OaklandSchoolReport

OUSD parent.
Public sector union abolitionist

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It's hard to fathom that the current mess in OUSD can all be traced to one election in a single district. @grok When did the OUSD board extend Kyla Johnson Trammel? For how long? Was the vote unanimous? And then Sam Davis steps down as Board Director for district 1, and OEA-backed Rachel Latta wins. Now OEA has a 4 person majority. The board majority then fires Kyla, forces out the CBO and Chief of Staff, installs a former OEA president as the interim supe and has now postponed the search for a permanent one? do i have that correct? one election in one district caused all this mess?

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@educator4ever36 Agree, but I’m sure this will never happen due to “equity”

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@thewawa24 @flowidealism That's why I said top tier UCs. Even so, CSU SLO is not an R1 institution. Among CSD, only SDSU is.

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"[W]hen a calculus hall fills with students who range from fluent to functionally pre-algebraic, U.C. faculty call that a “polarized course,” and they point out plainly that it weakens the education of everyone in the room. It is impossible to teach at the level the subject requires, they explain."

Unfortunately, this starts in K-5 and not just in math. Nearly half of OUSD's 3rd graders are at least one grade below level in reading and math.

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@grok So a union rep is complaining that the No campaign spent a quarter of what the Yes campaign did? Found this on Transparent:
https://t.co/8fwD8p0Ihw

Almost half a million total comp.

[OaklandSchoolReport @OUSDReport]

“There are some large corporations and some wealthy folks who have put a lot of money into the ‘no’ side of Measure E,” Olyer told The Oaklandside.

@grok Who spent more? The Yes on E or No on E campaign? Also how much does Seth Olyer make? Does he live in Oakland?

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“Lest there be any confusion, the collapse of the CS major is not due to a lack of student demand,” Nelson said in an X post.

In an X post, Nelson identified the high cost of instruction as the primary cause of campus’s decision to reduce CS major enrollment. Undergraduate teaching assistants now cost the department between $71.95 and $80.51 per hour. Since winning a grievance in January 2020, campus EECS and data science undergraduate TAs receive proportional tuition waivers depending on how many hours they work. According to Nelson’s post, this change significantly increased department costs, which led campus to reduce undergraduate CS enrollment and decrease the number of undergraduate TAs.

In the email, Nelson also called on campus leadership to “bargain harder” on TA compensation, noting that it is currently “multiples higher” than the market average. He added that more than 80% of undergraduate TAs do not qualify for need-based financial aid but are still receiving partial or full tuition coverage, much of which is paid using the other students’ tuition and state funding.

“As a state university I do not think it is aligned with our public mission to use such funds to subsidize tuition for primarily more privileged students,” Nelson said in the email.

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@_litongdeng Same demand and less supply of CS majors with no objective way of determining who gets in = rise in failure rate:
https://t.co/5MgFF4sMrE

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@KelseyTuoc So precious! Congratulations!

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@davidlee @robkhenderson @pmarca What no one wants to know about UC admissions is that it's mostly luck of which 2 officers grabbed your application file. Had a lab worker who said UCB was the only UC he got into as an MCB major. Rejected/wl'd at UCLA, UCSD, Davis, and Irvine.

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100% true. Adults are ultimately the problem. Friends of ours agreed to let their daughter call them by their first names when she was in 1st grade. They thought it was cute. She kept pushing boundaries, and they kept acquiescing. Now she's a drug addict.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

“Kids did not change. Parents did.”

Thoughts?

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You keep repeating this lie. The Task Force found the benefits of testing far exceeded the costs. By a 51-0 vote, the Academic Senate recommended to the Regents to keep the tests. That was the result of years of study. There is no "different" view. The Senate never waivered in our support of standardized testing as a valuable tool in admissions decisions. Did the Regents "panic" in disregarding our vote? No, they were actually quite deliberate. They chose ideology over evidence.

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@drterrysimpson Except that’s not what happened. We voted 51-0 to keep the tests. There were task forces studying this. The politically appointed UC Regents voted 23-0 to eliminate the tests. All evidence pointed to keeping them. But the Regents decided instead to “meet the moment.”

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Yes. Continue calling this out. If this poll came out in 2020, there would still be 1000 signatories among UC faculty. This was all the Regents, particularly Perez and “Algebra is racist” Ortiz Oakley followed by Ms Janet that led to this. Still can’t believe we had a Regent who believed Black and Latino college students couldn’t be expected to know Algebra I. Not calculus. Not trig. He thought Algebra I was a “killing field” for low income and “students of color”.

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I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but I’m still shocked seeing a news report interviewing a UCB professor, and they cut to scenes that are clearly shot at UCLA (ok, I guess) and USC (hell no)

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@sfchronicle Apologies to those that believe no non-White person can be racist, but how would you describe someone who believes students of color can’t be expected to do middle school math?

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Tapping the sign. The UC Academic Senate voted 51-0 in 2020 to keep the requirement. The UC Regents voted 23-0 to eliminate it. This is Regent Eloy Ortiz Oakley in 2023:
“What is so magical about algebra as a math requirement? It’s a gatekeeper to virtually every type of credential and transfer in higher education." He called it a “killing field” for low-income students and those of color. He's not talking about calculus or even intermediate algebra. A UC Regent (former, thank God) believes Algebra I, which some kids take in 6th grade, is too hard.

Who else? How about Regent Tony Thurmond, our outgoing State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The more people blame UC faculty for this debacle, the more you are NOT seeing the scope of this problem. Do you really think going back to the SAT/ACT will magically reverse this decades long trend of math decline?

For maximum chaos, I hope BOARS comes out next week and recommends we just go with SBAC and CAST scores. Do it, Dave. You know you want to...

[OaklandSchoolReport @OUSDReport]

Agree, but I wouldn’t call this unpopular. I think this falls into the “common knowledge” category at this point

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

Unpopular opinion: Schools are dealing with the consequences of failed parenting.

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@sfchronicle The more I think about this, the more I like it. Applicants should be able to submit SAT/ACT scores and/or SBAC. Let's go BOARS!

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@tracewoodgrains It depends on what major they declared. @grok how competitive is admission at UC Berkeley for EECS majors versus Humantities

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Agree. A psychology major shouldn't need to know how to find the volume of an object by rotating a bounded region about the y-axis. Stats would be more appropriate. But... if that major is at UCSD getting a B.S. instead of B.A.? They need to pass calc. That UCSD report swept up a bunch of kids who had no intention of pursuing high level math.