Steph Rodriguez is an award-winning editor and journalist who specializes in writing stories about food and music, arts and culture. She’s currently a Digital Editor for KQED News in San Francisco. Her past professional experience includes Food Editor for SFGATE as well as Managing Editor and Dining Editor for the Sacramento News & Review. She has roots in Bakersfield and Sacramento California and currently lives in Oakland with her family.
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085513/california-primary-2026-key-congressional-races-to-watch-today\">primary\u003c/a> is coming to a close — with voters casting their final ballots to decide on the state’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their long list of choices included an unusually \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085576/governors-race-enters-the-final-stretch-and-down-ballot-races-to-watch\">close\u003c/a> governor’s race and consequential local races, including the fight to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday morning, polling places across the Bay Area were quiet, reflecting some of the uneasiness of constituents. At North and West Oakland satellite locations, poll workers said turnout was lower than expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is probably the least hopeful I felt in an election, to be completely frank,” said Oakland resident Josh Adams, 35, who said he’s most concerned about the governor’s race. Adams, whose partner is an educator, said he researched the candidates’ policies to see who would support funding public education and infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if there is a right answer — someone who scratches all of the itches of the state,” Adams said, after voting at the Oakland Main Branch Library. “I hope I made the right decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-JY-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-JY-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-JY-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-JY-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Adams stands outside the Oakland Main Library after casting his ballot in Oakland, California, on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with voters at multiple Bay Area polling places to hear from them about the Election Day vibes. Those who did turn out said they were invested in the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over in San Francisco, Chiraag Hebbar, 26, cast his ballot at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With both Gavin Newsom and Pelosi leaving, I think it’s a critical election,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters fill out their ballots at the City Hall Voting Center in San Francisco on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Big money has poured into campaigns, with major financial backing from tech and oil for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085483/whos-backing-californias-next-governor-and-why\">Xavier Becerra\u003c/a>, the Democratic frontrunner, and for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084959/after-pelosi-young-sf-voters-want-change-two-progressives-are-competing-to-offer-it\">Saikat Chakrabarti\u003c/a>, who is vying against state Sen. Scott Wiener and Supervisor Connie Chan for Pelosi’s seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of money getting thrown around,” said Gwynn Beasley, a Lower Haight resident, who said she votes at City Hall to feel more “civic.” Beasley said she saw a lot of major donors “putting money behind candidates they don’t necessarily support to [get others] out of the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Widya Batin, a 27-year-old Fillmore resident, said the political moment can feel discouraging, so she wanted to vote in the primary to exercise her civil right as a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A polling place at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t really get educated on how our vote works or how the political system works. That’s why I get discouraged. If you don’t really go into the measures or candidates yourself, you can easily be caught up in the ads they run before the election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batin said she will vote for candidates that she’s seen in action, but “for the propositions, I kind of rely on the homies and what we are sharing around in our groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democracy was in full swing down in East San José, where the Dr. Robert Cruz Alum Rock Library had a steady stream of voters. Every few minutes, someone walked through the double doors to drop off a ballot or vote in person, though most came to drop off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shireman Ichikawa family leaves the Bernal Heights Library polling place in San Francisco after casting their ballots on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No two voters looked alike — old, young, Hispanic, Black, Asian, white — pushing strollers, holding a partner’s hand, or pulling their dog’s leash. Staff who have worked at the location for years say this is the busiest voting site in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Martinez came to drop off both her and her sister’s ballots. Martinez, born and raised in the South Bay, started voting as soon as she turned 18. A child of immigrants, she said she’s been politically active since high school.[aside postID=news_12085513 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/voter.jpg']“I just always knew that if I wanted to keep them safe, in some ways, it depends on how I voted and who I voted for,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José resident Pam Payton, whose dad was planning commissioner for the city, and who was part of the campaign to elect Norman Mineta as mayor, said voting has been ingrained in her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to make a change, it’s not going to happen if you don’t vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Payton, the economy was top of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is a hot mess right now,” she said, laughing. “I don’t know that there’s anything the potential governors will do to lower the price of gas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described going to the store and buying one bag of groceries without meat, and spending $80. “That’s crazy,” Payton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Payton did her patriotic duty. 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Adams, whose partner is an educator, said he researched the candidates’ policies to see who would support funding public education and infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if there is a right answer — someone who scratches all of the itches of the state,” Adams said, after voting at the Oakland Main Branch Library. “I hope I made the right decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-JY-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-JY-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-JY-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-JY-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Adams stands outside the Oakland Main Library after casting his ballot in Oakland, California, on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with voters at multiple Bay Area polling places to hear from them about the Election Day vibes. Those who did turn out said they were invested in the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over in San Francisco, Chiraag Hebbar, 26, cast his ballot at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With both Gavin Newsom and Pelosi leaving, I think it’s a critical election,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters fill out their ballots at the City Hall Voting Center in San Francisco on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Big money has poured into campaigns, with major financial backing from tech and oil for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085483/whos-backing-californias-next-governor-and-why\">Xavier Becerra\u003c/a>, the Democratic frontrunner, and for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084959/after-pelosi-young-sf-voters-want-change-two-progressives-are-competing-to-offer-it\">Saikat Chakrabarti\u003c/a>, who is vying against state Sen. Scott Wiener and Supervisor Connie Chan for Pelosi’s seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of money getting thrown around,” said Gwynn Beasley, a Lower Haight resident, who said she votes at City Hall to feel more “civic.” Beasley said she saw a lot of major donors “putting money behind candidates they don’t necessarily support to [get others] out of the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Widya Batin, a 27-year-old Fillmore resident, said the political moment can feel discouraging, so she wanted to vote in the primary to exercise her civil right as a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A polling place at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t really get educated on how our vote works or how the political system works. That’s why I get discouraged. If you don’t really go into the measures or candidates yourself, you can easily be caught up in the ads they run before the election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batin said she will vote for candidates that she’s seen in action, but “for the propositions, I kind of rely on the homies and what we are sharing around in our groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democracy was in full swing down in East San José, where the Dr. Robert Cruz Alum Rock Library had a steady stream of voters. Every few minutes, someone walked through the double doors to drop off a ballot or vote in person, though most came to drop off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-PRIMARYVOTERVOX-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shireman Ichikawa family leaves the Bernal Heights Library polling place in San Francisco after casting their ballots on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No two voters looked alike — old, young, Hispanic, Black, Asian, white — pushing strollers, holding a partner’s hand, or pulling their dog’s leash. Staff who have worked at the location for years say this is the busiest voting site in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Martinez came to drop off both her and her sister’s ballots. Martinez, born and raised in the South Bay, started voting as soon as she turned 18. A child of immigrants, she said she’s been politically active since high school.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I just always knew that if I wanted to keep them safe, in some ways, it depends on how I voted and who I voted for,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José resident Pam Payton, whose dad was planning commissioner for the city, and who was part of the campaign to elect Norman Mineta as mayor, said voting has been ingrained in her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to make a change, it’s not going to happen if you don’t vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Payton, the economy was top of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is a hot mess right now,” she said, laughing. “I don’t know that there’s anything the potential governors will do to lower the price of gas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described going to the store and buying one bag of groceries without meat, and spending $80. “That’s crazy,” Payton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Payton did her patriotic duty. For those who didn’t vote Tuesday, Payton had simple advice: “Don’t complain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/aaliahmad\">\u003cem>Ayah Ali-Ahmad\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, Desmond Meagley, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/psibulo\">\u003cem>Paula Sibulo\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem>Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015534/bay-area-record-breaking-rainfall-deluge-surprises-forecasters\">The Bay Area is enduring another intense storm. \u003c/a>And when the wind howls and the rain falls, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://twitter.com/SFGate/status/1764020273437974998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://twitter.com/SFGate/status/1764020273437974998\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">trees often come down too\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what if a natural disaster strikes \u003cem>your\u003c/em> vehicle or home — literally?\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for our tips on how to remain safe if a tree has fallen on your car or property — and which city departments to contact if you ever encounter an “act of God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A tree fell on my car. Now what?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Katina Papson, a San Francisco-based artist and educator, said she’ll never forget her initial reaction to the photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on California Weather' tag='storm']While Papson and her husband were visiting the East Coast to ring in the 2023 New Year, a neighbor sent the couple some snapshots of their 2011 Subaru Outback covered in mud, foliage and a lot of concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my husband showed it to me, I just laughed,” she said. “Honestly, I was like, ‘This is ridiculously unlucky.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause? A landslide brought on by a torrential downpour that became too much for a concrete wall lining two residences in Papson’s neighborhood of Glen Park. The extra weight from the rain caused the wall to buckle, burying Papson’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our first reaction was obviously shock,” Papson said. “And then, the next one was, ‘OK, we need to call the insurance company, and I don’t remember if we even \u003cem>have\u003c/em> coverage that would take care of any of this.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944951\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944951\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289.jpg\" alt=\"Rain pours down on a navy blue Subaru Outback that is surrounded by rubble and debris from a landslide that totaled the vehicle.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katina Papson’s Subaru Outback was totaled during storms on New Year’s Eve when a concrete wall that lined two San Francisco residences in Glen Park buckled, sending debris and rubble onto the car. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katina Papson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Papson is just one of many people who’ve discovered firsthand how these kinds of storms can bring down trees, topple walls and leave damaging debris everywhere — and that sometimes, those items fall onto your property. So, if you wake up to a tree (or concrete wall) on top of your vehicle, what do you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Stay back, stay safe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First, assess the damage — from a safe distance.\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/storms/storms.page#:~:text=Stay%20away%20from%20downed%20power,%2D800%2D743%2D5000.\"> PG&E advises people to avoid downed power lines\u003c/a> and call 911 immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Tell your city\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>How you contact your city will depend on where you live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, you can either \u003ca href=\"https://sf311.org/help/sf311-mobile-app\">download the SF311 app\u003c/a> or visit \u003ca href=\"https://sf311.org/\">SF311.org\u003c/a>. You can also call 311 and ask to be connected to the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/about/contact-us\">Department of Public Works\u003c/a> to report a downed tree; DPW manages \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/streettreesf\">StreetTreeSF, a program that professionally maintains and cares for more than 124,000 street trees\u003c/a> growing throughout the city. According to its website, street trees are pruned on a three- to five-year cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11937459 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115067-1020x668.jpg']Similarly to PG&E, SF311 advises residents who see a downed tree that has struck power lines, vehicles or buildings to call 911. Be sure to take detailed notes of the damage: Write down the street address, vehicle license plate number (if a car has been hit) and nearest cross street to where the fallen tree or limb is located. You can also fill out \u003ca href=\"https://sf311.org/new-request-main/tree-maintenance\">a tree maintenance request form online\u003c/a>, depending on whether you notice a tree that appears to be in danger of falling or one that has fallen and caused surrounding damage. You can upload photos with the request and include a brief description of what occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other ways to report a fallen tree in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/oak311\">OAK311\u003c/a>: In Oakland, you can report emergencies like downed trees or limbs, flooding, sewer overflows and street signal outages to OAK311 by dialing 311 or calling 510-615-5566. On the OAK311 home page, residents can also submit reports for all nonemergency issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/us-ca-alameda\">SeeClickFix\u003c/a>: This 311-based online reporting service works by city. In \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/us-ca-alameda\">Alameda\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/Q4nTBJPnrfGyosn85v3Js1Uq/issues/map?lat=37.866488440719856&lng=-122.29885534264011&max_lat=37.875245700793144&max_lng=-122.27997259117531&min_lat=37.8577301397966&min_lng=-122.31773809410494&zoom=14\">Berkeley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/7YixXMWCgFA1uHbZX8c9YTuR/issues/map?lat=37.838869251925544&lng=-122.29969973805726&max_lat=37.84762979361093&max_lng=-122.28081698659244&min_lat=37.830107669645855&min_lng=-122.31858248952206&zoom=14\">Emeryville\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/pjqrRrbqWEvUPoXTQYvBCN2E/issues/map?lat=37.65345277746831&lng=-122.41660015369848&max_lat=37.662235296934696&max_lng=-122.39771740223368&min_lat=37.64466921914891&min_lng=-122.43548290516331&zoom=14\">South San Francisco\u003c/a> and beyond, residents can visit the \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/\">SeeClickFix\u003c/a> home page, create an account and report and upload photos of downed trees or limbs, street signal outages, illegal dumping and other safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/city-services/streets-sidewalks-sewers-and-utilities/city-trees-and-coast-live-oak-ordinance\">Urban Forestry\u003c/a>: Berkeley residents wanting to request the removal of a city tree can call 311 if it is within city limits, or dial 510-981-2489. You also can email a request with photos and necessary street information to trees@cityofberkeley.info.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live outside these areas, your city or county may have its own process for reporting a fallen tree. Google “report a fallen tree” plus the name of your city or county to find the website, email address or phone number that’s recommended as the fastest way to alert local authorities to the hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop.jpg\" alt=\"A gigantic tree with dark bark has fallen to the ground with thick branches busted open to reveal tan wooden insides. A black Jeep has taken on large fallen branches and debris to the left of the disaster as wet soil and muddy puddles surround the area.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-800x619.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-1020x789.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-1536x1189.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A massive blue spruce fell on power lines in Oakland during storms on Jan. 4, 2023, damaging the electrical panel at a nearby home and causing an outage. The city has received more than 324 tree-related service requests since New Year’s Eve due to torrential rains and wind. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>3. Document everything for your insurance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Take photos and document everything. Snap photos from multiple angles of your vehicle or property, and write down the date and time(s) the damage happened. Be sure to do all of this before your car gets safely moved.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Katina Papson, San Francisco artist and educator\"]‘Our first reaction was obviously shock. And then, the next one was, ‘OK, we need to call the insurance company, and I don’t remember if we even have coverage that would take care of any of this.”[/pullquote]You’ll also want to gather receipts: namely, receipts of recent car maintenance you paid for. This could include fresh tires, engine parts and even a new radio or speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who’ve experienced unexpected property damage like Papson, it’s important to have all these receipts, photos and files to prepare for the next step: calling your auto insurance company.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Start the conversation with your insurance provider\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Be prepared to talk to a lot of people about your claim. “You will start to see that there are just so many individuals in the insurance companies that you will have to talk to, like an auto damage adjuster, and then there’s a supplement adjuster,” Papson said. “They are all in communication with the body shop — and with you — so there’s a lot of communication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"left\" citation=\"Katina Papson, San Francisco artist and educator\"]‘One thing that you’ll notice about the auto adjusters is there are less of them now since COVID, and they are starting to do assessments via FaceTime.’[/pullquote]One tip Papson said she found useful was downloading her insurance company’s app, which she used to file a claim and upload all the photos she took. She also recommends creating a simple spreadsheet with insurance policy information, important phone numbers and individuals you speak to along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that you’ll notice about the auto adjusters is there are less of them now since COVID, and they are starting to do assessments via FaceTime,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s all the more reason to be diligent when photographing and documenting all damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Communicate and advocate strongly for yourself,” she said. “You’ve got to just keep calling the insurance company — and it’s an incredible amount of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. How to file a claim with the city for your damages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you live in San Francisco, once you’ve notified DPW and filed a report with your insurance company, it’s time to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/claims/\">file a claim with the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office\u003c/a> for damages to your vehicle and/or property if, say, a city tree did in fact fall onto and damage your property. