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decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12038516 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds march during a May Day rally, calling for 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1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-4-KQED-1920x643.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds march during a May Day rally, calling for immigrant rights, on International Workers’ Day, in Santa Rosa on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Bloom, center, chants during a May Day rally, calling for immigrant rights, on International Workers’ Day, in Santa Rosa on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gather at the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office during a May Day rally, calling for immigrant rights, on 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-5-KQED-1920x643.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Banda Toxica performs as people dance at Old Courthouse Square, following a May Day rally, calling for immigrant rights, on International Workers’ Day, in Santa Rosa on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hortencia M. (left) and Maria E. chant and play buckets as drums as part of the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants in Oakland on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ILWU Local 10 Drill team performs and Cat Brooks speaks in Fruitvale BART Plaza in Oakland prior to the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants in Oakland on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038502\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-09-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-09-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-09-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march down International Boulevard in Oakland as part of the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-13-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spectators watch as the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants proceeds down International Boulevard in Oakland on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-3-KQED-800x268.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-3-KQED-1020x342.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-3-KQED-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-3-KQED-1536x515.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-3-KQED-1920x643.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spectators watch as the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants proceeds down International Boulevard in Oakland on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march down International Boulevard in Oakland as part of the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prabhakar said the Trump administration is not the root cause of struggles but rather the symptom of systems that are built to oppress people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers also drew parallels between rights for workers and immigrants and the push for a free Palestinian state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar marches took place in San Francisco, Santa Rosa, San José and across the Bay Area. More than 50 marches and strikes were slated to take place on May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, among thousands nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to work freely,” said Socorro Diaz, a housekeeper in Sonoma County. Diaz said she felt compelled to start organizing fellow workers, many of them immigrants, when the administration launched its sweeping immigration crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our rights as immigrants are human rights, and we want worker rights to be respected,” Diaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/matthewgreen\">\u003cem>Matthew Green\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>May Day San Francisco: Rally and March for Immigrant and Workers’ Rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of demonstrators gather in Civic Center Plaza to listen to speakers during a May Day rally in San Francisco on Thursday, May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038499\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-800x268.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1020x342.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1536x515.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1920x643.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a May Day rally in Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Thursday, May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather in Civic Center Plaza to listen to speakers during a May Day rally in San Francisco on Thursday, May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of demonstrators march from Civic Center Plaza toward the Embarcadero during a May Day protest in San Francisco on Thursday, May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-800x268.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1020x342.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1536x515.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1920x643.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march from Civic Center Plaza toward the Embarcadero during a May Day protest in San Francisco on Thursday, May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>May Day Strong: We Are the Many, Santa Rosa\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-2-KQED-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-2-KQED-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-2-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-2-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-2-KQED-1920x1273.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maureen Hayes holds an American flag during a May Day rally, calling for immigrant rights, on International Workers’ Day, in Santa Rosa on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12038516 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds march during a May Day rally, calling for immigrant rights, on International Workers’ Day, in Santa Rosa on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038517\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-4-KQED-800x268.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-4-KQED-1020x342.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-4-KQED-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-4-KQED-1536x515.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-4-KQED-1920x643.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds march during a May Day rally, calling for immigrant rights, on International Workers’ Day, in Santa Rosa on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Bloom, center, chants during a May Day rally, calling for immigrant rights, on International Workers’ Day, in Santa Rosa on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250501_MAYDAYRALLY_GC-7-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gather at the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office during a May Day rally, calling for immigrant rights, on International Workers’ Day, in Santa Rosa on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-5-KQED-800x268.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-5-KQED-1020x342.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-5-KQED-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-5-KQED-1536x515.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-DIPTYCH-5-KQED-1920x643.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Banda Toxica performs as people dance at Old Courthouse Square, following a May Day rally, calling for immigrant rights, on International Workers’ Day, in Santa Rosa on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-12-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hortencia M. (left) and Maria E. chant and play buckets as drums as part of the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants in Oakland on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-QUAD-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ILWU Local 10 Drill team performs and Cat Brooks speaks in Fruitvale BART Plaza in Oakland prior to the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants in Oakland on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038502\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAY-DAY-MARCH-OAKLAND-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" 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"content": "\u003cp>Two months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>’s city auditor identified over $1.6 million in excess overtime, the city has continued the payments as it attempts to locate documents that show they are authorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028114/audit-finds-overtime-waste-in-oakland-suggesting-a-widespread-spending-problem\">city auditor\u003c/a>’s investigation, which was prompted by a July 2023 anonymous whistleblower complaint, found the city overpaid dozens of employees in the departments of transportation and public works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250202_FLSA-Investigation-Report_FINAL.pdf\">a report released Feb. 20\u003c/a>, the investigation reviewed payroll records dating back to 2018 and found the city used formulas for calculating overtime that exceeded federal guidelines established by the Fair Labor Standards Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report cited one example of an employee whose annual salary was $127,691.20, and who received $3,885.16 in payment for a one-week period as opposed to the $538.32 required by the FLSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an April 22 meeting of the Oakland City Council’s Finance and Management Committee, city officials responded to the auditor’s investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve programmed does not align with the federal standard, but it is not illegal and it’s not inappropriate as long as it’s been duly authorized,” Oakland Finance Director Erin Roseman told the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10920662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10920662 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland aerial view.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Oakland. \u003ccite>(James Daisa/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roseman said city officials were attempting to review a multitude of documents, including legal settlements, side letters and MOUs with labor unions, to ensure the payments comply with city agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff are going through paper files and emails because the 2023 ransomware attack on the city’s computer systems had cut off access to certain documents, Roseman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the auditor’s review of MOUs, Oakland’s city charter, municipal code and city ordinances did not find justification for the payments, the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody is arguing that cities can’t be more generous than what the law requires,” Michael Houston, Oakland’s City Auditor, told KQED in an interview. “The problem is that — well, one problem is that there’s no basis on which they are paying in such excess of what the law requires.”