Ceasefire demonstrators beat a drum and called out the names and ages of children who have died in the Israeli army attack on Gaza. Protesters said...
With the board unable to reach a decision on appointing a new member, the Alameda County Office of Education recently stepped in, ordering an election in...
The OEA’s common good proposals are based on outreach with thousands of OUSD parents and community members. California districts that have bargained common good demands with...
Split 3-3, the Oakland School Board deadlocked on a district budget proposal containing program cuts, layoffs, school mergers and closures on Tuesday night. The budget, which...
The schools that remain open are Brookfield Elementary, Carl B. Munck Elementary, Grass Valley Elementary, Horace Mann Elementary, and Korematsu Discovery Academy, and Hillcrest K-8, will...
The results were a significant defeat for the moderate, pro-big-business regime of outgoing Mayor Libby Schaaf, her corporate backers and the candidates she groomed and promoted...
Teachers, students and the Oakland Education Association had been vocal about COVID safety issues during the last two school years. Last January, OUSD teachers protested, as...
Mungia’s work on behalf of Mayor Schaaf’s education agenda is part of what troubles school advocates. Schaaf, a longtime supporter of charter schools, has spoken forcefully...
“Board President Gary Yee has been open about his desire to look at the Community Day School site as a possible location for the creation of...
Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan said the state needs to take responsibility. “Many years ago, the State of California took over control of the Oakland public schools, which...
This Saturday, there will be a rally for members of Oakland communities and affected school communities to fight against the closures beginning at 10 a.m. at...
Many school advocates view these school closures as a land grab of public property by privatizers. Others see this is a way to force Black and...
Cobb said he hopes the discussion at the Post Salon will stir action to end the control of Oakland by state overseers – a state-imposed trustee...
Many activists who back the Reparations for Black Students policy told the Post that the overseers were forced to appear in public because of the huge...
Learned maintained that school closings save money, despite the lack of evidence that it does. Highly respected research shows that in districts around the country closures...
“There is not one Black family in OUSD that hasn’t experienced the pain of anti-Black racism in our schools,” reads a statement on reparationsforblackstudents.org, a website run...
There are high hopes in the community for a newly energized school board as four new members set to take office in January pledging to...
Members of the school community are looking expectantly to January, when four new school board trustees take their seats, for signs that there will be new...
As final votes are being tallied, three Oakland School Board director candidates backed by the Oakland Education Association who ran on platforms against privatization, cuts, and...
A committee of local educators created by the Oakland Post Editorial Board has endorsed candidates for the Oakland Board of Education in all four open races...
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