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Foundation, and its supporting partners, are committing another $50 million to expand their investment in the Oakland Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of that, Lockwood is receiving a new outdoor area that includes separate play structures for kindergartners and older students, a pair of new basketball courts and mini soccer pitches and a nature exploration area featuring logs and stumps for climbing and jumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love it, because I can play with my friends every day here,” said Ermias, whose regular inquiries go to various teachers and principal Nehseem Ratchford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ermias’ entire family could benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lives across the street from school, is one of four children and has a younger brother at Lockwood, which had an enrollment of 658 as of late last week — about 65% Hispanic, more than 25% Black and a growing Arabic community as well.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I think it mostly stems from our parenthood. When you have a child and then you start to hear about the disparities around you that other families and parents are facing and you start to realize that it’s nobody’s fault, it just is what it is.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Ayesha Curry, co-founder, Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>These are the children the Currys want to build up to chase big goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it mostly stems from our parenthood,” Ayesha Curry said. “When you have a child, and then you start to hear about the disparities around you that other families and parents are facing, and you start to realize that it’s nobody’s fault, it just is what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Currys hope to build on the impact they made during the initial four years of their foundation work, which began in 2019 and later identified families in need during the pandemic and delivered more than 25 million meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of springboarded a lot of momentum around the ways that we can keep it going,” Stephen Curry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lockwood also soon will debut a covered outdoor classroom. It is one of six Oakland schools and community areas receiving remodeled play spaces this year. Another $1 million is going to help grow middle school sports and provide greater opportunities for girls especially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from new playgrounds and athletics, the expanded movement aims to serve more than 6 million meals to Oakland students annually while enhancing cafeterias, provide all children reading below grade level with regular access to tutoring, and distribute 300,000 books through efforts such as restocking school libraries and hosting elementary school book fairs.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11957043","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Eat. Learn. Play. hopes to refurbish 25 more play areas by the completion of the 2026 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can dream big, obviously, that’s why we started. There’s an idea of leveraging the blessings of the platform that we both have and have been given,” Stephen Curry said. “And at that moment like, OK, Eat. Learn. Play. is again this specificity and clarity in how we want to amplify our impact and developing a strategy around that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and co-CEO of Workday, and one of the Currys’ primary partners, called the couple “one in a generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First of all, people like Steph and Ayesha, a lot of times they wait until they’re retired to have an impact, and they’re doing it at the prime of their lives, at the peak of their impact,” Bhusri said. “It’s just rare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11960187/steph-and-ayesha-curry-invest-additional-50-million-for-ousd-children-families","authors":["byline_news_11960187"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_33138","news_18","news_3202","news_18016","news_18057"],"featImg":"news_11960197","label":"news"},"news_11942006":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11942006","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11942006","score":null,"sort":[1677679210000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"reversal-of-oakland-school-closures-renews-hope-of-reparations-for-black-students","title":"Reversal of Oakland School Closures Renews Hope of Reparations for Black Students","publishDate":1677679210,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The decision by Oakland’s new school board to rescind a school closure plan has renewed hope in the reparations movement to improve the outcomes of Oakland Unified School District’s Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the movement remains in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">Reparations for Black Students\u003c/a> resolution, an initiative to provide more resources for almost 8,000 Black students. For some observers, the resolution acknowledged the inequitable education students have received for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution created a task force to monitor academic performance and, among other things, provide anti-racism training to district teachers and staff. Early versions of the resolution included a ban on school closures where more than 30% of the students are Black, a line item that was opposed by the school district and Chris Learned, the state trustee who oversaw the district’s finances. It was ultimately removed from the final resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For two decades, the school district has been under state receivership because of a $100 million bailout in 2003. To address budget shortfalls, the school board voted in January 2022 to close what it deemed were underperforming schools with low enrollment. The vote sparked protests, which included a hunger strike, a 125-day occupation of Parker Elementary School after the district closed it, and a State Department of Justice inquiry into claims that the plan continued a trend of discrimination against the district’s Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942027\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942027 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"A group of protesters hold signs against school closures as they march on a city street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents, youth and supporters protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. The rally was one of several events last year in support of the Reparations for Black Students campaign. