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Sequoia Union High School District
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Budget Crisis Looms in Teacher Contract Talks - The Daily News
Article about negotiations between the teachers union and Sequoia Union High School District amid large budget cuts.
newspaper
Location of Charter School Still a Mystery - The Daily News
Article about the opening of Everest Public High School and the debate over its location in Redwood City or East Palo Alto; the school preferred a Redwood...
newspaper
Palo Alto Shuts Classroom Doors, Except to Residents - San Jose Mercury News
Article about attempts for EPA parents to send their children to Palo Alto High School because of the higher quality of education. Includes comments from...
newspaper
Reynolds Wants a School Closed Next Year - Peninsula Times Tribune
Article about Superintendent Harry Reynolds stating his intention to recommend the closure of one school in the Sequoia Union High School District. Mentions...
document
Tinsley settlement asks for too little action on school integration - and at too slow a pace - Palo Altan
Editorial about the Tinsley settlement that calls for the bussing of Ravenswood school district students to schools in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and other...
photo-gallery
Youth Development Center Meetings with Sequoia Union School District
Photographs of Youth Development Center meetings with Sequoia School District. Photographs feature Bob Hoover, Ruben Avelar, members of the Sequoia School...
document
Benign Intentions: The Magnet School at Ravenswood High
Paper on the magnet school at Ravenswood High School, presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco,...
document
Legal Brief on behalf of the Certified Members of the Black Educators of Sequoia Union High School District
Legal Brief on behalf of the Certified Members of the Black Educators of Sequoia Union High School District. Includes the factual background information on...
document
Ravenswood High School and De Facto Segregation in the Sequoia Union High School District - May 1955 to April 1966
Written history of de facto segregation and associated anti-segregation political efforts from 1955 to 1966 at Ravenswood High School and the Sequoia Union...
newspaper
Tinsley Kids to be Studied - Palo Alto Weekly
Article about the Palo Alto School District conducting an in-depth study looking at the 422 EPA students who participated in the Tinsley voluntary transfer...
newspaper
Article in Metro about Ruben Avelar's Work with EPA Teens
Article in Metro Newspaper about EPA resident Ruben Avelar's work with local teens. Includes stories from local teens who are bussed to high schools outside...
newspaper
Ravenswood Post Vol. 22, No. 25
Issue of the Ravenswood Post with articles about Nairobi schools, an OICW luncheon honoring EPA Councilman Clarence Jackson, a lawsuit filed against the...
newspaper
Selections from The Peninsula Bulletin Vol 8, No 25
Articles related to EPA from The Peninsula Bulletin. Selections include an article on EPA graduates from Canada College in Redwood City, a profile of Lt....
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Her Concern: Black People, Her Goal: Social Change - Palo Alto Times
Profile of Gertrude Wilks' daughter, Patricia Wilks. Patricia attended her mother's Nairobi Schools and participated in the "sneak out," which enabled EPA...
newspaper
Henry Organ Working at Stanford - Palo Alto Times
Article about EPA resident Henry "Hank" Organ becoming an administrative staff trainee at Stanford University. Organ was the first black trustee of the...
document
Agreement to Convey Real Property (Ravenswood High School Site) to the City of East Palo Alto
Full agreement to convey the Ravenswood High School Site from the Sequoia Union High School District to the City of East Palo Alto facilitated by the County...
newspaper
East of Bayshore Section from The Peninsula Bulletin Vol 7, No 13
Articles from the East of Bayshore Section covering the Community Music School and Director James Samuels, events to celebrate Black History Week throughout...
oral-history
Gene Tate Interview
Interview of Gene Tate by Jesse Norfleet about Ravenswood High School. Topics include: being part of the first freshman class, what makes Ravenswood High...
document
Ravenswood High School and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Sequoia Union High School District - A Dissertation
Full text of Robert Lowe's PhD dissertation on the desegregation of Sequoia Union High School District and Ravenswood High School submitted to Stanford...
newspaper
East Palo Alto Section of Palo Alto Times
East Palo Alto section of Palo Alto Times with two short articles: one on a dispute about housing possibly being built on the Ravenswood High site and...
newspaper
East Palo Alto OKs Price for School Site - Peninsula Times Tribune
Article about city approval to pay the Sequoia Union High School District for the Ravenswood High School site.
newspaper
The EPA Progress, Vol. 1 No. 3
An issue of The EPA Progress that covers rent control, the fate of Ravenswood High School, cCAIN Lawsuit being overturned, the City Council Candidates, local...
oral-history
Henry "Hank" Organ Interview
Interview of Henry "Hank" Organ by Meda Okelo. Topics include: moving to East Palo Alto, living at Light Tree Apartments, early thoughts of incorporation,...
oral-history
Jennifer Jackson Interview
Interview of Jennifer Jackson by Meda Okelo. Topics discussed include crime in EPA, anti-drug activism and United Mothers Against Drugs (UMAD), Nairobi...
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