OUSD News • about 23 hours ago • Monday, Aug 2 at 1:55 PM • Oakland Unified School District, Media ContactsMonday, August 2, 2021Contact: John SasakiCommunications [email protected] OUSD Celebrates New Facilities Across Oakland That Will Welcome Students on First Day of School, Monday, August 9Oakland – As OUSD gears up to start the 2021-22 school year next Monday, August 9, we’re excited…
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Oakland Ed Week in Review (6/28 – 7/12)
These past two weeks, we covered and followed Oakland Black Cultural Zone, OUSD properties, racial backlash, homeschooling and remote independent study, early education challenges, and spotlighted an incredible recent high school grad. Here’s our Oakland Ed week in review: California’s budget a win for families, early education challenges remain. School on her phone, working for her…
School on her phone, working for family food business and now off to college: Blanca, Lighthouse graduation speaker
A guest post from Families in Action Throughout her years in school, Blanca Hernandez never thought she would be a graduation speaker. That just wasn’t her. “I was always that student at the end of the year where you have to have meetings with your parents,” she says in an interview. “I’d always push really…
For those who think themselves revolutionaries, Why a Black Lives Matter sign is simply not enough
the people of Oakland— have to do more than plant a Black Lives Matter sign. “We” have to make our social justice real through concerted action. I believe that’s what it means to be from Oakland. You don’t just get to say “I’m from Oakland” and allow our children with the greatest needs to languish for decades in substandard academic condition
Here’s how students in OUSD could be learning in more racially and socioeconomically diverse schools
some great data, analysis and answers here. Our enrollment rules amplify segregation, isn’t it time for a change?