Education
“Cooking Matters” is a six-week course that helps members of the community cook healthy, nutritious food on a budget.
A new OUSD study found that 40 percent of students do not have access to internet and/or a computer at home. And according to those who the lead the data collection, there is a direct correlation between a higher level of poverty and the lack of access.
Crowded into a small room with wood paneling and snowman paintings on the walls, children battling diabetes gathered with their families for a cooking demonstration on Nov. 24 at Whole Foods Market in Oakland.
President Barack Obama’s recent executive order defers the deportation of undocumented parents of American citizens or legal permanent residents who have been in the country for at least five years. This is expected to affect approximately 4 million undocumented immigrants, but excludes approximately 7 million others, according to a recent report on NPR. Among those excluded are the tens of thousands of unaccompanied child and teenage migrants that arrived to the U.S. border earlier this year. The Oakland-based Social Justice Collaborative (SJC)—a nonprofit…
In May, OUSD began installing solar panels at 17 schools across the district that the administration says will save the district millions per year on its utility bill.
After gathering 170 signed letters addressed to OUSD Superintendent Antwan Wilson, Santa Fe CAN had the chance Thursday to make their case to the superintendent to re-open Santa Fe Elementary.
Oakland’s school board meeting focused on Superintendent Antwan Wilson’s strategic plan “Pathway to Excellence.”
Santa Fe CAN Education Committee is working to re-open an elementary school that was closed in 2011 because of low enrollment. Members say the number of neighborhood children is up, but the future of the site after Emery Secondary School moves out remains unclear.
On Saturday, the African-American Male Achievement Office hosted Oakland’s first GradNation event to increase graduation rates for young men of color.