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The CTA has capitalized on the strikes in Los Angeles Unified and Oakland Unified, which have the largest percentages of students in charter schools in the state, to press the case that charter schools are placing serious financial strain on districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CTA has escalated its rhetoric against charter schools over the past year in campaign ads and on its website \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/en/Issues-and-Action/Charter-Schools/Kids-not-Profits.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kids Not Profits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is clear that Californians want significant changes in the decades-old laws governing charter schools that have allowed corporate charter schools to divert millions away from our neighborhood public schools [and] allowed for waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars at the expense of our students,” said California Teachers Association President Eric Heins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Carlos Marquez, senior vice president of government affairs for the California Charter Schools Association, said, “CTA’s extreme policy proposals undermine the unified case we must all make to fairly and adequately fund all of California’s public schools. 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And many of the hotspots are in and around big urban areas with high concentrations of low income kids.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In some districts where charter enrollment has spiked, the rise appears to be less about community demand than a loophole that, as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/audit-school-districts-reap-millions-oking-far-flung-charters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state auditors\u003c/a> have noted, let a few small, mostly rural districts make money by authorizing charter schools that draw enrollment from outside their boundaries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And though claims abound, it’s hard to know how just much charter growth is impacting traditional schools’ budgets, in part because state law doesn’t let districts consider the potential fiscal drain when authorizing new charters. A forthcoming report from the Department of Education will examine the issue statewide.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Big Cities, Big Impact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Chart: By the Numbers: Los Angeles Unified School District\" aria-describedby=\"Over the last decade, California's largest school district lost nearly 180,000 students in its traditional public schools, a drop of roughly 28 percent. At the same time, enrollment in the district's charter schools rose by more than 106,000 kids, a 225 percent increase.\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-OpcLk\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/OpcLk/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the charter debate is arising from places such as Los Angeles and Oakland, and the data show why: large urban school districts are where California charter schools have focused their efforts and seen the most growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Los Angeles Unified School District, nearly 25 percent of the district’s 621,000 students were enrolled in a charter school last year, up from less than 7 percent in the 2007-08 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that decade, traditional district schools at LAUSD lost nearly 180,000 students, while charter schools authorized by the L.A. school board gained more than 106,000 students, as the district’s charter enrollment increased 225 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 26 percent of Oakland Unified’s 50,000 or so students were enrolled in charter schools last year, compared with 16 percent in 2007-08. Among large urban districts, data show, Oakland has the state’s highest concentration of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But L.A. and Oakland are exceptions. There were 73 school districts in CALmatters’ database with total enrollments higher than 20,000 students—a group that accounts for more than half of the state’s public school enrollment. Of those, only 18 (San Diego, San Francisco and Chula Vista Elementary school districts also were among them) had more than 10 percent of their total enrollment in charters. Dominating that list were districts in big cities and poorer communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In far more of California’s districts, charter schools are scarcely an option. Two dozen other big districts—in populous suburbs such as Irvine, Garden Grove, Fontana and Chino Valley in Orange and San Bernardino counties—authorized no charter schools at all in the past decade. This could suggest that there is either little demand or effort to establish charters in these communities, or intense resistance from districts toward authorizing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, more than half of California’s school districts—650, of all sizes—authorized zero charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where charters had been okayed, more than half of the statewide enrollment—350,000 students—was concentrated in school districts where more than 60 percent of students get free or reduced-price lunches, an indicator of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-800x553.jpg\" alt='Ellie Kerwin, a junior in high school, holds a sign that reads \"I Hella Love Oakland Teachers\" as she walks down Broadway St. during the Oakland student walkout on Friday Feb. 8, 2019. ' width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-1200x829.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellie Kerwin, a junior in high school, holds a sign that reads \"I Hella Love Oakland Teachers\" as she walks down Broadway St. during the Oakland student walkout on Friday Feb. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Far-flung Charters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Complicating the charter picture are a handful of small districts that are augmenting their budgets by authorizing charters—in some cases, far beyond their boundaries—via an arcane legislative loophole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California typically doesn’t allow charter schools to open unless a nearby district is willing to track their performance, for which the district can legally charge oversight fees. But a 2017 state audit pinpointed a handful of districts that had authorized charters as far as 50 miles outside their geographic boundaries—a lucrative arrangement that had increased revenue tenfold in at least one district, though the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bsa.ca.gov/reports/2016-141/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auditor also found\u003c/a> that the districts weren’t necessarily delivering the oversight for which they were paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly one-fifth of the state’s 2017-18 total charter enrollment came from schools authorized by the state’s smallest school districts, according to CALmatters’ analysis. Excluding county education offices, districts that had less than 1,500 students in traditional public schools accounted for more than 108,000 charter students, or about 17 percent, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s directory of public schools shows that some of the charter schools authorized by small districts with the most dramatically disproportionate charter enrollments have addresses that are far outside their boundaries. But state auditors noted that it is difficult to tally exactly how many charters operate with far-flung authorizers. The state does not require charter schools to report the locations of all of their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, some of these small districts, such as Acton-Agua Dulce Unified in rural Los Angeles County and Dehesa Elementary School District in eastern San Diego County, experienced dramatic charter growth in the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dehesa, which enrolled 145 traditional district kids in 2017-18, grew its charter enrollment from 676 students in 2007-08 to more than 8,500 last year. Acton-Agua Dulce, which enrolled 1,080 students in its district schools last year, grew the number of charter students it oversees from 165 in 2012-13 to nearly 14,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 2012, the Acton district—in the isolated high desert between Santa Clarita and Palmdale—had not authorized any charters. Now it has, on paper, a larger charter enrollment than Oakland Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Cost Question\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Chart: Growth in California's Charter Schools\" aria-describedby=\"Only about 10 percent of California's 6.2 million public-school students were enrolled in charter schools in 2017-18. Still, the state's charter school enrollment has more than doubled over the last 10 years.