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San Leandro City Council Meeting Notes: Homelessness & COPS Grant
The San Leandro City Council eliminated full minutes of Council meetings several years ago. To make up for this, and keep San Leandrans informed of what the Council is up to, Mike Katz-Lacabe tweets...
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San Leandro Candidates Position on COPS Grant
The San Leandro Police Department applied for a $500,000 COPS grant to fund a total of four school resource officers (SRO’s). The SLPD, however, neglected to let the City Council and the School Board...
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Students, Parents to Hold Rally Opposing COPS
Students And Families for Education (SAFE), a newly-formed coalition of San Leandro parents, students and community members, will hold a rally on Tuesday, December 9th at 6pm, outside San Leandro City...
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San Leandro City Council To Vote Tonight to Spy on School Children
SAFE Asks City Council to Vote Against COPS Grant Update: The City Council voted to accept the COPS grant. All but one of the speakers spoke against having SROs in Schools. Last week, Students And...
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ACLU to Look at SLPD’s Use of Social Media to Spy on San Leandro Students
A lawyer from the ACLU has contacted a member of SAFE and explained that they are starting a review process on the tracking of kids’ online activities and the keeping of records on kids through...
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San Leandro Schools Secondary School Reform Needs More Imput
photo stolen from the Pioneer This letter is written by former Mayor Stephen Cassidy. If you have children at SLUSD schools or are a student there, I urge you to read it. Summary – The school board is...
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This is how the School to Prison Pipeline starts in San Leandro: with Middle...
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a meeting of parents of English learners at my daughter’s middle school, here in San Leandro. I don’t usually go to ELAC meetings, but that night my daughter’s choir...
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Sad Lessons on Racism, Surveillance and Police Intimidation at School Board...
Drawing by 10 yo Camila of the curriculum committee meeting. Camila was one of two kids not allowed to tell her views on the program. A couple of weeks ago, I got a lesson on how the school-to-prison...
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Photos of San Leandro Undercover Police Officers
These are three of the four undercover officers which a parent recognized at the last San Leandro School Board meetings. Parents and children rallied against a program that will put police officers in...
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Progressives Should vote NO on the SLUSD Parcel Tax
There is no doubt about it, our schools need money. Teachers deserve better salaries, we should update our school supplies and classrooms need to be brought into the 21st century. As the mother of...
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