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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Jan. 21, 4:09 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers will vote at the end of the month on whether they want to go on strike as they remain locked in contract negotiations with the Oakland Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A democratic strike vote by paper ballot at school sites in the Oakland Unified School District will send a message that Oakland educators are serious about ending the teacher retention crisis,\" said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Educators Association, who officially called for the strike vote on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is calling for a 12 percent raise over three years, while OUSD is offering five percent. The vote — which could give union leaders the power to call a strike — will start on Jan. 29 and last four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Teachers Rally, Hold One-Day Sickout Over Stalled Contract Talks\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\">\u003cimg src=\"https://storage.googleapis.com/stateless-ww2-kqed-org/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The announcement came at an \"art build\" event at the union's offices in Oakland. Educators, parents and students came together over three days to make banners in preparation for a strike. The signs were designed by local artists including Favianna Rodriguez and Micah Bazant, as well as artists from Art Build Workers, an artist collective based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland High School teacher Lara Trale said she's still hopeful for a resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would love to avoid a strike, but for that to happen the district needs to really work with its teachers instead of against them,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers and their supporters are building on a larger movement that includes teachers currently striking in Los Angeles and, before that, in red states like West Virginia and Kentucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammel said the district is working to avoid a disruption for students and hopes to reach a settlement soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Sasaki, a spokesman for OUSD, said the district is asking the teachers back to the table to make a new offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well the last thing we want to see is a strike and so we understand that the teachers want more, we want to give them more,\" he said. \"We know that educators need to be paid more in this country and in the state and certainly in Oakland, so we are working to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719770 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/34c73b07-img_20190120_111756-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Quinn Ranahan is a math teacher at Roots International Academy. The school is one of 24 public schools that the district announced it may shut down. 'There is no good plan for where our kids will go,' says Ranahan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/34c73b07-img_20190120_111756-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/34c73b07-img_20190120_111756-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/34c73b07-img_20190120_111756-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/34c73b07-img_20190120_111756.jpg 1091w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quinn Ranahan is a math teacher at Roots International Academy. The school is one of 24 public schools that the district announced it may shut down. 'There is no good plan for where our kids will go,' says Ranahan. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 638px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719771 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e393d033-img_20190120_112547.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Searle teaches middle school in Berkeley and joined the 'art build' in solidarity with the Oakland teachers. 'It's uplifting and builds solidarity when we make things together,' Searle said.\" width=\"638\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e393d033-img_20190120_112547.jpg 638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e393d033-img_20190120_112547-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Searle teaches middle school in Berkeley and joined the 'art build' in solidarity with the Oakland teachers. 'It's uplifting and builds solidarity when we make things together,' Searle said. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719773 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/2f56ffd0-img_20190120_113840-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Lara Trale, a teacher at Oakland High School, paints a sign with her daughter Io Trale, who is in the fourth grade. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/2f56ffd0-img_20190120_113840-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/2f56ffd0-img_20190120_113840-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/2f56ffd0-img_20190120_113840-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/2f56ffd0-img_20190120_113840.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lara Trale, a teacher at Oakland High School, paints a sign with her daughter Io Trale, who is in the fourth grade. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719774 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e78defd9-img_20190120_115027-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The artwork for the posters was created by local Bay Area artists as well as the collective Art Build Workers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e78defd9-img_20190120_115027-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e78defd9-img_20190120_115027-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e78defd9-img_20190120_115027-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e78defd9-img_20190120_115027.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The artwork for the posters was created by local Bay Area artists as well as the collective Art Build Workers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11719776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/07b4273f-img_20190120_122812-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"This was the third day of the Art Build, which brought together educators, parents and students to create protest art. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/07b4273f-img_20190120_122812-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/07b4273f-img_20190120_122812-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/07b4273f-img_20190120_122812-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/07b4273f-img_20190120_122812.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This was the third day of the Art Build, which brought together educators, parents and students to create protest art. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719777 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/6dede646-img_20190120_123136-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"'Coming and making art feels like a beautiful thing to do. It's about what we're for, not just what we're against,' says Johanna Langill, a math teacher at Oakland Tech.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/6dede646-img_20190120_123136-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/6dede646-img_20190120_123136-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/6dede646-img_20190120_123136-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/6dede646-img_20190120_123136.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Coming and making art feels like a beautiful thing to do. It's about what we're for, not just what we're against,' says Johanna Langill, a math teacher at Oakland Tech. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719778 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/ba45fa5b-img_20190120_123246-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People help paint a parachute that says 'education justice now.' The image is inspired by artwork from Black Panther graphic artist Emory Douglas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/ba45fa5b-img_20190120_123246-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/ba45fa5b-img_20190120_123246-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/ba45fa5b-img_20190120_123246-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/ba45fa5b-img_20190120_123246.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People help paint a parachute that says 'education justice now.' The image is inspired by artwork from Black Panther graphic artist Emory Douglas. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719780\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719780 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/c178373b-img_20190120_123454-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"'We're making work next to each other, forging friendships and having fun together, and that's part of the power of art build,' says Kim Cosier of Art Build Workers, an artist collective from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/c178373b-img_20190120_123454-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/c178373b-img_20190120_123454-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/c178373b-img_20190120_123454-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/c178373b-img_20190120_123454.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'We're making work next to each other, forging friendships and having fun together, and that's part of the power of art build,' says Kim Cosier of Art Build Workers, an artist collective from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 638px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719781 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/4939b0b3-img_20190120_123921.jpg\" alt=\"Coyo Tena, 11, is a student at Sequoia Elementary. He's helping paint a parachute with other students.\" width=\"638\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/4939b0b3-img_20190120_123921.jpg 638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/4939b0b3-img_20190120_123921-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coyo Tena, 11, is a student at Sequoia Elementary. He's helping paint a parachute with other students. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719782 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/37b1722a-img_20190120_125610-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Claudio Martinez and Kim Cosier are both artists involved with the collective Art Build Workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They came to Oakland to support the 'art build' event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/37b1722a-img_20190120_125610-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/37b1722a-img_20190120_125610-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/37b1722a-img_20190120_125610-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/37b1722a-img_20190120_125610.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Claudio Martinez and Kim Cosier are both artists involved with the collective Art Build Workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They came to Oakland to support the 'art build' event. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719784 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dfd8b544-img_20190120_130827-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cecilia Titizano (center) paints a sign with her husband and sixth grade daughter. 'It's inspiring. I think it's a community effort. Teachers are part of our community. They are not alone. We are here with them, and we will support them when they strike,' Titizano says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dfd8b544-img_20190120_130827-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dfd8b544-img_20190120_130827-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dfd8b544-img_20190120_130827-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dfd8b544-img_20190120_130827.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecilia Titizano (right) paints a sign with her husband and sixth grade daughter. 'It's inspiring. I think it's a community effort. Teachers are part of our community. They are not alone. We are here with them, and we will support them when they strike,' Titizano says. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Peter Jon Shuler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Jan. 21, 4:09 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers will vote at the end of the month on whether they want to go on strike as they remain locked in contract negotiations with the Oakland Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A democratic strike vote by paper ballot at school sites in the Oakland Unified School District will send a message that Oakland educators are serious about ending the teacher retention crisis,\" said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Educators Association, who officially called for the strike vote on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is calling for a 12 percent raise over three years, while OUSD is offering five percent. The vote — which could give union leaders the power to call a strike — will start on Jan. 29 and last four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Teachers Rally, Hold One-Day Sickout Over Stalled Contract Talks\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\">\u003cimg src=\"https://storage.googleapis.com/stateless-ww2-kqed-org/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The announcement came at an \"art build\" event at the union's offices in Oakland. Educators, parents and students came together over three days to make banners in preparation for a strike. The signs were designed by local artists including Favianna Rodriguez and Micah Bazant, as well as artists from Art Build Workers, an artist collective based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland High School teacher Lara Trale said she's still hopeful for a resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would love to avoid a strike, but for that to happen the district needs to really work with its teachers instead of against them,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers and their supporters are building on a larger movement that includes teachers currently striking in Los Angeles and, before that, in red states like West Virginia and Kentucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammel said the district is working to avoid a disruption for students and hopes to reach a settlement soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Sasaki, a spokesman for OUSD, said the district is asking the teachers back to the table to make a new offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well the last thing we want to see is a strike and so we understand that the teachers want more, we want to give them more,\" he said. \"We know that educators need to be paid more in this country and in the state and certainly in Oakland, so we are working to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719770 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/34c73b07-img_20190120_111756-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Quinn Ranahan is a math teacher at Roots International Academy. The school is one of 24 public schools that the district announced it may shut down. 'There is no good plan for where our kids will go,' says Ranahan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/34c73b07-img_20190120_111756-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/34c73b07-img_20190120_111756-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/34c73b07-img_20190120_111756-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/34c73b07-img_20190120_111756.jpg 1091w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quinn Ranahan is a math teacher at Roots International Academy. The school is one of 24 public schools that the district announced it may shut down. 'There is no good plan for where our kids will go,' says Ranahan. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 638px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719771 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e393d033-img_20190120_112547.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Searle teaches middle school in Berkeley and joined the 'art build' in solidarity with the Oakland teachers. 'It's uplifting and builds solidarity when we make things together,' Searle said.\" width=\"638\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e393d033-img_20190120_112547.jpg 638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e393d033-img_20190120_112547-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Searle teaches middle school in Berkeley and joined the 'art build' in solidarity with the Oakland teachers. 'It's uplifting and builds solidarity when we make things together,' Searle said. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719773 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/2f56ffd0-img_20190120_113840-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Lara Trale, a teacher at Oakland High School, paints a sign with her daughter Io Trale, who is in the fourth grade. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/2f56ffd0-img_20190120_113840-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/2f56ffd0-img_20190120_113840-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/2f56ffd0-img_20190120_113840-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/2f56ffd0-img_20190120_113840.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lara Trale, a teacher at Oakland High School, paints a sign with her daughter Io Trale, who is in the fourth grade. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719774 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e78defd9-img_20190120_115027-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The artwork for the posters was created by local Bay Area artists as well as the collective Art Build Workers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e78defd9-img_20190120_115027-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e78defd9-img_20190120_115027-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e78defd9-img_20190120_115027-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e78defd9-img_20190120_115027.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The artwork for the posters was created by local Bay Area artists as well as the collective Art Build Workers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11719776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/07b4273f-img_20190120_122812-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"This was the third day of the Art Build, which brought together educators, parents and students to create protest art. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/07b4273f-img_20190120_122812-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/07b4273f-img_20190120_122812-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/07b4273f-img_20190120_122812-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/07b4273f-img_20190120_122812.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This was the third day of the Art Build, which brought together educators, parents and students to create protest art. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719777 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/6dede646-img_20190120_123136-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"'Coming and making art feels like a beautiful thing to do. It's about what we're for, not just what we're against,' says Johanna Langill, a math teacher at Oakland Tech.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/6dede646-img_20190120_123136-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/6dede646-img_20190120_123136-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/6dede646-img_20190120_123136-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/6dede646-img_20190120_123136.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Coming and making art feels like a beautiful thing to do. It's about what we're for, not just what we're against,' says Johanna Langill, a math teacher at Oakland Tech. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719778 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/ba45fa5b-img_20190120_123246-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People help paint a parachute that says 'education justice now.' The image is inspired by artwork from Black Panther graphic artist Emory Douglas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/ba45fa5b-img_20190120_123246-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/ba45fa5b-img_20190120_123246-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/ba45fa5b-img_20190120_123246-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/ba45fa5b-img_20190120_123246.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People help paint a parachute that says 'education justice now.' The image is inspired by artwork from Black Panther graphic artist Emory Douglas. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719780\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719780 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/c178373b-img_20190120_123454-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"'We're making work next to each other, forging friendships and having fun together, and that's part of the power of art build,' says Kim Cosier of Art Build Workers, an artist collective from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/c178373b-img_20190120_123454-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/c178373b-img_20190120_123454-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/c178373b-img_20190120_123454-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/c178373b-img_20190120_123454.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'We're making work next to each other, forging friendships and having fun together, and that's part of the power of art build,' says Kim Cosier of Art Build Workers, an artist collective from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 638px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719781 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/4939b0b3-img_20190120_123921.jpg\" alt=\"Coyo Tena, 11, is a student at Sequoia Elementary. He's helping paint a parachute with other students.\" width=\"638\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/4939b0b3-img_20190120_123921.jpg 638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/4939b0b3-img_20190120_123921-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coyo Tena, 11, is a student at Sequoia Elementary. He's helping paint a parachute with other students. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719782 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/37b1722a-img_20190120_125610-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Claudio Martinez and Kim Cosier are both artists involved with the collective Art Build Workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They came to Oakland to support the 'art build' event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/37b1722a-img_20190120_125610-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/37b1722a-img_20190120_125610-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/37b1722a-img_20190120_125610-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/37b1722a-img_20190120_125610.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Claudio Martinez and Kim Cosier are both artists involved with the collective Art Build Workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They came to Oakland to support the 'art build' event. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719784 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dfd8b544-img_20190120_130827-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cecilia Titizano (center) paints a sign with her husband and sixth grade daughter. 'It's inspiring. I think it's a community effort. Teachers are part of our community. They are not alone. We are here with them, and we will support them when they strike,' Titizano says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dfd8b544-img_20190120_130827-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dfd8b544-img_20190120_130827-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dfd8b544-img_20190120_130827-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dfd8b544-img_20190120_130827.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecilia Titizano (right) paints a sign with her husband and sixth grade daughter. 'It's inspiring. I think it's a community effort. Teachers are part of our community. They are not alone. We are here with them, and we will support them when they strike,' Titizano says. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Peter Jon Shuler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Oakland Teachers Rally, Hold One-Day Sickout Over Stalled Contract Talks",
"title": "Oakland Teachers Rally, Hold One-Day Sickout Over Stalled Contract Talks",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of Oakland teachers, students and supporters, frustrated over an impasse in contract negotiations with the school district, gathered outside Oakland Technical High School Friday morning and then marched in a wildcat walkout, unauthorized by the union, to show the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718940/teachers-strike-looming-in-oakland-anger-boils-over-into-wildcat-moves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they're willing to strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the second time in two months some teachers called in sick en masse in what they're calling a sickout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers have been without a contract for more than a year and a half, and negotiations with the Oakland Unified School District have snagged on issues like teacher pay and class size, among other things. The Oakland Education Association wants to see a 12 percent salary increase over three years, while the district’s latest offer is a 5 percent increase over three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/monicazlam/status/1086315832320245760\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators carried signs Friday morning that said \"Ready to Strike,\" \"Fair Pay Now,\" \"Kids Deserve Better\" and \"Honk if You Hella Love Oakland Teachers.\" Drivers showed their support with blaring horns as they passed by. Oakland police escorted the demonstrators as they marched to district headquarters in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m really out here more for the students, not for myself,\" said McClymonds High School teacher Booker Lett. \"If it was left up to me, I’d be in class teaching now, and I told them that yesterday, but I also told them this: For every strong democracy, there has to be a strong union.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Treacy, a Skyline High School visual arts teacher, said he was fighting for the wages of new teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really thinking about the teachers who can’t be out here today because they’re worried about their job. I’m tenured,” Treacy said. He's also concerned about class sizes and said his largest has 37 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719452 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Skyline High School counselor Dylan Ohara says his students helped make signs for the teacher walkout and rally\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skyline High School counselor Dylan Ohara says his students helped make signs for the teacher walkout and rally \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Skyline High School counselor Dylan Ohara carried a sign made for him by his students. He said he's out calling for pay to match the cost of living in the Bay Area. Ohara also pointed to a \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\">25 percent turnover rate\u003c/a> in the number of teachers who don’t come back for a second year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How can we give children the support they need if we can’t build ourselves professionally?\" Ohara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719455 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Skyline High School ceramic teacher Donna Salonga says she doesn’t have enough funds to buy clay for her students.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skyline High School ceramic teacher Donna Salonga says she doesn’t have enough funds to buy clay for her students. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ceramics teacher Donna Salonga said she used to live in Oakland but moved in with her parents in San Francisco because she was paying more than half of her salary in rent. Salonga, teaching in her third year at Skyline High School, said she'd like to stay at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’d love to live in Oakland, to live in the community that I work in and teach in,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/monicazlam/status/1086343265895440384\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cristopher Bautista, a ninth-grade English and history teacher at Oakland Tech, said he works a second job at Starbucks 15 hours each weekend. Bautista said he's been a teacher for five years, but this is his first year teaching in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of my teacher friends love their work in Oakland, but financially they can’t do it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719448 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Technical High School students Percy Unger, Caitlin Lee and Josie Goodson (L-R) joined in the teacher walkout and rally, Jan. 18, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Technical High School students Percy Unger, Caitlin Lee and Josie Goodson (L-R) joined in the teacher walkout and rally, Jan. 18, 2019 \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many high school students attended the rally with the support of their parents, who called them in as sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understand that our teachers are really struggling to pay their rent,\" said Josie Goodson, a 9th grader at Oakland Tech. \"We're here to support them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719456 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Damaris Paulino is a 10th grader at Oakland Technical High School\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damaris Paulino is a 10th grader at Oakland Technical High School \u003ccite>(Monica/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5687893-Letter-to-Teachers-Regarding-Sick-Out-Google-Docs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to staff\u003c/a> sent this week, district officials reminded teachers the Friday action is illegal, writing: \"Teachers participating in sick-outs will be subject to disciplinary action and will lose pay for time missed as these coordinated actions present significant safety and instructional problems for our students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's sickout comes after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717869/photos-hundreds-rally-in-oakland-over-school-funding-closures-and-pending-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rally last weekend\u003c/a> drew hundreds of teachers, parents and labor leaders to downtown Oakland to call for increased funding for education and to protest looming budget cuts and school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sickout, like the last, isn't sanctioned by the teachers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand the frustrations of our teachers,\" said OEA president Keith Brown. \"Our teachers are willing to take action for the schools that Oakland students deserve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/juliamcevoy1/status/1086321859086319617\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The showdown over pay and working conditions is playing out as budget cuts and school closures roil the district. Oakland Unified is faced with tens of millions of dollars in cuts over the next three years, and bailout money available from the state hinges on the district showing that it’s taking steps to become financially stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Oakland Unified is looking to cut millions of dollars from next year’s budget, while moving \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to close and merge schools\u003c/a>. District officials estimate they need to cut down the district’s footprint by 24 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, district officials say they want to pay teachers more. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/17859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It has identified\u003c/a> boosting teacher pay and settling the contract as priorities for improving teacher retention and ultimately improving student outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given their budget constraints, it's a matter of coming up with the money. District officials say they’re looking for places to cut, but have not given specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719458 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/904d1688-20190118-35-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland High School teachers Roxanne Clement, Payton Carter and Jessica Ford (L-R) marched to Oakland Unified School District’s headquarters in downtown Oakland. Ford said she’d like to see the prosperity of many parts of the Bay Area be reflected in school budgets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/904d1688-20190118-35-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/904d1688-20190118-35-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/904d1688-20190118-35-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/904d1688-20190118-35-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/904d1688-20190118-35-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland High School teachers Roxanne Clement, Payton Carter and Jessica Ford (L-R) marched to Oakland Unified School District’s headquarters in downtown Oakland. Ford said she’d like to see the prosperity of many parts of the Bay Area be reflected in school budgets. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The final step in the formal negotiation process is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.perb.ca.gov/laws/statutes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-finding hearing\u003c/a> set for Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. The union and district could reach an agreement during the hearing. If they don't, they expect a recommendation for a settlement from the fact-finding panel by mid-February. If the union rejects it, they can strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he plans to announce the date of the strike vote this Sunday at an event to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2ZPaL84lBfkmahsmA9voC1Zgcj62WG6c3o52QTnaAdsOu5w/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">create posters and artwork\u003c/a> for the possible walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Julia McEvoy and Vanessa Rancaño contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators carried signs Friday morning that said \"Ready to Strike,\" \"Fair Pay Now,\" \"Kids Deserve Better\" and \"Honk if You Hella Love Oakland Teachers.