\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-WYs07\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WYs07/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the arguments that make charter schools such a potent political issue is the contention by unions and some districts that rapid charter expansion is draining traditional public schools financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been a concentration of need in the traditional public-school system that charter schools are not helping to finance,” said Carmelita Reyes, a principal at Oakland International High School, which specifically targets newly arrived immigrant students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes was among 30 Oakland principals who drove to Sacramento on Wednesday—the day before the strike—to ask legislators for more school funding, oversight of charter schools and forgiveness of a $36 million debt the financially-distressed school district owes the state resulting from a previous bailout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you just have one or two charter schools in your community, that’s probably fine,” Reyes said. “But when [as much as] a third of the students are in charter schools, as is the case in Oakland, it has really financially destabilized programs that we need to support our neediest students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the degree to which charter growth impacts district budgets is difficult to pinpoint, and the issue has become so loaded that hard numbers are difficult to obtain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In L.A. and Oakland the fiscal problems are longstanding and complex: Both districts for years have been in financial distress stemming from factors that range from rising employee pension and healthcare costs to shifting demographics. Oakland is mulling whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/08/oakland-unified-scrambles-to-identify-as-many-as-24-schools-that-could-be-closed-in-next-5-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">close two dozen\u003c/a> district schools amid a $22 million budget deficit that follows a state takeover and two state bailouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State funding for California public schools is based on the average number of students who attend school each day, meaning, in general, less money for districts with lower enrollment. But it’s tricky to accurately isolate the costs of enrollment lost to charters; according to the California Charter School Association, about a quarter of charters are “district dependent,” meaning they operate within a district’s financial and governance structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11728499\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students talk after class at Lighthouse Charter School in Oakland. Unions and some districts say charters siphon critical funding from traditional public schools.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students talk after class at Lighthouse Charter School in Oakland. Unions and some districts say charters siphon critical funding from traditional public schools. \u003ccite>(Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also, a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98/bill/asm/ab_0501-0550/ab_544_bill_19980508_chaptered.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1998 state law\u003c/a> prevents districts from considering the financial impact when determining whether to authorize a new charter, so those cost analyses aren’t part of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for Los Angeles Unified, where tensions have inflamed following January’s teacher strike, told CALmatters that “we do not have a revenue impact calculation for independent charter schools.” A spokesman for Oakland Unified did not respond to a similar inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, neutral estimates are hard to come by. Teachers unions have been citing reports by the left-leaning Bay Area policy center, In The Public Interest, estimating that charter growth cost \u003ca href=\"http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_LAUSDCharters_PolicyBrief_May2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. Unified\u003c/a> more than $508 million in 2014-15 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/report-the-cost-of-charter-schools-for-public-school-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Unified\u003c/a> $57 million in 2016-17. In The Public Interest is affiliated with the Partnership for Working Families, an advocacy group that lobbies against income inequality and whose funders include organized labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Charter Schools Association says whatever financial impact charter growth has had on school districts is overblown and a scapegoat for issues outside of charters’ control. They \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsa.org/blog/2016/05/ccsa-responds-to-utla-report-blaming-charters-for-lausds-fiscal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized \u003c/a>both of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsa.org/blog/2018/05/in-the-public-interest-report-unfairly-scapegoats-charter-public-school-movement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the Public Interest\u003c/a> reports when they came out, saying the latest one was “commissioned by a biased organization with a political agenda and conclusion in mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forthcoming report by the state Department of Education has promised to delve into the numbers with a report due July 1, but it, too, is politically controversial. State schools chief Thurmond, who is overseeing the study, won office on a platform that partly called for a pause on charters while the state examined their financial impact on districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter advocates fear that focus on fiscal impact—combined with the anti-charter rhetoric of striking teachers—could lead to recommendations that slow the growth of charters. In any case, they say, it’s unfair and distorts their intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This villainization of charters driving districts to brink of insolvency is salacious,” said Myrna Castrejón, president and CEO of the state’s charter school association. She touted the growth of charter schools in California, saying it reflects the sector’s broad goal of giving needy students equitable learning opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charters in \u003ca href=\"https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3049635/OUSD%20Charter%20Fact%20Sheet%20FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3049635/LAUSD%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A.\u003c/a> educate similar proportions of low-income students as traditional district schools, according to the association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not for a second will I apologize for the growth of charters that are meeting the needs of parents and are contributing to lifting up our brown and black kids, our disadvantaged students and providing them a lifeline of opportunity for greater success in our great state,” Castrejón said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As teachers picket in the streets of Oakland in their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/lausd-utla-strike-deal-legislature-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second high-profile strike\u003c/a> this year in California, state lawmakers are hearing their battle cry loud and clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s charter schools—privately operated public schools that are mostly non-union—are all over the Capitol agenda. Lawmakers are fast-tracking transparency \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation \u003c/a>that would treat charter trustees like regular school boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State education officials are \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-governor-launches-charter-school-review-20190206-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studying \u003c/a>their financial impact on school districts, a possible first step to curbing future expansion. In his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/newsom-state-of-the-state-annotated/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of the State\u003c/a> address, Gov. Gavin Newsom lumped charter growth in with overcrowded classrooms, the achievement gap and understaffed schools as a “stressor” to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Newsom and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond were backed by California’s powerful teachers’ unions. Both beat opponents who were heavily bankrolled by billionaire advocates of the charter movement in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Map: Map: Where Are Students Attending Charter Schools?\" aria-describedby=\"The majority of California's charter school student population is concentrated in Los Angeles, San Diego and Bay Area counties. Hover through the counties on each map for more information on their charter school growth.\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-bPbYB\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/bPbYB/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the attention also stems from the increased intensity, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/695957426/oakland-los-angeles-and-more-to-come-why-teachers-keep-going-on-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national scope\u003c/a>, of the war between unions and supporters of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, that conflict has been portrayed as a sweeping \u003ca href=\"https://www.csmonitor.com/EqualEd/2019/0116/Behind-LA-teachers-strike-a-battle-for-the-soul-of-public-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fight for the soul\u003c/a> of public education. But a CALmatters analysis of statewide charter enrollment data paints a far more nuanced picture, in which charter growth is more a collection of densely concentrated hotspots than a statewide phenomenon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Though California’s charter school enrollment more than doubled during the past decade, from nearly 250,000 kids to about 630,000, only about 10 percent of the state’s 6.2 million public school students are enrolled in charters, according to state data. From 2007-08 to 2017-18, the period we examined, more than half of California’s school districts—many of them suburban—authorized no charters at all.