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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. Jim Justice, a Republican, \u003ca href=\"https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2019/Pages/Gov.-Justice-calls-on-Legislature-to-pass-%E2%80%9Cclean%E2%80%9D-pay-raise-bill-for-state-employees.aspx\">told reporters\u003c/a>, “I’ve said all along that I am not an advocate and a fan of charter schools, period.” A\u003ca href=\"http://www.wvpublic.org/post/clean-pay-raise-bill-zips-through-house-finance-heads-floor\"> bill introduced to the state House\u003c/a> on his behalf would provide a pay raise for state employees, including teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Oakland%2C+Los+Angeles+And+More+To+Come%3A+Why+Teachers+Keep+Going+On+Strike&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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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. 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": "\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. 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We had four teachers leave last year ... and then students need support staff, special ed teachers and nurses.” \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg\" alt='\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a 3rd-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland.' width=\"800\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1020x839.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1200x986.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a third-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727866 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1375-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tech students hold a banner at rally supporting striking teachers at City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg\" alt=\"Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1200x933.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727825 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"President of the Oakland Education Association teachers' union Keith Brown leads chant, “get up get down, Oakland is a union town” during a rally in front of city hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35371_IMG_1381-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President of the Oakland Education Association teachers union, Keith Brown, leads chant, “Get up, get down, Oakland is a union town,” during a rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council, Liz Ortega, speaks at the Oakland teacher's rally in front of City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35369_IMG_1377-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council Liz Ortega speaks at the Oakland teachers rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35373_IMG_1394-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from Fremont High School in Oakland support the Oakland teachers strike. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Activists with 'By Any Means Necessary' march down Franklin Street in downtown Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727980\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35382_BAMN-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists with 'By Any Means Necessary' march down Franklin Street in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel Ramirez (left) and Jeffrey Cheung (right) of Unity, a queer skateboarding collective, march down Broadway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727979\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35383_Unity-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Ramirez (left) and Jeffrey Cheung (right) of Unity, a queer skateboarding collective, march down Broadway. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Thousands of teachers in Oakland went \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727176/oakland-teachers-are-going-on-strike-heres-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on strike\u003c/a> Thursday morning, picketing outside schools across the city after negotiations between the teachers union and the district stagnated over calls for wage increases and smaller classroom sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid crossing picket lines, some Oakland parents have come up with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727370/not-crossing-the-picket-line-heres-what-some-oakland-parents-are-doing-with-their-kids-during-the-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alternative schooling options\u003c/a>. That includes bringing students to \"solidarity schools\" where students can be supervised by parent volunteers and receive free breakfast and lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides plan to return to the bargaining table on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35365_image2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, students and supporters picket outside Oakland Technical High School on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727889\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35358__DSC6541-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Oakland Technical High School on Feb. 21, 2019, join in the picket line by getting passing cars to honk in solidarity. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727848\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Berning, a French teacher at Oakland Technical High School, sits on the front steps of the school on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727977\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35384_Kamau-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell shows his support for the Oakland teachers strike. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1337-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Striking teachers and supporters picket outside Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland on Feb. 21, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking teachers and supporters picket outside Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/lincoln-elementary-sadiq.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gesine Cotteral, right, and Carla Aiello picket outside Lincoln Elementary School on Feb. 21, 2019. Cotteral has taught in OUSD for 25 years and four years at Lincoln. “We are here because of a massive exodus of teachers leaving schools who can’t afford to live in Oakland. We had four teachers leave last year ... and then students need support staff, special ed teachers and nurses.” \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg\" alt='\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a 3rd-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland.' width=\"800\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-800x658.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1020x839.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut-1200x986.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35366_IMG_1354-qut.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I’m here for better pay, smaller class sizes and a moratorium on charter schools,” said Nicole Kusper, a third-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727866 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_1375-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tech students hold a banner at rally supporting striking teachers at City Hall on Feb. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11727809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg\" alt=\"Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut-1200x933.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35368_IMG_1368-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers on strike gather at Oakland City Hall for a rally. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727825\" 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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, 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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": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland teachers union on Wednesday rejected the school district's latest proposal and announced that teachers would go on strike as planned starting Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a last-minute negotiation with district officials, the teachers union said the latest offer was a step forward but still didn't go nearly far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It does not address dramatically improving education outcomes,\" said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, which represents some 3,000 teachers, counselors and nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district's most recent offer would have given teachers a 7 percent raise over three years, plus a retroactive 1.5 percent bonus. That's a notable bump from the 5 percent raise the district had previously put on the table, but still fell short of the 12 percent the union wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on recommendations from a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSHkn3IwBmO-zewwFcfFhdvvc_RjKVyZ/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-finding report\u003c/a> released Friday by a state-appointed arbitrator, the district also offered modest class size reductions and more nurses and counselors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at Skyline High School after the meeting, Brown said teachers plan to start picketing outside all school sites on Thursday at 6:30 a.m., as well as in front of the district's headquarters in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is keeping all schools open for the duration of the strike, and encouraging students to attend. Schools will be staffed by principals, other administrative staff and temporary substitute teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003csection class=\"body\">On Wednesday, a group of Oakland school principals lobbied lawmakers in Sacramento for additional funding and forgiveness of a $36 million state loan to the district. Oakland Unified teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the lowest paid\u003c/a> in the Bay Area and have been working without a contract since the summer of 2017.