Where you send your child to school is one of the most important decisions you can make. The new school quality data was released by the state recently, and I wanted to highlight some of the schools making progress with Oakland children, and encourage families to visit. Every child is different, and I will break it…
If You’re Black and Low-Income in Oakland, You Have to Fight for the Right to a Good School
(A guest post from Tenisa Lyles is a single mother of three children, living in deep East Oakland. She was one of the founding members of The Oakland REACH, a parent-led group focused on making the powerless parent powerful.) Every family should have the right to a good school for their kids. But it turns out…
The Oakland Education Week in Review 12/3-12/10
All the news that is fit to link and also all the public school open houses– this week a look at UPA and its success, teacher diversity, research on the quality of schools Black families attend, the OUSD contract issues and budget, parent perspectives, students in action and a list of all the open houses,…
False Narratives on Oakland Schools; How Discrimination at Tech Forced Me Out and How I Found Community at Mack
(A Guest post from Haifa Algabri An Oakland graduate who was born in Yemen and raised in West Oakland an unapologetically Muslim woman who speaks her truth. An aspiring physician at Mills College double majoring in Biopsychology and Public Health and Health Equity. Her goal in life is to be of service to every community…
A Powerful Summer Reading Program; A Parent’s Perspective on What Their Family Learned from Springboard
(Guest post from Reginald Mosley, and Oakland parent and member of the Oakland REACH) This past summer my children took part in the OUSD Springboard. I was skeptical putting them into this program at first but I knew I wanted them to be in a reading program over the summer. This program is well worth…