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The closures derailed the reparations effort to hold the school district accountable for improving the education of Black students. But the reversal, which was approved during a special meeting in January, has activists and community members cautiously optimistic about OUSD’s future. The action was made possible by newly elected board members who opposed the previous board’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California Reparations Task Force\u003c/a> continues to study and develop proposals for the entire state, a look into Oakland’s effort reveals just how difficult reparations can be to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now finally positioned to start doing things differently,” said Mike Hutchinson, the school board’s new president. “We have to embed this work in the district so it becomes a core part of what we do, and I think we are starting to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Cázares, the current trustee, will have to sign off for the reversal to be permanent. The Alameda County Office of Education must also approve. \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/19/ousd-oakland-school-closures-hutchinson-alameda-county-castro/\">As \u003cem>The Oaklandside\u003c/em>’s Ashley McBride reported\u003c/a>, “the board’s decision could also threaten a separate influx of state cash the district was expecting as a result of closing schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, if the decision is confirmed by the state, it will save five elementary schools that serve predominantly students of color — Brookfield, Grass Valley, Horace Mann, Carl B. Munck, Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy and Hillcrest Elementary School, which would also continue to serve kindergarten through eighth grade. The majority of students at Grass Valley and Carl B. Munck are Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the board make that decision as soon as it did has really given the system a breath of fresh air,” said Pecolia Manigo, chair of the Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force, the body created to implement the reparations resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ongoing fight against systemic racism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jordan Rancifer was captivated by the stories of anti-Black racism in Oakland’s public schools that he heard in the Oakland High School auditorium in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It piqued my interest because it’s like, damn, I’m not the only one having these racial experiences in OUSD,” he recalled in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was one of a series of community listening sessions held by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandkidsfirst.org/programs/j4os/\">Justice for Oakland Students coalition\u003c/a>. Students described being called racist slurs by peers. They said they felt ignored when they brought concerns to school administrators, and alienated by curricula that neglected Black experiences. Parents described years of limited enrollment in programs meant to support Black students and funding that always seemed to quickly run out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942014\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942014 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black man with a black hoodie and shoulder-length black twists looks at the camera while standing on a sidewalk in an urban street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Rancifer poses for a photo on Grand Avenue in Oakland on April 15, 2022. Rancifer spoke at the listening sessions that led to the Reparations for Black Students resolution when he was a senior at Oakland Technical High School. Now he's studying political science at Cal State East Bay. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rancifer was then a senior struggling in math at Oakland Technical High School. He shared his experience in a room full of teachers, students and parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t feel like, as a Black man, I was being helped or noticed,” said Rancifer, now 23 and studying political science at Cal State East Bay. “They just kind of let me fail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black students accounted for \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=n&:showVizHome=n&:origin=viz_share_link\">20.5% of district enrollment\u003c/a> — roughly 10,000 out of 50,000 students — in the 2021–2022 academic year, according to OUSD’s dashboard. Two decades ago, Black students accounted for nearly half. Since then, the district has shuttered 16 majority Black schools, fracturing school communities and separating students from friends and familiar teachers. At the listening sessions, speakers said the closures contributed to the exodus of Black families from district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The listening sessions laid the foundation for the reparations resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution promised to address the declining enrollment and poor outcomes of Black students, and set its sights on ending the achievement gap, also called the opportunity gap, by 2026.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Pecolia Manigo, chair, Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force\"]'Having the board make that decision as soon as it did has really given the system a breath of fresh air.'[/pullquote]In September 2021, the district created the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PlZalR3MLPd6M4XK5_ORtdu8oK0d26Ox/view\">Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force\u003c/a>, a 25-member volunteer body to carry out the resolution. By that time, Rancifer was in college. His mother, Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, an Oakland teacher and vice president of the Oakland teachers union, became the task force secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that makes me so excited about our work is being able to bring Black folks into a safe space, and for them to know that they’re not alone in their experiences and that other folks are experiencing the same thing, but that they can also come up with the solutions,” said Manigo, who is also executive director of the Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network, an Oakland-based nonprofit that empowers parents to advocate for their children in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Manigo and Hutchinson, things were going smoothly for months after the task force began its work. The