[aside postID=news_12037649 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-02_qed-1020x680.jpg']“It would need to be approved. Any kind of overtime pay would have had to have been approved by the City Council or part of the labor negotiations,” he added. “You can’t just decide; a process needs to be followed. Otherwise, it’s a gift of public funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston said his office consulted the city attorney’s office throughout the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We investigated this matter for over a year and requested authorizing documents, and didn’t receive any. If there were such documents, I would have hoped that they would have found them over the course of the year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city auditor’s office plans to present the findings of its investigation to the full city council on May 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the city is facing an $87 million shortfall in this year’s budget and a $265 million deficit projected over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins was expected to release a proposed FY 2025-27 budget today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a press release Wednesday evening, the city announced it was pushing the date back four days to, “allow for the briefing and input of incoming elected officials and other key stakeholders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is legally required to pass a balanced budget by June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Administrator Jestin Johnson said at the April 22 meeting that Oakland pays city employees more than the minimum required, and that rates are driven by the city’s agreements with labor unions. He said the city was consulting an outside expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this item first came up, we worked very closely with the office of the city attorney, who identified an external resource that can actually help us parse through the real answer to the question, is if, whether or not the calculations are correct,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the city attorney’s office confirmed that it is contracting with the employment and labor relations law firm Liebert Cassidy Whitmore to advise the city on the auditor’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038313\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Council Member Janani Ramachandran in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson declined to describe exactly what the firm is looking into, citing attorney-client privilege and the city administrator’s ability to act in the best interest of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how much the city is paying the law firm. Oakland’s city administrator has the authority to spend under $250,000 without approval from the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why we would need to verify information from an independent auditor that the city already has and pays for and that voters elect,” City Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, who chairs the Finance and Management Committee, said in an interview. “It’s like questioning the independence and veracity of what he’s doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan asked during the meeting whether the city was still using the same formulas two months after the city auditor identified them as unauthorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roseman said the city is waiting to hear from the outside law firm before making any changes.[aside postID=news_12038227 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“My jaw dropped,” Ramachandran said. “Why on Earth are we not moving forward with rectifying the problem immediately? That just blew my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the auditor’s report, the city made the payments to 158 employees in the city’s Department of Transportation and 368 employees in the Public Works Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston said his office had no reason to believe the problem was limited to just the two departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what we were able to absolutely confirm,” but he noted, “The calculation applies citywide, and it could be a much bigger number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said she was interested in expanding the investigation of overtime pay formulas to the city’s other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee said she was alarmed by the findings of the city auditor’s investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under no circumstances should taxpayer dollars be spent improperly, without oversight, or in a manner that lacks transparency and accountability,” Lee said. “As Mayor, I will work closely with City administration and other City leaders to strengthen oversight, and push for the formal adoption of an authoritative overtime pay calculation — and make City payroll, spending systems, and formulas more transparent to the public across all departments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee holds a press conference in Oakland on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report recommends a citywide review of overtime formulas, but Houston said his office does not have the capacity to conduct such a review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Zac Unger requested that Johnson ask the law firm to look into overtime formulas for sworn employees, such as police and fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney’s office spokesperson declined to say whether or not that was a possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned because we don’t have a single penny to waste,” Ramachandran said. “And every dollar means something, regardless of how much it is. This is an example of mismanagement of taxpayer dollars, and it needs to be rectified as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Oakland City Administrator Dan Lindheim said any potential waste is likely to be a political issue rather than a financial one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people believe you’re wasting public money, they’re not going to vote for a sales tax or a parcel tax,” he said. “So it’s really an issue of trust rather than the actual dollar amount in this particular case. But if this goes much further. If there’s miscalculations of overtime in [Oakland Police Department], then that could be a big number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report cited one example of an employee whose annual salary was $127,691.20, and who received $3,885.16 in payment for a one-week period as opposed to the $538.32 required by the FLSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an April 22 meeting of the Oakland City Council’s Finance and Management Committee, city officials responded to the auditor’s investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve programmed does not align with the federal standard, but it is not illegal and it’s not inappropriate as long as it’s been duly authorized,” Oakland Finance Director Erin Roseman told the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10920662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10920662 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland aerial view.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Oakland. \u003ccite>(James Daisa/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roseman said city officials were attempting to review a multitude of documents, including legal settlements, side letters and MOUs with labor unions, to ensure the payments comply with city agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff are going through paper files and emails because the 2023 ransomware attack on the city’s computer systems had cut off access to certain documents, Roseman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the auditor’s review of MOUs, Oakland’s city charter, municipal code and city ordinances did not find justification for the payments, the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody is arguing that cities can’t be more generous than what the law requires,” Michael Houston, Oakland’s City Auditor, told KQED in an interview. “The problem is that — well, one problem is that there’s no basis on which they are paying in such excess of what the law requires.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It would need to be approved. Any kind of overtime pay would have had to have been approved by the City Council or part of the labor negotiations,” he added. “You can’t just decide; a process needs to be followed. Otherwise, it’s a gift of public funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston said his office consulted the city attorney’s office throughout the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We investigated this matter for over a year and requested authorizing documents, and didn’t receive any. If there were such documents, I would have hoped that they would have found them over the course of the year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city auditor’s office plans to present the findings of its investigation to the full city council on May 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the city is facing an $87 million shortfall in this year’s budget and a $265 million deficit projected over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins was expected to release a proposed FY 2025-27 budget today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a press release Wednesday evening, the city announced it was pushing the date back four days to, “allow for the briefing and input of incoming elected officials and other key stakeholders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is legally required to pass a balanced budget by June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Administrator Jestin Johnson said at the April 22 meeting that Oakland pays city employees more than the minimum required, and that rates are driven by the city’s agreements with labor unions. He said the city was consulting an outside expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this item first came up, we worked very closely with the office of the city attorney, who identified an external resource that can actually help us parse through the real answer to the question, is if, whether or not the calculations are correct,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the city attorney’s office confirmed that it is contracting with the employment and labor relations law firm Liebert Cassidy Whitmore to advise the city on the auditor’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038313\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Council Member Janani Ramachandran in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson declined to describe exactly what the firm is looking into, citing attorney-client privilege and the city administrator’s ability to act in the best interest of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how much the city is paying the law firm. Oakland’s city administrator has the authority to spend under $250,000 without approval from the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why we would need to verify information from an independent auditor that the city already has and pays for and that voters elect,” City Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, who chairs the Finance and Management Committee, said in an interview. “It’s like questioning the independence and veracity of what he’s doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan asked during the meeting whether the city was still using the same formulas two months after the city auditor identified them as unauthorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roseman said the city is waiting to hear from the outside law firm before making any changes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:46 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland public school teachers reached a tentative deal with the city’s school district on Wednesday to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038078/oakland-teachers-set-strike-this-week-union-tells-school-district\">avoid a one-day strike\u003c/a> scheduled for May Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Oakland Education Association said the district agreed to maintain contracts for 120 high school teachers whose hours \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029001/oakland-school-board-approves-over-100-layoffs-a-day-after-similar-vote-in-sf\">would have been reduced\u003c/a> in next year’s budget to shrink the district’s deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus-based substitute teachers, whose roles would have been centralized after this year as part of the proposed budget cuts, will also remain at their assigned school sites under the new $2.5 million deal with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This outcome reflects the power of educators standing together against cuts harmful to our goal of retaining experienced teachers in Oakland’s hardest-to-staff classrooms,” OEA President Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said Wednesday that it reached an agreement with the union after extensive negotiations throughout the beginning of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a process that ended with both sides putting students first, and keeping all of our young people in school through the end of the academic year, which is now less than a month away,” a spokesperson said in a midday email to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transitional kindergarten students play outside during recess at the International Community School in Oakland on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 2,500 educators were poised to walk off the job for a single day on Thursday in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037661/oakland-teachers-ok-a-may-day-strike-amid-districts-budget-cuts\">protest of unfair labor practices\u003c/a>, the union informed OUSD on Tuesday, after the district failed to deliver transparent financial information, according to Taiz-Rancifer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union had previously accused the district of manufacturing its budget shortfall, which was estimated as high as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">$95 million in December\u003c/a>, to justify cutting teachers while inflating the district’s administrative overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the district proposed reducing more than 100 teacher positions from 11-month to 10-month roles, which would have cut hours they worked over the summer with students on college readiness and curriculum development, according to the union. It said the cuts would have resulted in lower pay for employees and harmed students.