The Oakland Board of Education announced Wednesday evening that it had picked local veteran school administrator Kyla Johnson-Trammell to become the Oakland Unified School District’s new...
The Oakland Unified School District and AC Transit came to an agreement Wednesday afternoon – with the help of the City of Oakland – to save...
Three Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) employees were recently recognized by the Alameda County Office of Education (ACOE) as 2016-17 Classified School Employees of the Year. Each year, OUSD...
By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley News When she graduates in a few days, Ursula Kajani is headed to Rwanda to work with a maternal and child...
By Ed Carpenter, USF News University of San Francisco recently dedicated Burl A. Toler Hall, renaming Phelan Hall in honor of Burl Toler ’52, MA ’66,...
Students at Holy Names University, a normally quiet 800-student campus in the hills above Highway 13 in Oakland, marched Tuesday to the school administration...
The College of Marin will be conducting a free College Enrollment Workshop for those who are expanding their employment opportunities, or for those who are considering...
By Kathleen Maclay, UC Berkeley News Two UC Berkeley professors are among the 35 scholars, authors and journalists selected from 200 nominations for 2017 Andrew Carnegie...
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Imagine a future in which every home has an appliance that pulls all the water the household needs out of...
About 800 students from middle and high schools across Oakland Unified School District came together on Saturday afternoon, April 15 to be recognized for their hard work...
By Matt Reed, SF State News San Francisco State University alumna and Iranian-American philanthropist Neda Nobari (B.S., ’84) will address an audience of about 35,000 as the...
By Valerie Strauss, Washington Post A new study says that assigning black students from low-income black families to at least one black teacher in the third,...
The community is invited to attend a free College Information Day at Easterhill United Methodist Church in Richmond, where Bethune-Cookman University (BCU) will be looking to...
The New McClymonds’ Committee will host its first Saturday Reading and Math School, April 15 at the West Oakland Public Library at 1801 Adeline Ave. The...
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,...
