“If schools in Oakland continue improving at the rate they are currently, it’s going to take four generations to reach grade level, which is unacceptable.”
In the past decade, the cost per student in California has dramatically increased from $10,000 per year to over $23,000, yet proficiency rates have seen little improvement. Siyamak sits down with Kimi Kean, who has 20 years of experience in the Oakland school system as a teacher, principal, and superintendent. As a co-founder of Families in Action for Quality Education, she will discuss the problems she has witnessed in California’s public school system, including grade inflation, mismanagement of funds, and a lack of focus on students’ academic achievement. We also spoke with Charles Cole, who attended 11 public schools while growing up in the Bay Area. Despite facing homelessness, he earned his ED.D and is now the Executive Director of Energy Convertors, an organization that advocates for children in public schools.
“Based on how many kids read at grade level, we look at third-grade reading data to determine how many prison beds will need to be built because there is such a strong correlation between early reading skills and what happens later in life with student success.”
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