Oakland Unified School District

OUSD Has Newly Elected Board of Education Directors; Swearing-In Takes Place In January

Oakland Unified School District New Board of Education Directors Dear Oakland Unified Community, As we have been talking over the past few weeks, Tuesday, November 3 was an enormous election for our city, the state of California, and the United States. Here in OUSD, as you know, we saw voters pass Measure Y, the bond […]

Free Flu Shots Oakland McClymonds High School Today Saturday Nov 14th 2020 10 AM – 4 PM

Free Flu Shots Oakland McClymonds High School Today Saturday Nov 14th 2020 10 AM – 4 PM From YouTube Channel: November 14, 2020 at 12:43AM ONN – Free Flu Shots Oakland McClymonds High School Today Saturday Nov 14th 2020 10 AM – 4 PM Saturday, November 14, 2020 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (while supplies […]

Full Oakland, Berkeley, California, East Bay Election Results For 2020 Election

Here Are The Full Oakland California, Berkeley, California Election Results For The 2020 Election, Including Measures, And Results For Piedmont And San Leandro Who will win the 2020 Election for Oakland City Council? Will Lynette Gibson-McElhaney retain her District Three Seat, or will Moms 4 Housing leader Carroll Fife emerge with 51 percent of the […]

“Yes On QQ” – Oakland Measure QQ Advertisement

Measure QQ Advertisement From YouTube Channel: October 28, 2020 at 04:26PM ONN -“Yes On QQ” – Oakland Measure QQ Advertisement Measure QQ will amend the Oakland City Charter to allow 16-year-old Oakland students to have a true vote voice in how their schools are governed. Yes, students would have a say in who sits on […]

Oakland Schools Open For Voting: OUSD Says Ten District-Run Schools, One Charter School on Halloween – Nov 3rd

OUSD Reports Polling Locations Open at Ten District-Run Schools and One Charter School in OUSD on Halloween, and Will Open Daily Through November 3; Voters Can Drop off Their Ballots at the Locations When Open Voters Can Drop off Their Ballots at the Locations When Open Oakland, CA – There are now just three days […]

Oakland Schools OUSD Celebrates New Central Kitchen That Can Make 35,000 Meals Per Day

OUSD Celebrates Unique New Central Kitchen with Capacity to Create 35,000 Meals Per Day, and Serve as Farm and Educational Facility Oakland – During a year in which Oakland Unified School District had to completely rethink school meals because of the pandemic, OUSD is proud to show off its new and unique Central Kitchen that’s […]

Oakland OUSD Girls Meet Thursday for Online Pre-Halloween Event “Spooky Science Night”

Girls from Across OUSD Set to Come Together on Thursday for an Online Pre-Halloween Science Event Called Spooky Science Night Oakland, CA — Scientific Adventures for Girls, Chabot Space & Science Center and the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at Stanford University are co-hosting an exciting Family STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math) Night for […]

Oakland Unified School District Thanks Voters for Measure J, Which Funded Facilities Projects

Oakland Unified School District OUSD Highlights Numerous Major Facilities Projects and Thanks Voters for Approving Measure J Which Funded the Projects Oakland – Over the past month, OUSD has been showing off facilities projects that came to fruition largely because of the support of Oakland voters. Measure J enabled the District to totally rebuild the […]

Vote Yes On Measure Y For Oakland Unified School District Approving $735 Million In Bonds For Upkeep

Vote Yes On Measure Y For Oakland Unified School District Approving $735 Million In Bonds For Upkeep From YouTube Channel: October 27, 2020 at 01:26AM ONN – Vote Yes On Measure Y For Oakland Unified School District Approving $735 Million In Bonds For Upkeep Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland News Now: this video-blog post demonstrates […]

Eleven Oakland Schools Expected To Face Public Safety Power Shutoff Says OUSD

The Oakland Unified School District sent this press release regarding possible Public Safety Power Shutoff or power shutoffs to Zennie62Media: Dear Oakland Community, We have learned that there is expected to be a major weather event in the coming days that will likely prompt PG&E to issue a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) once again. […]

