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…


BREAKING NEWS- OUSD and the Oakland Education Association Reach Tentative Agreement to Bring Students and Teachers back to Campus Starting March 30

OUSD NEWSROOM PRESS RELEASE Sunday, March 14, 2021Contact: John SasakiCommunications Director [email protected], CA — The Oakland Unified School District and the Oakland Education Association (OEA), the teachers’ union, came to a tentative agreement (TA) over the weekend to bring all OEA members, including all teachers, back to campuses and open schools for in-person instruction. In-person instruction on OUSD…