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charter school expansion seems to correlate with poverty in California. More than half of the state’s charter enrollment is in districts where most students get free and reduced-price lunches. And many of the hotspots are in and around big urban areas with high concentrations of low income kids.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In some districts where charter enrollment has spiked, the rise appears to be less about community demand than a loophole that, as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/audit-school-districts-reap-millions-oking-far-flung-charters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state auditors\u003c/a> have noted, let a few small, mostly rural districts make money by authorizing charter schools that draw enrollment from outside their boundaries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And though claims abound, it’s hard to know how just much charter growth is impacting traditional schools’ budgets, in part because state law doesn’t let districts consider the potential fiscal drain when authorizing new charters. A forthcoming report from the Department of Education will examine the issue statewide.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Big Cities, Big Impact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Chart: By the Numbers: Los Angeles Unified School District\" aria-describedby=\"Over the last decade, California's largest school district lost nearly 180,000 students in its traditional public schools, a drop of roughly 28 percent. At the same time, enrollment in the district's charter schools rose by more than 106,000 kids, a 225 percent increase.\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-OpcLk\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/OpcLk/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the charter debate is arising from places such as Los Angeles and Oakland, and the data show why: large urban school districts are where California charter schools have focused their efforts and seen the most growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Los Angeles Unified School District, nearly 25 percent of the district’s 621,000 students were enrolled in a charter school last year, up from less than 7 percent in the 2007-08 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that decade, traditional district schools at LAUSD lost nearly 180,000 students, while charter schools authorized by the L.A. school board gained more than 106,000 students, as the district’s charter enrollment increased 225 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 26 percent of Oakland Unified’s 50,000 or so students were enrolled in charter schools last year, compared with 16 percent in 2007-08. Among large urban districts, data show, Oakland has the state’s highest concentration of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But L.A. and Oakland are exceptions. There were 73 school districts in CALmatters’ database with total enrollments higher than 20,000 students—a group that accounts for more than half of the state’s public school enrollment. Of those, only 18 (San Diego, San Francisco and Chula Vista Elementary school districts also were among them) had more than 10 percent of their total enrollment in charters. Dominating that list were districts in big cities and poorer communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In far more of California’s districts, charter schools are scarcely an option. Two dozen other big districts—in populous suburbs such as Irvine, Garden Grove, Fontana and Chino Valley in Orange and San Bernardino counties—authorized no charter schools at all in the past decade. This could suggest that there is either little demand or effort to establish charters in these communities, or intense resistance from districts toward authorizing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, more than half of California’s school districts—650, of all sizes—authorized zero charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where charters had been okayed, more than half of the statewide enrollment—350,000 students—was concentrated in school districts where more than 60 percent of students get free or reduced-price lunches, an indicator of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-800x553.jpg\" alt='Ellie Kerwin, a junior in high school, holds a sign that reads \"I Hella Love Oakland Teachers\" as she walks down Broadway St. during the Oakland student walkout on Friday Feb. 8, 2019. ' width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-1200x829.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellie Kerwin, a junior in high school, holds a sign that reads \"I Hella Love Oakland Teachers\" as she walks down Broadway St. during the Oakland student walkout on Friday Feb. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Far-flung Charters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Complicating the charter picture are a handful of small districts that are augmenting their budgets by authorizing charters—in some cases, far beyond their boundaries—via an arcane legislative loophole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California typically doesn’t allow charter schools to open unless a nearby district is willing to track their performance, for which the district can legally charge oversight fees. But a 2017 state audit pinpointed a handful of districts that had authorized charters as far as 50 miles outside their geographic boundaries—a lucrative arrangement that had increased revenue tenfold in at least one district, though the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bsa.ca.gov/reports/2016-141/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auditor also found\u003c/a> that the districts weren’t necessarily delivering the oversight for which they were paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly one-fifth of the state’s 2017-18 total charter enrollment came from schools authorized by the state’s smallest school districts, according to CALmatters’ analysis. Excluding county education offices, districts that had less than 1,500 students in traditional public schools accounted for more than 108,000 charter students, or about 17 percent, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s directory of public schools shows that some of the charter schools authorized by small districts with the most dramatically disproportionate charter enrollments have addresses that are far outside their boundaries. But state auditors noted that it is difficult to tally exactly how many charters operate with far-flung authorizers. The state does not require charter schools to report the locations of all of their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, some of these small districts, such as Acton-Agua Dulce Unified in rural Los Angeles County and Dehesa Elementary School District in eastern San Diego County, experienced dramatic charter growth in the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dehesa, which enrolled 145 traditional district kids in 2017-18, grew its charter enrollment from 676 students in 2007-08 to more than 8,500 last year. Acton-Agua Dulce, which enrolled 1,080 students in its district schools last year, grew the number of charter students it oversees from 165 in 2012-13 to nearly 14,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 2012, the Acton district—in the isolated high desert between Santa Clarita and Palmdale—had not authorized any charters. Now it has, on paper, a larger charter enrollment than Oakland Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Cost Question\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Chart: Growth in California's Charter Schools\" aria-describedby=\"Only about 10 percent of California's 6.2 million public-school students were enrolled in charter schools in 2017-18. Still, the state's charter school enrollment has more than doubled over the last 10 years.\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-WYs07\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WYs07/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the arguments that make charter schools such a potent political issue is the contention by unions and some districts that rapid charter expansion is draining traditional public schools financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been a concentration of need in the traditional public-school system that charter schools are not helping to finance,” said Carmelita Reyes, a principal at Oakland International High School, which specifically targets newly arrived immigrant students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes was among 30 Oakland principals who drove to Sacramento on Wednesday—the day before the strike—to ask legislators for more school funding, oversight of charter schools and forgiveness of a $36 million debt the financially-distressed school district owes the state resulting from a previous bailout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you just have one or two charter schools in your community, that’s probably fine,” Reyes said. “But when [as much as] a third of the students are in charter schools, as is the case in Oakland, it has really financially destabilized programs that we need to support our neediest students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the degree to which charter growth impacts district budgets is difficult to pinpoint, and the issue has become so loaded that hard numbers are difficult to obtain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In L.A. and Oakland the fiscal problems are longstanding and complex: Both districts for years have been in financial distress stemming from factors that range from rising employee pension and healthcare costs to shifting demographics. Oakland is mulling whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/08/oakland-unified-scrambles-to-identify-as-many-as-24-schools-that-could-be-closed-in-next-5-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">close two dozen\u003c/a> district schools amid a $22 million budget deficit that follows a state takeover and two state bailouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State funding for California public schools is based on the average number of students who attend school each day, meaning, in general, less money for districts with lower enrollment. But it’s tricky to accurately isolate the costs of enrollment lost to charters; according to the California Charter School Association, about a quarter of charters are “district dependent,” meaning they operate within a district’s financial and governance structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11728499\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students talk after class at Lighthouse Charter School in Oakland. Unions and some districts say charters siphon critical funding from traditional public schools.