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Oakland School for the Arts (OSA) is a visual and performing arts charter school in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Oakland, California. OSA opened its doors in 2002 with a mission to provide students with immersive, conservatory-style arts training in a college preparatory setting. The school curriculum revolves around the concept of integration between academic subjects and the arts. OSA currently serves 670 students in grades 6-12 with a student faculty ratio of 1:12.〔http://oakarts.org/about/facts-figures〕 OSA is located in the historic Fox Oakland Theatre building at 530 18th Street at Telegraph Avenue. On April 1, 2009 OSA was selected to be a California Distinguished School. It is a member of the Arts Schools Network and the National Association for College Admission Counseling. ==Founding and history== Oakland School for the Arts is a college preparatory, arts middle and high school. It was founded in 2000 via charter from the Oakland Unified School District. It received 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in October 2001. In September 2002 OSA opened its doors to its first freshman class, the class of 2006. The school was the dreamchild of Jerry Brown〔http://gov.ca.gov/s_bio.php〕 who was then serving as Mayor of Oakland. For the first three years of OSA's existence, there were seven emphases: Theater, Dance, Literary Arts, Instrumental Music, Production Design, Visual Arts, and Vocal Music. During the 2005-06 school year, Production Design was merged into Visual Arts. OSA was faced with budget cuts during summer 2006 and chose to merge Theater, Arts Management, Literary Arts and Visual Arts and Design into one emphasis called Theatre. This arrangement only lasted a year and in 2007 Donn Harris separated Literary Arts and Visual Art into their own emphases. As of the 2014–2015 school year, there are ten emphases or "schools" at the Oakland School for the Arts: Dance, Digital Media, Figure Skating, Instrumental Music, Literary Arts, Theatre, Vocal Music, Visual Arts, Circus Arts, and Production Design. The school started at the Alice Arts Center building in downtown Oakland. It was moved to portables near the Fox Oakland Theatre during the 2004-05 school year, and moved to the Fox Oakland Theater building in January 2009, becoming part of the revitalization of a city center that had been dormant for decades. The Fox Theatre had been shuttered for 30 years,〔http://www.bdcnetwork.com/platinum-award-reviving-oaklands-uptown-showstopper〕 and its reopening and the revival of the surrounding area attracted many new businesses, restaurants, and art galleries to the city.〔http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Merchants-head-downtown-as-Oakland-gains-new-5921741.php〕 Loni Berry was director of the school for the first four years from 2002–2006. Saul Drevitch replaced him in fall 2006. San Francisco School of the Arts principal Donn Harris replaced Drevitch in December 2007. Drevitch resigned because of "differences" between him and Jerry Brown and the School Board. As of the 2008-9 school year, Donn Harris holds the role of Executive Director on a full-time basis. The first graduating senior class, the class of 2006, graduated with 100 percent of the class accepted to four-year colleges. High-school graduation and college enrollment rates continue to rank very high among San Francisco Bay Area public schools (e.g., nearly 100 percent of seniors graduated and 95 percent enrolled in college in 2013). In January 2009, OSA moved into the office complex on the upper floors of the historic Fox Theater. The school now serves over 750 students. In 2013, the last year of the API school ratings, OSA received its highest score ever: 837. In April 2014, OSA became the Master Tenant of the historic Sweet's Ballroom at 1933 Broadway. OSA will operate the venue to serve its own performance needs as well as open up the space for community groups and performing companies. As of 2014, Donn Harris has continued as the Executive and Artistic Director, supported by an organizational chart that includes a school principal, two assistant principals, a dean, and various department chairs. Rebecca Eisen has been the chairman of the Board of Directors since 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oakland School for the Arts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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