education in the nation's publiceducation in the nation's public schools.

It's all part of a gradual rhetorical shift away from talking about creationism and intelligent design toward casting doubt on evolution, says Joshua Rosenau, spokesperson for the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, Calif. «They have this idea,» he says, «that it's a zero - sum game, so anything you can do to knock evolution down actually promotes creationism without having to say the word.»

Allen runs the Center for Education Reform; Smarick is affiliated with Bellwether Education Partners and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and served in the George W. Bush administration; Cody is a former Oakland teacher who blogs at edweek.org; and Klonsky is a former Students for a Democratic Society leader and an activist in the Chicago small - schools movement.

She's one of nearly 200 girls participating in Techbridge, an innovative program born of a partnership between Oakland Public Schools, two area universities, and Chabot Space and Science Center, the city's state - of - the - art science and technology education facility.

Jill Carlson International Education Policy City: Oakland, California Current job: Director of Individual Giving at Aim High, an award - winning summer learning program in the greater Bay Area founded by a HGSE alumnus Career highlight (s): Relaunching Students Helping Students at Room to Read, and being able to mobilize students (and their families) all over the world to raise awareness and funds for literacy and girls» education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.Education Policy City: Oakland, California Current job: Director of Individual Giving at Aim High, an award - winning summer learning program in the greater Bay Area founded by a HGSE alumnus Career highlight (s): Relaunching Students Helping Students at Room to Read, and being able to mobilize students (and their families) all over the world to raise awareness and funds for literacy and girls» education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.M.»

In teaming up with superintendents and mayors from six cities (Louisville, Kentucky; Oakland, California; Providence, Rhode Island; and Newton, Salem, and Somerville, Massachusetts), the Education Redesign Lab is looking for specific, research - based answers to those questions.

She became a student coordinator for the VITA project, working directly with an IRS taxpayer - education coordinator to remedy the fact that $ 9 million had gone unclaimed in Oakland in 2002.

So two days later, I visited Envision Academy, a downtown Oakland charter school, and Ruth Negash, an intense 4th - year teacher with wild, curly hair and two education degrees from San Francisco State University.