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Claims-Form-02-14-1.pdf\">Here’s a PDF link to the direct form\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/claims/\"> city attorney’s website\u003c/a>, “claims for death or injury to persons or damage to personal property must be filed within six months after the accident giving rise to the claim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a claim is filed, you should receive a letter of acknowledgment with a claim number notifying you that the claim has been received. Be sure to write this important information down and reference it as you follow up on the case’s status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944950\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Subaru Outback is buried beneath rubble and dirt from a landslide. One worker stands at the top of a hill with two houses behind him. Yellow caution tape blocks off the perimeter.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concrete wall in the Glen Park neighborhood buckled under the torrential downpour, which caused a landslide and totaled Katina Papson’s Subaru Outback (bottom left). \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katina Papson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. Seek transportation support if you’re left temporarily without a car\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First, check whether your vehicle’s insurance coverage plan includes providing you with the use of a rental car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it doesn’t, consider telling friends and co-workers about your situation and requesting to carpool. You can also brush up on your public transportation routes, much like Papson did: For the past two and a half months, she’s carpooled with friends and ridden Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Katina Papson, San Francisco artist and educator\"]‘Be diligent about your paperwork, and be ready to go back and forth with the insurance company. … There’s so many ways that you can kind of fight with them a little bit and stand up for yourself.’[/pullquote]“We did have an umbrella coverage plan with Geico. But under that plan, we didn’t have a rental car. So I took the bus up until last week when I just bought another car,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7. Lastly, make sure you know your car’s worth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Papson said that, in the end, she received under $10,000 for her totaled Subaru. She pointed out that the used-car market is “bizarre” right now and that people are selling their vehicles for significantly more than the Kelley Blue Book value — all of which went into her decision to go with Geico’s assessment to total the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Be diligent about your paperwork, and be ready to go back and forth with the insurance company,” she said. “Sometimes, you can find listings online for the same car, like a used-car listing. [Your insurer is] going to look at the Kelley Blue Book value, which isn’t accurate anymore. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many ways that you can kind of fight with them a little bit and stand up for yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chrisestradacomic/?hl=en\">Chris Estrada\u003c/a> loves wandering around San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing on the corner of Columbus and Vallejo with a slicked-back gentlemen’s cut and a crisp, black T-shirt, the Los Angeles-born stand-up comedian is arguably one of today’s funniest entertainers. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Comedian Chris Estrada\"]‘I truly love walking around San Francisco just because it’s such a beautiful city.’[/pullquote] He’s also the star and co-creator of the widely acclaimed TV series \u003cem>This Fool\u003c/em>, now in its second season on Hulu. While actors and writers, including Estrada, continue to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956178/its-now-or-never-writers-and-actors-see-conflict-with-big-tech-as-existential\">strike over labor disputes\u003c/a>, the 39-year-old is making audiences laugh in person at some of the best comedy clubs in the country, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.punchlinecomedyclub.com/\">current run at the Punch Line\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I truly love walking around San Francisco just because it’s such a beautiful city,” said Estrada while visiting Molinari Delicatessen for a quick lunch on Thursday afternoon. “We’re right down the street from City Lights. I love City Lights. It’s one of my favorite bookstores in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also a fan of Mr. Bings in North Beach and the quieter side of the Sunset because it’s right by the water (he loves the fog). Estrada’s no stranger to the Punch Line, where he’s previously been an opener, and he’s performed at Cobb’s and Comedy Central’s Clusterfest at the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, however, Estrada makes his headline debut at the venue where the likes of comedy figures such as the late Robin Williams, Dana Carvey and Dave Chappelle have all stood on stage making audiences laugh through the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend, Estrada isn’t alone. He’s tapped local comedian Allison Hooker as host, and L.A.-based comic Zack Chapaloni to warm up the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrada’s comedy style is both personal and universal. He can write a joke with details that instantly resonate with Latinos, and still have the entire audience laughing. He wants everyone in on the joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also draws on his own life: the absurdity of missing the thrill of toxic relationships, or how being nice is an “ugly people quality” while calling himself “an ugly fool with a heart of gold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making audiences erupt in laughter at clubs like the Punch Line this past week is something Estrada said he’s been working toward for the last decade — and it feels good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That club is really special. It’s just beautiful in there. To me, it’s one of the perfect clubs in the country,” Estrada said. “It’s low ceilings. It’s incredibly intimate. It fits about 180, maybe 200 [people], which is nice. It’s just small, wide and that backdrop is iconic. That painted backdrop of San Francisco — I love it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I just kept going and going’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Losing a nighttime job as a valet for the Beverly Hilton changed the trajectory of Estrada’s life. Having grown up in working-class neighborhoods like Inglewood and South Central, he often jokes that he always held “three shitty jobs” that would pay him the equivalent of one shitty job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he lost the valet gig — parking luxury cars at star-studded events like the Golden Globes — his nights suddenly freed up. 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And then, I was like, ‘Fuck it. I don’t have anything to do at night anymore so I’m just going to keep doing this,’” he said. “I kept doing it blindly. I just kept going and going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said headlining the Punch Line feels like a real stepping stone, especially when he reflects on the trips he used to make to San Francisco from Los Angeles just to watch performances and get a feel for the local scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clubs out here, the people out here, they’re pretty savvy, comedically,” he said. “Audiences, they’re just a sharp, city audience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting inspiration from Bay Area punk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Besides his affinity for stand-up, Estrada is also a huge music enthusiast. He admits to driving out of his way to places like Going Underground Records in downtown Bakersfield just to pick up a rare album. He loves Joe Strummer, and often wears punk and hardcore T-shirts from local and national bands. So it’s no surprise to learn that Estrada is well-versed in Bay Area punk bands and long-lost music venues in San Francisco. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Comedian Chris Estrada\"]‘San Francisco itself has such a history of punk music. I also love Dead Kennedys. I love Spazz, an old powerviolence band. There are so many Bay Area punk bands that I love.’[/pullquote] “I also like to walk around and look for old punk venues that don’t exist anymore. There was this Filipino place out here in the ’70s called Mabuhay Gardens and they used to rent out its place to punk shows,” he said. “There was another place not too far from here called the Deaf Club. It was a club for deaf people and then a lot of punk bands used to perform there. I always look around for these places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s a fan of Berkeley-formed hardcore punk band Spitboy, and said drummer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11470573/the-struggles-and-victories-of-a-chicana-woman-in-a-hardcore-band\">Michelle Cruz Gonzales\u003c/a> attended one of his Punch Line shows this week. He enjoys The Avengers, The Dils and Crime. He also recommends new bands like Oakland punks Deseos Primitivos, who he found on Bandcamp and whose album he immediately bought at a record store in downtown L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco itself has such a history of punk music,” he said. “I also love Dead Kennedys. I love Spazz, an old powerviolence band. There are so many Bay Area punk bands that I love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music accompanies Estrada on the road, bringing him comfort on long drives and flights while on tour. It’s also what gets him in the right mindset before he takes the stage. 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It’s comedy he’s betting on — and he aims to leave audiences across the country wanting an encore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of \u003cem>This Fool\u003c/em>, most people are coming to see me because of that. Some of them don’t know me as a stand-up comedian. I don’t know how long I’ll have the show. Maybe we’ll have a third season, maybe we won’t. Who knows? At some point, it ends,” Estrada said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want [audiences] to keep coming because they know the show,” he added. “I want a large part of them to keep coming because they know me as a comedian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Estrada performs at the Punch Line in San Francisco through Aug. 19. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.punchlinecomedyclub.com/\">\u003cem>Details here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>While some kids soak up the last days of \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/summerguide2023\">summer\u003c/a> vacation before another school year begins, five elementary school track-and-field athletes from Oakland are ready to lace up their sneakers to compete in the Junior Olympics in Iowa this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These 8-to-10-year-old competitors, along with a swift, 5-year-old teammate, are a part of the \u003ca href=\"https://eastoaklandgems.com/\">East Oakland Track Gems\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization that prepares students from various OUSD campuses for success in the sport — and offers mentorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EOTG was originally founded in the early aughts by Cal Athletics Hall of Fame track star, the late \u003ca href=\"https://pac-12.com/article/2021/07/15/cal-hall-famer-willie-white-passes-away\">Coach Willie White\u003c/a>. Coach White died in 2021 at 82 years old. But during his time as a mega-athlete in the 1950s, he received countless honors and awards through his more than 60-year career as a mentor in track and field. In 1981, the City of Berkeley dedicated July 11 as “Coach Willie White Day,” followed by the City of Oakland proclaiming June 7 as a day in his honor in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1597px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man runs on a track with the word \"California\" written on his shirt.' width=\"1597\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED.jpg 1597w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED-1020x1277.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED-1226x1536.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1597px) 100vw, 1597px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Athletics Hall of Fame track star Willie White. During his time as a mega-athlete in the 1950s, he received countless honors and awards through his more than 60-year career as a mentor in track and field. White was the original founder of the East Oakland Track Gems. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cal Athletics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Picking up Coach White’s baton by keeping EOTG an active community organization, is Coach Traivon Soto-Johnson (who goes by Coach Soto), a longtime friend of White’s and current leader of the nonprofit. Coach Soto said about 25 kids ages 5 to 18 participated in the program during the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, five students qualified for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatf.org/events/2023/2023-usatf-national-junior-olympic-track-field-cha\">USA Track and Field (USATF) Junior Olympics\u003c/a> in Eugene, Oregon, where they competed in three categories last weekend: the 4×100-meter sprint relay, long jump and shot put. Although EOTG athletes often qualify for the Junior Olympics, this is the first season the team made it to the finals and traveled for the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relay team is currently \u003ca href=\"https://live.athletictiming.net/meets/26447\">ranked No. 9 in the nation overall\u003c/a>. One 8-year-old, John Howard III, placed No. 8 in shot put, qualified for the finals and received the All-American medal. In his first year on the Gems, 9-year-old Kaden Remson said he achieved a personal record by throwing a round, 6-pound shot at a distance of 6 feet, 14 inches. His mother, Jasmine Remson-Omari, drove him to Oregon to compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957030\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Four children wearing lots of medals pose for a photo with a man on an athletic field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Oakland Track Gems Coach Traivon Soto-Johnson with team members Kaden Remson, Elijah Soto-Sims, Kayden Thompson and John Howard III at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think that this whole entire season has been a confidence builder. And then, to get to that level, he stood a little bit taller, arms and shoulders a little bit back,” she said. “Everyone that stopped him was just telling him, dude, no matter where you place, no matter what you did, there’s thousands of kids that want to be here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coach Soto’s son, Elijah Soto-Sims, was the only athlete on the team who qualified in all three of the events he entered. William Blackwell III, an 8-year-old anchor leg with several gold medals in long jump and the 100-meter, zoomed by many tough competitors while in Oregon to help the relay team achieve its national ranking. (The anchor leg is the final position in a relay race and is generally reserved for the fastest runner on a team.) The Gems even have a 5-year-old in the mix with Kayden Thompson, who earned a whopping 19 medals over the entire season, all while keeping up with his older teammates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957031\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boy flexes his bicep muscle while posing for a photo with over ten medals hanging from around his neck.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayden Thompson, 5, poses for a portrait with his track medals at Castlemont High School in Oakland. Thompson earned 19 medals total during this season as the youngest member of the East Oakland Track Gems. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a parent, I can be proud until I’m blue in the face. But I ask him, ‘Are you proud of you?’ Because that matters,” said Jocelyn Evans, Thompson’s mother, during Monday afternoon’s practice at Castlemont High School. “I just love to see them in their element. It’s just so organic. It makes me so proud because how many people can say their kids went to the Junior Olympics?”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jocelyn Evans, mother of 5-year-old Kayden Thompson\"]‘As a parent, I can be proud until I’m blue in the face. But I ask him, ‘Are you proud of you?’ Because that matters.’[/pullquote]With their Olympic debut in Eugene behind them, these Oakland students are now gearing up to compete in the second biggest competition of their lives so far: the \u003ca href=\"https://aausports.org/news.php?news_id=1982860\">Amateur Athletic Union\u003c/a> (AAU) Junior Olympics in Des Moines, Iowa, running from July 26 to Aug. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tears come to my eyes just thinking about it,” said Coach Soto, holding back emotion. “Coach Willie White is a legendary coach. I’ve been working with him for over 15 years helping build the program. So to be in this position, where we’re at right now, I said, ‘Coach, we’re going to do it, Coach. We’re going to do it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rooted in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>EOTG’s path to the Junior Olympics wasn’t easy. In fact, it wasn’t even paved. When training started, the team didn’t have a track to practice on, let alone access to a long jump pit. The Gems typically train in the evenings at Castlemont High School on MacArthur Boulevard, but at the time, the field was under construction. So Coach Soto rented space where he could at Bancroft Middle School to keep his athletes sharp until Castlemont’s track was ready to welcome the team back in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Four children run around a track.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: John Howard III, Elijah Soto-Sims, Kayden Thompson and Kaden Remson run on the track at Castlemont High School during one of their last practices before the Junior Olympics in Iowa. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just an amazing year,” Coach Soto said. “We had nine [students] qualify for Iowa, but we didn’t have the funding available to have everybody go. A lot of the funding came in after we had to register. But we had enough to take the relay team because they qualified, and then, the [10-year-old] long jumper, we were able to get him out there as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what OUSD can do to support EOTG in its future endeavors, Director of Communications, John Sasaki, told KQED that since the organization exists outside the district, it couldn’t directly dedicate funds to the team. But it can show support in other ways by connecting the team to local companies that often partner with the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime that we have a great organization that we work closely with and that helps our kids, we want to raise those up,” Sasaki said. “Because it does, without a doubt, take a village to raise our kids with all these wonderful organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957032\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boy flexes his bicep muscles while posing for a photo with over ten medals hanging from around his neck.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elijah Soto-Sims, 7, poses for a portrait with his track medals at Castlemont High School in Oakland, on Monday, July 31, 2023. Soto-Sims runs track with the East Oakland Track Gems. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once word spread through the community that nine EOTG athletes qualified for Iowa, but the team lacked funds to send everyone to compete — Oakland stepped up. Coach Soto started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-team-travel-to-the-junior-olympics?member=27879679&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_location=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> campaign for his team, which as of this reporting, received over $7,600 out of its $20,000 goal from 130 donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds raised will go toward helping the team with travel, food and hotel expenses as they compete in Iowa. Before the Junior Olympics in Oregon, many of the students had never stepped foot outside of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local businesses such as Radius Recycling (formerly Schnitzer Steel), a company that operates in both East and West Oakland, heard about the Gems qualifying for the Junior Olympics and donated an additional $10,000 to support their trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two children stretch leaning on the metal fence around a track.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Howard III (front) and Kaden Remson do a drill at track practice with their coach, Traivon Soto-Johnson at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tasion Kwamilele, director of educational partnerships and government and public affairs manager for Radius Recycling, told KQED she grew up attending various Oakland schools, from Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary to the Oakland School for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recognizing the public safety issues that we’ve been having in our city, it’s the work that Coach Soto’s doing, it really is keeping a group of kids off the streets,” she said. “Beyond that, it’s also showing them the possibilities of what’s out there.”[aside postID=news_11942006 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Mother-and-Son-1020x765.jpeg']Kwamilele said she knew Coach White and watched as Coach Soto continued his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve known about Coach Soto just continuing to keep the team thriving and his promise to Coach White to keep the team going,” she said. “I’ve been so proud of him for keeping his promise. It’s kind of been a fairytale season for the team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We are like hidden gems’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The light tinging sounds of metal clinking together radiate from a distance as four kids and a group of parents stand on a pristine football field surrounded by a terracotta-colored running track. On a warm, Monday afternoon at Castlemont High’s newly renovated sports stadium, the Gems hold one of their final practices before they fly to Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are hurting my neck,” said 8-year-old John Howard III, who proudly wore every medal from the entire season on his little body. Another child busted out a quick cartwheel near the end field before Coach Soto called the boys to focus on warm-up exercises on the track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957033\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boy poses for a photo with over ten medals hanging from around his neck.