Community members and the Oakland City Council came together this week to look at the successes and failures of ongoing local attempts to grapple with the...
The Oakland City Council is seeking ways to minimize displacement of tenants and small businesses and leverage community benefits under the federal Opportunity Zone Program in...
Where have the city’s funds for affordable housing gone? That’s a question City Council President Rebecca Kaplan and council members want to answer as they look...
The Oakland teachers’ union, the Oakland Education Association (OEA) , is calling on Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Supt. Kyla Johnson-Trammell “to immediately reverse decisions” that...
The Oakland Post Community Assembly, along with parents and teachers in the Oakland Not For Sale (ONFS) coalition, hosted a community discussion last Sunday aimed at...
The Board of Education and administration of the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) are facing a barrage of public criticism after the arrest and injury of...
This is not over, say local leaders — pledging not to let the city officials and Oakland Police Department (OPD) off the hook as they seek...
OAKLAND POST — People across Oakland are reacting with shock and anger this week as news spreads that highly respected community elder Wilson Riles Jr. had...
People across Oakland are reacting with shock and anger this week as news spreads that highly respected community elder Wilson Riles Jr. had been tripped to...
A crowd of parents, students and teachers chanted “Oakland in not for Sale” as six parents and teachers were arrested Wednesday Oct. 23 at the Oakland...
OAKLAND POST — Facing an angry standing-room only crowd of parents, students and teachers who booed their decision, the board voted 5-2 in favor of the “merger”...
OAKLAND POST — The Board of Education is moving ahead with a second set of school closures, mergers and consolidations, called “Cohort 2,”which is scheduled to be...
The future of West Oakland Middle School (WOMS) – the only middle school in the area and the only school that feeds directly into McClymonds High...
Bas wins $12 million for Community Land Trust affordable housing fund Voting Tuesday night, the Oakland City Council adopted a two-year, $3.2 billion budget, partially resolving...
The State Division of Occupational Safety and Health, commonly known as Cal/OSHA, has sent a letter requiring the Oakland Unified School District to deal with an...
Oakland Post reporter and contributing editor Ken Epstein has received the 2018 John Swett Award for Media Excellence for reporting on education issues, an annual statewide...
A number of students, instructors and employees at Laney College in Oakland are organizing to take a stand against the proposed A’s stadium in downtown Oakland....
Left to Right: Ken Epstein, CTA VP Theresa Montano, OEA President Trish Gorham and CTA State Council Communications Committee Chair Mona Davidson. Photo by Mike Myslinski....
A kick-off meeting of the Beautification Council in East Oakland this week brought together community, city and county leaders seeking ways to make a dent in...
A proposal to redirect $200,000 in federal youth job funding to hire a single city administrator, who would serve as the city’s youth employment coordinator, was...
Oakland workers rally at City Hall during one-day strike Monday. Negotiations are continuing between the city and over 3,000 workers in SEIU Local 1021 and IFPE...
By Ken A. Epstein Oakland’s new two-year $2 billion budget – the first in five years to be based on rising city revenues – focuses on...
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