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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When his English teacher abruptly quit last month to take a higher-paying corporate job, Will Flattery-Vickness knew something needed to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she had to leave to get a tech job, that just shows teachers need to be supported more,” said Flattery-Vickness, 18, a senior at Oakland Technical High School, whose class has been loosely supervised for several weeks by a revolving cast of substitute teachers. “It just added to the chaos of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flattery-Vickness was one of the roughly 25 students who joined teachers on the picket line in front of Oakland Tech Friday morning, on the second day of a districtwide teacher strike. Oakland teachers, who have been working without a contract since July 2017, are among the lowest-paid educators in the Bay Area. They’re demanding a 12 percent raise over the next three years, smaller class sizes and more nurses and counselors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flattery-Vickness said he felt compelled to be on the front lines supporting them, even though most of his peers had stayed at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my classmates were like, ‘Yay, no school,’” he said. “They don’t fully understand what’s going on, that this affects them, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day my education is going to be so much better,” he added, if teachers get what they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theo Zarobell, 18, another Oakland Tech senior who came out Friday, echoed this sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what teachers are asking for is really benefiting us as students,” he said. “I’m struck by how much they really care about us. I think we owe it to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 87 district schools have remained open during the strike, staffed by administrators and temporary substitutes, but the vast majority of students haven’t attended, according to multiple reports. The district has yet to release official attendance records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on Friday afternoon, a sprinkling of students stood out among the sea of hundreds of teachers and supporters who congregated at a spirited rally in DeFremery Park in West Oakland, at the site where the Black Panther Party staged demonstrations and social programs a half century ago. A lineup of speakers, including two high school students and legendary labor leader Dolores Huerta, fired up the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728396\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11728396 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35399__M6A0576.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lively crowd of teachers and students fills DeFremery Park in West Oakland during Friday’s rally. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Education is a big part of my life, teachers are a big part of my life,” said Marie Rodriguez, 16, a junior at Oakland High School, who stood in the thick of the rally. Nearby, amid the cacophony of drumming and horn blowing, a giant inflatable rat bobbed in the breeze. “If they’re out here fighting for a cause, I need to fight with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez said her father teaches at her school, so this strike has very much hit home. She said Oakland High has one part-time nurse for 1,700 students, and that some of her classes were so overcrowded at the beginning of this year there weren’t enough seats to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is showing me how to advocate when things get to the point that you need to go out on the streets,” Rodriguez said, adding that she was planning to take the SATs in a few weeks, but she wasn’t too concerned about the lost days of preparation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders from the Oakland Education Association met with district officials on Friday, although it remained unclear by the end of the day if any progress had been made. Regardless, the strike will more than likely stretch into next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, which faces a huge budget deficit and sharply declining enrollment, has repeatedly said it supports paying teachers more, but simply can’t afford the 12 percent bump they’re asking for. In a last-ditch effort to avert a strike on Wednesday, district officials proposed a 7 percent raise over the next three years and a 1.5 percent retroactive bonus, an offer the union said didn’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etiene Torres, who teaches World History at Castlemont High School, one of the many schools the district is reportedly looking to close in the next several years, was pleasantly surprised to run into a group of his own students at the rally. Most of them are recent immigrants who are learning English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even text them, they just came this morning on their own,” Torres said, noting that he planned to bring up the strike and the impact of collective action in his upcoming lesson on the Haitian Revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a lot more memorable than doing a writing assignment in the classroom,” he said, “It’s another way of learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728403\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11728403 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/file-1-2.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students march with striking teachers down Adeline Street in West Oakland on Friday. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carlos Mendoza, a senior at Life Academy, joined the throngs of demonstrators as they marched out of the park and down Adeline Street. He said his teachers needed all the support they could get in an increasingly unaffordable region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at Oakland, it’s changing rapidly and OUSD needs to change as well,” said Mendoza, 18, who walked with a group of his teachers and classmates. “Some teachers I know are really struggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there’s a big split between his classmates who care about what their teachers are fighting for and the ones who are just happy for the long weekend. The experience, he added, has broadened his perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You become more aware of what’s at risk and what’s at stake,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the students at Friday’s rally were high schoolers, but a number of younger children also came with their parents. Delilah Daniels had her 7-year-old son, Isaiah, in tow. A first-grader at Allendale Elementary School, he hoisted a protest sign nearly as tall as he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why he thought it was important to show support for his teachers, he said, “Because they like us kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The current wave of teacher walkouts started a year ago this week when educators across West Virginia were out of the classroom for nine days. The movement spread to five\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/602859780/teacher-walkouts-a-state-by-state-guide\"> more states\u003c/a> before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/15/609734857/north-carolina-teachers-join-the-march-how-did-we-get-here-what-s-next\">school year was over\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ousd-strike\">Oakland Teachers on Strike\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ousd-strike\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>New \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkstp.nr0.htm\">data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a> shows that almost a half a million U.S. workers were off the job in strikes or lockouts during 2018, and nearly 400,000 of them were teachers. It was the biggest year for work stoppages since 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, individual districts — such as Denver and Los Angeles — have picked up where states left off. Teachers in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727176/oakland-teachers-are-going-on-strike-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">Oakland\u003c/a> were on the picket lines \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727551/oakland-teachers-go-on-strike-in-fight-for-higher-pay-more-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thursday\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11728041/oakland-teachers-head-into-second-day-of-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday\u003c/a>, and Sacramento teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article226333340.html\">could be next. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators say they’re angry. They don’t like how states and school districts treat them and their students. A lot of the frustration comes down to money, but dignity and respect are touchstones, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why are teachers striking? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers earn\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/11/600832090/walkouts-and-teacher-pay-how-did-we-get-here\"> less than other workers\u003c/a> with comparable experience and education — a gap that’s widened \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/teacher-pay-gap-2018/\">in recent years\u003c/a>. More than a million teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/20/602846417/why-more-than-a-million-teachers-cant-use-social-security\">aren’t covered by Social Security\u003c/a>. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/02/605757547/unionized-or-not-teachers-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-npr-ipsos-poll-finds\">NPR/Ipsos Poll conducted last April\u003c/a> found that 59 percent of teachers have worked a second job, and 86 percent say they’ve spent their own money on classroom supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most states where teachers walked out of their classrooms last year — like Oklahoma, Arizona and Colorado — teachers make even less than other educators across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/03/16/592221378/the-fight-over-teacher-salaries-a-look-at-the-numbers\">especially after their pay is adjusted for cost of living\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these educators were pressing for better pay and more funding for schools. Some got what they wanted — at least, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/602859780/teacher-walkouts-a-state-by-state-guide\">they were promised it. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/27/617893848/is-this-supreme-court-decision-the-end-of-teachers-unions\">major Supreme Court decision \u003c/a>last year dealt a blow to teachers unions. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/606208436/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-government-unions\">Janus v. AFSCME\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> the court ruled that public sector unions can no longer collect money from nonmembers covered by collective bargaining agreements. That decision could potentially weaken teacher unions by cutting them off from money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/27/617893848/is-this-supreme-court-decision-the-end-of-teachers-unions\">scholars predicted \u003c/a>after the \u003cem>Janus\u003c/em> decision that there would be more militant organizing, including more strikes. That’s because unions may feel forced to prove their value to potential members, as the strength of bargaining agreements — which tend to include costly strike penalties — erodes along with union power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/22/687374562/a-deal-in-the-la-teachers-strike-now-union-members-to-vote\">In Los Angeles\u003c/a>, educators got pay raises, smaller class sizes and more support personnel, among other things. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694662525/denver-teachers-reach-tentative-deal-to-end-walkout\">Denver teachers secured \u003c/a>better pay and changes to their controversial bonus system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with states, districts have been left in a tough spot when responding to teacher demands. During the strike in Los Angeles, for example, district leaders blamed the state for their funding woes. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-schools-have-a-money-problem\">Funding to school districts\u003c/a> comes from shifting, complicated combinations of local, state and federal sources, and in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/financing-californias-public-schools/\">funding per student is well below the national average\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the strike ended in Denver, Superintendent Susana Cordova said, “We’re in the shape we’re in because of the lack of will and the lack of collaboration at the state level to invest in our schools,” as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpr.org/news/story/union-dps-pull-an-all-nighter-to-end-the-denver-teacher-strike\">Colorado Public Radio reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charter schools are part of the story, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers in two Chicago \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/in-chicago-tentative-agreement-reached-in-first-us-charter-school-strike/c26d18f8-102b-44dd-91f7-a27f83525085\">charter school networks\u003c/a> have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/nine-day-chicago-charter-teacher-walkout-ends/4c735374-bbe6-4bad-b704-a99f75939c59\">gone on strike\u003c/a>, asking for better pay and smaller classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, public school teachers have long argued that charters siphon public funds and fail to serve all students. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727176/oakland-teachers-are-going-on-strike-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">In Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2019/01/29/lausd_board_asks_state_to_temporarily_halt_new_charter_schools_from_opening.php\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, teachers are asking for more restrictions on these schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Virginia educators \u003ca href=\"http://www.wvpublic.org/post/unions-call-day-2-teacher-strike-cite-slight-chance-sb-451-could-be-revived\">walked off the job again\u003c/a> for two days this week to protest a bill making its way through the statehouse that could have introduced charter schools to the state. Lawmakers effectively killed the bill on Tuesday, and union leaders \u003ca href=\"http://www.wvpublic.org/post/wva-teachers-end-strike-unions-say-trust-issues-remain\">called the strike off\u003c/a> on Wednesday evening after the time for lawmakers to reconsider the measure had passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How are teachers organizing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the walkouts last year happened in right-to-work states, where unions are smaller and weaker. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/02/597358137/teachers-are-marching-ahead-of-their-unions-from-oklahoma-to-arizona\">Grassroots groups teamed up with unions\u003c/a> to plan strikes and walkouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districtwide strikes this year have been led by local unions, like United Teachers Los Angeles, the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and the Oakland Education Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions and grassroots groups have both relied on social media to coordinate. The slogan \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23redfored&src=typd\">#RedforEd\u003c/a> became widespread last year and has picked up again in Denver, Los Angeles and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Putting the strikes in political context \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is this movement a partisan one? Largely, if not entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picketing teachers have often, though not always, faced off against Republican lawmakers. In Colorado and Arizona, for example, Republican lawmakers introduced bills that were seen as direct retaliation against strikers: to\u003ca href=\"https://chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2018/04/22/this-colorado-bill-would-ban-teacher-strikes-and-hit-violators-with-fines-and-jail-time/\"> jail teachers for walking off the job\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona-education/2018/12/19/arizona-teachers-who-talk-politics-fired-new-bill-legislature-mark-finchem-redfored-schools/2349602002/\">punish them for discussing politics in the classroom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When teachers in Kentucky walked out of their classrooms last spring, Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/14/602490150/kentucky-governor-claims-kids-were-assaulted-while-teachers-absent-from-classroo\">told reporters\u003c/a>, “I guarantee you somewhere in Kentucky today, a child was sexually assaulted that was left at home because there was nobody there to watch them.” He\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/15/602671694/kentucky-governor-apologizes-for-comments-on-teachers-strike\"> later apologized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Mary Fallin, then governor of Oklahoma, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-teachers-fight-for-increased-funding-were-doing-this-for-our-kids/\">told CBS News\u003c/a> last year that teachers on strike were “kind of like having a teenage kid that wants a better car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, conservatives heralded the \u003cem>Janus \u003c/em>decision as a victory for the “individual rights of teachers” as well as the “lessened ability for unions to block education reform generally,” as Lindsey Burke of the conservative Heritage Foundation \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/27/617893848/is-this-supreme-court-decision-the-end-of-teachers-unions\">told NPR last spring\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scholars say striking teachers fit the profile of a broader movement within the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of teachers ran\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/639149650/why-teachers-are-going-from-classrooms-to-campaign-trails\"> for state office\u003c/a> during midterm elections, mostly on Democratic tickets, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/teachers-running-for-state-office.html\">analysis by \u003c/a>\u003cem>Education Week. \u003c/em>Jahana Hayes, the 2016 National Teacher of the Year, became the first black Democrat elected to Congress from Connecticut, on a child-centered, progressive platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic presidential candidates, notably, are throwing their support behind striking teachers. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., tweeted in January that she was standing in solidarity with the striking Los Angeles teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a big change from the Obama era when many Democrats backed charter schools, tests and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump, meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/690345256/fact-check-trumps-state-of-the-union-address\">expressed support for school choice\u003c/a> in his recent State of the Union address. He has had little to say about the teacher walkouts or the conditions they work under otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But education issues cross party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As teachers protested in West Virginia this week, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The current wave of teacher walkouts started a year ago this week when educators across West Virginia were out of the classroom for nine days. The movement spread to five\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/602859780/teacher-walkouts-a-state-by-state-guide\"> more states\u003c/a> before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/15/609734857/north-carolina-teachers-join-the-march-how-did-we-get-here-what-s-next\">school year was over\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ousd-strike\">Oakland Teachers on Strike\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ousd-strike\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>New \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkstp.nr0.htm\">data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a> shows that almost a half a million U.S. workers were off the job in strikes or lockouts during 2018, and nearly 400,000 of them were teachers. It was the biggest year for work stoppages since 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, individual districts — such as Denver and Los Angeles — have picked up where states left off. Teachers in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727176/oakland-teachers-are-going-on-strike-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">Oakland\u003c/a> were on the picket lines \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727551/oakland-teachers-go-on-strike-in-fight-for-higher-pay-more-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thursday\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11728041/oakland-teachers-head-into-second-day-of-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday\u003c/a>, and Sacramento teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article226333340.html\">could be next. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators say they’re angry. They don’t like how states and school districts treat them and their students. A lot of the frustration comes down to money, but dignity and respect are touchstones, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why are teachers striking? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers earn\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/11/600832090/walkouts-and-teacher-pay-how-did-we-get-here\"> less than other workers\u003c/a> with comparable experience and education — a gap that’s widened \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/teacher-pay-gap-2018/\">in recent years\u003c/a>. More than a million teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/20/602846417/why-more-than-a-million-teachers-cant-use-social-security\">aren’t covered by Social Security\u003c/a>. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/02/605757547/unionized-or-not-teachers-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-npr-ipsos-poll-finds\">NPR/Ipsos Poll conducted last April\u003c/a> found that 59 percent of teachers have worked a second job, and 86 percent say they’ve spent their own money on classroom supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most states where teachers walked out of their classrooms last year — like Oklahoma, Arizona and Colorado — teachers make even less than other educators across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/03/16/592221378/the-fight-over-teacher-salaries-a-look-at-the-numbers\">especially after their pay is adjusted for cost of living\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these educators were pressing for better pay and more funding for schools. Some got what they wanted — at least, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/602859780/teacher-walkouts-a-state-by-state-guide\">they were promised it. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/27/617893848/is-this-supreme-court-decision-the-end-of-teachers-unions\">major Supreme Court decision \u003c/a>last year dealt a blow to teachers unions. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/606208436/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-government-unions\">Janus v. AFSCME\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> the court ruled that public sector unions can no longer collect money from nonmembers covered by collective bargaining agreements. That decision could potentially weaken teacher unions by cutting them off from money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/27/617893848/is-this-supreme-court-decision-the-end-of-teachers-unions\">scholars predicted \u003c/a>after the \u003cem>Janus\u003c/em> decision that there would be more militant organizing, including more strikes. That’s because unions may feel forced to prove their value to potential members, as the strength of bargaining agreements — which tend to include costly strike penalties — erodes along with union power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/22/687374562/a-deal-in-the-la-teachers-strike-now-union-members-to-vote\">In Los Angeles\u003c/a>, educators got pay raises, smaller class sizes and more support personnel, among other things. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694662525/denver-teachers-reach-tentative-deal-to-end-walkout\">Denver teachers secured \u003c/a>better pay and changes to their controversial bonus system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with states, districts have been left in a tough spot when responding to teacher demands. 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Lawmakers effectively killed the bill on Tuesday, and union leaders \u003ca href=\"http://www.wvpublic.org/post/wva-teachers-end-strike-unions-say-trust-issues-remain\">called the strike off\u003c/a> on Wednesday evening after the time for lawmakers to reconsider the measure had passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How are teachers organizing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the walkouts last year happened in right-to-work states, where unions are smaller and weaker. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/02/597358137/teachers-are-marching-ahead-of-their-unions-from-oklahoma-to-arizona\">Grassroots groups teamed up with unions\u003c/a> to plan strikes and walkouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districtwide strikes this year have been led by local unions, like United Teachers Los Angeles, the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and the Oakland Education Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions and grassroots groups have both relied on social media to coordinate. The slogan \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23redfored&src=typd\">#RedforEd\u003c/a> became widespread last year and has picked up again in Denver, Los Angeles and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Putting the strikes in political context \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is this movement a partisan one? Largely, if not entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picketing teachers have often, though not always, faced off against Republican lawmakers. In Colorado and Arizona, for example, Republican lawmakers introduced bills that were seen as direct retaliation against strikers: to\u003ca href=\"https://chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2018/04/22/this-colorado-bill-would-ban-teacher-strikes-and-hit-violators-with-fines-and-jail-time/\"> jail teachers for walking off the job\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona-education/2018/12/19/arizona-teachers-who-talk-politics-fired-new-bill-legislature-mark-finchem-redfored-schools/2349602002/\">punish them for discussing politics in the classroom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When teachers in Kentucky walked out of their classrooms last spring, Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/14/602490150/kentucky-governor-claims-kids-were-assaulted-while-teachers-absent-from-classroo\">told reporters\u003c/a>, “I guarantee you somewhere in Kentucky today, a child was sexually assaulted that was left at home because there was nobody there to watch