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Howard III, 8, poses for a portrait with his track medals at Castlemont High School. In Eugene, Oregon, Howard III placed No. 8 in shot put, qualified for the finals and received the All-American medal. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As parents stood on the field, faces beaming with pride, Coach Soto told KQED the Gems’ parents, along with the support of Oakland, gave the kids the push they needed to succeed going into their next competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland community is rooting for y’all right now,” Coach Soto said. “We are like hidden gems. There’s so much negativity about Oakland, you don’t get to see the positive. This was one of the positive things that I saw that we were doing because we’re not just about being competitive or being good at track and field. We’re about health. We’re trying to improve the health of the community through track and field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957027\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man inspects the shoe of a child on a sports field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Oakland Track Gems Coach Traivon Soto-Johnson (right) helps Kayden Thompson (left) tie his shoes at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During practice, one Gem was already in-flight to Iowa with his family as he was scheduled to compete in events starting Tuesday. William Blackwell III, son of former wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers William Blackwell Jr., told KQED his son has surprised him and his wife, Aisha Blackwell since he was 9 months old. Still, seeing his boy run after new goals at full speed never gets old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s getting to show the world what he can actually do,” Blackwell Jr. said. “I’m going to always be there supporting him, training him, pushing him, encouraging him, strengthening him, loving him. Because sports only last for so long. But a father, for me, is a lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>While some kids soak up the last days of \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/summerguide2023\">summer\u003c/a> vacation before another school year begins, five elementary school track-and-field athletes from Oakland are ready to lace up their sneakers to compete in the Junior Olympics in Iowa this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These 8-to-10-year-old competitors, along with a swift, 5-year-old teammate, are a part of the \u003ca href=\"https://eastoaklandgems.com/\">East Oakland Track Gems\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization that prepares students from various OUSD campuses for success in the sport — and offers mentorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EOTG was originally founded in the early aughts by Cal Athletics Hall of Fame track star, the late \u003ca href=\"https://pac-12.com/article/2021/07/15/cal-hall-famer-willie-white-passes-away\">Coach Willie White\u003c/a>. Coach White died in 2021 at 82 years old. But during his time as a mega-athlete in the 1950s, he received countless honors and awards through his more than 60-year career as a mentor in track and field. In 1981, the City of Berkeley dedicated July 11 as “Coach Willie White Day,” followed by the City of Oakland proclaiming June 7 as a day in his honor in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1597px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man runs on a track with the word \"California\" written on his shirt.' width=\"1597\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED.jpg 1597w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED-1020x1277.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-White-Willie-CA-KQED-1226x1536.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1597px) 100vw, 1597px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Athletics Hall of Fame track star Willie White. During his time as a mega-athlete in the 1950s, he received countless honors and awards through his more than 60-year career as a mentor in track and field. White was the original founder of the East Oakland Track Gems. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cal Athletics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Picking up Coach White’s baton by keeping EOTG an active community organization, is Coach Traivon Soto-Johnson (who goes by Coach Soto), a longtime friend of White’s and current leader of the nonprofit. Coach Soto said about 25 kids ages 5 to 18 participated in the program during the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, five students qualified for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatf.org/events/2023/2023-usatf-national-junior-olympic-track-field-cha\">USA Track and Field (USATF) Junior Olympics\u003c/a> in Eugene, Oregon, where they competed in three categories last weekend: the 4×100-meter sprint relay, long jump and shot put. Although EOTG athletes often qualify for the Junior Olympics, this is the first season the team made it to the finals and traveled for the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relay team is currently \u003ca href=\"https://live.athletictiming.net/meets/26447\">ranked No. 9 in the nation overall\u003c/a>. One 8-year-old, John Howard III, placed No. 8 in shot put, qualified for the finals and received the All-American medal. In his first year on the Gems, 9-year-old Kaden Remson said he achieved a personal record by throwing a round, 6-pound shot at a distance of 6 feet, 14 inches. His mother, Jasmine Remson-Omari, drove him to Oregon to compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957030\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Four children wearing lots of medals pose for a photo with a man on an athletic field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67462_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-36-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Oakland Track Gems Coach Traivon Soto-Johnson with team members Kaden Remson, Elijah Soto-Sims, Kayden Thompson and John Howard III at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think that this whole entire season has been a confidence builder. And then, to get to that level, he stood a little bit taller, arms and shoulders a little bit back,” she said. “Everyone that stopped him was just telling him, dude, no matter where you place, no matter what you did, there’s thousands of kids that want to be here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coach Soto’s son, Elijah Soto-Sims, was the only athlete on the team who qualified in all three of the events he entered. William Blackwell III, an 8-year-old anchor leg with several gold medals in long jump and the 100-meter, zoomed by many tough competitors while in Oregon to help the relay team achieve its national ranking. (The anchor leg is the final position in a relay race and is generally reserved for the fastest runner on a team.) The Gems even have a 5-year-old in the mix with Kayden Thompson, who earned a whopping 19 medals over the entire season, all while keeping up with his older teammates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957031\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boy flexes his bicep muscle while posing for a photo with over ten medals hanging from around his neck.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67463_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-37-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayden Thompson, 5, poses for a portrait with his track medals at Castlemont High School in Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>With their Olympic debut in Eugene behind them, these Oakland students are now gearing up to compete in the second biggest competition of their lives so far: the \u003ca href=\"https://aausports.org/news.php?news_id=1982860\">Amateur Athletic Union\u003c/a> (AAU) Junior Olympics in Des Moines, Iowa, running from July 26 to Aug. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tears come to my eyes just thinking about it,” said Coach Soto, holding back emotion. “Coach Willie White is a legendary coach. I’ve been working with him for over 15 years helping build the program. So to be in this position, where we’re at right now, I said, ‘Coach, we’re going to do it, Coach. We’re going to do it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rooted in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>EOTG’s path to the Junior Olympics wasn’t easy. In fact, it wasn’t even paved. When training started, the team didn’t have a track to practice on, let alone access to a long jump pit. The Gems typically train in the evenings at Castlemont High School on MacArthur Boulevard, but at the time, the field was under construction. So Coach Soto rented space where he could at Bancroft Middle School to keep his athletes sharp until Castlemont’s track was ready to welcome the team back in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Four children run around a track.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67429_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-05-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: John Howard III, Elijah Soto-Sims, Kayden Thompson and Kaden Remson run on the track at Castlemont High School during one of their last practices before the Junior Olympics in Iowa. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just an amazing year,” Coach Soto said. “We had nine [students] qualify for Iowa, but we didn’t have the funding available to have everybody go. A lot of the funding came in after we had to register. But we had enough to take the relay team because they qualified, and then, the [10-year-old] long jumper, we were able to get him out there as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what OUSD can do to support EOTG in its future endeavors, Director of Communications, John Sasaki, told KQED that since the organization exists outside the district, it couldn’t directly dedicate funds to the team. But it can show support in other ways by connecting the team to local companies that often partner with the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime that we have a great organization that we work closely with and that helps our kids, we want to raise those up,” Sasaki said. “Because it does, without a doubt, take a village to raise our kids with all these wonderful organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957032\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boy flexes his bicep muscles while posing for a photo with over ten medals hanging from around his neck.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67465_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-39-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elijah Soto-Sims, 7, poses for a portrait with his track medals at Castlemont High School in Oakland, on Monday, July 31, 2023. Soto-Sims runs track with the East Oakland Track Gems. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once word spread through the community that nine EOTG athletes qualified for Iowa, but the team lacked funds to send everyone to compete — Oakland stepped up. Coach Soto started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-team-travel-to-the-junior-olympics?member=27879679&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_location=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> campaign for his team, which as of this reporting, received over $7,600 out of its $20,000 goal from 130 donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds raised will go toward helping the team with travel, food and hotel expenses as they compete in Iowa. Before the Junior Olympics in Oregon, many of the students had never stepped foot outside of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local businesses such as Radius Recycling (formerly Schnitzer Steel), a company that operates in both East and West Oakland, heard about the Gems qualifying for the Junior Olympics and donated an additional $10,000 to support their trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two children stretch leaning on the metal fence around a track.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67440_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-14-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Howard III (front) and Kaden Remson do a drill at track practice with their coach, Traivon Soto-Johnson at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tasion Kwamilele, director of educational partnerships and government and public affairs manager for Radius Recycling, told KQED she grew up attending various Oakland schools, from Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary to the Oakland School for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recognizing the public safety issues that we’ve been having in our city, it’s the work that Coach Soto’s doing, it really is keeping a group of kids off the streets,” she said. “Beyond that, it’s also showing them the possibilities of what’s out there.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kwamilele said she knew Coach White and watched as Coach Soto continued his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve known about Coach Soto just continuing to keep the team thriving and his promise to Coach White to keep the team going,” she said. “I’ve been so proud of him for keeping his promise. It’s kind of been a fairytale season for the team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We are like hidden gems’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The light tinging sounds of metal clinking together radiate from a distance as four kids and a group of parents stand on a pristine football field surrounded by a terracotta-colored running track. On a warm, Monday afternoon at Castlemont High’s newly renovated sports stadium, the Gems hold one of their final practices before they fly to Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are hurting my neck,” said 8-year-old John Howard III, who proudly wore every medal from the entire season on his little body. Another child busted out a quick cartwheel near the end field before Coach Soto called the boys to focus on warm-up exercises on the track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957033\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boy poses for a photo with over ten medals hanging from around his neck.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67467_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-41-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Howard III, 8, poses for a portrait with his track medals at Castlemont High School. In Eugene, Oregon, Howard III placed No. 8 in shot put, qualified for the finals and received the All-American medal. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As parents stood on the field, faces beaming with pride, Coach Soto told KQED the Gems’ parents, along with the support of Oakland, gave the kids the push they needed to succeed going into their next competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland community is rooting for y’all right now,” Coach Soto said. “We are like hidden gems. There’s so much negativity about Oakland, you don’t get to see the positive. This was one of the positive things that I saw that we were doing because we’re not just about being competitive or being good at track and field. We’re about health. We’re trying to improve the health of the community through track and field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957027\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man inspects the shoe of a child on a sports field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67447_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-21-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Oakland Track Gems Coach Traivon Soto-Johnson (right) helps Kayden Thompson (left) tie his shoes at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During practice, one Gem was already in-flight to Iowa with his family as he was scheduled to compete in events starting Tuesday. William Blackwell III, son of former wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers William Blackwell Jr., told KQED his son has surprised him and his wife, Aisha Blackwell since he was 9 months old. Still, seeing his boy run after new goals at full speed never gets old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s getting to show the world what he can actually do,” Blackwell Jr. said. “I’m going to always be there supporting him, training him, pushing him, encouraging him, strengthening him, loving him. Because sports only last for so long. But a father, for me, is a lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland A’s fans swarmed into the Coliseum Tuesday night, many wearing green T-shirts emblazoned with the word “Sell” as part of a last-ditch effort to keep the team in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sell the team!” fans chanted thousands of times during the A’s 2–1 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays that gave Oakland a season-best seven-game winning streak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the so-called reverse boycott, which drew the biggest crowd of the season at 27,759, are calling for A’s owner John Fisher to sell the 55-year-old baseball franchise to a buyer committed to keeping the team in Oakland, rather than moving forward with plans to build a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949532/oakland-as-signal-move-to-las-vegas-strip-after-reaching-an-agreement-for-potential-stadium-site\">$1.5 billion stadium on the Las Vegas Strip\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move to the desert came one step closer to reality Tuesday afternoon when the Nevada state Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/2023-legislature/as-ballpark-funding-bill-approved-by-nevada-senate-2793296/\">voted in favor of an amended version\u003c/a> of a proposed $380 million public financing package for the new stadium. The measure must now be approved by the state Assembly and the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952972 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man in a lime green shirt that reads \"sell\" points and smiles at the camera while standing in a parking lot.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Wohl at the reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like my heart is being ripped out. It’s the worst feeling in the world, really,” Matthew Wohl, a lifelong A’s fan, said during a tailgate party before the game Tuesday night. “I’ve barely been watching baseball this year, but I know more than likely they’re leaving. Watching them leave is just killing me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball needs to be in Oakland,” he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s defy the odds and manage to stay “rooted in Oakland,” as its supporters are demanding, the team would face an already bruised and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">devastated fan base\u003c/a> that has united in condemning Fisher and team president Dave Kaval. Both executives, they say, have poorly managed the team and are betraying a city the A’s have called home since moving from Kansas City in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the owner owns the team, but it’s not theirs, it’s the community’s,” said Jorge Leon, president of A’s fan group the Oakland ’68s, at the Coliseum last week. “The A’s [management] have been alienating the fan base for a while. It’s nothing new. And so, now it’s the last straw — and people are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland ’68s are known for sitting in the right-field bleachers, spiritedly rooting for their team. Since news of the potential A’s Vegas move, the group has taken to chanting brazen sentiments such as, “Sell the team,” as they beat on drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd of people wearing Oakland A's clothing fill an outdoor parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather at the Oakland Coliseum as part of a reverse boycott to protest the ownership of the team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, the group raised more than $27,000 from fans in Oakland and farther afield, and teamed up with local clothing company Oaklandish to produce the “Sell” T-shirts that go for $5 a pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Batres, who drove down from Sacramento for Tuesday’s event, was among the thousands donning the green T-shirts. “I’ve had a big love affair with the A’s over the Giants for quite some time. And I felt that it was kind of a personal thing, especially when I consider them my team,” said Batres, who’s been a die-hard fan for four decades. “So even suggesting the fact they’re going to move to Las Vegas is kind of a big deal to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt='Three men stand beside a car with t-shirts that read \"sell\" drinking beer, eating snacks and talking to each other.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Batres (right) joins other Oakland A’s fans during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie Callahan-Cisco said she and her older sister had come both to support the team and as tribute to their father, Dick Callahan, the longtime A’s public address announcer, who died in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so gratifying to see all of these people supporting the team and this reverse boycott,” she said. “The fans really initiated this and then it just really spread like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before first pitch, the A’s announced they would donate all ticket revenue from the game to the Alameda County Community Food Bank and Oakland Public Education Fund — a total of $811,107.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952928 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of seven people stand together to take a photo in an outdoor parking lot, all but one wear t-shirts reading "sell" and several wear Oakland A's hats.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Callahan (second from the right), Cary Kennerley (left of center) and Katie Callahan-Cisco (center) tailgate in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum with their families. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fight to keep the A’s in Oakland comes just three years after the city lost the Raiders — also to Las Vegas. The year before, the Golden State Warriors jumped ship to a new stadium in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s, who play in the American League West, currently sit at the bottom of their division and, at 19–50, have lost more games this season than any other team in the league. Still, they managed to beat the Rays — who have the best record in baseball — on Monday and Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952916 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young men wearing Oakland A's jerseys look at the camera while standing beside a car a large open parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob and Joseph Palpallatoc join other fans of the Oakland A’s during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is ridiculous that they’re trying to move to Las Vegas. I think that we need to keep them here in Oakland,” said Annette Burt, 60, who has been an A’s fan since she was 5 years old. “It’s been a family pastime for me forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burt said she understands the chances of the team staying here are slim, but is still holding out hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s a done deal,” she said. “I think there’s still enough interest, and it can be a very competitive team and it has been in the past. If we had owners backing us up, it would be very successful. And it would be successful for Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Phoebe Quinton and Matthew Green, and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland A’s fans swarmed into the Coliseum Tuesday night, many wearing green T-shirts emblazoned with the word “Sell” as part of a last-ditch effort to keep the team in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sell the team!” fans chanted thousands of times during the A’s 2–1 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays that gave Oakland a season-best seven-game winning streak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the so-called reverse boycott, which drew the biggest crowd of the season at 27,759, are calling for A’s owner John Fisher to sell the 55-year-old baseball franchise to a buyer committed to keeping the team in Oakland, rather than moving forward with plans to build a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949532/oakland-as-signal-move-to-las-vegas-strip-after-reaching-an-agreement-for-potential-stadium-site\">$1.5 billion stadium on the Las Vegas Strip\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move to the desert came one step closer to reality Tuesday afternoon when the Nevada state Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/2023-legislature/as-ballpark-funding-bill-approved-by-nevada-senate-2793296/\">voted in favor of an amended version\u003c/a> of a proposed $380 million public financing package for the new stadium. The measure must now be approved by the state Assembly and the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952972 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man in a lime green shirt that reads \"sell\" points and smiles at the camera while standing in a parking lot.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Wohl at the reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like my heart is being ripped out. It’s the worst feeling in the world, really,” Matthew Wohl, a lifelong A’s fan, said during a tailgate party before the game Tuesday night. “I’ve barely been watching baseball this year, but I know more than likely they’re leaving. Watching them leave is just killing me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball needs to be in Oakland,” he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s defy the odds and manage to stay “rooted in Oakland,” as its supporters are demanding, the team would face an already bruised and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">devastated fan base\u003c/a> that has united in condemning Fisher and team president Dave Kaval. Both executives, they say, have poorly managed the team and are betraying a city the A’s have called home since moving from Kansas City in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the owner owns the team, but it’s not theirs, it’s the community’s,” said Jorge Leon, president of A’s fan group the Oakland ’68s, at the Coliseum last week. “The A’s [management] have been alienating the fan base for a while. It’s nothing new. And so, now it’s the last straw — and people are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland ’68s are known for sitting in the right-field bleachers, spiritedly rooting for their team. Since news of the potential A’s Vegas move, the group has taken to chanting brazen sentiments such as, “Sell the team,” as they beat on drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd of people wearing Oakland A's clothing fill an outdoor parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather at the Oakland Coliseum as part of a reverse boycott to protest the ownership of the team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, the group raised more than $27,000 from fans in Oakland and farther afield, and teamed up with local clothing company Oaklandish to produce the “Sell” T-shirts that go for $5 a pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Batres, who drove down from Sacramento for Tuesday’s event, was among the thousands donning the green T-shirts. “I’ve had a big love affair with the A’s over the Giants for quite some time. And I felt that it was kind of a personal thing, especially when I consider them my team,” said Batres, who’s been a die-hard fan for four decades. “So even suggesting the fact they’re going to move to Las Vegas is kind of a big deal to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt='Three men stand beside a car with t-shirts that read \"sell\" drinking beer, eating snacks and talking to each other.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Batres (right) joins other Oakland A’s fans during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie Callahan-Cisco said she and her older sister had come both to support the team and as tribute to their father, Dick Callahan, the longtime A’s public address announcer, who died in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so gratifying to see all of these people supporting the team and this reverse boycott,” she said. “The fans really initiated this and then it just really spread like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before first pitch, the A’s announced they would donate all ticket revenue from the game to the Alameda County Community Food Bank and Oakland Public Education Fund — a total of $811,107.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952928 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of seven people stand together to take a photo in an outdoor parking lot, all but one wear t-shirts reading "sell" and several wear Oakland A's hats.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Callahan (second from the right), Cary Kennerley (left of center) and Katie Callahan-Cisco (center) tailgate in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum with their families. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fight to keep the A’s in Oakland comes just three years after the city lost the Raiders — also to Las Vegas. The year before, the Golden State Warriors jumped ship to a new stadium in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s, who play in the American League West, currently sit at the bottom of their division and, at 19–50, have lost more games this season than any other team in the league. Still, they managed to beat the Rays — who have the best record in baseball — on Monday and Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952916 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young men wearing Oakland A's jerseys look at the camera while standing beside a car a large open parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob and Joseph Palpallatoc join other fans of the Oakland A’s during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is ridiculous that they’re trying to move to Las Vegas. I think that we need to keep them here in Oakland,” said Annette Burt, 60, who has been an A’s fan since she was 5 years old. “It’s been a family pastime for me forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burt said she understands the chances of the team staying here are slim, but is still holding out hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s a done deal,” she said. “I think there’s still enough interest, and it can be a very competitive team and it has been in the past. If we had owners backing us up, it would be very successful. And it would be successful for Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Phoebe Quinton and Matthew Green, and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "Oakland Teachers' Strike Continues Despite Incremental Gains at Bargaining Table",
"headTitle": "Oakland Teachers’ Strike Continues Despite Incremental Gains at Bargaining Table | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article will no longer be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> As the standoff between striking educators and the Oakland Unified School District continues into its seventh school day, a major sticking point remains the “common good” demands from the union, with both sides citing wildly varying figures on the costs of implementing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement Thursday evening, OUSD Director of Communications John Sasaki told KQED that the Oakland Education Association’s proposal is “cost prohibitive” and that the overall price tag could run upwards of $1 billion. Sasaki said many of the “common good” demands would fall under \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=39353&dataid=36993&FileName=2020%20Facilities%20Master%20Plan.pdf\">OUSD’s Facilities Master Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, which “shows the District has a total of $3.4 billion in upgrades and other changes that must happen to get all schools upgraded and modernized,” adding that OEA’s proposal is “far too costly for the District to handle” and that it should not be included in any collective bargaining agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rachel Warino of the California Teachers Association — which has expressed its solidarity with the OEA — said OUSD’s numbers are “months old” and “ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goals we are committed to winning would cost an estimated $500,000 annually — this would be to pay for staffing increases including counselors,” Warino said, in a statement emailed to KQED on Thursday evening. “It’s unfortunate that the district is spending time sending out outlandish claims about proposals that are months old when we are 6 days into a strike. It’s unfair and unhelpful for our Oakland community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warino did not provide cost estimates for the rest of the “common good” proposals, which include housing unhoused students in vacant school buildings and replacing HVAC systems in aging school buildings. On Wednesday, OEA Interim President Ismael Armendariz argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and that several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg\" alt=\"a group of people which appears to be multi-ethnic in composition walks down a street carrying a large banner reading 'ready to strike for a fair contract' in both English and Spanish\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD educators and their supporters rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who has been mediating the negotiations since last Thursday, praised both parties for “working incredibly hard” and said the talks had been “productive,” but added that it’s ultimately up to the two sides to come to an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is providing right now historic levels of funding that can be used to provide these services for students: $4 billion for community schools, $8 billion for the Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant, $3.5 billion dollars for arts, financial literacy and basically giving districts discretion to do as they will, $4 billion for expanded learning — after-school programs, before-school programs,” said Thurmond, in a press conference at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward. “We have not seen funding at this level before. [W]e are seeing the state provide districts with resources that they can use for programs that would support the common good of students. Ultimately, it’s up to the board of every one of our 1,000 school districts, including Oakland, to decide how those resources might get used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond said he had no idea how long the strike would last, adding that he wouldn’t be mediating if he “thought the strike would take up the whole school year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a believer that we can all win, that we can find an agreement that compensates educators the way they deserve to be compensated, that we can find a way to provide programs that support students who’ve been disadvantaged, and we can do it in a way where we prioritize getting our students back into the classroom — and that is the priority,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> As the Oakland teachers’ strike continues to grind on, the number of students attending their teacherless schools — which have remained open, behind the picket lines — has steadily dipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the fifth day of the ongoing walkout, just 1,200 of OUSD’s more than 34,000 students attended one of its 77 school sites, where food and other basic services and activities are still being offered, according to district spokesperson John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland city officials say they’ve seen a 75% drop in attendance in city-run after-school programs since the strike began last Thursday. The teachers union and parent volunteers also have organized pop-up care centers — called “solidarity schools” — at various sites throughout the city, but it’s unclear how many students are attending them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949257\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949257 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg\" alt=\"In the foreground is what appears to be a middle school student in a full-body, bright green Oscar the Grouch costume, with a fuzzy brown unibrow, big googly eyes, and the person's face inside the mouth, holding a cardboard sign on a flat wooden stick that says, 'OUSD, Stop bringing us proposals that belong in the trash!' Oscar is in a crowd of people in a street, including someone to their right playing a trombone.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District teachers, parents and students rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11, 2023, during a teacher strike. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That massive disappearing act offers some indication of just how disruptive this strike has been for Oakland students and their families, who still have no idea when — or if — school will open again before the year ends in just two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the sixth day of the district-wide strike, tense negotiations continued between the teachers union and school district officials, with the union’s “common good” demands for more community services remaining the major sticking point, even as the two sides appeared close to an agreement over compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Gonzalez, vice president of her ninth grade class at Castlemont High School in East Oakland, came out Thursday to support her teachers on the picket line, even as most of her classmates stayed home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandEA/status/1656747427133788161\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel bored at home,” she said. “I decided to come and strike with my teachers because they work hard. They plan lessons. They take time out of their personal lives to grade and stuff like that, and they deserve what they’re asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Oakland City Council committee hearing on Thursday, a stream of attendees spoke of the decrepit conditions they’ve witnessed in many of the district’s schools, and implored city officials to get involved in the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD teacher Edgar Sanchez, whose daughter attends United for Success Academy, told council members of the school’s rodent problems and “the issue of the sewage coming into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been asking for that to be fixed for a year and a half,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez added that the school where he teaches doesn’t have air-conditioning in the classrooms, and said that during last year’s heat wave, teachers had to constantly move students to cooler areas of the building just to maintain a safe learning environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So on Day Six of our strike, you all need to stand with us and push the district to do what’s right for our kids,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who has remained largely quiet during the labor dispute, urged the school district and teachers union to “work together to settle the strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 8 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/b> Thousands of Oakland teachers, counselors and librarians, along with their supporters, once again formed picket lines in front of schools on Thursday, the sixth day of a district-wide strike that has emptied out classrooms and ground instruction to a halt, with little more than two weeks remaining in the school year and a deal still out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Vilma Serrano, bargaining co-chair, Oakland Education Association\"]‘We want to be back in our classrooms, back in our schools. But we’ll do whatever it takes to really get a strong, tentative agreement that improves teaching and learning conditions for our kids and for our members.’[/pullquote]As heated negotiations continue between the district and the teachers union — including a Tuesday session that ran until 1 a.m. — both sides say they are inching closer to a tentative contract agreement, but have given little indication as to how soon the walkout might end. Meanwhile, as an immediate resolution seemed increasingly unlikely, the district canceled its regularly scheduled Wednesday evening school board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilma Serrano, a teacher at Oakland’s Melrose Leadership Academy, and the bargaining co-chair for the Oakland Education Association, said her team is standing firm on its list of demands. She said the district this week delivered “a fuller package” counteroffer that, for the first time, suggests it is willing to consider some of the union’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ousd-teacher-strike-oakland-schools-common-good-18081358.php\">common good proposals\u003c/a> in the new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “we still have many issues on the table that are unresolved. So there’s still a lot of work ahead of us to reach a tentative agreement,” Serrano said. “We want to be back in our classrooms, back in our schools. But we’ll do whatever it takes to really get a strong, tentative agreement that improves teaching and learning conditions for our kids and for our members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More support for special education teachers and their students is among the many outstanding demands on which the union refuses to budge, said Timothy Douglas, the other co-chair of OEA’s bargaining team, and a fifth grade teacher at International Community School in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of issues in special education that we find unacceptable and potentially illegal,” he said. “So we are really working with the district to implement a more sustainable and healthier workload model for our educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those educators is Gena Rinaldi, a special education teacher at Kaiser Early Childhood Center in the Oakland hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that we’re really focused on right now is increasing our support staff to ensure the safety of students in our classrooms,” she said, during a spirited rally Wednesday at Burbank Elementary in East Oakland. “Many of our teachers and our para-educators are not getting their lunch breaks right now because we don’t have enough staff for teachers to leave and still have supervision for our students. So we’re trying to convince the district that our youngest students need more support and we’re hopeful we can come to an agreement to make that happen.”