[aside postID=news_12037315 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-11_qed-1020x656.jpg']The district also proposed centralizing substitute teaching positions that had been allocated to individual school sites during the COVID-19 pandemic, to give students more continuity in who their substitutes are when their teachers miss school or have to attend meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD’s school board also gave staff permission to incorporate a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">laundry list of other cuts\u003c/a> in next year’s budget, including centralizing contracts and reducing campus discretionary spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Projections of the district’s deficit for the 2025–26 academic year have swung wildly in recent months, shrinking from the December high to $12 million after factoring in some of those cuts. This year, the district is operating at a deficit of $70 million, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, where the deficit stands is unclear. Board director Mike Hutchinson said the deal, which is subject to county approval, doesn’t specify where the funding will come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either we’re going to have to find someplace else to cut — and at this point, it’s going to really impact a lot of things to cut this way — or there’s also a really good chance that either the trustee will stay this decision because we have not identified how to pay for it,” he said. … “The contracts still have to be approved by the county as well, and I will expect the county not to approve this either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1958px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1958\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed.jpg 1958w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-1536x1046.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-1920x1307.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1958px) 100vw, 1958px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District board member, Mike Hutchinson, speaks during a meeting at Metwest High School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The deal did not make mention of the financial transparency requests that the union said spurred the strike. On Friday, spokesperson John Sasaki said the district had been committed to delivering those documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The union] acknowledged that the district has fully responded to all but two complex, budget-related [requests for information] that were recently submitted,” he wrote in an email to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson believes that the union’s claim that the district hasn’t been financially transparent was not the reason it proposed the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very clear that this was all just an effort and a threat to our whole community just to leverage a payout from their friendly school board directors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, he said, the same school board members voted to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037315/oakland-school-board-votes-remove-superintendent-sparking-worries-instability\"> push out the district’s longtime superintendent \u003c/a>two years before the end of her term. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, who has been credited for the district’s impending exit from state receivership, often butted heads with the union as the district has navigated layoffs and possible school closures in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said in a statement Tuesday that the planned strike, which would have been the fourth by OUSD teachers in recent years, would have worsened mistrust and instability at a tenuous time for the city’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ongoing turmoil puts the entire district at risk — including the very real threat of returning to state receivership,” OUSD wrote in a statement urging families to oppose the strike at a special Tuesday night school board meeting discussing the potential action. “Every strike weakens our ability to deliver stable services and sustain improvements families and students deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This outcome reflects the power of educators standing together against cuts harmful to our goal of retaining experienced teachers in Oakland’s hardest-to-staff classrooms,” OEA President Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said Wednesday that it reached an agreement with the union after extensive negotiations throughout the beginning of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a process that ended with both sides putting students first, and keeping all of our young people in school through the end of the academic year, which is now less than a month away,” a spokesperson said in a midday email to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/21_240517-TKBilingualLearners-80-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transitional kindergarten students play outside during recess at the International Community School in Oakland on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 2,500 educators were poised to walk off the job for a single day on Thursday in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037661/oakland-teachers-ok-a-may-day-strike-amid-districts-budget-cuts\">protest of unfair labor practices\u003c/a>, the union informed OUSD on Tuesday, after the district failed to deliver transparent financial information, according to Taiz-Rancifer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union had previously accused the district of manufacturing its budget shortfall, which was estimated as high as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">$95 million in December\u003c/a>, to justify cutting teachers while inflating the district’s administrative overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the district proposed reducing more than 100 teacher positions from 11-month to 10-month roles, which would have cut hours they worked over the summer with students on college readiness and curriculum development, according to the union. It said the cuts would have resulted in lower pay for employees and harmed students.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The district also proposed centralizing substitute teaching positions that had been allocated to individual school sites during the COVID-19 pandemic, to give students more continuity in who their substitutes are when their teachers miss school or have to attend meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD’s school board also gave staff permission to incorporate a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">laundry list of other cuts\u003c/a> in next year’s budget, including centralizing contracts and reducing campus discretionary spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Projections of the district’s deficit for the 2025–26 academic year have swung wildly in recent months, shrinking from the December high to $12 million after factoring in some of those cuts. This year, the district is operating at a deficit of $70 million, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, where the deficit stands is unclear. Board director Mike Hutchinson said the deal, which is subject to county approval, doesn’t specify where the funding will come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either we’re going to have to find someplace else to cut — and at this point, it’s going to really impact a lot of things to cut this way — or there’s also a really good chance that either the trustee will stay this decision because we have not identified how to pay for it,” he said. … “The contracts still have to be approved by the county as well, and I will expect the county not to approve this either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1958px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1958\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed.jpg 1958w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-1536x1046.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-14_qed-1920x1307.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1958px) 100vw, 1958px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District board member, Mike Hutchinson, speaks during a meeting at Metwest High School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The deal did not make mention of the financial transparency requests that the union said spurred the strike. On Friday, spokesperson John Sasaki said the district had been committed to delivering those documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The union] acknowledged that the district has fully responded to all but two complex, budget-related [requests for information] that were recently submitted,” he wrote in an email to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson believes that the union’s claim that the district hasn’t been financially transparent was not the reason it proposed the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very clear that this was all just an effort and a threat to our whole community just to leverage a payout from their friendly school board directors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, he said, the same school board members voted to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037315/oakland-school-board-votes-remove-superintendent-sparking-worries-instability\"> push out the district’s longtime superintendent \u003c/a>two years before the end of her term. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, who has been credited for the district’s impending exit from state receivership, often butted heads with the union as the district has navigated layoffs and possible school closures in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said in a statement Tuesday that the planned strike, which would have been the fourth by OUSD teachers in recent years, would have worsened mistrust and instability at a tenuous time for the city’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ongoing turmoil puts the entire district at risk — including the very real threat of returning to state receivership,” OUSD wrote in a statement urging families to oppose the strike at a special Tuesday night school board meeting discussing the potential action. “Every strike weakens our ability to deliver stable services and sustain improvements families and students deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s teachers union informed the district on Tuesday morning that its nearly 3,000 members \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037661/oakland-teachers-ok-a-may-day-strike-amid-districts-budget-cuts\">plan to strike\u003c/a> on Thursday over what it called unfair labor practices surrounding the district’s budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes after 65% of voting members elected last week to support a one-day work stoppage on May Day, accusing Oakland Unified School District leadership of withholding requested financial information and manufacturing a budget crisis to justify \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029001/oakland-school-board-approves-over-100-layoffs-a-day-after-similar-vote-in-sf\">teacher layoffs\u003c/a> and significant budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD officials said in an update to families on Tuesday that schools would remain open during the strike, though it was not clear exactly what students would do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike would be the fourth by Oakland teachers since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland’s cycle of strikes has created decades of mistrust and instability,” the district said in its email to families. “This ongoing turmoil puts the entire district at risk — including the very real threat of returning to state receivership. Every strike weakens our ability to deliver stable services and sustain improvements families and students deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Educators Association President Kampala Taiz-Rancifer told KQED last week that the strike vote was spurred by the district’s lack of financial transparency as it prepares to make layoffs and cuts to contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037997\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Offices in Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“OUSD’s response to those requests [for financial information] has been delayed,” Taiz-Rancifer said. “They have cut members’ jobs, and we have to … understand what are the resources in the school district, along with whether or not the job losses are actually necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has accused the district of manufacturing a budget deficit that was projected as high as $95 million in December, while adding nearly as much in overhead to the central office’s spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Projections of the shortfall for the 2025–2026 academic year have swung wildly in recent months, recently shrinking to $12 million after factoring in some of the district’s cuts. This year, the district is operating at a deficit of $70 million, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, district spokesperson John Sasaki said the district had responded to 30 information requests from the union this year.