Oakland Unified School District.
OUSD Joins School Districts Across the Nation in Calling for More Education Funding From the Federal Government Oakland, CA – On Tuesday, April 28, 2020, Oakland Unified School District joined 61 other urban school districts across the country in calling for Congress to allocate more money to education during this time of crisis because of … Read more
OUSD To Hold Press Conference On Wednesday Night’s Board Meeting Disturbance ONN – OUSD To Hold Press Conference On Wednesday Night’s Board Meeting Disturbance Oakland, CA (Release) — For the third session in a row, the OUSD Board of Education faced a protest on Wednesday night at its regularly scheduled meeting. The goal of the … Read more
Oakland Police Fight Protestors At OUSD Board Meeting Wednesday Night 10-24-2019 ONN – Oakland Police Fight Protestors At OUSD Board Meeting Wednesday Night 10-24-2019 From these videos, the Oakland Police clearly overreacted to the one man jumping over the barrier. Why he did is a good question. But he was the only person to make … Read more
OUSD Press Release Reports Group Separately Honors Allendale Elementary Student for Perfect Attendance Record Oakland, CA – Dozens of leaders recently came together at Allendale Elementary School to announce the lead issues that had existed in some OUSD school water fixtures have been largely mitigated. In front of dozens of students in the cafeteria, the … Read more
Oakland, CA – On Monday evening, May 13, thousands of students, families and educators will come together at Oakland’s Acts Full Gospel Church for the 18th Annual African American Honor Roll Celebration. The event honors all African American Honor Roll Students from across Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and who have achieved a cumulative 3.0 … Read more
Oakland, Ca – On Tuesday, April 16th the Oakland City Council took extraordinary action to save critical services that include, the restorative justice program, the foster youth case management program and school libraries from shutting down or significant service reductions that were adopted during OUSD’s recent budget cuts. A Resolution authored by Councilmembers Sheng Thao … Read more
Oakland City Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan (At-Large), Nikki Bas (District Two), Noll Gallo (District Five), And Sheng Thao (District Four) Funding Resolution For OUSD Programs to be introduced at Oakland City Council April 16th, 2019. Oakland, CA – On March 4th, 2019, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) made $21.75 million in budgetary cuts to meet … Read more
Oakland, CA – On Saturday, April 6, the Oakland OUSD Office of Equity Middle Eastern Student Achievement (MESA) Initiative will honor 230 Middle Eastern students in grades 6 through 12 who have maintained a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher and who are on track to attend college. “Education is the passport … Read more
BUILD: Oakland is an organization this blogger was totally not familiar with until today and a post on Instagram. The post, which you will see below, featured a photo mostly of young folks, and primarily Asian (didn’t see anyone African American), working intently on what looked like some kind of graphics project. Then, I saw … Read more
Oakland, CA – On Friday and Saturday of last week, two different Oakland high schools took home top honors at the CIF State Championship tournament. The Oakland High School Girls team won the Division 3 Championship on Friday afternoon. Less than 24 hours later, Oakland Technical High School’s Girls team won the Division 4 State … Read more
Note: Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Board Member Jumoke Hinton Hodge graciously provided Zennie62Media her entire statement. Given that it’s in her name, Zennie62Media policy is to make a new account and post reflecting that person’s words, and not ours as much as possible – whereas some other publications ran a part of her statement. … Read more
OUSD Board’s Jumoke Hinton Hodge Chokes Oakland Teacher In Skirmish ONN – Ms. Jumoke Hinton Hodge, a seasoned member of the Board of Directors of The Oakland Unified School District, long-time member of the Oakland political community, and friend of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, and this blogger, apparently lost her cool and did something … Read more
The Oakland Teachers’ Strike is over; the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) sent this press release. Oakland – Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) is proud to announce that it has reached an agreement with the Oakland Education Association (OEA) on a new contract that provides a total compensation increase of 14% – an 11% on-going … Read more
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Informs Families of Possible Challenges They Could Face Because of Public Charge Rule Change Proposed by Trump Administration Oakland (press release from OUSD) – At a time when immigrants are increasingly feeling threatened by the U.S. government, now comes word that the Trump administration wants to make becoming permanent residents … Read more
Just after I wrote the Oakland News Now blog post “White Oakland Celebrates Loren Taylor Win Over Desley Brooks,” I received this text message from a friend of mine who I will not name so I can maintain our friendship. But this person wrote something I had to publicly present, respond to, and build a … Read more
Nikki Bas, Loren Taylor, and Sheng Thao are the new representatives of Oakland City Council Districts 2, 6, and 4, respectively. To all of them, I say congratulations and welcome to the Oakland City Council. All of you have worked hard to get to your new public service responsibilities. But, of the three of you, … Read more
Oakland, CA – The Dreamforce conference on Tuesday, September 25, was the place where Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell received remarkable news from technology giant, Salesforce and its philanthropic arm, Salesforce.org. Marc Benioff, Salesforce founder and CEO, announced that this year Salesforce is giving Oakland Schools’ Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) $7 … Read more
After decades, California Proposition 13 will be the focus of a tax reform initiative, and its on the November 2020 ballot. On Tuesday, August 14th, 2018, Schools and Communities First, a powerful statewide coalition of nearly 300 endorsing community organizations, labor unions, business leaders, philanthropic foundations and elected officials, announced the submission of over 860,000 … Read more
The City of Oakland is taking on a proposal to sell property located, as the note goes “on Derby Ave at E15th, which is about two blocks from Fruitvale and International and two blocks from the Caesar Chavez campus”, according to Oakland Schools advocate Mike Hutchinson. (And who I interviewed when he ran for Oakland … Read more
Oakland, CA — A dozen members of the Oakland Fire Department attended Skyline HIgh School’s home baseball game versus McClymonds High on Thursday, March 29 2018, to catch the game and make an important delivery. The Oakland firefighters, through their union and the department’s non-profit group Random Acts, collected money for the Skyline team after … Read more
California Governor Jerry Brown has appointed Life Academy student and OUSD Board of Education Student Member, Gema Quetzal to the California State Board of Education (SBE) as the lone youth voice for the 2018-19 school year. This is remarkable news for Oakland Unified School District and the city of Oakland. The 16-year old Quetzal will … Read more
