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Oscar Grant/Mehserle verdict protest, arrests: a teacher’s account

By Katy Murphy
Sunday, July 11th, 2010 at 10:06 am in Uncategorized

I’ve been out of commission the last couple of days, so you’ve probably heard this news already, but in case you haven’t:
Jumoke Hinton Hodge, Oakland school board memberThose arrested in Thursday night’s protest included Oakland school board member Jumoke Hinton Hodge — who was playing chess at the intersection of Broadway and 14th Street and refused to stop, theEast Bay Express reported — and Susan Harman, a former school principal and activist.
Pamela Drake, an adult education teacher who

Reducing the dropout rate: the economic argument

By Katy Murphy
Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 1:26 pm in dropouts, high schools

The D.C.-based advocacy group Alliance for Excellent Education has come out with a new report that estimates the San Francisco-Oakland metro area would gain $8 million in tax revenues and generate 350 jobs by cutting its high school dropout rate in half.
You can read the Bay Area report, which estimates additional earnings (and