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How are Oakland schools responding to Prop. 16 failing?
California voters have decided not to restore affirmative action in schools. Proposition 16, which failed by a margin of 12 percentage points, would have reversed a 1996 ban on considering race, gender or ethnicity in public education systems and public contracting. State lawmakers—motivated by high-profile racial injustices, such as the police killing of George Floyd—voted…
Read MoreOakland school board grapples with protest and budget
The Oakland school board considered a budget update and a new facilities plan at its final meeting of 2019.
Read MoreLooking to avoid “chaos” Oakland’s school board discusses budget process
Oakland Unified School District’s leaders are overhauling budget planning processes for the 2020-21 school year.
Read MoreConstruction moves ahead for OUSD central kitchen in West Oakland
After delays, the OUSD’s Central Kitchen is slated to serve up fresh school meals by fall 2019.
Read MoreOUSD 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 vote came after Superintendent Tony Smith recommended the board revoke the charters, and after a particularly emotional and dramatic series of public comments and discussion.
Read MoreNewly sworn-in Oakland City Council says resources should be shifted to public safety
Oakland’s new city council members, who were inaugurated at a ceremony at City Hall Monday, set the stage for the elected body’s biggest policy focus of the next four years—public safety. While it’s no secret that crime is Oakland’s number one problem, with the city’s homicide rate reaching 131 on the last day of 2012,…
Read MoreOUSD board approves new charter school, denies two schools from leaving district
Oakland will have a new charter school in the fall, but two schools that wanted to leave the Oakland Unified School District to become charters will have to stay. Meanwhile, two charter schools that already exist within the district will be around for at least five more years after the school board renewed their charters Wednesday night.
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