OUSD Provides Eleven Oakland Schools As Polling Locations For November 3 2020 Election

Oakland – With the November 3 election now just 15 days away, people across Oakland are already casting their votes for everything from ballot measures to political offices all the way up to the President and Vice President of the United States. To help Oaklanders exercise their constitutional right to vote, OUSD is providing ten […]

Oakland McClymonds High Campus Deemed Safe For Students And Staff To Occupy

Eight Months After Discovery of TCE Under the McClymonds High Campus, the School has been Deemed Safe for Students and Staff to Occupy Oakland – Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) leadership will hold a news conference on Friday, October 16, 2020, to discuss the final determination about the safety of McClymonds High School, which had […]

#OaklandUndivided Reaches Half-Way Mark In Providing Computers, Internet To Oakland OUSD Students

#OaklandUndivided Reaches Major Milestone in Effort to Provide 25,000 Oakland Students with Free Computers and Internet Access; Media is Invited to Laptop Distribution Event on Thursday The press release sent from The Oakland Unified School District to Zennie62Media is below: Oakland, CA — Eric Yanez (below), a 4th-grader at Hoover Elementary School, had problems with […]

Oakland Schools: OUSD Unveiled New Campus at Glenview Elementary at Friday Press Conference

The Oakland Unified School District sent this press release to announce a press conference held last Friday on a new campus at Glenview Elementary. As that even was missed by this space, here’s the information that was sent, which will be augmented by additional news presented here at Oakland News Now: OUSD to Unveil New […]

Oakland Lacrosse Club to Hold Annual Fundraiser Thursday Evening October 8th 2020

Oakland Lacrosse Club to Hold Annual Fundraiser Thursday Evening to Support Thousands of OUSD Students with the Original North American Sport Oakland – On Thursday evening, October 8, an important partner to Oakland schools and our students is holding its annual fundraiser. The Oakland Lacrosse Club (OLC) is hosting a virtual fundraiser to raise money […]

Oakland Council President Rebecca Kaplan Challenges Lyft to Debate Her

OAKLAND, CA – Yesterday, October 5th, at 10:30AM Oakland City Councilmember at-large Rebecca Kaplan, held a press conference together with a coalition of leaders, to denounce the lies of billionaires who are trying to buy our elections – both in the City of Oakland, and throughout California. Large corporations, including Lyft and Uber, are spending […]

Oakland School District OUSD Reports Grab And Go Food Boxes Contained Unexpected Letter From Trump

Oakland School District OUSD Reports Grab And Go Food Boxes Contained Unexpected Letter From Trump ONN – Oakland School District OUSD Reports Grab And Go Food Boxes Contained Unexpected Letter From Trump Oakland School District OUSD Reports Grab And Go Food Boxes Contained Unexpected Letter From Trump This was in a press release from the […]

Oakland Walks 4 Schools Virtual Walkathon To Raise Funds For OUSD Schools #OaklandWalks

Oakland Walks 4 Schools Virtual Walkathon, Aims to Take 30 Million Steps to Raise Funds for OUSD Schools This October The Oakland Public Education Fund (https://www.oaklandedfund.org/) is launching its inaugural Oakland Walks 4 Schools Walkathon this October. #OaklandWalks will inspire students, parents, school staff, and community members to get safe and healthy exercise during the […]

Oakland City Auditor Lowers Boom On Oakland Fire Department In Just Issued Report

The Oakland City Auditor just sent a blazing press release. Here’s what she and her office wrote about the Oakland Fire Department: Oakland – Today, Oakland City Auditor, Courtney Ruby, released a performance audit of the Fire Prevention Bureau (Bureau), a division of the Oakland Fire Department (OFD). This report examines whether the Bureau implemented […]

Today: Oakland High School Giveaway Of $40,000 Of Computers Courtesy Of RRRComputer.org

Oakland – On Wednesday, September 30, more than a dozen students will receive refurbished MacBook Air computers, in the second day of this giveaway from RRRComputer.org, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization. The first day was last week when about 20 students received the devices, in a program that is separate from the #OaklandUndivided campaign. The […]

