{"id":10091,"date":"2011-09-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-18T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:37:27","slug":"irony-abounds-with-gov-scwarzenegger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/17\/irony-abounds-with-gov-scwarzenegger\/","title":{"rendered":"ACORN? Irony Abounds With Gov. Schwarzenegger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Governor Schwarzenegger was scheduled for a photo op at Acorn Woodland School a few weeks ago, but the visit was trumped by his need to visit the LA fires and locate hot barbells that day.<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>Acorn Woodland is located in East Oakland and is a living miracle. The community it serves is very poor, 85% of the kids qualify for the price reduced or free lunch program, 55% of the kids have limited English. In 1997, those darned ACORN activists began a community discussion about what to do with a blighted property in the neighborhood. They had a vision of a wonderful new school there. After years networking, building support and getting a bond passed to pay for it, Acorn Woodland Elementary was born as one of Oakland’s new small schools.<\/p>\n

Why did the Governor think this was a great place for a photo op?<\/p>\n

Test Scores. Acorn Woodland Elementary in Oakland is one of the state’s five highest-improving schools. They raised their API, or Academic Performance Index, 120 points in one year and nearly 300 in five.<\/p>\n

Fanny Brown, East Oakland resident since 1968 and one of the school’s founders reminisces on the beginnings of Acorn Woodland here –><\/p>\n

He missed his photo op, and seems not to even know it was at a school founded by ACORN and in fact is even named Acorn. But hey, let’s demonize ACORN activists today. It’s the thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor Schwarzenegger was scheduled for a photo op at Acorn Woodland School a few weeks ago, but the visit was trumped by his need to visit the LA fires and locate hot barbells that day.<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>Acorn Woodland is located in East Oakland and is a living miracle. The community it serves is very poor, 85% of the kids qualify for the price reduced or free lunch program, 55% of the kids have limited English. In 1997, those darned ACORN activists began a community discussion about what to do with a blighted property in the neighborhood. They had a vision of a wonderful new school there. After years networking, building support and getting a bond passed to pay for it, Acorn Woodland Elementary was born as one of Oakland’s new small schools.<\/p>\n

Why did the Governor think this was a great place for a photo op?<\/p>\n

Test Scores. Acorn Woodland Elementary in Oakland is one of the state’s five highest-improving schools. They raised their API, or Academic Performance Index, 120 points in one year and nearly 300 in five.<\/p>\n

Fanny Brown, East Oakland resident since 1968 and one of the school’s founders reminisces on the beginnings of Acorn Woodland here –><\/p>\n

He missed his photo op, and seems not to even know it was at a school founded by ACORN and in fact is even named Acorn. But hey, let’s demonize ACORN activists today. It’s the thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2CL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}