The easy thing for Oakland to do now is to kick the can down the road and pretend that $216 million dollars will sustain those schools that are already starving students of the math skills they need to compete in a 21st century economy. The easy thing to do is hope that things will get better after the pandemic.

The policy change not only gives unsheltered students preference in the lottery but anytime they apply. ”Let’s say a family had some unforeseen financial issues and experienced being unsheltered in May or June, and they apply to our school,” Harrison said. “They would move up on the waitlist.”

OUSD NEWSROOM PRESS RELEASE Friday, March 26, 2021Contact: John Sasaki Communications Director [email protected], CA — The Oakland REACH (TOR) and the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) announced a new partnership today, “Reaching for More: Literacy and Learning for All.” They are dramatically expanding a virtual hub that will provide research-based literacy instruction and a variety of enrichment opportunities…

I keep telling the students at Elmhurst and Madison Park that the city cares and that the school district cares, but when they walk the blocks around their school, that care becomes harder to believe.

OUSD NEWSROOM PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, March 23, 2021Contact: John SasakiCommunications Director [email protected], CA — In what is becoming a tradition in OUSD, students, staff and families are distributing and planting trees that will help improve the environment, and as students have learned, produce fresh air. “Today we’re planting trees so there is less opportunity to get asthma and…