Oakland OUSD Issues Strict COVID-19 RULES For Today’s Madison Park Academy Press Conference

Oakland – The Oakland Unified School District or OUSD is not taking any chances ahead of its Madison Park Academy Press Conference. It issued this press release: COVID RULES for Today’s Madison Park Academy Press Conference Oakland, CA — For anyone planning to attend today’s press conference at Madison Park Elementary as noted in this […]

OUSD Unveils New High School Building at Madison Park Academy, School In East Oakland

On Tuesday, OUSD Unveils New High School Building at Madison Park Academy, School in East Oakland Neighborhood with Troubled Past Oakland – East Oakland’s Sobrante Park neighborhood, a shining new feature will have a huge impact on the lives of countless young people. The Madison Park Academy (MPA) campus has a new building for its […]

Oakland’s Zendaya, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Awele Makeba Score Emmy Awards For 2020

Oakland – The annual celebration for excellence in television entertainment, the 72nd Emmy Awards show on ABC on Sunday night, September 20, was a huge night for Oakland Unified School District, and people with roots here. The District can add three Emmys to the collection of awards amassed throughout the years by alumni, staff, former […]

Oakland Schools OUSD Successfully Argues To Keep Education Funding In Federal Lawsuit

Oakland – An effort by the U.S. Department of Education to take public education dollars away from Oakland Unified School District and countless other Districts and give it to private schools in Oakland and elsewhere has failed, and leadership from OUSD had a role in defeating it. U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, had created […]

Oakland OUSD Mourns For Students, Former Students Lost To Car Crash And Gun Violence

Oakland – Four weeks into the new year, and several schools across Oakland Unified School District are in mourning because they have recently lost valued members of their communities. The OUSD District has lost a total of five young people who were getting ready to graduate or had recently graduated. Some had come back to […]

OUSD’s Grab and Go Student Meal Service Returned to Summer Rules Thursday Sept 3rd

OUSD’s Grab and Go Student Meal Service Returning to Summer Rules that Allow All Oakland Children to Receive Food Starting on Thursday, September 3 Oakland — After the first three weeks of the school year, in which our nutrition services team was required to verify all students receiving food attend our District-run schools, the federal […]

Oakland Schools News: OUSD Nutrition Services Department Annual Free Lunch Policies For Students

Oakland – Oakland Unified School District announces its policy to serve nutritious meals every school day under the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, and/or Afterschool Snack Program. Effective July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021, children are eligible for free or reduced-price meals if the household income is less than or equal to […]

Oakland Schools News: OUSD Says 23,000 Chromebooks 7,000 Wireless Hotspot Devices Delivered

Oakland – Just one week after handing out a major round of new #OaklandUndivided Chromebooks that students get to keep, Oakland Unified School District is updating the entire community on the overall effort to get 25,000 computers into the hands of Oakland’s public school students.   We have enough computers in our schools to ensure […]

OUSD And Oakland Education Association: OEA Voted to Ratify Agreement On Distance Learning

OUSD and Oakland Education Association Issue Joint Statement Announcing that OEA Members Have Voted to Ratify the Agreement on Distance Learning Oakland – On Sunday evening, August 23, 2020, Oakland Unified School District and the Oakland Education Association (OEA) are releasing the joint statement below announcing that the members of OEA voted to ratify the […]

Oakland Schools News: OEA and OUSD New Date Set For Ratification Of Tentative Agreement

Oakland, CA – On August 12, 2020, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and the Oakland Education Association (OEA) reached a tentative bargaining agreement on distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic this fall. Our common goal is to provide the best possible education for Oakland students. This agreement is subject to ratification by OEA members […]

Oakland Schools News: OUSD And OEA Reach Tentative Distance Learning Oriented Labor Agreement

Oakland Schools News: OUSD And OEA Reach Tentative Distance Learning Oriented Labor Agreement ONN – Oakland Schools News: OUSD And OEA Reach Tentative Distance Learning Oriented Labor Agreement From OUSD: Oakland – After working for more than a month to reach a deal, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and the Oakland Education Association (OEA), the […]

Welcome Back To School 2020 Oakland And Complete The Tech Check Survey!

