Posts Tagged ‘OUSD’
Students compete in MLK Jr. Oratorical Festival for 38th year
Oakland Unified School District’s 38th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Festival culminates on March 7.
Read MoreOUSD and AC Transit finding a new route to bus students
After 20 years of collaboration, the Oakland Unified School District and Alameda Contra-Costa Transit are now negotiating to find a cheaper way to provide bus services to local students.
Read MoreOaklanders weigh in on qualities wanted in new OUSD superintendent
The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) will likely hire a new superintendent in the next six months.
Read MoreOakland Unified School District takes on tech, with corporate help
Over the last year and a half, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) has been making an effort to deepen its science, technology, engineering and math programs, but so far it has had to depend on donations from corporations to fund much of them. The district’s efforts to bring so-called STEM education to students have been…
Read MoreAt historic Black Panthers school, Black teachers were key to student success
In 1973, the Black Panther Party opened an elementary school in an old church on International Boulevard. At its peak, The Oakland Community School (OCS) served around 160 students, and relied on a combination of grants and private donations to give it total autonomy: the Panthers hired whom they pleased, taught how they wanted, and…
Read MoreTeacher’s union disrupts school board meeting, calls for full salary raise
Tensions ran high during an OUSD board meeting focused on teacher raises and charter schools renewals.
Read MoreCastlemont players find their voice through football
Someone snapped a photo of the Castlemont team kneeling, and it quickly spread on Instagram and Twitter. At the next game against The King’s Academy in Sunnyvale, Castlemont’s players took their protest one step further: they laid down on the ground as if they were dead and raised their arms in the “don’t shoot” position. This time, there was another body in the end zone: Colin Kaepernick’s.
Read MoreBreaking the sorting machine: Wilson delivers annual State of Schools speech
OUSD Superintendent Antwan Wilson called on Oakland to come together to break the “sorting machine,” or the historic system Wilson said was “specifically designed to sort those who needed a real education from those who didn’t.”
Read MoreOUSD’s new initiative addresses the concerns of young women of color
The Oakland Unified School District is initiating a major push to address the concerns of girls and young women of color with the African American Girls and Young Women Achievement Program.
Read MoreCommunity members and leaders discuss future of Oakland at Impact Hub
Community members and leaders gathered at Impact Hub Oakland Tuesday night for a discussion about the future of Oakland and the idea of cultural prosperity. The event is a part of Co-Creating the Future of Our Cities, a week-long Impact Hub series in 15 cities across the country that began on September 26.
Read MoreSchool board candidates introduce themselves to voters, spar on charter schools
Nine school board candidates took the mic Tuesday night at Lighthouse Community Charter School to introduce themselves to Oakland voters. They are vying for four seats in Districts 1, 3, 5, and 7. Each candidate took turns answering the same three questions, which were printed in the audience’s programs in both English and Spanish. Connie…
Read MoreScam phone callers use “virtual kidnapping” technique on Oakland parents
Just a few weeks after the new school year began, two families in Oakland had terrifying moments when they received threatening calls about their kids, asking for a kidnapping ransom or medical treatment fees. But both calls turned out to be scams. According to John Sasaki, communications director for the Oakland United School District (OUSD),…
Read MoreSchool board meeting attendees plea for Measure G funds for charter schools
The Oakland Unified School Board meeting Wednesday night was packed—and then it wasn’t. Hundreds of parents and children wearing pro-charter school t-shirts and waving roses filled the left hand side of the gym at La Escuelita Learning Center, spilling over onto the right side where union members from the Oakland Education Association sat. Over twenty…
Read MoreGrant for Oakland Unified School District to be invested in science, math education
It is back to school time and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) is welcoming their students with a new investment in science and math education, backed by a $2.5 million donation from Salesforce, a cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco.
Read MoreOakland Unified School District celebrates low teacher vacancies
The talent recruiters at the Oakland Unified School District worked around the clock this summer to make sure all students in Oakland would have a teacher waiting to welcome them back to school. They had to. Last year, students returned to find as many as 77 of their classrooms manned by an improvised crew of…
Read MoreCharter association sues district over quality of facilities
Proposition 39, also known as the “Smaller Classes, Safer Schools and Financial Accountability Act,” was passed by voters in 2000, and requires all California school districts to provide equivalent facilities to charter schools and the students who choose to attend them. The ballot initiative was based on the premise that students who attend charter schools would have otherwise attended district schools, so the district should have planned to accommodate those students with space and resources. To be “equivalent” means that the district must provide resources and facilities to a charter school that match what they provide children at schools in the same part of the district, and according to the proposition’s text, they must be “contiguous, furnished and equipped, and shall remain the property of the school district.”
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