them.” He\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/15/602671694/kentucky-governor-apologizes-for-comments-on-teachers-strike\"> later apologized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Mary Fallin, then governor of Oklahoma, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-teachers-fight-for-increased-funding-were-doing-this-for-our-kids/\">told CBS News\u003c/a> last year that teachers on strike were “kind of like having a teenage kid that wants a better car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, conservatives heralded the \u003cem>Janus \u003c/em>decision as a victory for the “individual rights of teachers” as well as the “lessened ability for unions to block education reform generally,” as Lindsey Burke of the conservative Heritage Foundation \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/27/617893848/is-this-supreme-court-decision-the-end-of-teachers-unions\">told NPR last spring\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scholars say striking teachers fit the profile of a broader movement within the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of teachers ran\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/639149650/why-teachers-are-going-from-classrooms-to-campaign-trails\"> for state office\u003c/a> during midterm elections, mostly on Democratic tickets, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/teachers-running-for-state-office.html\">analysis by \u003c/a>\u003cem>Education Week. \u003c/em>Jahana Hayes, the 2016 National Teacher of the Year, became the first black Democrat elected to Congress from Connecticut, on a child-centered, progressive platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic presidential candidates, notably, are throwing their support behind striking teachers. 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Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727977\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of teachers in Oakland went \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727176/oakland-teachers-are-going-on-strike-heres-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on strike\u003c/a> Thursday morning, picketing outside schools across the city after negotiations between the teachers union and the district stagnated over calls for wage increases and smaller classroom sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid crossing picket lines, some Oakland parents have come up with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727370/not-crossing-the-picket-line-heres-what-some-oakland-parents-are-doing-with-their-kids-during-the-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alternative schooling options\u003c/a>. That includes bringing students to \"solidarity schools\" where students can be supervised by parent volunteers and receive free breakfast and lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides plan to return to the bargaining table on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, students and supporters picket outside Oakland Technical High School on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727889\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Oakland Technical High School on Feb. 21, 2019, join in the picket line by getting passing cars to honk in solidarity. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727848\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Berning, a French teacher at Oakland Technical High School, sits on the front steps of the school on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727977\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1337-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Striking teachers and supporters picket outside Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland on Feb. 21, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking teachers and supporters picket outside Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gesine Cotteral, right, and Carla Aiello picket outside Lincoln Elementary School on Feb. 21, 2019. Cotteral has taught in OUSD for 25 years and four years at Lincoln. “We are here because of a massive exodus of teachers leaving schools who can’t afford to live in Oakland. We had four teachers leave last year ... and then students need support staff, special ed teachers and nurses.” \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg\" alt='\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a 3rd-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland.' width=\"800\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1020x839.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1200x986.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a third-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727866 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1375-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tech students hold a banner at rally supporting striking teachers at City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg\" alt=\"Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1200x933.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727825 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"President of the Oakland Education Association teachers' union Keith Brown leads chant, “get up get down, Oakland is a union town” during a rally in front of city hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President of the Oakland Education Association teachers union, Keith Brown, leads chant, “Get up, get down, Oakland is a union town,” during a rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council, Liz Ortega, speaks at the Oakland teacher's rally in front of City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council Liz Ortega speaks at the Oakland teachers rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Thousands of teachers in Oakland went \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727176/oakland-teachers-are-going-on-strike-heres-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on strike\u003c/a> Thursday morning, picketing outside schools across the city after negotiations between the teachers union and the district stagnated over calls for wage increases and smaller classroom sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid crossing picket lines, some Oakland parents have come up with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727370/not-crossing-the-picket-line-heres-what-some-oakland-parents-are-doing-with-their-kids-during-the-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alternative schooling options\u003c/a>. That includes bringing students to \"solidarity schools\" where students can be supervised by parent volunteers and receive free breakfast and lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides plan to return to the bargaining table on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, students and supporters picket outside Oakland Technical High School on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727889\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Oakland Technical High School on Feb. 21, 2019, join in the picket line by getting passing cars to honk in solidarity. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727848\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Berning, a French teacher at Oakland Technical High School, sits on the front steps of the school on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727977\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1337-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Striking teachers and supporters picket outside Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland on Feb. 21, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking teachers and supporters picket outside Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gesine Cotteral, right, and Carla Aiello picket outside Lincoln Elementary School on Feb. 21, 2019. Cotteral has taught in OUSD for 25 years and four years at Lincoln. “We are here because of a massive exodus of teachers leaving schools who can’t afford to live in Oakland. We had four teachers leave last year ... and then students need support staff, special ed teachers and nurses.” \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg\" alt='\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a 3rd-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland.' width=\"800\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1020x839.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1200x986.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a third-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727866 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1375-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tech students hold a banner at rally supporting striking teachers at City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg\" alt=\"Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1200x933.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727825 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"President of the Oakland Education Association teachers' union Keith Brown leads chant, “get up get down, Oakland is a union town” during a rally in front of city hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President of the Oakland Education Association teachers union, Keith Brown, leads chant, “Get up, get down, Oakland is a union town,” during a rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council, Liz Ortega, speaks at the Oakland teacher's rally in front of City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council Liz Ortega speaks at the Oakland teachers rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from Fremont High School in Oakland support the Oakland teachers strike. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Activists with 'By Any Means Necessary' march down Franklin Street in downtown Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727980\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists with 'By Any Means Necessary' march down Franklin Street in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel Ramirez (left) and Jeffrey Cheung (right) of Unity, a queer skateboarding collective, march down Broadway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727979\" 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 2 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of Oakland teachers and school staff began striking early Thursday morning, establishing picket lines outside nearly every school in the district in a push for higher wages, better classroom conditions and an end to school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727628/oakland-teachers-strike-still-on-after-union-rejects-latest-district-offer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last-minute negotiations\u003c/a> with Oakland Unified School District officials on Wednesday, the teachers union said the latest offer didn't go nearly far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holding signs that read, \"We Stand With Oakland Teachers\" and \"On Strike for a Living Wage,\" striking teachers and their supporters gathered in the early-morning chill outside Manzanita Community School, chanting, \"When public schools are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lilyjamali/status/1098597022737854469\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, which represents some 3,000 teachers, counselors and nurses, joined Thursday morning's picket line at Manzanita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today is a historic day in Oakland where teachers united with parents, students, are on strike at 86 school sites, and we are demanding a living wage to keep teachers in Oakland,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district's \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6nRexXpGkyKVTZuQnRaWDg5WFUyOV9HQTQ4bTRsQlZFclFz/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most recent offer\u003c/a> would have given teachers a 7 percent across-the-board raise over three years, plus a retroactive 1.5 percent bonus. While a bump from the 5 percent raise over three years the district had previously put on the table, it still fell short of the 12 percent the union wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposal still does not address essential needs of our students,” Brown said, adding that it also failed to address the high cost of living in the Bay Area. He said negotiations with the district would resume Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low pay and difficult working conditions, he added, have led to a noticeably high rate of teacher turnover in the district, with roughly 300 teachers leaving annually, many going to neighboring districts with higher salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified teachers are among the lowest paid in the Bay Area and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\" https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg\" label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Follow our coverage of the strikes, closures, and more.\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools#have-a-question,We want to hear from you. What stories should we cover?\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gesine Cotteral, a teacher at Lincoln Elementary School near Lake Merritt, has worked in the district for 25 years and echoed those concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here because of a massive exodus of teachers leaving schools who can’t afford to live in Oakland,\" said Cotteral, while picketing outside her school. \"We had four teachers leave last year ... and then students need support staff, special ed teachers and nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, who teaches at Manzanita, said the strike is not just a fight for better pay, but also better classroom conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not out here for the money,\" Chavez said. \"We're out here for our kids, and we've told them that multiple times as we've been talking about the strike with them throughout this week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said it is keeping all schools open for the duration of the strike and encouraging students to attend. Schools are being staffed by principals, central office staff and temporary substitute teachers. But it will definitely not be business as usual, said OUSD spokesman John Sasaki, noting that the vast majority of the district's more than 36,200 students had not come to school on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a very powerful effect sent by the union and by the supporters among the families,\" said Sasaki, who counted 14 students in attendance at Manzanita this morning, out of the roughly 400 kids enrolled there. \"Oakland is a union town and our families and our students support our teachers and support the union effort. And we do, too. That being said, we certainly want our students in class and hope that more come to school tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lilyjamali/status/1098613885832056832\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district receives state funding based on daily student attendance, and stands to lose a significant amount of money each day if absence rates are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki confirmed that talks with the union would resume on Friday morning and that the strike would more than likely last for at least one more day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late morning, teachers and their supporters, including a number of students, rallied in Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland and marched to the district's central office, before returning to school picket lines later in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727903\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11727903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking teachers gather on Thursday at Frank Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A host of local elected leaders, including Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and congresswoman Barbara Lee, made statements on Thursday in support of the striking teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know that this whole community stands with our teachers … in their quest to just get a living wage and decent working conditions to support our students,\" said Schaaf, a graduate of Oakland schools, who also commended the district for putting forward another offer. “Today is going to be a citywide day of showing our love and appreciation for our educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD classified workers, including 1,000 instructional specialists, school security officers, administrative workers and other workers, also honored the picket lines on Thursday, according to the local chapter of the Service Employees International Union, which represents them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727966 size-complete_open_graph\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Fuentes, 8, a third grader at Community United Elementary School, joined teachers at a rally in downtown Oakland on Thursday. “I want to support my teachers because I want more people to help my teachers,” she said. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joseph Wagner of the Amalgamated Transit Union in Los Angeles was among a number of union workers from outside Oakland who also joined teachers on the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s obvious that public education is under attack, and all public unions, and unions in general are under attack,\" Wagner said. \"Solidarity should be the basic understanding that union members have that we are in this together against the bipartisan, frankly, capitalist attack on all workers and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Aguirre, a middle school math coach at West Oakland Middle School, said she was trying to convince families not to drop their kids off today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to cross a picket line when you know the money isn’t being allocated properly, and we need the resources in a historically underprivileged community that’s being gentrified more rapidly than any other part of Oakland, I believe,” Aguirre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small number of parents who did bring their children to school ran into picket lines of teachers, and in some cases were dissuaded from going inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So basically, they’re trying to tell us that there’s no teachers here,\" said Monique Green, who tried to drop off her daughters at Lafayette Elementary School in West Oakland on Thursday morning, but didn't end up going in. \"I don’t know what’s going on. I’m just confused about the whole situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said she supports the teachers, but is frustrated that schools aren't operating as normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they need to fix this problem and get the teachers what they need,\" she said. Pointing to her daughters, she added: \"They’re both ready to go to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727885\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11727885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers from Fremont High School in Oakland marching down Broadway. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, on the eve of the strike, a group of more than 30 Oakland school principals lobbied lawmakers in Sacramento for additional per-pupil funding and forgiveness of a $36 million state loan. They also pushed for a revision of the state's charter law, which has allowed charter schools to proliferate in Oakland and, they argue, has drained huge amounts of funding — and students — away from the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pretty much every principal is in support of the teachers having higher pay,\" said Cliff Hong, the principal of Roosevelt Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in the financially struggling district, which faces a huge budget shortfall and is looking to cut more than $20 million next year, say they're sympathetic to teachers demands for a raise, but can't swing such a big pay increase. A nearly 45 percent decline in student enrollment over the past 15 years is partly to blame. But union officials argue that fiscal mismanagement has also played a major role in the district's ongoing budgetary woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent fact-finding report, released on Friday, noted that while the district's initial offer of a 5 percent raise over three years wouldn't keep pace with inflation, a 12 percent increase was simply infeasible, given the district's squeezed finances. The union swiftly rejected the report's recommendations, which included a short-term 6 percent raise and continued negotiations next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parents who don't want their kids to cross the picket line, the city is offering space, rent-free, in 15 recreation centers across Oakland, as well as in city libraries where students can spend the day. These \"solidarity sites,\" as organizers are calling them, will be supervised by volunteers, with breakfast and lunch provided by the \u003ca href=\"https://donorbox.org/breadfored\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bread for Ed campaign\u003c/a>, an online fundraising effort organized by the OEA and Democratic Socialists of America that has already raised close to $90,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SherazSadiq1/status/1098642513995284480\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of churches throughout the city are also opening their doors to students, including Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put a lot of thought and love into what we’re doing here for the students and the support of our Oakland teachers,” said the Rev. Anthony Jenkins Sr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers last participated in a sanctioned strike in 2010, which lasted just one day. The previous strike, in 1996, went on for 26 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike is part of a growing wave of teacher activism that began in February 2018, when West Virginia teachers participated in a nine-day strike that drew national attention and was followed by a statewide teachers strike in Oklahoma. In January, Los Angeles teachers went on strike for six days, gaining a 6 percent pay raise and significant class-size reductions. And last week, teachers in Denver ended a three-day walkout after reaching a tentative deal that included a pay increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Lily Jamali, Vanessa Rancaño, Julia McEvoy, Stephanie Lister and Sheraz Sadiq contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gesine Cotteral, a teacher at Lincoln Elementary School near Lake Merritt, has worked in the district for 25 years and echoed those concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here because of a massive exodus of teachers leaving schools who can’t afford to live in Oakland,\" said Cotteral, while picketing outside her school. \"We had four teachers leave last year ... and then students need support staff, special ed teachers and nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, who teaches at Manzanita, said the strike is not just a fight for better pay, but also better classroom conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not out here for the money,\" Chavez said. \"We're out here for our kids, and we've told them that multiple times as we've been talking about the strike with them throughout this week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said it is keeping all schools open for the duration of the strike and encouraging students to attend. Schools are being staffed by principals, central office staff and temporary substitute teachers. But it will definitely not be business as usual, said OUSD spokesman John Sasaki, noting that the vast majority of the district's more than 36,200 students had not come to school on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a very powerful effect sent by the union and by the supporters among the families,\" said Sasaki, who counted 14 students in attendance at Manzanita this morning, out of the roughly 400 kids enrolled there. \"Oakland is a union town and our families and our students support our teachers and support the union effort. And we do, too. That being said, we certainly want our students in class and hope that more come to school tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The district receives state funding based on daily student attendance, and stands to lose a significant amount of money each day if absence rates are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki confirmed that talks with the union would resume on Friday morning and that the strike would more than likely last for at least one more day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late morning, teachers and their supporters, including a number of students, rallied in Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland and marched to the district's central office, before returning to school picket lines later in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727903\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11727903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/fop.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking teachers gather on Thursday at Frank Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A host of local elected leaders, including Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and congresswoman Barbara Lee, made statements on Thursday in support of the striking teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know that this whole community stands with our teachers … in their quest to just get a living wage and decent working conditions to support our students,\" said Schaaf, a graduate of Oakland schools, who also commended the district for putting forward another offer. “Today is going to be a citywide day of showing our love and appreciation for our educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD classified workers, including 1,000 instructional specialists, school security officers, administrative workers and other workers, also honored the picket lines on Thursday, according to the local chapter of the Service Employees International Union, which represents them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727966 size-complete_open_graph\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1405.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Fuentes, 8, a third grader at Community United Elementary School, joined teachers at a rally in downtown Oakland on Thursday. “I want to support my teachers because I want more people to help my teachers,” she said. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joseph Wagner of the Amalgamated Transit Union in Los Angeles was among a number of union workers from outside Oakland who also joined teachers on the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s obvious that public education is under attack, and all public unions, and unions in general are under attack,\" Wagner said. \"Solidarity should be the basic understanding that union members have that we are in this together against the bipartisan, frankly, capitalist attack on all workers and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Aguirre, a middle school math coach at West Oakland Middle School, said she was trying to convince families not to drop their kids off today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to cross a picket line when you know the money isn’t being allocated properly, and we need the resources in a historically underprivileged community that’s being gentrified more rapidly than any other part of Oakland, I believe,” Aguirre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small number of parents who did bring their children to school ran into picket lines of teachers, and in some cases were dissuaded from going inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So basically, they’re trying to tell us that there’s no teachers here,\" said Monique Green, who tried to drop off her daughters at Lafayette Elementary School in West Oakland on Thursday morning, but didn't end up going in. \"I don’t know what’s going on. I’m just confused about the whole situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said she supports the teachers, but is frustrated that schools aren't operating as normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they need to fix this problem and get the teachers what they need,\" she said. Pointing to her daughters, she added: \"They’re both ready to go to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727885\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11727885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers from Fremont High School in Oakland marching down Broadway. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, on the eve of the strike, a group of more than 30 Oakland school principals lobbied lawmakers in Sacramento for additional per-pupil funding and forgiveness of a $36 million state loan. They also pushed for a revision of the state's charter law, which has allowed charter schools to proliferate in Oakland and, they argue, has drained huge amounts of funding — and students — away from the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pretty much every principal is in support of the teachers having higher pay,\" said Cliff Hong, the principal of Roosevelt Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in the financially struggling district, which faces a huge budget shortfall and is looking to cut more than $20 million next year, say they're sympathetic to teachers demands for a raise, but can't swing such a big pay increase. A nearly 45 percent decline in student enrollment over the past 15 years is partly to blame. But union officials argue that fiscal mismanagement has also played a major role in the district's ongoing budgetary woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent fact-finding report, released on Friday, noted that while the district's initial offer of a 5 percent raise over three years wouldn't keep pace with inflation, a 12 percent increase was simply infeasible, given the district's squeezed finances. The union swiftly rejected the report's recommendations, which included a short-term 6 percent raise and continued negotiations next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parents who don't want their kids to cross the picket line, the city is offering space, rent-free, in 15 recreation centers across Oakland, as well as in city libraries where students can spend the day. These \"solidarity sites,\" as organizers are calling them, will be supervised by volunteers, with breakfast and lunch provided by the \u003ca href=\"https://donorbox.org/breadfored\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bread for Ed campaign\u003c/a>, an online fundraising effort organized by the OEA and Democratic Socialists of America that has already raised close to $90,000.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Unified is urging parents to send their kids to school during the teachers strike, which is set to begin on Thursday. All schools will remain open and staffed by principals and temporary teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what are Oakland parents who support the striking teachers and don't want to cross the picket line planning to do with their kids?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what three parents we talked to said they had in store.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hosting 'school' at home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727392\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_5184.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11727392\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_5184-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_5184-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_5184-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_5184-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_5184-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_5184-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_5184.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ché Abram, an Oakland mom, is offering to host other families' kids in her home during the strike. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ché Abram intends to keep her son, a seventh-grader at Oakland SOL in Fruitvale, home for the duration of the strike. And because of a flexible work schedule, she's offering to watch other students at her house if their parents have to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I come from a huge place of privilege and that means that [the strike] can last two months and I would be OK supporting my child at home,\" says Abram, who is married to a union construction worker and stresses the importance of solidarity with teachers. \"And I would be OK helping support other families where I can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Joining the picket line as a teachable moment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727699\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_0803-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727699 size-complete_open_graph\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_0803-2-e1550728250755-1200x994.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_0803-2-e1550728250755-1200x994.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_0803-2-e1550728250755-160x133.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_0803-2-e1550728250755-800x663.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_0803-2-e1550728250755-1020x845.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_0803-2-e1550728250755.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandra Gonzales, center, with her family. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alejandra Gonzales, a single mother of four, says she plans to support her kids' teachers by joining them on the picket line. She also intends to have her kids in tow and hopes it will be a valuable learning experience for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is very important for them to see that you have to fight for what you want,\" she says. \"And if I don't start teaching them now, when it's time for them to fight for whatever it is they want, they might not have the courage to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Volunteering at a 'Solidarity Site'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727818\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Park-e1550779783315.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11727818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Park-e1550779783315-1200x976.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Park-e1550779783315-1200x976.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Park-e1550779783315-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Park-e1550779783315-800x650.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Park-e1550779783315-1020x829.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Park-e1550779783315.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Park with her three children. \u003ccite>(Alex Park)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alex Park, whose kids attend Manzanita SEED, an elementary school in East Oakland, and Oakland SOL, says she's been calling and texting parents to see what resources they'll need to get through the strike, and has also been distributing flyers that list available options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also plans to volunteer at a nearby \"solidarity site\" for Oakland SOL, one of many local community centers throughout the city where kids can spend the day under the supervision of parent volunteers and receive free breakfast and lunch. Park says that location can accommodate about 70 students, and she's thinking about bringing in a multicultural dance instructor to engage and unite the kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't know what a solidarity school was until Friday,\" Park says. \"For parents who feel like that's their only option, I think it's just a matter of putting on the flyer what's happening, when it's happening and what our options are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noted the importance of parents sharing contact information and keeping in touch to \"really organize and figure out how we can care for each other as a community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more on solidarity sites and where to find them, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandteachersstrike.com/sites/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we want to hear from you! \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools#have-a-question\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tell us\u003c/a> your plans during the strike.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727258\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11727258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1200x829.