\u003c/section>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from the financially struggling district, which is trying to cut upward of $30 million from next year's budget, say they're sympathetic to teachers' demands for a raise, but simply can't swing the pay increase they're asking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talks between the district and union officials, which stalled weeks ago, resumed after Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, met Tuesday with both sides in a last-ditch effort to avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said the union has been waiting for the district to present a new proposal in writing for three months, and credited Thurmond for helping to make that happen. He said talks with the district would likely continue on Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He communicated with us that he will talk to the district and strongly advocate to make sure that we have that proposal,\" he said.\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 schools,\" as they're being called by organizers, will be supervised by volunteers, with breakfast and lunch provided by the “Bread for Ed” \u003ca href=\"https://donorbox.org/breadfored\">campaign\u003c/a>, an online fundraising effort that has already raised more than $80,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are also hosting small groups of students at their homes, and helping to organize sites at churches and other community centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers last participated in a sanctioned strike in 2010, which lasted just one day.\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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Saturday, 3:53 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers say unless something \"dramatic\" happens, they'll be going on strike starting Thursday, Feb. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough. Bargaining with our school district has not worked,\" said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, at a news conference on Saturday. \"Bargaining with our school district has not in two years produced an agreement that will pay teachers enough to stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are asking for\u003c/a> better pay, smaller class sizes and more resources for classrooms and student programs. They have been working without a contract since July 2017, and the union has been unable to reach an agreement with the district despite prolonged negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District spokesman John Sasaki said the district is sad that the union called a date for a strike, but it is not giving up hope that a strike could be averted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that they don't want to strike. We know that our students and our families don't want to strike, and we know that the district doesn't want to strike,\" Sasaki said. He said the district invited the union back to the negotiating table on Saturday morning in order to present an updated \"comprehensive proposal,\" of which he declined to discuss specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means,Oakland teachers are ready to strike. How did we get here?\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cce77892-20190118-18-800x533.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the strike does come to pass, Sasaki said schools will remain open using emergency temporary teachers and district staff to educate the district's 37,000 students. He said the specifics of the school day will differ from school to school depending on how many regular teachers show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final step of negotiations as mandated by state law, a neutral fact-finder appointed by the state released a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSHkn3IwBmO-zewwFcfFhdvvc_RjKVyZ/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-binding report\u003c/a> of recommendations to the union and district on Friday. Sasaki said the district believes the report provided a \"good foundation\" for finding a solution without a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s latest public offer included a salary increase of 5 percent over three years and marginal class-size cuts for some grades and classes. It’s also offering a special education class size cap of 15 students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a far cry from teachers' demands for a 12 percent pay increase over three years, graduated class-size reductions over the next two years and deeper class-size reductions in schools where 75 percent or more of students are low-income, foster youth, homeless or English learners. They're also asking for smaller caseloads for support staff like nurses, counselors and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Najeeb Khoury, the neutral fact-finder, recommended a new contract that would last through the 2019-2020 school year and would include 3 percent pay increases over the first two years and reopen talks for a salary increase in the third year. However, he also encouraged the two sides to explore a contract that would run through the summer of 2021 and could include greater salary increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are among the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lowest paid\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, even when taking benefits into account, according to an analysis by School Services of California, a consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s current education funding system is complicated and flawed in a number of ways,\" Khoury wrote in his report. \"These flaws make finding resolutions to this contract and other teacher contracts throughout the state very difficult.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See More of KQED's Coverage of the Debates Surrounding Oakland Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Khoury agreed that cutting class sizes would improve the district's poor \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRA1718_10TEACHER_RETENTION_EXPERIENCE_0/TeacherRetention?iframeSizedToWindow=true&:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teacher retention\u003c/a>, but only recommended reducing classes across the board by one student by July 2020, with implementation happening at the highest-needs schools first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disagreements between the teachers and the district are exacerbated by OUSD's roughly $30 million budget deficit, which it has to significantly reduce to avoid being taken over by the state. To help cut costs, the district has proposed closing and consolidating up to 24 of its 87 school sites, a plan that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11722135/oakland-unifieds-hella-hard-week\">proven highly controversial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers and parents who spoke at the announcement took particular aim at the district's decision to encourage the proliferation of and coordination with charter schools in Oakland, in line with what's known as the \"\u003ca href=\"https://chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2018/07/03/the-oakland-school-board-is-pushing-for-more-coordination-with-charter-schools-but-faces-fierce-backlash/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">portfolio model\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In these competition-based portfolio districts, schools compete against each other for resources and support, creating a system of haves and have-nots,\" Brown said. He decried billionaire supporters of the model including Netflix founder and CEO \u003ca href=\"https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/reed-hastings-creates-100-million-education-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reed Hastings\u003c/a> and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation run by Gates and his wife Melinda was behind an earlier education reform effort undertaken by the district to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726682/why-does-oakland-have-so-many-small-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smaller schools\u003c/a> in hopes of improving outcomes. Now lacking private funding from the Gates, OUSD is looking at closing up many of those small schools as part of its budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The black and brown families in Oakland have suffered enough displacement,\" said Clarissa Doutherd, the parent of a fifth-grader at Laurel Elementary School. \"Our public schools should stay open. This is a direct attack on our families.