[aside postID=news_12037315 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-11_qed-1020x656.jpg']“[The union] acknowledged that the district has fully responded to all but two complex, budget-related [requests for information] that were recently submitted,” he wrote in an email to families. “We remain committed to transparency, open communication, and working in good faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Taiz-Rancifer had told members that the union’s bargaining team was focused on finding a resolution in negotiations with the district over the weekend, the situation escalated Tuesday when she said the strike would go forward Thursday without an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planned strike comes as tensions have mounted between top district officials and the teachers’ union. The union-backed school board majority voted last Wednesday to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037315/oakland-school-board-votes-remove-superintendent-sparking-worries-instability\">remove Oakland’s longtime superintendent\u003c/a>, Kyla Johnson-Trammell, two years before the end of her contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board set a special meeting for Tuesday night to discuss the decision and the impending strike, which the district urged families to speak at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taiz-Rancifer said her union has had significant labor challenges with the district, pointing to the three strikes that have taken place during Johnson-Trammell’s eight-year tenure. A strike in 2022 closed schools for more than a week and ended after educators were promised a retroactive 10% raise and continuing wage increases, which the district has blamed in part for its budget shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers’ union accuses OUSD of using an inflated budget shortfall in December to justify layoffs of about 100 teachers and hundreds of contract changes that will result in lower salaries for its members. The district also gave administrators the option to make more than 30 spending reductions in its upcoming budget proposal, including centralizing services and eliminating some contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, school board President Jennifer Brouhard and Vice President Valarie Bachelor proposed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029333/oaklands-school-board-long-been-disarray-is-it-turning-corner\">alternative budget solution plan\u003c/a> that puts caps on some central office spending. 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If the parties don’t come to an agreement by Wednesday, nearly 3,000 members of the Oakland Educators Association could take part in a one-day work stoppage on May 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Projections of the district’s shortfall for the 2025–2026 academic year have swung wildly in recent months, ballooning to $95 million in December and recently shrinking to $12 million after factoring in some cuts. This year, the district is operating at a deficit of $70 million, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve attempted to gather information all year. 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We had a significant reduction in total throughput,” Jacob said. “We end up having fewer ships that are coming through, we have fewer longshoremen that are working, fewer truckers that are working, fewer warehousemen that are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goods imported from China, a major source of trading for the Oakland port, are now facing a 145% tariff, but the import tax policy has been surrounded by uncertainty. Just days after initially announcing his so-called reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries, Trump declared a 90-day pause for most countries, with China excluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob said the pause will likely lead to a short spike in trade, with businesses hoping to sell or buy large quantities of international goods before the tariffs are reimposed, followed by a drop-off once the pause ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Port of Oakland on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while Trump has said he’s negotiating with China over the tariffs, the Chinese government and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said those talks have not yet started, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-time-china-switzerland-660aa519e9059de7d81368ec4eef4b38\">the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The far-reaching nature of the tariffs — and the confusion surrounding them — is vastly different from the import taxes Trump imposed during his first term, according to Jacob, who described the earlier tariffs as being levied on specific commodities in specific countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not what’s happening now, right? We had these sweeping, across-the-board tariffs that raised a lot of eyebrows, not just about the rates, which were exorbitant, but also about the method and the manner in which they happen,” Jacob said. “No one knows what the ultimate policy goal of those things were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Simon warned that “there’s a real potentiality of workers losing their jobs.”[aside postID=forum_2010101909222 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/Alexis-Madrigal-1020x574.jpg']“Listen, if there were no tariffs, Oakland would be in an emergency,” she said. “Now, we’re in ICU … we have to convince businesses to stay here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Tran, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, expressed concern for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034827/bay-area-business-already-tough-trumps-tariffs-preparing-pain\">effect on small, mom-and-pop businesses, which \u003c/a>will likely have to absorb the additional costs, raise prices or pull certain items from shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very important at this time that the community continues to support small businesses like all the restaurants and grocery stores in Oakland Chinatown,” Tran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon called the president’s tariffs a “no-win situation” and criticized his claim that tariffs will encourage businesses to move manufacturing operations stateside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all agree, we want manufacturing jobs here in the United States. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Shipping demand is falling at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/port-of-oakland\">Port of Oakland\u003c/a> because of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036199/trumps-tariffs-could-wreck-californias-economy-the-state-is-suing\">Trump administration’s tariffs\u003c/a>, according to local officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a roundtable discussion on Thursday, labor leaders, shipping officials and local business representatives warned that a trade war could deal a significant blow to the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Port officials said container cargo could fall 10% due to U.S. tariffs on foreign goods and the retaliatory tariffs other countries are imposing on American products, but they noted that is a conservative estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Jacob, president of the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, an organization that represents marine terminal owners and operators along the West Coast, said bookings fell dramatically after President Trump first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034289/trump-launches-liberation-day-tariffs-saying-global-trade-has-plundered-us-economy\">announced sweeping tariffs\u003c/a> on nearly all U.S. trading partners earlier this month, and he’s already seeing canceled voyages from Asia as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost the exact same thing we saw at the beginning of the pandemic. We had a significant reduction in total throughput,” Jacob said. “We end up having fewer ships that are coming through, we have fewer longshoremen that are working, fewer truckers that are working, fewer warehousemen that are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goods imported from China, a major source of trading for the Oakland port, are now facing a 145% tariff, but the import tax policy has been surrounded by uncertainty. Just days after initially announcing his so-called reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries, Trump declared a 90-day pause for most countries, with China excluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob said the pause will likely lead to a short spike in trade, with businesses hoping to sell or buy large quantities of international goods before the tariffs are reimposed, followed by a drop-off once the pause ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Port of Oakland on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while Trump has said he’s negotiating with China over the tariffs, the Chinese government and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said those talks have not yet started, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-time-china-switzerland-660aa519e9059de7d81368ec4eef4b38\">the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The far-reaching nature of the tariffs — and the confusion surrounding them — is vastly different from the import taxes Trump imposed during his first term, according to Jacob, who described the earlier tariffs as being levied on specific commodities in specific countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not what’s happening now, right? We had these sweeping, across-the-board tariffs that raised a lot of eyebrows, not just about the rates, which were exorbitant, but also about the method and the manner in which they happen,” Jacob said. “No one knows what the ultimate policy goal of those things were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Simon warned that “there’s a real potentiality of workers losing their jobs.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Listen, if there were no tariffs, Oakland would be in an emergency,” she said. “Now, we’re in ICU … we have to convince businesses to stay here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Tran, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, expressed concern for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034827/bay-area-business-already-tough-trumps-tariffs-preparing-pain\">effect on small, mom-and-pop businesses, which \u003c/a>will likely have to absorb the additional costs, raise prices or pull certain items from shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very important at this time that the community continues to support small businesses like all the restaurants and grocery stores in Oakland Chinatown,” Tran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon called the president’s tariffs a “no-win situation” and criticized his claim that tariffs will encourage businesses to move manufacturing operations stateside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all agree, we want manufacturing jobs here in the United States. Do we have infrastructure to create that? Was there an articulated plan to build infrastructure in the United States to bring back manufacturing jobs? Absolutely not,” Simon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other attendees at the roundtable discussion echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If tariffs are used in a wise way, in a way that’s tied together with the development of local manufacturing, it can be a good thing,” said Andreas Cluver, vice president of the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners. “But these kind of willy-nilly tariffs that are put in place for political reasons, for patronage reasons, are having a devastating impact on working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036576/oaklands-public-watchdog-starved-of-resources-loses-yet-another-top-official\">anti-corruption watchdog agency\u003c/a> is considering a parcel tax to fund its investigations and its stalled public campaign financing program rather than fall victim to the woes of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">city’s fiscal crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Ethics Commission, which investigates allegations against high-profile government officials such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022612/ex-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-3-others-charged-with-bribery-sprawling-corruption-probe\">former Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, also oversees the Democracy Dollars program. Although voters overwhelmingly passed the program into law in 2022, it has yet to be implemented in any election due to Oakland’s ongoing budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democracy Dollars promised to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/RESO-89316-Campaign-Reform-filed-materials_2022-07-30-033124_scna.