Oakland’s Lakeview Elementary, unoccupied - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

Oakland’s Lakeview Elementary, unoccupied - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

Oakland’s Lakeview Elementary, unoccupied

By Katy Murphy
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 at 4:28 pm in Uncategorized.

Lakeview photos by Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group

Lakeview Elementary School was supposed to close at the end of the school year, but families, teachers and local activists who opposed the Oakland school district’s decision to close schools kept it open for two and a half weeks longer. They turned the school on Grand Avenue into a summer program and overnight camp, complete with movie night (“Star Wars,” shown in the school auditorium) and s’mores, history lessons and gardening class.

And protests.

I was planning to stop by today for a day-in-the-life-of piece on the People’s School for Public Education, but Oakland School Police beat me to it. Around 4 a.m., the officers ordered about 15-20 people sleeping outside the school, including two