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4 unusual facts about Oakland Unified School District


Merritt College

The college is part of the Peralta Community College District and was opened as a general campus in 1954 (it had been known as the Merritt School of Business, and along with what is now Laney College, operated by the Oakland Unified School District as Oakland Junior College, which became the nucleus of the Peralta Colleges).

Nell Irvin Painter

Nell attended the Oakland Public Schools.

Oakland Unified School District

During its early twentieth century history, Oakland was one of the first school districts to use the I.Q. test developed by Stanford Professor Lewis Terman to track its students.

Peralta Community College District

It had been known as the Merritt School of Business, and along with what is now Laney College, was operated by the Oakland Unified School District as Oakland Junior College.


BTTR Ventures

They partnered with Peet's Coffee & Tea(PEET) and other local coffee shops as sources of coffee grounds and Whole Foods Market (WFMI), Andronico's, Mollie Stone's and other regional grocery stores as distributors of the company's mushrooms and mushroom kits for more than their 30 Bay Area stores, and CitySlickers Farms, an Oakland Urban Farming Project, and Oakland Unified School District as receivers of the company's compost donation.


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