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellie Kerwin, a junior in high school, holds a sign that says “I Hella Love Oakland Teachers” as she walks down Broadway during the Oakland student walkout on Feb. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726864/oakland-teachers-announce-plans-to-strike-starting-on-thursday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go on strike on Thursday\u003c/a>, leaving parents to decide whether to send their children to school — or not. Here are some key details to help you prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many teachers are going on strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, which called the strike, represents about 2,300 classroom teachers. It also represents hundreds of counselors, psychologists, speech therapists, home and hospital teachers, and teachers on special assignment, as well as some substitute teachers and school nurses. Everyone in the union can choose to strike, although they don’t have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many kids will be affected, and will schools be open?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District has roughly 36,300 students. The district says all schools will remain open, although it expects that \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/132NEBoTH02msc_fGSRvOft66jsoGs3Cg80bYIaIGxj4/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">classes will be quite large\u003c/a> and will likely not follow regular curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principals and office staff will be supervising students. The district is also hiring temporary teaching staff to fill in where needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/4101/Potential%20Strike%20One%20Pager.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strike fact sheet\u003c/a>, the district says: “Students are expected to attend school, unless there is an official district announcement of cancellation. Regular OUSD attendance policies apply during a strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where can I send my kids if I don’t want them to go to school?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city has designated 15 recreation centers across Oakland where students can go in lieu of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Oakland’s public libraries will be open during regular hours, but kids under 7 have to be supervised by an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are also planning to host groups of students at their houses, in what they’re calling “Solidarity Schools.” Volunteers can sign up \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4zOew0MOCLhZsc2YpjgTCqDGamuK2D95_-NCSupzTLpKIKA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1I6NUoyMaCq54yGvI_TEKR7zXj9JBoHyZCiFcmIkd-d2hBSgvCzl7NDRc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Anthony Jenkins of Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church in West Oakland said his church will be able to host up to 250 students per day — and he’s calling on other Oakland churches to open their doors as well. Jenkins is also providing a free space for Oakland Education Association members and strike captains to use as a staging ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are also planning to bring their children to the picket line, as emphasized in a message on the \u003ca href=\"https://ousdparentsunited.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUSD Parents United website\u003c/a>, an independent parent-led group in support of the strike: “Definitely plan to have your child spend some time on the picket line with you — it means a lot to teachers and will help your children contextualize what is happening,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Grand Lake Theater is planning to charge $1 for admission and $1 for popcorn to two special film screenings on Thursday, said theater owner Allen Michaan. Specific information will soon be available on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.renaissancerialto.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theater’s website\u003c/a>. [aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg\" label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Follow our coverage of the strikes, closures, and more.\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools#have-a-question,We want to hear from you. What stories should we cover?\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where can kids eat who don’t attend school?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Free lunches and snacks for students will be available on-site at the Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church through the \u003ca href=\"https://donorbox.org/breadfored\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bread For Ed fund\u003c/a>, which will provide food to teachers and students during the strike, and has so far raised more than $66,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OEA is also setting up food distribution points around the city for kids who need access to lunch and snacks during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will there be after-school programs?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district said all federally funded after-school programs will stay open, but urges parents to check with individual schools to make sure. A student who does not come to school can’t attend an after-school program, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about school sports teams?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/oal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Athletic League\u003c/a> is canceling some extracurricular sports activities during the strike. Call them with specific questions: 510-879-2846.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, all middle school sports this weekend are cancelled, according to district spokesman John Sasaki. Spring sports competitions are also postponed. However, winter sports playoffs will continue as planned and school sites will individually determine whether to hold after-school practices. Parents should call their children’s schools for specific information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will temporary teachers be vetted?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district says it’s reviewing the work references, fingerprints and health clearances for all the temporary teachers it’s hiring to do fill-in work during the strike. These short-term substitutes will get paid $300 a day, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are charter schools affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No, Oakland charter schools are not part of the strike, nor are the teachers who work for them or the nearly 14,000 students who attend them. However, some charter school teachers have joined district teachers on the picket line in previous labor actions in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money does OUSD stand to lose if students stay home during the strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the fourth day of the strike, Oakland Unified spokesman John Sasaki said an average of about 6 percent of all students have attended school during the strike. That massive lack of attendance amounts to roughly $1 million net loss per day for the district, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki added: “It is unclear as yet how the loss of any funding because of the strike will affect the overall budget issues. But in a school district with tight financial constraints such as OUSD, any money that’s lost adds to the challenge of balancing the budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will striking teachers get any financial support?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Striking teachers don’t receive any pay from the district (and can’t use sick days), but the union has created a strike fund, and is working with a community bank that will offer low-interest loans to teachers in need. There have also been some fundraising efforts organized by parents as well as teachers from other districts to support Oakland teachers who could experience financial hardship. Among them, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/teacher-activism-in-california-takes-on-an-increasingly-red-hue/608745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the United Teachers of Richmond\u003c/a> has already contributed $1,000 to Oakland’s Bread for ED fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I find out more or get involved in organizing efforts?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are multiple strategy sessions for parents and community members being held this week, including one planned for \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/617507362021956/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuesday\u003c/a> and another on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/588845998255191/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, check out OUSD’s FAQ \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/132NEBoTH02msc_fGSRvOft66jsoGs3Cg80bYIaIGxj4/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a> and OEA’s FAQ for families \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Potential-Oakland-Teacher-Strike-Family-FAQ-ENG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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