Oakland District 5 school board candidates Jorge Lerma and Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez answer a question from Oakland students about graduation rates.
2023 Election
District 5 school board candidates weigh in on school safety
Oakland District 5 school board candidates Jorge Lerma and Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez answer a question from Oakland students about school safety.
The Oakland Ed Week in Review 10/21/23-10/27/23
Here’s what we have going on this week: District 5 school board race grabbing headlines with two weeks to go until ballots are due (check out our coverage, including video interviews with both candidates); across the Bay, a teachers’ strike is averted; school buses with wifi are (seemingly) on the way after FCC approval.
Jorge Lerma: Great School Voices interview
District 5 school board candidate Jorge Lerma sits down with Great School Voices to answer questions from Oakland students on topics including safety, graduation rates, charter schools, the school-to-prison pipeline, school closures and restorative justice.
Oakland students host their own candidate forum
As ballots started arriving in District 5 voters’ mailboxes in mid-October, students from the Oakland Youth Commission helped raise awareness of the election and of the two candidates’ views at a candidate forum it hosted at Fremont High School.