Welcome Back To School 2020 From Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell OUSD Superintendent Dear Oakland Unified School District Community, I am happy to say that the 2020-21 school year begins today, Monday, August 10! I want to welcome all students, staff and families back to teaching and learning in Oakland Unified School District Community, or “OUSD”. Although […]

OUSD And Office Depot Give East Oakland Pride Elementary School Backpacks, School Supplies

OUSD Teams up with Office Depot to Provide Backpacks and School Supplies to Students at East Oakland Pride Elementary School Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell to Visit the All-Day Giveaway to Help Honor Teacher as Winner of All-Star Teacher Award Oakland – Office Depot will be at East Oakland Pride Elementary School for much of the day […]

Wellstone Democratic Club: Oakland School Board OUSD Candidates Before Endorsement Meeting

Oakland School Board Endorsement Information for Wellstone Democratic Club Four of the seven Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Board seats are up for election in Nov, making 2020 critical. The fact that no incumbents are running presents even more opportunity to reshape the school board. The board currently has a majority of pro-privatizers and directors […]

Oakland Police Department Interviews OK Program Of Oakland’s Jasin Saunders

OK PROGRAM ONN – Oakland Police Department Interviews OK Program Of Oakland’s Jasin Saunders 2020 Castlemont High School Graduate and member of OK Program of Oakland Jasin Saunders, was celebrated for his commitment and dedication in and out of the classroom. For the second time, Auto Plus Towing & Auto Body partnered with the OK […]

2020 Oakland ESPY Awards Oakland Athletic League and OUSD Winners Announced

SPAAT, Oakland Athletic League and OUSD Announce Winners of Annual Oakland ESPY Awards, Including Middle School Student-Athletes of the Year, the All-Academic Team and High School Student-Athletes of the Year Oakland, CA – In a ceremony Wednesday evening in which young people collectively received more than $20,000 in scholarships, SPAAT, the Student Program for Academic […]

OUSD Announces Fall 2020-21 High School Sports Are On Hold Until December 2020

Oakland – While the 2020-21 school year begins on Monday, August 10, three weeks from today, with OUSD students studying from home through distance learning, the District and the Oakland Athletic League (OAL) announced today that interscholastic sports will not begin until December, at the earliest. The four month long delay comes mandated by the […]

Oakland Schools News: OUSD Announces Plans For Start Of School, Including Distance Learning

Exactly One Month From First Day of 2020-21 School Year, OUSD Announces Plans for Start of School Which Will Include Students Returning to Class in Phases, Starting with a Period of Distance Learning for all Students Text Of Friday July 10th 2020 OUSD Press Conference At End Of This Post Oakland – As Oakland and […]

How Oakland Black Women Activists Protest Over Policing Schools

How Black Women Activists Protest Over Policing Schools ONN – How Oakland Black Women Activists Protest Over Policing Schools Jessica @B.O.P. – Black Organizing Project @blackorganizingproject https://ift.tt/3dGmOyx #BOP #PoliceFreeSchools #PencilsNotCops #BlackActivists Educators for Black Sanctuary, O.U.S.D. Oakland Unified School District, O.E.A. Oakland Education Association rally and protest for POLICE FREE SCHOOLS outside of the Trans […]

Matin Abdel-Qawi: Oakland High School Principal Shocks Protest With Ice Cube Lyrics

Oakland Principal Shocks Protest With Famous Ice Cube Lyrics ONN – Matin Abdel-Qawi: Oakland High School Principal Shocks Protest With Famous Ice Cube Lyrics Oakland High/OEA teachers fighting oppression by OUSD! Educators for Black Sanctuary, O.U.S.D. Oakland Unified School District, O.E.A. Oakland Education Association rally and protest for POLICE FREE SCHOOLS outside of the Trans […]

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