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fromwww.mercurynews.com
6 months ago

A re-unified' Oakland City College? Merger raises questions, possibilities for cash-strapped district

But pesky financial challenges now may lead the Peralta Community College District to merge the two schools into a single institution: Oakland City College. It is a bold new pitch, first reported by Laney's watchful student newspaper, The Peralta Citizen, that Chancellor Tammeil Gilkerson introduced Aug. 14 to a collection of district staff and faculty. Peralta leaders had kicked around the idea for years but avoided discussing it in concrete terms, with bureaucratic tangles often getting in the way.
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