\" Drivers showed their support with blaring horns as they passed by. Oakland police escorted the demonstrators as they marched to district headquarters in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m really out here more for the students, not for myself,\" said McClymonds High School teacher Booker Lett. \"If it was left up to me, I’d be in class teaching now, and I told them that yesterday, but I also told them this: For every strong democracy, there has to be a strong union.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Treacy, a Skyline High School visual arts teacher, said he was fighting for the wages of new teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really thinking about the teachers who can’t be out here today because they’re worried about their job. I’m tenured,” Treacy said. He's also concerned about class sizes and said his largest has 37 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719452 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Skyline High School counselor Dylan Ohara says his students helped make signs for the teacher walkout and rally\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/83686537-20190118-17-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skyline High School counselor Dylan Ohara says his students helped make signs for the teacher walkout and rally \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Skyline High School counselor Dylan Ohara carried a sign made for him by his students. He said he's out calling for pay to match the cost of living in the Bay Area. Ohara also pointed to a \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\">25 percent turnover rate\u003c/a> in the number of teachers who don’t come back for a second year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How can we give children the support they need if we can’t build ourselves professionally?\" Ohara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719455 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Skyline High School ceramic teacher Donna Salonga says she doesn’t have enough funds to buy clay for her students.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skyline High School ceramic teacher Donna Salonga says she doesn’t have enough funds to buy clay for her students. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ceramics teacher Donna Salonga said she used to live in Oakland but moved in with her parents in San Francisco because she was paying more than half of her salary in rent. Salonga, teaching in her third year at Skyline High School, said she'd like to stay at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’d love to live in Oakland, to live in the community that I work in and teach in,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Cristopher Bautista, a ninth-grade English and history teacher at Oakland Tech, said he works a second job at Starbucks 15 hours each weekend. Bautista said he's been a teacher for five years, but this is his first year teaching in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of my teacher friends love their work in Oakland, but financially they can’t do it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719448 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Technical High School students Percy Unger, Caitlin Lee and Josie Goodson (L-R) joined in the teacher walkout and rally, Jan. 18, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/17b2a68e-20190118-34-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Technical High School students Percy Unger, Caitlin Lee and Josie Goodson (L-R) joined in the teacher walkout and rally, Jan. 18, 2019 \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many high school students attended the rally with the support of their parents, who called them in as sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understand that our teachers are really struggling to pay their rent,\" said Josie Goodson, a 9th grader at Oakland Tech. \"We're here to support them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11719456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11719456 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Damaris Paulino is a 10th grader at Oakland Technical High School\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/fc983954-20190118-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damaris Paulino is a 10th grader at Oakland Technical High School \u003ccite>(Monica/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5687893-Letter-to-Teachers-Regarding-Sick-Out-Google-Docs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to staff\u003c/a> sent this week, district officials reminded teachers the Friday action is illegal, writing: \"Teachers participating in sick-outs will be subject to disciplinary action and will lose pay for time missed as these coordinated actions present significant safety and instructional problems for our students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's sickout comes after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717869/photos-hundreds-rally-in-oakland-over-school-funding-closures-and-pending-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rally last weekend\u003c/a> drew hundreds of teachers, parents and labor leaders to downtown Oakland to call for increased funding for education and to protest looming budget cuts and school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sickout, like the last, isn't sanctioned by the teachers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand the frustrations of our teachers,\" said OEA president Keith Brown. \"Our teachers are willing to take action for the schools that Oakland students deserve.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After more than a year and a half without a contract, Oakland teachers are preparing to vote on a strike. But teachers frustrated with how slowly the formal bargaining process works say they want to show the district they’re willing to strike. So for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711221/oakland-high-school-teachers-planning-non-union-sanctioned-work-stoppage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the second time\u003c/a> in two months some teachers plan to call in sick en masse Friday in what they’re calling a “sickout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland teachers are sick,” said \u003ca href=\"http://lifeacademyoak.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life Academy of Health and Bioscience\u003c/a> teacher Matt Hayes, “sick of being underappreciated, sick of the low pay. We’re walking out tomorrow because we want to show the district we want a fair contract and we want it now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes listed grievances that ranged from the proliferation of charter schools in Oakland to the state of school facilities. He has helped organize the action and says he’s heard from teachers at 10 schools who plan to take part, plus students and parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They plan to hold a rally in front of Oakland Technical High School from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and then march to the Oakland Unified School District office, where they plan to rally into the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5687893-Letter-to-Teachers-Regarding-Sick-Out-Google-Docs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to staff\u003c/a> sent this week, district officials reminded teachers the action is illegal, writing: “Teachers participating in sick-outs will be subject to disciplinary action and will lose pay for time missed as these coordinated actions present significant safety and instructional problems for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenine Lindsey, the district’s director of labor strategy, said there’s a reason state law lays out a process for resolving labor disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows school districts to prepare for strikes and to put safety measures in place to ensure that there aren’t incidents with students,” she said. “We also know that the quality of instruction is heavily impacted by illegal and unlawful sickouts and walkouts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district anticipates schools will stay open and instruction will continue, with central office staff filling in. Some schools may run on modified schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sickout, like the last, isn’t sanctioned by the teachers union, the Oakland Education Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the frustrations of our teachers,” said OEA president Keith Brown. “Our teachers are willing to take action for the schools that Oakland students deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s action comes after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717869/photos-hundreds-rally-in-oakland-over-school-funding-closures-and-pending-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rally last weekend\u003c/a> that drew hundreds of teachers, parents and labor leaders to downtown Oakland to call for increased funding for education and to protest looming budget cuts and school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719011/talks-resume-in-effort-to-end-strike-by-l-a-teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles teachers striking\u003c/a>, six states have now seen educators stage walkouts to protest underfunding in the last year. It’s looking increasingly likely that Oakland will be the next battleground in the national debate about how we fund public education and pay teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in L.A., Oakland’s negotiations snagged on teacher pay and class size, among other things. The Oakland teachers union wants to see a 12 percent salary increase over three years, while the district’s final offer is a 5 percent increase over three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pay is too low in Oakland, and the rent is very high,” Brown said. “It is important that our teachers have a living wage so they’re able to stay in the community and give our students the support they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average teacher salary in Oakland Unified is $63,149. That’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/cs/documents/j90summary1718.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lower than all other districts\u003c/a> in Alameda County, though that figure doesn’t account for benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools#have-a-question,We want to hear from you. What stories should we cover?\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified’s Lindsey argues that OUSD teachers don’t see benefits deducted from their paychecks, while teachers in some other districts do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The showdown over pay and working conditions is playing out as budget cuts and school closures roil the district. Oakland Unified is faced with tens of millions of dollars in cuts over the next three years, and the bailout money available from the state hinges on the district showing that it’s taking steps to become financially stable.\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>To that end, Oakland Unified is looking to cut millions of dollars from next year’s budget, while moving to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">close and merge schools\u003c/a>. District officials estimate they need to cut down the district’s footprint by 24 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this is aggravating the frustrations teachers already had about their working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes said he understands the position the district is in, “but that’s not the fault of the teachers,” he said. “I feel like we’re being punished for OUSD’s mismanagement of funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" tag=\"ousd-news\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, district officials say they want to pay teachers more. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/17859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The district has identified\u003c/a> boosting teacher pay and settling the contract as priorities for improving teacher retention and ultimately improving student outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given their budget constraints, it’s a matter of coming up with the money. District officials say they’re looking for places to cut, but have not given specifics.\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=\"More Oakland Coverage\" tag=\"ousd-qa\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final step in the formal negotiation process is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.perb.ca.gov/laws/statutes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-finding hearing\u003c/a> set for Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. The union and district could reach an agreement during the hearing. If they don’t, they expect a recommendation for a settlement from the fact-finding panel by mid-February. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of educators, parents and labor organizers filled Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland on Saturday to rally on a number of issues including increased funding in public education, improved teacher contracts and the expected closure of up to two dozen schools in the Oakland Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were inspired by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/15/609734857/north-carolina-teachers-join-the-march-how-did-we-get-here-what-s-next\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"Red4Ed\" movement\u003c/a> that sparked teacher activism and strikes last year in conservative states including West Virginia and Oklahoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they were also marching in solidarity with teachers in Los Angeles who are expected to go on strike \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/684420036/i-m-a-little-stressed-la-teachers-brace-for-a-possible-strike\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this week\u003c/a>. At the same time, Oakland teachers are preparing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711221/oakland-high-school-teachers-planning-non-union-sanctioned-work-stoppage\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their own strike\u003c/a> as early as next month as contract negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">As Potential Closures Loom, Oakland Parents Want ‘Opportunity Ticket’ to Access Better Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Lakisha-Young-e1541535688680-1180x938.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“In Oakland and L.A. we are fighting for the same things: essential resources for our students. Our students deserve good teachers,” said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Educators Association. Brown says Oakland teachers are asking for a wage increase, smaller class sizes and more social services — such as counselors and nurses — in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s teachers are some of the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2017-18/599272\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lowest paid\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, many say the cost of living is too high for them to live in Oakland forcing them to commute long distances to their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of these long-simmering issues, OUSD recently announced plans to close up to 24 public schools, many of them in East Oakland. Staff at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roots International Academy\u003c/a> were notified of its closure recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are trying to fight that and keep it open because in East Oakland there’s not many middle schools,” said Silvia Orneles, a parent of an eighth grader at the school. “A lot of parents are really upset. They're saying, 'Where’s my child gonna go?' There's only charter schools around us, and we don't want charter schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717871\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11717871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_111645-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_111645-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_111645-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_111645-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_111645.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers met at Lake Merritt before marching to Frank Ogawa Plaza to join up with the larger rally. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11717874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125048-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Educators from all over the Bay Area including Fremont, San Jose, Orinda and Berkeley came out to support Oakland teachers. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125048-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125048-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125048-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125048.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators from all over the Bay Area including Fremont, San Jose, Orinda and Berkeley came out to support Oakland and Los Anegeles teachers. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 637px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11717877\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125848.jpg\" alt=\"Casey Levitt and Theodore Zarobell are seniors at Oakland Tech. They are supporting their teachers at the rally. "We could use more counselors at our school," says Levitt. "We have 500 students to a counselor. Many students have mental health issues they can't deal with at home."