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Oakland School Board plans to appoint Gary Yee as acting superintendent
Following the surprising resignation of Superintendent Tony Smith three weeks ago, the Oakland School Board announced Monday morning its plan to appoint board director Gary Yee as acting superintendent. The board will formally vote on...
Civil rights complaint resolved at Skyline High School
In early March, Skyline High School and the Oakland Unified School District resolved a complaint filed by the high school’s Black Student Union nearly a year ago. The resolution could change how students file complaints,...
OUSD Superintendent Tony Smith announces resignation
Oakland Unified School District Superintendent Tony Smith is resigning, according to messages posted Friday morning on the district’s website.
OUSD votes to revoke American Indian Model Schools charters
At a long-awaited special school board meeting, and after over six months of hearings and notices, Oakland Unified School District board members voted to revoke the three American Indian Model Schools’ (AIMS) charters. The 4-3...
Adult ed in Oakland faces uncertain future
At a board meeting on February 27, the school board voted to cut all remaining adult ed teacher positions as way to create $1 million in savings for the next school year. OUSD superintendent Tony...
An AIMS graduate returns to help her school through challenging times
Karely Ordaz remembers the first time she realized that good grades had good consequences. She was an eighth grader at Oakland Charter Academy and she had just found out that she was one of ten...
How do you spell “champion?” Oakland students head to the county spelling bee
We caught up with Oakland's spelling bee champs, just before the Alameda County Spelling Bee on Saturday, March 16th. All three of Oakland's best spellers will compete in the bee at Cull Canyon Middle School...
School board votes to end adult education
On behalf of Oakland’s family literacy programs, student Malak Alsabahi stood at the podium and asked the school board not to cut adult education. Fellow supporters held paintings of Yemeni women while Alsabahi spoke, representing...
AIMS community to OUSD: Please don’t close our schools
About three dozen American Indian Model Schools (AIMS) students and parents took turns Wednesday, each speaking for one minute, hoping to convince the Oakland school board that their three schools shouldn’t be shut down. The...
School district hosts conversations on improving special education
In the quiet of La Escuelita Elementary’s cafeteria on Saturday morning, one by one, parents took turns telling stories of their frustrations with special education in Oakland public schools. Saturday’s meeting was the sixth of...
It’s National School Counselor Week, but in Oakland, they’re getting harder to find
For the first week of February, Oakland Unified School District is celebrating National School Counselor Week, but few remain in on-site school counselor positions.
OUSD starts process of revoking three AIMS schools’ charters
American Indian Model Schools founder Ben Chavis said Tuesday that the Oakland Unified School District’s recent decision to start the process of revoking the three AIM Schools’ charters is unfair and based on biases. “OUSD...
Oakland School for the Arts celebrates its 10th anniversary with a show at the Fox
The downtown Oakland school, founded in 2002 by Governor Jerry Brown who was then Oakland’s mayor, will celebrate its 10th birthday Thursday night with a performance at the Fox Theater. It is the only public...
One Oakland teacher’s lesson on discipline
Price has a special vantage point on the Resolution Plan, given the fact that he was once a disobedient student, and now sometimes works with students with behavioral issues. He’s a little ambivalent, he said—because...
American Indian Model Schools file response to allegations of financial, organizational misconduct
Administrators at the American Indian Model Schools—a set of three Oakland charter schools, two middle schools and one high school—responded late Monday night to a 1,080-page notice of violations given to them by the Oakland...