[aside label=\"More Oakland Schools coverage\" postID=\"news_11948320,news_11937906,news_11912597\"]Meanwhile, district officials have reiterated that they’ve offered teachers an unprecedented compensation package — yielding significant pay increases of as much as 22%, plus back pay — and do not have the financial capacity or legal authority to negotiate many of the union’s key “common good” proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We appear close to an agreement for a robust compensation package, which would give teachers a historic raise … thereby supporting the critical goal of attracting and retaining excellent teachers,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.parentsquare.com/feeds/20430541?s=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjA5ODQ3OSwiZXhwIjoxNjkxNzE5Mzc5LCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5wYXJlbnRzcXVhcmUuY29tL2ZlZWRzLzIwNDMwNTQxIiwibWV0aG9kIjoiR0VUIiwicXVlcnkiOnt9LCJyZXF1ZXN0Ijp7fX0.PePW3sJs4be05bTASVEqyC0pp0U8LRec86ZLQOe46PY\">a video message sent to families\u003c/a> on Wednesday evening. “The remaining issue is how best to work on the common good proposal, which seeks to assign the school district with addressing such broad societal issues as housing for homeless [students] and drought-tolerant landscaping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are critical issues, Johnson-Trammell noted, but they “demand multiagency and government support,” and certainly can’t be single-handedly tackled through the school district’s limited budget. Fully implementing the proposals, district officials said, would cost more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moreover, as laudable as common good causes may be, they should not hold children’s learning hostage or deprive students of the services that schools provide,” she said. “OUSD wants to find a way other than the bargaining table to take on these issues and move forward with getting students back in the classroom and putting a significant raise into employees’ paychecks now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an email response sent late Wednesday to KQED, Ismael Armendariz, OEA’s interim president, argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and said several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these issues are critical to supporting our schools,” he said. “We urge the district to spend more time negotiating in good faith and less time making outlandish claims about the total cost of the proposals in email blasts to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although scores of families in the district during the walkout have continued to staunchly support teachers — and their demands — some parent leaders are lambasting the union, accusing its negotiators of pushing for unrealistic goals at the expense of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a false assumption going around that this ongoing strike is meant to help Black and brown students. It’s not. Instead, this strike is proving the opposite,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of The Oakland Reach, a parent-run group, said in a statement on Wednesday. “Without school in session, the flatlands of Oakland are a ghost town, where our lower income Black and brown students already have some of the lowest reading and math scores in California and an absenteeism rate close to 50% among Black students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The longer this strike continues,” she added, “the more it will cost us — physically, emotionally, academically, and in literal dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:25 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>For Laura Kaneko, a middle school teacher at Melrose Leadership Academy in East Oakland, this strike is about much more than demanding a much-needed raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been kind of rejuvenating … to remember that our community is here supporting us not only for our compensation, but really for the common good for everybody,” said Kaneko, while attending a teacher support rally outside her school on Tuesday, the fourth day of a district-wide walkout. “They’ve made so much progress in the negotiations for a contract for our salary, but there’s still so much more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just look at the school’s defective HVAC system, Kaneko said. “Our heater here at the site has been broken for 10 years. So it’s either too hot on warm days or it’s off on really cold days. And there’s no way for us to control that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so one of the common good demands that we’re asking for is for a plan for there to be climate control in every classroom. Seems like a fairly reasonable thing to ask for our students’ learning conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the district has largely conceded to the union’s demands for a significant pay raise, offering up to a 22% salary increase, along with a retroactive bump and a one-time payout as part of a nearly $70 million compensation package. The sticking point, though, and apparent reason the strike is still on — with just 12 days left in the school year — is the impasse over those “common good” proposals: things like building housing for the district’s many unhoused students on surplus district land, offering reparations to historically underserved Black students, addressing long-neglected safety and infrastructure issues at school sites and allowing for shared governance of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">district’s community schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Oakland Education Association’s negotiating team on Tuesday continued to grapple with district officials behind closed doors over the terms of a new contract — with little indication of resolution anytime soon — union leaders and teachers on the picket line made clear that those demands were just as essential for a fair contract as the most generous salary increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message to the community is that you are here with us today. You have been with us through the years and we are with you at the bargaining table,” interim OEA President Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher, told supporters gathered outside Melrose on Tuesday. “And your demands are central, just as valuable to us, as is our wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of teachers unions around the country have in recent years begun fighting for similar common good demands, including Los Angeles educators, who during a 2019 strike pushed their district to commit to a host of racial and environmental justice initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD leaders, and half the members of the school board, argue that these goals, while admirable, pertain to larger societal issues the district can’t single-handedly address and that certainly don’t belong in a teachers’ contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to continue partnering with teachers and the teachers union to find solutions to some of these issues that plague our communities,” Mike Hutchinson, president of the school board, told reporters on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he argued, the district’s bargaining team is not authorized to even consider many of these proposals. “Items that are outside of the scope of the contract, which are basically compensation and work conditions, are not going to be negotiated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials, however, say district negotiators, desperate to get students back in the classroom, are finally beginning to consider some of these proposals — even though the district has not publicly confirmed this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Melrose rally, Malaika Parker, who runs Oakland’s Black Organizing Project, said the district was being extremely shortsighted in refusing to even consider many of the union’s common good proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The debate over teacher compensation versus common good is ridiculous,” she said. “That is a false choice. We deserve communities where all is incorporated — where our teachers are paid well and where our young people feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers shouldn’t have to demand these things, Parker argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are our teachers, the people who we trust with our children, not automatically guaranteed respect and living conditions?” she said. “Why are we having to ask for the basics when we should be demanding the most? Our teachers, our communities, deserve to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 9 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> Oakland school district officials and the teachers union on Monday evening announced that some 3,000 teachers and other school staff would continue striking on Tuesday, leaving classrooms across the district largely empty for a fourth day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As another day of working toward an agreement with the Oakland Education Association approaches an end, we are sorry to report we are preparing for a fourth consecutive day of the teachers’ strike,” the district said in a letter to parents, noting that schools will remain open, with food service and other resources still available for students. “But with teachers engaging in the work stoppage, school operations will be reduced as they have been since Thursday of last week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> With less than three weeks remaining in the school year, some 3,000 Oakland teachers, counselors and other school staff returned to the picket lines Monday for the third day of a district-wide strike, after the teachers union and the school district failed to reach a contract agreement over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Oakland School Board President Mike Hutchinson expressed his “disappointment for where we are today,” imploring the Oakland Education Association to come back to the negotiating table and accusing its leaders of holding up the process with unreasonable demands, at the expense of Oakland students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unprecedented and simply unacceptable for our students and families to be forced into this position during a time when we should instead be focused on planning, graduation and end-of-year celebrations,” he told reporters at an afternoon press briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said that despite the the union’s claims to the contrary, the district’s bargaining team has continued to negotiate in good faith and devoted countless hours toward reaching a deal, including a late-night Sunday session to review OEA’s latest counterproposal. And while State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and his staff helped support the process over the weekend, “it still did not lead us to an agreement,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, he said, has already made a nearly $70 million \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZNSGZxnaZU5S_HBv_FNZPr0R_TbJG0xd\">“historic” offer to teachers\u003c/a> that would significantly boost their pay — up to 22% — while addressing a host of other demands for more support and resources. But Hutchinson said the union remains unrealistically fixated on its “\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/\">common good proposals\u003c/a>” demands — including housing for unhoused students, major school infrastructure and safety improvements, climate change actions and racial justice measures such as reparations for Black students and their families. The district supports these objectives, he said, but fundamentally lacks the capacity to take them on single-handedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we agree on the principles of the proposal, they simply do not belong in contract language and we have not authorized any changes to our approach to this position shared last week,” Hutchinson said. He argued that the district already has some policies in place to work toward certain common good goals, and that other demands — including more mental health services for students — have already been addressed in the current contract offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our students need to be back at school immediately and I cannot make this point more urgently,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union argues that the district has long been aware of, but until recently ignored, these common good proposals, which OEA presented months ago. And the district, the union insists, already has the resources in place to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OUSD is a district exactly designed to deal with outside things like homelessness,” said Jacob Fowler, a Lincoln Elementary School teacher and member of the union’s negotiating team, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgkb2v_sw4\">a video message\u003c/a> to parents over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg\" alt='A huge crowd of protestors walk down a street in Oakland carrying green and yellow picket signs that read \"On Strike Unfair Labor Practices.\" Many participants wear red and one woman has a hooded sweatshirt that reads \"phenomenal teacher.\" Another sign reads \"Safe, Stable and Racially Just Schools\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1536x1118.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue in Oakland on the second day of an ongoing teachers strike on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district, he argued, receives millions of dollars a year from the state for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">community schools\u003c/a>, aimed at providing services to students outside of the normal school day. The union simply wants to make sure there is a community engagement strategy in place to determine how those funds get spent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not asking for any more funds. It costs the district $0 to agree to this proposal. But they’re not even addressing it,” Fowler said. “We just want a fair, complete proposal so that we can get back to the classroom quickly. If OUSD continues to drag their feet, we will continue to be on strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fowler added that the union has also set up “solidarity schools” across the district, run by credentialed teachers and community members, for students to attend for as long as the strike lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?extid=CL-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&mibextid=YCRy0i&ref=watch_permalink&v=591680859401402\">press conference on Monday morning\u003c/a> in front of the district’s headquarters, Oakland school board members Valarie Bachelor, Jennifer Brouhard and VanCedric Williams — representing half of the board — voiced their support for the union’s common good proposals and urged the other three members of the board, including Hutchinson, to embrace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not agree that common good should require a separate authorization to negotiate,” Bachelor said. As one of the largest landowners in Oakland, the district is particularly well positioned to work toward housing solutions for its many unhoused students, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard, a retired Oakland teacher, said recent historic state funding for community schools has created the opportunity to change how decisions in schools are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, decision-making power has been held at the district level,” she said. “It must be shared with teachers, parents and students and those voices must be centered at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard recalled, as a teacher, sitting on committees that had no real power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met, we met, we met. We talked about things our students needed, and they were never funded,” she said. “It’s time to have shared governance in our common good goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 7 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/b>No negotiations were planned over the weekend, said Oakland Education Association bargaining team member Samia Khattab, raising the prospect that striking teachers would be back on the picket lines on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Friday] evening we received a package proposal from [the OUSD] that is still incomplete and [that has] quite a few errors in it,” said Khattab, who is a teacher and librarian at Franklin Elementary School, in an interview with KQED. “We haven’t been able to sit at the table with them to go over some of these inconsistencies, to be able to discuss and walk through the proposal with them, because there is a holdup, and the holdup is that the OUSD school board has not given authority to the OUSD bargaining team to bargain on all of the proposals that the OEA has brought forth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khattab said the 50-member OEA bargaining team was working on a counterproposal Saturday, and said she hopes the district is able to return to the table so they can begin the “back-and-forth process of settling a fair contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district hasn’t responded this weekend,” said Khattab. “We have nothing on our agenda that indicates that they are going to be joining us at the table today … We will be on the picket lines unless we can come to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate interview with KQED on Saturday, Deputy Mayor Kimberly Mayfield said Oakland is committed to education and that the mayor’s office has a good relationship with the districts and the teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our desire is that they can work as hard as they can over this weekend to come up with a solution that will be agreeable to both parties,” said Mayfield. “I will trust the wisdom of the bargaining teams to make the best decision to bring our kids back to school and to bring our teachers back to school with safe conditions for learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 6 p.m. Friday:\u003c/b> Oakland teachers continued to strike for a second day Friday, with union, district and state education officials saying they planned to continue negotiating, likely through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One union rally was held at the United for Success Academy in Oakland’s Fruitvale District on Thursday. Oakland Education Association representatives said they chose the OUSD middle school because it highlights the lack of needed “common good” measures that teachers are demanding in their ongoing fight for a new contract across the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers at the UFSA say the school’s buildings are old and in need of renovation, that there’s \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/03/fruitvale-students-lead-soil-contamination-poisoning/\">lead in the soil\u003c/a> and a rat and mice infestation in the classrooms, and that they’re concerned about lead in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1654608654396710913\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maha Nusrat, a sixth grade humanities teacher who’s taught at UFSA for 13 years, told KQED that it’s impossible to separate the physical conditions of the buildings from the teaching experience, or a child’s home environment from their education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re talking about common good proposals, we’re talking about disability justice, we’re talking about racial justice, we’re talking about social justice, we’re talking about schools in the flatlands having a just experience,” said Nusrat. “And that’s both in the environment, coming to a school that is welcoming, loving, safe — physically — and also [has] enough resources to actually fully serve those students that are in the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Aponte, a special education teacher going into his eighth year at UFSA, advocated for the needs of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [special education] program at UFSA is closing down, and as a special education teacher, that really hits us where it hurts,” said Aponte. “The students need these supports and these services … We need more qualified teachers to support the most vulnerable students that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg\" alt=\"Striking teachers marching holding a big colorful banner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1536x1154.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue from United for Success Academy, on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nusrat said schools like UFSA in the flatlands are a hub for families, a place to find additional resources outside the school day, and a place that serves as a safe space where students can get an “equitable education experience,” adding that UFSA is “a model” of some of the “common good” proposals teachers are demanding in the current strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people on campuses like ours are doing eight jobs because we simply don’t have the human power, no one is actually able to do their job that well,” said Nusrat. “We want to create wraparound services. We want to serve the whole student, including their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While district officials have said they agree in principle with the union’s proposals, they are prioritizing teacher retention by offering raises of up to 22%. But teachers demand that their “common good” proposals be met and that OUSD have a long-term plan in place for the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to have that transparency of a long game,” said Nusrat. “A two-year plan, a three-year plan, a five-year plan that’s going to include some of those common good things and some of those staffing issues that actually don’t let us do the jobs that we need to in our buildings with the integrity that we want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893056/oaklands-teachers-are-on-strike-again\">Oakland teachers’ strike\u003c/a> continues into its second day, First Covenant Church is opening its doors during the day to support K–5 students in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Danny Fitelson said\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandfcc.org/who-we-are\"> the church\u003c/a> also provided a space for students to read and learn when Oakland Unified teachers went on strike in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our mission statements is to be a light to the city. We think this is just a way to respond to a need that our city has right now,” Fitelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church transformed the choir room into a library for kids to lounge, snuggle with stuffed animals, read and munch on popcorn. Volunteers offered lessons on multiplication and division, and showed a science video about building bridges using pasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s board voted to provide this “community educational support program” until at least the end of next week if the strike continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t just about everybody making more money, it’s also about trying to get schools taken care of that have maybe been neglected,” Fitelson said. “I’ve been weighing that, and I think that hopefully something will get worked out. But I know it’s tough for everybody while it’s getting worked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Oakland parents remain frustrated by the disruption in schools as a teachers’ strike continues into its second day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, which represents 3,000 teachers, librarians, nurses and other staff members, has asked the district for what it’s calling “common good” proposals, including providing housing for unhoused students and investing in historically Black schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a> on Friday morning, Lakisha Young, founder of the parent-run organization The Oakland Reach, said some of the issues being raised are deep and longstanding, and unlikely to be resolved any time soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when does this end?” Young said. “I feel like this is what parents are saying. They’re saying, ‘Why does my kid have to be out of school for these conversations amongst adults to happen?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Reach and another parent group, CA Parent Power, proposed a resolution last year to the school board that would have offered families more of a say in collective bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11927865 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59078_Oakland_Parents_003-qut-1020x681.jpg']It’s unclear when the students and teachers will return to the classroom. State Superintendent Tony Thurmond has been mediating talks between the district and the union since Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond aims to continue the mediated talks through the weekend in hopes of ending the strike, though a spokesperson for the California Department of Education said several “significant items” remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/posts/pfbid02tGwEMfFZtoLntHwTSvwcYxuU5mjv361p4VV3AnkcQq2PY6qnbDyRWggiQ9hz3vV6l\">update posted to social media Thursday evening\u003c/a>, the Oakland Education Association confirmed that the strike would continue on Friday, with the union’s president calling for a return to the picket lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“United we will win,” said OEA President Ismael Armendariz in a video update. “We will have a midday rally at United for Success [Academy, in Oakland], to highlight our social justice and environmental justice demands. We’ll see you on the picket lines at 7:30 a.m.