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By Jacqueline Tasch

Kerry Hamill, District 1 School “Our classroom teachers have been getting better and better at their jobs, and that’s what parents care about first and foremost,” Hamill says. “I think most parents care about the classroom more than they care about the...

Kerry Hamill, Schoo] Board Candidate for District One, said, “The people of Oakland demand change. Voters elected Brown because they see him as a powerful political force and agent for change.” She wants to take advantage of that influence to create a ...

By Jacqueline Tasch

...s, the superintendent has hired a fleet of wonderful principals who are the most important people in the organization. He has initiated a whole number of reforms, many of which paid great dividends for kids,” District 1 School Board member Kerry Hamill said in a recent interview with The Rockridge News. Hamill Colby Claremont BART Chabot Road Broadway 51st Street College The problem was the projections used to create a budget were incorrect. Broadway Terrace SEE “HAMILL,” PAGE 4

Hear candidaces Kerry Hamill and Tania Kappner battle it out for

By Kerry Hamill

Oakland Schools Face Sweeping Changes, Closings in 2005 Closures, charters, New Small Autonomous Schools (NSAS) part of controversial solutions to OUSD ills by Kerry Hamill, Member, Oakland School Board Smandate to re-make troubled schools contained in the federal “No Child Left Behind” act. weeping changes are planned in the Oakland School District in response to the loss of 9,500 students in six years, chro...

Forced Closures Poor Way To Fix Oakland Schools KIRIN in the Year of The Monkey School Board member Kerry Hamill says cuts should not rile parents and impact student achievement Restaurant approved despite objections of residents by Cy Gulassa Dby Hiroko Kurihara, RCPC Board Member T Kerry Hamill, District One School r. Randolph Ward’s plans to close...

solidating or closing schools, but doing so unilaterally is not a productive way to fix things,” District One school board member Kerry Hamill said in an interview with The Rockridge News. GRAPHIC: ASAHI/KO- IMARI/HIMI/SARA Ward is no exception. His first proposal, made during the holiday recess, was overkill and he had to backtrack, but not before angering parents and students a...

... English. Ward last November gave the school staff six weeks to draft proposals that promised dramatic improvement quickly. After 20 months of control, Dr. Ward has yet to reveal his recovery plan for Oakland Public Schools, says Hamill by Kerry Hamill, District One School Board Member M Five of the schools submitted plans acceptable to Ward, and they will have another year to boost test scores. Ward’s solution for the remaining eight schools is to convert them to charter schools. Teache...

Reflections from Outgoing School Board Director school and the District work together on the new building. That project in 2009 was the first in California to receive matching State grants for fol- lowing green-building guidelines. When Kerry Hamill asked me to run for her seat on the School Board in 2008, I did, even though the District was in State receivership. I had seen I could make a difference, even under State control, and didn’t want to be asking myself “what if.” I served tw...

school for assemblies, as well as a newly landscaped playground. Graphic and caption: Chabot Way to Grow! Recruiting and Retaining Teachers Join Oakland School Board directors Kerry Hamill and Jody London at the District 1 Town Hall meeting on Monday, November 17, 7-9 p.m. at Piedmont Avenue School, 4314 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland. The topic: “How Oakland recruits and retains teachers.”

By Don Kinkead

...ge. Praised by all at-large candidates and called a model for transit-oriented, pedestrian- friendly neighborhoods, Rockridge was seen as a neighborhood to inspire change rather than to be changed to meet an ideal. At-large candidates were Kerry Hamill, school board member; Rebecca Kaplan, AC Transit director at-large; Clinton Killian, attorney; Charles Pine, retired information technology professional and neighborhood anti- crime activist; and Frank Rose, a member of the Oakland Advisor...

Councilmember, District 1 ■ ■ Incumbent Councilwoman Jane Brunner, and challenger Patrick McCullough, attorney and electronics technician. Councilmember At Large ■ ■ Kerry Hamill, School Board member; Rebecca Kaplan, AC Transit director at- large; Clinton Killian, attorney; Charles Pine, retired information technology professional and neighborhood anti-crime activist; and Frank Rose, a member of the Oakland Advisor...

