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Oakland Unified School District
June 28, 2019

Oakland Unified board approves budget despite doubts about its accuracy

Board members also wonder whether voters would approve new tax measures next year, after grand jury report blasts district for fiscal mismanagement.

Theresa Harrington
June 26, 2019

How to close schools? Oakland finds out just how tough that can be

Fewer students and budget woes lead the Oakland Unified School District to propose closing or merging schools amid public opposition.

Theresa Harrington
May 21, 2019

Oakland Unified's budget woes now include loss of two fiscal officers

District is working with fiscal experts from the Alameda County Office of Education as it seeks an interim CFO to help stabilize financial practices.

Theresa Harrington
May 15, 2019

‘Inconvenient truths’ missing from Oakland report on charter schools

Charter schools did not cause Oakland’s problems and preventing more students from choosing charter schools will not fix them, researchers say.

Robin Lake and Ashley Jochim
May 8, 2019

Oakland Unified offers critical view of charter schools to state task force

Oakland report on charter schools provides one of the most detailed portraits of their impact on a large urban district.

Louis Freedberg And Theresa Harrington
May 6, 2019

Oakland Unified committed to fixing fiscal problems, but state must also step up

As district recovers after strike, superintendent calls on state to provide more funding.

Kyla Johnson-Trammell
May 2, 2019

Should California teachers who get seriously ill have to pay for their own subs?

Under the California Education Code, teachers on extended medical leave pay for the substitutes replacing them. The cost is deducted from their paychecks.

Julia McEvoy, KQED
April 24, 2019

Oakland Unified may need $2 million more in budget cuts to give other employees same raise as teachers

Alameda County Office of Education analysis of district’s budget reveals shortfall if all unions get the same level salary increase as teachers.

Theresa Harrington
April 23, 2019

Restorative justice among programs partially saved by Oakland City Council

Oakland Unified to receive $1.2 million from city to help reinstate cuts to Restorative Justice and Foster Youth programs, supplement library funding.

Theresa Harrington
April 17, 2019

Rising rents in coastal California outpace teacher pay

Many, especially first-year teachers, are spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent, exceeding the federal cutoff for affordable housing.

Diana Lambert And Daniel J. Willis
April 17, 2019

California teachers share their stories

California teachers struggle to pay the rent as rising costs outpace their pay. The divide is sharpest for starting teachers in coastal regions like the Bay Area. Here are some of their stories.

Diana Lambert
April 4, 2019

Oakland Unified gets unprecedented help with fiscal practices

Alameda County Office of Education team steps in to train district staff and help implement fiscal stability procedures as chief business officer position is eliminated.

Theresa Harrington
March 4, 2019

Oakland school board cuts $20.2 million from budget, including 100 jobs

Board member Jody London said the district could not give teachers the raises it agreed to in settling the recent strike without making the cuts.

Theresa Harrington
March 3, 2019

Lessons from the Los Angeles and Oakland teachers' strikes

Both strikes yielded gains for teachers, but larger structural issues, such as declining enrollments, unaffordable housing, and pension costs eroding what can be spent on children, were not addressed.

Louis Freedberg
March 3, 2019

After seven-day strike, Oakland teachers approve new contract

The district and teachers' union reach a four-year agreement that would give teachers an 11 percent raise, plus a 3 percent bonus.

By Theresa Harrington