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But the budget measures passed with a slim majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the resolution aimed to restrict spending on services and salaries that don’t directly serve students, the language used caused it to backfire, leading district staff to place caps on contracts with local nonprofits who provide enrichment and after care services in OUSD schools next fall, requiring at least 50% reductions in their services. In total, the resolution would have resulted in $29 million in budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After community outrage, the board held a special meeting on Wednesday where it debated for nearly three hours whether to slash the alternative budget adjustments, or add last-minute changes to the legislation it was discussing that would keep but delay the cuts. Those changes earned frank criticism from district staff.[aside postID=news_12039737 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/OaklandSchoolChildren-1020x696.jpg']“If you don’t want this repeat cycle, we would have conferred and I would have been able to see this [amendment] prior to 30 minutes before the meeting,” budget chief Lisa Grant-Dawson said. “Please know that if you adopt this [amended] resolution, it still will have problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the board majority chose to repeal the resolution entirely, but the meeting further deepened the chasm between board members and with staff — and could threaten their collective goal to serve Oakland students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant-Dawson told KQED after the meeting that even with the budget adjustments repealed, staff won’t have time to reinstate the funding to schools until after the budget process is completed at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re too far into budget development to take off the [caps] and then rebalance and still be ready for the [Local Control and Accountability Plan] and budget,” she said. “We’re literally weeks away from our public hearing as well as the adoption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has created a whole different degree of consternation of us having to adjust all these budgets. It took me almost a month to figure out what was the most equitable way to do it, because we’re not talking about five lines of data, we are talking about thousands of lines of data to change,” Grant-Dawson continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the plan is to lift the spending limits once the budget process wraps up at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041376\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00088_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00088_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00088_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00088_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00088_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00088_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00088_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lukas Brekke-Miesner, executive director of Oakland Kids First, which helped launch youth voting in Oakland in 2019, at Willard Park in Berkeley on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:46 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland public school teachers reached a tentative deal with the city’s school district on Wednesday to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038078/oakland-teachers-set-strike-this-week-union-tells-school-district\">avoid a one-day strike\u003c/a> scheduled for May Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Oakland Education Association said the district agreed to maintain contracts for 120 high school teachers whose hours \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029001/oakland-school-board-approves-over-100-layoffs-a-day-after-similar-vote-in-sf\">would have been reduced\u003c/a> in next year’s budget to shrink the district’s deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus-based substitute teachers, whose roles would have been centralized after this year as part of the proposed budget cuts, will also remain at their assigned school sites under the new $2.5 million deal with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This outcome reflects the power of educators standing together against cuts harmful to our goal of retaining experienced teachers in Oakland’s hardest-to-staff classrooms,” OEA President Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said Wednesday that it reached an agreement with the union after extensive negotiations throughout the beginning of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a process that ended with both sides putting students first, and keeping all of our young people in school through the end of the academic year, which is now less than a month away,” a spokesperson said in a midday email to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transitional kindergarten students play outside during recess at the International Community School in Oakland on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 2,500 educators were poised to walk off the job for a single day on Thursday in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037661/oakland-teachers-ok-a-may-day-strike-amid-districts-budget-cuts\">protest of unfair labor practices\u003c/a>, the union informed OUSD on Tuesday, after the district failed to deliver transparent financial information, according to Taiz-Rancifer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union had previously accused the district of manufacturing its budget shortfall, which was estimated as high as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">$95 million in December\u003c/a>, to justify cutting teachers while inflating the district’s administrative overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the district proposed reducing more than 100 teacher positions from 11-month to 10-month roles, which would have cut hours they worked over the summer with students on college readiness and curriculum development, according to the union. It said the cuts would have resulted in lower pay for employees and harmed students.[aside postID=news_12037315 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-11_qed-1020x656.jpg']The district also proposed centralizing substitute teaching positions that had been allocated to individual school sites during the COVID-19 pandemic, to give students more continuity in who their substitutes are when their teachers miss school or have to attend meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD’s school board also gave staff permission to incorporate a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">laundry list of other cuts\u003c/a> in next year’s budget, including centralizing contracts and reducing campus discretionary spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Projections of the district’s deficit for the 2025–26 academic year have swung wildly in recent months, shrinking from the December high to $12 million after factoring in some of those cuts. This year, the district is operating at a deficit of $70 million, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, where the deficit stands is unclear. Board director Mike Hutchinson said the deal, which is subject to county approval, doesn’t specify where the funding will come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either we’re going to have to find someplace else to cut — and at this point, it’s going to really impact a lot of things to cut this way — or there’s also a really good chance that either the trustee will stay this decision because we have not identified how to pay for it,” he said. … “The contracts still have to be approved by the county as well, and I will expect the county not to approve this either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1958px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1958\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed.jpg 1958w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-1536x1046.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-1920x1307.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1958px) 100vw, 1958px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District board member, Mike Hutchinson, speaks during a meeting at Metwest High School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The deal did not make mention of the financial transparency requests that the union said spurred the strike. On Friday, spokesperson John Sasaki said the district had been committed to delivering those documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The union] acknowledged that the district has fully responded to all but two complex, budget-related [requests for information] that were recently submitted,” he wrote in an email to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson believes that the union’s claim that the district hasn’t been financially transparent was not the reason it proposed the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very clear that this was all just an effort and a threat to our whole community just to leverage a payout from their friendly school board directors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, he said, the same school board members voted to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037315/oakland-school-board-votes-remove-superintendent-sparking-worries-instability\"> push out the district’s longtime superintendent \u003c/a>two years before the end of her term. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, who has been credited for the district’s impending exit from state receivership, often butted heads with the union as the district has navigated layoffs and possible school closures in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said in a statement Tuesday that the planned strike, which would have been the fourth by OUSD teachers in recent years, would have worsened mistrust and instability at a tenuous time for the city’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ongoing turmoil puts the entire district at risk — including the very real threat of returning to state receivership,” OUSD wrote in a statement urging families to oppose the strike at a special Tuesday night school board meeting discussing the potential action. “Every strike weakens our ability to deliver stable services and sustain improvements families and students deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Every strike weakens our ability to deliver stable services and sustain improvements families and students deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Educators Association President Kampala Taiz-Rancifer told KQED last week that the strike vote was spurred by the district’s lack of financial transparency as it prepares to make layoffs and cuts to contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037997\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Offices in Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“OUSD’s response to those requests [for financial information] has been delayed,” Taiz-Rancifer said. “They have cut members’ jobs, and we have to … understand what are the resources in the school district, along with whether or not the job losses are actually necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has accused the district of manufacturing a budget deficit that was projected as high as $95 million in December, while adding nearly as much in overhead to the central office’s spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Projections of the shortfall for the 2025–2026 academic year have swung wildly in recent months, recently shrinking to $12 million after factoring in some of the district’s cuts. This year, the district is operating at a deficit of $70 million, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, district spokesperson John Sasaki said the district had responded to 30 information requests from the union this year.[aside postID=news_12037315 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-11_qed-1020x656.jpg']“[The union] acknowledged that the district has fully responded to all but two complex, budget-related [requests for information] that were recently submitted,” he wrote in an email to families. “We remain committed to transparency, open communication, and working in good faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Taiz-Rancifer had told members that the union’s bargaining team was focused on finding a resolution in negotiations with the district over the weekend, the situation escalated Tuesday when she said the strike would go forward Thursday without an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planned strike comes as tensions have mounted between top district officials and the teachers’ union. The union-backed school board majority voted last Wednesday to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037315/oakland-school-board-votes-remove-superintendent-sparking-worries-instability\">remove Oakland’s longtime superintendent\u003c/a>, Kyla Johnson-Trammell, two years before the end of her contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board set a special meeting for Tuesday night to discuss the decision and the impending strike, which the district urged families to speak at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taiz-Rancifer said her union has had significant labor challenges with the district, pointing to the three strikes that have taken place during Johnson-Trammell’s eight-year tenure. A strike in 2022 closed schools for more than a week and ended after educators were promised a retroactive 10% raise and continuing wage increases, which the district has blamed in part for its budget shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers’ union accuses OUSD of using an inflated budget shortfall in December to justify layoffs of about 100 teachers and hundreds of contract changes that will result in lower salaries for its members. The district also gave administrators the option to make more than 30 spending reductions in its upcoming budget proposal, including centralizing services and eliminating some contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, school board President Jennifer Brouhard and Vice President Valarie Bachelor proposed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029333/oaklands-school-board-long-been-disarray-is-it-turning-corner\">alternative budget solution plan\u003c/a> that puts caps on some central office spending. 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Under the deal, a first-year teacher, who currently earns $52,905, would now start out at $62,696, and a top-tier educator could earn as much as nearly $110,000 — in addition to full paid benefits and district pension contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, if approved, all union members would receive the equivalent of a 10% raise in back pay, retroactive to Nov. 1, 2022, as well as a $5,000 one-time bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the new contract amounts to a $70 million investment, the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are expected to vote this week on the tentative agreement, which the school board also must approve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal has always been to stabilize the foundation of our district through fiscal stewardship so that eventually we could position ourselves to pay our teachers and educators what they deserve,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said during a press conference Monday, calling the raise “historic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I want to underscore, we realize we’re not there yet,” she said. “This is one crucial step towards getting there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials on Monday said they do not expect to extend the school year to make up for the days teachers were striking, and that most graduation ceremonies will proceed as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 3,000 educators, counselors and other school staffers represented by the Oakland Education Association first walked out on May 4 amid stalled negotiations with the district. Along with traditional asks, like higher salaries, the union demanded a set of “common good” changes to better support students and families inside and outside the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has never only been about teacher salary. This isn’t just about us trying to get a living wage, or to be able to afford the housing here in Oakland. It’s also been about making sure that our students have the ability to be housed as well,” Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, OEA’s vice president, said during a press conference on Monday. “This strike has never simply been about us being able to put food on our own tables but making sure we are able to provide student services and shifting the way we provide instruction to feed the minds of these students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oakland-teachers-strike-schools-42eba9bb923fb71432117c8ac38caca5\">Common good proposals\u003c/a> that address community issues have become an increasingly standard part of the bargaining process for teachers unions over the last decade, a precedent set by \u003ca href=\"https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2022/08/15/the-chicago-teachers-strike-ten-years-on-organizing-for-the-common-good-then-and-now/\">striking Chicago teachers in 2012\u003c/a> who demanded, and ultimately achieved, greater influence in how schools are managed.