Public School? Featured speakers: Vincent Matthews, Stephen Wesley, Sheila Jordan and Kerry Hamill. Info: 238-7001, or view Brunner Report at www.oaklandnet. com (the site for all City-related information). Jazz at the Chimes Concert and Artist Reception featuring Grammy-nomi- nated pianist Taylor Eigsti with bassist John Schifflet and ...

By Jessica Pitt

...isions by keeping budget veto power in the hands of a state-designated trustee. community for her ability to listen, accept good advice and embrace changes that have worked well for students. Assembly bill seeks to limit state oversight by Kerry Hamill, North Oakland School Board Member O Central to any discussion about restor- ing local governance is how to continue the momentum for improving academic performance. Since 1999, when organized groups of parents from Oakland’s lowest per- f...

...ned in September, 2002, that our financial systems were in such disarray that the district could no longer determine its own bottom line. Eight months later, the state con- cluded we were $57 million in debt from two years of overspending. Kerry Hamill, District One School Board Member, represents Rockridge and North Oakland. The district received a $100 million line of credit in a bailout, which included the assign- ment of a state-appointed administrator in June, 2003. In arguing for t...

By John Potis

by John Potis, RCPC Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Committee Chair T Meeting Thursday, July 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rockridge Library. by Kerry Hamill, District One, OUSD T RCPC is encouraging the City to evalu- ate converting Claremont from its existing four lanes to three, which would provide safety benefits without reducing traffic capacity. Statistics prove that two driving lanes wit...

By John Potis

...ict, enrollment is down by 7,000 students and is expected to decline Thursday, July 15, 7:30 p.m., Rockridge Branch Library 5366 College Avenue at Manila — Community Room (Upstairs)  Should Claremont Avenue Be Converted from 4 to 3 lanes? Kerry Hamill Representatives from Oakland’s Transportation Services department and RCPC Traffic Committee Chair John Potis will discuss ways to make Claremont Avenue safer without compromising traf- fic flow. Among options to be considered at the town ...

By John Potis

he RCPC Traffic and Pedestrian RCPC is encouraging the City toevalu- 99 Kerry Hamill, District One, OUSD

By Dan Ferdelman

OUSD CLUELESS Editor: With disgust I read your recent interview with School Board member Kerry Hamill headlined, “Forced Closures Poor Way to Fix Oakland Schools” (Feb 6, p.1). It’s appalling to read that the folks in charge of the Oakland Unified School District remain clueless about the massive multi- million dollar spending deficits tha...

One of the first things I did as editor was to interview Oakland school board member Kerry Hamill to learn how Oakland’s schools were doing ( see story, page 1) now that a state administrator is in charge. That’s when I learned the full measure of the state’s wrath in school takeovers. When a school district is in serious financial tr...

...eptember. However, there’s a promising new alliance with the California College of Arts and Crafts, which has never had an art educa- tion program but sees Arts Far West as “a natural laboratory.” These programs support School Board Member Kerry Hamill’s notion that the dis- trict is making good progress on teaching and learning, despite its financial difficul- ties. She brought to the meeting a proposal for cuts that would focus on central admin-

By Jacqueline Tasch

 Rockridge Public Schools Meeting Find out which school won RCPC’s first Community Service Grant! Kerry Hamill, Rockridge’s School Board representative, will open discus- sion about how the Oakland Unified School District plans to face budget deficits (see accompanying article). All public schools in Rockridge will join in a panel, offering descrip...

4 School reform Measure D debaters spoke at the RCPC February meeting. Mayor Jerry Brown, at left, School Board candidate Tania Kappner, Boardmembers Dan Siegel and Ken Rice, and Board candidate Kerry Hamill examined the finer points of the proposal.

By Cy Gulassa

of seven elected members. The panel also included two candidates for School Board District One, Kerry Hamill, who endorses

By Susan Montauk

the schoolboard’s agenda for the new gift to the campaign for thenew parkup G_oenbelt (FROG), which is sponsorin school year and Member-elect Kerry to a total of $20,000 will be matched by discount dinin on behalf tthe ok Hamill will speak about her special RCPC ina 2:1 ratio: for every $2 given (story, page 3). p projects for the coming Board term. by the individuals in the community, y» DA...