volunteer group of Black parents, educators, district employees and community activists met regularly on Zoom, gathering virtually to view colorful slide decks put together by Manigo, mother of two OUSD students and one OUSD graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD receives special state funding for students from lower-income families and foster youth, many of whom are Black. The task force aims to track how OUSD invests that money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has been trying to improve the outcomes for Black students for decades. OUSD founded the African American Male Achievement program in 2010 and what is now known as the African American Female Excellence program in 2015. Data shows the programs improved graduation rates and lowered rates of suspensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the impact of other, more diffuse efforts like curriculum changes and diversifying staff is harder to trace. The task force set out to build a system to quantify the impact of district interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being able to say whether something is effective or not effective, and whether it's helping to close opportunity gaps or not … we knew that that was a big challenge,” said Manigo, who was unsuccessful in her bid for a school board seat in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Manigo, the school closure plan, announced four months after the task force began its work, revealed that the district was unwilling “to understand the implications of the lived experience and wisdom that so many of us had been putting before them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure plan felt like a betrayal. “By saying reparations, there is an immediate demand to stop the harm,” Manigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942012 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with a purple top and short cropped hair smiles at the camera as she stands in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-1536x1145.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pecolia Manigo poses in Maxwell Park in Oakland on Aug. 25, 2022. Manigo is the chair of the Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead of focusing on improving outcomes for Black students, conflict grew among members of the task force who found themselves on opposing sides of the closure debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a highly polarized political context and I think our minds are pretty trained to put a stake in the ground and not move from that,” said Dr. Dexter Moore Jr., the superintendent’s representative on the task force. “It put a wedge in the work. No question about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last March, a report presented by Moore to the school board on behalf of the district superintendent showed that a year after the reparations resolution was passed, many of the worrying trends affecting Black students continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black students were being suspended at more than twice the district average, and more than half of Black students were chronically absent, which Moore attributed in part to the impact of a surge in COVID-19 cases at the time. Between the 2020–21 and 2021–22 school years, \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">Black student enrollment dropped by more than 400 students\u003c/a>, continuing the decades-long pattern of Black students leaving the district, according to OUSD data. Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, district superintendent, instructed the task force to pause indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force initially refused to stop holding meetings, but momentum waned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went from 25 folks being able to meet in the very early days and having really great conversations looking over different indicators and putting metrics to those things, to then eventually 15, 16, 17, to slowly but surely many individuals just stepping back,” Manigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force stopped holding public meetings in April. Not enough members were regularly attending to have a quorum. Ten months later, meetings have yet to resume. But developments since the new year might signal a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson has nominated board members Clifford Thompson and VanCedric Williams, co-author of the reparations resolution, to new positions as board liaisons to the task force. He hopes Thompson and Williams will help the task force rebuild its membership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-800x589.jpg\" alt='A Black man with clean shaven head and wearing a blue hoodie that reads \"Protect West Oakland Mural\" smiles at the camera with people in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-800x589.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-1536x1130.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, an outspoken opponent of school closures in Oakland, became the president of Oakland’s school board in January. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Manigo feels frustrated that so much time was lost fighting the district, especially in a year with a massive state budget surplus. Instead of galvanizing energy around petitioning the state for more funding for Oakland schools, Manigo said community organizers like her spent the year fighting with the district to keep schools open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was lost was the opportunity to really tell the Oakland story, to give lawmakers and the larger community hope that we really can create a district where all students are valued, where racially just schools are real,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That model could be important, because what Black students are up against in Oakland is similar to what Black students face throughout the state. \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-interim-report-preliminary-recommendations-2022.pdf\">California remains the sixth most segregated state in the country for Black students (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the interim report published by the state reparations task force in June. “In California’s highly segregated schools, schools attended by white and Asian children receive more funding and resources than schools with predominantly Black and Latino children,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a reality with deep roots. \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1855/1855.PDF\">In 1855, California passed a law that withheld state funds from schools that taught Black and Chinese children (PDF).