We fear and fight the wrong battles, missing the chance for real victories, chasing ghosts. Californians’ greatest educational anxiety is around school shootings, according to the latest polling. However, by far the biggest risk your child faces isn’t from someone else—it is from themselves. A teen is 30 times more likely to die by suicide…
How Oakland Is Tackling the Reading Crisis; An Interview with Lakisha Young
A cross post from Tanesha Peeples at Education Post Lakisha Young is the executive director of The Oakland REACH. Her work began through witnessing the disparities faced by Black and Brown students, including members of her own family. She sought to change the trajectory of public education for her three children and communities of color in…
The Path Forward- A Note from the Superintendent
February 10, 2020 Dear OUSD Community, Every day, we welcome and serve thousands of students. My children are among them. Our mission is to serve the whole child, and we will. That is why we are creating a stable environment in which students and staff can thrive. In order to realize that mission, we have…
Our $75 Million Question and Youth Uprising’s Better Vision for Serving Justice Involved Youth
If you had $75 million to spend on the people in your community, how would you spend it? What type of services would help the youth thrive? How could our people benefit? Would you spend $75 million on a shiny new juvenile probation camp with 100 or so beds for young people, when the place…
The Oakland Education Week in Review: 2/3-2/10
Last week, OUSD is getting creative on housing, great stuff from the ELLMA office, looking at challenges to Oakland Ed, the messed up conditions at Frick, rethinking juvenile hall, OUSD’s structural deficit and the annual layoff cycle, the upcoming bond and more, please read, share and get involved Oakland: Holy Crap, OUSD, and Partners, Are…