Oakland, CA — As students and staff are now fully back in the swing of teaching and learning in this second week of school, there are several important events scheduled in OUSD. One is aimed at improving student safety, another is about celebrating Oakland’s rich activist history with the naming of a school for former Black…
Oakland Education Events
If you care about improving our schools, then get involved! Here are local Oakland education events. If you’ve got events you want included then send us a note.
The Oakland Education Week in Review: 8/12-8/18
All the Oakland ed news fit to link and more -last week- the school year starts with some questions, a new faces at OAL and Rainin, a powerful educator story on RJ, a look at the Kaiser merger/closure issue, the coming Prop 13 reform (hopefully), debating integration, how parents get info, all that and much…
The Oakland Education Week in Review: 8/5-8/12
Last week– the latest numbers on unhoused students, how SFUSD houses students at a school, the start of the school year with lots of new principals in new schools, and still looking for teachers, important parent perspectives, a historical look at OUSD, Mam is a language of growing importance, all that and much more, with…
The Oakland Education Week in Review: 7/30-8/4
This week–a look at the latest data on college attendance from Oakland graduates, 20 new OUSD principals, an interview with local shero Lakisha Young, time to reform Prop 13, Mack’s new principal, school lunch program cuts and effects on our kids, a look at the Curry’s foundation, all that and more please read, share, and…
Tired of Oakland schools not being funded fairly? Us too. Take action today.
A guest post from Radhika Jit and GO Public Schools- we welcome community posts Proposition 13 reform is a 2020 ballot initiative that would close a corporate property-tax loophole and would bring in $45-50 million annually for Oakland public education. Current law allows a small number of large commercial property owners to avoid paying over…