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same video, Vilma Serrano, bargaining co-chair for OEA, called on Oaklanders and supporters to “push the school board to have a meeting to give the OUSD bargaining team the authority to bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned this week that the school board has not given the OUSD full authority to bargain,” said Serrano. “It has been really deeply frustrating to get to this point after seven months of bargaining … We need to settle a contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in a square, with one man holding a sign and arms raised high.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of Oakland teachers and their supporters converged on Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall Thursday afternoon for a festive rally to close out the first day of an open-ended strike. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 3 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>After spending the morning picketing in front of their schools, hundreds of Oakland teachers and supporters converged on Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall Thursday afternoon for a festive rally to close out the first day of an open-ended strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With union and school district negotiators still at an impasse over the terms of a new contract, it appeared likely — save for a last-minute agreement — that teachers would be spending at least one more day on the picket lines, resulting in empty classrooms and another lost day of instruction for some 34,000 students in the district, with just three weeks left in the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in front of Oakland City Hall, carrying signs and banners.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking educators and their supporters at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jesse Shapiro, a veteran Oakland High School history and photography teacher, said the district had not yet put forward a reasonable offer, and urged parents and other community members to be patient despite the disruption caused by the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to understand that short-term sacrifice is something that’s necessary for long-term gains,” he said at the rally, as Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day” reverberated from the speakers behind him. “So I’d ask them to be patient, supportive of what the people who teach their children are asking for. Because we’re not just asking for us, we’re asking for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro said his daughter, who attends an elementary school in the district, stands to directly gain from the increases teachers are demanding — rather than being subjected to a succession of novice teachers who leave the district after a year or two because the pay is so low and the resources so limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors gather and hold signs, with two female protestors engaged in a mock sword fight.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The picket took on a festive air Thursday with hundreds gathered at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want her to be in a classroom where there’s a teacher who wants to be there, who has a manageable number of kids, who has the facilities to teach my kid in a safe environment where she wants to be when she gets into high school,” he said. “I want her to be able to have access to a counselor so she can discuss what her options are after high school. And I think every parent wants that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Chan, a single mom of a fifth grader at Sequoia Elementary School in the Lower Dimond District, said she came to the rally to support teachers in their fight for a fair contract that “really values them in the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we just need the district to listen to the teachers on what they’re saying,” Chan said, pointing to accounts she’s heard from teachers of working in dilapidated classrooms where the ceiling tiles were literally falling down, or where students were experiencing homelessness or suffering from serious mental health issues that were not being addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948638 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg\" alt=\"Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads "We Love Teachers" at Thursday's noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads “We Love Teachers” at Thursday’s noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Particularly as a single mom, Chan said, a strike like this makes life a lot more difficult. “But I think we as parents have dealt with a lot of issues the last few years, and interruptions. We’ve dealt with smoke days, we’ve dealt with the pandemic,” she said. “And this was completely preventable by the district. But we’re going to keep on dealing with it because it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents, however, took to social media to voice their frustrations with both the district and the teachers union, lambasting the two sides for failing to reach an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At 9pm at night, we learn our kids won’t have school tomorrow,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of parent advocacy group The Oakland Reach, wrote in a tweet late Wednesday, after the strike was announced. “I’m so disappointed in both sides. Once again, our kids are collateral damage in adult fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948320/weary-oakland-parents-divided-over-whether-to-support-teachers-in-looming-strike\">Oakland teachers\u003c/a> joined picket lines early Thursday morning in front of schools, leaving classrooms largely empty, on the first day of an open-ended strike in an ongoing push for higher wages and better working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, a resource specialist at Manzanita Community School, marched with her colleagues in front of their East Oakland elementary school, chanting, “We want justice for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez said that while it was essential for teachers in the district to receive higher pay, this walkout is about much more than just compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what we’re fighting for are just basic rights, especially for our special education students,” she said. “Those are legal mandates that we aren’t meeting because we don’t have the human capacity to meet them. And a lot of the other things that we’re asking are like, for safety in our schools, for actual ACs, and not to have mice, and not to have real just basic health concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ismael Armendariz, interim president of the Oakland Education Association, the union representing some 3,000 teachers and other school personnel, joined Manzanita teachers on Thursday morning. He said the district had not delivered on its promise to submit a comprehensive proposal to the union, and had consistently failed to address many of \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/bargaining-proposals?authuser=0\">its crucial demands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not received anything in writing. We are waiting to receive everything in writing so that we can settle this contract,” said Armendariz. He urged the school board president to intervene in the negotiating process, which he called “dysfunctional,” accusing the district of negotiating in bad faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Thursday morning, Oakland school board president Mike Hutchinson denied that claim, arguing, “We have been negotiating every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD leaders said \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ousdnews/posts/pfbid027XfdPTjL7txwyziTMF4E6SPawMrR265SCCKPD8zhH1XBDotZ5nrXrmwpQpoaUKoGl\">their latest contract offer\u003c/a>, of nearly $70 million, would give teachers a generous raise — of as much as 22% — while addressing a host of other demands, including investing to hire more counselors and performing arts teachers and giving teachers more classroom preparation time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The latest salary proposal would give teachers an unprecedented raise — one that they deserve, and one that OUSD teachers haven’t seen in years if not decades,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said, noting that teacher retention was her top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/e_baldi/status/1654185032083185664\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My team has thoughtfully planned out a way and made recommendations to make sure the district can afford this massive compensation package to maintain financial stability in the years to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, despite negotiations that ran late into the evening on Wednesday, the union ultimately walked away because of what she called wholly unrealistic demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is asking the district to “singularly solve complex societal realities, such as homelessness, that go far beyond the scope of what public schools can and should do alone,” Johnson-Trammell said. “As a district we simply can’t do everything, and it is our mission critical that we remain focused on prioritizing our primary purpose, which is teaching and learning and student well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond on Thursday said he had invited the union and the district to come back to the table, where he and his team could “formally mediate negotiations to end the strike.” Thurmond offered to arrange a meeting space where his staff could “lead, facilitate, and mediate discussions between the parties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed that the parties could not find an agreement in time to avert a strike,” he said in a statement. “Our goal is to help the parties reach an agreement and to end the strike so that students can return to class as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 5 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Some 3,000 Oakland teachers are striking Thursday morning in a push for higher wages and better resources, the teachers union and school district confirmed late Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/ousd-teacher-strike-oakland-schools-could-close-17920873.php\">the third in just over a year\u003c/a> — comes after the two sides, who have been in intense negotiations for seven days, failed to reach an agreement over a new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impasse leaves the district’s more than 34,000 students stranded without teachers and other school staff, including counselors, nurses, librarians and social workers, who are also represented by the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Educators will be on the picket line tomorrow, on strike for our students & for Oakland schools,” the Oakland Education Association said in a tweet Wednesday night, accusing the district of not negotiating in good faith. “We will continue to negotiate in good faith and hope the district will do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandEA/status/1653983303840727040\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District said in a statement it couldn’t predict how long the strike would last, but pledged to continue negotiating with the teachers union. District officials held a news conference on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the district office in downtown Oakland “to discuss the strike, the impact it will have on Oakland’s young people, and the reasons behind it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The end of the school year is always filled with milestone events for our students, so we want to ensure regular school resumes as soon as possible,” the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools will still be open, with central office staff assigned to each site “to ensure students are safe,” according to the statement. Students are expected to attend school, but those who don’t will receive an “excused absence,” the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School meals, including a simplified breakfast and full lunch, will still be served in each campus’ cafeteria, and most after-school programs will continue, according to the district’s multilingual \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bcqhvvyZPTL8JTXCjJhMic7ipY1pSKgm\">strike information document\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OEA contends that its teachers receive inadequate support and some of the lowest salaries in the region, even after modest gains in recent years, contributing to the district’s low teacher-retention rates. A first-year Oakland teacher \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OUSDNews/status/1653844779145351169/photo/1\">currently makes just under $53,000\u003c/a>, which the union says falls far short of what is necessary to make ends meet in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiators are \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/bargaining-proposals?authuser=0\">demanding a 23% raise\u003c/a> for all of its members. The union has also pushed for smaller special education classes, better services for students experiencing homelessness, more nursing and mental health staff and improvements to physical infrastructure, among other asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers have been working without an active contract since their previous one expired in the fall of 2022. That contract only came to fruition after teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Parents-children-brace-for-Oakland-teacher-strike-13631422.php\">staged a six-day strike in 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promise you we’ve done everything we can to avert this strike,” interim union president Ismael Armendariz said during a press conference earlier this week. “The district has truly failed our students, and the time for us to act is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union recently filed an unfair labor practice grievance with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board, accusing the district of not “bargaining in good faith” by arriving late or repeatedly failing to show up to bargaining sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials on Tuesday said they had offered teachers a fair contract that would give all union members a 13% to 22% raise, as well as a one-time bonus and backpay. The offer would also reduce health care costs by 15%. Under that proposal, first-year teachers would get a bump of about 20% — to $63,604.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teachers want a pay increase, and we agree they need it,” district officials said, noting they were committed to continuing to negotiate, and imploring the union to avoid calling for a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Following all the turmoil and disruption of Covid, the idea that our children might be out of school yet again while both sides work to reach an agreement only harms our students and families,” the district said in the statement. “The adults need to be adults, so that students can be students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers most recently went on \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/oakland-teacher-strike-wildcat-ousd-contract-negotiations/13004171/\">a one-day “wildcat strike”\u003c/a> in March — one not authorized by the union — over staffing cuts and what they called the school board’s unwillingness to address teacher pay. And in April 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/04/29/oakland-teachers-strike-school-closures/\">teachers staged another one-day walkout\u003c/a> over the board’s decision to permanently shutter multiple schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, a resource specialist at Manzanita Community School, said this was “unfortunately” her fourth strike in “these long 15 years” she’s worked for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking for support, we’re asking for resources, we’re asking for actual human beings to be here to give those resources,” she said. “And especially with inflation and the housing market in the Bay Area, we’ve lost hordes of people every single year that we don’t ever get back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez added, “We’re really asking the district to match the pay and the resources that other districts have so that it’s for our Oakland youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Phoebe Quinton, Attila Pelit, Juan Carlos Lara, Christopher Alam and Billy Cruz contributed to this story. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This article will no longer be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> As the standoff between striking educators and the Oakland Unified School District continues into its seventh school day, a major sticking point remains the “common good” demands from the union, with both sides citing wildly varying figures on the costs of implementing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement Thursday evening, OUSD Director of Communications John Sasaki told KQED that the Oakland Education Association’s proposal is “cost prohibitive” and that the overall price tag could run upwards of $1 billion. Sasaki said many of the “common good” demands would fall under \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=39353&dataid=36993&FileName=2020%20Facilities%20Master%20Plan.pdf\">OUSD’s Facilities Master Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, which “shows the District has a total of $3.4 billion in upgrades and other changes that must happen to get all schools upgraded and modernized,” adding that OEA’s proposal is “far too costly for the District to handle” and that it should not be included in any collective bargaining agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rachel Warino of the California Teachers Association — which has expressed its solidarity with the OEA — said OUSD’s numbers are “months old” and “ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goals we are committed to winning would cost an estimated $500,000 annually — this would be to pay for staffing increases including counselors,” Warino said, in a statement emailed to KQED on Thursday evening. “It’s unfortunate that the district is spending time sending out outlandish claims about proposals that are months old when we are 6 days into a strike. It’s unfair and unhelpful for our Oakland community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warino did not provide cost estimates for the rest of the “common good” proposals, which include housing unhoused students in vacant school buildings and replacing HVAC systems in aging school buildings. On Wednesday, OEA Interim President Ismael Armendariz argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and that several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg\" alt=\"a group of people which appears to be multi-ethnic in composition walks down a street carrying a large banner reading 'ready to strike for a fair contract' in both English and Spanish\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD educators and their supporters rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who has been mediating the negotiations since last Thursday, praised both parties for “working incredibly hard” and said the talks had been “productive,” but added that it’s ultimately up to the two sides to come to an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is providing right now historic levels of funding that can be used to provide these services for students: $4 billion for community schools, $8 billion for the Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant, $3.5 billion dollars for arts, financial literacy and basically giving districts discretion to do as they will, $4 billion for expanded learning — after-school programs, before-school programs,” said Thurmond, in a press conference at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward. “We have not seen funding at this level before. [W]e are seeing the state provide districts with resources that they can use for programs that would support the common good of students. Ultimately, it’s up to the board of every one of our 1,000 school districts, including Oakland, to decide how those resources might get used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond said he had no idea how long the strike would last, adding that he wouldn’t be mediating if he “thought the strike would take up the whole school year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a believer that we can all win, that we can find an agreement that compensates educators the way they deserve to be compensated, that we can find a way to provide programs that support students who’ve been disadvantaged, and we can do it in a way where we prioritize getting our students back into the classroom — and that is the priority,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> As the Oakland teachers’ strike continues to grind on, the number of students attending their teacherless schools — which have remained open, behind the picket lines — has steadily dipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the fifth day of the ongoing walkout, just 1,200 of OUSD’s more than 34,000 students attended one of its 77 school sites, where food and other basic services and activities are still being offered, according to district spokesperson John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland city officials say they’ve seen a 75% drop in attendance in city-run after-school programs since the strike began last Thursday. The teachers union and parent volunteers also have organized pop-up care centers — called “solidarity schools” — at various sites throughout the city, but it’s unclear how many students are attending them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949257\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949257 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg\" alt=\"In the foreground is what appears to be a middle school student in a full-body, bright green Oscar the Grouch costume, with a fuzzy brown unibrow, big googly eyes, and the person's face inside the mouth, holding a cardboard sign on a flat wooden stick that says, 'OUSD, Stop bringing us proposals that belong in the trash!' Oscar is in a crowd of people in a street, including someone to their right playing a trombone.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District teachers, parents and students rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11, 2023, during a teacher strike. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That massive disappearing act offers some indication of just how disruptive this strike has been for Oakland students and their families, who still have no idea when — or if — school will open again before the year ends in just two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the sixth day of the district-wide strike, tense negotiations continued between the teachers union and school district officials, with the union’s “common good” demands for more community services remaining the major sticking point, even as the two sides appeared close to an agreement over compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Gonzalez, vice president of her ninth grade class at Castlemont High School in East Oakland, came out Thursday to support her teachers on the picket line, even as most of her classmates stayed home.