ONE LAST WEEKEND Before Your Primary Ballot is Due! Refresh Yourself on ACOE School Board Candidates Here.

With the primary on March 5, you have one last weekend to research your candidates for office, before the general election in November.    Special elections and primaries often have the lowest turnouts.  Yet, in regions like Oakland and the Bay Area that are heavily represented by one political party, these elections are the most…


The Oakland Ed Week in Review 2/3/24-2/9/24

It’s time for the Oakland Ed Week in Review!   We’re back with an of our roundup of education news from around The Town, the Bay Area, state, and nation for your weekend reading. This is a Dirk favorite and one of the last blogs he published for Great School Voices.  Here’s what’s been going on: …


Join us at the ACOE School Board Candidate Forum from FIA, TOMORROW on Facebook at 5pm!

Tomorrow is Families in Action’s ACOE virtual candidate forum streaming live on their Facebook page. Four areas (Areas 2, 3, 5 and 6) across Alameda County are up for grabs, and the decisions of the new board will impact Oakland’s public schools.  What is the ACOE? The Alameda County Office of Education’s School Board is…