thanks you and congrats! the OUSD Teachers of the Year are Jessica Jung at Bridges Academy, Chantel Parnell at Bret Harte Middle School and Whitney Dwyer at MetWest High School.
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Emergency Broadband Benefit: How to get $50/mo. off your internet bill
A guest post from Joe Supan and Allconnect May 12, 2021 The FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit launched on May 12, 2021. Here’s how to find out if you’re eligible. At Allconnect, we work to present quality information with editorial integrity. While this post may contain offers from our partners, our opinions are our own. Here’s how…
GO’s What’s Happening in Public Ed
¿Qué está pasando en la educación de Oakland?: Mayo 2021 Lea en español aquí. A guest post from Go Public Schools Welcome to What’s Happening in Oakland Education? volume 2, a newsletter to keep the community informed. We know how busy families and educators are. The typical OUSD board meeting stretches past midnight and few parents or…
OUSD Early Literacy Update May 2021
Dear Oakland Community,No work we do is more important than ensuring our youngest students learn how to read and write. As our communities demand racial and social justice, it must also be our collective call as educators to guarantee the basic right of literacy for each and every student. Considering the long-standing inequities in access…
How can we ensure $3.2B in FCC funding brings communities of color offline online? We need YOU!
A guest post from Lili Gangas Follow May 7 · from the Kapor Center Digital connectivity is no longer a luxury — it’s a necessity. In 2020, we saw the disproportionate lack of connectivity by race, income, and zip code grow even wider, while we simultaneously relied on digital connectivity more than ever before. For many of these reasons, closing…