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As heated negotiations continue between the district and the teachers union — including a Tuesday session that ran until 1 a.m. — both sides say they are inching closer to a tentative contract agreement, but have given little indication as to how soon the walkout might end. Meanwhile, as an immediate resolution seemed increasingly unlikely, the district canceled its regularly scheduled Wednesday evening school board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilma Serrano, a teacher at Oakland’s Melrose Leadership Academy, and the bargaining co-chair for the Oakland Education Association, said her team is standing firm on its list of demands. She said the district this week delivered “a fuller package” counteroffer that, for the first time, suggests it is willing to consider some of the union’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ousd-teacher-strike-oakland-schools-common-good-18081358.php\">common good proposals\u003c/a> in the new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “we still have many issues on the table that are unresolved. So there’s still a lot of work ahead of us to reach a tentative agreement,” Serrano said. “We want to be back in our classrooms, back in our schools. But we’ll do whatever it takes to really get a strong, tentative agreement that improves teaching and learning conditions for our kids and for our members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More support for special education teachers and their students is among the many outstanding demands on which the union refuses to budge, said Timothy Douglas, the other co-chair of OEA’s bargaining team, and a fifth grade teacher at International Community School in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of issues in special education that we find unacceptable and potentially illegal,” he said. “So we are really working with the district to implement a more sustainable and healthier workload model for our educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those educators is Gena Rinaldi, a special education teacher at Kaiser Early Childhood Center in the Oakland hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that we’re really focused on right now is increasing our support staff to ensure the safety of students in our classrooms,” she said, during a spirited rally Wednesday at Burbank Elementary in East Oakland. “Many of our teachers and our para-educators are not getting their lunch breaks right now because we don’t have enough staff for teachers to leave and still have supervision for our students. So we’re trying to convince the district that our youngest students need more support and we’re hopeful we can come to an agreement to make that happen.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Meanwhile, district officials have reiterated that they’ve offered teachers an unprecedented compensation package — yielding significant pay increases of as much as 22%, plus back pay — and do not have the financial capacity or legal authority to negotiate many of the union’s key “common good” proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We appear close to an agreement for a robust compensation package, which would give teachers a historic raise … thereby supporting the critical goal of attracting and retaining excellent teachers,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.parentsquare.com/feeds/20430541?s=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjA5ODQ3OSwiZXhwIjoxNjkxNzE5Mzc5LCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5wYXJlbnRzcXVhcmUuY29tL2ZlZWRzLzIwNDMwNTQxIiwibWV0aG9kIjoiR0VUIiwicXVlcnkiOnt9LCJyZXF1ZXN0Ijp7fX0.PePW3sJs4be05bTASVEqyC0pp0U8LRec86ZLQOe46PY\">a video message sent to families\u003c/a> on Wednesday evening. “The remaining issue is how best to work on the common good proposal, which seeks to assign the school district with addressing such broad societal issues as housing for homeless [students] and drought-tolerant landscaping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are critical issues, Johnson-Trammell noted, but they “demand multiagency and government support,” and certainly can’t be single-handedly tackled through the school district’s limited budget. Fully implementing the proposals, district officials said, would cost more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moreover, as laudable as common good causes may be, they should not hold children’s learning hostage or deprive students of the services that schools provide,” she said. “OUSD wants to find a way other than the bargaining table to take on these issues and move forward with getting students back in the classroom and putting a significant raise into employees’ paychecks now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an email response sent late Wednesday to KQED, Ismael Armendariz, OEA’s interim president, argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and said several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these issues are critical to supporting our schools,” he said. “We urge the district to spend more time negotiating in good faith and less time making outlandish claims about the total cost of the proposals in email blasts to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although scores of families in the district during the walkout have continued to staunchly support teachers — and their demands — some parent leaders are lambasting the union, accusing its negotiators of pushing for unrealistic goals at the expense of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a false assumption going around that this ongoing strike is meant to help Black and brown students. It’s not. Instead, this strike is proving the opposite,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of The Oakland Reach, a parent-run group, said in a statement on Wednesday. “Without school in session, the flatlands of Oakland are a ghost town, where our lower income Black and brown students already have some of the lowest reading and math scores in California and an absenteeism rate close to 50% among Black students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The longer this strike continues,” she added, “the more it will cost us — physically, emotionally, academically, and in literal dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:25 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>For Laura Kaneko, a middle school teacher at Melrose Leadership Academy in East Oakland, this strike is about much more than demanding a much-needed raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been kind of rejuvenating … to remember that our community is here supporting us not only for our compensation, but really for the common good for everybody,” said Kaneko, while attending a teacher support rally outside her school on Tuesday, the fourth day of a district-wide walkout. “They’ve made so much progress in the negotiations for a contract for our salary, but there’s still so much more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just look at the school’s defective HVAC system, Kaneko said. “Our heater here at the site has been broken for 10 years. So it’s either too hot on warm days or it’s off on really cold days. And there’s no way for us to control that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so one of the common good demands that we’re asking for is for a plan for there to be climate control in every classroom. Seems like a fairly reasonable thing to ask for our students’ learning conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the district has largely conceded to the union’s demands for a significant pay raise, offering up to a 22% salary increase, along with a retroactive bump and a one-time payout as part of a nearly $70 million compensation package. The sticking point, though, and apparent reason the strike is still on — with just 12 days left in the school year — is the impasse over those “common good” proposals: things like building housing for the district’s many unhoused students on surplus district land, offering reparations to historically underserved Black students, addressing long-neglected safety and infrastructure issues at school sites and allowing for shared governance of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">district’s community schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Oakland Education Association’s negotiating team on Tuesday continued to grapple with district officials behind closed doors over the terms of a new contract — with little indication of resolution anytime soon — union leaders and teachers on the picket line made clear that those demands were just as essential for a fair contract as the most generous salary increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message to the community is that you are here with us today. You have been with us through the years and we are with you at the bargaining table,” interim OEA President Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher, told supporters gathered outside Melrose on Tuesday. “And your demands are central, just as valuable to us, as is our wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of teachers unions around the country have in recent years begun fighting for similar common good demands, including Los Angeles educators, who during a 2019 strike pushed their district to commit to a host of racial and environmental justice initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD leaders, and half the members of the school board, argue that these goals, while admirable, pertain to larger societal issues the district can’t single-handedly address and that certainly don’t belong in a teachers’ contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to continue partnering with teachers and the teachers union to find solutions to some of these issues that plague our communities,” Mike Hutchinson, president of the school board, told reporters on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he argued, the district’s bargaining team is not authorized to even consider many of these proposals. “Items that are outside of the scope of the contract, which are basically compensation and work conditions, are not going to be negotiated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials, however, say district negotiators, desperate to get students back in the classroom, are finally beginning to consider some of these proposals — even though the district has not publicly confirmed this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Melrose rally, Malaika Parker, who runs Oakland’s Black Organizing Project, said the district was being extremely shortsighted in refusing to even consider many of the union’s common good proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The debate over teacher compensation versus common good is ridiculous,” she said. “That is a false choice. We deserve communities where all is incorporated — where our teachers are paid well and where our young people feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers shouldn’t have to demand these things, Parker argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are our teachers, the people who we trust with our children, not automatically guaranteed respect and living conditions?” she said. “Why are we having to ask for the basics when we should be demanding the most? Our teachers, our communities, deserve to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 9 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> Oakland school district officials and the teachers union on Monday evening announced that some 3,000 teachers and other school staff would continue striking on Tuesday, leaving classrooms across the district largely empty for a fourth day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As another day of working toward an agreement with the Oakland Education Association approaches an end, we are sorry to report we are preparing for a fourth consecutive day of the teachers’ strike,” the district said in a letter to parents, noting that schools will remain open, with food service and other resources still available for students. “But with teachers engaging in the work stoppage, school operations will be reduced as they have been since Thursday of last week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> With less than three weeks remaining in the school year, some 3,000 Oakland teachers, counselors and other school staff returned to the picket lines Monday for the third day of a district-wide strike, after the teachers union and the school district failed to reach a contract agreement over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Oakland School Board President Mike Hutchinson expressed his “disappointment for where we are today,” imploring the Oakland Education Association to come back to the negotiating table and accusing its leaders of holding up the process with unreasonable demands, at the expense of Oakland students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unprecedented and simply unacceptable for our students and families to be forced into this position during a time when we should instead be focused on planning, graduation and end-of-year celebrations,” he told reporters at an afternoon press briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said that despite the the union’s claims to the contrary, the district’s bargaining team has continued to negotiate in good faith and devoted countless hours toward reaching a deal, including a late-night Sunday session to review OEA’s latest counterproposal. And while State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and his staff helped support the process over the weekend, “it still did not lead us to an agreement,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, he said, has already made a nearly $70 million \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZNSGZxnaZU5S_HBv_FNZPr0R_TbJG0xd\">“historic” offer to teachers\u003c/a> that would significantly boost their pay — up to 22% — while addressing a host of other demands for more support and resources. But Hutchinson said the union remains unrealistically fixated on its “\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/\">common good proposals\u003c/a>” demands — including housing for unhoused students, major school infrastructure and safety improvements, climate change actions and racial justice measures such as reparations for Black students and their families. The district supports these objectives, he said, but fundamentally lacks the capacity to take them on single-handedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we agree on the principles of the proposal, they simply do not belong in contract language and we have not authorized any changes to our approach to this position shared last week,” Hutchinson said. He argued that the district already has some policies in place to work toward certain common good goals, and that other demands — including more mental health services for students — have already been addressed in the current contract offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our students need to be back at school immediately and I cannot make this point more urgently,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union argues that the district has long been aware of, but until recently ignored, these common good proposals, which OEA presented months ago. And the district, the union insists, already has the resources in place to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OUSD is a district exactly designed to deal with outside things like homelessness,” said Jacob Fowler, a Lincoln Elementary School teacher and member of the union’s negotiating team, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgkb2v_sw4\">a video message\u003c/a> to parents over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg\" alt='A huge crowd of protestors walk down a street in Oakland carrying green and yellow picket signs that read \"On Strike Unfair Labor Practices.\" Many participants wear red and one woman has a hooded sweatshirt that reads \"phenomenal teacher.\" Another sign reads \"Safe, Stable and Racially Just Schools\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1536x1118.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue in Oakland on the second day of an ongoing teachers strike on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district, he argued, receives millions of dollars a year from the state for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">community schools\u003c/a>, aimed at providing services to students outside of the normal school day. The union simply wants to make sure there is a community engagement strategy in place to determine how those funds get spent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not asking for any more funds. It costs the district $0 to agree to this proposal. But they’re not even addressing it,” Fowler said. “We just want a fair, complete proposal so that we can get back to the classroom quickly. If OUSD continues to drag their feet, we will continue to be on strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fowler added that the union has also set up “solidarity schools” across the district, run by credentialed teachers and community members, for students to attend for as long as the strike lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?extid=CL-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&mibextid=YCRy0i&ref=watch_permalink&v=591680859401402\">press conference on Monday morning\u003c/a> in front of the district’s headquarters, Oakland school board members Valarie Bachelor, Jennifer Brouhard and VanCedric Williams — representing half of the board — voiced their support for the union’s common good proposals and urged the other three members of the board, including Hutchinson, to embrace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not agree that common good should require a separate authorization to negotiate,” Bachelor said. As one of the largest landowners in Oakland, the district is particularly well positioned to work toward housing solutions for its many unhoused students, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard, a retired Oakland teacher, said recent historic state funding for community schools has created the opportunity to change how decisions in schools are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, decision-making power has been held at the district level,” she said. “It must be shared with teachers, parents and students and those voices must be centered at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard recalled, as a teacher, sitting on committees that had no real power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met, we met, we met. We talked about things our students needed, and they were never funded,” she said. “It’s time to have shared governance in our common good goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 7 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/b>No negotiations were planned over the weekend, said Oakland Education Association bargaining team member Samia Khattab, raising the prospect that striking teachers would be back on the picket lines on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Friday] evening we received a package proposal from [the OUSD] that is still incomplete and [that has] quite a few errors in it,” said Khattab, who is a teacher and librarian at Franklin Elementary School, in an interview with KQED. “We haven’t been able to sit at the table with them to go over some of these inconsistencies, to be able to discuss and walk through the proposal with them, because there is a holdup, and the holdup is that the OUSD school board has not given authority to the OUSD bargaining team to bargain on all of the proposals that the OEA has brought forth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khattab said the 50-member OEA bargaining team was working on a counterproposal Saturday, and said she hopes the district is able to return to the table so they can begin the “back-and-forth process of settling a fair contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district hasn’t responded this weekend,” said Khattab. “We have nothing on our agenda that indicates that they are going to be joining us at the table today … We will be on the picket lines unless we can come to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate interview with KQED on Saturday, Deputy Mayor Kimberly Mayfield said Oakland is committed to education and that the mayor’s office has a good relationship with the districts and the teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our desire is that they can work as hard as they can over this weekend to come up with a solution that will be agreeable to both parties,” said Mayfield. “I will trust the wisdom of the bargaining teams to make the best decision to bring our kids back to school and to bring our teachers back to school with safe conditions for learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 6 p.m. Friday:\u003c/b> Oakland teachers continued to strike for a second day Friday, with union, district and state education officials saying they planned to continue negotiating, likely through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One union rally was held at the United for Success Academy in Oakland’s Fruitvale District on Thursday. Oakland Education Association representatives said they chose the OUSD middle school because it highlights the lack of needed “common good” measures that teachers are demanding in their ongoing fight for a new contract across the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers at the UFSA say the school’s buildings are old and in need of renovation, that there’s \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/03/fruitvale-students-lead-soil-contamination-poisoning/\">lead in the soil\u003c/a> and a rat and mice infestation in the classrooms, and that they’re concerned about lead in the water.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Maha Nusrat, a sixth grade humanities teacher who’s taught at UFSA for 13 years, told KQED that it’s impossible to separate the physical conditions of the buildings from the teaching experience, or a child’s home environment from their education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re talking about common good proposals, we’re talking about disability justice, we’re talking about racial justice, we’re talking about social justice, we’re talking about schools in the flatlands having a just experience,” said Nusrat. “And that’s both in the environment, coming to a school that is welcoming, loving, safe — physically — and also [has] enough resources to actually fully serve those students that are in the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Aponte, a special education teacher going into his eighth year at UFSA, advocated for the needs of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [special education] program at UFSA is closing down, and as a special education teacher, that really hits us where it hurts,” said Aponte. “The students need these supports and these services … We need more qualified teachers to support the most vulnerable students that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg\" alt=\"Striking teachers marching holding a big colorful banner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1536x1154.