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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, 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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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gesine Cotteral, a teacher at Lincoln Elementary School near Lake Merritt, has worked in the district for 25 years and echoed those concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here because of a massive exodus of teachers leaving schools who can’t afford to live in Oakland,\" said Cotteral, while picketing outside her school. \"We had four teachers leave last year ... and then students need support staff, special ed teachers and nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, who teaches at Manzanita, said the strike is not just a fight for better pay, but also better classroom conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not out here for the money,\" Chavez said. \"We're out here for our kids, and we've told them that multiple times as we've been talking about the strike with them throughout this week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said it is keeping all schools open for the duration of the strike and encouraging students to attend. Schools are being staffed by principals, central office staff and temporary substitute teachers. But it will definitely not be business as usual, said OUSD spokesman John Sasaki, noting that the vast majority of the district's more than 36,200 students had not come to school on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a very powerful effect sent by the union and by the supporters among the families,\" said Sasaki, who counted 14 students in attendance at Manzanita this morning, out of the roughly 400 kids enrolled there. \"Oakland is a union town and our families and our students support our teachers and support the union effort. And we do, too. That being said, we certainly want our students in class and hope that more come to school tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The district receives state funding based on daily student attendance, and stands to lose a significant amount of money each day if absence rates are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki confirmed that talks with the union would resume on Friday morning and that the strike would more than likely last for at least one more day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late morning, teachers and their supporters, including a number of students, rallied in Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland and marched to the district's central office, before returning to school picket lines later in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727903\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11727903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727258\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11727258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1200x829.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellie Kerwin, a junior in high school, holds a sign that says “I Hella Love Oakland Teachers” as she walks down Broadway during the Oakland student walkout on Feb. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726864/oakland-teachers-announce-plans-to-strike-starting-on-thursday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go on strike on Thursday\u003c/a>, leaving parents to decide whether to send their children to school — or not. Here are some key details to help you prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many teachers are going on strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, which called the strike, represents about 2,300 classroom teachers. It also represents hundreds of counselors, psychologists, speech therapists, home and hospital teachers, and teachers on special assignment, as well as some substitute teachers and school nurses. Everyone in the union can choose to strike, although they don’t have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many kids will be affected, and will schools be open?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District has roughly 36,300 students. The district says all schools will remain open, although it expects that \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/132NEBoTH02msc_fGSRvOft66jsoGs3Cg80bYIaIGxj4/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">classes will be quite large\u003c/a> and will likely not follow regular curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principals and office staff will be supervising students. The district is also hiring temporary teaching staff to fill in where needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/4101/Potential%20Strike%20One%20Pager.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strike fact sheet\u003c/a>, the district says: “Students are expected to attend school, unless there is an official district announcement of cancellation. Regular OUSD attendance policies apply during a strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where can I send my kids if I don’t want them to go to school?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city has designated 15 recreation centers across Oakland where students can go in lieu of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Oakland’s public libraries will be open during regular hours, but kids under 7 have to be supervised by an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are also planning to host groups of students at their houses, in what they’re calling “Solidarity Schools.” Volunteers can sign up \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4zOew0MOCLhZsc2YpjgTCqDGamuK2D95_-NCSupzTLpKIKA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1I6NUoyMaCq54yGvI_TEKR7zXj9JBoHyZCiFcmIkd-d2hBSgvCzl7NDRc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Anthony Jenkins of Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church in West Oakland said his church will be able to host up to 250 students per day — and he’s calling on other Oakland churches to open their doors as well. Jenkins is also providing a free space for Oakland Education Association members and strike captains to use as a staging ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are also planning to bring their children to the picket line, as emphasized in a message on the \u003ca href=\"https://ousdparentsunited.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUSD Parents United website\u003c/a>, an independent parent-led group in support of the strike: “Definitely plan to have your child spend some time on the picket line with you — it means a lot to teachers and will help your children contextualize what is happening,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Grand Lake Theater is planning to charge $1 for admission and $1 for popcorn to two special film screenings on Thursday, said theater owner Allen Michaan. Specific information will soon be available on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.renaissancerialto.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theater’s website\u003c/a>. [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\u003ch2>Where can kids eat who don’t attend school?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Free lunches and snacks for students will be available on-site at the Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church through the \u003ca href=\"https://donorbox.org/breadfored\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bread For Ed fund\u003c/a>, which will provide food to teachers and students during the strike, and has so far raised more than $66,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OEA is also setting up food distribution points around the city for kids who need access to lunch and snacks during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will there be after-school programs?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district said all federally funded after-school programs will stay open, but urges parents to check with individual schools to make sure. A student who does not come to school can’t attend an after-school program, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about school sports teams?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/oal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Athletic League\u003c/a> is canceling some extracurricular sports activities during the strike. Call them with specific questions: 510-879-2846.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, all middle school sports this weekend are cancelled, according to district spokesman John Sasaki. Spring sports competitions are also postponed. However, winter sports playoffs will continue as planned and school sites will individually determine whether to hold after-school practices. Parents should call their children’s schools for specific information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will temporary teachers be vetted?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district says it’s reviewing the work references, fingerprints and health clearances for all the temporary teachers it’s hiring to do fill-in work during the strike. These short-term substitutes will get paid $300 a day, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are charter schools affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No, Oakland charter schools are not part of the strike, nor are the teachers who work for them or the nearly 14,000 students who attend them. However, some charter school teachers have joined district teachers on the picket line in previous labor actions in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money does OUSD stand to lose if students stay home during the strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the fourth day of the strike, Oakland Unified spokesman John Sasaki said an average of about 6 percent of all students have attended school during the strike. That massive lack of attendance amounts to roughly $1 million net loss per day for the district, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki added: “It is unclear as yet how the loss of any funding because of the strike will affect the overall budget issues. But in a school district with tight financial constraints such as OUSD, any money that’s lost adds to the challenge of balancing the budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will striking teachers get any financial support?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Striking teachers don’t receive any pay from the district (and can’t use sick days), but the union has created a strike fund, and is working with a community bank that will offer low-interest loans to teachers in need. There have also been some fundraising efforts organized by parents as well as teachers from other districts to support Oakland teachers who could experience financial hardship. Among them, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/teacher-activism-in-california-takes-on-an-increasingly-red-hue/608745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the United Teachers of Richmond\u003c/a> has already contributed $1,000 to Oakland’s Bread for ED fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I find out more or get involved in organizing efforts?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are multiple strategy sessions for parents and community members being held this week, including one planned for \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/617507362021956/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuesday\u003c/a> and another on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/588845998255191/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, check out OUSD’s FAQ \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/132NEBoTH02msc_fGSRvOft66jsoGs3Cg80bYIaIGxj4/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a> and OEA’s FAQ for families \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Potential-Oakland-Teacher-Strike-Family-FAQ-ENG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Saturday, 3:53 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers say unless something \"dramatic\" happens, they'll be going on strike starting Thursday, Feb. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough. Bargaining with our school district has not worked,\" said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, at a news conference on Saturday. \"Bargaining with our school district has not in two years produced an agreement that will pay teachers enough to stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are asking for\u003c/a> better pay, smaller class sizes and more resources for classrooms and student programs. They have been working without a contract since July 2017, and the union has been unable to reach an agreement with the district despite prolonged negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District spokesman John Sasaki said the district is sad that the union called a date for a strike, but it is not giving up hope that a strike could be averted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that they don't want to strike. We know that our students and our families don't want to strike, and we know that the district doesn't want to strike,\" Sasaki said. He said the district invited the union back to the negotiating table on Saturday morning in order to present an updated \"comprehensive proposal,\" of which he declined to discuss specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means,Oakland teachers are ready to strike. How did we get here?\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-800x533.