Pays Oakland Public Education Fund up to $13,000 to support media arts instruction at KDOL-TV

The Oakland Public Education Fund will provide funds to support staff of the Media Enterprise Alliance at KDOL-TV, which teaches media arts to high school students from MetWest and across the district, with mentoring from media professionals and paths to internships. The contract runs August 12, 2019 to May 28, 2020. The contract's work period began before this vote.

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Vendor / partner: Oakland Public Education Fund · Oakland, CA
Action: New agreement
Category: Classroom & academic programs
Term: Aug 12, 2019 – May 28, 2020
This vote: $13,000
Schools: MetWest High School
Funding: Unrest Supplemental Support
Resource / site: 0002-338
Vendor no.: 003143
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 20-0763 · agenda P.-60
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, May 13, 2020

Official text

Approval by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Oakland Public Education Fund, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide funds to support the staff of Media Enterprise Alliance (MEA) at KDOL-TV to offer high quality media arts instruction to high school students from MetWest and throughout the district at KDOL-TV; students are mentored by media professionals to learn technical and soft skills, produce content for KDOL-TV, and other outlets and pursue internships and paid job opportunities through MEA'S youth production company at Met West High School, for the period of August 12, 2019 through May 28, 2020, in an amount not to exceed $13,000.00 and COVID Amendment thereto.

History

May 13, 2020 Adopted on the General Consent Report

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