Prom dress giveaway announced
March 5, 2010 • Carolyn Saephan
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Is money keeping you from going to prom? There are two ways girls from Fremont Federation can get a free prom dress without stressing about it when prom is only around the corner! One way is to visit the Princess Project on March 6 at 1:30 p.m. on 2201 Broadway Ave. in Oakland. According to the project’s... Read more »
OUSD puts up $3 million in cameras
March 9, 2010 • Fuey Saechao
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If you are on a high school or middle school campus in the Oakland Unified School District, you are being watched. That’s because the district is putting 750 new video cameras at 25 middle and high schools across the city, under a $3 million security upgrade program. You will be watched by people... Read more »
Gang injunction could start soon
March 9, 2010 • Carolyn Saephan
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Oakland will throw a new weapon at members of one of its most notorious gangs — an injunction to stop them from engaging in gang activity in a 100-block “safety zone.” City Attorney John Russo filed a lawsuit for the injunction last week against the North Side Oakland Gang, which police... Read more »
Donors choose to help Fremont
March 9, 2010 • Jose Alvarenga
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Microscopes, science posters and a human mannequin now enhance Kerry Sullivan’s physiology classroom at College Preparatory & Architecture Academy – thanks to an organization called Donors Choose. Donors Choose helps teachers around the country raise money for projects, classroom supplies... Read more »
Education budget cuts protested in ‘Day of Action’
March 10, 2010
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Teachers and students rallied on March 4 to protest cuts to education and to stir up support for higher salaries for educators. Before school, teachers and students held signs and banged on drums at the 47th Avenue entrance to the school to show their feelings about the education budget. Many cars... Read more »
Tower of power builds college knowledge
March 13, 2010
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