\" Doutherd and other parents at Saturday's news conference encouraged families not to cross the picket lines in a show of solidarity with teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we see right now in Oakland public schools is exactly what a billionaire district looks like,\" said Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher and first vice president of OEA. \"I'm ready to strike for our kids, and I'm ready to strike for the schools Oakland deserves. The choice is clear: You can stand with the billionaires or you can stand with the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khoury's fact-finding report also noted the impact charter schools have had on the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no doubt that charter advocates and indeed charter policies are driven by a desire to increase options for disadvantaged children,\" he wrote. \"Unfortunately, there are ways that the current system creates an unlevel playing field for traditional public schools and undermines those districts serving the very same disadvantaged children that charter advocates seek to aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As negotiations over teacher pay and school closings have heated up in recent months, so have tensions. Teachers held two separate “sick outs” this year without union approval, and on Feb. 8, students staged a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724716/hundreds-of-oakland-high-school-students-stage-sickout-in-support-of-teachers\">similar event\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless there are dramatic changes to the district’s approach including spending money on students and spending money for more nurses and counselors, lower class size and a living wage that will keep experienced teachers in Oakland classrooms, we will strike on Feb. 21,\" Brown said to loud applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 16: The original version of this report incorrectly stated that the fact-finder's report did not recommend reducing class sizes. The story has been edited to correct the inaccuracy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the strike does come to pass, Sasaki said schools will remain open using emergency temporary teachers and district staff to educate the district's 37,000 students. He said the specifics of the school day will differ from school to school depending on how many regular teachers show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final step of negotiations as mandated by state law, a neutral fact-finder appointed by the state released a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSHkn3IwBmO-zewwFcfFhdvvc_RjKVyZ/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-binding report\u003c/a> of recommendations to the union and district on Friday. Sasaki said the district believes the report provided a \"good foundation\" for finding a solution without a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s latest public offer included a salary increase of 5 percent over three years and marginal class-size cuts for some grades and classes. It’s also offering a special education class size cap of 15 students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a far cry from teachers' demands for a 12 percent pay increase over three years, graduated class-size reductions over the next two years and deeper class-size reductions in schools where 75 percent or more of students are low-income, foster youth, homeless or English learners. They're also asking for smaller caseloads for support staff like nurses, counselors and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Najeeb Khoury, the neutral fact-finder, recommended a new contract that would last through the 2019-2020 school year and would include 3 percent pay increases over the first two years and reopen talks for a salary increase in the third year. However, he also encouraged the two sides to explore a contract that would run through the summer of 2021 and could include greater salary increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are among the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lowest paid\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, even when taking benefits into account, according to an analysis by School Services of California, a consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s current education funding system is complicated and flawed in a number of ways,\" Khoury wrote in his report. \"These flaws make finding resolutions to this contract and other teacher contracts throughout the state very difficult.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See More of KQED's Coverage of the Debates Surrounding Oakland Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Khoury agreed that cutting class sizes would improve the district's poor \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRA1718_10TEACHER_RETENTION_EXPERIENCE_0/TeacherRetention?iframeSizedToWindow=true&:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teacher retention\u003c/a>, but only recommended reducing classes across the board by one student by July 2020, with implementation happening at the highest-needs schools first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disagreements between the teachers and the district are exacerbated by OUSD's roughly $30 million budget deficit, which it has to significantly reduce to avoid being taken over by the state. To help cut costs, the district has proposed closing and consolidating up to 24 of its 87 school sites, a plan that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11722135/oakland-unifieds-hella-hard-week\">proven highly controversial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers and parents who spoke at the announcement took particular aim at the district's decision to encourage the proliferation of and coordination with charter schools in Oakland, in line with what's known as the \"\u003ca href=\"https://chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2018/07/03/the-oakland-school-board-is-pushing-for-more-coordination-with-charter-schools-but-faces-fierce-backlash/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">portfolio model\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In these competition-based portfolio districts, schools compete against each other for resources and support, creating a system of haves and have-nots,\" Brown said. He decried billionaire supporters of the model including Netflix founder and CEO \u003ca href=\"https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/reed-hastings-creates-100-million-education-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reed Hastings\u003c/a> and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation run by Gates and his wife Melinda was behind an earlier education reform effort undertaken by the district to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726682/why-does-oakland-have-so-many-small-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smaller schools\u003c/a> in hopes of improving outcomes. Now lacking private funding from the Gates, OUSD is looking at closing up many of those small schools as part of its budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The black and brown families in Oakland have suffered enough displacement,\" said Clarissa Doutherd, the parent of a fifth-grader at Laurel Elementary School. \"Our public schools should stay open. This is a direct attack on our families.