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The district-run schools includes 59 elementary schools, 13 middle schools, 19 high schools, with 9 alternative education schools and programs, 4 adult programs and early childhood education centers at most of the elementary schools. There are 38,000 K-12 students in district schools and more than 5,000 employees. Elementary and middle schools
Oakland School for the Arts. / 37.8077694°N 122.2709111°W / 37.8077694; -122.2709111. Oakland School for the Arts ( OSA) is a visual and performing arts charter school in Oakland, California, United States. OSA opened in 2002 with a curriculum that integrated college preparatory academics with conservatory-style arts training.
History. Oakland High School, 1872-1895. Oakland High was first located at 12th Street and Market Street, then at 12th and Jefferson Street. It has been at its current location at the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and Park Boulevard since 1928. The building that stood before its current manifestation was known as the "Pink Prison" or "Pink Palace."
In April 2023, it was revealed that negotiations between the city of Oakland and the Athletics organization had ended, with the team moving forward with a new $1.5 billion 30,000-seat retractable stadium at the site of the Wild Wild West Gambling Hall & Hotel across Interstate 15 from the Golden Knights' T-Mobile Arena, financed through a public-private partnership including a special tax ...
Oakland Military Institute was founded in 2001 [4] after a two-year campaign led by then Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown. Governor Gray Davis helped secure the charter after local school boards rejected the proposals. [5] It is the first charter school sponsored and run by the State of California Military Department and the first public military ...
The New Las Vegas Stadium is a fixed roof ballpark to be built on the site of the now-closed Tropicana Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.It is planned as the new home stadium of the Las Vegas Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB), when the team relocates from Oakland to Las Vegas.
American Indian Model Schools (AIM Schools) is a charter school system based in Oakland, California. Started with the American Indian Public Charter School (AIPCS), a middle school in the late 1990s to serve Native American students, in 2007 it expanded to include another middle school and a high school.
Marcus Albert Foster (March 31, 1923 – November 6, 1973) was an American educator who gained a national reputation for educational excellence while serving as principal of Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1966–1969), as Associate Superintendent of Schools in Philadelphia (1969–1970), and as the first black superintendent of a large city school district.