[aside postID=\"news_11949281,news_11948465,news_11912597\" label=\"Related Posts\"]In the hard-fought deal struck in Oakland on Monday, the two sides agreed to a shared-governance model for the district’s set of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">community schools\u003c/a>, with steering-committee members appointed by both the school board and the union, according to OEA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides also agreed to identify district-owned locations that could be used to house students and to help secure housing vouchers and other financial support from government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, a new reparations task force — with co-chairs appointed by both the union and district — would identify schools with student populations that are at least 40% Black, and implement plans to help those students thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms of the new agreement, guidance counselors would, for the first time, begin working at elementary schools, and teachers at those schools would receive additional preparation time. More resources would also be devoted to special education programs in the district. And the sizes of physical education and transitional kindergarten classes would be slightly reduced, with teachers paid extra for overages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district would also slightly increase the overall number of librarians and nurses and boost investments in visual and performing arts programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our common goal is to create an environment in which our children, families, educators and district staff are able to thrive,” Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said in a statement emailed to KQED on Monday. “I look forward to working with OUSD and OEA as my Administration continues to invest in community and school safety, affordable housing, and improved infrastructure, not only to attract teachers and families to Oakland, but to keep them here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations throughout the strike were contentious, with the union accusing district officials of bargaining “in bad faith,” and the district calling teachers’ demands unreasonable and naive and claiming their actions would jeopardize students’ grades and graduation prospects. Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, and other government officials stepped in to help break the impasse at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/03/22/whats-happening-with-ousd-union-negotiations-it-depends-who-you-ask/\">began the bargaining process last October\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since their previous one expired in March. The district, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-school-board-financial-crisis-cuts-17813237.php\">facing major budgetary challenges\u003c/a> amid years of declining enrollment, initially refused to bargain with teachers over the “common good” proposals, insisting on only considering more conventional issues, like wages and working conditions. But after union negotiators held firm, seven days into the walkout, the district over the weekend acceded to some of their additional demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimi Lee, a parent of two OUSD students, said her family went to sleep on Sunday night assuming school would be called off yet again on Monday. After receiving the early morning announcement about the tentative deal, both of her kids decided to wait until Tuesday to return to their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The length of the strike “was a bit of a shock,” said Lee, who initially expected it wouldn’t last more than a few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But overall, we supported the teachers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the hard-fought deal struck in Oakland on Monday, the two sides agreed to a shared-governance model for the district’s set of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">community schools\u003c/a>, with steering-committee members appointed by both the school board and the union, according to OEA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides also agreed to identify district-owned locations that could be used to house students and to help secure housing vouchers and other financial support from government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, a new reparations task force — with co-chairs appointed by both the union and district — would identify schools with student populations that are at least 40% Black, and implement plans to help those students thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms of the new agreement, guidance counselors would, for the first time, begin working at elementary schools, and teachers at those schools would receive additional preparation time. More resources would also be devoted to special education programs in the district. And the sizes of physical education and transitional kindergarten classes would be slightly reduced, with teachers paid extra for overages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district would also slightly increase the overall number of librarians and nurses and boost investments in visual and performing arts programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our common goal is to create an environment in which our children, families, educators and district staff are able to thrive,” Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said in a statement emailed to KQED on Monday. “I look forward to working with OUSD and OEA as my Administration continues to invest in community and school safety, affordable housing, and improved infrastructure, not only to attract teachers and families to Oakland, but to keep them here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations throughout the strike were contentious, with the union accusing district officials of bargaining “in bad faith,” and the district calling teachers’ demands unreasonable and naive and claiming their actions would jeopardize students’ grades and graduation prospects. Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, and other government officials stepped in to help break the impasse at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/03/22/whats-happening-with-ousd-union-negotiations-it-depends-who-you-ask/\">began the bargaining process last October\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since their previous one expired in March. The district, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-school-board-financial-crisis-cuts-17813237.php\">facing major budgetary challenges\u003c/a> amid years of declining enrollment, initially refused to bargain with teachers over the “common good” proposals, insisting on only considering more conventional issues, like wages and working conditions. But after union negotiators held firm, seven days into the walkout, the district over the weekend acceded to some of their additional demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimi Lee, a parent of two OUSD students, said her family went to sleep on Sunday night assuming school would be called off yet again on Monday. After receiving the early morning announcement about the tentative deal, both of her kids decided to wait until Tuesday to return to their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The length of the strike “was a bit of a shock,” said Lee, who initially expected it wouldn’t last more than a few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But overall, we supported the teachers. The teachers were fighting for the bigger picture,” she said. “The fact that homelessness, climate and all these other issues were folded in, we agreed with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rob Daves, an OUSD parent who used to be a teacher in the district, news of the agreement came as very welcome relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Glad [the] strike is over. [It] was a huge impact on our family and especially our daughter,” Daves said in a text message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he noted he was disappointed that neither side adequately underscored the need for the state to dramatically increase funding for Oakland’s underresourced schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we actually value education, we must show it in material support,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Vanessa Rancaño and Spencer Whitney, and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, as her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948465/oakland-teachers-to-go-on-strike-thursday-amid-deadlock-with-district\">teachers hit the picket lines\u003c/a> for the fifth day of a district-wide strike, 17-year-old Noemi Grascoeur arrived at the picnic area of Dimond Park to help look after a group of Oakland elementary school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re playing frisbee with them, drawing with them, teaching them how to share, which is odd because I’ve never had to do that before. I don’t have experience with kids,” said the Oakland Tech senior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What else do I have to do?” she added. “I could go to the picket line or I can come and change these kids’ lives because, ultimately, we make a huge difference for these kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1455px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9.jpg\" alt='A black sign with pink and blue writing sits on a table at a park. The sign reads, \"OEA Strike Solidarity School.\" It also reads, \"Free meals, arts and crafts, and a safe place to stand in solidarity with our teachers and staff!\" There is a single apple on the table, along with blue and white, three-ring binders. A white pastry box and a bottle of hand sanitizer are also on the table. Parents and children are blurry in the background.' width=\"1455\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9.jpg 1455w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1455px) 100vw, 1455px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the OEA strike solidarity school sits on a picnic table in Dimond Park on May 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pop-up child care program, known as a “solidarity school,” offers parents who don’t want to cross the picket line a safe place to drop off their kids for the day. The teachers union and parent volunteers have operated a handful of these across the city since schools emptied out last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Beliel, whose daughter is a kindergartner at Manzanita Seed Elementary in East Oakland, is running the temporary child care center at Dimond Park.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Anna Beliel, parent and solidarity school volunteer\"]‘[T]he hardest part is that I didn’t expect nearly as many kids as we ended up getting. This is all just parent-run, so one of the hardest parts … is financially trying to fund it. But, we’re making that work, too.’[/pullquote]“I think the hardest part is that I didn’t expect nearly as many kids as we ended up getting,” she said. “This is all just parent-run, so one of the hardest parts I think is financially trying to fund it. But, we’re making that work, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it opened last Thursday, on the first day of the Oakland teachers’ strike, only two students showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ever since, it’s evolved,” said Grascouer, who has come every day to volunteer. “Like now, we have over 50 kids and we just spend our days playing with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the students drop their backpacks on a wooden bench and sprint for the grass, Ruby Mechanic, a fellow Oakland Tech senior, heads to the line of picnic tables that are overflowing with backpacks, snacks and art supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8.jpg\" alt=\"A blonde, teenage girl looks over students at a park. A pop-up canopy is seen in the background, along with many parents and little kids.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified high school student Ruby Mechanic helps hand out lunch to OUSD students at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think we spend most of our time running around, getting energy out, because with this many kids and these few volunteers, it’s definitely a high ratio of energy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mechanic found out about this opportunity from her old elementary school teacher, whom she’s kept in touch with over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important that there’s a place for these kids, and that we’re here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with just over two weeks left in their high school careers, both Mechanic and Grascouer are struggling with the uncertainty of this moment, and don’t know whether they’ll actually get a chance to return to their school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1375px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB.jpg\" alt=\"A boy in an orange T-shirt and short, dark hair does a handshake with a teenage girl who is watching him at the park. The two sit at a wooden picnic table talking. Green grass and large trees are in the background, along with parents and children playing.\" width=\"1375\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB.jpg 1375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1375px) 100vw, 1375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school student Noemi Grascoeur hangs with students at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t finish my graduation project,” Grascouer said. “I feel kind of weird because I didn’t say bye to any teacher. I didn’t say bye to any friends. Like, I’m done with high school more or less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “I just think we’re kind of stuck. We don’t know if our high school experience is over or if we have to go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Mechanic was able to finish her final senior project, she’s disappointed her classmates won’t be able to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up shot of a grown-up's hand, handing a wrapped snack to a child's hand. 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They’ve been supporting us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For seniors, the strike has also complicated many quintessential end-of-high school events. Senior prom, for instance, is on Friday, and students have to pick up their tickets at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4.jpg\" alt='A man wears a black jacket with a white patch with red and black print that reads,\"Strike for a fair contract.\" He stands next to a boy wearing a green T-shirt. The two are in front of a green picnic table that has many snacks and juice boxes on top of it. 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A box of red apples and a box of tangerines, along with pallets of water bottles and juice boxes are pictured in the background placed on a park picnic table.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified students pick up lunch at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a goal of our entire high school experience that would be nice to complete and present before we go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advanced placement testing, which was scheduled for this week, has also been a challenge — it’s forced students to cross picket lines to enter their schools where the exams are administered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had to cross the picket line twice,” Grascouer said. “The teachers have been really nice about it. They’ve been supporting us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For seniors, the strike has also complicated many quintessential end-of-high school events. Senior prom, for instance, is on Friday, and students have to pick up their tickets at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4.jpg\" alt='A man wears a black jacket with a white patch with red and black print that reads,\"Strike for a fair contract.\" He stands next to a boy wearing a green T-shirt. The two are in front of a green picnic table that has many snacks and juice boxes on top of it. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article will no longer be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> As the standoff between striking educators and the Oakland Unified School District continues into its seventh school day, a major sticking point remains the “common good” demands from the union, with both sides citing wildly varying figures on the costs of implementing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement Thursday evening, OUSD Director of Communications John Sasaki told KQED that the Oakland Education Association’s proposal is “cost prohibitive” and that the overall price tag could run upwards of $1 billion. Sasaki said many of the “common good” demands would fall under \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=39353&dataid=36993&FileName=2020%20Facilities%20Master%20Plan.pdf\">OUSD’s Facilities Master Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, which “shows the District has a total of $3.4 billion in upgrades and other changes that must happen to get all schools upgraded and modernized,” adding that OEA’s proposal is “far too costly for the District to handle” and that it should not be included in any collective bargaining agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rachel Warino of the California Teachers Association — which has expressed its solidarity with the OEA — said OUSD’s numbers are “months old” and “ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goals we are committed to winning would cost an estimated $500,000 annually — this would be to pay for staffing increases including counselors,” Warino said, in a statement emailed to KQED on Thursday evening. “It’s unfortunate that the district is spending time sending out outlandish claims about proposals that are months old when we are 6 days into a strike. It’s unfair and unhelpful for our Oakland community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warino did not provide cost estimates for the rest of the “common good” proposals, which include housing unhoused students in vacant school buildings and replacing HVAC systems in aging school buildings. On Wednesday, OEA Interim President Ismael Armendariz argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and that several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg\" alt=\"a group of people which appears to be multi-ethnic in composition walks down a street carrying a large banner reading 'ready to strike for a fair contract' in both English and Spanish\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD educators and their supporters rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who has been mediating the negotiations since last Thursday, praised both parties for “working incredibly hard” and said the talks had been “productive,” but added that it’s ultimately up to the two sides to come to an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is providing right now historic levels of funding that can be used to provide these services for students: $4 billion for community schools, $8 billion for the Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant, $3.5 billion dollars for arts, financial literacy and basically giving districts discretion to do as they will, $4 billion for expanded learning — after-school programs, before-school programs,” said Thurmond, in a press conference at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward. “We have not seen funding at this level before. [W]e are seeing the state provide districts with resources that they can use for programs that would support the common good of students. Ultimately, it’s up to the board of every one of our 1,000 school districts, including Oakland, to decide how those resources might get used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond said he had no idea how long the strike would last, adding that he wouldn’t be mediating if he “thought the strike would take up the whole school year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a believer that we can all win, that we can find an agreement that compensates educators the way they deserve to be compensated, that we can find a way to provide programs that support students who’ve been disadvantaged, and we can do it in a way where we prioritize getting our students back into the classroom — and that is the priority,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> As the Oakland teachers’ strike continues to grind on, the number of students attending their teacherless schools — which have remained open, behind the picket lines — has steadily dipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the fifth day of the ongoing walkout, just 1,200 of OUSD’s more than 34,000 students attended one of its 77 school sites, where food and other basic services and activities are still being offered, according to district spokesperson John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland city officials say they’ve seen a 75% drop in attendance in city-run after-school programs since the strike began last Thursday. The teachers union and parent volunteers also have organized pop-up care centers — called “solidarity schools” — at various sites throughout the city, but it’s unclear how many students are attending them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949257\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949257 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg\" alt=\"In the foreground is what appears to be a middle school student in a full-body, bright green Oscar the Grouch costume, with a fuzzy brown unibrow, big googly eyes, and the person's face inside the mouth, holding a cardboard sign on a flat wooden stick that says, 'OUSD, Stop bringing us proposals that belong in the trash!' Oscar is in a crowd of people in a street, including someone to their right playing a trombone.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District teachers, parents and students rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11, 2023, during a teacher strike. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That massive disappearing act offers some indication of just how disruptive this strike has been for Oakland students and their families, who still have no idea when — or if — school will open again before the year ends in just two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the sixth day of the district-wide strike, tense negotiations continued between the teachers union and school district officials, with the union’s “common good” demands for more community services remaining the major sticking point, even as the two sides appeared close to an agreement over compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Gonzalez, vice president of her ninth grade class at Castlemont High School in East Oakland, came out Thursday to support her teachers on the picket line, even as most of her classmates stayed home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandEA/status/1656747427133788161\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel bored at home,” she said. “I decided to come and strike with my teachers because they work hard. They plan lessons. They take time out of their personal lives to grade and stuff like that, and they deserve what they’re asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Oakland City Council committee hearing on Thursday, a stream of attendees spoke of the decrepit conditions they’ve witnessed in many of the district’s schools, and implored city officials to get involved in the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD teacher Edgar Sanchez, whose daughter attends United for Success Academy, told council members of the school’s rodent problems and “the issue of the sewage coming into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been asking for that to be fixed for a year and a half,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez added that the school where he teaches doesn’t have air-conditioning in the classrooms, and said that during last year’s heat wave, teachers had to constantly move students to cooler areas of the building just to maintain a safe learning environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So on Day Six of our strike, you all need to stand with us and push the district to do what’s right for our kids,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who has remained largely quiet during the labor dispute, urged the school district and teachers union to “work together to settle the strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 8 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/b> Thousands of Oakland teachers, counselors and librarians, along with their supporters, once again formed picket lines in front of schools on Thursday, the sixth day of a district-wide strike that has emptied out classrooms and ground instruction to a halt, with little more than two weeks remaining in the school year and a deal still out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Vilma Serrano, bargaining co-chair, Oakland Education Association\"]‘We want to be back in our classrooms, back in our schools. But we’ll do whatever it takes to really get a strong, tentative agreement that improves teaching and learning conditions for our kids and for our members.’[/pullquote]As heated negotiations continue between the district and the teachers union — including a Tuesday session that ran until 1 a.m. — both sides say they are inching closer to a tentative contract agreement, but have given little indication as to how soon the walkout might end. Meanwhile, as an immediate resolution seemed increasingly unlikely, the district canceled its regularly scheduled Wednesday evening school board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilma Serrano, a teacher at Oakland’s Melrose Leadership Academy, and the bargaining co-chair for the Oakland Education Association, said her team is standing firm on its list of demands. She said the district this week delivered “a fuller package” counteroffer that, for the first time, suggests it is willing to consider some of the union’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ousd-teacher-strike-oakland-schools-common-good-18081358.php\">common good proposals\u003c/a> in the new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “we still have many issues on the table that are unresolved. So there’s still a lot of work ahead of us to reach a tentative agreement,” Serrano said. “We want to be back in our classrooms, back in our schools. But we’ll do whatever it takes to really get a strong, tentative agreement that improves teaching and learning conditions for our kids and for our members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More support for special education teachers and their students is among the many outstanding demands on which the union refuses to budge, said Timothy Douglas, the other co-chair of OEA’s bargaining team, and a fifth grade teacher at International Community School in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of issues in special education that we find unacceptable and potentially illegal,” he said. “So we are really working with the district to implement a more sustainable and healthier workload model for our educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those educators is Gena Rinaldi, a special education teacher at Kaiser Early Childhood Center in the Oakland hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that we’re really focused on right now is increasing our support staff to ensure the safety of students in our classrooms,” she said, during a spirited rally Wednesday at Burbank Elementary in East Oakland. “Many of our teachers and our para-educators are not getting their lunch breaks right now because we don’t have enough staff for teachers to leave and still have supervision for our students. So we’re trying to convince the district that our youngest students need more support and we’re hopeful we can come to an agreement to make that happen.”[aside label=\"More Oakland Schools coverage\" postID=\"news_11948320,news_11937906,news_11912597\"]Meanwhile, district officials have reiterated that they’ve offered teachers an unprecedented compensation package — yielding significant pay increases of as much as 22%, plus back pay — and do not have the financial capacity or legal authority to negotiate many of the union’s key “common good” proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We appear close to an agreement for a robust compensation package, which would give teachers a historic raise … thereby supporting the critical goal of attracting and retaining excellent teachers,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.parentsquare.com/feeds/20430541?s=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjA5ODQ3OSwiZXhwIjoxNjkxNzE5Mzc5LCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5wYXJlbnRzcXVhcmUuY29tL2ZlZWRzLzIwNDMwNTQxIiwibWV0aG9kIjoiR0VUIiwicXVlcnkiOnt9LCJyZXF1ZXN0Ijp7fX0.PePW3sJs4be05bTASVEqyC0pp0U8LRec86ZLQOe46PY\">a video message sent to families\u003c/a> on Wednesday evening. “The remaining issue is how best to work on the common good proposal, which seeks to assign the school district with addressing such broad societal issues as housing for homeless [students] and drought-tolerant landscaping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are critical issues, Johnson-Trammell noted, but they “demand multiagency and government support,” and certainly can’t be single-handedly tackled through the school district’s limited budget. Fully implementing the proposals, district officials said, would cost more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moreover, as laudable as common good causes may be, they should not hold children’s learning hostage or deprive students of the services that schools provide,” she said. “OUSD wants to find a way other than the bargaining table to take on these issues and move forward with getting students back in the classroom and putting a significant raise into employees’ paychecks now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an email response sent late Wednesday to KQED, Ismael Armendariz, OEA’s interim president, argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and said several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these issues are critical to supporting our schools,” he said. “We urge the district to spend more time negotiating in good faith and less time making outlandish claims about the total cost of the proposals in email blasts to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although scores of families in the district during the walkout have continued to staunchly support teachers — and their demands — some parent leaders are lambasting the union, accusing its negotiators of pushing for unrealistic goals at the expense of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a false assumption going around that this ongoing strike is meant to help Black and brown students. It’s not. Instead, this strike is proving the opposite,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of The Oakland Reach, a parent-run group, said in a statement on Wednesday. “Without school in session, the flatlands of Oakland are a ghost town, where our lower income Black and brown students already have some of the lowest reading and math scores in California and an absenteeism rate close to 50% among Black students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The longer this strike continues,” she added, “the more it will cost us — physically, emotionally, academically, and in literal dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:25 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>For Laura Kaneko, a middle school teacher at Melrose Leadership Academy in East Oakland, this strike is about much more than demanding a much-needed raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been kind of rejuvenating … to remember that our community is here supporting us not only for our compensation, but really for the common good for everybody,” said Kaneko, while attending a teacher support rally outside her school on Tuesday, the fourth day of a district-wide walkout. “They’ve made so much progress in the negotiations for a contract for our salary, but there’s still so much more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just look at the school’s defective HVAC system, Kaneko said. “Our heater here at the site has been broken for 10 years. So it’s either too hot on warm days or it’s off on really cold days. And there’s no way for us to control that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so one of the common good demands that we’re asking for is for a plan for there to be climate control in every classroom. Seems like a fairly reasonable thing to ask for our students’ learning conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the district has largely conceded to the union’s demands for a significant pay raise, offering up to a 22% salary increase, along with a retroactive bump and a one-time payout as part of a nearly $70 million