Oakland Unified and teachers union reach tentative agreement on reopening

Three days after Oakland Unified’s teachers union, the Oakland Education Association, declared an impasse in its negotiations with the district over reopening schools, the parties announced a tentative agreement Sunday.

Neither the Oakland Education Association nor Oakland Unified had released the details of the tentative agreement by Monday afternoon. To finalize the agreement, teachers must vote to ratify it and the district’s school board must approve it.

Oakland schools reopened to its youngest students on March 30, and 3rd- through 5th-grade students returned Monday.

Representatives from the district and the teachers union said the tentative agreement calls for a full in-person return in the fall, and an August 9 start day for the 2021-2022 school year.