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students talk after class at Lighthouse Charter School in Oakland. Unions and some districts say charters siphon critical funding from traditional public schools. \u003ccite>(Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also, a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98/bill/asm/ab_0501-0550/ab_544_bill_19980508_chaptered.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1998 state law\u003c/a> prevents districts from considering the financial impact when determining whether to authorize a new charter, so those cost analyses aren’t part of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for Los Angeles Unified, where tensions have inflamed following January’s teacher strike, told CALmatters that “we do not have a revenue impact calculation for independent charter schools.” A spokesman for Oakland Unified did not respond to a similar inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, neutral estimates are hard to come by. Teachers unions have been citing reports by the left-leaning Bay Area policy center, In The Public Interest, estimating that charter growth cost \u003ca href=\"http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_LAUSDCharters_PolicyBrief_May2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. Unified\u003c/a> more than $508 million in 2014-15 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/report-the-cost-of-charter-schools-for-public-school-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Unified\u003c/a> $57 million in 2016-17. In The Public Interest is affiliated with the Partnership for Working Families, an advocacy group that lobbies against income inequality and whose funders include organized labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Charter Schools Association says whatever financial impact charter growth has had on school districts is overblown and a scapegoat for issues outside of charters’ control. They \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsa.org/blog/2016/05/ccsa-responds-to-utla-report-blaming-charters-for-lausds-fiscal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized \u003c/a>both of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsa.org/blog/2018/05/in-the-public-interest-report-unfairly-scapegoats-charter-public-school-movement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the Public Interest\u003c/a> reports when they came out, saying the latest one was “commissioned by a biased organization with a political agenda and conclusion in mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forthcoming report by the state Department of Education has promised to delve into the numbers with a report due July 1, but it, too, is politically controversial. State schools chief Thurmond, who is overseeing the study, won office on a platform that partly called for a pause on charters while the state examined their financial impact on districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter advocates fear that focus on fiscal impact—combined with the anti-charter rhetoric of striking teachers—could lead to recommendations that slow the growth of charters. In any case, they say, it’s unfair and distorts their intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This villainization of charters driving districts to brink of insolvency is salacious,” said Myrna Castrejón, president and CEO of the state’s charter school association. She touted the growth of charter schools in California, saying it reflects the sector’s broad goal of giving needy students equitable learning opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charters in \u003ca href=\"https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3049635/OUSD%20Charter%20Fact%20Sheet%20FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3049635/LAUSD%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A.\u003c/a> educate similar proportions of low-income students as traditional district schools, according to the association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When his English teacher abruptly quit last month to take a higher-paying corporate job, Will Flattery-Vickness knew something needed to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she had to leave to get a tech job, that just shows teachers need to be supported more,” said Flattery-Vickness, 18, a senior at Oakland Technical High School, whose class has been loosely supervised for several weeks by a revolving cast of substitute teachers. “It just added to the chaos of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flattery-Vickness was one of the roughly 25 students who joined teachers on the picket line in front of Oakland Tech Friday morning, on the second day of a districtwide teacher strike. Oakland teachers, who have been working without a contract since July 2017, are among the lowest-paid educators in the Bay Area. They’re demanding a 12 percent raise over the next three years, smaller class sizes and more nurses and counselors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1200x900.jpg\" label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Follow our coverage of the strikes, closures, and more.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flattery-Vickness said he felt compelled to be on the front lines supporting them, even though most of his peers had stayed at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my classmates were like, ‘Yay, no school,’” he said. “They don’t fully understand what’s going on, that this affects them, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day my education is going to be so much better,” he added, if teachers get what they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theo Zarobell, 18, another Oakland Tech senior who came out Friday, echoed this sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what teachers are asking for is really benefiting us as students,” he said. “I’m struck by how much they really care about us. I think we owe it to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 87 district schools have remained open during the strike, staffed by administrators and temporary substitutes, but the vast majority of students haven’t attended, according to multiple reports. The district has yet to release official attendance records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on Friday afternoon, a sprinkling of students stood out among the sea of hundreds of teachers and supporters who congregated at a spirited rally in DeFremery Park in West Oakland, at the site where the Black Panther Party staged demonstrations and social programs a half century ago. A lineup of speakers, including two high school students and legendary labor leader Dolores Huerta, fired up the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728396\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11728396 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lively crowd of teachers and students fills DeFremery Park in West Oakland during Friday’s rally. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Education is a big part of my life, teachers are a big part of my life,” said Marie Rodriguez, 16, a junior at Oakland High School, who stood in the thick of the rally. Nearby, amid the cacophony of drumming and horn blowing, a giant inflatable rat bobbed in the breeze. “If they’re out here fighting for a cause, I need to fight with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez said her father teaches at her school, so this strike has very much hit home. She said Oakland High has one part-time nurse for 1,700 students, and that some of her classes were so overcrowded at the beginning of this year there weren’t enough seats to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is showing me how to advocate when things get to the point that you need to go out on the streets,” Rodriguez said, adding that she was planning to take the SATs in a few weeks, but she wasn’t too concerned about the lost days of preparation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders from the Oakland Education Association met with district officials on Friday, although it remained unclear by the end of the day if any progress had been made. Regardless, the strike will more than likely stretch into next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, which faces a huge budget deficit and sharply declining enrollment, has repeatedly said it supports paying teachers more, but simply can’t afford the 12 percent bump they’re asking for. In a last-ditch effort to avert a strike on Wednesday, district officials proposed a 7 percent raise over the next three years and a 1.5 percent retroactive bonus, an offer the union said didn’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etiene Torres, who teaches World History at Castlemont High School, one of the many schools the district is reportedly looking to close in the next several years, was pleasantly surprised to run into a group of his own students at the rally. Most of them are recent immigrants who are learning English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even text them, they just came this morning on their own,” Torres said, noting that he planned to bring up the strike and the impact of collective action in his upcoming lesson on the Haitian Revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a lot more memorable than doing a writing assignment in the classroom,” he said, “It’s another way of learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728403\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11728403 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students march with striking teachers down Adeline Street in West Oakland on Friday. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carlos Mendoza, a senior at Life Academy, joined the throngs of demonstrators as they marched out of the park and down Adeline Street. He said his teachers needed all the support they could get in an increasingly unaffordable region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at Oakland, it’s changing rapidly and OUSD needs to change as well,” said Mendoza, 18, who walked with a group of his teachers and classmates. “Some teachers I know are really struggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there’s a big split between his classmates who care about what their teachers are fighting for and the ones who are just happy for the long weekend. The experience, he added, has broadened his perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You become more aware of what’s at risk and what’s at stake,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the students at Friday’s rally were high schoolers, but a number of younger children also came with their parents. Delilah Daniels had her 7-year-old son, Isaiah, in tow. A first-grader at Allendale Elementary School, he hoisted a protest sign nearly as tall as he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why he thought it was important to show support for his teachers, he said, “Because they like us kids.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flattery-Vickness said he felt compelled to be on the front lines supporting them, even though most of his peers had stayed at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my classmates were like, ‘Yay, no school,’” he said. “They don’t fully understand what’s going on, that this affects them, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day my education is going to be so much better,” he added, if teachers get what they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theo Zarobell, 18, another Oakland Tech senior who came out Friday, echoed this sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what teachers are asking for is really benefiting us as students,” he said. “I’m struck by how much they really care about us. I think we owe it to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 87 district schools have remained open during the strike, staffed by administrators and temporary substitutes, but the vast majority of students haven’t attended, according to multiple reports. The district has yet to release official attendance records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on Friday afternoon, a sprinkling of students stood out among the sea of hundreds of teachers and supporters who congregated at a spirited rally in DeFremery Park in West Oakland, at the site where the Black Panther Party staged demonstrations and social programs a half century ago. A lineup of speakers, including two high school students and legendary labor leader Dolores Huerta, fired up the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728396\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11728396 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lively crowd of teachers and students fills DeFremery Park in West Oakland during Friday’s rally. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Education is a big part of my life, teachers are a big part of my life,” said Marie Rodriguez, 16, a junior at Oakland High School, who stood in the thick of the rally. Nearby, amid the cacophony of drumming and horn blowing, a giant inflatable rat bobbed in the breeze. “If they’re out here fighting for a cause, I need to fight with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez said her father teaches at her school, so this strike has very much hit home. She said Oakland High has one part-time nurse for 1,700 students, and that some of her classes were so overcrowded at the beginning of this year there weren’t enough seats to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is showing me how to advocate when things get to the point that you need to go out on the streets,” Rodriguez said, adding that she was planning to take the SATs in a few weeks, but she wasn’t too concerned about the lost days of preparation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders from the Oakland Education Association met with district officials on Friday, although it remained unclear by the end of the day if any progress had been made. Regardless, the strike will more than likely stretch into next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, which faces a huge budget deficit and sharply declining enrollment, has repeatedly said it supports paying teachers more, but simply can’t afford the 12 percent bump they’re asking for. In a last-ditch effort to avert a strike on Wednesday, district officials proposed a 7 percent raise over the next three years and a 1.5 percent retroactive bonus, an offer the union said didn’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etiene Torres, who teaches World History at Castlemont High School, one of the many schools the district is reportedly looking to close in the next several years, was pleasantly surprised to run into a group of his own students at the rally. Most of them are recent immigrants who are learning English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even text them, they just came this morning on their own,” Torres said, noting that he planned to bring up the strike and the impact of collective action in his upcoming lesson on the Haitian Revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a lot more memorable than doing a writing assignment in the classroom,” he said, “It’s another way of learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728403\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11728403 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students march with striking teachers down Adeline Street in West Oakland on Friday. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carlos Mendoza, a senior at Life Academy, joined the throngs of demonstrators as they marched out of the park and down Adeline Street. He said his teachers needed all the support they could get in an increasingly unaffordable region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at Oakland, it’s changing rapidly and OUSD needs to change as well,” said Mendoza, 18, who walked with a group of his teachers and classmates. “Some teachers I know are really struggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there’s a big split between his classmates who care about what their teachers are fighting for and the ones who are just happy for the long weekend. The experience, he added, has broadened his perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You become more aware of what’s at risk and what’s at stake,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the students at Friday’s rally were high schoolers, but a number of younger children also came with their parents. Delilah Daniels had her 7-year-old son, Isaiah, in tow. 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"content": "\u003cp>Teachers in Oakland Friday headed into the second day of a districtwide strike, after parents and students supported their demands on Thursday by keeping classrooms largely empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district’s 3,000 teachers, nurses and counselors began their strike on Thursday over pay, class sizes and school resources, establishing picket lines in front of nearly every school, marching through downtown streets and holding a boisterous rally at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1200x900.jpg\" label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Follow our coverage of the strikes, closures, and more.