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Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay

Will Scores of Schools in Oakland Be History?

Mark Fiore
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Cartoon: one panel is titled #BlackHistoryMonth and features Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland's first teacher who taught at Prescott School in West Oakland. The second panel is titled, "#Tuesday" and shows a missing piece with no Jackson or school, the caption says, "Oakland's school board votes on closing Prescott..."

Prescott School, an elementary school in West Oakland, was founded in 1869.

On Tuesday evening, the Oakland Unified School District board will vote on whether to close it and seven other schools, and consolidate six more schools in the district over the next two years.

Prescott has a lot of history: The amazing Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland's first Black teacher, taught there.

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