= Update =

My wife now has an offer from the Oakland Unified School District to teach this fall.  What building she's in is undetermined yet, but I'm hoping for Oakland High School.  It's fairly close.

Oakland has a 58% graduation rate.  There's a city called Piedmont inside the city of Oakland that has a 99.8% graduation rate (1 dropped out), but it also has money and is virtually all white.  That's over a thousand kids a year for Oakland who are left behind.  Consider the state takeover, as well, that's the worse figure since numbers go back to '91.

Check it out for yourself here: http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/