\" Doutherd and other parents at Saturday's news conference encouraged families not to cross the picket lines in a show of solidarity with teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we see right now in Oakland public schools is exactly what a billionaire district looks like,\" said Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher and first vice president of OEA. \"I'm ready to strike for our kids, and I'm ready to strike for the schools Oakland deserves. The choice is clear: You can stand with the billionaires or you can stand with the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khoury's fact-finding report also noted the impact charter schools have had on the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no doubt that charter advocates and indeed charter policies are driven by a desire to increase options for disadvantaged children,\" he wrote. \"Unfortunately, there are ways that the current system creates an unlevel playing field for traditional public schools and undermines those districts serving the very same disadvantaged children that charter advocates seek to aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As negotiations over teacher pay and school closings have heated up in recent months, so have tensions. Teachers held two separate “sick outs” this year without union approval, and on Feb. 8, students staged a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724716/hundreds-of-oakland-high-school-students-stage-sickout-in-support-of-teachers\">similar event\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless there are dramatic changes to the district’s approach including spending money on students and spending money for more nurses and counselors, lower class size and a living wage that will keep experienced teachers in Oakland classrooms, we will strike on Feb. 21,\" Brown said to loud applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003ch2>An earlier district reform effort broke large, underperforming campuses into smaller schools that could, in theory, better support at-risk students. Since 2000, OUSD created scores of new schools, even as enrollment throughout the district sharply declined.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Want to know more? Read on...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District has about 37,000 students in 87 non-charter public schools, or an average of roughly 425 students per school. That comparatively high school-to-student ratio is largely due to an earlier reform movement to create smaller, more intimate educational settings for students. Today, amid a serious budget crisis, district leaders are revisiting the premise of the small schools experiment, and have suggested paring down the number of schools by upward of 25 percent. Here’s a look at how Oakland ended up with so many small schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does OUSD really have \u003cem>that\u003c/em> many schools? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes. The number of public schools OUSD oversees is much higher than Bay Area districts of similar size. Take nearby Fremont Unified, which has just over 35,000 students but only 42 schools. Or San Jose Unified, where about 32,000 students attend 46 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Oakland still has its fair share of larger schools. About \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/school/Alameda/Oakland-Unified/Skyline-High\">1,800 students\u003c/a> were enrolled at Skyline High School during the 2017-2018 school year, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/school/Alameda/Oakland-Unified/Oakland-Technical-High\">nearly 2,000\u003c/a> at Oakland Tech. But a good number of district schools have fewer than 300 students. Among them: Roots International Academy, one of the schools slated for closure, which now has just about 260 students and Sankofa Academy, which has fewer than 200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726709\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11726709 size-complete_open_graph\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-1200x867.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-1200x867.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-160x116.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-800x578.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-1020x737.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377.png 1247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schools in the Oakland Unified School District \u003ccite>(OUSD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why were so many new schools created?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2000, the district has opened a huge number of small schools, even as its enrollment dropped \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showShareOptions=true&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no&:render=false#3\">by about 45 percent\u003c/a>. Here’s how it unfolded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1990s, Oakland’s public school district was dealing with many of the same issues it faces today, including financial problems, low test scores and high teacher turnover. Most of the under-performing schools were concentrated in the city’s “flatlands” neighborhoods and primarily attended by lower-income, minority students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike now, though, many of those schools were bursting at the seams and straining to manage far more students than they were designed to accommodate, particularly elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of these overcrowded and sometimes chaotic conditions, a group of concerned parents teamed up with an alliance of religious and civic leaders, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcommunity.org/\">Oakland Community Organizations\u003c/a>, to push for a major overhaul of the district’s most troubled campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Oakland Schools: Your Questions Answered\" tag=\"ousd-qa\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the group called attention to the glaring disparities between their kids’ schools and the markedly smaller, safer and better performing schools largely concentrated in wealthier neighborhoods in the Oakland hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe that the same school district would be failing thousands of children, while the other kids in the more affluent neighborhoods were very successful,” said Emma Paulino, an immigrant from Guadalajara, Mexico, who was appalled by the conditions at Hawthorne Elementary, the East Oakland school her son attended. “It was like a slap in my face. My child is not a third-class kid just because he’s brown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulino became involved with OCO and its grassroots campaign to push the district to break apart some of its long-struggling, large flatlands schools and replace them with smaller autonomous academies. It was part of a growing small schools movement that had taken root in urban districts across the country, including New York, Chicago and Milwaukee, and touted as a transformational tool to help narrow the growing achievement gap between poor, mostly minority students and their more affluent peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates believed that schools with fewer than 400 students could provide a stronger sense of community and security and create more engaging learning environments, particularly for students from underserved neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small schools were also intended to empower a new generation of community and educational leaders who could help shape their school’s vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s school board and its superintendent went all in, approving a \u003ca href=\"https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED467119\">new small schools policy\u003c/a> in 2000 that jump-started the opening of nine new schools over the next three years. (To put that in perspective: the district hadn’t opened a single new school in the previous 20 years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/37f2a288-0fd1-434c-8fff-b97a4f708fbb?src=embed\" title=\"Oakland Small Schools\" width=\"600\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Chaconas, who was the district’s superintendent from 2000 to 2003, said that besides reducing overcrowding, the goal was to create more community-focused and academically rigorous institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to get a group of teachers and community members to design schools in which they felt they would own the kids more, and actually end up getting better performance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulino helped start ASCEND, an arts-based kindergarten- through eighth-grade school in East Oakland that opened its doors in 2001 (it has since become a charter school).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At ASCEND, we the parents had a voice,” she said. “We worked really closely with the teachers. And all the adults were responsible for the children, including the custodians, people in the cafeteria, every person at the school. We were like a family. Parents really owned the school and all the kids were accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label= \"We're answering your questions about Oakland Schools.\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools#have-a-question,Tell us what you want to know.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who paid for the expansion?