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1745530836557143&usg=AOvVaw3jo9C3Dyg8F0ZcQSkAMkbn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refresh Oakland’s public financing program\u003c/a>, inspired by a similar initiative in Seattle, Commission Chair Francis Upton IV said. It would distribute $100 vouchers to Oakland residents, who could then use the vouchers to donate to participating campaigns for public office, such as mayoral and City Council candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to increase the number and diversity of the donors,” Upton said. “One of the problems that Oakland has is a lot of the money for the elections comes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036921/lee-takes-the-flats-taylor-wins-the-hills-but-labor-unions-deliver-the-city\">rich people in the hills\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program costs around $2 million per year, but the ballot measure that created it requires funding to come from the city’s general fund — leaving it vulnerable to the city’s budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the city declares a fiscal emergency, which it has, then they have the right to cut anything they want from the general fund,” Upton said. “Democracy Dollars was one of the programs they decided to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015107 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1920x1078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Public Ethics Commission, known for investigating high-profile officials like former Mayor Sheng Thao, also oversees Oakland’s Democracy Dollars program—approved by voters in 2022 but still unlaunched due to the city’s persistent budget shortfall. \u003ccite>(Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ethics commissioners remained hopeful that they could secure the funding for Democracy Dollars in time for 2024, but that election came and went. Now, commissioners say 2026 is likely off the table as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of 2024, Upton said the city made do by temporarily reimplementing its previous public campaign financing program, which for 20 years had reimbursed candidates for certain campaign expenses. The pot of money was small in 2024, though — just $155,000 for eligible candidates to split, Upton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s 2025-2027 budget will be adopted in June, but Upton and Public Ethics Commission executive director Nicolas Heidorn said it is unlikely that city officials will be able to carve out the money to fund Democracy Dollars. In that case, the commission intends to go forward with the plan to put a parcel tax on the ballot for the 2026 primary election.[aside postID=news_12036576 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-07_qed-1020x680.jpg']Heidorn, who will be the commission’s second top official to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006538/oaklands-top-ethics-investigator-is-resigning-citing-a-chronic-lack-of-resources\">resign in the last year\u003c/a> when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036576/oaklands-public-watchdog-starved-of-resources-loses-yet-another-top-official\">steps down in July\u003c/a>, said the agency does not have the resources to carry out its work investigating corruption in Oakland. It has just one investigator and a chief tasked with over 170 open cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a dedicated and stable funding source for the ethics commission is important to ensure that we can perform our role as an ethics watchdog agency,” Heidorn said. “And it’s also important for our independence. The commission’s budget should not be controlled by the same officials that the commission regulates from an ethics perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/PEC-Item-10-PEC-Ballot-Measure-Revenue-Options-03-19-2025.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1745530756367943&usg=AOvVaw34JxYD0VCy_eHfF2qbjpnp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staff report to the commission\u003c/a>, Heidorn outlined three different options for the parcel tax: one that funds just Democracy Dollars, a second that also funds the enforcement unit of the commission, and a third to fully fund Democracy Dollars and the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of those ranges from around $3.8 million to fund just Democracy Dollars, to around $7.2 million for the fully funded option. That translates to a parcel tax between $18.10 and $34.10 per parcel, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process to get a parcel tax on the ballot is not dissimilar from the ballot measure that created Democracy Dollars, Upton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the voters approved the parcel tax, which would include the Democracy Dollars, then it would certainly be implemented by 2028,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Heidorn, who will be the commission’s second top official to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006538/oaklands-top-ethics-investigator-is-resigning-citing-a-chronic-lack-of-resources\">resign in the last year\u003c/a> when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036576/oaklands-public-watchdog-starved-of-resources-loses-yet-another-top-official\">steps down in July\u003c/a>, said the agency does not have the resources to carry out its work investigating corruption in Oakland. It has just one investigator and a chief tasked with over 170 open cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a dedicated and stable funding source for the ethics commission is important to ensure that we can perform our role as an ethics watchdog agency,” Heidorn said. “And it’s also important for our independence. The commission’s budget should not be controlled by the same officials that the commission regulates from an ethics perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/PEC-Item-10-PEC-Ballot-Measure-Revenue-Options-03-19-2025.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1745530756367943&usg=AOvVaw34JxYD0VCy_eHfF2qbjpnp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staff report to the commission\u003c/a>, Heidorn outlined three different options for the parcel tax: one that funds just Democracy Dollars, a second that also funds the enforcement unit of the commission, and a third to fully fund Democracy Dollars and the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of those ranges from around $3.8 million to fund just Democracy Dollars, to around $7.2 million for the fully funded option. That translates to a parcel tax between $18.10 and $34.10 per parcel, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process to get a parcel tax on the ballot is not dissimilar from the ballot measure that created Democracy Dollars, Upton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the voters approved the parcel tax, which would include the Democracy Dollars, then it would certainly be implemented by 2028,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s school board voted Wednesday night to remove its superintendent, capping weeks of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035569/is-the-oakland-school-board-ousting-the-superintendent-depends-on-which-board-member-you-ask\">swirling rumors\u003c/a> about her employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell will leave her post on June 30 after agreeing to a “voluntary separation agreement,” passed by a 4-3 board vote. Previously, she was expected to remain at the helm through 2027 to ease the transition to her successor but step back from leading day-to-day operations at the end of this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Mike Hutchinson voted against the deal, saying that Johnson-Trammell, who was not present at the meeting, was pushed out after the board majority abruptly moved to change the terms of her contract earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have four [board] directors who are risking all of the gains that we made, forcing out the superintendent,” he said. “Don’t be confused. The reason she’s getting a payout is because she didn’t resign. This wasn’t her plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members who supported the superintendent’s renegotiation have not yet said why her contract was changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037458 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District board member, Mike Hutchinson, speaks during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the separation deal, Johnson-Trammell will be named “superintendent emeritus” of the district through mid-January. A new interim superintendent will be appointed July 1, according to board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before her contract was changed, Johnson-Trammell was expected to present an interim leadership plan divvying up responsibilities to members of her senior leadership team this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until June 2027, she would have continued to serve as the superintendent in name but focused on special projects, including networking with local and state partners and helping select her successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I prepare to turn the page, I do so knowing that Oakland Unified is positioned to keep moving forward — with clarity, compassion, and courage,” she said in a statement on Wednesday night. “I will always champion the district and our students, with love and confidence that our shared commitment to joyful, thriving schools will continue to lead the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037460 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District parents, students and supporters attend a board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell has led the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a> since 2017, walking it back from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037097/oakland-schools-poised-part-ways-with-superintendent-state-oversight-ends\">brink of financial insolvency\u003c/a> and bringing stability to the embattled district for the first time since it declared bankruptcy and was bailed out by the state in 2003. She previously attended OUSD schools and spent 18 years as a teacher and administrator in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement of her departure was met with boos from the crowd gathered for the meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School on Wednesday night, many of whom credited her for getting the district back on track after years of volatility.[aside postID=news_12037103 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg']“The superintendent’s stability has really led to the growth of really strong programs and beginning of results happening for students inside the district,” said Kimi Kean, who heads the advocacy group Families In Action. “Just the stability alone means there’s not that churn constantly. During those eight years, she’s really grown and retained a really strong senior team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Johnson-Trammell’s appointment, OUSD had had nine superintendents and state administrators since declaring bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent financial audit conducted as part of the district’s exit from state receivership credited Johnson-Trammell with the financial progress made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understood from personal experience in Oakland how financial instability undermines our efforts toward student success,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her tenure, Johnson-Trammell oversaw near-constant money problems, as well as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several teacher strikes, and several stalled — and reversed — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">attempts to close schools\u003c/a> in line with enrollment decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037467 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reading “we won’t wait for reading at grade level” is held by an individual during a rally calling for improved schools ahead of an Oakland Unified School District board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kean said she also began meaningful community engagement efforts to improve student learning outcomes, especially around early literacy, calling the superintendent’s approach “a real transparent and collaborative process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jumoke Hinton, a former school board member who voted to name Johnson-Trammell superintendent, said that she was responsible for