\" width=\"637\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125848.jpg 637w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125848-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casey Levitt and Theodore Zarobell, seniors at Oakland Tech, were supporting their teachers. \"Teacher pay is really important,\" says Zarobell. \"Many of our teachers have to live hours away in the suburbs. You should be able to live where you work.\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717875\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11717875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125118-800x600.jpg\" alt='Event organizers were inspired by the \"Red4Ed\" movement that swept through red states including West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona last year.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125118-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125118-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125118-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125118.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Event organizers were inspired by the \"Red4Ed\" movement that swept through conservative states including West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona last year. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 637px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11717879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_130517.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Area teachers were also marching in solidarity with teachers in Los Angeles, who are expected to go on strike next week. Cherene Fillingim-Selk is a teacher at Berkeley Arts Magnet. "At an event like this with hundreds of people, you realize you're not alone." \" width=\"637\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_130517.jpg 637w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_130517-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area teachers were also marching in solidarity with teachers in Los Angeles, who are expected to go on strike next week. \"At an event like this with hundreds of people, you realize you're not alone,\" says Cherene Fillingim-Selk a teacher at Berkeley Arts Magnet. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717880\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11717880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland teachers are asking for a wage increase and smaller class sizes in the latest contract negotiations with the district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers are asking for a wage increase and smaller class sizes in contract negotiations with the district. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of these long-simmering issues, OUSD recently announced plans to close up to 24 public schools, many of them in East Oakland. Staff at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roots International Academy\u003c/a> were notified of its closure recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are trying to fight that and keep it open because in East Oakland there’s not many middle schools,” said Silvia Orneles, a parent of an eighth grader at the school. “A lot of parents are really upset. They're saying, 'Where’s my child gonna go?' There's only charter schools around us, and we don't want charter schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717871\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11717871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_111645-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_111645-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_111645-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_111645-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_111645.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers met at Lake Merritt before marching to Frank Ogawa Plaza to join up with the larger rally. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11717874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125048-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Educators from all over the Bay Area including Fremont, San Jose, Orinda and Berkeley came out to support Oakland teachers. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125048-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125048-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125048-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125048.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators from all over the Bay Area including Fremont, San Jose, Orinda and Berkeley came out to support Oakland and Los Anegeles teachers. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 637px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11717877\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125848.jpg\" alt=\"Casey Levitt and Theodore Zarobell are seniors at Oakland Tech. They are supporting their teachers at the rally. "We could use more counselors at our school," says Levitt. "We have 500 students to a counselor. Many students have mental health issues they can't deal with at home."\" width=\"637\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125848.jpg 637w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125848-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casey Levitt and Theodore Zarobell, seniors at Oakland Tech, were supporting their teachers. \"Teacher pay is really important,\" says Zarobell. \"Many of our teachers have to live hours away in the suburbs. You should be able to live where you work.\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717875\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11717875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125118-800x600.jpg\" alt='Event organizers were inspired by the \"Red4Ed\" movement that swept through red states including West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona last year.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125118-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125118-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125118-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_125118.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Event organizers were inspired by the \"Red4Ed\" movement that swept through conservative states including West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona last year. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 637px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11717879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_130517.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Area teachers were also marching in solidarity with teachers in Los Angeles, who are expected to go on strike next week. Cherene Fillingim-Selk is a teacher at Berkeley Arts Magnet. "At an event like this with hundreds of people, you realize you're not alone." \" width=\"637\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_130517.jpg 637w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_130517-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area teachers were also marching in solidarity with teachers in Los Angeles, who are expected to go on strike next week. \"At an event like this with hundreds of people, you realize you're not alone,\" says Cherene Fillingim-Selk a teacher at Berkeley Arts Magnet. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717880\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11717880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland teachers are asking for a wage increase and smaller class sizes in the latest contract negotiations with the district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_20190112_131232.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers are asking for a wage increase and smaller class sizes in contract negotiations with the district. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\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. And with a labor strike brewing, teachers around the city are seizing on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this week’s Oakland Unified School District board meeting, teachers, parents and school staff came to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These students are the reason I’m prepared to go on strike, why all the teachers here are prepared to go on strike,” East Oakland Pride Elementary School teacher Adi Hoag said to cheers. “We can make this fight. I’m not planning to go back in there if they close any schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoag pledged to keep Roots Academy open by any means necessary, throwing out the possibility of a sit-in at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy families also plan to join teachers in a \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.carpe-diem.events/calendar/9094197-rally-to-fund-public-education-now-oakland-contingent-at-frank-ogawa-plaza/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teachers union rally \u003c/a> in downtown Oakland on Saturday that’s aimed at boosting education funding in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11717460 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some community members opposed to the closure of Roots Academy say they will join in a teachers union rally on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly before the winter holiday break, district officials announced their plan to close Roots. Officials cited the middle school’s dwindling enrollment and poor teacher retention as reasons for shuttering the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to make sure that our students were given the opportunity to make a transition to a higher performing school before any adverse conditions at Roots grew any more challenging,” district spokesman John Sasaki said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday night’s meeting, school board members listened in silence as parents vented their anger and sadness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to know why are you attacking our communities,” parent Concepcion Resendiz told the board, explaining that her son struggled in school until he found what felt like family at Roots. “We are the ones that you left always behind, and instead of giving us a hand you just throw us away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members did not discuss the proposed closure of Roots Academy at the meeting, but assured community members they’d take up the conversation at their next meeting on Jan. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District is in the process of developing a controversial plan to pare down the number of schools in the district by as many as 24. It’s a move the district says is critical to shoring up finances in the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials had \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3727236&GUID=2F788976-5A80-4BBA-B940-0E878F99B445&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assured the community they’d be heard\u003c/a> throughout the process, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">some Roots Academy parents say that hasn’t happened\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\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\u003cp>Jan. 9, 2019\u003c/p>\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.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“For it to come down this way without us really knowing and having a seat, that’s what bothers me more than anything,” said parent Gwen McWilliams, whose daughter, Robyn, is in sixth grade at Roots. “I think we should have had some say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, McWilliams said she wanted a chance to ask decision-makers the questions that still nag at her. “What could we have done differently that we didn’t know about in time? What could we do to keep it open?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McWilliams’ daughter, Robyn, worries about having to leave her friends when she goes to a different school. “It feels like the people don’t really care about our education,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11717461 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Parents, teachers and community members attend an Oakland school board meeting. Jan. 9, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875.jpg 1602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, teachers and community members attend an Oakland school board meeting on Jan. 9, 2019 \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district has not yet determined how the placement process for Roots students would work if the school closes. “We will work with families with incoming seventh- and eighth-grade students to find the best placement for their children,” Sasaki said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McWilliams says she will consider other Oakland schools, but if she doesn’t like her options she’s ready to look elsewhere. “If push comes to shove I’ll have to go out of the district,” McWilliams said, “possibly moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board plans to hold a final vote on the Roots closure in the next two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District's executive director of enrollment, Charles Wilson, is backing a provocative new proposal that could begin to change the racial and economic makeup of Oakland's public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, most of the district's top-ranked public schools are located in neighborhoods largely populated by affluent and white families, a segregation tied to historic housing patterns that reflect race and class divisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to get on solid financial footing, Oakland Unified has committed to closing several schools to save money. Most of the schools on the closure list are located in Oakland's flatlands, where a greater number of black and Latino kids live. Figuring out where those students should go next is Wilson's job — and he wants to give those families a ticket to a better school, even if it means taking a spot from a neighborhood family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How big of a change is the \"opportunity ticket\" program?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is actually a bold action that is going to make a dent, even if it's a small dent. I think it is going to make it clear that getting kids from different parts of the city into the same schools is not frightening. I think that we are going to be doing this in a very reasoned manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do students currently get priority to attend the district's best schools?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>The number one priority has always gone to siblings of current students; we want to keep families together. The second priority has gone to families who live within the neighborhood zones. And so if you don't live in a neighborhood and you don't have a sibling that goes to that school, you don't really have that great of a chance of getting into our high-demand, high-performing schools because most of the seats have been taken up by siblings and neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The district plans to close a number of schools in neighborhoods with a higher population of black and Latino kids.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>How is the opportunity ticket going to help these families?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">As Potential Closures Loom, Oakland Parents Want ‘Opportunity Ticket’ to Access Better Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Lakisha-Young-e1541535688680-1180x938.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We're saying for impacted families, where there is not going to be a school in their zone any longer, those families now get a priority above the neighborhood families at the schools of their choice. Under the opportunity ticket, they would have priority above neighbors for up to 51 percent of the available seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>Fifty-one percent — tell me more about that.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>Let's say we have 100 kindergarten seats. We have 40 siblings who want to go in; all of the siblings would get in first. [Of the remaining seats] up to 51 percent, or 31 seats, would go to opportunity ticket holders — if there are that many who want that school. And then the remaining 29 seats would go to neighbors. If there were anything left, that would go to a general lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's taking families most impacted by school closures and placing them in a very high-priority space.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Charles Wilson\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>Oakland Unified School District Executive Director of Enrollment\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Age:\u003c/strong> 54\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Years Worked in the District:\u003c/strong> 24\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dissertation Topic:\u003c/strong> What Matters: A Critical Analysis of How Parents in Low-Performing, Low-Income Schools Define School Quality Relative to School Performance Frameworks\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>Do you feel like you're part of something here that could actually make a dent in the inequity of schools in the Oakland school district?