\u003c/a> Although California taxed Black residents to pay for public schools, the money was only used for the education of white children.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11941976,news_11941469\"]Systemic racism continues to affect Black students. According to statewide data, in 2021–2022 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/state/CA/ps_NTI5Mjg%5E?_gl=1*1dpu79i*_ga*MTI4MDk1MjYxOS4xNjc1NzEyMjg0*_ga_475QR6J62K*MTY3NTcxMjI4NC4xLjEuMTY3NTcxMzM5NC42MC4wLjA.\">only 30% of Black students met English language arts standards and less than 16% met the standard in math\u003c/a>, placing Black students behind all other racial groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2023–2024 budget attempted to address some of this inequity, but \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/critics-say-newsoms-proposal-for-low-performing-students-fails-black-students/684148\">the budget proposal drew criticism\u003c/a> from advocates who say they want to see more funding and support specifically for Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has played out in Oakland’s school district is not an anomaly when it comes to reparations, said Dr. Cheryl Grills, a state task force member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sometimes harder to implement things in the spirit in which they were intended than it is to get the win on the books,” said Grills, professor at Loyola Marymount University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state task force, which \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/meetings\">meets Friday and Saturday in Sacramento\u003c/a>, is expected to publish its plan for repairing almost 200 years of anti-Black racism in the state in June. To address racial disparities in public education, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-agenda-consolidated-prelim-props.pdf\">preliminary policy proposals (PDF)\u003c/a> being considered include an increase in funding to schools through the local control funding formula, which determines how much money schools receive from the state. The preliminary proposals include repealing or amending Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot measure that prohibits state and local government affirmative action programs in the areas of public employment, public education and public contracting. “Proposition 209 is widely viewed as an impediment to the adoption of remedial measures,” the task force stated in the proposal document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No part of a reparations plan will become law without the support of the governor and the state Legislature. Like the reparations push in Oakland, it will require consistent public pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a historic moment that could happen in California,” Manigo said. “And I believe that the time is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The group redesigning how OUSD supports its Black students was stalled by the district's school closure plan. But that plan was rescinded — and now the group's leadership is hopeful for a renewed commitment to the district's Black families.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1677786471,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":47,"wordCount":2382},"headData":{"title":"Reversal of Oakland School Closures Renews Hope of Reparations for Black Students | KQED","description":"The group redesigning how OUSD supports its Black students was stalled by the district's school closure plan. But that plan was rescinded — and now the group's leadership is hopeful for a renewed commitment to the district's Black families.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Reversal of Oakland School Closures Renews Hope of Reparations for Black Students","datePublished":"2023-03-01T14:00:10.000Z","dateModified":"2023-03-02T19:47:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11942006/reversal-of-oakland-school-closures-renews-hope-of-reparations-for-black-students","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The decision by Oakland’s new school board to rescind a school closure plan has renewed hope in the reparations movement to improve the outcomes of Oakland Unified School District’s Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the movement remains in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">Reparations for Black Students\u003c/a> resolution, an initiative to provide more resources for almost 8,000 Black students. For some observers, the resolution acknowledged the inequitable education students have received for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution created a task force to monitor academic performance and, among other things, provide anti-racism training to district teachers and staff. Early versions of the resolution included a ban on school closures where more than 30% of the students are Black, a line item that was opposed by the school district and Chris Learned, the state trustee who oversaw the district’s finances. It was ultimately removed from the final resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For two decades, the school district has been under state receivership because of a $100 million bailout in 2003. To address budget shortfalls, the school board voted in January 2022 to close what it deemed were underperforming schools with low enrollment. The vote sparked protests, which included a hunger strike, a 125-day occupation of Parker Elementary School after the district closed it, and a State Department of Justice inquiry into claims that the plan continued a trend of discrimination against the district’s Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942027\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942027 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"A group of protesters hold signs against school closures as they march on a city street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents, youth and supporters protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. The rally was one of several events last year in support of the Reparations for Black Students campaign. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The closures derailed the reparations effort to hold the school district accountable for improving the education of Black students. But the reversal, which was approved during a special meeting in January, has activists and community members cautiously optimistic about OUSD’s future. The action was made possible by newly elected board members who opposed the previous board’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California Reparations Task Force\u003c/a> continues to study and develop proposals for the entire state, a look into Oakland’s effort reveals just how difficult reparations can be to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now finally positioned to start doing things differently,” said Mike Hutchinson, the school board’s new president. “We have to embed this work in the district so it becomes a core part of what we do, and I think we are starting to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Cázares, the current trustee, will have to sign off for the reversal to be permanent. The Alameda County Office of Education must also approve. \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/19/ousd-oakland-school-closures-hutchinson-alameda-county-castro/\">As \u003cem>The Oaklandside\u003c/em>’s Ashley McBride reported\u003c/a>, “the board’s decision could also threaten a separate influx of state cash the district was expecting as a result of closing schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, if the decision is confirmed by the state, it will save five elementary schools that serve predominantly students of color — Brookfield, Grass Valley, Horace Mann, Carl B. Munck, Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy and Hillcrest Elementary School, which would also continue to serve kindergarten through eighth grade. The majority of students at Grass Valley and Carl B. Munck are Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the board make that decision as soon as it did has really given the system a breath of fresh air,” said Pecolia Manigo, chair of the Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force, the body created to implement the reparations resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ongoing fight against systemic racism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jordan Rancifer was captivated by the stories of anti-Black racism in Oakland’s public schools that he heard in the Oakland High School auditorium in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It piqued my interest because it’s like, damn, I’m not the only one having these racial experiences in OUSD,” he recalled in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was one of a series of community listening sessions held by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandkidsfirst.org/programs/j4os/\">Justice for Oakland Students coalition\u003c/a>. Students described being called racist slurs by peers. They said they felt ignored when they brought concerns to school administrators, and alienated by curricula that neglected Black experiences. Parents described years of limited enrollment in programs meant to support Black students and funding that always seemed to quickly run out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942014\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942014 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black man with a black hoodie and shoulder-length black twists looks at the camera while standing on a sidewalk in an urban street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Rancifer poses for a photo on Grand Avenue in Oakland on April 15, 2022. Rancifer spoke at the listening sessions that led to the Reparations for Black Students resolution when he was a senior at Oakland Technical High School. Now he's studying political science at Cal State East Bay. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rancifer was then a senior struggling in math at Oakland Technical High School. He shared his experience in a room full of teachers, students and parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t feel like, as a Black man, I was being helped or noticed,” said Rancifer, now 23 and studying political science at Cal State East Bay. “They just kind of let me fail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black students accounted for \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=n&:showVizHome=n&:origin=viz_share_link\">20.5% of district enrollment\u003c/a> — roughly 10,000 out of 50,000 students — in the 2021–2022 academic year, according to OUSD’s dashboard. Two decades ago, Black students accounted for nearly half. Since then, the district has shuttered 16 majority Black schools, fracturing school communities and separating students from friends and familiar teachers. At the listening sessions, speakers said the closures contributed to the exodus of Black families from district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The listening sessions laid the foundation for the reparations resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution promised to address the declining enrollment and poor outcomes of Black students, and set its sights on ending the achievement gap, also called the opportunity gap, by 2026.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Having the board make that decision as soon as it did has really given the system a breath of fresh air.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Pecolia Manigo, chair, Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In September 2021, the district created the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PlZalR3MLPd6M4XK5_ORtdu8oK0d26Ox/view\">Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force\u003c/a>, a 25-member volunteer body to carry out the resolution. By that time, Rancifer was in college. His mother, Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, an Oakland teacher and vice president of the Oakland teachers union, became the task force secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that makes me so excited about our work is being able to bring Black folks into a safe space, and for them to know that they’re not alone in their experiences and that other folks are experiencing the same thing, but that they can also come up with the solutions,” said Manigo, who is also executive director of the Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network, an Oakland-based nonprofit that empowers parents to advocate for their children in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Manigo and Hutchinson, things were going smoothly for months after the task force began its work. The volunteer group of Black parents, educators, district employees and community activists met regularly on Zoom, gathering virtually to view colorful slide decks put together by Manigo, mother of two OUSD students and one OUSD graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD receives special state funding for students from lower-income families and foster youth, many of whom are Black. The task force aims to track how OUSD invests that money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has been trying to improve the outcomes for Black students for decades. OUSD founded the African American Male Achievement program in 2010 and what is now known as the African American Female