There are students who admire the change and influence of great women in history. And then there are students who use their own influence to make history themselves. Haifa is one of those students. Haifa was forced to choose between her faith and her school. She chose her faith and transferred out of Oakland Tech—the school many…
Oakland Education Events
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Celebrating Oakland’s Newest Champions – Oakland Tech & Oakland High!
Oakland High and Oakland Tech Girl’s Basketball brought home not one, but two CIF Championship wins this past month! Just a week after an intense teacher strike – We needed this WIN! Almost a year after the OAL sports programs were threatened to be cut – We Needed this WIN! And this week, as a city we are mourning…
The Oakland Education Week in Review: 3/10-3/17
Last week, lots of coverage of the budget, post strike conditions, and the continuing fiscal crisis in OUSD and layoffs, congrats to our girls’ state basketball champions, new charter transparency rules, good look at vocational ed in OUSD, the need to reform Prop 13, all that and much more with links, please read, share, and…
The Oakland Education Week in Review: 3/4-3/10
All the Oakland Ed news from the last week–looking at the strike settlement and some of the analysis on who won and who lost, a teacher reflects on his experience, updates on the budget reductions, some great news for our female athletes who won state championships, new charter regulations proposed, cops or counselors in CA,…
The Oakland Education Week in Review: 2/17-2/24
All the Oakland education news that is fit to link– this week– lots of strike coverage, including teacher narratives, the fact finding report, the superintendent’s response, and some of the underlying causes, plus new transparency legislation for charters, a study on Black college completion, and much more with links, please read, share and get involved…