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes. That is exactly what I'm thinking we are going to be doing: giving Oakland a chance to see some clear test cases of how socioeconomic and racial integration of schools is possible. I mean we support the concept, but then the reality becomes very, very difficult. I think it's a great chance for Oakland to shine and show its true colors. We have been a city that's been a leader in social justice, and this is the next front of a larger social justice movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>Will it still be up to parents to transport their kids to their new schools? A better school might not be close, so I still see transportation as being an issue, don't you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>Oh, absolutely. This is not meant to solve all the problems of structural racism and structural poverty. That's a very real issue. I mean families that don't have transportation of their own and can't afford good transit, plus just the concept of putting little children on public transit. ... You know, how will the parents go to work if they're having to chaperone their children on buses? So it is a significant flaw in all of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do students currently get priority to attend the district's best schools?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>The number one priority has always gone to siblings of current students; we want to keep families together. The second priority has gone to families who live within the neighborhood zones. And so if you don't live in a neighborhood and you don't have a sibling that goes to that school, you don't really have that great of a chance of getting into our high-demand, high-performing schools because most of the seats have been taken up by siblings and neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The district plans to close a number of schools in neighborhoods with a higher population of black and Latino kids.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>How is the opportunity ticket going to help these families?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">As Potential Closures Loom, Oakland Parents Want ‘Opportunity Ticket’ to Access Better Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Lakisha-Young-e1541535688680-1180x938.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We're saying for impacted families, where there is not going to be a school in their zone any longer, those families now get a priority above the neighborhood families at the schools of their choice. Under the opportunity ticket, they would have priority above neighbors for up to 51 percent of the available seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>Fifty-one percent — tell me more about that.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>Let's say we have 100 kindergarten seats. We have 40 siblings who want to go in; all of the siblings would get in first. [Of the remaining seats] up to 51 percent, or 31 seats, would go to opportunity ticket holders — if there are that many who want that school. And then the remaining 29 seats would go to neighbors. If there were anything left, that would go to a general lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's taking families most impacted by school closures and placing them in a very high-priority space.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Charles Wilson\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>Oakland Unified School District Executive Director of Enrollment\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Age:\u003c/strong> 54\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Years Worked in the District:\u003c/strong> 24\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dissertation Topic:\u003c/strong> What Matters: A Critical Analysis of How Parents in Low-Performing, Low-Income Schools Define School Quality Relative to School Performance Frameworks\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>Do you feel like you're part of something here that could actually make a dent in the inequity of schools in the Oakland school district?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes. That is exactly what I'm thinking we are going to be doing: giving Oakland a chance to see some clear test cases of how socioeconomic and racial integration of schools is possible. I mean we support the concept, but then the reality becomes very, very difficult. I think it's a great chance for Oakland to shine and show its true colors. We have been a city that's been a leader in social justice, and this is the next front of a larger social justice movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>Will it still be up to parents to transport their kids to their new schools? A better school might not be close, so I still see transportation as being an issue, don't you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>Oh, absolutely. This is not meant to solve all the problems of structural racism and structural poverty. That's a very real issue. I mean families that don't have transportation of their own and can't afford good transit, plus just the concept of putting little children on public transit. ... You know, how will the parents go to work if they're having to chaperone their children on buses? So it is a significant flaw in all of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of parents at Roots International Academy, an East Oakland middle school that's been targeted for closure, say the district's plans were made without their input. They are headed to Wednesday night's school board meeting to demand answers, saying they've been living with the fear and stress of not knowing what will happen to their students next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712318/oakland-considers-opportunity-ticket-to-funnel-more-minority-students-into-top-schools\"> controversial plan\u003c/a> to begin closing or merging up to 24 schools in the coming year, Oakland Unified School District had promised \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3727236&GUID=2F788976-5A80-4BBA-B940-0E878F99B445&Options=&Search=\">community input\u003c/a> on which schools would be closed. But that's something some parents at Roots Academy say hasn't happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They didn't ask us,\" said Ady Rios, whose son is a seventh-grader at Roots. \"We were not part of it. They did it on their own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district informed parents of the closure plan shortly before the winter holiday break. It pointed to the school's extremely low scores and dwindling enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11717124 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios-800x698.jpg\" alt=\"Ady Rios is the parent of a 7th grader at Roots International Academy, which is slated to be closed by OUSD.\" width=\"800\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios-800x698.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios-160x140.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios-1020x890.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios-1200x1048.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ady Rios is the parent of a seventh-grader at Roots International Academy, which is slated to be closed by OUSD. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy was created in an earlier district reform effort to create smaller schools that could provide more support for at-risk students, according to teacher Rebecca Blakley. She agreed the school has been on shaky ground for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see why, to people who are not in the school, it makes sense on paper,\" said Blakley. But she said her middle school students appreciate the tight-knit community and family feel of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its closure plan, Oakland Unified is proposing to expand the neighboring school, Coliseum College Prep Academy (CCPA), into the space that Roots currently occupies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is still working to determine what the savings will be with the closure of Roots, said Oakland schools spokesman John Sasaki in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[My daughter] was almost in tears. 'What is going to happen to our teachers? What’s going to happen to my friends? Are we even going to go to the same school?' It’s just ... question after question I had no answers to.'\u003ccite>Sylvia Ornelas, Roots International Academy parent\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Blakley questions the criteria for and cost effectiveness of closing her school. If falling enrollment is a factor, she said, why pick on Roots Academy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m fairly sure other schools are suffering enrollment,\" Blakley said. \"But they are not as quickly put up for closure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are targeting us. It's gentrification,\" speculated Rios, the seventh-grader's mother. \"There is more building going on around here and they want us out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School district officials said they will work with Roots families to find the best placement for their children. But Rios fears that students like her son will face stigma wherever they go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What are they going to feel?\" asked Rios. \"They're coming from the school that didn't go good, because that's what you're telling them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Roots parent, Sylvia Ornelas, said without a clear path for the school's students, there is fear, confusion and, for her daughter, a lot of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was almost in tears,\" Ornelas said. \"What is going to happen to our teachers? How are they going to go somewhere else? What’s going to happen to my friends? Are we even going to go to the same school? It’s just, like, question after question I had no answers to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right next door to Roots, Coliseum College Prep Academy is considered a relatively successful middle and high school. But it's unclear how many of Roots Academy's students would end up at CCPA. Spokesman Sasaki said in a statement that \"integrating 150 students into another school such as CCPA would be far too disruptive for everyone involved, the students, staff and families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Sasaki, seventh- and eighth-graders could be sent to attend Elmhurst Community, Greenleaf, Madison Park Upper and Urban Promise Academy schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">As Potential Closures Loom, Oakland Parents Want ‘Opportunity Ticket’ to Access Better Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Lakisha-Young-e1541535688680-1180x938.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Parent advocate Lakisha Young with \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandreach.org\">The Oakland REACH\u003c/a> said the district's current work to consolidate and merge schools is supposed to bring students in East and West Oakland better-quality schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here we are sitting on top of an issue where a low-performing school has the potential to be still in the neighborhood and merge into a higher-quality school,\" said Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she is concerned about how the district is communicating with parents and families. She fears that lack of information and clarity will contribute to the community's feelings of helplessness and anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry but they need to figure out how to make it work,\" Young said. \"It's going to be a bit of a challenge. But if this can't work, if this can't get figured out, I think we're a long way from being able to figure out real quality solutions for families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many see what happens to Roots Academy's students and their families as a test case of how the district will treat other East Oakland school communities on the chopping block. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of parents at Roots International Academy, an East Oakland middle school that's been targeted for closure, say the district's plans were made without their input. They are headed to Wednesday night's school board meeting to demand answers, saying they've been living with the fear and stress of not knowing what will happen to their students next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712318/oakland-considers-opportunity-ticket-to-funnel-more-minority-students-into-top-schools\"> controversial plan\u003c/a> to begin closing or merging up to 24 schools in the coming year, Oakland Unified School District had promised \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3727236&GUID=2F788976-5A80-4BBA-B940-0E878F99B445&Options=&Search=\">community input\u003c/a> on which schools would be closed. But that's something some parents at Roots Academy say hasn't happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They didn't ask us,\" said Ady Rios, whose son is a seventh-grader at Roots. \"We were not part of it. They did it on their own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district informed parents of the closure plan shortly before the winter holiday break. It pointed to the school's extremely low scores and dwindling enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11717124 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios-800x698.jpg\" alt=\"Ady Rios is the parent of a 7th grader at Roots International Academy, which is slated to be closed by OUSD.\" width=\"800\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios-800x698.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios-160x140.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios-1020x890.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios-1200x1048.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/AdyRios.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ady Rios is the parent of a seventh-grader at Roots International Academy, which is slated to be closed by OUSD. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy was created in an earlier district reform effort to create smaller schools that could provide more support for at-risk students, according to teacher Rebecca Blakley. She agreed the school has been on shaky ground for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see why, to people who are not in the school, it makes sense on paper,\" said Blakley. But she said her middle school students appreciate the tight-knit community and family feel of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its closure plan, Oakland Unified is proposing to expand the neighboring school, Coliseum College Prep Academy (CCPA), into the space that Roots currently occupies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is still working to determine what the savings will be with the closure of Roots, said Oakland schools spokesman John Sasaki in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[My daughter] was almost in tears. 'What is going to happen to our teachers? What’s going to happen to my friends? Are we even going to go to the same school?' It’s just ... question after question I had no answers to.'\u003ccite>Sylvia Ornelas, Roots International Academy parent\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Blakley questions the criteria for and cost effectiveness of closing her school. If falling enrollment is a factor, she said, why pick on Roots Academy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m fairly sure other schools are suffering enrollment,\" Blakley said. \"But they are not as quickly put up for closure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are targeting us. It's gentrification,\" speculated Rios, the seventh-grader's mother. \"There is more building going on around here and they want us out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School district officials said they will work with Roots families to find the best placement for their children. But Rios fears that students like her son will face stigma wherever they go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What are they going to feel?\" asked Rios. \"They're coming from the school that didn't go good, because that's what you're telling them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Roots parent, Sylvia Ornelas, said without a clear path for the school's students, there is fear, confusion and, for her daughter, a lot of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was almost in tears,\" Ornelas said. \"What is going to happen to our teachers? How are they going to go somewhere else? What’s going to happen to my friends? Are we even going to go to the same school? It’s just, like, question after question I had no answers to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right next door to Roots, Coliseum College Prep Academy is considered a relatively successful middle and high school. But it's unclear how many of Roots Academy's students would end up at CCPA. Spokesman Sasaki said in a statement that \"integrating 150 students into another school such as CCPA would be far too disruptive for everyone involved, the students, staff and families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Sasaki, seventh- and eighth-graders could be sent to attend Elmhurst Community, Greenleaf, Madison Park Upper and Urban Promise Academy schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">As Potential Closures Loom, Oakland Parents Want ‘Opportunity Ticket’ to Access Better Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Lakisha-Young-e1541535688680-1180x938.