compensation package. The sticking point, though, and apparent reason the strike is still on — with just 12 days left in the school year — is the impasse over those “common good” proposals: things like building housing for the district’s many unhoused students on surplus district land, offering reparations to historically underserved Black students, addressing long-neglected safety and infrastructure issues at school sites and allowing for shared governance of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">district’s community schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Oakland Education Association’s negotiating team on Tuesday continued to grapple with district officials behind closed doors over the terms of a new contract — with little indication of resolution anytime soon — union leaders and teachers on the picket line made clear that those demands were just as essential for a fair contract as the most generous salary increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message to the community is that you are here with us today. You have been with us through the years and we are with you at the bargaining table,” interim OEA President Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher, told supporters gathered outside Melrose on Tuesday. “And your demands are central, just as valuable to us, as is our wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of teachers unions around the country have in recent years begun fighting for similar common good demands, including Los Angeles educators, who during a 2019 strike pushed their district to commit to a host of racial and environmental justice initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD leaders, and half the members of the school board, argue that these goals, while admirable, pertain to larger societal issues the district can’t single-handedly address and that certainly don’t belong in a teachers’ contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to continue partnering with teachers and the teachers union to find solutions to some of these issues that plague our communities,” Mike Hutchinson, president of the school board, told reporters on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he argued, the district’s bargaining team is not authorized to even consider many of these proposals. “Items that are outside of the scope of the contract, which are basically compensation and work conditions, are not going to be negotiated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials, however, say district negotiators, desperate to get students back in the classroom, are finally beginning to consider some of these proposals — even though the district has not publicly confirmed this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Melrose rally, Malaika Parker, who runs Oakland’s Black Organizing Project, said the district was being extremely shortsighted in refusing to even consider many of the union’s common good proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The debate over teacher compensation versus common good is ridiculous,” she said. “That is a false choice. We deserve communities where all is incorporated — where our teachers are paid well and where our young people feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers shouldn’t have to demand these things, Parker argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are our teachers, the people who we trust with our children, not automatically guaranteed respect and living conditions?” she said. “Why are we having to ask for the basics when we should be demanding the most? Our teachers, our communities, deserve to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 9 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> Oakland school district officials and the teachers union on Monday evening announced that some 3,000 teachers and other school staff would continue striking on Tuesday, leaving classrooms across the district largely empty for a fourth day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As another day of working toward an agreement with the Oakland Education Association approaches an end, we are sorry to report we are preparing for a fourth consecutive day of the teachers’ strike,” the district said in a letter to parents, noting that schools will remain open, with food service and other resources still available for students. “But with teachers engaging in the work stoppage, school operations will be reduced as they have been since Thursday of last week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> With less than three weeks remaining in the school year, some 3,000 Oakland teachers, counselors and other school staff returned to the picket lines Monday for the third day of a district-wide strike, after the teachers union and the school district failed to reach a contract agreement over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Oakland School Board President Mike Hutchinson expressed his “disappointment for where we are today,” imploring the Oakland Education Association to come back to the negotiating table and accusing its leaders of holding up the process with unreasonable demands, at the expense of Oakland students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unprecedented and simply unacceptable for our students and families to be forced into this position during a time when we should instead be focused on planning, graduation and end-of-year celebrations,” he told reporters at an afternoon press briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said that despite the the union’s claims to the contrary, the district’s bargaining team has continued to negotiate in good faith and devoted countless hours toward reaching a deal, including a late-night Sunday session to review OEA’s latest counterproposal. And while State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and his staff helped support the process over the weekend, “it still did not lead us to an agreement,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, he said, has already made a nearly $70 million \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZNSGZxnaZU5S_HBv_FNZPr0R_TbJG0xd\">“historic” offer to teachers\u003c/a> that would significantly boost their pay — up to 22% — while addressing a host of other demands for more support and resources. But Hutchinson said the union remains unrealistically fixated on its “\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/\">common good proposals\u003c/a>” demands — including housing for unhoused students, major school infrastructure and safety improvements, climate change actions and racial justice measures such as reparations for Black students and their families. The district supports these objectives, he said, but fundamentally lacks the capacity to take them on single-handedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we agree on the principles of the proposal, they simply do not belong in contract language and we have not authorized any changes to our approach to this position shared last week,” Hutchinson said. He argued that the district already has some policies in place to work toward certain common good goals, and that other demands — including more mental health services for students — have already been addressed in the current contract offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our students need to be back at school immediately and I cannot make this point more urgently,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union argues that the district has long been aware of, but until recently ignored, these common good proposals, which OEA presented months ago. And the district, the union insists, already has the resources in place to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OUSD is a district exactly designed to deal with outside things like homelessness,” said Jacob Fowler, a Lincoln Elementary School teacher and member of the union’s negotiating team, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgkb2v_sw4\">a video message\u003c/a> to parents over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg\" alt='A huge crowd of protestors walk down a street in Oakland carrying green and yellow picket signs that read \"On Strike Unfair Labor Practices.\" Many participants wear red and one woman has a hooded sweatshirt that reads \"phenomenal teacher.\" Another sign reads \"Safe, Stable and Racially Just Schools\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1536x1118.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue in Oakland on the second day of an ongoing teachers strike on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district, he argued, receives millions of dollars a year from the state for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">community schools\u003c/a>, aimed at providing services to students outside of the normal school day. The union simply wants to make sure there is a community engagement strategy in place to determine how those funds get spent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not asking for any more funds. It costs the district $0 to agree to this proposal. But they’re not even addressing it,” Fowler said. “We just want a fair, complete proposal so that we can get back to the classroom quickly. If OUSD continues to drag their feet, we will continue to be on strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fowler added that the union has also set up “solidarity schools” across the district, run by credentialed teachers and community members, for students to attend for as long as the strike lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?extid=CL-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&mibextid=YCRy0i&ref=watch_permalink&v=591680859401402\">press conference on Monday morning\u003c/a> in front of the district’s headquarters, Oakland school board members Valarie Bachelor, Jennifer Brouhard and VanCedric Williams — representing half of the board — voiced their support for the union’s common good proposals and urged the other three members of the board, including Hutchinson, to embrace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not agree that common good should require a separate authorization to negotiate,” Bachelor said. As one of the largest landowners in Oakland, the district is particularly well positioned to work toward housing solutions for its many unhoused students, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard, a retired Oakland teacher, said recent historic state funding for community schools has created the opportunity to change how decisions in schools are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, decision-making power has been held at the district level,” she said. “It must be shared with teachers, parents and students and those voices must be centered at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard recalled, as a teacher, sitting on committees that had no real power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met, we met, we met. We talked about things our students needed, and they were never funded,” she said. “It’s time to have shared governance in our common good goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 7 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/b>No negotiations were planned over the weekend, said Oakland Education Association bargaining team member Samia Khattab, raising the prospect that striking teachers would be back on the picket lines on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Friday] evening we received a package proposal from [the OUSD] that is still incomplete and [that has] quite a few errors in it,” said Khattab, who is a teacher and librarian at Franklin Elementary School, in an interview with KQED. “We haven’t been able to sit at the table with them to go over some of these inconsistencies, to be able to discuss and walk through the proposal with them, because there is a holdup, and the holdup is that the OUSD school board has not given authority to the OUSD bargaining team to bargain on all of the proposals that the OEA has brought forth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khattab said the 50-member OEA bargaining team was working on a counterproposal Saturday, and said she hopes the district is able to return to the table so they can begin the “back-and-forth process of settling a fair contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district hasn’t responded this weekend,” said Khattab. “We have nothing on our agenda that indicates that they are going to be joining us at the table today … We will be on the picket lines unless we can come to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate interview with KQED on Saturday, Deputy Mayor Kimberly Mayfield said Oakland is committed to education and that the mayor’s office has a good relationship with the districts and the teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our desire is that they can work as hard as they can over this weekend to come up with a solution that will be agreeable to both parties,” said Mayfield. “I will trust the wisdom of the bargaining teams to make the best decision to bring our kids back to school and to bring our teachers back to school with safe conditions for learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 6 p.m. Friday:\u003c/b> Oakland teachers continued to strike for a second day Friday, with union, district and state education officials saying they planned to continue negotiating, likely through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One union rally was held at the United for Success Academy in Oakland’s Fruitvale District on Thursday. Oakland Education Association representatives said they chose the OUSD middle school because it highlights the lack of needed “common good” measures that teachers are demanding in their ongoing fight for a new contract across the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers at the UFSA say the school’s buildings are old and in need of renovation, that there’s \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/03/fruitvale-students-lead-soil-contamination-poisoning/\">lead in the soil\u003c/a> and a rat and mice infestation in the classrooms, and that they’re concerned about lead in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1654608654396710913\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maha Nusrat, a sixth grade humanities teacher who’s taught at UFSA for 13 years, told KQED that it’s impossible to separate the physical conditions of the buildings from the teaching experience, or a child’s home environment from their education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re talking about common good proposals, we’re talking about disability justice, we’re talking about racial justice, we’re talking about social justice, we’re talking about schools in the flatlands having a just experience,” said Nusrat. “And that’s both in the environment, coming to a school that is welcoming, loving, safe — physically — and also [has] enough resources to actually fully serve those students that are in the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Aponte, a special education teacher going into his eighth year at UFSA, advocated for the needs of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [special education] program at UFSA is closing down, and as a special education teacher, that really hits us where it hurts,” said Aponte. “The students need these supports and these services … We need more qualified teachers to support the most vulnerable students that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg\" alt=\"Striking teachers marching holding a big colorful banner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1536x1154.