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the strike does come to pass, Sasaki said schools will remain open using emergency temporary teachers and district staff to educate the district's 37,000 students. He said the specifics of the school day will differ from school to school depending on how many regular teachers show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final step of negotiations as mandated by state law, a neutral fact-finder appointed by the state released a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSHkn3IwBmO-zewwFcfFhdvvc_RjKVyZ/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-binding report\u003c/a> of recommendations to the union and district on Friday. Sasaki said the district believes the report provided a \"good foundation\" for finding a solution without a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s latest public offer included a salary increase of 5 percent over three years and marginal class-size cuts for some grades and classes. It’s also offering a special education class size cap of 15 students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a far cry from teachers' demands for a 12 percent pay increase over three years, graduated class-size reductions over the next two years and deeper class-size reductions in schools where 75 percent or more of students are low-income, foster youth, homeless or English learners. They're also asking for smaller caseloads for support staff like nurses, counselors and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Najeeb Khoury, the neutral fact-finder, recommended a new contract that would last through the 2019-2020 school year and would include 3 percent pay increases over the first two years and reopen talks for a salary increase in the third year. However, he also encouraged the two sides to explore a contract that would run through the summer of 2021 and could include greater salary increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are among the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lowest paid\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, even when taking benefits into account, according to an analysis by School Services of California, a consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s current education funding system is complicated and flawed in a number of ways,\" Khoury wrote in his report. \"These flaws make finding resolutions to this contract and other teacher contracts throughout the state very difficult.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See More of KQED's Coverage of the Debates Surrounding Oakland Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Khoury agreed that cutting class sizes would improve the district's poor \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRA1718_10TEACHER_RETENTION_EXPERIENCE_0/TeacherRetention?iframeSizedToWindow=true&:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teacher retention\u003c/a>, but only recommended reducing classes across the board by one student by July 2020, with implementation happening at the highest-needs schools first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disagreements between the teachers and the district are exacerbated by OUSD's roughly $30 million budget deficit, which it has to significantly reduce to avoid being taken over by the state. To help cut costs, the district has proposed closing and consolidating up to 24 of its 87 school sites, a plan that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11722135/oakland-unifieds-hella-hard-week\">proven highly controversial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers and parents who spoke at the announcement took particular aim at the district's decision to encourage the proliferation of and coordination with charter schools in Oakland, in line with what's known as the \"\u003ca href=\"https://chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2018/07/03/the-oakland-school-board-is-pushing-for-more-coordination-with-charter-schools-but-faces-fierce-backlash/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">portfolio model\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In these competition-based portfolio districts, schools compete against each other for resources and support, creating a system of haves and have-nots,\" Brown said. He decried billionaire supporters of the model including Netflix founder and CEO \u003ca href=\"https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/reed-hastings-creates-100-million-education-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reed Hastings\u003c/a> and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation run by Gates and his wife Melinda was behind an earlier education reform effort undertaken by the district to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726682/why-does-oakland-have-so-many-small-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smaller schools\u003c/a> in hopes of improving outcomes. Now lacking private funding from the Gates, OUSD is looking at closing up many of those small schools as part of its budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The black and brown families in Oakland have suffered enough displacement,\" said Clarissa Doutherd, the parent of a fifth-grader at Laurel Elementary School. \"Our public schools should stay open. This is a direct attack on our families.\" Doutherd and other parents at Saturday's news conference encouraged families not to cross the picket lines in a show of solidarity with teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we see right now in Oakland public schools is exactly what a billionaire district looks like,\" said Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher and first vice president of OEA. \"I'm ready to strike for our kids, and I'm ready to strike for the schools Oakland deserves. The choice is clear: You can stand with the billionaires or you can stand with the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khoury's fact-finding report also noted the impact charter schools have had on the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no doubt that charter advocates and indeed charter policies are driven by a desire to increase options for disadvantaged children,\" he wrote. \"Unfortunately, there are ways that the current system creates an unlevel playing field for traditional public schools and undermines those districts serving the very same disadvantaged children that charter advocates seek to aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As negotiations over teacher pay and school closings have heated up in recent months, so have tensions. Teachers held two separate “sick outs” this year without union approval, and on Feb. 8, students staged a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724716/hundreds-of-oakland-high-school-students-stage-sickout-in-support-of-teachers\">similar event\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless there are dramatic changes to the district’s approach including spending money on students and spending money for more nurses and counselors, lower class size and a living wage that will keep experienced teachers in Oakland classrooms, we will strike on Feb. 21,\" Brown said to loud applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 16: The original version of this report incorrectly stated that the fact-finder's report did not recommend reducing class sizes. The story has been edited to correct the inaccuracy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the strike does come to pass, Sasaki said schools will remain open using emergency temporary teachers and district staff to educate the district's 37,000 students. He said the specifics of the school day will differ from school to school depending on how many regular teachers show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final step of negotiations as mandated by state law, a neutral fact-finder appointed by the state released a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSHkn3IwBmO-zewwFcfFhdvvc_RjKVyZ/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-binding report\u003c/a> of recommendations to the union and district on Friday. Sasaki said the district believes the report provided a \"good foundation\" for finding a solution without a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s latest public offer included a salary increase of 5 percent over three years and marginal class-size cuts for some grades and classes. It’s also offering a special education class size cap of 15 students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a far cry from teachers' demands for a 12 percent pay increase over three years, graduated class-size reductions over the next two years and deeper class-size reductions in schools where 75 percent or more of students are low-income, foster youth, homeless or English learners. They're also asking for smaller caseloads for support staff like nurses, counselors and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Najeeb Khoury, the neutral fact-finder, recommended a new contract that would last through the 2019-2020 school year and would include 3 percent pay increases over the first two years and reopen talks for a salary increase in the third year. However, he also encouraged the two sides to explore a contract that would run through the summer of 2021 and could include greater salary increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are among the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lowest paid\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, even when taking benefits into account, according to an analysis by School Services of California, a consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s current education funding system is complicated and flawed in a number of ways,\" Khoury wrote in his report. \"These flaws make finding resolutions to this contract and other teacher contracts throughout the state very difficult.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See More of KQED's Coverage of the Debates Surrounding Oakland Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Khoury agreed that cutting class sizes would improve the district's poor \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRA1718_10TEACHER_RETENTION_EXPERIENCE_0/TeacherRetention?iframeSizedToWindow=true&:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teacher retention\u003c/a>, but only recommended reducing classes across the board by one student by July 2020, with implementation happening at the highest-needs schools first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disagreements between the teachers and the district are exacerbated by OUSD's roughly $30 million budget deficit, which it has to significantly reduce to avoid being taken over by the state. To help cut costs, the district has proposed closing and consolidating up to 24 of its 87 school sites, a plan that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11722135/oakland-unifieds-hella-hard-week\">proven highly controversial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers and parents who spoke at the announcement took particular aim at the district's decision to encourage the proliferation of and coordination with charter schools in Oakland, in line with what's known as the \"\u003ca href=\"https://chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2018/07/03/the-oakland-school-board-is-pushing-for-more-coordination-with-charter-schools-but-faces-fierce-backlash/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">portfolio model\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In these competition-based portfolio districts, schools compete against each other for resources and support, creating a system of haves and have-nots,\" Brown said. He decried billionaire supporters of the model including Netflix founder and CEO \u003ca href=\"https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/reed-hastings-creates-100-million-education-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reed Hastings\u003c/a> and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation run by Gates and his wife Melinda was behind an earlier education reform effort undertaken by the district to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726682/why-does-oakland-have-so-many-small-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smaller schools\u003c/a> in hopes of improving outcomes. Now lacking private funding from the Gates, OUSD is looking at closing up many of those small schools as part of its budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The black and brown families in Oakland have suffered enough displacement,\" said Clarissa Doutherd, the parent of a fifth-grader at Laurel Elementary School. \"Our public schools should stay open. This is a direct attack on our families.\" Doutherd and other parents at Saturday's news conference encouraged families not to cross the picket lines in a show of solidarity with teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we see right now in Oakland public schools is exactly what a billionaire district looks like,\" said Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher and first vice president of OEA. \"I'm ready to strike for our kids, and I'm ready to strike for the schools Oakland deserves. The choice is clear: You can stand with the billionaires or you can stand with the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khoury's fact-finding report also noted the impact charter schools have had on the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no doubt that charter advocates and indeed charter policies are driven by a desire to increase options for disadvantaged children,\" he wrote. \"Unfortunately, there are ways that the current system creates an unlevel playing field for traditional public schools and undermines those districts serving the very same disadvantaged children that charter advocates seek to aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As negotiations over teacher pay and school closings have heated up in recent months, so have tensions. 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"content": "\u003ch2>An earlier district reform effort broke large, underperforming campuses into smaller schools that could, in theory, better support at-risk students. Since 2000, OUSD created scores of new schools, even as enrollment throughout the district sharply declined.