By Supt. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, Oakland Unified School District The Trump administration (has) declared that it will end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in six months. In...
The College of Marin (COM) Kinesiology and Athletics Department faculty and staff are promoting an active start to the fall 2017 semester. New this term, COM...
FCMAT CEO Michael Fine was previously deputy superintendent for business services of the Riverside Unified School District. Photo courtesy of John Fensterwald/EdSource. In an attempt to...
The Oakland Unified School District is on a fast track to renovate and reopen its historic administration building, which has been closed since January 2013 when...
By Dr. Rowena M. Tomaneng, Berkeley City College President How can community colleges work effectively and successfully with students coming from the most marginalized communities in...
By James Harris Over the last few years, the illegal dumping problem in Oakland has become a city-wide crisis. There has not been one single day when I...
By DJ Stewart Marvin Webb is a native of Richmond, an alumni of Contra Costa College, and the College’s former Head Baseball Coach. He is no...
It was a coincidence that Oakland’s first new public school in more than a decade, called Oakland SOL, opened its doors Monday – the same day...
School district staff are working to fix water problems on the campus of McClymonds High School , saying the most serious and immediate problems have been...
Oakland Unified School District Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell kicked off the first day of school with a tour of hill and flatland schools, starting the day at...
West Oakland’s McClymonds High does a good job of graduating Black students, she says In the first press conference of her new administration, Supt. Kyla Johnson-Trammell spoke...
Three young participants at the 2016 Attend and Achieve Back-to-School Rally. Since 2008, Oakland Natives Give Back, a local education nonprofit, has held an “Attend and...
By Jowel C. Laguerre, Ph.D., Chancellor, The Peralta Community College District Toward the end of his administration, President Obama introduced the investment idea of free...
Aaron James Price along with Dr. Jowel C. Laguerre receiving the Chancellor’s Trophy at the Laney College Spring Commencement Ceremony on May 27, 2017. Photo Courtesy...
About two dozen students from Skyline High and Castlemont High were recognized last Friday for their hard work and dedication to a summer program in which...
West County LEGO Robotics is providing summer camp for youth at four Richmond recreation centers – Shields, Nevin, Parchester and Brooker Anderson – funded by the...
By Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, Superintendent of Schools Students need to feel seen, to see themselves reflected in their teacher’s eyes as having limitless potential. That’s how...
Vernard Lewis, an urban entomologist whose work has had a lasting impact on insect pests around the world, has retired. UC Berkeley’s first African American entomologist,...
A coalition of diverse, low-income, and immigrant students and parents from 17 organizations representing 30 cities from across California traveled to Sacramento Wednesday to defend state funding for...
The Oakland school district is likely to propose the closing of more schools using a term borrowed from corporate America called “rightsizing.” The Business Dictionary calls...
The University of California has announced new system wide procedures for responding to alleged sexual harassment by faculty and staff that provide greater transparency, consistency and...
Jalia Tucker, a native Oaklander who attended public schools in Oakland, is realizing her lifelong dream – to become a doctor of medicine. In her early...
All 15 Childhood Development Centers (CDC) and 13 State Preschool Programs operated by the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) have received a 4-star rating through the...
Board members of the Robinson-Weeks-Robinson Scholarship Foundation awarded scholarships to seven high school seniors at a scholarship awards luncheon held June 24 at La Strada’s Italian...
Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond), chair of the, California Assembly Select Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education, recently hosted a briefing about tech companies helping...
