View in your browser Leer en español Contact: Michelle Smith McDonald, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, [email protected], (510) 670-4163 January 8, 2021 Today Governor Gavin Newsom shared his state budget proposal for 2021-22, which includes critical funding increases to address the pandemic-induced realities that have so profoundly and inequitably impacted public education. We appreciate that the Governor’s…

Thursday, January 7, 2021Contact: John SasakiCommunications Director [email protected], CA — Oakland Unified School District is in mourning after learning that former Superintendent Carole Quan passed away after a battle with cancer. Quan led the District from 1997 to 1999 after spending a lifetime being educated in and then working for OUSD. She attended Franklin Elementary, Roosevelt Junior…

OUSD NEWSROOMPRESS RELEASE Tuesday, December 22, 2020Contact: John SasakiCommunications Director [email protected], CA — This year, the annual Alameda County Office of Education (ACOE) Teacher of the Year Awards ceremony was unlike any other. The ceremony happened online earlier this month, and the county sent no winners to the 2020 California Teacher of the Year competition. There was also a…

“When they became engaged, they met that bar.” Solutions to complex problems are sometimes right in front of us. Yet for whatever reason, we don’t act. Change is difficult when everyone is doing the same thing, year after year — now matter how bad the results. So we ignore the low-hanging fruit dangling right there.…

“I came here because this school is different from other, normal high schools. AIAHS showed me that I can be a leader and actually make changes in the school if I feel like we need changes. This school showed me that I have a voice and the coaches can hear me … AIAHS has helped…