Residents push schools to take grandkids (paid the high prices, families should benefit)

[The Straight Story]

Piedmont residents push schools to take grandkids


Officials in the East Bay's prestigious Piedmont school district are under new pressure to change policy and accept students whose grandparents live in the district, a potentially pricey move that longtime residents say is overdue.

That includes grandparent and 25-year Piedmont resident Wayne Lyons. His two grandkids, a second-grader and preschooler, live only two blocks from the border of the district, which restricts enrollment to residents only, with few exceptions.

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Piedmont, an affluent enclave surrounded by the Oakland Unified School District, was known as the "town of millionaires" in the 1920s because it had the most per square mile in the United States.

It now has some of the state's highest taxes for schools. Many grandparents who live there say they've paid the high prices and their families should be able to benefit.

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