Excellence program in 2015. Data shows the programs improved graduation rates and lowered rates of suspensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the impact of other, more diffuse efforts like curriculum changes and diversifying staff is harder to trace. The task force set out to build a system to quantify the impact of district interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being able to say whether something is effective or not effective, and whether it's helping to close opportunity gaps or not … we knew that that was a big challenge,” said Manigo, who was unsuccessful in her bid for a school board seat in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Manigo, the school closure plan, announced four months after the task force began its work, revealed that the district was unwilling “to understand the implications of the lived experience and wisdom that so many of us had been putting before them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure plan felt like a betrayal. “By saying reparations, there is an immediate demand to stop the harm,” Manigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942012 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with a purple top and short cropped hair smiles at the camera as she stands in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-1536x1145.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pecolia Manigo poses in Maxwell Park in Oakland on Aug. 25, 2022. Manigo is the chair of the Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead of focusing on improving outcomes for Black students, conflict grew among members of the task force who found themselves on opposing sides of the closure debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a highly polarized political context and I think our minds are pretty trained to put a stake in the ground and not move from that,” said Dr. Dexter Moore Jr., the superintendent’s representative on the task force. “It put a wedge in the work. No question about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last March, a report presented by Moore to the school board on behalf of the district superintendent showed that a year after the reparations resolution was passed, many of the worrying trends affecting Black students continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black students were being suspended at more than twice the district average, and more than half of Black students were chronically absent, which Moore attributed in part to the impact of a surge in COVID-19 cases at the time. Between the 2020–21 and 2021–22 school years, \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">Black student enrollment dropped by more than 400 students\u003c/a>, continuing the decades-long pattern of Black students leaving the district, according to OUSD data. Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, district superintendent, instructed the task force to pause indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force initially refused to stop holding meetings, but momentum waned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went from 25 folks being able to meet in the very early days and having really great conversations looking over different indicators and putting metrics to those things, to then eventually 15, 16, 17, to slowly but surely many individuals just stepping back,” Manigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force stopped holding public meetings in April. Not enough members were regularly attending to have a quorum. Ten months later, meetings have yet to resume. But developments since the new year might signal a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson has nominated board members Clifford Thompson and VanCedric Williams, co-author of the reparations resolution, to new positions as board liaisons to the task force. He hopes Thompson and Williams will help the task force rebuild its membership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-800x589.jpg\" alt='A Black man with clean shaven head and wearing a blue hoodie that reads \"Protect West Oakland Mural\" smiles at the camera with people in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-800x589.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-1536x1130.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, an outspoken opponent of school closures in Oakland, became the president of Oakland’s school board in January. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Manigo feels frustrated that so much time was lost fighting the district, especially in a year with a massive state budget surplus. Instead of galvanizing energy around petitioning the state for more funding for Oakland schools, Manigo said community organizers like her spent the year fighting with the district to keep schools open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was lost was the opportunity to really tell the Oakland story, to give lawmakers and the larger community hope that we really can create a district where all students are valued, where racially just schools are real,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That model could be important, because what Black students are up against in Oakland is similar to what Black students face throughout the state. \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-interim-report-preliminary-recommendations-2022.pdf\">California remains the sixth most segregated state in the country for Black students (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the interim report published by the state reparations task force in June. “In California’s highly segregated schools, schools attended by white and Asian children receive more funding and resources than schools with predominantly Black and Latino children,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a reality with deep roots. \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1855/1855.PDF\">In 1855, California passed a law that withheld state funds from schools that taught Black and Chinese children (PDF).\u003c/a> Although California taxed Black residents to pay for public schools, the money was only used for the education of white children.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11941976,news_11941469"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Systemic racism continues to affect Black students. According to statewide data, in 2021–2022 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/state/CA/ps_NTI5Mjg%5E?_gl=1*1dpu79i*_ga*MTI4MDk1MjYxOS4xNjc1NzEyMjg0*_ga_475QR6J62K*MTY3NTcxMjI4NC4xLjEuMTY3NTcxMzM5NC42MC4wLjA.