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Quotes from both Board Director Yee and the enrollment office on the district's vision around school integration, Oakland's enrollment pilots, and participation in the Bridges Collaborative.

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Some great research and history on school integration in California/US highlighted here : https://t.co/aJHgfngIZ0

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About 3/4 of the way down, check out the overview of what @OUSDNews has been up to.

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@e_frankenberg @HalleyTCF @psu_civilrights @e_frankenberg @psu_civilrights do you already have maps from Oakland, CA (OUSD)?

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@courtwrites @ProfRucker @mattyglesias I'd also suggest checking @diverse_schools work which cites some intergroup contact research: https://t.co/lv2AxIeaTy

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The @urbaninstitute came out with fascinating research around school attendance boundaries. I dove into the date to uncover the most racially unequal attendance boundaries in @OUSDNews https://t.co/b6MY4DKQC0

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Join us here in 3 hours! https://t.co/9M1YQiatVb

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@dirktillotson and @integrate_oak were in the middle of planning the last part of our webinar series on @OUSDNews school segregation. We look forward to honoring him and his work @sobeoakland. Join Reed Levitt @CassiePerham @drbrianstanley for policy recommendations

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He was a huge supporter of my work and challenged me on so many fronts. His words and voice will always be a guide and I will miss his collaboration and friendship immensely. https://t.co/BnenHatpS7

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I first connected with @dirktillotson shortly after this post came out which sparked a series of meaningful and probing conversations between us. https://t.co/8XmDZtp6wL

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We had a great conversation last Wednesday on the topic of school segregation in Oakland. Please join us this Wednesday for a part 2 follow-up with @dirktillotson, @courtwrites, @d7report and Sydney Dexter. Here's some more info and questions from part 1: https://t.co/ujZMmolhpt

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Join us for an exciting discussion next week with @dirktillotson @drbrianstanley and Director Gary Yee on the history of school segregation in Oakland and where we are today. @OUSDNews

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They do nothing to disrupt the main structures that maintain segregation (neighborhood preference mixed with open enrollment) and can't really be applied to the vast majority of schools who don't have the same levels of demand.

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The fact that Chabot only enrolled 7 students from prioritized neighborhoods demonstrates that both Brewer and Sequoia could end up in a very similar situation if the number of students with neighborhood and/or sibling preference continue to increase.

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Yes, Sequoia and Brewer may maintain some level of diversity (it's really not clear at all what effect this has had at Chabot) but we can't use these pilots as models for the district as a whole

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Both Chabot and Sequoia made almost 100% of their 2019-2020 offers to students that already had sibling and/or neighborhood preference. This is at schools where the percentage of in-neighborhood families has increased by about 20% since 2015.

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A few thoughts on this https://t.co/NOYmgUH4Lf
1) It's difficult to truly understand the impact of the policy without seeing the breakdown of applications by existing priority (e.g. how many students had neighborhood/sibling preference).

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In October, I wrote about how a few Oakland schools wanted to prioritize low-income students during the enrollment period for the 2021-2022 school year. With school starting in about a month, we have the results. #oakedu
https://t.co/IITAMQ55zB

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@castillodavidca @integratedschls @dirktillotson @GreatSchlVoices @castillodavidca appreciate you resurfacing these analyses. It's no secret that Oakland reinforces neighborhood segregation with its attendance boundaries. Check out ES/MS attendance area overlay of census block groups categorized by wealth: https://t.co/vsmWTtnL9k