{"id":1679,"date":"2014-02-03T10:06:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2014-02-03T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:06:59","slug":"library-tour-highlights-inequity-in-ousd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/02\/03\/library-tour-highlights-inequity-in-ousd\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Local: Library Tour Highlights Inequity in OUSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Karl Hatch<a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/02\/ousd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1681\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/02\/ousd-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ousd\" width=\"199\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In November, a Community Study Group was organized in Oakland to examine the role of the school library in today\u2019s technological world. The culminating event of this effort was the January \u201cImagining A New Future for School Libraries Tour.\u201d On the tour they visited three Oakland Unified School District libraries: One with a strong, professionally staffed, fully-integrated library program (PTA funded), one with a minimal K-5 library in a K-8 school, and one newly renovated with great potential but closed, waiting for staffing.<\/p>\n<p>These three libraries highlight the vast inequity of library services across OUSD schools. According to OUSD data, over 10,000 K-12 students in OUSD have <strong>no<\/strong> school library. Another third of the libraries are severely understaffed. At the same time, according to the 2013 STAR, only 38 percent of OUSD 3rd graders are reading at or above grade level. <a href=\"http:\/\/oaklandlocal.com\/2014\/02\/library-tour-highlights-ineqity-in-ousd-community-voices\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Karl Hatch In November, a Community Study Group was organized in Oakland to examine the role of the school library in today\u2019s technological world. The culminating event of this effort was the January \u201cImagining A New Future for School Libraries Tour.\u201d On the tour they visited three Oakland Unified School District libraries: One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/02\/03\/library-tour-highlights-inequity-in-ousd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oakland Local: Library Tour Highlights Inequity in OUSD<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_research_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}