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Want to know more? Read on...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District has about 37,000 students in 87 non-charter public schools, or an average of roughly 425 students per school. That comparatively high school-to-student ratio is largely due to an earlier reform movement to create smaller, more intimate educational settings for students. Today, amid a serious budget crisis, district leaders are revisiting the premise of the small schools experiment, and have suggested paring down the number of schools by upward of 25 percent. Here’s a look at how Oakland ended up with so many small schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does OUSD really have \u003cem>that\u003c/em> many schools? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes. The number of public schools OUSD oversees is much higher than Bay Area districts of similar size. Take nearby Fremont Unified, which has just over 35,000 students but only 42 schools. Or San Jose Unified, where about 32,000 students attend 46 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Oakland still has its fair share of larger schools. About \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/school/Alameda/Oakland-Unified/Skyline-High\">1,800 students\u003c/a> were enrolled at Skyline High School during the 2017-2018 school year, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/school/Alameda/Oakland-Unified/Oakland-Technical-High\">nearly 2,000\u003c/a> at Oakland Tech. But a good number of district schools have fewer than 300 students. Among them: Roots International Academy, one of the schools slated for closure, which now has just about 260 students and Sankofa Academy, which has fewer than 200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726709\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11726709 size-complete_open_graph\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-1200x867.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-1200x867.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-160x116.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-800x578.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-1020x737.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377.png 1247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schools in the Oakland Unified School District \u003ccite>(OUSD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why were so many new schools created?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2000, the district has opened a huge number of small schools, even as its enrollment dropped \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showShareOptions=true&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no&:render=false#3\">by about 45 percent\u003c/a>. Here’s how it unfolded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1990s, Oakland’s public school district was dealing with many of the same issues it faces today, including financial problems, low test scores and high teacher turnover. Most of the under-performing schools were concentrated in the city’s “flatlands” neighborhoods and primarily attended by lower-income, minority students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike now, though, many of those schools were bursting at the seams and straining to manage far more students than they were designed to accommodate, particularly elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of these overcrowded and sometimes chaotic conditions, a group of concerned parents teamed up with an alliance of religious and civic leaders, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcommunity.org/\">Oakland Community Organizations\u003c/a>, to push for a major overhaul of the district’s most troubled campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Oakland Schools: Your Questions Answered\" tag=\"ousd-qa\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the group called attention to the glaring disparities between their kids’ schools and the markedly smaller, safer and better performing schools largely concentrated in wealthier neighborhoods in the Oakland hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe that the same school district would be failing thousands of children, while the other kids in the more affluent neighborhoods were very successful,” said Emma Paulino, an immigrant from Guadalajara, Mexico, who was appalled by the conditions at Hawthorne Elementary, the East Oakland school her son attended. “It was like a slap in my face. My child is not a third-class kid just because he’s brown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulino became involved with OCO and its grassroots campaign to push the district to break apart some of its long-struggling, large flatlands schools and replace them with smaller autonomous academies. It was part of a growing small schools movement that had taken root in urban districts across the country, including New York, Chicago and Milwaukee, and touted as a transformational tool to help narrow the growing achievement gap between poor, mostly minority students and their more affluent peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates believed that schools with fewer than 400 students could provide a stronger sense of community and security and create more engaging learning environments, particularly for students from underserved neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small schools were also intended to empower a new generation of community and educational leaders who could help shape their school’s vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s school board and its superintendent went all in, approving a \u003ca href=\"https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED467119\">new small schools policy\u003c/a> in 2000 that jump-started the opening of nine new schools over the next three years. (To put that in perspective: the district hadn’t opened a single new school in the previous 20 years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/37f2a288-0fd1-434c-8fff-b97a4f708fbb?src=embed\" title=\"Oakland Small Schools\" width=\"600\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Chaconas, who was the district’s superintendent from 2000 to 2003, said that besides reducing overcrowding, the goal was to create more community-focused and academically rigorous institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to get a group of teachers and community members to design schools in which they felt they would own the kids more, and actually end up getting better performance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulino helped start ASCEND, an arts-based kindergarten- through eighth-grade school in East Oakland that opened its doors in 2001 (it has since become a charter school).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At ASCEND, we the parents had a voice,” she said. “We worked really closely with the teachers. And all the adults were responsible for the children, including the custodians, people in the cafeteria, every person at the school. We were like a family. Parents really owned the school and all the kids were accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label= \"We're answering your questions about Oakland Schools.\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools#have-a-question,Tell us what you want to know.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who paid for the expansion?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good chunk of the funding came from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which had begun infusing a number of urban districts across the country with large grants specifically earmarked for creating more small schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2003 — when the financially distressed district was taken over by the state and its locally elected school board dissolved — and 2009, Oakland continued to receive multimillion-dollar contributions from the Gates Foundation for the explicit purpose of converting large campuses into multiplexes of smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that period of state receivership, the district shuttered seven large middle and high schools and seven elementary schools — located almost entirely in the city’s poorest neighborhoods in East and West Oakland — and replaced them with 40 smaller academies. Many had distinct vocational themes, from media studies and performing arts to architecture and activism. The schools’ teachers and principals all had to reapply for their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 2009, when the district finally regained local control, philanthropic enthusiasm for the small schools movement had waned, and the Gates Foundation shifted its focus to new educational initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, OUSD opened a whopping 49 new schools in a decade, each with its own separate administration and teaching staff. Some were eventually phased out or turned into charter schools, but the majority remain open today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also during this period that district-approved, publicly funded charter schools proliferated in the city. Oakland’s underserved communities, which had just a few years earlier been sorely lacking in educational options for their children, were suddenly awash in an often dizzying array of new schools from which to choose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So ... did it work? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results were mixed. There were definitely some major improvements. Between 2004 and 2009, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib07/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/14/Impact_Assessment_OUSD_Results.pdf\"> district reported\u003c/a> a 92-point increase in its overall Academic Performance Index score, which it claimed was the biggest improvement of any large urban district in California, although it still fell below the statewide average. And some of the new schools unquestionably outperformed the larger institutions they’d stemmed from. In 2008, Think College Now, one of the new small elementary schools in the Fruitvale district, was named a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/364\">California Distinguished School\u003c/a> at the same time as Hillcrest, an elementary school in one of Oakland’s wealthiest neighborhoods. That same year, about \u003ca href=\"https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/news/articles/899\">40 percent of graduates from LIFE Academy\u003c/a>, a bioscience-themed high school in East Oakland that opened in 2001, were admitted into the University of California system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/oakland-unified-school-district-new-small-schools-initiative-evaluation.pdf\">2009 Stanford study\u003c/a> found that Oakland students in the new small schools performed better, on average, over a three-year period than students from similar socioeconomic groups who stayed in their larger, traditional schools. The same study also found that students, parents and teachers were “significantly more satisfied” than their counterparts at traditional schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Oakland’s small school transformation was hardly the magic bullet that some reformers had hoped for. Many of the same problems persisted, and academic progress was at best uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/09/01/small-schools-found-not-making-the-grade/\">Data released in 2007\u003c/a> showed that the new small high schools at the Castlemont and McClymonds campuses — as well as all but one of the district’s new middle schools — failed to meet national education standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, by 2009, just as the district regained local control, it again found itself sliding into deep financial trouble, in large part because \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showShareOptions=true&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no&:render=false#3\">thousands of students \u003c/a>were transferring into the many charter schools that had recently emerged throughout Oakland, taking with them critical state funding tied to enrollment, and leaving some of the newly created schools with an increasing number of empty seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operating more schools was also more expensive, particularly in the absence of foundational support. Each school required its own principal, administrative staff and additional overhead costs, adding millions of dollars every year to the district’s tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Hill, a former OUSD program manager, said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eightcities.org/blog/oakland-california\">recent interview\u003c/a> with the education site Eight Cities that the district probably opened too many schools at once. “There should have been a tighter look at financial and demographic need,” he said. “It wasn’t financially sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the Oakland school board\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/12/19/oakland-school-district-at-important-juncture/\"> regained control in 2009, some members were already suggesting\u003c/a> merging some of the “new, small schools” back together again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of Oakland students from high schools across the city skipped class Friday morning to march from Oakland Technical High School to the school district's downtown headquarters in a spirited show of support for their teachers, who are threatening to strike amid tense contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Teachers Say They're Ready to Strike\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" />\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I'm here to support our teachers, to fight for things that I want in our schools and show that this is not just a teacher issue. It's a schoolwide, community issue,” said Avelina Rivezzo-Weber, a junior at Skyline High School, who helped organize students from her school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teens gathered on the plaza in front of Oakland Tech before the start of the school day, where student organizers discussed how to demonstrate safely and then led the crowd down Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waving signs and banners, students chanted, “1-2-3-4, pay our Oakland teachers more!” and “We won’t stop! Chop from the top!”