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Parent advocate Lakisha Young with \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandreach.org\">The Oakland REACH\u003c/a> said the district's current work to consolidate and merge schools is supposed to bring students in East and West Oakland better-quality schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here we are sitting on top of an issue where a low-performing school has the potential to be still in the neighborhood and merge into a higher-quality school,\" said Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she is concerned about how the district is communicating with parents and families. She fears that lack of information and clarity will contribute to the community's feelings of helplessness and anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry but they need to figure out how to make it work,\" Young said. \"It's going to be a bit of a challenge. But if this can't work, if this can't get figured out, I think we're a long way from being able to figure out real quality solutions for families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many see what happens to Roots Academy's students and their families as a test case of how the district will treat other East Oakland school communities on the chopping block. Seventeen of the proposed 24 school closures \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\">are expected to be in East Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board intends to make a final decision on the closure of Roots Academy within the next two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jan. 10: This story has been updated to correct the timeline for the school board's vote on the closure of Roots Academy, which will be within the next two months, not by Jan. 23.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>This was originally published Aug. 18, 2018.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day of school at McClymonds High School in Oakland, Cynthia Gilbert (Ms. Cynthia to the kids) from the front office is running the registration tables, students and teachers are chatting in hallways decked out with murals, and after days of buffing, the checkered linoleum floors are gleaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, in room 308, LuPaulette Taylor is getting ready for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's exciting,” she says. “You have a new chance to make new mistakes and to do things better than you did the year before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s enthusiasm is a welcome note in a district that is still short 30 teachers at the start of the new year. It's all the more important at a school like McClymonds, sometimes referred to as \"Mack,\" where it’s especially hard to hold onto teachers, and more remarkable still, coming from someone starting her 49th year on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s spent nearly all of those years right here at Mack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She goes by Dr. Taylor, or most of the time, just DT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody knows who DT is,” 16-year-old senior K’aun Green says. He’s a little nervous about his first English class with her. DT’s got a reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as you step in that’s the first thing you'll hear about — DT, DT,” he says about coming to McClymonds as a freshman. “That’s what I was hearing about and I didn’t even know who she was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As students start filing in to Taylor’s class, she checks in with kids she knows, asks others when they started at Mack, and shouts orders at passers by. “Missy over there, pull that shirt down! Why is that hat on in the building?” Her tone is a mix of affection and affront, honed for maximum effect. “No phones out!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the students are settled, Taylor starts off by telling the class about herself, “I graduated from McClymonds, 50 some years ago, 1966.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She gives the coordinates of her West Oakland childhood, “9th Street between Cypress and Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids can start plotting the arc of her life, “I went to Prescott,” she says. “How many people went to Prescott?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11687375 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1200x842.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-960x674.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-520x365.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150.jpg 1627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor during her second period English class. In her 45 years at McClymonds she's been principal, vice principal, softball and basketball coach, among other jobs. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s no whispering, no phones buzzing. She tells the kids she turned down other job offers to stay here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just didn’t feel right. I just felt like I should be here because this was home and this is my neighborhood, if you understand it, ok?\" she says. \"Some of you, I taught your grandparents. I can't even believe it's been that long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s the students’ turn to introduce themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ok,” Taylor eyes the kids. “We gonna start over here or should we start over here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over there, over there!” students shout, pointing across the room. “Start with him!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor tells the students they’ll have to stand in front of the class. “It’s practice for senior project and the other presentations we’re gonna do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groans all around. “Man!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green steps to the front of the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel good today,” he says. “I’m excited to be a senior because I like to be looked up to by the 9th and 10th graders. I’m anxious about DT’s class and how much work I’m gonna receive. Yeah, I’m scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He trails off, but he’s grinning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green is one of those students with deep ties to Taylor. She’s taught generations of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor emphasizes college preparation in her classes, guiding seniors through personal statements and helping them secure scholarships. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Since she knows my mom and my dad I can't really goof around,” Green says. \"A lot of the teachers get run out of here because of the students at Mack. A lot of the teachers, they don’t get the same respect as she does from the students. She doesn’t ask for it, you just give it because of the history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few people on campus who share some of that history, but nobody’s been here as long as Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The turnover at our school — it's like sometimes we meet new teachers on the first day, and by Christmas they're gone, sometimes Thanksgiving they're gone,” says McClymonds social worker Relonda McGhee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only about 15 percent of teachers stay on for a third year here. It’s the worst \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/t/HR/views/RetentionDashboardPublic/TeachersatSites?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no#5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retention rate\u003c/a> in the district with one exception, a continuation school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Jarod Scott is pleased because less than half the teachers are new this year. That’s a big improvement, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGhee cites high turnover among administrators and inexperience as reasons teachers leave. \u003ca href=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4775245-McClymonds-SARC.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nearly half\u003c/a> of teachers at McClymonds last year weren’t fully credentialed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also says teachers choose to leave for schools where hunger, grief and conflict aren’t vying for attention in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some adults cannot handle that,” McGhee says. “They do a year and then they're gone because it's too overwhelming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Taylor sees it, teaching is a small part of the job. On any given day she might alternate between counselor, grandmother, auntie, cousin, social worker and preacher, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don't ever get to just teach and you don't get to leave the kids here if you're doing what you're supposed to,” she says. “You take them home with you mentally and you try to figure out, ‘What else can I do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, a student reminded her about the time she showed up at his house one morning, unannounced, and dragged him to school. He hadn’t been showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What really hurts me is when I see kids giving up and they've done so well,” Taylor says. “When I see things get so bad for them they just sort of disappear — physically, or they check out mentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some days she can get weary, but she's always learning. That’s the part about school — about teaching — that she still loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was something that I always wanted to be when I was little. I think because I always enjoyed school. I enjoyed reading, I enjoyed math, I enjoyed experimenting when we did science. I liked everything about school. I liked recess. I liked PE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A card from a student depicting a favorite snack. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor started teaching at 21, at what was then Hoover Junior High. She had a hard time at first, so she says she spent as much time as she could in other teacher’s rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I didn't have a class I was in somebody’s class observing what was going on, how they did it, how I could make it my own,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687378\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A card Taylor saved from a student. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Almost 50 years later she’s still at it. She drops in on new hires to see what they have to teach her. “I'm still learning,” she says. “I get excited when I learn something new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, she just likes what she does. “I look forward to it like 97 percent of the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On days when she doesn’t want to get out of bed, she says, “Coming here and getting around the kids, I feel better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s almost 70, but she’s not planning to leave any time soon. It’s not right here yet, she says, too much coming and going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her colleagues aren’t eager to see her go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would take about four or five people to replace Dr. Taylor if she decides to retire,” Scott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully in the next couple of years we'll have a lot of people who can keep it rolling,” McGhee says. “Them’s some big shoes to step in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687379\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor's classroom door at McClymonds High School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of the school day, a former student comes by to visit. She just graduated and is headed to USC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s so exciting,” Taylor says. After checking on the student’s transportation and finances, and offering help getting more scholarship money, she sends last year’s valedictorian off with a hug. “Be good. Call me if you need anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By now the school day is long over. Taylor could be at home, but another student just walked through the door.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s spent nearly all of those years right here at Mack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She goes by Dr. Taylor, or most of the time, just DT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody knows who DT is,” 16-year-old senior K’aun Green says. He’s a little nervous about his first English class with her. DT’s got a reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as you step in that’s the first thing you'll hear about — DT, DT,” he says about coming to McClymonds as a freshman. “That’s what I was hearing about and I didn’t even know who she was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As students start filing in to Taylor’s class, she checks in with kids she knows, asks others when they started at Mack, and shouts orders at passers by. “Missy over there, pull that shirt down! Why is that hat on in the building?” Her tone is a mix of affection and affront, honed for maximum effect. “No phones out!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the students are settled, Taylor starts off by telling the class about herself, “I graduated from McClymonds, 50 some years ago, 1966.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She gives the coordinates of her West Oakland childhood, “9th Street between Cypress and Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids can start plotting the arc of her life, “I went to Prescott,” she says. “How many people went to Prescott?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11687375 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1200x842.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-960x674.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-520x365.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150.jpg 1627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor during her second period English class. In her 45 years at McClymonds she's been principal, vice principal, softball and basketball coach, among other jobs. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s no whispering, no phones buzzing. She tells the kids she turned down other job offers to stay here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just didn’t feel right. I just felt like I should be here because this was home and this is my neighborhood, if you understand it, ok?\" she says. \"Some of you, I taught your grandparents. I can't even believe it's been that long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s the students’ turn to introduce themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ok,” Taylor eyes the kids. “We gonna start over here or should we start over here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over there, over there!” students shout, pointing across the room. “Start with him!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor tells the students they’ll have to stand in front of the class. “It’s practice for senior project and the other presentations we’re gonna do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groans all around. “Man!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green steps to the front of the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel good today,” he says. “I’m excited to be a senior because I like to be looked up to by the 9th and 10th graders. I’m anxious about DT’s class and how much work I’m gonna receive. Yeah, I’m scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He trails off, but he’s grinning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green is one of those students with deep ties to Taylor. She’s taught generations of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor emphasizes college preparation in her classes, guiding seniors through personal statements and helping them secure scholarships. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Since she knows my mom and my dad I can't really goof around,” Green says. \"A lot of the teachers get run out of here because of the students at Mack. A lot of the teachers, they don’t get the same respect as she does from the students. She doesn’t ask for it, you just give it because of the history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few people on campus who share some of that history, but nobody’s been here as long as Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The turnover at our school — it's like sometimes we meet new teachers on the first day, and by Christmas they're gone, sometimes Thanksgiving they're gone,” says McClymonds social worker Relonda McGhee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only about 15 percent of teachers stay on for a third year here. It’s the worst \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/t/HR/views/RetentionDashboardPublic/TeachersatSites?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no#5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retention rate\u003c/a> in the district with one exception, a continuation school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Jarod Scott is pleased because less than half the teachers are new this year. That’s a big improvement, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGhee cites high turnover among administrators and inexperience as reasons teachers leave. \u003ca href=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4775245-McClymonds-SARC.