I know you all love conspiracies. I got one. It goes back hundreds of years and involves the most powerful interests in the country. And whether they know it or not, most people are actively or tacitly involved. And you can see the strange fruits of it everywhere. Don’t believe me? Look down the street…
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Add Your Voice to the Call for Full and Fair School Funding-Fund Education Now Week is February 3-7
ACOE Press ReleaseLaura Forrest, Public Information [email protected], 510-670-7754January 31, 2020 Hayward, CA – A first-of-its-kind organization in California is bringing together educational stakeholders to advocate for full and fair funding for public education. The East Bay Coalition for Public Education is organizing Fund Education Now Week from February 3 to 7 to call for solutions to the…
OUSD Staff Member Invests Years of His Spare Time to Beautify Skyline High School, Culminating in Major Tree Planting Effort
OUSD Staff Member Invests Years of His Spare Time to Beautify Skyline High School, Culminating in Major Tree Planting EffortOakland, CA — Skyline High School in the hills above most of Oakland, is well-known for its location on the edge of the wilderness, and the woodsy feel of its campus. Now, an OUSD staff member is…
The Oakland Education Week in Review: 1/20-1/26
Last week, the EB Times endorsements (Childress and Cole), the launching of the Literacy for All campaign, and how you can help, funky business on another school board, a look at OUSD enrollment, the housing crisis, OUSD kids getting an HBO spotlight, some families you can help out, an argument for the statewide bond, all…
My friend is dead, but don’t call her a hero
A guest post honoring our recently deceased friend and partner Courtney Everts Mykytyn written by Courtney Martin Is there anything more insufferable than a white person trying not to be racist? You know the type–she’s so well-intentioned, but also inevitably a little annoying, checking and re-checking every one of her instincts and assumptions, turning apologies into events,…