improving high school graduation rates and completion of the coursework required for admission to the University of California system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was responsible for significant focus on student achievement during the pandemic, [and] thoughtful leadership around students having what they needed,” Hinton said in an email. “Kyla was pragmatic. She withstood teacher strikes and truly gave a lot to teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She brought resources, she built a trust with partners across Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037466 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District parents, students and community leaders rally in support of improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the district is set to exit state receivership after completing its final loan payments to the state this summer, it is not out of the woods financially and still faces significant challenges with enrollment, low test scores and teacher retention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit report commending OUSD’s progress also noted that the district has administrative inefficiencies and is operating 30 more schools than is fiscally responsible, which Johnson-Trammell and her senior leadership team had tried repeatedly to address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re finally free of the oversight of the colonial model that we’ve had to operate under for almost a quarter of a century, and we did it with our homegrown Black and brown leadership here in OUSD,” Hutchinson said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worries that the district could have to return to state oversight without steady leadership in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I assume many of our senior staff … will follow our superintendent out the door,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037465 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viveca Ycoi-Walton, an Oakland Unified School District parent, cheers during a rally calling for improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson accused the board members who voted in favor of the deal of colluding with the teachers’ union, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036400/oakland-teachers-union-moves-one-step-closer-possible-strike\">preparing to strike\u003c/a> for the fourth time in recent years on May 1 over fiscal transparency concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re openly colluding with [union] leadership. Today, they also refused to vote to protect the district against a strike,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cary Kaufman, the president of the administrators’ union, said during the meeting that leaders of the teachers’ union had threatened members in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one principal was told: “We control the board. We got Kyla fired, we can get you fired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Education Association President Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said Johnson-Trammell had made positive strides for the district, but noted that throughout her tenure, there have been three labor strikes, including one in 2023 that led to a weeklong instruction stoppage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037462 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronald Muhammad, an Oakland Unified School District parent, addresses the board during public comment at a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the vote on Wednesday, she said, that no matter who was superintendent after the meeting, it was important to the union to improve labor relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have had significant labor challenges in this district, and who takes [her] place is of interest for us,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people in the community who spoke with KQED said their top priority was a transparent, community-driven process to select a new leader — something they aren’t sure the current school board is committed to delivering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like when it comes to the board, there’s a lack of transparency for the majority,” parent Alisha Powell said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland’s school board voted Wednesday night to remove its superintendent, capping weeks of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035569/is-the-oakland-school-board-ousting-the-superintendent-depends-on-which-board-member-you-ask\">swirling rumors\u003c/a> about her employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell will leave her post on June 30 after agreeing to a “voluntary separation agreement,” passed by a 4-3 board vote. Previously, she was expected to remain at the helm through 2027 to ease the transition to her successor but step back from leading day-to-day operations at the end of this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Mike Hutchinson voted against the deal, saying that Johnson-Trammell, who was not present at the meeting, was pushed out after the board majority abruptly moved to change the terms of her contract earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have four [board] directors who are risking all of the gains that we made, forcing out the superintendent,” he said. “Don’t be confused. The reason she’s getting a payout is because she didn’t resign. This wasn’t her plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members who supported the superintendent’s renegotiation have not yet said why her contract was changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037458 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District board member, Mike Hutchinson, speaks during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the separation deal, Johnson-Trammell will be named “superintendent emeritus” of the district through mid-January. A new interim superintendent will be appointed July 1, according to board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before her contract was changed, Johnson-Trammell was expected to present an interim leadership plan divvying up responsibilities to members of her senior leadership team this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until June 2027, she would have continued to serve as the superintendent in name but focused on special projects, including networking with local and state partners and helping select her successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I prepare to turn the page, I do so knowing that Oakland Unified is positioned to keep moving forward — with clarity, compassion, and courage,” she said in a statement on Wednesday night. “I will always champion the district and our students, with love and confidence that our shared commitment to joyful, thriving schools will continue to lead the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037460 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District parents, students and supporters attend a board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell has led the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a> since 2017, walking it back from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037097/oakland-schools-poised-part-ways-with-superintendent-state-oversight-ends\">brink of financial insolvency\u003c/a> and bringing stability to the embattled district for the first time since it declared bankruptcy and was bailed out by the state in 2003. She previously attended OUSD schools and spent 18 years as a teacher and administrator in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement of her departure was met with boos from the crowd gathered for the meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School on Wednesday night, many of whom credited her for getting the district back on track after years of volatility.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The superintendent’s stability has really led to the growth of really strong programs and beginning of results happening for students inside the district,” said Kimi Kean, who heads the advocacy group Families In Action. “Just the stability alone means there’s not that churn constantly. During those eight years, she’s really grown and retained a really strong senior team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Johnson-Trammell’s appointment, OUSD had had nine superintendents and state administrators since declaring bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent financial audit conducted as part of the district’s exit from state receivership credited Johnson-Trammell with the financial progress made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understood from personal experience in Oakland how financial instability undermines our efforts toward student success,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her tenure, Johnson-Trammell oversaw near-constant money problems, as well as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several teacher strikes, and several stalled — and reversed — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">attempts to close schools\u003c/a> in line with enrollment decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037467 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reading “we won’t wait for reading at grade level” is held by an individual during a rally calling for improved schools ahead of an Oakland Unified School District board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kean said she also began meaningful community engagement efforts to improve student learning outcomes, especially around early literacy, calling the superintendent’s approach “a real transparent and collaborative process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jumoke Hinton, a former school board member who voted to name Johnson-Trammell superintendent, said that she was responsible for improving high school graduation rates and completion of the coursework required for admission to the University of California system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was responsible for significant focus on student achievement during the pandemic, [and] thoughtful leadership around students having what they needed,” Hinton said in an email. “Kyla was pragmatic. She withstood teacher strikes and truly gave a lot to teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She brought resources, she built a trust with partners across Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037466 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District parents, students and community leaders rally in support of improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the district is set to exit state receivership after completing its final loan payments to the state this summer, it is not out of the woods financially and still faces significant challenges with enrollment, low test scores and teacher retention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit report commending OUSD’s progress also noted that the district has administrative inefficiencies and is operating 30 more schools than is fiscally responsible, which Johnson-Trammell and her senior leadership team had tried repeatedly to address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re finally free of the oversight of the colonial model that we’ve had to operate under for almost a quarter of a century, and we did it with our homegrown Black and brown leadership here in OUSD,” Hutchinson said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worries that the district could have to return to state oversight without steady leadership in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I assume many of our senior staff … will follow our superintendent out the door,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037465 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viveca Ycoi-Walton, an Oakland Unified School District parent, cheers during a rally calling for improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson accused the board members who voted in favor of the deal of colluding with the teachers’ union, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036400/oakland-teachers-union-moves-one-step-closer-possible-strike\">preparing to strike\u003c/a> for the fourth time in recent years on May 1 over fiscal transparency concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re openly colluding with [union] leadership. Today, they also refused to vote to protect the district against a strike,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cary Kaufman, the president of the administrators’ union, said during the meeting that leaders of the teachers’ union had threatened members in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one principal was told: “We control the board. We got Kyla fired, we can get you fired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Education Association President Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said Johnson-Trammell had made positive strides for the district, but noted that