A legislative session that ran to the wee hours last night ended with a proposed statewide ban on plastic bags having been voted down, according to SFGate.com. Such bans have been enacted in individual cities, like San Francisco, and have been proposed across the U.S. but have found little purchase here. USA Today gets into [...]
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Man accused of shooting Fremont officer apprehended
August 30, 2010 – 2:14 pm
After a chase that ran from Oakland to the California-Mexican border, Andrew Barrientos, 20, was arrested Saturday afternoon on charges of shooting a Fremont police officer twice in the abdomen, according to an article in the San Jose Mercury news. Officer Todd Young was attempting to serve Barrientos with a search warrant in the 2000 [...]
Walkin’ with the dogs
August 29, 2010 – 1:00 pm
Just couldn’t resist taking a picture of Angela Steele, 26, of Oakland walking her friend’s dogs on Thursday. Milo, Maggie and China are under Steele’s care while her friend is out of town.
Stage for Raiders built Thursday
August 28, 2010 – 3:21 pm
Sam Owens, 23, an employee of DaVinci Fusion, is one of five construction workers building a stage for a launch party for the Oakland Raiders on Friday afternoon. Read more about yesterday’s rally.
Oakland teen shot days before start of new school year
August 27, 2010 – 12:12 pm
The front page of the San Fransisco Chronicle today told the story of 13-year-old Jimon Clark, an East Oakland teen, shot and killed Wednesday night while doing an errand with his brother. Jimon was days away from starting at Skyline High where he had enrolled in the architecture program, according to the article. The Chronicle [...]
School board opener brings harsh budget news
August 26, 2010 – 3:50 pm
Despite many heartfelt pleas to keep arts programs and continue running early childhood development centers, Superintendent Tony Smith told the audience at Wednesday night’s school board meeting that there just isn’t enough money for all the programs people care about. “If we can’t pay for it,” he said, “we can’t have it.”
Temperatures cool and Don Perata leads in the polls
August 25, 2010 – 3:56 pm
Oakland thermometers showed a record high of 99 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday afternoon, but things cooled a bit today and are expected to return to normal temperatures for the rest of the week. The heat wave meant opened fire hydrants and higher air conditioning use, according to the Tribune, but the one day of hot temps [...]
Three schools, three visions, one neighborhood
May 12, 2010 – 10:24 pm
The three schools in the Golden Gate neighborhood are Santa Fe Elementary, a traditional K-5 public school; Civicorps Elementary, an environmentally focused K-5 charter school; and Berkley Maynard, an Aspire K-7 charter school. Each school has its own character and its own focus, according the principals of the schools and the many community members we [...]
Follow the money: OUSD projected staffing cuts
May 12, 2010 – 10:15 pm
The Oakland Unified School District is set to cut $85 million from its budget next year. Inevitably, this will include some cuts to staffing. The infographic above reflects the projected staffing cuts in the Oakland Unified School District for the 2010-2011 school year.
Staffing cuts in the district are allocated based on the idea of “Full [...]
Getting to Golden Gate for school
May 12, 2010 – 10:12 pm
A number of people interviewed for the Learning in Golden Gate project said that many of the 1,100 students attending Golden Gate neighborhood schools* do not live in the area. To see where students were coming from we collected the zip codes of students attending the three Golden Gate neighborhood schools: Berkeley Maynard Academy, Civicorps [...]
Internet access in Golden Gate
May 12, 2010 – 10:11 pm
We wanted to test what percentage of students attending school in the Golden Gate neighborhood have home Internet access. Over 70 percent of students attending school in the neighborhood are low-income, so we thought this would give us a basic picture of whether the digital divide—a situation in which low-income populations have less access to [...]
Learning in Golden Gate, the backstory
May 12, 2010 – 10:00 pm
Dear Readers,
We’d like to explain the background story behind Learning in Golden Gate. This project was a collaboration between Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, which runs the Oakland North website, and the Berkeley Graduate School of Education, where all of those who worked on this project took a class called Urban Education taught by Professor [...]
Parents will bike to Sacramento to support Oakland schools
May 6, 2010 – 9:40 am
On May 8th, a group of public school parents and supportive community members will ride 100 miles from Claremont Middle School to Sacramento to demonstrate their commitment to public schools and petition the state legislature to restore funding for K-12 education.
Teachers strike Thursday, return to bargaining next week
April 29, 2010 – 9:50 pm
A majority of Oakland’s 2,339 teachers and 38,826 students were expected to be out today due to the strike but district spokesperson Troy Flint said he didn’t expect to have final numbers until Monday. Teachers’ complaint is that they have not received a raise since 2003, and despite two years of contract negotiations with the district, will not be offered a raise for the 2010-2011 school year either.
Oakland teachers strike Thursday; school still in session
April 28, 2010 – 7:36 pm
A majority of the Oakland Unified School District’s close to 2,400 teachers are expected to participate in a one day strike Thursday. School will be in session anyway. Though the district began hiring “emergency temporary teachers” close to a month ago, only 300 such teachers have been cleared to work tomorrow, according to OUSD spokesperson Troy Flint.
OUSD imposes “last, best and final” offer for teacher contract
April 22, 2010 – 4:02 pm
The Oakland Unified School District announced Thursday at a press conference that the school board voted unanimously last night to impose the teacher contract that is their “last, best and final offer.”