External Resources
Aspire-Oakland Unified Facilities Agreement
September, 2007This agreement outlines the legal and administrative responsibilities between the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and Aspire Public Schools in regard to Aspire using space in an OUSD facility. This relationship includes the following: 1) Site, facility, and accessory structure occupancy and use, 2) services, and 3) fee and payment schedules.
Aspire-Empire School Districts Facilities Agreement
July, 2011This document is a lease agreement between Empire Unified School District and Aspire Public Schools. This agreement outlines the responsibilities of both parties with regards to the facilities, food services, maintenance, and other areas.
Ensuring Equal Opportunity in Public Education: How Local School District Funding Practices Hurt Disadvantaged Students and What Federal Policy Can Do About It
June, 2008In this paper four different authors write about the inequality of funding of local schools by their own school districts and advocate for alternative funding policies to address this challenge. The fourth paper, by Matt Hill, focuses on Oakland Unified School District's "Results-Based Budgeting."
Oakland Unified School District Blended Learning Pilot
This document provides a summary of the blended learning pilot in four schools in the Oakland Unified School District. It includes the information about the goals, innovation, objectives, and model design at each of the pilot schools.