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“Students are primarily the people that are affected the most by educational issues,” said Samuel Getachew, a junior at Oakland Tech, who helped organize the march. “I think too often our power and our voice is disregarded, and we're not included in the conversations we should be included in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a mass email sent to fellow students earlier this week, student organizers said: “Our goal is to put pressure on the district to meet the teachers’ demands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks ago, teachers from many of the same schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\">staged a similar event\u003c/a>, marching from Oakland Tech to Oakland Unified School District's downtown headquarters, stopping traffic along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD teachers, who have been working without a contract since 2017, are demanding a 12 percent raise over three years, reduced class sizes and more school counselors and nurses. Following months of failed negotiations with the district, the Oakland Education Association, the union representing teachers, on Monday announced that the roughly 2,300 teachers it represents had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means\">voted overwhelmingly\u003c/a> in favor of a strike if their demands are not met. If the union and the district don’t agree on the recommendations of a neutral third party, expected by next Friday, the union is likely to call a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impasse comes as the district scrambles to chip away at a massive budget deficit of up to $30 million. Among other measures, it recently proposed closing up to 24 under-enrolled schools, a plan the union staunchly opposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724798\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11724798 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026-1200x796.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clyde Nichols, a junior at Oakland Technical High School, leads a group of students and volunteers down Broadway in downtown Oakland during the student sickout on Friday Feb. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lauren Kahn, an Oakland Tech senior who helped organize the rally, said her teachers were very supportive of the unsanctioned walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We emailed over 200 teachers, telling them of our plans and we got very positive responses back, encouraging us and thanking us for our work,” Kahn said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>District officials did not share the same enthusiasm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a prerecorded call and email to parents on Thursday, OUSD spokesman John Sasaki said that while the district supported students’ First Amendment rights, it still strongly encouraged them to attend school on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his message, Sasaki emphasized the importance of tests and especially called attention to a recruiting event for historically black colleges and universities, where “students will find on-site admissions opportunities and millions of dollars of scholarships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724795\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11724795 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020.jpg\" alt=\"Carlita Landrum, a junior at Skyline High School, chants into a bullhorn while marching with other students down Broadway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-1200x829.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlita Landrum, a junior at Skyline High School, chants into a bullhorn while marching with other students down Broadway. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district receives funding from the state based on student attendance, although Sasaki said he couldn't yet confirm the cost impact of today’s event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an action that will hopefully lose [the district] a lot of money,” Getachew said. “And through that, make them realize that not only are students willing to participate in these conversations, we want to so badly that we're willing to do anything it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of parents could also be spotted in the sea of marching students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's so exciting to watch these students speak their mind, support their teachers, support public education, be out there talking about what matters to them and be engaging in civic action,” said Bridget Rivezzo, the mother of Avelina Rivezzo-Weber, one of the student organizers. “I’m so proud of them and of my daughter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Tues., Feb. 19\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Teachers want better pay, smaller class sizes, and more resources for classrooms and student programs. The district says it supports these goals but also needs to balance its budget.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers say they will begin their strike on Thursday, Feb. 21, the union representing them \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726864/oakland-teachers-announce-plans-to-strike-starting-on-thursday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced\u003c/a> Saturday. The decision came after the union rejected the recommendations of a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSHkn3IwBmO-zewwFcfFhdvvc_RjKVyZ/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-finding report\u003c/a>, delivered on Friday by a neutral third party, which offered non-terms for a potential settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough. Bargaining with our school district has not worked,” Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, said on Saturday, while announcing the strike. “Bargaining with our school district has not in two years produced an agreement that will pay teachers enough to stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers have been working without a contract since July 2017. Despite prolonged efforts, the union, which represents some 2,300 teachers, and the Oakland Unified School District have failed to reach an agreement, and the formal negotiation process is nearly exhausted. Meanwhile, frustrated teachers staged their own one-day “sick-outs” in December and January without union approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does the fact-finding report recommend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The report, written by Najeeb Khoury, an arbitrator appointed by the state’s Public Employee Relations Board, begins by pointing out the deep flaws in California’s school-funding system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These flaws make finding resolutions to this contract and other teacher contracts throughout the state very difficult,” Khoury writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report goes on to note that the district’s offer of a 5 percent salary increase for teachers over three years will not keep pace with inflation. But it also stresses that the union’s demand for a 12 percent increase is financially unfeasible for the cash-strapped district. As a compromise, it recommends a 6 percent salary increase retroactive to the 2017-18 school year and calls for new salary negotiations for the 2019-20 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommends a reduction of one student per class, across the board, by 2020. For the neediest 20 percent of schools, that deadline would be 2019. And it suggests reducing the counselor-to-student ratio to a maximum of 1-to-550.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the report recommends hiring three additional psychologists for the district. And rather than hiring additional nurses, as the union is demanding, it suggests that the union and district work together to fill the district’s vacant school nurse positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What has to happen before a strike can be called?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The union and the district are now in the formal fact-finding process, a step legally mandated by state law in collective bargaining negotiations. Late last week, each party made its case before a three-person panel consisting of one member appointed by each party and one neutral member appointed by the Public Employee Relations Board, the state agency charged with administering collective bargaining laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label= \"We're answering your questions about Oakland Schools.\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Tell us what you want to know.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It works a little bit like a jury trial. After each party lays out its arguments (you can see OEA’s presentation to the panel \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/updates/remedying-educational-malpractice-oea-fact-finding-presentation/\">here\u003c/a>), the neutral panel member writes a report with recommendations for a settlement. The district and union have said \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UvyqV-akz2augtfC1SMeY4j-wVj_BujeSk3y7tv-Jcc/edit\">they expect to receive the report by February 15\u003c/a>. The report then has to be made public within 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the two sides don’t agree to the fact-finder’s recommendations, the union is likely to call for a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to get further in the weeds, you can read the state law that outlines the fact-finding process \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perb.ca.gov%2Flawspdfs%2Feera.pdf\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are teachers asking for, and what’s the district offering?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Generally speaking, teachers want more pay, smaller classes and more support staff. They say they’re overworked and considerably underpaid, especially given how expensive it is to live in the Bay Area. It’s a key reason, they note (and the \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/mediaplayer.php?clip_id=1302&view_id=4&meta_id=480162\">district agrees\u003c/a>), why the teacher retention rate in Oakland is substantially lower than average as compared with other urban districts nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the union is demanding a 12 percent salary increase over three years and graduated class-size reductions over the next two years. It also wants much deeper class-size reductions in schools where 75 percent or more of students are low-income, foster youth, homeless or English learners, as well as slimmer caseloads for support staff like nurses, counselors and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a pretty sizeable gulf, though, between the union’s demands and what the district has put on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it recognizes and supports an increase in teacher compensation, especially in the costly Bay Area, but also stresses the tenuous financial situation it’s currently in. The district is shouldering a roughly $30 million budget deficit, which it has to significantly reduce to avoid being taken over by the state (again). As part of an urgent cost-cutting strategy, the district recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\">proposed closing\u003c/a> and consolidating up to 24 of its 87 school sites, a plan that’s proven highly controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s offer is a salary increase of 5 percent over three years and marginal class-size cuts, but only for fourth and fifth grades, physical education and fine arts classes. It’s also offering a special education class size cap of 15 students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current contract, core high school classes like math and English are capped at 32 students (unless a teacher has fewer students in other periods). For kindergarten, the maximum is 27 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see where other class size caps and staff-to-student-ratio caps stand, check out \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Foaklandea.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F04%2FOEA-Contract-2014-2017.pdf\">the current contract\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about the proposal to close schools?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the union has asked to bargain around school closures. An attorney with the California Teachers Association, the state teachers’ union, sent OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/760fd0fd-fa9c-4792-a46e-89977448a490.pdf\">a letter\u003c/a> demanding that the issue of closures be brought to the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD Board President Aimee Eng said the district does not believe the issue of closures is within the scope of negotiations and has referred the matter to legal counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do OUSD teacher salaries compare to other districts?