Betty Maze was awarded with an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Theology, Th.D, conferred by the Global University of Theology on March 5. “Betty is an amazing...
As the Oakland Board of Education moves ahead with its search for a new superintendent of schools, members of the community are continuing to push for...
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 Hannah Lukanuski My first day of teaching fourth grade was two years ago and it was a whirlwind of energetic joy and panicked mistakes. Luckily,...
Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (D- Richmond) honored Dr. Vicki Alexander as the 15th Assembly District Woman of the Year Award recipient. “It brings me great pleasure to present this...
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 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...
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...
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....
A back-to-school night for students at Emiliano Zapata Street Academy in Oakland is more than just shining apples and tidying books. Instead, the students sit in...
While Cal Maritime Academy (CMA) students are away for summer – on a two-month intensive maritime training cruise – high school students from Oakland and San...
Lance Jackson, a $30,000-a-month, $360,000-a-year consultant hired by the Oakland Unified School District, has entered his second school year at the helm of the district’s Facilities...
Black Women Stirring the Waters (BWSTW) is hosting a community forum, “When Violence Challenges the Education of Young African American Women,” Sunday, Nov. 15, 1:30...
Education union leaders from the 10 U.S. and Mexico border states met in Houston, Texas this week for the first in a series of bilateral conferences...
Over the next few issues, The Oakland Post is looking to display photos of Mack alumni from all decades, past and present. Send us your...
Courtesy of the Richmond Standard All students who live in Richmond and graduate from a public high school in the West Contra Costa Unified...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Recognizing that a college degree is one of the surest paths to a job and economic security,...
MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, in criticizing liberals on school choice, referred to “idiot inner-city kids.” In a...
MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, in criticizing liberals on school choice, referred to “idiot inner-city kids.” In a...
For more than a century, descendants of enslaved Africans could be punished or put to death for learning to read or arming themselves. The strategy: Keep...
Laney College, Merritt College, College of Alameda and Berkeley City College – the four community colleges that make up the Peralta Community College District...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Congress works toward a comprehensive education policy that will replace the Bush Administration’s No Child Left...
By Troy Williams A few days ago, I was introduced to a group of Black Greek letter organizations. Initially, I assumed the organization was...
By Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley The United Kingdom’s Institute of Physics has awarded its prestigious Isaac Newton Medal and Prize to Eli Yablonovitch, a professor...
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