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from the district and Oakland Education Association, the union representing the teachers, returned Friday morning to the negotiating table with district officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents, teachers and students spoke with their feet today,” OEA President Keith Brown said Thursday evening, calling for a strong turnout on Friday. “Strikes are won on the streets, not at the bargaining table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers have worked without a contract since July 2017. They are asking for a 12 percent raise over three years, covering 2017 to 2020, to compensate for what they say are among the lowest salaries for public school teachers in the expensive San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m bleeding out every month, falling further into debt,” said Sarah Trauben, 30, who teaches English and government at Oakland Technical High School. She’s taken on a second job as an SAT tutor to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are also pushing for smaller class sizes and want the district to hire more full-time nurses and school counselors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sierra Donaldson’s ninth-grade biology class at Oakland Tech, she worries about safety in lab classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Class size is huge. I need to keep an eye on 32 14-year-olds, and I feel like it’s just not safe if we’re working with bacteria or other materials,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The starting salary in the district is $46,500 a year and the average salary is just over $63,000, which is considerably lower than most nearby districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot afford to live here,” said kindergarten teacher Elena Njemanze, who has been teaching in Oakland for eight years and has a master’s degree from Mills College. “I can only afford to pay rent because I have my parents helping me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35375_IMG_1397-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727883\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35375_IMG_1397-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35375_IMG_1397-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35375_IMG_1397-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35375_IMG_1397-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35375_IMG_1397-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking teachers and their supporters gather to march down Broadway to the central school district office on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district initially offered a 5 percent raise covering 2017 to 2020, saying it’s squeezed by rising costs and an ongoing budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In last-minute negotiations on Wednesday aimed at averting a strike, the district increased its offer to a 7 percent raise over four years and a one-time 1.5 percent bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But union officials rejected the offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District spokesman John Sasaki said district officials hope to get a counter proposal from the union during Friday’s negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t heard any proposal since last May, so we’re hoping they have something for us when we meet tomorrow,” Sasaki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local radio host Sana G. posted on Instagram a short video with a dozen Bay Area celebrities, including comedians, musicians, sports stars and others each saying, “I stand with Oakland teachers.” Local celebrities like MC Hammer, Stephen Curry and Oscar winner Mahershala Ali showed support in a video to say they “stand with Oakland teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727977\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents also showed their support by honoring the picket line, said Will Lynch, a father with a second-grader at Glenview Elementary School, where nine children out of 460 turned up for school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are we doing not paying teachers enough money? It reflects our society’s values in a very negative way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout affects more than 36,000 students at all 87 schools in the district..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not have a single student come to school today,” said Katherine Carter, principal at Oakland SOL middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A couple kids were on the picket lines, but aside from that, no kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No students turned up at West Oakland Middle School either, said Brown, the union president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"President of the Oakland Education Association teachers' union Keith Brown leads chant, “get up get down, Oakland is a union town” during a rally in front of city hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727825\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Education Association President Keith Brown leads a chant of “get up, get down, Oakland is a union town” during a rally in front of City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfortunate that it’s come to this, but it shines a spotlight on larger issues,” he said. “Public education is a crisis in our country. The teachers are now lifting that up across different states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has also called for the district to scrap plans to close as many as 24 schools that serve primarily African-American and Latino students in the city’s flatlands neighborhoods. The union fears even more students will be lost to charter schools that it says drain over $57 million a year from the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent strikes across the nation have built on a wave of teacher activism that began last spring. Unions for West Virginia teachers, who staged a nine-day walkout last year, ended another two-day strike Wednesday. Last week, teachers in Denver ended a three-day walkout after reaching a tentative deal raising their wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And teachers in Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest school district, staged a six-day strike last month that ended when they settled on a 6 percent raise with promises of smaller class sizes and the addition of nurses and counselors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Janie Har and Olga R. Rodriguez in San Francisco contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of teachers in Oakland went \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727176/oakland-teachers-are-going-on-strike-heres-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on strike\u003c/a> Thursday morning, picketing outside schools across the city after negotiations between the teachers union and the district stagnated over calls for wage increases and smaller classroom sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid crossing picket lines, some Oakland parents have come up with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727370/not-crossing-the-picket-line-heres-what-some-oakland-parents-are-doing-with-their-kids-during-the-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alternative schooling options\u003c/a>. That includes bringing students to \"solidarity schools\" where students can be supervised by parent volunteers and receive free breakfast and lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides plan to return to the bargaining table on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, students and supporters picket outside Oakland Technical High School on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727889\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Oakland Technical High School on Feb. 21, 2019, join in the picket line by getting passing cars to honk in solidarity. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727848\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Berning, a French teacher at Oakland Technical High School, sits on the front steps of the school on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727977\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1337-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Striking teachers and supporters picket outside Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland on Feb. 21, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking teachers and supporters picket outside Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gesine Cotteral, right, and Carla Aiello picket outside Lincoln Elementary School on Feb. 21, 2019. Cotteral has taught in OUSD for 25 years and four years at Lincoln. “We are here because of a massive exodus of teachers leaving schools who can’t afford to live in Oakland. We had four teachers leave last year ... and then students need support staff, special ed teachers and nurses.” \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg\" alt='\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a 3rd-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland.' width=\"800\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1020x839.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1200x986.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a third-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727866 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1375-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tech students hold a banner at rally supporting striking teachers at City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg\" alt=\"Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1200x933.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727825 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"President of the Oakland Education Association teachers' union Keith Brown leads chant, “get up get down, Oakland is a union town” during a rally in front of city hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President of the Oakland Education Association teachers union, Keith Brown, leads chant, “Get up, get down, Oakland is a union town,” during a rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council, Liz Ortega, speaks at the Oakland teacher's rally in front of City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council Liz Ortega speaks at the Oakland teachers rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from Fremont High School in Oakland support the Oakland teachers strike. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Activists with 'By Any Means Necessary' march down Franklin Street in downtown Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727980\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists with 'By Any Means Necessary' march down Franklin Street in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel Ramirez (left) and Jeffrey Cheung (right) of Unity, a queer skateboarding collective, march down Broadway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727979\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Ramirez (left) and Jeffrey Cheung (right) of Unity, a queer skateboarding collective, march down Broadway. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Thousands of teachers in Oakland went \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727176/oakland-teachers-are-going-on-strike-heres-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on strike\u003c/a> Thursday morning, picketing outside schools across the city after negotiations between the teachers union and the district stagnated over calls for wage increases and smaller classroom sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid crossing picket lines, some Oakland parents have come up with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727370/not-crossing-the-picket-line-heres-what-some-oakland-parents-are-doing-with-their-kids-during-the-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alternative schooling options\u003c/a>. That includes bringing students to \"solidarity schools\" where students can be supervised by parent volunteers and receive free breakfast and lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides plan to return to the bargaining table on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, students and supporters picket outside Oakland Technical High School on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727889\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Oakland Technical High School on Feb. 21, 2019, join in the picket line by getting passing cars to honk in solidarity. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727848\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Berning, a French teacher at Oakland Technical High School, sits on the front steps of the school on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727977\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1337-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Striking teachers and supporters picket outside Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland on Feb. 21, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking teachers and supporters picket outside Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gesine Cotteral, right, and Carla Aiello picket outside Lincoln Elementary School on Feb. 21, 2019. Cotteral has taught in OUSD for 25 years and four years at Lincoln. “We are here because of a massive exodus of teachers leaving schools who can’t afford to live in Oakland. We had four teachers leave last year ... and then students need support staff, special ed teachers and nurses.” \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg\" alt='\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a 3rd-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland.' width=\"800\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1020x839.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1200x986.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a third-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727866 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1375-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tech students hold a banner at rally supporting striking teachers at City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg\" alt=\"Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1200x933.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727825 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"President of the Oakland Education Association teachers' union Keith Brown leads chant, “get up get down, Oakland is a union town” during a rally in front of city hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President of the Oakland Education Association teachers union, Keith Brown, leads chant, “Get up, get down, Oakland is a union town,” during a rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council, Liz Ortega, speaks at the Oakland teacher's rally in front of City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council Liz Ortega speaks at the Oakland teachers rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 2 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of Oakland teachers and school staff began striking early Thursday morning, establishing picket lines outside nearly every school in the district in a push for higher wages, better classroom conditions and an end to school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727628/oakland-teachers-strike-still-on-after-union-rejects-latest-district-offer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last-minute negotiations\u003c/a> with Oakland Unified School District officials on Wednesday, the teachers union said the latest offer didn't go nearly far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holding signs that read, \"We Stand With Oakland Teachers\" and \"On Strike for a Living Wage,\" striking teachers and their supporters gathered in the early-morning chill outside Manzanita Community School, chanting, \"When public schools are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lilyjamali/status/1098597022737854469\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, which represents some 3,000 teachers, counselors and nurses, joined Thursday morning's picket line at Manzanita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today is a historic day in Oakland where teachers united with parents, students, are on strike at 86 school sites, and we are demanding a living wage to keep teachers in Oakland,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district's \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6nRexXpGkyKVTZuQnRaWDg5WFUyOV9HQTQ4bTRsQlZFclFz/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most recent offer\u003c/a> would have given teachers a 7 percent across-the-board raise over three years, plus a retroactive 1.5 percent bonus. While a bump from the 5 percent raise over three years the district had previously put on the table, it still fell short of the 12 percent the union wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposal still does not address essential needs of our students,” Brown said, adding that it also failed to address the high cost of living in the Bay Area. He said negotiations with the district would resume Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low pay and difficult working conditions, he added, have led to a noticeably high rate of teacher turnover in the district, with roughly 300 teachers leaving annually, many going to neighboring districts with higher salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified teachers are among the lowest paid in the Bay Area and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\" https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg\" label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Follow our coverage of the strikes, closures, and more.\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools#have-a-question,We want to hear from you. What stories should we cover?\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gesine Cotteral, a teacher at Lincoln Elementary School near Lake Merritt, has worked in the district for 25 years and echoed those concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here because of a massive exodus of teachers leaving schools who can’t afford to live in Oakland,\" said Cotteral, while picketing outside her school. \"We had four teachers leave last year ... and then students need support staff, special ed teachers and nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, who teaches at Manzanita, said the strike is not just a fight for better pay, but also better classroom conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not out here for the money,\" Chavez said. \"We're out here for our kids, and we've told them that multiple times as we've been talking about the strike with them throughout this week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said it is keeping all schools open for the duration of the strike and encouraging students to attend. Schools are being staffed by principals, central office staff and temporary substitute teachers. But it will definitely not be business as usual, said OUSD spokesman John Sasaki, noting that the vast majority of the district's more than 36,200 students had not come to school on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a very powerful effect sent by the union and by the supporters among the families,\" said Sasaki, who counted 14 students in attendance at Manzanita this morning, out of the roughly 400 kids enrolled there. \"Oakland is a union town and our families and our students support our teachers and support the union effort. And we do, too. That being said, we certainly want our students in class and hope that more come to school tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lilyjamali/status/1098613885832056832\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district receives state funding based on daily student attendance, and stands to lose a significant amount of money each day if absence rates are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki confirmed that talks with the union would resume on Friday morning and that the strike would more than likely last for at least one more day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late morning, teachers and their supporters, including a number of students, rallied in Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland and marched to the district's central office, before