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good chunk of the funding came from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which had begun infusing a number of urban districts across the country with large grants specifically earmarked for creating more small schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2003 — when the financially distressed district was taken over by the state and its locally elected school board dissolved — and 2009, Oakland continued to receive multimillion-dollar contributions from the Gates Foundation for the explicit purpose of converting large campuses into multiplexes of smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that period of state receivership, the district shuttered seven large middle and high schools and seven elementary schools — located almost entirely in the city’s poorest neighborhoods in East and West Oakland — and replaced them with 40 smaller academies. Many had distinct vocational themes, from media studies and performing arts to architecture and activism. The schools’ teachers and principals all had to reapply for their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 2009, when the district finally regained local control, philanthropic enthusiasm for the small schools movement had waned, and the Gates Foundation shifted its focus to new educational initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, OUSD opened a whopping 49 new schools in a decade, each with its own separate administration and teaching staff. Some were eventually phased out or turned into charter schools, but the majority remain open today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also during this period that district-approved, publicly funded charter schools proliferated in the city. Oakland’s underserved communities, which had just a few years earlier been sorely lacking in educational options for their children, were suddenly awash in an often dizzying array of new schools from which to choose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So ... did it work? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results were mixed. There were definitely some major improvements. Between 2004 and 2009, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib07/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/14/Impact_Assessment_OUSD_Results.pdf\"> district reported\u003c/a> a 92-point increase in its overall Academic Performance Index score, which it claimed was the biggest improvement of any large urban district in California, although it still fell below the statewide average. And some of the new schools unquestionably outperformed the larger institutions they’d stemmed from. In 2008, Think College Now, one of the new small elementary schools in the Fruitvale district, was named a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/364\">California Distinguished School\u003c/a> at the same time as Hillcrest, an elementary school in one of Oakland’s wealthiest neighborhoods. That same year, about \u003ca href=\"https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/news/articles/899\">40 percent of graduates from LIFE Academy\u003c/a>, a bioscience-themed high school in East Oakland that opened in 2001, were admitted into the University of California system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/oakland-unified-school-district-new-small-schools-initiative-evaluation.pdf\">2009 Stanford study\u003c/a> found that Oakland students in the new small schools performed better, on average, over a three-year period than students from similar socioeconomic groups who stayed in their larger, traditional schools. The same study also found that students, parents and teachers were “significantly more satisfied” than their counterparts at traditional schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Oakland’s small school transformation was hardly the magic bullet that some reformers had hoped for. Many of the same problems persisted, and academic progress was at best uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/09/01/small-schools-found-not-making-the-grade/\">Data released in 2007\u003c/a> showed that the new small high schools at the Castlemont and McClymonds campuses — as well as all but one of the district’s new middle schools — failed to meet national education standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, by 2009, just as the district regained local control, it again found itself sliding into deep financial trouble, in large part because \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showShareOptions=true&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no&:render=false#3\">thousands of students \u003c/a>were transferring into the many charter schools that had recently emerged throughout Oakland, taking with them critical state funding tied to enrollment, and leaving some of the newly created schools with an increasing number of empty seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operating more schools was also more expensive, particularly in the absence of foundational support. Each school required its own principal, administrative staff and additional overhead costs, adding millions of dollars every year to the district’s tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Hill, a former OUSD program manager, said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eightcities.org/blog/oakland-california\">recent interview\u003c/a> with the education site Eight Cities that the district probably opened too many schools at once. “There should have been a tighter look at financial and demographic need,” he said. “It wasn’t financially sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the Oakland school board\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/12/19/oakland-school-district-at-important-juncture/\"> regained control in 2009, some members were already suggesting\u003c/a> merging some of the “new, small schools” back together again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of Oakland students from high schools across the city skipped class Friday morning to march from Oakland Technical High School to the school district's downtown headquarters in a spirited show of support for their teachers, who are threatening to strike amid tense contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Teachers Say They're Ready to Strike\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" />\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I'm here to support our teachers, to fight for things that I want in our schools and show that this is not just a teacher issue. It's a schoolwide, community issue,” said Avelina Rivezzo-Weber, a junior at Skyline High School, who helped organize students from her school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teens gathered on the plaza in front of Oakland Tech before the start of the school day, where student organizers discussed how to demonstrate safely and then led the crowd down Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waving signs and banners, students chanted, “1-2-3-4, pay our Oakland teachers more!” and “We won’t stop! Chop from the top!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/monicazlam/status/1093940801971748865\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are primarily the people that are affected the most by educational issues,” said Samuel Getachew, a junior at Oakland Tech, who helped organize the march. “I think too often our power and our voice is disregarded, and we're not included in the conversations we should be included in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a mass email sent to fellow students earlier this week, student organizers said: “Our goal is to put pressure on the district to meet the teachers’ demands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks ago, teachers from many of the same schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\">staged a similar event\u003c/a>, marching from Oakland Tech to Oakland Unified School District's downtown headquarters, stopping traffic along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD teachers, who have been working without a contract since 2017, are demanding a 12 percent raise over three years, reduced class sizes and more school counselors and nurses. Following months of failed negotiations with the district, the Oakland Education Association, the union representing teachers, on Monday announced that the roughly 2,300 teachers it represents had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means\">voted overwhelmingly\u003c/a> in favor of a strike if their demands are not met. If the union and the district don’t agree on the recommendations of a neutral third party, expected by next Friday, the union is likely to call a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impasse comes as the district scrambles to chip away at a massive budget deficit of up to $30 million. Among other measures, it recently proposed closing up to 24 under-enrolled schools, a plan the union staunchly opposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724798\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11724798 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35215_OUSD_MOORE_026-1200x796.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clyde Nichols, a junior at Oakland Technical High School, leads a group of students and volunteers down Broadway in downtown Oakland during the student sickout on Friday Feb. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lauren Kahn, an Oakland Tech senior who helped organize the rally, said her teachers were very supportive of the unsanctioned walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We emailed over 200 teachers, telling them of our plans and we got very positive responses back, encouraging us and thanking us for our work,” Kahn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/monicazlam/status/1093926422492532741\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials did not share the same enthusiasm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a prerecorded call and email to parents on Thursday, OUSD spokesman John Sasaki said that while the district supported students’ First Amendment rights, it still strongly encouraged them to attend school on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his message, Sasaki emphasized the importance of tests and especially called attention to a recruiting event for historically black colleges and universities, where “students will find on-site admissions opportunities and millions of dollars of scholarships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724795\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11724795 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020.jpg\" alt=\"Carlita Landrum, a junior at Skyline High School, chants into a bullhorn while marching with other students down Broadway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-1200x829.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlita Landrum, a junior at Skyline High School, chants into a bullhorn while marching with other students down Broadway. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district receives funding from the state based on student attendance, although Sasaki said he couldn't yet confirm the cost impact of today’s event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an action that will hopefully lose [the district] a lot of money,” Getachew said. “And through that, make them realize that not only are students willing to participate in these conversations, we want to so badly that we're willing to do anything it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of parents could also be spotted in the sea of marching students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's so exciting to watch these students speak their mind, support their teachers, support public education, be out there talking about what matters to them and be engaging in civic action,” said Bridget Rivezzo, the mother of Avelina Rivezzo-Weber, one of the student organizers. “I’m so proud of them and of my daughter.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>District officials did not share the same enthusiasm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a prerecorded call and email to parents on Thursday, OUSD spokesman John Sasaki said that while the district supported students’ First Amendment rights, it still strongly encouraged them to attend school on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his message, Sasaki emphasized the importance of tests and especially called attention to a recruiting event for historically black colleges and universities, where “students will find on-site admissions opportunities and millions of dollars of scholarships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724795\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11724795 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020.jpg\" alt=\"Carlita Landrum, a junior at Skyline High School, chants into a bullhorn while marching with other students down Broadway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35209_OUSD_MOORE_020-1200x829.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlita Landrum, a junior at Skyline High School, chants into a bullhorn while marching with other students down Broadway. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district receives funding from the state based on student attendance, although Sasaki said he couldn't yet confirm the cost impact of today’s event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an action that will hopefully lose [the district] a lot of money,” Getachew said. “And through that, make them realize that not only are students willing to participate in these conversations, we want to so badly that we're willing to do anything it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of parents could also be spotted in the sea of marching students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's so exciting to watch these students speak their mind, support their teachers, support public education, be out there talking about what matters to them and be engaging in civic action,” said Bridget Rivezzo, the mother of Avelina Rivezzo-Weber, one of the student organizers. “I’m so proud of them and of my daughter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Tues., Feb. 19\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Teachers want better pay, smaller class sizes, and more resources for classrooms and student programs. The district says it supports these goals but also needs to balance its budget.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers say they will begin their strike on Thursday, Feb. 21, the union representing them \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726864/oakland-teachers-announce-plans-to-strike-starting-on-thursday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced\u003c/a> Saturday. The decision came after the union rejected the recommendations of a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSHkn3IwBmO-zewwFcfFhdvvc_RjKVyZ/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-finding report\u003c/a>, delivered on Friday by a neutral third party, which offered non-terms for a potential settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough. Bargaining with our school district has not worked,” Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, said on Saturday, while announcing the strike. “Bargaining with our school district has not in two years produced an agreement that will pay teachers enough to stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers have been working without a contract since July 2017. Despite prolonged efforts, the union, which represents some 2,300 teachers, and the Oakland Unified School District have failed to reach an agreement, and the formal negotiation process is nearly exhausted. Meanwhile, frustrated teachers staged their own one-day “sick-outs” in December and January without union approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does the fact-finding report recommend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The report, written by Najeeb Khoury, an arbitrator appointed by the state’s Public Employee Relations Board, begins by pointing out the deep flaws in California’s school-funding system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These flaws make finding resolutions to this contract and other teacher contracts throughout the state very difficult,” Khoury writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report goes on to note that the district’s offer of a 5 percent salary increase for teachers over three years will not keep pace with inflation. But it also stresses that the union’s demand for a 12 percent increase is financially unfeasible for the cash-strapped district. As a compromise, it recommends a 6 percent salary increase retroactive to the 2017-18 school year and calls for new salary negotiations for the 2019-20 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommends a reduction of one student per class, across the board, by 2020. For the neediest 20 percent of schools, that deadline would be 2019. And it suggests reducing the counselor-to-student ratio to a maximum of 1-to-550.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the report recommends hiring three additional psychologists for the district. And rather than hiring additional nurses, as the union is demanding, it suggests that the union and district work together to fill the district’s vacant school nurse positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What has to happen before a strike can be called?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The union and the district are now in the formal fact-finding process, a step legally mandated by state law in collective bargaining negotiations. Late last week, each party made its case before a three-person panel consisting of one member appointed by each party and one neutral member appointed by the Public Employee Relations Board, the state agency charged with administering collective bargaining laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label= \"We're answering your questions about Oakland Schools.\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Tell us what you want to know.