What Happened at Oakland School Board Meeting
Many of us joined the zoom meeting of the Oakland school board. some stayed to the end, others (such as those of us on the...
Category : Oakland
Oakland School Board Votes to Close Schools, Despite Overwhelming Public Opposition
A reader watched the Oakland school board meeting to the bitter end. Despite overwhelming opposition by students, parents, and educators, the board voted to close...
The Oakland School Board Meeting: Heartbreaking
I spent the past two hours listening to the Oakland, California, school board meeting, where the board is going to decide whether to close a...
Join Oakland on Zoom to Fight School Closures! Tonight!
Mike Hutchinson is a member of the elected Oakland school board. He shared the following post. Oakland has been a Petri dish for the Broad...
Oakland Parent: Stop the Privatization! We Don’t Want It!
Oakland parent Jane Nylund tells the story of creeping privatization in her city. The Oakland School Board will vote tonight on whether to close another...
Tom Ultican: Oakland Parents and Educators Outraged by Threat of More School Closings
Tom Ultican, retired teacher of physics and mathematics, has been keeping a close watch on the machinations of the privatization movement. He writes here about...
Oakland: Board Debates Closing a Score of Public Schools, Amidst Loud Protests
The public schools of Oakland, California, are being slowly strangled by the growth of charter schools. The school board is discussing the potential closure of...
Oakland: Activists Win Six-Figure Settlement, which They Will Use to Fight Privatization
I am posting this notice after the press conference described here, but the details are important nevertheless. A group called Oakland Not For Sale formed...
Courtney Martin: Lessons in Choosing a School and the Stealth Racism of White Liberals
The writer Anand Giridharadas writes a blog called The.Ink. In a recent post, he interviewed author Courtney Martin about her decision to send her child...
Oakland School Board Election: Money Can’t Buy Everything
Ken Rice was an elected member of the Oakland Unified School District from 1997-2000. That was before the billionaire disrupters decided to take control of...