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue from United for Success Academy, on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nusrat said schools like UFSA in the flatlands are a hub for families, a place to find additional resources outside the school day, and a place that serves as a safe space where students can get an “equitable education experience,” adding that UFSA is “a model” of some of the “common good” proposals teachers are demanding in the current strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people on campuses like ours are doing eight jobs because we simply don’t have the human power, no one is actually able to do their job that well,” said Nusrat. “We want to create wraparound services. We want to serve the whole student, including their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While district officials have said they agree in principle with the union’s proposals, they are prioritizing teacher retention by offering raises of up to 22%. But teachers demand that their “common good” proposals be met and that OUSD have a long-term plan in place for the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to have that transparency of a long game,” said Nusrat. “A two-year plan, a three-year plan, a five-year plan that’s going to include some of those common good things and some of those staffing issues that actually don’t let us do the jobs that we need to in our buildings with the integrity that we want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893056/oaklands-teachers-are-on-strike-again\">Oakland teachers’ strike\u003c/a> continues into its second day, First Covenant Church is opening its doors during the day to support K–5 students in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Danny Fitelson said\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandfcc.org/who-we-are\"> the church\u003c/a> also provided a space for students to read and learn when Oakland Unified teachers went on strike in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our mission statements is to be a light to the city. We think this is just a way to respond to a need that our city has right now,” Fitelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church transformed the choir room into a library for kids to lounge, snuggle with stuffed animals, read and munch on popcorn. Volunteers offered lessons on multiplication and division, and showed a science video about building bridges using pasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s board voted to provide this “community educational support program” until at least the end of next week if the strike continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t just about everybody making more money, it’s also about trying to get schools taken care of that have maybe been neglected,” Fitelson said. “I’ve been weighing that, and I think that hopefully something will get worked out. But I know it’s tough for everybody while it’s getting worked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Oakland parents remain frustrated by the disruption in schools as a teachers’ strike continues into its second day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, which represents 3,000 teachers, librarians, nurses and other staff members, has asked the district for what it’s calling “common good” proposals, including providing housing for unhoused students and investing in historically Black schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a> on Friday morning, Lakisha Young, founder of the parent-run organization The Oakland Reach, said some of the issues being raised are deep and longstanding, and unlikely to be resolved any time soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when does this end?” Young said. “I feel like this is what parents are saying. They’re saying, ‘Why does my kid have to be out of school for these conversations amongst adults to happen?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Reach and another parent group, CA Parent Power, proposed a resolution last year to the school board that would have offered families more of a say in collective bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11927865 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59078_Oakland_Parents_003-qut-1020x681.jpg']It’s unclear when the students and teachers will return to the classroom. State Superintendent Tony Thurmond has been mediating talks between the district and the union since Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond aims to continue the mediated talks through the weekend in hopes of ending the strike, though a spokesperson for the California Department of Education said several “significant items” remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/posts/pfbid02tGwEMfFZtoLntHwTSvwcYxuU5mjv361p4VV3AnkcQq2PY6qnbDyRWggiQ9hz3vV6l\">update posted to social media Thursday evening\u003c/a>, the Oakland Education Association confirmed that the strike would continue on Friday, with the union’s president calling for a return to the picket lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“United we will win,” said OEA President Ismael Armendariz in a video update. “We will have a midday rally at United for Success [Academy, in Oakland], to highlight our social justice and environmental justice demands. We’ll see you on the picket lines at 7:30 a.m.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same video, Vilma Serrano, bargaining co-chair for OEA, called on Oaklanders and supporters to “push the school board to have a meeting to give the OUSD bargaining team the authority to bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned this week that the school board has not given the OUSD full authority to bargain,” said Serrano. “It has been really deeply frustrating to get to this point after seven months of bargaining … We need to settle a contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in a square, with one man holding a sign and arms raised high.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of Oakland teachers and their supporters converged on Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall Thursday afternoon for a festive rally to close out the first day of an open-ended strike. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 3 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>After spending the morning picketing in front of their schools, hundreds of Oakland teachers and supporters converged on Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall Thursday afternoon for a festive rally to close out the first day of an open-ended strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With union and school district negotiators still at an impasse over the terms of a new contract, it appeared likely — save for a last-minute agreement — that teachers would be spending at least one more day on the picket lines, resulting in empty classrooms and another lost day of instruction for some 34,000 students in the district, with just three weeks left in the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in front of Oakland City Hall, carrying signs and banners.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking educators and their supporters at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jesse Shapiro, a veteran Oakland High School history and photography teacher, said the district had not yet put forward a reasonable offer, and urged parents and other community members to be patient despite the disruption caused by the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to understand that short-term sacrifice is something that’s necessary for long-term gains,” he said at the rally, as Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day” reverberated from the speakers behind him. “So I’d ask them to be patient, supportive of what the people who teach their children are asking for. Because we’re not just asking for us, we’re asking for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro said his daughter, who attends an elementary school in the district, stands to directly gain from the increases teachers are demanding — rather than being subjected to a succession of novice teachers who leave the district after a year or two because the pay is so low and the resources so limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors gather and hold signs, with two female protestors engaged in a mock sword fight.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The picket took on a festive air Thursday with hundreds gathered at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want her to be in a classroom where there’s a teacher who wants to be there, who has a manageable number of kids, who has the facilities to teach my kid in a safe environment where she wants to be when she gets into high school,” he said. “I want her to be able to have access to a counselor so she can discuss what her options are after high school. And I think every parent wants that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Chan, a single mom of a fifth grader at Sequoia Elementary School in the Lower Dimond District, said she came to the rally to support teachers in their fight for a fair contract that “really values them in the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we just need the district to listen to the teachers on what they’re saying,” Chan said, pointing to accounts she’s heard from teachers of working in dilapidated classrooms where the ceiling tiles were literally falling down, or where students were experiencing homelessness or suffering from serious mental health issues that were not being addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948638 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg\" alt=\"Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads "We Love Teachers" at Thursday's noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads “We Love Teachers” at Thursday’s noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Particularly as a single mom, Chan said, a strike like this makes life a lot more difficult. “But I think we as parents have dealt with a lot of issues the last few years, and interruptions. We’ve dealt with smoke days, we’ve dealt with the pandemic,” she said. “And this was completely preventable by the district. But we’re going to keep on dealing with it because it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents, however, took to social media to voice their frustrations with both the district and the teachers union, lambasting the two sides for failing to reach an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At 9pm at night, we learn our kids won’t have school tomorrow,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of parent advocacy group The Oakland Reach, wrote in a tweet late Wednesday, after the strike was announced. “I’m so disappointed in both sides. Once again, our kids are collateral damage in adult fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948320/weary-oakland-parents-divided-over-whether-to-support-teachers-in-looming-strike\">Oakland teachers\u003c/a> joined picket lines early Thursday morning in front of schools, leaving classrooms largely empty, on the first day of an open-ended strike in an ongoing push for higher wages and better working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, a resource specialist at Manzanita Community School, marched with her colleagues in front of their East Oakland elementary school, chanting, “We want justice for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez said that while it was essential for teachers in the district to receive higher pay, this walkout is about much more than just compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what we’re fighting for are just basic rights, especially for our special education students,” she said. “Those are legal mandates that we aren’t meeting because we don’t have the human capacity to meet them. And a lot of the other things that we’re asking are like, for safety in our schools, for actual ACs, and not to have mice, and not to have real just basic health concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ismael Armendariz, interim president of the Oakland Education Association, the union representing some 3,000 teachers and other school personnel, joined Manzanita teachers on Thursday morning. He said the district had not delivered on its promise to submit a comprehensive proposal to the union, and had consistently failed to address many of \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/bargaining-proposals?authuser=0\">its crucial demands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not received anything in writing. We are waiting to receive everything in writing so that we can settle this contract,” said Armendariz. He urged the school board president to intervene in the negotiating process, which he called “dysfunctional,” accusing the district of negotiating in bad faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Thursday morning, Oakland school board president Mike Hutchinson denied that claim, arguing, “We have been negotiating every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD leaders said \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ousdnews/posts/pfbid027XfdPTjL7txwyziTMF4E6SPawMrR265SCCKPD8zhH1XBDotZ5nrXrmwpQpoaUKoGl\">their latest contract offer\u003c/a>, of nearly $70 million, would give teachers a generous raise — of as much as 22% — while addressing a host of other demands, including investing to hire more counselors and performing arts teachers and giving teachers more classroom preparation time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The latest salary proposal would give teachers an unprecedented raise — one that they deserve, and one that OUSD teachers haven’t seen in years if not decades,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said, noting that teacher retention was her top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/e_baldi/status/1654185032083185664\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My team has thoughtfully planned out a way and made recommendations to make sure the district can afford this massive compensation package to maintain financial stability in the years to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, despite negotiations that ran late into the evening on Wednesday, the union ultimately walked away because of what she called wholly unrealistic demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is asking the district to “singularly solve complex societal realities, such as homelessness, that go far beyond the scope of what public schools can and should do alone,” Johnson-Trammell said. “As a district we simply can’t do everything, and it is our mission critical that we remain focused on prioritizing our primary purpose, which is teaching and learning and student well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond on Thursday said he had invited the union and the district to come back to the table, where he and his team could “formally mediate negotiations to end the strike.” Thurmond offered to arrange a meeting space where his staff could “lead, facilitate, and mediate discussions between the parties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed that the parties could not find an agreement in time to avert a strike,” he said in a statement. “Our goal is to help the parties reach an agreement and to end the strike so that students can return to class as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 5 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Some 3,000 Oakland teachers are striking Thursday morning in a push for higher wages and better resources, the teachers union and school district confirmed late Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/ousd-teacher-strike-oakland-schools-could-close-17920873.php\">the third in just over a year\u003c/a> — comes after the two sides, who have been in intense negotiations for seven days, failed to reach an agreement over a new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impasse leaves the district’s more than 34,000 students stranded without teachers and other school staff, including counselors, nurses, librarians and social workers, who are also represented by the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Educators will be on the picket line tomorrow, on strike for our students & for Oakland schools,” the Oakland Education Association said in a tweet Wednesday night, accusing the district of not negotiating in good faith. “We will continue to negotiate in good faith and hope the district will do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandEA/status/1653983303840727040\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District said in a statement it couldn’t predict how long the strike would last, but pledged to continue negotiating with the teachers union. District officials held a news conference on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the district office in downtown Oakland “to discuss the strike, the impact it will have on Oakland’s young people, and the reasons behind it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The end of the school year is always filled with milestone events for our students, so we want to ensure regular school resumes as soon as possible,” the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools will still be open, with central office staff assigned to each site “to ensure students are safe,” according to the statement. Students are expected to attend school, but those who don’t will receive an “excused absence,” the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School meals, including a simplified breakfast and full lunch, will still be served in each campus’ cafeteria, and most after-school programs will continue, according to the district’s multilingual \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bcqhvvyZPTL8JTXCjJhMic7ipY1pSKgm\">strike information document\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OEA contends that its teachers receive inadequate support and some of the lowest salaries in the region, even after modest gains in recent years, contributing to the district’s low teacher-retention rates. A first-year Oakland teacher \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OUSDNews/status/1653844779145351169/photo/1\">currently makes just under $53,000\u003c/a>, which the union says falls far short of what is necessary to make ends meet in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiators are \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/bargaining-proposals?authuser=0\">demanding a 23% raise\u003c/a> for all of its members. The union has also pushed for smaller special education classes, better services for students experiencing homelessness, more nursing and mental health staff and improvements to physical infrastructure, among other asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers have been working without an active contract since their previous one expired in the fall of 2022. That contract only came to fruition after teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Parents-children-brace-for-Oakland-teacher-strike-13631422.php\">staged a six-day strike in 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promise you we’ve done everything we can to avert this strike,” interim union president Ismael Armendariz said during a press conference earlier this week. “The district has truly failed our students, and the time for us to act is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union recently filed an unfair labor practice grievance with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board, accusing the district of not “bargaining in good faith” by arriving late or repeatedly failing to show up to bargaining sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials on Tuesday said they had offered teachers a fair contract that would give all union members a 13% to 22% raise, as well as a one-time bonus and backpay. The offer would also reduce health care costs by 15%. Under that proposal, first-year teachers would get a bump of about 20% — to $63,604.