From 12% to 97%, How Oakland is Bridging the Digital Divide and How We Close it Forever Join us Tuesday 9/21 at 1 Pacific for Getting Oakland to 100, Episode 3 of Desegregate the Internet Oakland is hailed as a national model for closing the digital divide. And the numbers are impressive. Oakland Undivided states…
State of Black Education
Action on Fighting Anti-Blackness; OUSD’s Promising Policy Change that Can Equalize College Access
Every year hundreds of mostly Black and Brown students graduate from OUSD, only to learn they can’t even apply to four-year colleges. This is a failure of expectations for these students and failure of the overall system for families, who trusted their child to OUSD, seeing them getting “passing” grades, only to later realize how…
Digital Redlining – A recap!
Yesterday, we had a fantastic conversation with Public Knowledge‘s Chris Lewis on Digital Redlining. You can catch the full broadcast here. Its not a coincidence that the old redlining maps, which racially restricted housing, align almost perfectly with the current mapping of broadband access. And this lack of connections in places like Oakland is not…
Race Continues to Correlate with College Opportunity in Oakland-Dump the D and Fix This
A guest post from Families in Action for Quality Education Contenido en Español hasta abajo The Measure N Commission is a high functioning body. They are overseeing a major parcel tax that is making the high school experience better for Oakland students and getting results. I believe this is one of the best examples of…
Oakland Ed Week in Review (8/23 – 8/31)
Between this week and last, our city continues to still adjust to the pandemic, the #InternetforAll movement continues, and a ex high school teacher is finally being served justice after continually assaulting student for over 4 years. There is much to read about and unpack in this week’s review. Please read and share! Luz Cázares…