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nearly half\u003c/a> of teachers at McClymonds last year weren’t fully credentialed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also says teachers choose to leave for schools where hunger, grief and conflict aren’t vying for attention in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some adults cannot handle that,” McGhee says. “They do a year and then they're gone because it's too overwhelming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Taylor sees it, teaching is a small part of the job. On any given day she might alternate between counselor, grandmother, auntie, cousin, social worker and preacher, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don't ever get to just teach and you don't get to leave the kids here if you're doing what you're supposed to,” she says. “You take them home with you mentally and you try to figure out, ‘What else can I do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, a student reminded her about the time she showed up at his house one morning, unannounced, and dragged him to school. He hadn’t been showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What really hurts me is when I see kids giving up and they've done so well,” Taylor says. “When I see things get so bad for them they just sort of disappear — physically, or they check out mentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some days she can get weary, but she's always learning. That’s the part about school — about teaching — that she still loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was something that I always wanted to be when I was little. I think because I always enjoyed school. I enjoyed reading, I enjoyed math, I enjoyed experimenting when we did science. I liked everything about school. I liked recess. I liked PE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A card from a student depicting a favorite snack. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor started teaching at 21, at what was then Hoover Junior High. She had a hard time at first, so she says she spent as much time as she could in other teacher’s rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I didn't have a class I was in somebody’s class observing what was going on, how they did it, how I could make it my own,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687378\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A card Taylor saved from a student. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Almost 50 years later she’s still at it. She drops in on new hires to see what they have to teach her. “I'm still learning,” she says. “I get excited when I learn something new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, she just likes what she does. “I look forward to it like 97 percent of the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On days when she doesn’t want to get out of bed, she says, “Coming here and getting around the kids, I feel better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s almost 70, but she’s not planning to leave any time soon. It’s not right here yet, she says, too much coming and going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her colleagues aren’t eager to see her go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would take about four or five people to replace Dr. Taylor if she decides to retire,” Scott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully in the next couple of years we'll have a lot of people who can keep it rolling,” McGhee says. “Them’s some big shoes to step in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687379\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor's classroom door at McClymonds High School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of the school day, a former student comes by to visit. She just graduated and is headed to USC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s so exciting,” Taylor says. After checking on the student’s transportation and finances, and offering help getting more scholarship money, she sends last year’s valedictorian off with a hug. “Be good. Call me if you need anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A group of Oakland parents plan to go before the school board on Wednesday to lobby for what they are calling an opportunity ticket. The move comes in response to the Oakland Unified School District's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looming plans\u003c/a> to close or merge schools to help stabilize its budget problems, long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea, expected to be introduced by board member Jumoke Hinton Hodge, would amend current enrollment policy to create a priority \"ticket\" for parents whose children are in schools that the district will be closing or merging in its consolidation plans due out early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The opportunity ticket is about finally saying ... if schools close ... the families who are going to be most negatively impacted and who are most often left behind, that those families actually have an opportunity and a pathway to a higher, better-quality option.'\u003ccite>Lakisha Young, Oakland Reach\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>District enrollment has continued to decline, and district officials say they can’t keep all 87 schools open. Their initial analysis projects five years from now there will be more than 10,000 empty seats. The district’s early estimate is that it needs 24 fewer schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of African-American and Latino parents wants a guarantee from the District that if it closes or merges their local school, affected students will be able to attend any district school they want, something that could potentially help desegregate some of the district’s most elite public schools located largely in wealthier neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lakisha Young heads the group, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700592/black-parents-say-its-up-to-them-to-fix-unequal-oakland-schools\">Oakland Reach\u003c/a>, which is behind the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For so long in this city, there has been a large group of parents whose children have attended low-performing schools that even if they've had dreams for their children to go to college, those schools are not preparing them from college,\" said Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The opportunity ticket is about finally saying whatever the system does if schools close, merge, consolidate — whatever the word of the week is — the families who are going to be most negatively impacted and who are most often left behind, that those families actually have an opportunity and a pathway to a higher, better-quality option,\" said Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\">With Oakland Schools on the Chopping Block, Community Looks to Organize\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0862-e1544493600107-1180x806.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>OUSD head of enrollment Charles Wilson said he has been at the table with his charter school counterpart, Luis Rodriguez from \u003ca href=\"https://enrolloak.org/whoweare/\">Enroll Oakland\u003c/a>, to consider revisions to the city-wide portfolio of schools that might allow for something like an opportunity ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson said they are trying to take into account current and future charters so they are less in competition with district-run schools. The district currently has no say over which students charters choose to admit. Though required by law to provide a free, public education to all students who apply, critics say charters cherry-pick better students because parents savvy enough to seek better educational opportunities for their kids are considered a self-selecting group who are more engaged and have the skills to navigate the system. Oakland charters typically enroll higher performing students and also \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2017/oakland-charters-more-likely-to-enroll-higher-performing-students-than-district-schools/583582\">admit fewer students with disabilities\u003c/a>, compared with the rest of district-run schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a dynamic time,\" said Wilson. \"We should at least interrogate the idea of an opportunity ticket. Kids currently not being served by their home schools should have access to quality schools. The organizers have gotten a pretty darn diverse group together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it has not taken a formal position yet, two members of a group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.equityalliesforousd.org/\">Equity Allies\u003c/a> will be speaking in support of some of the core ideas behind the opportunity ticket at Wednesday's board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group's members includes middle- and upper-middle class parents whose kids often attend the top schools in the district, where few slots are ever available to non-neighborhood children.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703765/parents-in-oaklands-worst-schools-want-out-see-open-enrollment-as-their-chance\">Parents in Oakland's Worst Schools Want Out, See Open Enrollment as Their Chance\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703765/parents-in-oaklands-worst-schools-want-out-see-open-enrollment-as-their-chance\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Lakisha-Young-e1541535688680-1180x938.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Equity Allies parents have been finding ways to share revenue raised by their local PTAs with schools that don’t have as many resources, as they try and look for ways to address inequities in the current system and their own schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Member Nilofer Ahsan, mother of a student at Edna Brewer Middle School, says if parents are serious about creating more equitable schools in Oakland, this opportunity ticket idea is a way to start. But she predicts some parents who have spent large sums of money to buy into an enrollment area with top schools may resist the idea that a child with an opportunity ticket could potentially displace a neighborhood child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say I'm for the opportunity ticket. And yes, I think all hell will break loose. Like all hell broke loose when Crocker tried to change its boundaries,\" said Ahsan, referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11061802/oakland-prides-itself-on-being-diverse-until-it-comes-time-to-send-kids-to-school\">Crocker Highlands Elementary\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the type of hell that, you know, these are the conversations we need to have. They are deep, they are painful. It's very difficult,\" Ahsan said. \"But those are the conversations we need to have if there's going to be any change. And then I think that larger step is making sure that there are really good schools that are a real draw for all, spread around the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School district spokesman John Sasaki said the district is currently looking at ways to ensure that students who attend a school that is closed or merged have an opportunity to go to a higher-performing school near them. But the idea of a priority \"ticket\" to any school in the district is not part of those discussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11061802/oakland-prides-itself-on-being-diverse-until-it-comes-time-to-send-kids-to-school\">Oakland Prides Itself on Being Diverse - Until It Comes Time to Send Kids to School\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11061802/oakland-prides-itself-on-being-diverse-until-it-comes-time-to-send-kids-to-school\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MarinaandCelia1920-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Concerns over how charters would play into this potential reallocation of students is raising concerns. This past summer, the district recently passed a two-page resolution called Community of Schools, supported by Go Public Schools among others, which directs the superintendent to unite charters and district-run schools more tightly under one umbrella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Shanthi Gonzales said she supports the idea of an opportunity ticket only if the choice is within district-run schools, not charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Part of the reason we have to close schools is because of the declining enrollment situation, which is mostly due to the large number of charter schools in Oakland,\" said Gonzales. \"So it doesn’t make sense for us to facilitate the exit of students for charter schools. That will only lead to the closure of additional schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Reach has been assisted by an organization called \u003ca href=\"https://gopublicschoolsoakland.org/2016/04/about-our-funding/\">Go Public Schools\u003c/a> that's funded in part by some of the country’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2018-07-16/ap-analysis-billionaires-fuel-powerful-state-charter-groups\">largest charter supporters such as the Walton Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Reach has vigorously defended its right to use any support it can get to help educate parents in failing district schools about their right to try and enroll in better schools, including charters. Young said her group just wants access to a quality school, be it charter or district run. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District is solidifying plans to close and consolidate schools. Specifics are expected early next year, but just the idea of school closures is alarming some parents, students and teachers who say they’re not about to let their school close without a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, people gathered in downtown Oakland to begin plotting a community response to the looming closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">As Potential Closures Loom, Oakland Parents Want ‘Opportunity Ticket’ to Access Better Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3937-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There’s only one way that we can stop this, and that’s organizing and making sure that we defend our schools,” local public education activist Mike Hutchinson told the crowd at Geoffrey’s Inner Circle. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we organize one school site, we can’t stop there. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n her classroom at Bret Harte Middle School in Oakland, teacher Sayuri Sakamoto sits at a desk piled with papers. It’s her precious prep period, and she’s in the middle of scheduling education plan meetings for her special ed students when she remembers something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually need to follow up and go give someone an extra asthma treatment, like right now,” she says, as she stuffs her phone into her fanny pack and rushes out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the hall, Sakamoto pops her head into a classroom and pulls 7th grader Jayare Fulghal-Holloway from his class. Jayare was her student last year, and she knows if he doesn’t use his inhaler multiple times each day, his chest tightens up. He follows her down the hallway. “I feel really cough-y. 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Sometimes schedules get way off,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20-30 percent of their time on medical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies and in first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us,” Harris-Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s attendance clerk, Carmen Argueta, spends so much time tending to students’ medical needs that Jayare thought she was another school nurse until Sakamoto told him otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 percent of students at the school receive special education services. Many of them require medical care. Harris-Jackson says she has students who regularly have seizures, others who rely on gastronomy tubes (G-tubes) and catheters, plus students with life-threatening allergies and chronic conditions that require daily medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurse Williams is in charge of assessing all those students and coming up with treatment plans. She works with their doctors and trains aides and other staff, like the attendance clerk, who provide care. She also does hearing and vision tests, makes sure kids have the medications they need at school, and follows up if kids aren’t coming to class because of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so few nurses in the district these days, she spends two days each week at Bret Harte, but does daily diabetes rounds at other schools and takes on other assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just question how it’s sustainable,” Harris-Jackson says of nurses’ workload. “How are we getting our needs met here, but also how are those other schools getting their needs met?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Nurse Williams’ office, Sakamoto is doing her best to meet Jayare’s needs. After rifling around in search of the binder where Williams logs treatments, she hands Jayare his inhaler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please do it the right way,” she says, though it’s not clear she knows what that is. “One puff, then a deep breath and hold it — or I don't know if you hold it,” she says. “Just do it slowly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Sakamoto sends Jayare back to class, Nurse Williams bursts through the door. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry! I’m so sorry,” she says. “I just rushed here from another school where I had a new student show up with G-tube feedings.