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Atlantic and The California Endowment Commit $12.2 Million for Healthcare Career Pathways In Oakland Unified School District
Grants will support and expand pathways to healthcare careers in Oakland The Atlantic Philanthropies and The California Endowment today announced $12.2 million in grants to the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and Alameda Health Care Services Agency (HCSA) to support and expand health career pathways…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Community Pulse: Oakland School District is building eight school-based health centers
By Erica Mu. The Pulse pulls together the week’s community health, healthcare, medical and health research headlines. Below is an excerpt. Community Pulse It takes a village to keep a clinic open – at least that’s the case with Lyon-Martin Health Services, San Francisco’s Castro-based…
Author: KALW News
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UCSF Works to Improve Lives of Oakland Middle-School Students
The Havenscourt Health Center recently opened in an Oakland middle school to serve youth and families as part of the Elev8 project. UCSF, the Oakland Unified School District and an array of community-based partners are embarking on a quest to improve the lives of disadvantaged…
Author: UCSF
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Drummond: Finding solutions to help high school dropouts
By Tammerlin Drummond In Oakland and in other cities around the country, students have been dropping out of high school in droves. The numbers for African-Americans are especially dire: Those leaving school versus those graduating have been virtually neck and neck. That was before the…
Author: Oakland Tribune
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Bringing Everyone to the Table to Eradicate School Discipline Disparities
By Allison Brown and Kavitha Mediratta Representatives from Open Society Foundations and The Atlantic Philanthropies discuss philanthropy’s role in school discipline reform. This article was originally published in VUE magazine. Download the PDF > VUE website > The Atlantic Philanthropies funded the work of the Positive…
Author: VUE
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Goodbye Zero Tolerance: Program Aims to Cut 'School-to-Prison Pipeline'
Students at Charlestown High School in Boston join a discussion circle on Sept. 27, part of Diploma Plus, a restorative justice program that offers at-risk students guidance, conflict resolution and peer mentoring. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for NBC News By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News…
Author: NBC News
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Nursing and Dental Faculty and Students Engage in Oakland School-Based Clinics
Karen Duderstadt with students at James Madison Middle School (photo by Elisabeth Fall) By Martha Ross Two eighth-graders come running into the health clinic at James Madison Middle School in East Oakland. The boys have an emergency of sorts. They want to know if they can borrow…
Author: UCSF Science of Caring
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Why are some students subjected to harsher discipline than others? How can we fix this problem?
A restorative school culture helps students stay in school and on the path to success at Oakland Unified School District. Photo: OUSD This post is an excerpt from Kavitha Mediratta and M. Karega Rausch’s introduction to Inequality in School Discipline, a new book that fills a critical void by providing the…
Author: Kavitha Mediratta and M. Karega Rausch
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School health centers expand despite lack of state funding
By Louis Freedberg. Two of the state’s largest districts are undergoing a major expansion of health centers on school campuses after promised help from Sacramento never came. To build new facilities, Oakland and Los Angeles are tapping a combination of voter-approved bond money, fees from…
Author: California Watch
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Discipline with Dignity: Oakland Schools Try Talk Circles
By Fania Davis, YES! Magazine As executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, Fania Davis sees programs like hers helping to shut down the school-to-prison pipeline. ‘Punitive justice asks only what rule of law was broken, who did it, and how they should be…
Author: The Christian Science Monitor