returning to school picket lines later in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727903\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11727903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking teachers gather on Thursday at Frank Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A host of local elected leaders, including Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and congresswoman Barbara Lee, made statements on Thursday in support of the striking teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know that this whole community stands with our teachers … in their quest to just get a living wage and decent working conditions to support our students,\" said Schaaf, a graduate of Oakland schools, who also commended the district for putting forward another offer. “Today is going to be a citywide day of showing our love and appreciation for our educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD classified workers, including 1,000 instructional specialists, school security officers, administrative workers and other workers, also honored the picket lines on Thursday, according to the local chapter of the Service Employees International Union, which represents them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727966 size-complete_open_graph\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Fuentes, 8, a third grader at Community United Elementary School, joined teachers at a rally in downtown Oakland on Thursday. “I want to support my teachers because I want more people to help my teachers,” she said. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joseph Wagner of the Amalgamated Transit Union in Los Angeles was among a number of union workers from outside Oakland who also joined teachers on the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s obvious that public education is under attack, and all public unions, and unions in general are under attack,\" Wagner said. \"Solidarity should be the basic understanding that union members have that we are in this together against the bipartisan, frankly, capitalist attack on all workers and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Aguirre, a middle school math coach at West Oakland Middle School, said she was trying to convince families not to drop their kids off today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to cross a picket line when you know the money isn’t being allocated properly, and we need the resources in a historically underprivileged community that’s being gentrified more rapidly than any other part of Oakland, I believe,” Aguirre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small number of parents who did bring their children to school ran into picket lines of teachers, and in some cases were dissuaded from going inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So basically, they’re trying to tell us that there’s no teachers here,\" said Monique Green, who tried to drop off her daughters at Lafayette Elementary School in West Oakland on Thursday morning, but didn't end up going in. \"I don’t know what’s going on. I’m just confused about the whole situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said she supports the teachers, but is frustrated that schools aren't operating as normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they need to fix this problem and get the teachers what they need,\" she said. Pointing to her daughters, she added: \"They’re both ready to go to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727885\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11727885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers from Fremont High School in Oakland marching down Broadway. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, on the eve of the strike, a group of more than 30 Oakland school principals lobbied lawmakers in Sacramento for additional per-pupil funding and forgiveness of a $36 million state loan. They also pushed for a revision of the state's charter law, which has allowed charter schools to proliferate in Oakland and, they argue, has drained huge amounts of funding — and students — away from the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pretty much every principal is in support of the teachers having higher pay,\" said Cliff Hong, the principal of Roosevelt Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in the financially struggling district, which faces a huge budget shortfall and is looking to cut more than $20 million next year, say they're sympathetic to teachers demands for a raise, but can't swing such a big pay increase. A nearly 45 percent decline in student enrollment over the past 15 years is partly to blame. But union officials argue that fiscal mismanagement has also played a major role in the district's ongoing budgetary woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent fact-finding report, released on Friday, noted that while the district's initial offer of a 5 percent raise over three years wouldn't keep pace with inflation, a 12 percent increase was simply infeasible, given the district's squeezed finances. The union swiftly rejected the report's recommendations, which included a short-term 6 percent raise and continued negotiations next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parents who don't want their kids to cross the picket line, the city is offering space, rent-free, in 15 recreation centers across Oakland, as well as in city libraries where students can spend the day. These \"solidarity sites,\" as organizers are calling them, will be supervised by volunteers, with breakfast and lunch provided by the \u003ca href=\"https://donorbox.org/breadfored\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bread for Ed campaign\u003c/a>, an online fundraising effort organized by the OEA and Democratic Socialists of America that has already raised close to $90,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SherazSadiq1/status/1098642513995284480\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of churches throughout the city are also opening their doors to students, including Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put a lot of thought and love into what we’re doing here for the students and the support of our Oakland teachers,” said the Rev. Anthony Jenkins Sr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers last participated in a sanctioned strike in 2010, which lasted just one day. The previous strike, in 1996, went on for 26 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike is part of a growing wave of teacher activism that began in February 2018, when West Virginia teachers participated in a nine-day strike that drew national attention and was followed by a statewide teachers strike in Oklahoma. In January, Los Angeles teachers went on strike for six days, gaining a 6 percent pay raise and significant class-size reductions. And last week, teachers in Denver ended a three-day walkout after reaching a tentative deal that included a pay increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Lily Jamali, Vanessa Rancaño, Julia McEvoy, Stephanie Lister and Sheraz Sadiq contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gesine Cotteral, a teacher at Lincoln Elementary School near Lake Merritt, has worked in the district for 25 years and echoed those concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here because of a massive exodus of teachers leaving schools who can’t afford to live in Oakland,\" said Cotteral, while picketing outside her school. \"We had four teachers leave last year ... and then students need support staff, special ed teachers and nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, who teaches at Manzanita, said the strike is not just a fight for better pay, but also better classroom conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not out here for the money,\" Chavez said. \"We're out here for our kids, and we've told them that multiple times as we've been talking about the strike with them throughout this week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said it is keeping all schools open for the duration of the strike and encouraging students to attend. Schools are being staffed by principals, central office staff and temporary substitute teachers. But it will definitely not be business as usual, said OUSD spokesman John Sasaki, noting that the vast majority of the district's more than 36,200 students had not come to school on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a very powerful effect sent by the union and by the supporters among the families,\" said Sasaki, who counted 14 students in attendance at Manzanita this morning, out of the roughly 400 kids enrolled there. \"Oakland is a union town and our families and our students support our teachers and support the union effort. And we do, too. That being said, we certainly want our students in class and hope that more come to school tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The district receives state funding based on daily student attendance, and stands to lose a significant amount of money each day if absence rates are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki confirmed that talks with the union would resume on Friday morning and that the strike would more than likely last for at least one more day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late morning, teachers and their supporters, including a number of students, rallied in Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland and marched to the district's central office, before returning to school picket lines later in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727903\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11727903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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