California School for the Deaf, Fremont
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Coordinates: 37°33′32.01″N 121°57′55.33″W / 37.5588917°N 121.9653694°W
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| California School for the Deaf, Fremont | |
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| 39350 Gallaudet Drive Fremont, California, United States |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1860 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Henry Klopping |
| Faculty | 80 |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Number of students | 500 |
| Mascot | Eagles |
| Website | http://www.csdf.k12.ca.us |
The California School for the Deaf, Fremont is a school for deaf children in Fremont, California. They educate deaf children from all over Northern California. Its campus in Fremont is adjacent to the campus of the California School for the Blind.
Its companion school in Southern California is CSD-Riverside.
[edit] History
Before Fremont, the School for the Deaf was at the California School for the Deaf, Berkeley. The school in Berkeley was constructed in 1869 and located at 2601 Warring St., Berkeley, CA, 94720. In the late 1970's, the University of California Berkeley was able to acquire the school by having it condemned as seismically unsafe, forcing the school for the Deaf to move, then taking it over.1 According to one document, "A Daily Cal article on November 29, l979 uncovered proof that the University administration had coveted the Deaf and Blind School land for 57 years."2 Half of the school land went to UC Berkeley, while the other half went to the city. UC Berkeley's portion of the original location of the Deaf school is currently the Clark Kerr Campus, named in honor of Clark Kerr, the first chancellor of UC Berkeley.
The State Department of Education purchased land for the new school for the Deaf at its current location in Fremont, CA, in an area considered by some to be at least as seismically unstable as the school's original site. The California School for the Deaf, Fremont opened in the Fall of 1980.
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- CSDF Website
- Clark Kerr biography mentioning School for the Deaf
- article about history of Berkeley campus of School for the Deaf
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