Looking back on everything Oakland this week, the teacher of the year, keeping cuts away from students, parent and student narratives, OUSD’s lead problem, the effects of traumatized students on teachers, bullying of Muslim students is up, racial disparities in discipline persist, meeting recaps, funding for educators, ways you can help and much more please…

Get involved in Oakland education, many important events this week, today the OUSD budget and finance committee meets, and later on a history conference, school tours, the Man Up conference, the Day of Service, and please remind families and community the Affordable Care Act’s enrollment opens on 11/1, that and much more please take a…

Everything Oakland education from the last week; the school board and budget cuts, student perspectives, a new charter petition, recaps of last week’s meetings, Oakland Capstone projects, supporting foster youth, developing school cultures to support Black and Latino male students, opportunities to help educators and youth and more please take a look and share Contents…

Everything happening in Oakland education this week and beyond; the leading for equity institute, panels on what makes a great school and looking at school closures, the foster youth advisory committee, an OUSD Board meeting, funding equity workshop, calls for student activists, decolonizing California History, opportunities to learn and help educators and students and more,…

Our weekly look back on everything Oakland education and beyond; the OUSD budget update, a look at Oakland test scores, students and parents share stories, the East Bay Book fair in peril, the meetings that happened, why reforms based on parent “choice” may be flawed, funding for murals, opportunities for families and educators and more…