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teachers want a pay increase, and we agree they need it,” district officials said, noting they were committed to continuing to negotiate, and imploring the union to avoid calling for a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Following all the turmoil and disruption of Covid, the idea that our children might be out of school yet again while both sides work to reach an agreement only harms our students and families,” the district said in the statement. “The adults need to be adults, so that students can be students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers most recently went on \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/oakland-teacher-strike-wildcat-ousd-contract-negotiations/13004171/\">a one-day “wildcat strike”\u003c/a> in March — one not authorized by the union — over staffing cuts and what they called the school board’s unwillingness to address teacher pay. And in April 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/04/29/oakland-teachers-strike-school-closures/\">teachers staged another one-day walkout\u003c/a> over the board’s decision to permanently shutter multiple schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, a resource specialist at Manzanita Community School, said this was “unfortunately” her fourth strike in “these long 15 years” she’s worked for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking for support, we’re asking for resources, we’re asking for actual human beings to be here to give those resources,” she said. “And especially with inflation and the housing market in the Bay Area, we’ve lost hordes of people every single year that we don’t ever get back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez added, “We’re really asking the district to match the pay and the resources that other districts have so that it’s for our Oakland youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Phoebe Quinton, Attila Pelit, Juan Carlos Lara, Christopher Alam and Billy Cruz contributed to this story. This story was originally published on May 4.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Sasaki said many of the “common good” demands would fall under \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=39353&dataid=36993&FileName=2020%20Facilities%20Master%20Plan.pdf\">OUSD’s Facilities Master Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, which “shows the District has a total of $3.4 billion in upgrades and other changes that must happen to get all schools upgraded and modernized,” adding that OEA’s proposal is “far too costly for the District to handle” and that it should not be included in any collective bargaining agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rachel Warino of the California Teachers Association — which has expressed its solidarity with the OEA — said OUSD’s numbers are “months old” and “ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goals we are committed to winning would cost an estimated $500,000 annually — this would be to pay for staffing increases including counselors,” Warino said, in a statement emailed to KQED on Thursday evening. “It’s unfortunate that the district is spending time sending out outlandish claims about proposals that are months old when we are 6 days into a strike. It’s unfair and unhelpful for our Oakland community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warino did not provide cost estimates for the rest of the “common good” proposals, which include housing unhoused students in vacant school buildings and replacing HVAC systems in aging school buildings. On Wednesday, OEA Interim President Ismael Armendariz argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and that several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg\" alt=\"a group of people which appears to be multi-ethnic in composition walks down a street carrying a large banner reading 'ready to strike for a fair contract' in both English and Spanish\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD educators and their supporters rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who has been mediating the negotiations since last Thursday, praised both parties for “working incredibly hard” and said the talks had been “productive,” but added that it’s ultimately up to the two sides to come to an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is providing right now historic levels of funding that can be used to provide these services for students: $4 billion for community schools, $8 billion for the Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant, $3.5 billion dollars for arts, financial literacy and basically giving districts discretion to do as they will, $4 billion for expanded learning — after-school programs, before-school programs,” said Thurmond, in a press conference at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward. “We have not seen funding at this level before. [W]e are seeing the state provide districts with resources that they can use for programs that would support the common good of students. Ultimately, it’s up to the board of every one of our 1,000 school districts, including Oakland, to decide how those resources might get used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond said he had no idea how long the strike would last, adding that he wouldn’t be mediating if he “thought the strike would take up the whole school year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a believer that we can all win, that we can find an agreement that compensates educators the way they deserve to be compensated, that we can find a way to provide programs that support students who’ve been disadvantaged, and we can do it in a way where we prioritize getting our students back into the classroom — and that is the priority,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> As the Oakland teachers’ strike continues to grind on, the number of students attending their teacherless schools — which have remained open, behind the picket lines — has steadily dipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the fifth day of the ongoing walkout, just 1,200 of OUSD’s more than 34,000 students attended one of its 77 school sites, where food and other basic services and activities are still being offered, according to district spokesperson John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland city officials say they’ve seen a 75% drop in attendance in city-run after-school programs since the strike began last Thursday. The teachers union and parent volunteers also have organized pop-up care centers — called “solidarity schools” — at various sites throughout the city, but it’s unclear how many students are attending them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949257\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949257 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg\" alt=\"In the foreground is what appears to be a middle school student in a full-body, bright green Oscar the Grouch costume, with a fuzzy brown unibrow, big googly eyes, and the person's face inside the mouth, holding a cardboard sign on a flat wooden stick that says, 'OUSD, Stop bringing us proposals that belong in the trash!' Oscar is in a crowd of people in a street, including someone to their right playing a trombone.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District teachers, parents and students rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11, 2023, during a teacher strike. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That massive disappearing act offers some indication of just how disruptive this strike has been for Oakland students and their families, who still have no idea when — or if — school will open again before the year ends in just two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the sixth day of the district-wide strike, tense negotiations continued between the teachers union and school district officials, with the union’s “common good” demands for more community services remaining the major sticking point, even as the two sides appeared close to an agreement over compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Gonzalez, vice president of her ninth grade class at Castlemont High School in East Oakland, came out Thursday to support her teachers on the picket line, even as most of her classmates stayed home.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Meanwhile, district officials have reiterated that they’ve offered teachers an unprecedented compensation package — yielding significant pay increases of as much as 22%, plus back pay — and do not have the financial capacity or legal authority to negotiate many of the union’s key “common good” proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We appear close to an agreement for a robust compensation package, which would give teachers a historic raise … thereby supporting the critical goal of attracting and retaining excellent teachers,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.parentsquare.com/feeds/20430541?s=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjA5ODQ3OSwiZXhwIjoxNjkxNzE5Mzc5LCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5wYXJlbnRzcXVhcmUuY29tL2ZlZWRzLzIwNDMwNTQxIiwibWV0aG9kIjoiR0VUIiwicXVlcnkiOnt9LCJyZXF1ZXN0Ijp7fX0.PePW3sJs4be05bTASVEqyC0pp0U8LRec86ZLQOe46PY\">a video message sent to families\u003c/a> on Wednesday evening. “The remaining issue is how best to work on the common good proposal, which seeks to assign the school district with addressing such broad societal issues as housing for homeless [students] and drought-tolerant landscaping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are critical issues, Johnson-Trammell noted, but they “demand multiagency and government support,” and certainly can’t be single-handedly tackled through the school district’s limited budget. Fully implementing the proposals, district officials said, would cost more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moreover, as laudable as common good causes may be, they should not hold children’s learning hostage or deprive students of the services that schools provide,” she said. “OUSD wants to find a way other than the bargaining table to take on these issues and move forward with getting students back in the classroom and putting a significant raise into employees’ paychecks now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an email response sent late Wednesday to KQED, Ismael Armendariz, OEA’s interim president, argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and said several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these issues are critical to supporting our schools,” he said. “We urge the district to spend more time negotiating in good faith and less time making outlandish claims about the total cost of the proposals in email blasts to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although scores of families in the district during the walkout have continued to staunchly support teachers — and their demands — some parent leaders are lambasting the union, accusing its negotiators of pushing for unrealistic goals at the expense of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a false assumption going around that this ongoing strike is meant to help Black and brown students. It’s not. Instead, this strike is proving the opposite,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of The Oakland Reach, a parent-run group, said in a statement on Wednesday. “Without school in session, the flatlands of Oakland are a ghost town, where our lower income Black and brown students already have some of the lowest reading and math scores in California and an absenteeism rate close to 50% among Black students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The longer this strike continues,” she added, “the more it will cost us — physically, emotionally, academically, and in literal dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:25 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>For Laura Kaneko, a middle school teacher at Melrose Leadership Academy in East Oakland, this strike is about much more than demanding a much-needed raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been kind of rejuvenating … to remember that our community is here supporting us not only for our compensation, but really for the common good for everybody,” said Kaneko, while attending a teacher support rally outside her school on Tuesday, the fourth day of a district-wide walkout. “They’ve made so much progress in the negotiations for a contract for our salary, but there’s still so much more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just look at the school’s defective HVAC system, Kaneko said. “Our heater here at the site has been broken for 10 years. So it’s either too hot on warm days or it’s off on really cold days. And there’s no way for us to control that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so one of the common good demands that we’re asking for is for a plan for there to be climate control in every classroom. Seems like a fairly reasonable thing to ask for our students’ learning conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the district has largely conceded to the union’s demands for a significant pay raise, offering up to a 22% salary increase, along with a retroactive bump and a one-time payout as part of a nearly $70 million compensation package. The sticking point, though, and apparent reason the strike is still on — with just 12 days left in the school year — is the impasse over those “common good” proposals: things like building housing for the district’s many unhoused students on surplus district land, offering reparations to historically underserved Black students, addressing long-neglected safety and infrastructure issues at school sites and allowing for shared governance of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">district’s community schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Oakland Education Association’s negotiating team on Tuesday continued to grapple with district officials behind closed doors over the terms of a new contract — with little indication of resolution anytime soon — union leaders and teachers on the picket line made clear that those demands were just as essential for a fair contract as the most generous salary increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message to the community is that you are here with us today. You have been with us through the years and we are with you at the bargaining table,” interim OEA President Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher, told supporters gathered outside Melrose on Tuesday. “And your demands are central, just as valuable to us, as is our wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of teachers unions around the country have in recent years begun fighting for similar common good demands, including Los Angeles educators, who during a 2019 strike pushed their district to commit to a host of racial and environmental justice initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD leaders, and half the members of the school board, argue that these goals, while admirable, pertain to larger societal issues the district can’t single-handedly address and that certainly don’t belong