University of California President Janet Napolitano joined Mexican Secretary of Energy Pedro Joaquín Coldwell in Mexico City March 30 to announce $10 million in new funding...
School district leaders sent a “critical budget” memo to all staff this week announcing an immediate freeze on spending at schools and central office departments, saying...
Outcomes and opportunities for students in Oakland vary dramatically across schools. For anyone who is interested in why this is, and what can be done to...
Gwendolyn Annette Howard, who serves as pastor of the First Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, on 86th Avenue, in Oakland, received her Doctoral Degree in...
The Educational Coalition for Hispanics in Oakland (ECHO) and The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) on Saturday, April 15 will honor over 3,000 Latino students who...
The public is invited to a breakfast, “Equity In Action: Disruption Under-Performance Through Freedom Schools,” which will discuss the potential of Freedom Schools to upend the...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez Your friends follow what you have to say. Whether on social media or otherwise, they listen to you and understand,...
By Mary McInerney, USF News The University of San Francisco is honoring Alive & Free and its co-founder and executive director Dr. Joseph E. Marshall Jr.,...
The Oakland Unified School District was moving ahead with a proposal to place a charter school with middle age children on the McClymonds High School campus...
By Arvin Temkar, USF News This winter, University of San Francisco student Calina Lawrence joined more than 15,000 protestors at Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North...
By Sandra Messick, UC Berkeley News The standing-room-only crowd was blessed by Corrina Gould, a member of the indigenous Chochenyo and Kerkin Ohlone, and Auntie Stella,...
Students at Coliseum College Prep Academy, a public high school in East Oakland, celebrated Black History Month last Friday by putting an assembly for the entire...
By Rushawn Walters, Howard University News Service As a young girl growing in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a small town of 44,000 and 130 miles west Boston, Stephanie...
By Brandon Aninipot This past Sunday, a few of MACK’s State Championship football players, cheerleaders, and other students from the OUSD Alternatives in Action Program...
Sonoma State University President Judy K. Sakaki spoke last Sunday at Beebe Memorial Church in Oakland to encourage young people to go college as part of...
By Kirsten West Savali, The Root Since the first iteration of slavery transformed into its more contemporary forms—Jim Crow, mass incarceration, redlining, employment and education...
Courtesy of Telesur In an age of rising higher education costs, San Francisco has become the first city to make community college free. The announcement comes...
By Katy St. Clair Oaklanders love Oakland and have demonstrated this love to Oakland’s schools by passing bond measures to fund modernization and new construction....
You really can’t remember. For sure, something important happened years ago, something you should recall very easily, but time’s made things fuzzy. Have...
New international education performance reports came out in December, indicating that U.S. students once again show less math knowledge that students in other developed...
Tisha Ortiz chose Cal State East Bay sight unseen. Unlike many of today’s college freshmen, the former foster youth didn’t tour campuses, compare dormitories...
By the Oakland Justice Coalition The mid-year resignation of OUSD Superintendent Antwan Wilson brings an opportunity for the Board of Education and the community to...
When Proposition 209 passed in 1996 by California voters, it eliminated the use of race, sex or ethnicity in state government institutions in employment, public contracting...
San Francisco State University will join a groundbreaking cell engineering center based at UC San Francisco (UCSF) aimed at adapting tools from engineering, the physical sciences...
Dolores Huerta, Congresswoman Barbara Lee and youth of the Martin Luther king Jr Freedom Center participated in a well-attended Martin Luther King Jr Freedom Center report...
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