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, even when taking benefits into account, according to an analysis by School Services of California, a consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the starting OUSD teacher salary of $46,570 is roughly equivalent to starting salaries in most other large Bay Area districts, the average teacher salary in Oakland ($63,149) \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/cs/documents/j90summary1718.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is notably lower\u003c/a>, as is the highest-paid salary ($83,724). In San Francisco, by contrast, the average teacher salary for the 2017-18 school year was more than $73,00, with top-earners making more than $96,000. In San Jose, teachers on average made just over $79,000, with some of the highest paid making as much as $97,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0tV6H/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What would it cost the district to meet the union’s demands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell has said each 1 percent raise that teachers get means an additional $1.9 million per year in costs to the district. Factoring in all district staff represented by the union — teachers, counselors, nurses, psychologists, speech therapists, etc. — she said those costs go up to about $3.5 million per year for each 1 percent raise. By that metric, the 12 percent raise the union is asking for over three years would cost the district $42 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said \u003ca href=\"https://votersedge.org/en/ca/ballot/election/area/42/measures/measure/2479?election_authority_id=1\">Measure G1\u003c/a> funding will provide $5 million annually to help pay for salary increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When did Oakland teachers last go on strike? What happened?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers walked out in 2010 for one day. According to news reports at the time, the district imposed a contract after exhausting the negotiation process. Teachers then had been working without a contract since summer of 2008 and the issues were similar: pay, class size, lack of support staff. Teachers were asking for a 15 percent pay increase over three years. The district, which faced an $85 million shortfall at the time, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-teachers-strike-ends-after-1-day-3190553.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, put forward a pay cut initially, citing its deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 90 percent of teachers joined the strike, according to the media reports, and some 300 emergency substitutes, administrators, non-union staff and volunteers oversaw classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers who participated reportedly lost one day’s pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some 600 students spent the day at the Grand Lake Theatre enjoying a double feature and free popcorn, courtesy of theater owner Allen Michaan, who put the show together in support of the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1996, teachers went on strike for 26 days.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It works a little bit like a jury trial. After each party lays out its arguments (you can see OEA’s presentation to the panel \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/updates/remedying-educational-malpractice-oea-fact-finding-presentation/\">here\u003c/a>), the neutral panel member writes a report with recommendations for a settlement. The district and union have said \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UvyqV-akz2augtfC1SMeY4j-wVj_BujeSk3y7tv-Jcc/edit\">they expect to receive the report by February 15\u003c/a>. The report then has to be made public within 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the two sides don’t agree to the fact-finder’s recommendations, the union is likely to call for a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to get further in the weeds, you can read the state law that outlines the fact-finding process \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perb.ca.gov%2Flawspdfs%2Feera.pdf\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are teachers asking for, and what’s the district offering?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Generally speaking, teachers want more pay, smaller classes and more support staff. They say they’re overworked and considerably underpaid, especially given how expensive it is to live in the Bay Area. It’s a key reason, they note (and the \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/mediaplayer.php?clip_id=1302&view_id=4&meta_id=480162\">district agrees\u003c/a>), why the teacher retention rate in Oakland is substantially lower than average as compared with other urban districts nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the union is demanding a 12 percent salary increase over three years and graduated class-size reductions over the next two years. It also wants much deeper class-size reductions in schools where 75 percent or more of students are low-income, foster youth, homeless or English learners, as well as slimmer caseloads for support staff like nurses, counselors and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a pretty sizeable gulf, though, between the union’s demands and what the district has put on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it recognizes and supports an increase in teacher compensation, especially in the costly Bay Area, but also stresses the tenuous financial situation it’s currently in. The district is shouldering a roughly $30 million budget deficit, which it has to significantly reduce to avoid being taken over by the state (again). As part of an urgent cost-cutting strategy, the district recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\">proposed closing\u003c/a> and consolidating up to 24 of its 87 school sites, a plan that’s proven highly controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s offer is a salary increase of 5 percent over three years and marginal class-size cuts, but only for fourth and fifth grades, physical education and fine arts classes. It’s also offering a special education class size cap of 15 students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current contract, core high school classes like math and English are capped at 32 students (unless a teacher has fewer students in other periods). For kindergarten, the maximum is 27 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see where other class size caps and staff-to-student-ratio caps stand, check out \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Foaklandea.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F04%2FOEA-Contract-2014-2017.pdf\">the current contract\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about the proposal to close schools?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the union has asked to bargain around school closures. An attorney with the California Teachers Association, the state teachers’ union, sent OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/760fd0fd-fa9c-4792-a46e-89977448a490.pdf\">a letter\u003c/a> demanding that the issue of closures be brought to the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD Board President Aimee Eng said the district does not believe the issue of closures is within the scope of negotiations and has referred the matter to legal counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do OUSD teacher salaries compare to other districts?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, even when taking benefits into account, according to an analysis by School Services of California, a consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the starting OUSD teacher salary of $46,570 is roughly equivalent to starting salaries in most other large Bay Area districts, the average teacher salary in Oakland ($63,149) \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/cs/documents/j90summary1718.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is notably lower\u003c/a>, as is the highest-paid salary ($83,724). In San Francisco, by contrast, the average teacher salary for the 2017-18 school year was more than $73,00, with top-earners making more than $96,000. In San Jose, teachers on average made just over $79,000, with some of the highest paid making as much as $97,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0tV6H/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What would it cost the district to meet the union’s demands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell has said each 1 percent raise that teachers get means an additional $1.9 million per year in costs to the district. Factoring in all district staff represented by the union — teachers, counselors, nurses, psychologists, speech therapists, etc. — she said those costs go up to about $3.5 million per year for each 1 percent raise. By that metric, the 12 percent raise the union is asking for over three years would cost the district $42 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said \u003ca href=\"https://votersedge.org/en/ca/ballot/election/area/42/measures/measure/2479?election_authority_id=1\">Measure G1\u003c/a> funding will provide $5 million annually to help pay for salary increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When did Oakland teachers last go on strike? What happened?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers walked out in 2010 for one day. According to news reports at the time, the district imposed a contract after exhausting the negotiation process. Teachers then had been working without a contract since summer of 2008 and the issues were similar: pay, class size, lack of support staff. 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"content": "\u003ch2>Roots Academy is the first of several schools that OUSD intends to close in the next few years. Many in Oakland are closely watching how the district handles this transition a model for what’s to come. Some parents feel left out of the decision-making process.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Jan. 29, 10 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CornellBarnard/status/1090105920837668864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amid angry protests\u003c/a>, the Oakland Unified school board voted 6-1 \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/28/roots-middle-school-to-close/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to close Roots International Academy\u003c/a> middle school at the end of the school year. Students will have the option of attending better-performing schools in the 2019-20 school year, the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original post\u003c/b>: Oakland Unified school board meetings these days are rarely without drama. Chanting, protest signs, booing: That’s all par for the course. But even by those standards, the emotional outpouring at the most recent meeting, which took place last week in the packed auditorium of La Escuelita Elementary School, was pretty exceptional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District’s plan to shutter Roots International Academy in East Oakland is alarming some parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board had convened to discuss the potential closure of Roots International Academy, a small, relatively new middle school in East Oakland beset with consistently poor test scores and dwindling enrollment. In a move that caught the community largely off-guard, the district announced the proposal in December, just before the holiday break, and plans to vote Monday on whether to close the school by the end of this academic year. If the motion is approved, all the students and staff at Roots Academy will be placed in other district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside align=right label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" tag=ousd-qa]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy students, with the support of hundreds of teachers and parents from across the district, marched into the meeting and quickly took over the agenda. They persuaded Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell and members of the school board to join them in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/restorativejustice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restorative justice\u003c/a> circle — a kind of conflict resolution process — and implored them to keep the school open. Over two emotional hours, a succession of students made poignant statements about the positive role the school has played in their lives and the distress they would feel from being forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You closing down Roots, to me, is like putting me up for adoption,” said seventh-grader Tenai Harris. “Roots made me who I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever Pablo, also an eighth-grader at Roots, added: “They picked me up when I was down, they helped me. It’s like a second home where I could go and tell any teacher how I felt because I trusted them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials responded sympathetically, but offered little indication of how they plan to ultimately vote. Protesters, meanwhile, have been trying to pressure the board to postpone Monday’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why is the potential closure of an academically ailing school with fewer than 300 students causing such a stir? Here’s a brief primer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the bigger story here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD has a huge budget deficit — to the tune of roughly $30 million. Under intense pressure to cut spending and encourage fiscal responsibility, the district recently proposed a controversial plan to pare down the number of schools it runs by as many as 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots is the first school to be placed on the chopping block, and how that situation plays out could indicate the way the district handles