throughout her tenure, there have been three labor strikes, including one in 2023 that led to a weeklong instruction stoppage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037462 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronald Muhammad, an Oakland Unified School District parent, addresses the board during public comment at a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the vote on Wednesday, she said, that no matter who was superintendent after the meeting, it was important to the union to improve labor relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have had significant labor challenges in this district, and who takes [her] place is of interest for us,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people in the community who spoke with KQED said their top priority was a transparent, community-driven process to select a new leader — something they aren’t sure the current school board is committed to delivering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like when it comes to the board, there’s a lack of transparency for the majority,” parent Alisha Powell said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former executive director of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-oakland\">East Oakland\u003c/a> youth boxing program pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax evasion in connection with embezzling at least $549,000 from the organization, a figure significantly higher than had been previously reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theft included a substantial donation presented by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029450/steph-curry-surprised-oakland-youth-gym-with-50000-its-leader-kept-the-cash-feds-say\">Steph and Ayesha Curry\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after taking the helm at the East Oakland Boxing Association in late 2016, Solomon Howard — whose legal name is Howard Solomon — became an authorized signatory on the organization’s Wells Fargo bank accounts and began transferring funds and donations into personal and business accounts he controlled at other banks, according to court documents and the plea agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard, 38, used the embezzled funds and donations to pay for expenses that had no connection to his job — including a vacation rental, a new car and more than $100,000 of Amazon purchases — and falsely reported them as “program supplies” and other generic expenses, \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/SolomonHowardCharges.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to federal charges (PDF)\u003c/a> filed in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Howard acknowledged that he transferred the money without informing EOBA’s board or anyone else affiliated with the organization. He also admitted to tax evasion by failing to report the embezzled funds as income on his tax filings from 2017 through 2021, and by misstating expenses associated with two purported businesses he claimed were operating at a loss — causing an estimated $287,000 in tax losses to the IRS, according to court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 14 by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or twice the gross gain from the fraud, and must pay at least $549,132 in restitution to the EOBA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard’s attorney, Randy Sue Pollock, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/AP23247692842290-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/AP23247692842290-scaled.jpg\" alt='A man and a woman stand on a stage speaking with a huge banner behind the that says, \"Eat. Learn. Play.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/AP23247692842290-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/AP23247692842290-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/AP23247692842290-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/AP23247692842290-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/AP23247692842290-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/AP23247692842290-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/AP23247692842290-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden State Warriors’ star Stephen Curry (right) speaks next to his wife, Ayesha Curry, during a charity event at Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, Aug. 28, 2023. The Currys are major philanthropists in the Bay Area, and their Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation supports youth in Oakland, the Bay Area and beyond. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Howard also admitted to pocketing a $50,000 check that the Currys \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2377252442587352\">presented to him in 2019\u003c/a> as part of an episode of Ellen DeGeneres’ show, “Ellen’s Greatest Night of Giveaways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the episode, Howard described the East Oakland Boxing Association as an after-school program “focused on keeping young folks off the streets and engaged in more holistic wellness activity.” He said it serves kids in “essentially kind of the forgotten part of Oakland, where a lot of poverty, crime, violence and negative activities happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the episode, the Currys delivered a box-truck full of supplies and revealed the surprise check, donated by the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully it goes a long way, man,” Steph Curry told Howard as the two men hugged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a devastating moment for our community but one that EOBA had been preparing for,” the organization said in a statement shortly after the charges were announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029450 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/BoxingGetty-1020x701.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 1987, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eoba.org/youth-programs\">EOBA\u003c/a> offers boxing lessons to children and young adults, and provides a range of other youth development programming, including gardening, cooking and academic support. Most participants come from lower-income backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids that come to this program, they already don’t have much,” said Dawna Williams, EOBA’s interim executive director. That makes it that much harder to understand how “somebody [could] take it from them, what somebody entrusted us with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said she was on the organization’s board of directors in 2021 when she began to notice numerous accounting irregularities. When she questioned Howard about it, he was suspiciously evasive, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were met with lots of excuses and things like that,” she said. “And that was just like, ‘Oh no, something’s not right here. Something is really off.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the board continued its probe, Howard abruptly laid off his entire staff of about nine people and then resigned, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He terminated everyone to kind of cover his tracks, I think,” she said. “We hired an independent accounting expert to come in and review our books, because he had also terminated the bookkeeper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like a DOGE moment here,” she added, referring to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.[aside postID=news_12030525 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-55804139_qed-1020x676.jpg']Williams said the board contacted the IRS in 2021, which referred the case to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that we could not allow somebody to do this to the kids and do this to the people who trusted us with this funding,” she said. “We knew that we had to find justice here. However long it took, whatever it took, we had to find justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since leaving EOBA, Howard has become a “transformational life coach,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/solomonhoward/\">according to his LinkedIn profile\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He needs to have his day in court. And hopefully he makes some level of restitution,” Williams said. “I don’t think he’s remorseful at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said EOBA has since taken steps to ensure this will never happen again, including using an external bookkeeper and requiring multiple signatures on all checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The small mom-and-pop nonprofits, they do need to have someone who is professionally there to manage their books and have some level of oversight,” she said. “I’m happy for us to have that oversight. That just keeps us on our Ps and Qs, [so] this will never happen again for us.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After running on a promise to unite Oakland, former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee has defeated former city councilmember Loren Taylor in a tight race for mayor. Lee will complete the term of former Mayor Sheng Thao, who was recalled in November.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, The Oaklandside’s Eli Wolfe joins us to discuss what to expect from Mayor-Elect Barbara Lee.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC8849590614\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:09] \u003c/em>Eli, what do we know right now about the results of the special mayor election in Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:17] \u003c/em>Technically the ballots are still being counted, but the race is pretty much over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:23] \u003c/em>Eli Wolf covers City Hall for the Oaklandside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:28] \u003c/em>Former Congresswoman Barbara Lee has beat former councilman Loren Taylor by about 53% to 47%. It’s narrower than I think some people thought, but it’s pretty decisive. And Barbara Lee, has declared victory and Loren Taylor has conceded. There’s some relatively small number of ballots that are still being tallied. There are also going to be ballots that need to be cured. Those are ballots where like someone’s signature doesn’t match up with their You know, the envelope they return their mail ballot in or there’s some other problem, but it’s such a small number that it’s highly, highly unlikely that it’ll change the outcome of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:10] \u003c/em>Are you surprised by these results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:12] \u003c/em>You know what, I would be lying if I said I knew how this election was going to turn out. I think that if you asked me in January, like a lot of people, we thought that Barbara Lee was going to kind of have a cakewalk. Barbara Lee had such enormous name recognition and respect in Oakland and so many endorsements that came in so quickly. But Loren Taylor then ran a pretty energetic campaign and there weren’t a ton of polls that were circulating, but the ones that did, especially in the last few weeks. Showed that he was neck and neck with Barbara Lee. So I think that if you ask most people now, they’ll say that they thought that Lee was still gonna pull it out, but election night, it felt very unclear to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:52] \u003c/em>And of course, this was a special mayoral election. We know voter turnout for things like this is usually pretty low. What can we say about what we know about how voter turnout looked this time around?