The Work in Oakland No One is Mentioning

by Charles Cole, III on March 11, 2016 in Our Blog, OUSD, Parents • 5 Comments (This is a guest blog from Charles Cole, III, an author, activist, and Oakland kid years back– you can link to his other works by clicking his name above.) There was an article in the Oakland Post that suggested charters were displacing traditional public school. After…


A Big Week for Oakland “Privatization”

Oakland schools were front and center in the national and local debate around, “privatization”, with a front page NY Times article and local stories on a contested visit by Steph Curry to a West Oakland district-run school.  The common point shown in both of these events was the division in rhetoric, and in my view…


A Parent’s Voice on His School and Building Community in Oakland

(this is a guest post from Paul Byrd an Oakland Parent with a child in district-run and charter-run schools, that was delivered last night at the OUSD board meeting in support of Achieve charter school’s renewal petition– full disclosure I am also a trustee at Education for Change) To all my achieve family and EFC…


Just Say No to Everything or How Steph Curry is “selling our children”

I love Oakland’s energy.  We are a city of hustlers coming from far and wide for something better.  But there are times I just shake my head. Case and point, really adorable video of Steph Curry doing an event with school kids encouraging them to drink water rather than sugary drinks. You can’t help but…


The Charter Association Suit Against OUSD and what it Means for Oakland Kids

Push came to shove today as the California Charter Schools Association filed suit against OUSD for its alleged failure to follow the law in providing charter school students equal public facilities.  Most probably don’t know it but Proposition 39 created a legal right for public school students in charter-run schools to attend “reasonably equivalent” district…