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue from United for Success Academy, on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nusrat said schools like UFSA in the flatlands are a hub for families, a place to find additional resources outside the school day, and a place that serves as a safe space where students can get an “equitable education experience,” adding that UFSA is “a model” of some of the “common good” proposals teachers are demanding in the current strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people on campuses like ours are doing eight jobs because we simply don’t have the human power, no one is actually able to do their job that well,” said Nusrat. “We want to create wraparound services. We want to serve the whole student, including their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While district officials have said they agree in principle with the union’s proposals, they are prioritizing teacher retention by offering raises of up to 22%. But teachers demand that their “common good” proposals be met and that OUSD have a long-term plan in place for the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to have that transparency of a long game,” said Nusrat. “A two-year plan, a three-year plan, a five-year plan that’s going to include some of those common good things and some of those staffing issues that actually don’t let us do the jobs that we need to in our buildings with the integrity that we want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893056/oaklands-teachers-are-on-strike-again\">Oakland teachers’ strike\u003c/a> continues into its second day, First Covenant Church is opening its doors during the day to support K–5 students in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Danny Fitelson said\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandfcc.org/who-we-are\"> the church\u003c/a> also provided a space for students to read and learn when Oakland Unified teachers went on strike in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our mission statements is to be a light to the city. We think this is just a way to respond to a need that our city has right now,” Fitelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church transformed the choir room into a library for kids to lounge, snuggle with stuffed animals, read and munch on popcorn. Volunteers offered lessons on multiplication and division, and showed a science video about building bridges using pasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s board voted to provide this “community educational support program” until at least the end of next week if the strike continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t just about everybody making more money, it’s also about trying to get schools taken care of that have maybe been neglected,” Fitelson said. “I’ve been weighing that, and I think that hopefully something will get worked out. But I know it’s tough for everybody while it’s getting worked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Oakland parents remain frustrated by the disruption in schools as a teachers’ strike continues into its second day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, which represents 3,000 teachers, librarians, nurses and other staff members, has asked the district for what it’s calling “common good” proposals, including providing housing for unhoused students and investing in historically Black schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a> on Friday morning, Lakisha Young, founder of the parent-run organization The Oakland Reach, said some of the issues being raised are deep and longstanding, and unlikely to be resolved any time soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when does this end?” Young said. “I feel like this is what parents are saying. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s unclear when the students and teachers will return to the classroom. State Superintendent Tony Thurmond has been mediating talks between the district and the union since Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond aims to continue the mediated talks through the weekend in hopes of ending the strike, though a spokesperson for the California Department of Education said several “significant items” remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/posts/pfbid02tGwEMfFZtoLntHwTSvwcYxuU5mjv361p4VV3AnkcQq2PY6qnbDyRWggiQ9hz3vV6l\">update posted to social media Thursday evening\u003c/a>, the Oakland Education Association confirmed that the strike would continue on Friday, with the union’s president calling for a return to the picket lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“United we will win,” said OEA President Ismael Armendariz in a video update. “We will have a midday rally at United for Success [Academy, in Oakland], to highlight our social justice and environmental justice demands. We’ll see you on the picket lines at 7:30 a.m.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same video, Vilma Serrano, bargaining co-chair for OEA, called on Oaklanders and supporters to “push the school board to have a meeting to give the OUSD bargaining team the authority to bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned this week that the school board has not given the OUSD full authority to bargain,” said Serrano. “It has been really deeply frustrating to get to this point after seven months of bargaining … We need to settle a contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in a square, with one man holding a sign and arms raised high.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of Oakland teachers and their supporters converged on Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall Thursday afternoon for a festive rally to close out the first day of an open-ended strike. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 3 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>After spending the morning picketing in front of their schools, hundreds of Oakland teachers and supporters converged on Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall Thursday afternoon for a festive rally to close out the first day of an open-ended strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With union and school district negotiators still at an impasse over the terms of a new contract, it appeared likely — save for a last-minute agreement — that teachers would be spending at least one more day on the picket lines, resulting in empty classrooms and another lost day of instruction for some 34,000 students in the district, with just three weeks left in the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in front of Oakland City Hall, carrying signs and banners.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking educators and their supporters at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jesse Shapiro, a veteran Oakland High School history and photography teacher, said the district had not yet put forward a reasonable offer, and urged parents and other community members to be patient despite the disruption caused by the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to understand that short-term sacrifice is something that’s necessary for long-term gains,” he said at the rally, as Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day” reverberated from the speakers behind him. “So I’d ask them to be patient, supportive of what the people who teach their children are asking for. Because we’re not just asking for us, we’re asking for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro said his daughter, who attends an elementary school in the district, stands to directly gain from the increases teachers are demanding — rather than being subjected to a succession of novice teachers who leave the district after a year or two because the pay is so low and the resources so limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors gather and hold signs, with two female protestors engaged in a mock sword fight.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The picket took on a festive air Thursday with hundreds gathered at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want her to be in a classroom where there’s a teacher who wants to be there, who has a manageable number of kids, who has the facilities to teach my kid in a safe environment where she wants to be when she gets into high school,” he said. “I want her to be able to have access to a counselor so she can discuss what her options are after high school. And I think every parent wants that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Chan, a single mom of a fifth grader at Sequoia Elementary School in the Lower Dimond District, said she came to the rally to support teachers in their fight for a fair contract that “really values them in the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we just need the district to listen to the teachers on what they’re saying,” Chan said, pointing to accounts she’s heard from teachers of working in dilapidated classrooms where the ceiling tiles were literally falling down, or where students were experiencing homelessness or suffering from serious mental health issues that were not being addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948638 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg\" alt=\"Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads "We Love Teachers" at Thursday's noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads “We Love Teachers” at Thursday’s noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Particularly as a single mom, Chan said, a strike like this makes life a lot more difficult. “But I think we as parents have dealt with a lot of issues the last few years, and interruptions. We’ve dealt with smoke days, we’ve dealt with the pandemic,” she said. “And this was completely preventable by the district. But we’re going to keep on dealing with it because it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents, however, took to social media to voice their frustrations with both the district and the teachers union, lambasting the two sides for failing to reach an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At 9pm at night, we learn our kids won’t have school tomorrow,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of parent advocacy group The Oakland Reach, wrote in a tweet late Wednesday, after the strike was announced. “I’m so disappointed in both sides. Once again, our kids are collateral damage in adult fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948320/weary-oakland-parents-divided-over-whether-to-support-teachers-in-looming-strike\">Oakland teachers\u003c/a> joined picket lines early Thursday morning in front of schools, leaving classrooms largely empty, on the first day of an open-ended strike in an ongoing push for higher wages and better working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, a resource specialist at Manzanita Community School, marched with her colleagues in front of their East Oakland elementary school, chanting, “We want justice for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez said that while it was essential for teachers in the district to receive higher pay, this walkout is about much more than just compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what we’re fighting for are just basic rights, especially for our special education students,” she said. “Those are legal mandates that we aren’t meeting because we don’t have the human capacity to meet them. And a lot of the other things that we’re asking are like, for safety in our schools, for actual ACs, and not to have mice, and not to have real just basic health concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ismael Armendariz, interim president of the Oakland Education Association, the union representing some 3,000 teachers and other school personnel, joined Manzanita teachers on Thursday morning. He said the district had not delivered on its promise to submit a comprehensive proposal to the union, and had consistently failed to address many of \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/bargaining-proposals?authuser=0\">its crucial demands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not received anything in writing. We are waiting to receive everything in writing so that we can settle this contract,” said Armendariz. He urged the school board president to intervene in the negotiating process, which he called “dysfunctional,” accusing the district of negotiating in bad faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Thursday morning, Oakland school board president Mike Hutchinson denied that claim, arguing, “We have been negotiating every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD leaders said \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ousdnews/posts/pfbid027XfdPTjL7txwyziTMF4E6SPawMrR265SCCKPD8zhH1XBDotZ5nrXrmwpQpoaUKoGl\">their latest contract offer\u003c/a>, of nearly $70 million, would give teachers a generous raise — of as much as 22% — while addressing a host of other demands, including investing to hire more counselors and performing arts teachers and giving teachers more classroom preparation time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The latest salary proposal would give teachers an unprecedented raise — one that they deserve, and one that OUSD teachers haven’t seen in years if not decades,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said, noting that teacher retention was her top priority.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A sports team is nothing without a community that supports it. Many Oakland A’s fans are still processing the news that their beloved team \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium\">signed a deal\u003c/a> to build a new stadium near the Las Vegas Strip. If all these plans go through, it seems like the A’s could leave their hometown altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Die-hard fans told KQED that they believed A’s leadership when it boasted its #RootedInOakland campaign. Now, many say they feel betrayed. There are fans who grew up going to the ballpark and who introduced their children to the excitement of baseball. Some have even proposed to their partners at the Coliseum. As Oakland stands to lose yet another sports team to Las Vegas, A’s fans share their heartfelt reactions and genuine memories of what the team has meant to The Town for more than five decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006 during Game 3 of the opening round of the American League playoffs, Sean McKissick remembers, the A’s absolutely dismantled the Minnesota Twins and advanced to the next round of the playoffs. He said it’s one of his top memories next to the birth of his children. But it was one of those electrifying games that was made better by being part of a roaring crowd alongside his wife, his brothers and his parents.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sean McKissick, longtime Oakland A’s fan\"]‘You’ve got such a fan base here. You’ve got such a history here. It’s the home of Rickey Henderson. How do the A’s leave the town where Rickey Henderson grew up?’[/pullquote]“I remember being in that crowd … we’ve already got the lead, but the bases are loaded for Marco Scutaro. He clears the bases with a double. The entire crowd, 50,000 strong, is chanting Scu-ta-ro, Scu-ta-ro,” McKissick said. “It was a high. I won’t say it’s better than the birth of my kids, but if you put that aside, it’s pretty high up on my most treasured memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKissick grew up in the East Bay and said he spent his infancy in the Coliseum cheering on the A’s. He now lives in Fair Oaks, a suburb of Sacramento. But despite the distance, he was still making the drive to Oakland to attend A’s games with his family. He said being at the ballpark over the last 40 years truly shaped a significant part of his life. Now that the team is leaving, he’s unsure how to feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just didn’t make sense to me. You’ve got such a fan base here. You’ve got such a history here. It’s the home of Rickey Henderson. How do the A’s leave the town where Rickey Henderson grew up?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A family of four stand with Oakland A's mascot Stomper.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1928\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1920x1446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A’s fan Michael Garcia (far right) poses with (from left) his father, nephew and niece with A’s mascot Stomper. The family attended a game against the Kansas City Royals on June 17, 2022 — the first-ever MLB game Garcia’s niece and nephew attended. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michael Garcia, an application developer, said he has been going to the Coliseum for 20 years with his dad and still can’t believe the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have experienced countless heartbreaks. Whether it was our favorite players getting traded or tolerating where all we could hope for was having at least a .500 season, we’ve been through it all.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Garcia, longtime A’s fan\"]‘Despite the sadness and frustration that I feel, I am still thankful for all the wonderful memories that the A’s have given us over the years. Those are the memories that I will continue to cherish, even when we are no longer the Oakland Athletics.’[/pullquote]“The recent news regarding the A’s moving to Las Vegas was the biggest heartbreak by far. Despite the sadness and frustration that I feel, I am still thankful for all the wonderful memories that the A’s have given us over the years. Those are the memories that I will continue to cherish, even when we are no longer the Oakland Athletics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Medina, a former military member, said there were times during his service when he followed A’s games even when he had little to no reception. He kept up with the team because he cared about the sport and loved the A’s that much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been an A’s fan my entire life, but after this decision, I simply can’t watch or support them anymore,” he said. “It’s as if we’ve been backstabbed by a team that pushed the ‘Rooted in Oakland’ narrative. My family and friends were in utter shock by this decision because they were more than a team to us. They were a part of Oakland and our lives, and like the roots they claimed were there, they simply dug them out and chose to put them somewhere else and didn’t even bother to cover up the hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime fan Brice Robinson-Wasley told KQED he cheered on the A’s from his small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was a boy in the ’90s, the Giants were looking to relocate to Tampa. I was in Little League and the Giants were doing zero outreach to the community. The A’s, however, had every intention of staying. They had a Little League day where we got to watch a game, walk on the field, have the experience of a lifetime. I certainly have remembered it all my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been an A’s fan ever since. It occurs to me that the roles have been reversed: The Giants are now [the] ones with no intention to move and the A’s are the team looking for a way out (and they’ve gotten it). Even if by some miracle they do stay, who are the A’s building as lifelong fans like they did 25–30 years ago?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing green and gold baseball jerseys along with green baseball hats, smile from behind the golden Oakland A's 1972 World Champions trophy.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Strat (left) and Jacob Vides met at an A’s game and became best buds. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacob Vides)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jacob Vides said the Oakland Coliseum is a place where fellow A’s fans bond over their team pride and become lifelong friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Michael and I] became best friends after we met at an A’s game in 2016. And have attended many more games together since. We have Oakland to thank for many great and fun memories,” Vides said. “We are devastated to learn about the potential move and feel let down by the A’s and to a lesser degree the city of Oakland. Our message is owners should veto this move, and MLB Commissioner Manfred should not waive the $2 billion relocation fee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Vides weighed Oakland’s loss, other fans such as Michael Melland, an Oakland resident since 1988, say good riddance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“See ya. Wouldn’t want to be ya. They’ve destroyed this baseball team. They’ve insulted all of the fans. The owner is a billionaire … it’s like, OK, go ahead. We don’t want you here. … He ruined a whole brand here. I mean, look at these guys. What have they won? Three games and it’s already the last half of April. It’s terrible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why should the poor taxpayers of Oakland who can’t even keep the schools, or the police, or health care going, why should they have to pony up just so he can make even more money? It’s insane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/pquinton99/status/1649160482866233354\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a dedicated A’s fan for more than 30 years, Connie Voss said she’s hurt just like everyone else, but looks forward to the upcoming soccer season and women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hurt that they’re leaving us. The way they’re leaving us. I was devastated … It really, really, really hurt. We kind of thought they were going to leave us, but hoping they weren’t,” she said. “But I’m trying to think positive and deal with the new kinds of sports that are coming: the soccer games and the women’s teams. I’m looking forward to all of that. I don’t want to live in the past. I want to move to the future.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mumin Abuzaid, longtime A’s fan\"]‘That whole ‘Rooted in Oakland’ thing is kind of like a slap in the face when you use that as a marketing strategy to promote your brand and, of course, that got you money, but now where’s that whole philosophy?’[/pullquote]Mumin Abuzaid, 23, was born in San Francisco, but lives in Alameda and grew up attending A’s games. He said he’s sad that the team’s president, Dave Kaval, would be willing to take money from a city that has a long list of immediate needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bit weird for a billion-dollar franchise to be asking that of a city when they already support you more than they really should, as you haven’t been winning as much as other teams. 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