Public comment on the superintendents report centered largely on an incident that occurred at Fremont on January 8 in which OSPD officers restrained a 16-year-old student. In 2015, from April to October, OSPD officers arrested four students for school-related offenses and five students for non-school related offenses. The board listened to the proposal, but did not take action on the item at the meeting.ĭuring the superintendents report, Oakland School Police Department (OSPD) Chief Jeff Godown presented data on arrests and incident calls within the school district. In talking about a unified Oakland, said Duncan-Andrade, were going to have to address the cultural divide that sits around language and the racial divide that sits around dual immersion. Jeff Duncan-Andrade said language immersion programs are necessary to help bridge divides between communities. However, they realized that the charter did not specify this type of programming and a revision of the charter is necessary to include that information. The existing school was originally envisioned as a dual language Spanish-English immersion program, and according to leaders, they provided dual immersion education from the beginning. In a continuation of the special meeting, the board heard a presentation on proposed revisions to the charter for Roses in Concrete Community School located in East Oakland. Director Shanthi Gonzales (District 6) was not in attendance. The board voted 6-0 in favor of the revisions to the charter. I assure you that I will never support, if I am still on this board, a KIPP High School, because I want the high school for West Oakland to be McClymonds.ĭirector Jumoke Hinton-Hodge (District 3), who presides over the West Oakland district where KIPP Bridge is located, voiced her support for the expansion, but added that KIPP needs to continue to partner with McClymonds. However, I do this with grave, grave reservation. However, I feel very compelled by the information around the lack of elementary school options that families in West Oakland are finding to be attractive, so I am going to support the schools expansion, said Director Jody London (District 1). Some board members expressed reservations about approving the expansion. I commend KIPP for what theyve accomplished academically at the middle-school level, but what we need is to improve our public schools in West Oakland, said Ben Tapscott, former head basketball coach for McClymonds High School. He came in reading a little below his level, but they brought him up, said Walker of his son.Ī handful of people spoke against the expansion of the charter school. We will be training our children in the community of West Oakland on how to study, how to learn, but most importantly, how cool it is to be smart, said Michael Walker, parent of a fifth grade student at KIPP Bridge. With this elementary school, we will be laying the foundation. The school currently serves grades 5 through 8, but the charter revisions will allow the school to expand its services to include transitional kindergarten to fourth grade. Many parents and students spoke in favor of the school and the schools leader, principal Lolita Jackson, asking the board to vote yes on an expansion. Staffers recommended the board vote yes on the revisions to the charter petition for KIPP Bridge Charter School, located in West Oakland. In a relatively empty room, the board heard a presentation from schools police chief Jeff Godown on arrests within OUSD schools and discussed budget priorities for the coming school year.Īt 7:30, the empty room filled with parents, students and teachers arriving at a special meeting to support two schools up for charter petition renewal. Read the full article at >įew members of the public attended the beginning of Wednesday nights meeting for the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Board of Education.
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