Students, Staff and Families at Seven Schools Across OUSD Work to Green Their Neighborhoods and Help Fight Climate Change, Campaign Pays Tribute to Essential Workers

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…


21st Annual OUSD Celebration of Latino Academic Excellence: “Our Beautiful Struggle / Nuestra Hermosa Lucha” Set for Thursday, March 25

OUSD NEWSROOM PRESS RELEASE2018 OUSD Latino Honor Roll Celebration.Thursday, March 18, 2021Contact: John SasakiCommunications [email protected] – The OUSD Office of Equity Latino Student Achievement (LSA) and Oakland Latino Educators (OLE) will host the 21st Annual OUSD Celebration of Latino Academic Excellence for students across the District. This year our celebration will be pre-recorded, premiering on…


Community Groups, Nonprofits, and Universities join the Oakland NAACP’s Call for Oakland Unified School District’s Board of Education To Take Eight Critical Steps To Improve Student Literacy Outcomes in Virtual Town Hall Meeting; Virtual Press Conference Announcing Community Support Set for Wednesday Morning

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 3/16/21 Kareem Weaver Oakland NAACP Education Committee(510) [email protected] Oakland, CA – Led by the NAACP’s Oakland chapter, nonprofit organizations, universities, and individuals have joined together as a broad-based community coalition and filed an Addendum with the Oakland Unified School District’s Board of Education (OUSD Board) in support of a formal administrative petition…


#OaklandUndivided Delivers 25,000th Device on Tuesday, the One-Year Anniversary of School Closures

OUSD NEWSROOM PRESS RELEASE Monday, March 15, 2021Contact: John SasakiCommunications Director [email protected] Seniors Receive College Acceptance Messages Using #OU DevicesOakland, CA — In less than ten months, the #OaklandUndivided team, school staff, and a cadre of volunteers have handed out almost 25,000 free computers to Oakland public school students at schools across the city. It was a herculean…