OUSD counted 1,001 unhoused students last year, 64% of those were Newcomers, and of the non Newcomers, more than half of the unhoused students were Black. You can see all the data in the latest fact sheet. The news is depressing, Oakland has the highest percentage of homeless in the entire state according to a…
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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…
Are Oakland High School Graduates Going to College? Here’s the Latest and Greatest Data.
A guest post from our partners at the CORE Collaborative, we always welcome guest writers. Up until recently this was not an easy question to answer for a city in California (several other states make this data publicly available). The data has been available to individual schools and districts who seek it out, but the…
I Am a District School Parent and a Charter School Parent, All I Want Is Quality; Underserved Families Need Options
by Hakeem Bey Oakland public schools failed me and now, as the father of four, I’ll be damned if they are going to fail my children, too. I don’t care about the name or type of school my children attend—I do care about quality. I never had the opportunity to attend a high quality school.…
In This War to Educate Black and Brown Kids, Are You in or Are You Out?
A cross post from Charles Cole III, we always welcome guest submissions Recently, Nick Hanauer wrote an article for the Atlantic titled Better Schools Won’t Fix America, where his main argument was that education is not the answer to economic inequality. The article took over my timeline. When I saw that it was going to be…