Tag: OUSD
Families and Teachers Shut Down School Board Meeting to Oppose...
Chanting “No school closures, Oakland is not for sale,” teachers, parents, students took over the dais and shut down a Sept. 25 school board...
School Board Votes to Close Kaiser Elementary School
The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Oakland Board of Education voted this week to close Kaiser Elementary School and move as many of the...
Community Raises Questions Over City Funds, Staff Given to Mayor Schaaf’s...
Questions are being raised by members of the community whether city staff, funds and resources have been improperly utilized to support Oakland Promise, an...
Parents Push Back Against School District Plan to Close and...
Running into a wall of outrage from school families and community groups, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) administration and the Oakland Board of...
School District Prepares for Second Round of School Closures
The district also is beginning the process of selling or leasing school properties.
The Board of Education is moving ahead with a second set of...
School Boardmember Roseann Torres to Co-Chair State Equity Initiative
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has appointed Oakland School Boardmember Roseann Torres as co-chair of his statewide Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative.
Torres...
Opinion: Share Space with Charter Schools: Mandates and Responsibilities
The Board of Education’s Community of Schools Policy calls on us to reimagine our school system to ensure a quality school for all Oakland...
Coach Orlando Gray Thrice Honored
Orlando Gray, Oakland High School girls basketball head coach, has won California Coach of the Year from both CalHi Sports and MaxPreps.
“It was pretty...
West Oakland Middle School to Envision Charter: ‘Stay Away!’
Teachers and community public school advocates are asking Envision Education, a charter school management organization, not to take over public school classrooms at West...
Fremont Students Design and Build Classroom
During this 2018-2019 school year, about two dozen Fremont High School seniors are building a new classroom for future students and teachers to use....
