November 13, 2020 Dear Oakland Unified Community,As we have been talking over the past few weeks, Tuesday, November 3 was an enormous election for our city, the state of California, and the United States. Here in OUSD, as you know, we saw voters pass Measure Y, the bond measure for facilities projects across the District. The…

Thursday, November 12, 2020Contact: John SasakiCommunications Director [email protected] Oakland, CA — On Thursday evening, November 12, the OUSD Board of Education meeting will see the seven Directors vote on a resolution to declare November Annual Indigenous People’s Heritage Month across the District. This is an effort to honor the history, culture and impact of Indigenous people in this nation…

Contact: John SasakiCommunications Director [email protected] Oakland, CA — The Oakland Athletic League (OAL) knows how important sports are to young people. And while the pandemic has brought sports to a halt in OUSD, both the District and the OAL know that sometime, hopefully sooner than later, Oakland will return to conditions that allow sports to resume for…

Español | العربية | 中文 | 文言 | Tiếng Việt | ភាសាខ្មែរ   Monday, November 9, 2020 Dear Oakland Unified Community, You’re looking at Norman Rockwell’s famous painting of a little girl in a white dress walking into school that perfectly illustrates the fight for civil rights in education. That little girl was six year old Ruby Bridges, and she had to be escorted by federal…

A guest post from parent Sam Tsitrin, identifying some issues with distance learning at Tech and looking for answers I am a parent of a 9th grade student at Oakland Tech High School which, according to some metrics at least, is Oakland’s best performing public high school. Based on my former experience as a credentialed…