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:06] \u003c/em>About 36% of registered voters came out. That’s not great. I think it’s decent for a special election. People generally vote at a lower frequency in special elections than general ones. For perspective, 126,000 people voted in the last mayoral election in 2022. That’s about 52% of register voters. In 2018, it was 69%. So, I mean, for a mayoral elections, even if it’s a special elections, I mean it is significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:41] \u003c/em>Eli, what do we know right now about how the city voted, meaning which areas leaned more so in favor of Lee or more so favor of Loren Taylor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:53] \u003c/em>It is a very classic division of votes in Oakland. It’s Hills versus Flatlands. Based on the data that we’ve seen so far, it looks like the Oakland Hills went heavily for Lauren Taylor and Oakland’s Flatlands, which is most of East Oakland, West Oakland, Downtown, went for Barbara Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:17] \u003c/em>What kind of platforms did the two candidates run on? Like what were the central issues to each of their campaigns and the key differences really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:26] \u003c/em>The big themes that I think both the candidates were talking about because people were talking about were homelessness, crime, public safety, and the budget. And I would say public safety really was the paramount issue for most people. I think something people probably picked up on is that on a lot of important issues, it was hard to tell the difference between the candidates. They aligned on a lotta stuff. Loren Taylor’s campaign was really focused on, on a thematic level, this idea that Oakland was broken and that someone needed to step in and fix it. Barbara Lee was approaching it as Oakland needed to unify. Barbara Lee’s proposals focused on sort of what she could leverage as a former member of Congress who has a ton of allies out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Barbara Lee: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:19] \u003c/em>I’ll govern with the same leadership that I’ve engaged in my entire career. With transparency, integrity, and accountability, and with an unwavering focus on the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:33] \u003c/em>She had a press conference where she appeared with the head of the Alameda County Labor Council and with the Head of the Chamber of Commerce sort of like hitting that unifying theme and talked more in detail about this 10-point, 100 day plan for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Barbara Lee: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:50] \u003c/em>We made sure that these were actionable items that weren’t just promises, but promises that we could keep to address our challenges. So let me just go over some of these. Bringing together the police department leadership and representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:07] \u003c/em>She said that she’s gonna make sure that the city gets its fair share of homelessness dollars from Alameda County. 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Those are ballots where like someone’s signature doesn’t match up with their You know, the envelope they return their mail ballot in or there’s some other problem, but it’s such a small number that it’s highly, highly unlikely that it’ll change the outcome of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:10] \u003c/em>Are you surprised by these results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:12] \u003c/em>You know what, I would be lying if I said I knew how this election was going to turn out. I think that if you asked me in January, like a lot of people, we thought that Barbara Lee was going to kind of have a cakewalk. Barbara Lee had such enormous name recognition and respect in Oakland and so many endorsements that came in so quickly. But Loren Taylor then ran a pretty energetic campaign and there weren’t a ton of polls that were circulating, but the ones that did, especially in the last few weeks. Showed that he was neck and neck with Barbara Lee. So I think that if you ask most people now, they’ll say that they thought that Lee was still gonna pull it out, but election night, it felt very unclear to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:52] \u003c/em>And of course, this was a special mayoral election. We know voter turnout for things like this is usually pretty low. What can we say about what we know about how voter turnout looked this time around?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:06] \u003c/em>About 36% of registered voters came out. That’s not great. I think it’s decent for a special election. People generally vote at a lower frequency in special elections than general ones. For perspective, 126,000 people voted in the last mayoral election in 2022. That’s about 52% of register voters. In 2018, it was 69%. 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Barbara Lee’s proposals focused on sort of what she could leverage as a former member of Congress who has a ton of allies out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Barbara Lee: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:19] \u003c/em>I’ll govern with the same leadership that I’ve engaged in my entire career. With transparency, integrity, and accountability, and with an unwavering focus on the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:33] \u003c/em>She had a press conference where she appeared with the head of the Alameda County Labor Council and with the Head of the Chamber of Commerce sort of like hitting that unifying theme and talked more in detail about this 10-point, 100 day plan for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Barbara Lee: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:50] \u003c/em>We made sure that these were actionable items that weren’t just promises, but promises that we could keep to address our challenges. So let me just go over some of these. Bringing together the police department leadership and representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:07] \u003c/em>She said that she’s gonna make sure that the city gets its fair share of homelessness dollars from Alameda County. She also had some very specific and sort of like smaller issues that are still important. Talked about like deploying vegetation management crews to clear hazards in the city’s high-risk fire zones. I remember there was a pretty scary fire last year. So getting money to make sure that we don’t have a fire like that again is important. I could go on here. I mean, she’s talked about like, you know, auditing city contracts, modernizing the city charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Barbara Lee: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:41] \u003c/em>And ensure that public funds are spent effectively and responsibly by contractors and non-profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Eli Wolfe: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:49] \u003c/em>Pretty ambitious things. 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The move would follow discussions about Johnson-Trammell’s employment at board meetings over the last month, which had raised conflicting reports about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035569/is-the-oakland-school-board-ousting-the-superintendent-depends-on-which-board-member-you-ask\">whether she was being pushed out early\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell signed a three-year contract extension in August that would have had her oversee the district until the end of the 2026–2027 school year, though she had always planned to step back from heading its day-to-day operations this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent by the district after news of the superintendent’s potential departure initially broke earlier this month, Board President Jennifer Brouhard said that discussion of ousting Johnson-Trammell was “premature.” She did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board listens to public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Students, families, educators, and community members raised their concerns about a proposed merger of their schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell, an Oakland native and a former student and teacher in Oakland Unified classrooms, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11611940/meet-the-homegrown-superintendents-from-san-francisco-and-oakland\">took the helm of the district\u003c/a> amid a financial crisis — a position she has come to know well during her eight-year tenure. All of it has been under the watchful eye of the state since the district was bailed out of bankruptcy by California in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between declaring bankruptcy and the start of Johnson-Trammell’s term, the district had nine different superintendents or state administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the eight years since, [Johnson-Trammell] has led the district, and installed the systems that are digging us out of those financial challenges,” OUSD said in a statement Tuesday announcing its exit from receivership.[aside postID=news_12036400 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-9.20.34-AM-1020x550.png']“Since she became superintendent … Johnson-Trammell has had fiscal vitality and organizational resilience as two of her top priorities for the district, and that has led us to where we are today,” the district’s statement continued. “She understood from personal experience in Oakland how financial instability undermines our efforts toward student success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell’s first budget as superintendent required $9 million in cuts. Since then, the district’s budget has been squeezed by continued enrollment declines, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013739/oakland-school-board-spurns-campus-closures-plans-merge-some-schools-instead\">higher-than-advisable number of small schools\u003c/a> and significantly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949458/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district\">increasing teacher wages.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the district said Tuesday that it has made considerable progress toward fiscal stability, recent budget planning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023461/ousd-on-track-run-out-of-cash-after-avoiding-hard-decisions-scathing-letter-says\">hasn’t been smooth sailing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the district certified its first negative budget in more than 20 years, indicating it could run out of cash to pay its bills in the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said the district would be in a bad spot if it loses Johnson-Trammell, whose top budget staff could leave with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know other senior staff will follow her out the door without a plan in place or replacement in place,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904318 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-scaled-e1745361588134.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1473\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, former Oakland school board director, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An independent audit of the district’s finances, another step toward exiting receivership, found that the district is operating about 30 more school sites than is fiscally responsible and needs to increase its administrative efficiency. Still, it credited Johnson-Trammell and her budget team’s sustained leadership as the primary reason for the district’s progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson worries that losing this stable team, without qualified candidates ready to take over, could make the district’s independence short-lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could potentially leave receivership on June 30th and get put right back in on July 1st if we don’t have a superintendent and leadership in place that [can] manage our decisions going forward,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD still has a deficit of $70 million for the current academic year. It’s whittled down next year’s deficit, which was projected in December at $95 million, to $12 million after factoring in a laundry list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">service cuts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029001/oakland-school-board-approves-over-100-layoffs-a-day-after-similar-vote-in-sf\">layoffs\u003c/a>. Those will be reflected in the budget presented later this spring, by whoever steps in as interim superintendent should Johnson-Trammell leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School sites’ discretionary funds, individual supplies and community agency contracts, and capacity for overtime pay are all on the chopping block after the board approved a significant menu of cuts presented by Chief Budget Officer Lisa Grant-Dawson in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these cuts reduced next year’s expected shortfall, the district is still planning to spend more than it brings in each month. Nearly half of the projected savings from the budget-balancing solutions will be one-time savings, so further cuts will likely be necessary in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But she pulled ahead by some 5,000 votes in the latest ranked choice tally released Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036555/barbara-lee-takes-decisive-lead-over-loren-taylor-in-oakland-mayoral-election\">gaining a 53% to 47% lead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12036919 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will govern with the same leadership I’ve engaged in my entire career: with transparency, integrity and accountability; with unwavering focus on the results you expect and deserve; with an ability to bring together people who do not always agree but believe in a better Oakland,” Lee said Monday in her first remarks as mayor-elect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor was largely backed by business and tech interests and had strong support from proponents of Thao’s recall campaign (which he supported and Lee opposed). 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