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It works a little bit like a jury trial. After each party lays out its arguments (you can see OEA’s presentation to the panel \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/updates/remedying-educational-malpractice-oea-fact-finding-presentation/\">here\u003c/a>), the neutral panel member writes a report with recommendations for a settlement. The district and union have said \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UvyqV-akz2augtfC1SMeY4j-wVj_BujeSk3y7tv-Jcc/edit\">they expect to receive the report by February 15\u003c/a>. The report then has to be made public within 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the two sides don’t agree to the fact-finder’s recommendations, the union is likely to call for a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to get further in the weeds, you can read the state law that outlines the fact-finding process \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perb.ca.gov%2Flawspdfs%2Feera.pdf\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are teachers asking for, and what’s the district offering?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Generally speaking, teachers want more pay, smaller classes and more support staff. They say they’re overworked and considerably underpaid, especially given how expensive it is to live in the Bay Area. It’s a key reason, they note (and the \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/mediaplayer.php?clip_id=1302&view_id=4&meta_id=480162\">district agrees\u003c/a>), why the teacher retention rate in Oakland is substantially lower than average as compared with other urban districts nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the union is demanding a 12 percent salary increase over three years and graduated class-size reductions over the next two years. It also wants much deeper class-size reductions in schools where 75 percent or more of students are low-income, foster youth, homeless or English learners, as well as slimmer caseloads for support staff like nurses, counselors and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a pretty sizeable gulf, though, between the union’s demands and what the district has put on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it recognizes and supports an increase in teacher compensation, especially in the costly Bay Area, but also stresses the tenuous financial situation it’s currently in. The district is shouldering a roughly $30 million budget deficit, which it has to significantly reduce to avoid being taken over by the state (again). As part of an urgent cost-cutting strategy, the district recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\">proposed closing\u003c/a> and consolidating up to 24 of its 87 school sites, a plan that’s proven highly controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s offer is a salary increase of 5 percent over three years and marginal class-size cuts, but only for fourth and fifth grades, physical education and fine arts classes. It’s also offering a special education class size cap of 15 students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current contract, core high school classes like math and English are capped at 32 students (unless a teacher has fewer students in other periods). 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An attorney with the California Teachers Association, the state teachers’ union, sent OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/760fd0fd-fa9c-4792-a46e-89977448a490.pdf\">a letter\u003c/a> demanding that the issue of closures be brought to the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD Board President Aimee Eng said the district does not believe the issue of closures is within the scope of negotiations and has referred the matter to legal counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do OUSD teacher salaries compare to other districts?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, even when taking benefits into account, according to an analysis by School Services of California, a consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the starting OUSD teacher salary of $46,570 is roughly equivalent to starting salaries in most other large Bay Area districts, the average teacher salary in Oakland ($63,149) \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/cs/documents/j90summary1718.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is notably lower\u003c/a>, as is the highest-paid salary ($83,724). In San Francisco, by contrast, the average teacher salary for the 2017-18 school year was more than $73,00, with top-earners making more than $96,000. In San Jose, teachers on average made just over $79,000, with some of the highest paid making as much as $97,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0tV6H/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What would it cost the district to meet the union’s demands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell has said each 1 percent raise that teachers get means an additional $1.9 million per year in costs to the district. Factoring in all district staff represented by the union — teachers, counselors, nurses, psychologists, speech therapists, etc. — she said those costs go up to about $3.5 million per year for each 1 percent raise. By that metric, the 12 percent raise the union is asking for over three years would cost the district $42 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said \u003ca href=\"https://votersedge.org/en/ca/ballot/election/area/42/measures/measure/2479?election_authority_id=1\">Measure G1\u003c/a> funding will provide $5 million annually to help pay for salary increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When did Oakland teachers last go on strike? What happened?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers walked out in 2010 for one day. According to news reports at the time, the district imposed a contract after exhausting the negotiation process. Teachers then had been working without a contract since summer of 2008 and the issues were similar: pay, class size, lack of support staff. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Tues., Feb. 19\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Teachers want better pay, smaller class sizes, and more resources for classrooms and student programs. The district says it supports these goals but also needs to balance its budget.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers say they will begin their strike on Thursday, Feb. 21, the union representing them \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726864/oakland-teachers-announce-plans-to-strike-starting-on-thursday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced\u003c/a> Saturday. The decision came after the union rejected the recommendations of a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSHkn3IwBmO-zewwFcfFhdvvc_RjKVyZ/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-finding report\u003c/a>, delivered on Friday by a neutral third party, which offered non-terms for a potential settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough. Bargaining with our school district has not worked,” Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, said on Saturday, while announcing the strike. “Bargaining with our school district has not in two years produced an agreement that will pay teachers enough to stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers have been working without a contract since July 2017. Despite prolonged efforts, the union, which represents some 2,300 teachers, and the Oakland Unified School District have failed to reach an agreement, and the formal negotiation process is nearly exhausted. Meanwhile, frustrated teachers staged their own one-day “sick-outs” in December and January without union approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does the fact-finding report recommend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The report, written by Najeeb Khoury, an arbitrator appointed by the state’s Public Employee Relations Board, begins by pointing out the deep flaws in California’s school-funding system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It works a little bit like a jury trial. After each party lays out its arguments (you can see OEA’s presentation to the panel \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/updates/remedying-educational-malpractice-oea-fact-finding-presentation/\">here\u003c/a>), the neutral panel member writes a report with recommendations for a settlement. The district and union have said \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UvyqV-akz2augtfC1SMeY4j-wVj_BujeSk3y7tv-Jcc/edit\">they expect to receive the report by February 15\u003c/a>. The report then has to be made public within 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the two sides don’t agree to the fact-finder’s recommendations, the union is likely to call for a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to get further in the weeds, you can read the state law that outlines the fact-finding process \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perb.ca.gov%2Flawspdfs%2Feera.pdf\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are teachers asking for, and what’s the district offering?