other schools on its list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on the Strike\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719763/photos-oakland-teachers-paint-prepare-to-vote-on-strike,PHOTOS: Oakland Teachers Paint and Prepare to Vote on Strike\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations,Oakland Teachers Rally and Hold One-Day Sickout Over Stalled Contract Talks\" link3=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718940/teachers-strike-looming-in-oakland-anger-boils-over-into-wildcat-moves,Teacher Sickout Looming in Oakland as Anger Boils Over\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school opened its doors in 2006 as part of an earlier district reform effort to break large, underperforming campuses into smaller schools that could, in theory, better support at-risk students. Nearly all of its pupils are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed-data.org/school/Alameda/Oakland-Unified/ROOTS-International-Academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minorities who qualify for free or reduced lunch\u003c/a> and a large percentage are English language learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots, though, has long struggled with declining enrollment and low academic performance. Just \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">309 students were enrolled\u003c/a> during the 2017-18 school year, the majority of whom did not meet grade-level standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/24/supporters-of-oaklands-roots-middle-school-briefly-shut-down-school-board-meeting/\">Wednesday’s school board meeting\u003c/a>, OUSD Deputy Chief of Innovation Yvette Renteria noted that Roots’ test scores are among the lowest in the district, calling it an “unsustainable small school with limited resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her presentation, Renteria said that closing Roots would save the district more than $345,000 next year, and expected that amount to increase over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the district hasn’t yet released the list of the other schools it’s considering closing, it is preparing a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4813&ModuleInstanceID=26172&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=25745&PageID=16608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citywide plan\u003c/a>” that compares factors like density, school enrollment and performance metrics. That likely means that most of the schools slated for closure will, like Roots Academy, be in underserved neighborhoods in the city’s flatlands, particularly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in East Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents in these communities see this as a disturbing pattern and have said that, despite the district’s promises to include them in these discussions, they feel largely left out of the decision-making process. Many teachers and parents have also said they want to see the district invest more in struggling schools rather than shuttering them and busing their kids to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complicate matters further, the situation is unfolding against the backdrop of a looming teachers’ strike. Tensions between OUSD teachers and their employer have reached a boiling point. Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has also expressed its staunch \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/2db40532-0bde-4b8b-8636-f7164cbfad57.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition to closing schools\u003c/a>, casting it as an equity issue. So the Roots Academy decision has become a kind of rallying cry for Oakland teachers and a focal point for their showdown with the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, the teachers’ union, plans to hold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/videos/2158304011096753/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strike authorization\u003c/a> vote at the end of this month. In an early warning shot, hundreds of teachers and students walked off the job — and out of the classroom — in a one-day sickout on Jan. 18. A full-fledged strike could begin as soon as early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the district thinking about closing so many schools?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district currently operates 87 school sites, and is considering closing up to 24 of them. The idea is part of the school board’s long-term effort to chip away at its massive budget deficit and establish some degree of financial sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teachers Join Parents to Fight Closure of Oakland’s Roots Academy\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0979-e1547162102621-1020x658.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents and students opposed to the school district’s plan to close Roots International Academy in East Oakland are vowing to fight to keep it open.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Much of that stems from intense pressure from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, California’s Legislature approved a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-risks-state-takeover-if-it-fails-to-make-budget-cuts-state-and-county-officials-warn/604183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bailout\u003c/a> for the financially ailing district of up to $34 million, as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">education finance bill\u003c/a> signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. But that money comes with some strict conditions, including a significant reduction of OUSD’s overhead costs. Failure to do so could result in another state takeover of the district, which last occurred \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/us/dream-ends-for-oakland-school-chief-as-state-takes-over.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2003\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state bailout plan comes on the heels of an \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/grandjury/final2017-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County civil grand jury\u003c/a> report released in June 2018, which found the district had “lost control of spending” and was operating far more schools than its declining enrollment could justify. In the last 15 years, as the district lost a growing number of students to charter schools and other factors, enrollment fell from 54,000 to under 37,000, according to the report. Even so, the district continued to add schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More schools mean more administrators and other non-teaching staff, as well as additional overhead expenses. A major consolidation could therefore lead to significant cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report noted that OUSD, compared to other similarly sized districts in the Bay Area, has an outsized proportion of schools for its student body. The average district school has 412 students, it found. In contrast, Fremont Unified, a similarly sized district that’s more financially stable and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Fremont-Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much higher overall academic performance metrics\u003c/a>, has only 42 schools, or about 833 students per school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is also looking at other cost-saving options to help whittle down its deficit, including trimming administrative staff, selling off surplus properties and increasing enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing schools, in and of itself, is certainly not a magic bullet. In 2011, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-board-votes-to-close-5-schools-2325158.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUSD shuttered five elementary schools\u003c/a> in an effort to save about $2 million annually. Some critics of the move, though, say it led more students to leave the district, which ultimately offset most of the savings. School district funding from the state is, after all, based primarily on enrollment, and if enough displaced students decide to go to charter schools or even move to other districts, that could defeat the whole purpose of closing the schools to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens to Roots Academy students and teachers if it closes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School district officials say that if the school closes, they intend to work with Roots Academy families to find the most appropriate placement for their children, with the opportunity to transfer to a better-performing school. School board members at Wednesday’s contentious meeting also stressed that no employees at Roots would be at risk of losing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district wants to expand Coliseum College Prep Academy (CCPA), a higher-performing sixth- through 12th-grade school located on the same campus as Roots. Under the proposal, the school would double the number of sixth-grade seats it offers, taking on an additional 79 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district said that CCPA would definitely not be able to accommodate all of Roots’ current students. Some students would also likely be sent to Elmhurst Community, Greenleaf, Madison Park Upper and Urban Promise Academy schools, according to OUSD spokesman John Sasaki, and potentially offered Clipper cards to get there.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch2>Roots Academy is the first of several schools that OUSD intends to close in the next few years. Many in Oakland are closely watching how the district handles this transition a model for what’s to come. Some parents feel left out of the decision-making process.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Jan. 29, 10 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CornellBarnard/status/1090105920837668864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amid angry protests\u003c/a>, the Oakland Unified school board voted 6-1 \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/28/roots-middle-school-to-close/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to close Roots International Academy\u003c/a> middle school at the end of the school year. Students will have the option of attending better-performing schools in the 2019-20 school year, the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original post\u003c/b>: Oakland Unified school board meetings these days are rarely without drama. Chanting, protest signs, booing: That’s all par for the course. But even by those standards, the emotional outpouring at the most recent meeting, which took place last week in the packed auditorium of La Escuelita Elementary School, was pretty exceptional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District’s plan to shutter Roots International Academy in East Oakland is alarming some parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board had convened to discuss the potential closure of Roots International Academy, a small, relatively new middle school in East Oakland beset with consistently poor test scores and dwindling enrollment. In a move that caught the community largely off-guard, the district announced the proposal in December, just before the holiday break, and plans to vote Monday on whether to close the school by the end of this academic year. If the motion is approved, all the students and staff at Roots Academy will be placed in other district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy students, with the support of hundreds of teachers and parents from across the district, marched into the meeting and quickly took over the agenda. They persuaded Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell and members of the school board to join them in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/restorativejustice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restorative justice\u003c/a> circle — a kind of conflict resolution process — and implored them to keep the school open. Over two emotional hours, a succession of students made poignant statements about the positive role the school has played in their lives and the distress they would feel from being forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You closing down Roots, to me, is like putting me up for adoption,” said seventh-grader Tenai Harris. “Roots made me who I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever Pablo, also an eighth-grader at Roots, added: “They picked me up when I was down, they helped me. It’s like a second home where I could go and tell any teacher how I felt because I trusted them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials responded sympathetically, but offered little indication of how they plan to ultimately vote. Protesters, meanwhile, have been trying to pressure the board to postpone Monday’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why is the potential closure of an academically ailing school with fewer than 300 students causing such a stir? Here’s a brief primer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the bigger story here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD has a huge budget deficit — to the tune of roughly $30 million. Under intense pressure to cut spending and encourage fiscal responsibility, the district recently proposed a controversial plan to pare down the number of schools it runs by as many as 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots is the first school to be placed on the chopping block, and how that situation plays out could indicate the way the district handles other schools on its list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Just \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">309 students were enrolled\u003c/a> during the 2017-18 school year, the majority of whom did not meet grade-level standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/24/supporters-of-oaklands-roots-middle-school-briefly-shut-down-school-board-meeting/\">Wednesday’s school board meeting\u003c/a>, OUSD Deputy Chief of Innovation Yvette Renteria noted that Roots’ test scores are among the lowest in the district, calling it an “unsustainable small school with limited resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her presentation, Renteria said that closing Roots would save the district more than $345,000 next year, and expected that amount to increase over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the district hasn’t yet released the list of the other schools it’s considering closing, it is preparing a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4813&ModuleInstanceID=26172&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=25745&PageID=16608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citywide plan\u003c/a>” that compares factors like density, school enrollment and performance metrics. That likely means that most of the schools slated for closure will, like Roots Academy, be in underserved neighborhoods in the city’s flatlands, particularly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in East Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents in these communities see this as a disturbing pattern and have said that, despite the district’s promises to include them in these discussions, they feel largely left out of the decision-making process. Many teachers and parents have also said they want to see the district invest more in struggling schools rather than shuttering them and busing their kids to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complicate matters further, the situation is unfolding against the backdrop of a looming teachers’ strike. Tensions between OUSD teachers and their employer have reached a boiling point. Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has also expressed its staunch \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/2db40532-0bde-4b8b-8636-f7164cbfad57.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition to closing schools\u003c/a>, casting it as an equity issue. So the Roots Academy decision has become a kind of rallying cry for Oakland teachers and a focal point for their showdown with the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, the teachers’ union, plans to hold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/videos/2158304011096753/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strike authorization\u003c/a> vote at the end of this month. In an early warning shot, hundreds of teachers and students walked off the job — and out of the classroom — in a one-day sickout on Jan. 18. A full-fledged strike could begin as soon as early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the district thinking about closing so many schools?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district currently operates 87 school sites, and is considering closing up to 24 of them. The idea is part of the school board’s long-term effort to chip away at its massive budget deficit and establish some degree of financial sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teachers Join Parents to Fight Closure of Oakland’s Roots Academy\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0979-e1547162102621-1020x658.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents and students opposed to the school district’s plan to close Roots International Academy in East Oakland are vowing to fight to keep it open.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Much of that stems from intense pressure from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, California’s Legislature approved a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-risks-state-takeover-if-it-fails-to-make-budget-cuts-state-and-county-officials-warn/604183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bailout\u003c/a> for the financially ailing district of up to $34 million, as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">education finance bill\u003c/a> signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. But that money comes with some strict conditions, including a significant reduction of OUSD’s overhead costs. Failure to do so could result in another state takeover of the district, which last occurred \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/us/dream-ends-for-oakland-school-chief-as-state-takes-over.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2003\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state bailout plan comes on the heels of an \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/grandjury/final2017-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County civil grand jury\u003c/a> report released in June 2018, which found the district had “lost control of spending” and was operating far more schools than its declining enrollment could justify. In the last 15 years, as the district lost a growing number of students to charter schools and other factors, enrollment fell from 54,000 to under 37,000, according to the report. Even so, the district continued to add schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More schools mean more administrators and other non-teaching staff, as well as additional overhead expenses. A major consolidation could therefore lead to significant cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report noted that OUSD, compared to other similarly sized districts in the Bay Area, has an outsized proportion of schools for its student body. The average district school has 412 students, it found. In contrast, Fremont Unified, a similarly sized district that’s more financially stable and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Fremont-Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much higher overall academic performance metrics\u003c/a>, has only 42 schools, or about 833 students per school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is also looking at other cost-saving options to help whittle down its deficit, including trimming administrative staff, selling off surplus properties and increasing enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing schools, in and of itself, is certainly not a magic bullet. In 2011, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-board-votes-to-close-5-schools-2325158.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUSD shuttered five elementary schools\u003c/a> in an effort to save about $2 million annually. Some critics of the move, though, say it led more students to leave the district, which ultimately offset most of the savings. School district funding from the state is, after all, based primarily on enrollment, and if enough displaced students decide to go to charter schools or even move to other districts, that could defeat the whole purpose of closing the schools to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens to Roots Academy students and teachers if it closes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School district officials say that if the school closes, they intend to work with Roots Academy families to find the most appropriate placement for their children, with the opportunity to transfer to a better-performing school. School board members at Wednesday’s contentious meeting also stressed that no employees at Roots would be at risk of losing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district wants to expand Coliseum College Prep Academy (CCPA), a higher-performing sixth- through 12th-grade school located on the same campus as Roots. Under the proposal, the school would double the number of sixth-grade seats it offers, taking on an additional 79 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As part of a controversial consolidation effort, Oakland’s school district recently revealed a plan to merge two distinct elementary schools located in different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls for shuttering Kaiser Elementary School in the Claremont Hills and relocating its students to Sankofa Academy, which is located in a roomy building in Oakland’s Bushrod neighborhood. If approved by the school board, the move would combine schools with dramatically different socioeconomic and racial profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, all 275 students at Kaiser, along with its teachers, would join the 187 students at Sankofa by the start of the 2020-21 school year. The school board is tentatively expected to vote on the proposal in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser teachers said district officials informed them of the move last Wednesday, and told the school’s families the following day. Sankofa teachers were not informed until Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents and teachers at Kaiser have already expressed fierce opposition to the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s heartbreaking that they would take away a really beautiful, well-functioning school that is a choice for Oakland children and just end it,” said Mary Grace McGhee, a second grade teacher who has worked at Kaiser for 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not how OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell sees it. She’s billing the move as a way to give more students the opportunity to attend a good school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to put a high quality school in every neighborhood that’s accessible to every family who wants their student to attend,” she said in a statement to KQED on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">Oakland’s School Closure Plans Off to a Rough Start for Some Parents\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proposed merger is part of Oakland Unified’s contentious plan to close up to 24 of the district’s 87 school sites in an effort to regain financial stability and improve school quality. In December, the district announced that Roots International Academy, a small middle school in East Oakland, would be the first school on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser and Sankofa are only about three miles away from each other, but in many respects the two schools are leagues apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa has an abysmal academic performance record: only about 4 percent of students met state math standards last year, while less than 8 percent met English language arts standards, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=0110254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=6001895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well over half\u003c/a> of Kaiser students met both math and reading standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This discrepancy is not surprising given the schools’ differing demographics: About \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612590110254&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y&ro=y&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90 percent\u003c/a> of Sankofa’s students are economically disadvantaged, as compared to \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612596001895&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only a quarter\u003c/a> of those at Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ample body of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/equal-resources-equal-outcomes-the-distribution-of-school-resources-and-student-achievement-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research has found\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/school-district-socioeconomic-status-race-and-academic-achievement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strongest predictor\u003c/a> of test scores in a school isn’t teacher quality or curriculum, but rather the percentage of its students who live below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa also has a much higher percentage of students with special needs: 17 percent vs. 7 percent at Kaiser. And unlike at Kaiser, the school reports having several homeless students and foster youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District officials cite limited space for expansion as one reason to merge Kaiser with another school with room to grow. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s lots of trauma and food insecurity in our kids,” said Marisa Mills, a Sankofa teacher. “We are academically failing, but we’re not nothing, and we bristle at that idea. We have some extremely talented students. We’re also the hardest working teachers I’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparities between the two schools are also striking along racial lines. At Kaiser, roughly 22 percent of students are black, 17 percent are Latino and 34 percent are white, according to state data. By comparison, Sankofa is about 67 percent black, 13 percent Latino and 4 percent white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills said she’s not surprised that Sankofa has been targeted by the district. The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/12/20/two-oakland-schools-escape-closure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrowly escaped closure\u003c/a> in 2007, and for years has performed poorly and been consistently under-enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been fighting so hard and so long to try to save Sankofa,” she said. “There’s a sense of inevitability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills raised some concerns about the possible merger, including the fact that Kaiser teachers and parents were notified about the plan first. She also expressed concern about whether Sankofa would remain eligible for Title I grant funding that’s reserved for schools with high proportions of low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mills said the merger could have real benefits for Sankofa’s students if it’s executed thoughtfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47765/how-socioeconomic-diversity-in-schools-helps-all-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research suggests\u003c/a> that socioeconomic integration is good for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s far from clear, though, if the majority of Kaiser parents would warm to the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parin Shah’s daughter is a fourth-grader at Kaiser and lives within walking distance of Sankofa. He said his family considered Sankofa before deciding Kaiser’s tranquil setting was a better fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great learning environment, it’s incredibly diverse. It represents much of why we moved to Oakland,” he said of his daughter’s school. “To merge Kaiser with any school and rip that fabric apart brings up a mix of real deep sorrow and loss, and then anger turning to creativity about how we’re not going to allow that to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In justifying the merger, district officials point to a recent analysis that found relatively few Kaiser students actually live in the Claremont Hills neighborhood. But a significant number live in Sankofa’s attendance zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said he’s deeply distrustful that the district can actually pull off what sounds like a well-intentioned proposal. He thinks it should focus on improving Sankofa, not disrupt a school that’s already working well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The notion that a merger and bringing resources from one school and blending them with another will improve both is a little bit false,” said Shah. He referenced an informal poll of Kaiser parents at a recent PTA meeting suggesting that many would pull their kids out of the district before sending them to a merged school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a conscious choice to come to this learning environment,” he said. “We’re ready to care for the community we’ve all created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district, Kaiser parents who don’t want to send their kids to the merged school may be able to take advantage of a policy being considered by the school board — what’s being called an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712318/oakland-considers-opportunity-ticket-to-funnel-more-minority-students-into-top-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opportunity ticket\u003c/a>” that would give them priority enrollment at a school of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kaiser fourth and fifth grade teacher Steve Neat, a 16-year veteran of the school, said he plans to ensure Kaiser parents won’t have to look elsewhere. Neat said he was around when the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-proposes-eliminating-13-schools-2308672.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considered closing \u003c/a>Kaiser in 2011 because of its small student body and limited potential for expansion. He credited a strong mobilization by the school community for saving it, and said he expects the same this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have families who live in every school board member’s district,” Neat said. “We have people who are very familiar with the legal system and know how to use it. We have people who don’t play around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there is some community support for the district’s efforts to create quality options in the city’s flatlands. Lakisha Young, who runs the parent advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandreach.org/\">Oakland REACH\u003c/a> has been working with Sankofa parents for months in preparation for a change at the school. She had expected Sankofa to merge with Peralta Elementary School, a high performing, in-demand school located just blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new proposal came as a surprise to Young, but she said her group will keep working to support Sankofa parents as it moves forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us it’s ultimately about these kids getting a great education,” Young said. “They could do something amazing on that Sankofa campus, but a lot of people don’t trust the system to merge schools and keep quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “At the end of the day, parents are going to be thinking about what’s best for their babies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As part of a controversial consolidation effort, Oakland’s school district recently revealed a plan to merge two distinct elementary schools located in different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls for shuttering Kaiser Elementary School in the Claremont Hills and relocating its students to Sankofa Academy, which is located in a roomy building in Oakland’s Bushrod neighborhood. If approved by the school board, the move would combine schools with dramatically different socioeconomic and racial profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, all 275 students at Kaiser, along with its teachers, would join the 187 students at Sankofa by the start of the 2020-21 school year. The school board is tentatively expected to vote on the proposal in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser teachers said district officials informed them of the move last Wednesday, and told the school’s families the following day. Sankofa teachers were not informed until Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents and teachers at Kaiser have already expressed fierce opposition to the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s heartbreaking that they would take away a really beautiful, well-functioning school that is a choice for Oakland children and just end it,” said Mary Grace McGhee, a second grade teacher who has worked at Kaiser for 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not how OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell sees it. She’s billing the move as a way to give more students the opportunity to attend a good school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to put a high quality school in every neighborhood that’s accessible to every family who wants their student to attend,” she said in a statement to KQED on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">Oakland’s School Closure Plans Off to a Rough Start for Some Parents\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proposed merger is part of Oakland Unified’s contentious plan to close up to 24 of the district’s 87 school sites in an effort to regain financial stability and improve school quality. In December, the district announced that Roots International Academy, a small middle school in East Oakland, would be the first school on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser and Sankofa are only about three miles away from each other, but in many respects the two schools are leagues apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa has an abysmal academic performance record: only about 4 percent of students met state math standards last year, while less than 8 percent met English language arts standards, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=0110254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=6001895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well over half\u003c/a> of Kaiser students met both math and reading standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This discrepancy is not surprising given the schools’ differing demographics: About \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612590110254&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y&ro=y&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90 percent\u003c/a> of Sankofa’s students are economically disadvantaged, as compared to \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612596001895&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only a quarter\u003c/a> of those at Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ample body of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/equal-resources-equal-outcomes-the-distribution-of-school-resources-and-student-achievement-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research has found\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/school-district-socioeconomic-status-race-and-academic-achievement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strongest predictor\u003c/a> of test scores in a school isn’t teacher quality or curriculum, but rather the percentage of its students who live below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa also has a much higher percentage of students with special needs: 17 percent vs. 7 percent at Kaiser. 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We have some extremely talented students. We’re also the hardest working teachers I’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparities between the two schools are also striking along racial lines. At Kaiser, roughly 22 percent of students are black, 17 percent are Latino and 34 percent are white, according to state data. By comparison, Sankofa is about 67 percent black, 13 percent Latino and 4 percent white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills said she’s not surprised that Sankofa has been targeted by the district. The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/12/20/two-oakland-schools-escape-closure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrowly escaped closure\u003c/a> in 2007, and for years has performed poorly and been consistently under-enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been fighting so hard and so long to try to save Sankofa,” she said. “There’s a sense of inevitability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills raised some concerns about the possible merger, including the fact that Kaiser teachers and parents were notified about the plan first. She also expressed concern about whether Sankofa would remain eligible for Title I grant funding that’s reserved for schools with high proportions of low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mills said the merger could have real benefits for Sankofa’s students if it’s executed thoughtfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47765/how-socioeconomic-diversity-in-schools-helps-all-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research suggests\u003c/a> that socioeconomic integration is good for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s far from clear, though, if the majority of Kaiser parents would warm to the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parin Shah’s daughter is a fourth-grader at Kaiser and lives within walking distance of Sankofa. He said his family considered Sankofa before deciding Kaiser’s tranquil setting was a better fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great learning environment, it’s incredibly diverse. It represents much of why we moved to Oakland,” he said of his daughter’s school. “To merge Kaiser with any school and rip that fabric apart brings up a mix of real deep sorrow and loss, and then anger turning to creativity about how we’re not going to allow that to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In justifying the merger, district officials point to a recent analysis that found relatively few Kaiser students actually live in the Claremont Hills neighborhood. But a significant number live in Sankofa’s attendance zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said he’s deeply distrustful that the district can actually pull off what sounds like a well-intentioned proposal. He thinks it should focus on improving Sankofa, not disrupt a school that’s already working well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The notion that a merger and bringing resources from one school and blending them with another will improve both is a little bit false,” said Shah. He referenced an informal poll of Kaiser parents at a recent PTA meeting suggesting that many would pull their kids out of the district before sending them to a merged school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a conscious choice to come to this learning environment,” he said. “We’re ready to care for the community we’ve all created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district, Kaiser parents who don’t want to send their kids to the merged school may be able to take advantage of a policy being considered by the school board — what’s being called an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712318/oakland-considers-opportunity-ticket-to-funnel-more-minority-students-into-top-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opportunity ticket\u003c/a>” that would give them priority enrollment at a school of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kaiser fourth and fifth grade teacher Steve Neat, a 16-year veteran of the school, said he plans to ensure Kaiser parents won’t have to look elsewhere. Neat said he was around when the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-proposes-eliminating-13-schools-2308672.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considered closing \u003c/a>Kaiser in 2011 because of its small student body and limited potential for expansion. He credited a strong mobilization by the school community for saving it, and said he expects the same this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have families who live in every school board member’s district,” Neat said. “We have people who are very familiar with the legal system and know how to use it. We have people who don’t play around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there is some community support for the district’s efforts to create quality options in the city’s flatlands. Lakisha Young, who runs the parent advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandreach.org/\">Oakland REACH\u003c/a> has been working with Sankofa parents for months in preparation for a change at the school. 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