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Occupy moves into classrooms

Occupy moves into classrooms

December 14, 2011 • Jorray Hart & Caleb Smith  

Many teachers across Oakland have been pre-occupied this semester with creating lessons based on a local story that went worldwide — Occupy Oakland. Occupy Oakland is part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Participants argue that too much of the power and wealth in America is held by just 1 percent... 

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Recipe for school garden success: Plant, harvest, cook, eat. Repeat.

Recipe for school garden success: Plant, harvest, cook, eat. Repeat.

June 3, 2011 • Reese Brown, Media Academy  

A group of students at Media Academy in Oakland has been earning some green for working — and learning — in the school garden. The six students meet after school on Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. to plant, water and maintain the garden. The program is taught by Matthew Green, a former journalism... 

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Fate of Oakland High's school garden up in the air

Fate of Oakland High’s school garden up in the air

June 3, 2011 • Mindy Nguyen, Oakland High  

Imagine walking through the campus of Oakland High School. As you pass by the parking lot, you begin to feel curious about what lies beyond the portable classrooms. Glancing to your left, you are disappointed by the sight of a trashed school garden, and a picket sign that reads, “parking lot under... 

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Oakland students honored, get to learn at national journalism convention

Oakland students honored, get to learn at national journalism convention

June 1, 2011 • KIM MEJIA-CUELLAR, CESAR SANCHEZ, Oaktown Teen Times  

Oakland students won honors, listened to prominent journalists and learned the ins and outs of writing and editing at the National Scholastic Press Association high school journalism convention in Anaheim, Calif. Students from Media Academy at the Fremont Federation of High Schools, and the East Oakland... 

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Calling all gardeners (and folks who like to eat!)

Calling all gardeners (and folks who like to eat!)

April 26, 2011  

Do you have a recipe for a vegetable quiche that will make someone drool? Are you great at whipping up smoothies using fruit from your school garden? Have you figured out what to do with all that kale you planted last fall? Then please consider contributing to the first-ever Oakland School Garden Cookbook,... 

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OUSD forces small schools to return to Fremont, Castlemont High

OUSD forces small schools to return to Fremont, Castlemont High

March 8, 2011 • Staff report  

Is bigger really better? That’s what students, teachers and staff are asking after news that the Oakland Unified School District will combine small schools on the Castlemont and Fremont campuses into two big high schools in the fall of 2012. Next year’s seniors will be the last to graduate from Leadership... 

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Schools pilot classroom breakfast

Schools pilot classroom breakfast

March 8, 2011 • Linda Poeng, Media Academy  

  Tony Srimoukda can barely focus in his second period class. Trying to pay attention in Advanced Placement U.S. History is difficult because the Media Academy junior is too preoccupied with his rumbling stomach, a stomach demanding something to eat. Srimoukda skipped out on the free breakfast... 

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Teenagers across Oakland grieve as two more peers fatally shot

Teenagers across Oakland grieve as two more peers fatally shot

March 1, 2011 • Staff report, East Oakland School of the Arts  

A spike in teen homicides over the last 12 months, many of them in East Oakland, has struck fear as well as sorrow into students’ hearts. At the Fremont Federation of High Schools, the campus motto — “The Friendly School” — contrasts with the sadness many students are feeling after... 

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Menchu: Violence is for cowards

Menchu: Violence is for cowards

December 10, 2010 • JUAN CARLOS RAMOS, Media Academy  

“Violence is the goal of cowards,” Rigoberta Menchu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, told a sold-out Oakland audience that included gang-affiliated youth. “They don’t know how to resolve problems any other way, so they use fists.” Menchu, a Guatemalan activist for indigenous people, spoke on Nov.... 

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Closed lunch angers students; health workers see opportunity

Closed lunch angers students; health workers see opportunity

December 8, 2010 • Juan Ramos & Jazmin Garcia, Media Academy  

Karla Coronel spent 32 out of 55 minutes for lunch standing in line to receive a slice of pizza and bag of chips in the first weeks of school. “It’s a waste of my time that I could have been eating,” said Coronel, a sophomore at Mandela Academy. The wait for food in the cafeteria at... 

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