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Generally speaking, teachers want more pay, smaller classes and more support staff. They say they’re overworked and considerably underpaid, especially given how expensive it is to live in the Bay Area. It’s a key reason, they note (and the \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/mediaplayer.php?clip_id=1302&view_id=4&meta_id=480162\">district agrees\u003c/a>), why the teacher retention rate in Oakland is substantially lower than average as compared with other urban districts nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the union is demanding a 12 percent salary increase over three years and graduated class-size reductions over the next two years. It also wants much deeper class-size reductions in schools where 75 percent or more of students are low-income, foster youth, homeless or English learners, as well as slimmer caseloads for support staff like nurses, counselors and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a pretty sizeable gulf, though, between the union’s demands and what the district has put on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it recognizes and supports an increase in teacher compensation, especially in the costly Bay Area, but also stresses the tenuous financial situation it’s currently in. The district is shouldering a roughly $30 million budget deficit, which it has to significantly reduce to avoid being taken over by the state (again). As part of an urgent cost-cutting strategy, the district recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\">proposed closing\u003c/a> and consolidating up to 24 of its 87 school sites, a plan that’s proven highly controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s offer is a salary increase of 5 percent over three years and marginal class-size cuts, but only for fourth and fifth grades, physical education and fine arts classes. It’s also offering a special education class size cap of 15 students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current contract, core high school classes like math and English are capped at 32 students (unless a teacher has fewer students in other periods). 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An attorney with the California Teachers Association, the state teachers’ union, sent OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/760fd0fd-fa9c-4792-a46e-89977448a490.pdf\">a letter\u003c/a> demanding that the issue of closures be brought to the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD Board President Aimee Eng said the district does not believe the issue of closures is within the scope of negotiations and has referred the matter to legal counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do OUSD teacher salaries compare to other districts?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, even when taking benefits into account, according to an analysis by School Services of California, a consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the starting OUSD teacher salary of $46,570 is roughly equivalent to starting salaries in most other large Bay Area districts, the average teacher salary in Oakland ($63,149) \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/cs/documents/j90summary1718.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is notably lower\u003c/a>, as is the highest-paid salary ($83,724). In San Francisco, by contrast, the average teacher salary for the 2017-18 school year was more than $73,00, with top-earners making more than $96,000. In San Jose, teachers on average made just over $79,000, with some of the highest paid making as much as $97,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0tV6H/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What would it cost the district to meet the union’s demands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell has said each 1 percent raise that teachers get means an additional $1.9 million per year in costs to the district. Factoring in all district staff represented by the union — teachers, counselors, nurses, psychologists, speech therapists, etc. — she said those costs go up to about $3.5 million per year for each 1 percent raise. By that metric, the 12 percent raise the union is asking for over three years would cost the district $42 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said \u003ca href=\"https://votersedge.org/en/ca/ballot/election/area/42/measures/measure/2479?election_authority_id=1\">Measure G1\u003c/a> funding will provide $5 million annually to help pay for salary increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When did Oakland teachers last go on strike? What happened?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers walked out in 2010 for one day. According to news reports at the time, the district imposed a contract after exhausting the negotiation process. Teachers then had been working without a contract since summer of 2008 and the issues were similar: pay, class size, lack of support staff. 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"content": "\u003cp>Despite fierce opposition, the Oakland Unified school board voted overwhelmingly on Monday night to close Roots International Academy by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s decision, which follows weeks of community backlash, marks the first confirmed school closure in the district’s controversial plan to shutter up to 24 school sites, an effort to chip away at its massive budget deficit and achieve a degree of financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing emotional pleas from students and teachers for more than two hours at Monday’s meeting, board members voted 6-1 in favor of the proposal to close Roots, a small middle school in East Oakland that opened its doors in 2006. There are currently 266 students enrolled, according to school staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CornellBarnard/status/1090105920837668864\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board president Aimee Eng appeared pained after the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, we’re in this untenable position as a school board where we cannot adequately resource all 87 of our schools, and we’re having to make these difficult and terrible trade-offs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, just before winter break, the district abruptly announced its intention to close the school, citing declining enrollment and consistently dismal test scores. Pressed about why it wasn’t delaying the closure for another year, as it will likely do for some of the other school sites, the district’s deputy chief of innovation, Yvette Renteria, explained that there simply wasn’t enough of a budget to keep the school open past the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside align=right label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" tag=ousd-news]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Roots were to stay open next year to accommodate current students, but not include an incoming sixth grade class, she said, “we would only have a budget of 4.25 teachers for 140 students, which is not a sufficient amount of teachers to run a school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria also assured Roots’ teachers that they would not lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have job openings all the time,” she said. “We want to first and foremost support our teachers so they get placed into those positions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the decision is likely to further inflame tensions between the district and the teachers’ union, which is staunchly opposed to school closures. Teachers are voting this week on whether to give union leadership authority to call a strike if last-ditch bargaining efforts fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding that this proposal be pulled and that this issue be brought to the bargaining table,” Oakland Education Association president Keith Brown told board members ahead of last night’s vote. He warned the board that the California Teachers Association, the statewide union, would get involved and “seek the necessary legal actions to prevent the closure of Roots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students impacted by the closure will be given priority to enroll in nearby better-performing schools, the district said. That includes Coliseum College Prep Academy, a sixth- through 12th-grade school located on the same campus, which the district said will be able to accommodate 79 Roots students next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s little consolation for Roots parent Silvia Ornelas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just upset,” she said. “The kids are so cared for at our school, and I feel they’re just going to be pushed to the side in\u003cbr>\nany other school they go to.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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