Oakland parents, teachers march to protest school closures

Teachers, parents and students marched from Mosswood Park to the school board meeting at Oakland Tech on Wednesday, protesting the decision to close schools such as Lakeview Elementary next year.

Roughly one hundred teachers, parents and children marched Wednesday afternoon in protest of the Oakland school board’s decision to close five elementary schools next year, walking from Mosswood Park to the Oakland Tech campus, where the school board meeting and scheduled vote on the closures was about to start.

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