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was due at Bret Harte more than two hours earlier, but she had to train the staff at another school to handle the feeding procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was supposed to see many students today here, and of all those students now I can maybe see one,” she says. “The other students will have to be rescheduled to another day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams loves her job and says it’s painful to see the workload take a toll on her relationship with students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have students telling me all the time, ‘Miss Natasha where are you? I never see you. You never get to sit with me and talk about my medication,’” she says. “I feel like if I was here every day it would make a huge difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Troubling Best-Case Scenario\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Bret Harte is in some ways the district’s best-case scenario. Because it serves so many high-needs students it gets more nursing attention than some schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 30 schools don’t have a nurse assigned to them at all. It falls to managers in the district's Health Services Department and nurses like Williams, who already have brimming caseloads, to assess students and train staff at those schools between other work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers, attendance clerks and other staff are left to manage much of students’ day-to-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in the district has school nurses turning to their union, the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Education Association\u003c/a>, for help. In May the union filed a formal grievance accusing the district of violating the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/contract/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terms of their contract\u003c/a>, which sets a nurse’s maximum caseload at 1,350 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the extra tasks thrown her way, Natasha Williams oversees nearly 1,400 students at her three schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The effects of the shortage are really, really burned out nurses. Our turnover is incredible,” says nurse Sarah Nielsen Boyd, who oversees over 2,000 students at Oakland Tech, though there are other trained staff on site. “It's a crazy job. It's very stressful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to monitoring medical services for severely disabled students and kids with medical conditions from cancer to cystic fibrosis, Nielsen Boyd has dealt with mental health issues like panic attacks and self-harm. She’s also the school’s go-to in emergencies. And with nurses so scarce she sometimes gets pulled away to help at other schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district did not respond to the nurses’ initial complaint, the union tried again. In late August the district rejected the grievance, saying it wasn’t filed in a timely manner, and deemed it null and void.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to nurses and union officials, OUSD Director of Community Schools Student Services Andrea Bustamante wrote, “Notwithstanding denial of the grievance due to untimely filing, I find the start of the 2018-2019 school year to be a great opportunity to work collaboratively to improve working conditions for our valued OUSD nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district have yet to work out a solution. In the meantime, nurses have turned to other tactics. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nurses Demand Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/player/clip/1321?view_id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Board meeting\u003c/a> in late September, they showed up alongside teachers to demand the district address the shortage. They provided board members with statements they said they’d collected from parents and pediatricians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to take this seriously,” Oakland Education Association treasurer Deirdre Snyder told the board. “You’re going to be sued by some parent! It’s a travesty. I have seen seizures in my room, all kinds of problems, more and more as the years go on. You cannot pretend this isn’t happening. You need to act now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District-wide, there are over 700 students with severe allergies, more than 350 students whose asthma requires regular medication, about 200 students with seizure disorders, 50 students with diabetes and nearly 30 students with sickle cell disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a high-needs district. We take great pride in filling the medical needs for our kids,” says OUSD spokesman John Sasaki. He points out the district has a vision clinic and dental services, along with independently run general health clinics families can access at over a dozen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki says in the past five years, several school nurses have retired while others have left for other districts or taken hospital jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20 and 30 percent of their time on medical issues. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of full-time credentialed school nurse positions in the district has dropped over time, and so have the number of unfilled positions. Last school year, the district had 32 nurse positions, six of them unfilled. In 2015, there were about 35 positions and only three were unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some nurses say the district hasn’t done enough to recruit nurses, district officials peg the unfilled positions on a shortage that stretches beyond Oakland. In fact, across the state, about ten percent of school nurse positions are unfilled, according to Sheri Coburn, president of the California School Nurses Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coburn blames the shortage in part on the fact that nurses can make more money in traditional hospital settings. School nursing also requires specialized training that takes time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing everything we can,” Sasaki says. “We're scrambling to find more nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says staff is working to expand the nurse recruitment campaign and the district is working with the union to offer additional incentives, like signing bonuses, referral bonuses and stipends for experienced nurses who support and mentor newer nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown kids who have access to school nurses \u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/6/e20160852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do better than those who don’t\u003c/a> — they’re absent less, and their teachers can dedicate more time to teaching. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a minimum of one full-time school nurse at every school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, on average, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/126/pupilsupportpersonnel-type/Table#fmt=2391&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=95&ch=276,278,280,277,279,807,1136&sortColumnId=0&sortType=asc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one school nurse for every 2,500 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because nurse Natasha Williams divides her time between three schools, and a shortage of school nurses in the district means she has to pick up additional assignments, spreading her even thinner. When school started this year, 10 of Oakland Unified School District’s 30 \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nurse positions\u003c/a> weren’t filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It falls to other school staff to pick up the slack. Sakamoto does her best to keep track of when students need to take medications. She sets alarms on her phone to remind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of whatever I'm doing, I stop,” she says. “If I don't then, I will forget to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies ... first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us.'\u003ccite>April Harris-Jackson, Bret Harte principal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But those alarms go off six times per day, so things can get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have so many alarms set close to each other I'll turn one off because I think I already did that and then, 'Oh no!' It turns out that was the alarm for someone else. Sometimes schedules get way off,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20-30 percent of their time on medical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies and in first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us,” Harris-Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s attendance clerk, Carmen Argueta, spends so much time tending to students’ medical needs that Jayare thought she was another school nurse until Sakamoto told him otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 percent of students at the school receive special education services. Many of them require medical care. Harris-Jackson says she has students who regularly have seizures, others who rely on gastronomy tubes (G-tubes) and catheters, plus students with life-threatening allergies and chronic conditions that require daily medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurse Williams is in charge of assessing all those students and coming up with treatment plans. She works with their doctors and trains aides and other staff, like the attendance clerk, who provide care. She also does hearing and vision tests, makes sure kids have the medications they need at school, and follows up if kids aren’t coming to class because of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so few nurses in the district these days, she spends two days each week at Bret Harte, but does daily diabetes rounds at other schools and takes on other assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just question how it’s sustainable,” Harris-Jackson says of nurses’ workload. “How are we getting our needs met here, but also how are those other schools getting their needs met?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Nurse Williams’ office, Sakamoto is doing her best to meet Jayare’s needs. After rifling around in search of the binder where Williams logs treatments, she hands Jayare his inhaler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please do it the right way,” she says, though it’s not clear she knows what that is. “One puff, then a deep breath and hold it — or I don't know if you hold it,” she says. “Just do it slowly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Sakamoto sends Jayare back to class, Nurse Williams bursts through the door. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry! I’m so sorry,” she says. “I just rushed here from another school where I had a new student show up with G-tube feedings.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was due at Bret Harte more than two hours earlier, but she had to train the staff at another school to handle the feeding procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was supposed to see many students today here, and of all those students now I can maybe see one,” she says. “The other students will have to be rescheduled to another day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams loves her job and says it’s painful to see the workload take a toll on her relationship with students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have students telling me all the time, ‘Miss Natasha where are you? I never see you. You never get to sit with me and talk about my medication,’” she says. “I feel like if I was here every day it would make a huge difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Troubling Best-Case Scenario\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Bret Harte is in some ways the district’s best-case scenario. Because it serves so many high-needs students it gets more nursing attention than some schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 30 schools don’t have a nurse assigned to them at all. It falls to managers in the district's Health Services Department and nurses like Williams, who already have brimming caseloads, to assess students and train staff at those schools between other work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers, attendance clerks and other staff are left to manage much of students’ day-to-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in the district has school nurses turning to their union, the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Education Association\u003c/a>, for help. In May the union filed a formal grievance accusing the district of violating the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/contract/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terms of their contract\u003c/a>, which sets a nurse’s maximum caseload at 1,350 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the extra tasks thrown her way, Natasha Williams oversees nearly 1,400 students at her three schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The effects of the shortage are really, really burned out nurses. Our turnover is incredible,” says nurse Sarah Nielsen Boyd, who oversees over 2,000 students at Oakland Tech, though there are other trained staff on site. “It's a crazy job. It's very stressful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to monitoring medical services for severely disabled students and kids with medical conditions from cancer to cystic fibrosis, Nielsen Boyd has dealt with mental health issues like panic attacks and self-harm. She’s also the school’s go-to in emergencies. And with nurses so scarce she sometimes gets pulled away to help at other schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district did not respond to the nurses’ initial complaint, the union tried again. In late August the district rejected the grievance, saying it wasn’t filed in a timely manner, and deemed it null and void.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to nurses and union officials, OUSD Director of Community Schools Student Services Andrea Bustamante wrote, “Notwithstanding denial of the grievance due to untimely filing, I find the start of the 2018-2019 school year to be a great opportunity to work collaboratively to improve working conditions for our valued OUSD nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district have yet to work out a solution. In the meantime, nurses have turned to other tactics. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nurses Demand Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/player/clip/1321?view_id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Board meeting\u003c/a> in late September, they showed up alongside teachers to demand the district address the shortage. They provided board members with statements they said they’d collected from parents and pediatricians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to take this seriously,” Oakland Education Association treasurer Deirdre Snyder told the board. “You’re going to be sued by some parent! It’s a travesty. I have seen seizures in my room, all kinds of problems, more and more as the years go on. You cannot pretend this isn’t happening. You need to act now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District-wide, there are over 700 students with severe allergies, more than 350 students whose asthma requires regular medication, about 200 students with seizure disorders, 50 students with diabetes and nearly 30 students with sickle cell disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a high-needs district. We take great pride in filling the medical needs for our kids,” says OUSD spokesman John Sasaki. He points out the district has a vision clinic and dental services, along with independently run general health clinics families can access at over a dozen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki says in the past five years, several school nurses have retired while others have left for other districts or taken hospital jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20 and 30 percent of their time on medical issues. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of full-time credentialed school nurse positions in the district has dropped over time, and so have the number of unfilled positions. Last school year, the district had 32 nurse positions, six of them unfilled. In 2015, there were about 35 positions and only three were unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some nurses say the district hasn’t done enough to recruit nurses, district officials peg the unfilled positions on a shortage that stretches beyond Oakland. In fact, across the state, about ten percent of school nurse positions are unfilled, according to Sheri Coburn, president of the California School Nurses Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coburn blames the shortage in part on the fact that nurses can make more money in traditional hospital settings. School nursing also requires specialized training that takes time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing everything we can,” Sasaki says. “We're scrambling to find more nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says staff is working to expand the nurse recruitment campaign and the district is working with the union to offer additional incentives, like signing bonuses, referral bonuses and stipends for experienced nurses who support and mentor newer nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown kids who have access to school nurses \u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/6/e20160852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do better than those who don’t\u003c/a> — they’re absent less, and their teachers can dedicate more time to teaching. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a minimum of one full-time school nurse at every school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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