in a teachers’ contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to continue partnering with teachers and the teachers union to find solutions to some of these issues that plague our communities,” Mike Hutchinson, president of the school board, told reporters on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he argued, the district’s bargaining team is not authorized to even consider many of these proposals. “Items that are outside of the scope of the contract, which are basically compensation and work conditions, are not going to be negotiated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials, however, say district negotiators, desperate to get students back in the classroom, are finally beginning to consider some of these proposals — even though the district has not publicly confirmed this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Melrose rally, Malaika Parker, who runs Oakland’s Black Organizing Project, said the district was being extremely shortsighted in refusing to even consider many of the union’s common good proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The debate over teacher compensation versus common good is ridiculous,” she said. “That is a false choice. We deserve communities where all is incorporated — where our teachers are paid well and where our young people feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers shouldn’t have to demand these things, Parker argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are our teachers, the people who we trust with our children, not automatically guaranteed respect and living conditions?” she said. “Why are we having to ask for the basics when we should be demanding the most? Our teachers, our communities, deserve to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 9 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> Oakland school district officials and the teachers union on Monday evening announced that some 3,000 teachers and other school staff would continue striking on Tuesday, leaving classrooms across the district largely empty for a fourth day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As another day of working toward an agreement with the Oakland Education Association approaches an end, we are sorry to report we are preparing for a fourth consecutive day of the teachers’ strike,” the district said in a letter to parents, noting that schools will remain open, with food service and other resources still available for students. “But with teachers engaging in the work stoppage, school operations will be reduced as they have been since Thursday of last week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> With less than three weeks remaining in the school year, some 3,000 Oakland teachers, counselors and other school staff returned to the picket lines Monday for the third day of a district-wide strike, after the teachers union and the school district failed to reach a contract agreement over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Oakland School Board President Mike Hutchinson expressed his “disappointment for where we are today,” imploring the Oakland Education Association to come back to the negotiating table and accusing its leaders of holding up the process with unreasonable demands, at the expense of Oakland students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unprecedented and simply unacceptable for our students and families to be forced into this position during a time when we should instead be focused on planning, graduation and end-of-year celebrations,” he told reporters at an afternoon press briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said that despite the the union’s claims to the contrary, the district’s bargaining team has continued to negotiate in good faith and devoted countless hours toward reaching a deal, including a late-night Sunday session to review OEA’s latest counterproposal. And while State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and his staff helped support the process over the weekend, “it still did not lead us to an agreement,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, he said, has already made a nearly $70 million \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZNSGZxnaZU5S_HBv_FNZPr0R_TbJG0xd\">“historic” offer to teachers\u003c/a> that would significantly boost their pay — up to 22% — while addressing a host of other demands for more support and resources. But Hutchinson said the union remains unrealistically fixated on its “\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/\">common good proposals\u003c/a>” demands — including housing for unhoused students, major school infrastructure and safety improvements, climate change actions and racial justice measures such as reparations for Black students and their families. The district supports these objectives, he said, but fundamentally lacks the capacity to take them on single-handedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we agree on the principles of the proposal, they simply do not belong in contract language and we have not authorized any changes to our approach to this position shared last week,” Hutchinson said. He argued that the district already has some policies in place to work toward certain common good goals, and that other demands — including more mental health services for students — have already been addressed in the current contract offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our students need to be back at school immediately and I cannot make this point more urgently,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union argues that the district has long been aware of, but until recently ignored, these common good proposals, which OEA presented months ago. And the district, the union insists, already has the resources in place to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OUSD is a district exactly designed to deal with outside things like homelessness,” said Jacob Fowler, a Lincoln Elementary School teacher and member of the union’s negotiating team, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgkb2v_sw4\">a video message\u003c/a> to parents over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg\" alt='A huge crowd of protestors walk down a street in Oakland carrying green and yellow picket signs that read \"On Strike Unfair Labor Practices.\" Many participants wear red and one woman has a hooded sweatshirt that reads \"phenomenal teacher.\" Another sign reads \"Safe, Stable and Racially Just Schools\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1536x1118.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue in Oakland on the second day of an ongoing teachers strike on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district, he argued, receives millions of dollars a year from the state for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">community schools\u003c/a>, aimed at providing services to students outside of the normal school day. The union simply wants to make sure there is a community engagement strategy in place to determine how those funds get spent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not asking for any more funds. It costs the district $0 to agree to this proposal. But they’re not even addressing it,” Fowler said. “We just want a fair, complete proposal so that we can get back to the classroom quickly. If OUSD continues to drag their feet, we will continue to be on strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fowler added that the union has also set up “solidarity schools” across the district, run by credentialed teachers and community members, for students to attend for as long as the strike lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?extid=CL-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&mibextid=YCRy0i&ref=watch_permalink&v=591680859401402\">press conference on Monday morning\u003c/a> in front of the district’s headquarters, Oakland school board members Valarie Bachelor, Jennifer Brouhard and VanCedric Williams — representing half of the board — voiced their support for the union’s common good proposals and urged the other three members of the board, including Hutchinson, to embrace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not agree that common good should require a separate authorization to negotiate,” Bachelor said. As one of the largest landowners in Oakland, the district is particularly well positioned to work toward housing solutions for its many unhoused students, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard, a retired Oakland teacher, said recent historic state funding for community schools has created the opportunity to change how decisions in schools are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, decision-making power has been held at the district level,” she said. “It must be shared with teachers, parents and students and those voices must be centered at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard recalled, as a teacher, sitting on committees that had no real power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met, we met, we met. We talked about things our students needed, and they were never funded,” she said. “It’s time to have shared governance in our common good goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 7 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/b>No negotiations were planned over the weekend, said Oakland Education Association bargaining team member Samia Khattab, raising the prospect that striking teachers would be back on the picket lines on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Friday] evening we received a package proposal from [the OUSD] that is still incomplete and [that has] quite a few errors in it,” said Khattab, who is a teacher and librarian at Franklin Elementary School, in an interview with KQED. “We haven’t been able to sit at the table with them to go over some of these inconsistencies, to be able to discuss and walk through the proposal with them, because there is a holdup, and the holdup is that the OUSD school board has not given authority to the OUSD bargaining team to bargain on all of the proposals that the OEA has brought forth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khattab said the 50-member OEA bargaining team was working on a counterproposal Saturday, and said she hopes the district is able to return to the table so they can begin the “back-and-forth process of settling a fair contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district hasn’t responded this weekend,” said Khattab. “We have nothing on our agenda that indicates that they are going to be joining us at the table today … We will be on the picket lines unless we can come to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate interview with KQED on Saturday, Deputy Mayor Kimberly Mayfield said Oakland is committed to education and that the mayor’s office has a good relationship with the districts and the teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our desire is that they can work as hard as they can over this weekend to come up with a solution that will be agreeable to both parties,” said Mayfield. “I will trust the wisdom of the bargaining teams to make the best decision to bring our kids back to school and to bring our teachers back to school with safe conditions for learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 6 p.m. Friday:\u003c/b> Oakland teachers continued to strike for a second day Friday, with union, district and state education officials saying they planned to continue negotiating, likely through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One union rally was held at the United for Success Academy in Oakland’s Fruitvale District on Thursday. Oakland Education Association representatives said they chose the OUSD middle school because it highlights the lack of needed “common good” measures that teachers are demanding in their ongoing fight for a new contract across the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers at the UFSA say the school’s buildings are old and in need of renovation, that there’s \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/03/fruitvale-students-lead-soil-contamination-poisoning/\">lead in the soil\u003c/a> and a rat and mice infestation in the classrooms, and that they’re concerned about lead in the water.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Maha Nusrat, a sixth grade humanities teacher who’s taught at UFSA for 13 years, told KQED that it’s impossible to separate the physical conditions of the buildings from the teaching experience, or a child’s home environment from their education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re talking about common good proposals, we’re talking about disability justice, we’re talking about racial justice, we’re talking about social justice, we’re talking about schools in the flatlands having a just experience,” said Nusrat. “And that’s both in the environment, coming to a school that is welcoming, loving, safe — physically — and also [has] enough resources to actually fully serve those students that are in the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Aponte, a special education teacher going into his eighth year at UFSA, advocated for the needs of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [special education] program at UFSA is closing down, and as a special education teacher, that really hits us where it hurts,” said Aponte. “The students need these supports and these services … We need more qualified teachers to support the most vulnerable students that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg\" alt=\"Striking teachers marching holding a big colorful banner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1536x1154.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue from United for Success Academy, on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nusrat said schools like UFSA in the flatlands are a hub for families, a place to find additional resources outside the school day, and a place that serves as a safe space where students can get an “equitable education experience,” adding that UFSA is “a model” of some of the “common good” proposals teachers are demanding in the current strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people on campuses like ours are doing eight jobs because we simply don’t have the human power, no one is actually able to do their job that well,” said Nusrat. “We want to create wraparound services. We want to serve the whole student, including their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While district officials have said they agree in principle with the union’s proposals, they are prioritizing teacher retention by offering raises of up to 22%. But teachers demand that their “common good” proposals be met and that OUSD have a long-term plan in place for the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to have that transparency of a long game,” said Nusrat. “A two-year plan, a three-year plan, a five-year plan that’s going to include some of those common good things and some of those staffing issues that actually don’t let us do the jobs that we need to in our buildings with the integrity that we want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893056/oaklands-teachers-are-on-strike-again\">Oakland teachers’ strike\u003c/a> continues into its second day, First Covenant Church is opening its doors during the day to support K–5 students in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Danny Fitelson said\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandfcc.org/who-we-are\"> the church\u003c/a> also provided a space for students to read and learn when Oakland Unified teachers went on strike in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our mission statements is to be a light to the city. We think this is just a way to respond to a need that our city has right now,” Fitelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church transformed the choir room into a library for kids to lounge, snuggle with stuffed animals, read and munch on popcorn. Volunteers offered lessons on multiplication and division, and showed a science video about building bridges using pasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s board voted to provide this “community educational support program” until at least the end of next week if the strike continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t just about everybody making more money, it’s also about trying to get schools taken care of that have maybe been neglected,” Fitelson said. “I’ve been weighing that, and I think that hopefully something will get worked out. But I know it’s tough for everybody while it’s getting worked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Oakland parents remain frustrated by the disruption in schools as a teachers’ strike continues into its second day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, which represents 3,000 teachers, librarians, nurses and other staff members, has asked the district for what it’s calling “common good” proposals, including providing housing for unhoused students and investing in historically Black schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a> on Friday morning, Lakisha Young, founder of the parent-run organization The Oakland Reach, said some of the issues being raised are deep and longstanding, and unlikely to be resolved any time soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when does this end?” Young said. “I feel like this is what parents are saying. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s unclear when the students and teachers will return to the classroom. State Superintendent Tony Thurmond has been mediating talks between the district and the union since Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond aims to continue the mediated talks through the weekend in hopes of ending the strike, though a spokesperson for the California Department of Education said several “significant items” remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/posts/pfbid02tGwEMfFZtoLntHwTSvwcYxuU5mjv361p4VV3AnkcQq2PY6qnbDyRWggiQ9hz3vV6l\">update posted to social media Thursday evening\u003c/a>, the Oakland Education Association confirmed that the strike would continue on Friday, with the union’s president calling for a return to the picket lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“United we will win,” said OEA President Ismael Armendariz in a video update. “We will have a midday rally at United for Success [Academy, in Oakland], to highlight our social justice and environmental justice demands. We’ll see you on the picket lines at 7:30 a.m.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same video, Vilma Serrano, bargaining co-chair for OEA, called on Oaklanders and supporters to “push the school board to have a meeting to give the OUSD bargaining team the authority to bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned this week that the school board has not given the OUSD full authority to bargain,” said Serrano. “It has been really deeply frustrating to get to this point after seven months of bargaining … We need to settle a contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in a square, with one man holding a sign and arms raised high.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of Oakland teachers and their supporters converged on Frank H. 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Ogawa Plaza on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jesse Shapiro, a veteran Oakland High School history and photography teacher, said the district had not yet put forward a reasonable offer, and urged parents and other community members to be patient despite the disruption caused by the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to understand that short-term sacrifice is something that’s necessary for long-term gains,” he said at the rally, as Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day” reverberated from the speakers behind him. “So I’d ask them to be patient, supportive of what the people who teach their children are asking for. Because we’re not just asking for us, we’re asking for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro said his daughter, who attends an elementary school in the district, stands to directly gain from the increases teachers are demanding — rather than being subjected to a succession of novice teachers who leave the district after a year or two because the pay is so low and the resources so limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors gather and hold signs, with two female protestors engaged in a mock sword fight.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The picket took on a festive air Thursday with hundreds gathered at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want her to be in a classroom where there’s a teacher who wants to be there, who has a manageable number of kids, who has the facilities to teach my kid in a safe environment where she wants to be when she gets into high school,” he said. “I want her to be able to have access to a counselor so she can discuss what her options are after high school. And I think every parent wants that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Chan, a single mom of a fifth grader at Sequoia Elementary School in the Lower Dimond District, said she came to the rally to support teachers in their fight for a fair contract that “really values them in the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we just need the district to listen to the teachers on what they’re saying,” Chan said, pointing to accounts she’s heard from teachers of working in dilapidated classrooms where the ceiling tiles were literally falling down, or where students were experiencing homelessness or suffering from serious mental health issues that were not being addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948638 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg\" alt=\"Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads "We Love Teachers" at Thursday's noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads “We Love Teachers” at Thursday’s noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Particularly as a single mom, Chan said, a strike like this makes life a lot more difficult. “But I think we as parents have dealt with a lot of issues the last few years, and interruptions. We’ve dealt with smoke days, we’ve dealt with the pandemic,” she said. “And this was completely preventable by the district. But we’re going to keep on dealing with it because it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents, however, took to social media to voice their frustrations with both the district and the teachers union, lambasting the two sides for failing to reach an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At 9pm at night, we learn our kids won’t have school tomorrow,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of parent advocacy group The Oakland Reach, wrote in a tweet late Wednesday, after the strike was announced. “I’m so disappointed in both sides. Once again, our kids are collateral damage in adult fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948320/weary-oakland-parents-divided-over-whether-to-support-teachers-in-looming-strike\">Oakland teachers\u003c/a> joined picket lines early Thursday morning in front of schools, leaving classrooms largely empty, on the first day of an open-ended strike in an ongoing push for higher wages and better working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, a resource specialist at Manzanita Community School, marched with her colleagues in front of their East Oakland elementary school, chanting, “We want justice for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez said that while it was essential for teachers in the district to receive higher pay, this walkout is about much more than just compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what we’re fighting for are just basic rights, especially for our special education students,” she said. “Those are legal mandates that we aren’t meeting because we don’t have the human capacity to meet them. And a lot of the other things that we’re asking are like, for safety in our schools, for actual ACs, and not to have mice, and not to have real just basic health concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ismael Armendariz, interim president of the Oakland Education Association, the union representing some 3,000 teachers and other school personnel, joined Manzanita teachers on Thursday morning. He said the district had not delivered on its promise to submit a comprehensive proposal to the union, and had consistently failed to address many of \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/bargaining-proposals?authuser=0\">its crucial demands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not received anything in writing. We are waiting to receive everything in writing so that we can settle this contract,” said Armendariz. He urged the school board president to intervene in the negotiating process, which he called “dysfunctional,” accusing the district of negotiating in bad faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Thursday morning, Oakland school board president Mike Hutchinson denied that claim, arguing, “We have been negotiating every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD leaders said \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ousdnews/posts/pfbid027XfdPTjL7txwyziTMF4E6SPawMrR265SCCKPD8zhH1XBDotZ5nrXrmwpQpoaUKoGl\">their latest contract offer\u003c/a>, of nearly $70 million, would give teachers a generous raise — of as much as 22% — while addressing a host of other demands, including investing to hire more counselors and performing arts teachers and giving teachers more classroom preparation time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The latest salary proposal would give teachers an unprecedented raise — one that they deserve, and one that OUSD teachers haven’t seen in years if not decades,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said, noting that teacher retention was her top priority.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Following weeks of negotiations, leaders from Oakland's school district and its teachers union reached a tentative deal Sunday to allow some younger students to return to in-person classes by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the first phase of the agreement, in-person classes would resume March 30 for pre-K through second grade, and for \"priority students\" of all grades — those considered at-risk — whose parents have indicated they want to send them back to school. Classes will include a combination of distance and in-person learning options for four days a week. The fifth day will be remote for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"education\" label=\"More education coverage\"]Third through fifth graders, and possibly one additional grade, would be able to return to school on April 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families also have the option to have their children continue with full-time distance learning through the remainder of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bottom line is this is something we're very excited about,\" Oakland Unified School District spokesperson John Sasaki said. \"I know it's been a long time coming, and a lot of our families have wanted to be back for quite a while. Everybody whose family wants them to stay home can remain at home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal won't become official until it's approved by members of the Oakland Education Association — who are expected to vote on it this week — and then passed by the OUSD board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said it is offering financial incentives of $200 per week to teachers who come back right away, as well as a one-time $2,000 stipend for all OEA members who return next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers in the first phase who choose to opt in would return to campus on March 25 to prepare for the transition. Teachers in the second phase would return to campus on April 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district noted that campuses will operate at limited capacity, in accordance with public health guidance, to maintain physical distancing.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a critical step forward for our students, families and staff, as we all can now see the light at the end of the tunnel of this year-long ordeal,\" OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said in a district press release. \"I want to express my deepest appreciation to our teachers for working so hard to get us to this point and supporting their students through distance learning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials echoed her remarks in the same release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"John Sasaki, OUSD spokesperson\"]’A lot of our families have wanted to be back for quite a while. Everybody whose family wants them to stay home can remain at home.'[/pullquote]\"We reached a tentative agreement that is just, equitable, and most importantly, safe,\" said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association. \"We believe that phasing in student return on April 19 allows all educators to complete their vaccinations, if they so choose, and for California's targeted vaccination program to reach our most vulnerable communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the approval of union leaders, opposition to the agreement has already formed among some teachers and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the district announced the deal, a group calling itself the Equal Opportunity Now/By Any Means Necessary Caucus called a virtual press conference for 5 p.m. Monday to urge teachers to reject the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group's press statement said it opposes any reopening of schools while transmission rates of COVID-19 are still high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article includes reporting from KQED's Sara Hossaini and Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Following weeks of negotiations, leaders from Oakland's school district and its teachers union reached a tentative deal Sunday to allow some younger students to return to in-person classes by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the first phase of the agreement, in-person classes would resume March 30 for pre-K through second grade, and for \"priority students\" of all grades — those considered at-risk — whose parents have indicated they want to send them back to school. Classes will include a combination of distance and in-person learning options for four days a week. The fifth day will be remote for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Third through fifth graders, and possibly one additional grade, would be able to return to school on April 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families also have the option to have their children continue with full-time distance learning through the remainder of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bottom line is this is something we're very excited about,\" Oakland Unified School District spokesperson John Sasaki said. \"I know it's been a long time coming, and a lot of our families have wanted to be back for quite a while. Everybody whose family wants them to stay home can remain at home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal won't become official until it's approved by members of the Oakland Education Association — who are expected to vote on it this week — and then passed by the OUSD board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said it is offering financial incentives of $200 per week to teachers who come back right away, as well as a one-time $2,000 stipend for all OEA members who return next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers in the first phase who choose to opt in would return to campus on March 25 to prepare for the transition. Teachers in the second phase would return to campus on April 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district noted that campuses will operate at limited capacity, in accordance with public health guidance, to maintain physical distancing.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"We reached a tentative agreement that is just, equitable, and most importantly, safe,\" said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association. \"We believe that phasing in student return on April 19 allows all educators to complete their vaccinations, if they so choose, and for California's targeted vaccination program to reach our most vulnerable communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the approval of union leaders, opposition to the agreement has already formed among some teachers and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the district announced the deal, a group calling itself the Equal Opportunity Now/By Any Means Necessary Caucus called a virtual press conference for 5 p.m. Monday to urge teachers to reject the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group's press statement said it opposes any reopening of schools while transmission rates of COVID-19 are still high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article includes reporting from KQED's Sara Hossaini and Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "PHOTOS: Oakland Teachers Strike Over Wages, Classroom Conditions",
"title": "PHOTOS: Oakland Teachers Strike Over Wages, Classroom Conditions",
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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, 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\" 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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>\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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