Last week, how you help Mack get the facility the community deserves, more budget cuts are coming, COVID and ELLs, The Oakland REACH launches “the hub,” dyslexia and Black children, a grandma’s story, lots on COVID learning loss and getting back to school and more, please read, share, and get involved. Oakland: The Debt Oakland…
It’s 2020 and Santa Clarita Needs Eagle Collegiate Academy More than Ever Before
A Guest post from Dr. Ogo Okoye-Johnson and the Eagle Collegiate community advocating for the community’s charter school petition which is before the CA State Board of Education A year ago, Eagle Collegiate Academy’s team and families took a long and arduous road for its charter petition appeal to the State Board of Education (SBE) because despite…
Breathing A Sigh of Relief Alongside Dreamers-Connecting with Kyla
Thursday, June 18, 2020 Dear Oakland Unified Community, I write because of the significant ruling the United States Supreme Court handed down today on the issue of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. While it is not a final ruling on the matter, for the time being, Dreamers can breathe a sigh of…
The Debt Oakland Owes McClymonds and How We Can Start Paying it Off
Where we put out money is a statement of our priorities. And no community in the East Bay has paid a higher cost of progress than West Oakland. While the region and State’s commerce flows over and through it, from the Port, to BART, to the highways that connect the suburbs with jobs. West Oakland…
The Oakland REACH is taking on the digital divide #REACHforMore
By Lakisha Young, Executive Director, The Oakland REACH There’s no doubt this has been a really hard time for black and brown families in Oakland. But WOW, yesterday, was awesome. And we really needed it. The Oakland REACH came together – in partnership with a block of black-owned businesses on MacArthur Boulevard – to distribute…