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BOOKS from News 1 i JACK from News 1 HOTWJ Batteries 2m4W SAVINGS COUPON 1AYSONL 1 Wif reyei Mascasa EyeShadow or Keira Williams Urban economic analyst i Dreyer's Ice Cream 1 75 qt (Selection may vary by store Not available in all locations Crystal Geyser Aloine Sonne Water' 24 pk169oz btjs Tuesday I October 23rd thru Thursday October 25th Only! TOtoChipjv 12 km ioK: aj co is acial Ttssue 75 to 200 ct 'a'1' sttaciuaesitrt laottj Dreyers MMWWWwn Matkl nd Accmorlu eighth graders without a text In the Oakland school dis 1 Wolfschmidt Vodka or Old Crow Bourbon Whiskey175 liter or a Bacardi Rum 750 ml HW AV INGS COUPON frz a downtown area needs a grocery store to buy food to take home and prepare This conceptsoundsgoodlt will speak to the needs of people for fresh foods But will people living within a half mile go there for things like Pampers and toilet is working to identify neighbor hoods in particular need for re tail stimulation and opportunities for retail expan sion Keira Williams urban eco nnrrilr' onnhret tirtili fka i Economic Development Agency said the marketplace will boost efforts to revive Jack London Square i downtown area needs a grocery store to buy food to take home and prepare" Williams said 1 his concept sounds good It will speak to the needs of people for fresh foods HH 1 1 1 1 tf I dui sne aaaeu wiu people living within a half mile go there for things like Pampers and toilet Still she said Oakland will benefit from the new develop ment a shortages not described by their school districts Oakland High School was missing a handful of statistics and calculus books as of Sept the market as a water sidetourist destination as well as a bustling marketplace for day time consumers The marketplace have an everyday fresh market" al aschl said means pro duce bread a delicatessen It will resemble something like the (San rancisco) erry Building I Marketplace or the Pikes Street i Market in Seattle but not that pricey It will be a market reflec tive of the community offering what would be bought for ev eryday uses" Asked how Jack London Market addresses the needs of a working class consumers he said will be a variety of venues with appeal to a broadspectrum of racial and eco groups The newemporium however is only one aspect of a plan that includes some 1 million square 1 ordered it in the summer or be tore they leit tor vacation The Ravenswood school began the year nearly 300 books board passed a resolution down: Oakland Tech had no ad saying they had enough text vsnrp nlarpmpnt fihrs books and had to order 145 Mateo County Office of Educa tion inspectors reported other wise Green Oaks Elementary School was short a few books said Mefula airley instruc tional services coordinator for the county office Belle Haven schools in the Bay Area showed 7 a lack of books in the 2005 06 school year Since that time school dis tricts like Oakland Ravenswood in San Mateo and West Contra Costa have set up new ways to order and track books In the I have a book Green said State law requires school dis tricts to provide books to all students for use in and at home bylhe end of the eighth week of school However thousands of stu dents across the Bay Area and California still start the school year without the books they need according to district re ports and districts are still working out major kinks The Oakland Unified School District opened its doors this year with a 3350 book shortage according to district documents 1 The Mt Diablo school dis trict found Itself short more than 1050 books College Park had a 481 book shortage in socIaTsf tidies thatleft BOO" juniors without American his had the materials but not in the right place'' went to the wrong classroom" airley said uesDiie new icuui tuiH guiuv books for all students but San lines several students inter not right Everyone needs to have a book" said Oakland Tech senior Brooke Wayne 17 who had no stalls 3 tics book until a few weeks ago understand why they know they were short of 7booksand why they didn't order which serves kindergarten them on time They should'haVe through eighth grade 4 NEWS THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE Budweiser? 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senoot year to go over eacn survey and the pro 'vj jected enrollment in each grade In West Contra Costa classes are scheduled and books or dcred earlier than in the past deputy superintendent Kaye Burnside meaning books get to classrooms faster The district also issues a second survey in fall to fill in unforeseen shortages because of scheduling changes or an unex pected influx of students said Harlan Kerr the di rector of literacy he delivered the last set of missing social studies books to Tara Hills Elementary School in San Pablo now we are pretty much at 100 percent" Kerr I said ti and health Additionally high While most school districts schools must provide adequate science laboratory eauinment Districts must report shortages many campuses still start the say now mey win oe resoiveu and submit to inspections by county offices of education Change has come slowjy An August report by the ACLU showed that 29 percent of io the retail Investment strategy Oakland's Community and feet of new development over the Economic Development Agency next seven years to attract con sumers business and tourists alaschi said construction will begin this year on four new structures In Jack London Square with construction begin ning next year on three more Those buildings will house mostly commercial development to enhance the Jack London area 7 At the groundbreaking Monday Senate President Pro: Tern Don Perata of Oakland praised the project saying It will Oakland from the hills to the The city Is Interested In de veloping retail projects that serve residents across the entire economic spectrum said Coun cilwoman Nancy Nadel (Down town West Oakland) referring teachets and principals to re port how many books need so they can be ordered 1 1 LU U1C VdJMdllU OVllUUl U1O rf over summer and arrive by the Elfmfntarv 'uc 4i nt consol toll was exactly the type of reform that the Williams set tlement was intended to Kini said In die past Oakland teachers would go to the central wrare house for what some jokingly called "Dumpster diving" in an attempt to take what they could for their students said Yvone Allara an administrator who took over the textbook program in July 2OOb Two years ago au tory books according to a dis ditors aocKea 4 out oi op uax i lanH fnr Isrlrintf UiCl HbL LU LUC OlllUUl board i ney ve maae a lot oi im provement compared to last year" said Tara Kini a lawyer with civil rights firm Public Ad vocates who monitors district compliance with the law But Kini said she remained con cerned that Mt books some ordered in early Oc tober make it to classrooms in time assurances can they' provide that the students will actually have books by the eighth week of school as out lined by Kini asked Students in the Oakland Ra venswood and West Contra Costa school districts sued the state in 2000 over the de plorable conditions of their schools in what became known as the Williams lawsuit The complaint catalogued filthy un safe campuses untrained teachers and textbooks that falling apart or in some cases no textbooks at all The 2004 settlement led to laws that require all public schools to give students up to date books in language artsmath history foreign language Brooke Wayne Oakland Tech senior trict the list oi shortages at Col lege Park High did not include English books However senior Elliot Meme said he riever got his own copy of in the 1 Students couM read the TS 1 Eliot novel in class but'not lake 1 them home the 17 year old said Working without the text in front of him made it awfully hard to write an essay com nnfltirt (lip lint nnvpl frv viewed by MediaNcws talked of 1 couldn quote irom the Meme said Staff writer Kimberly Wetzel contributed to this story' Reach Katv 12 according to a report to the Murphy at Oakland School Board necom Shirley Dang covers educa But India Green said five ton Reach her at 925 977 841 8 or people in her algebra class hadsdangbayareanewsgroupcom Thousands of students are lacking books in schools i 'C no books 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