(Director Hinton-Hodge responds here to a constituent’s request that she not cross the picket line or participate in the board meeting tonight.) Peace. (name omitted) With all due respect to your activism and public attention. We have business of the District to do and that business is the children’s and families’ business, and it can’t…
The Costs to Students, Staff, OUSD and All of Us in a Prolonged Strike
It’s a tense time for families in Oakland as the OEA prepare for a potentially prolonged strike. A set of largely underpaid and overworked teachers are struggling with a broke ass district and its leadership, who neither caused this problem nor can wholly fix it. As this drags on, OUSD is losing hundreds of thousands…
The Oakland Education Week in Review: 2/17-2/24
All the Oakland education news that is fit to link– this week– lots of strike coverage, including teacher narratives, the fact finding report, the superintendent’s response, and some of the underlying causes, plus new transparency legislation for charters, a study on Black college completion, and much more with links, please read, share and get involved…
What we learned from the independent fact-finding report about compensation, class size, and more- A guest post-updated 2/26
(A cross post from Angela Badami-Knight) On the eve of a teacher strike in Oakland, a few things are clear: Teachers in Oakland are woefully underpaid, leaving them struggling to make ends meet, and putting the district at a disadvantage in recruiting and keeping talented teachers. Oakland is a district in a financial crisis, and…
The State of Quality Education in Oakland-“I Deserve An Education System That Is Working as Hard as I Am” -A Student Perspective
By: Erin Simmons EOYDC and Energy Convertors Student Leader To have quality in anything is to have possession of something incomparable: nothing can come close to it and nothing can surpass it. When know you have quality, you feel fulfilled and satisfied. Unfortunately, quality is probably the last word I would use to describe education in…