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...
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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...
Tom Ultican: School Board Elections Pit Billionaires vs. Public School Advocates
Tom Ultican writes here about three major school board elections: Oakland, Los Angeles, and Indianapolis. These are districts that are in the crosshairs of the...
Oakland: Public School Allies Win Control of School Board
Jane Nylund, parent activist in Oakland, reports on the good news from that district. Oakland has been the Disrupter/Reformer playground for nearly twenty years. For...
Oakland: Teachers Will Not Go Back to Work Unless the Schools Are Safe for Students and Staff
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 10, 2020Contact: Bethany MeyerOEA Secretary and Communications Chair(510) [email protected] This week, educators from the Oakland Education Association began talks with the Oakland...
Thomas Ultican: Will the Billionaires Buy and Privatize Oakland Public Schools?
Thomas Ultican, retired teacher of advanced math and physics, has been analyzing the depredations of the privatization movement, which dares to call itself a “reform”...
Teachers and Principals in Oakland Give More to Neediest than Billionaires
The blog started today with an account of the paltry amounts of money that our leading edu-philanthropists are contributing to alleviate the suffering of students...
Black Agenda Report: The Looting of Oakland’s Public Schools by Broadies
This is an astonishing report about the destruction and privatization of public schools in Oakland, California, and the billionaires who facilitated the looting of that...
Thomas Ultican: The Manufactured Disaster that Crushed the Oakland Public Schools
Thomas Ultican, the chronicler of the Destroy Public Education movement, writes here about the calculated destruction of the Oakland Public School District, which has suffered...