Update on the parent's fight to save their schools in Oakland

Yesterday I wrote about how 5 Oakland public elementary schools are slated to be closed and hat parents and students will be engaging in a sit-in at one to save it. Today KALW's incredible Cross Currents program documented that these same public schools are being closed after more than a decade of  record number of charter schools being opened thereby draining the Oakland Unified School District of critical funds. In fact, OUSD now has 34 charter schools (thanks to then Mayor Jerry Brown's pro-charter agenda and the state take-over of the district between 2003-09) out of 135 total schools. At last, OUSD is finally starting to reject resource draining charter petitions. The tide is starting to turn against charter schools and we are, once again, out in front in our widespread rejection of the hopefully dead and buried charter petition.