\">only 30% of Black students met English language arts standards and less than 16% met the standard in math\u003c/a>, placing Black students behind all other racial groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2023–2024 budget attempted to address some of this inequity, but \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/critics-say-newsoms-proposal-for-low-performing-students-fails-black-students/684148\">the budget proposal drew criticism\u003c/a> from advocates who say they want to see more funding and support specifically for Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has played out in Oakland’s school district is not an anomaly when it comes to reparations, said Dr. Cheryl Grills, a state task force member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sometimes harder to implement things in the spirit in which they were intended than it is to get the win on the books,” said Grills, professor at Loyola Marymount University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state task force, which \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/meetings\">meets Friday and Saturday in Sacramento\u003c/a>, is expected to publish its plan for repairing almost 200 years of anti-Black racism in the state in June. To address racial disparities in public education, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-agenda-consolidated-prelim-props.pdf\">preliminary policy proposals (PDF)\u003c/a> being considered include an increase in funding to schools through the local control funding formula, which determines how much money schools receive from the state. The preliminary proposals include repealing or amending Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot measure that prohibits state and local government affirmative action programs in the areas of public employment, public education and public contracting. “Proposition 209 is widely viewed as an impediment to the adoption of remedial measures,” the task force stated in the proposal document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No part of a reparations plan will become law without the support of the governor and the state Legislature. Like the reparations push in Oakland, it will require consistent public pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a historic moment that could happen in California,” Manigo said. “And I believe that the time is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11942006/reversal-of-oakland-school-closures-renews-hope-of-reparations-for-black-students","authors":["11772"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_26850","news_30345","news_30652","news_20013","news_3202","news_3366","news_2923"],"featImg":"news_11942101","label":"news"},"news_11927207":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11927207","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11927207","score":null,"sort":[1664498443000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-mayor-calls-for-federal-gun-control-after-shooting-leaves-6-wounded-oakcrime","title":"Oakland Mayor Calls for Federal Gun Control After Shooting Leaves 6 Wounded","publishDate":1664498443,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf on Thursday called on the “obstructionists in Congress” to take action to stop the flow of guns into Oakland after a school shooting wounded six people Wednesday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I want to acknowledge that Oakland, California, has long struggled with gun violence and has made incredible progress,” Schaaf said in a press conference Thursday. “And yet we will never be able to address this alone, or in isolation, without federal leadership.”[aside postID=news_11927080 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1428570615-1020x680.jpg']\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The shooting is the latest in a series of devastating violent incidents in Oakland, with nine people killed in as many days and more injured. Four of those deaths occurred in a 24-hour period between Sept. 19 and 20. The spate of homicides has prompted city leadership to announce a ramping up of police presence in Oakland, and to renew calls for federal gun-control reform. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wednesday also marks the second school shooting in Oakland in as many months. In the previous incident at Madison Park Academy, one middle school student reportedly accidentally shot another. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said officers suspect the shooting on Wednesday specifically targeted at least one person — and possibly multiple people — at the school. He said footage at the King Estates campus, which contains three schools, showed at least two shooters and an accomplice, but there could have been more.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We do believe that this incident is group- and gang-related,” Armstrong said. “We believe that this is related to ongoing conflicts in our city that has driven violence.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Armstrong said that in the footage, two shooters can be seen entering Rudsdale High School and that, soon after, they appear to identify a target and begin shooting. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the end, six adults, including two students, were wounded but survived, although two remain in critical condition. Officers determined that over 30 rounds were fired on the campus.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"LeRonne Armstrong, Oakland police chief\"]'Group and gang violence continues to be the predominant driver of violence in the city of Oakland. Of our 450 shootings this year, 137 have been attributed to group and gang violence.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chief Armstrong said footage of the shooting is still being reviewed, but will be released to the public eventually. No arrests have yet been made. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guillermo Cespedes, chief of Oakland’s Department of Violence Prevention, said the department has been working hard to interrupt the cycles of violence occurring in Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After any shooting, violence-prevention staff are dispatched to speak with victims and family members. The staff try to address the needs of victims and direct them to services as well as assess for the possibility of retaliation. By speaking with those affected and “ensuring cooler heads prevail,” Cespedes says, they can break that cycle. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the shootings that occurred earlier this month, Cespedes says several could have a high potential for retaliation, and the department has even temporarily relocated some families to prevent more attacks. He declined to share which specific cases he was referring to. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I can tell you without a doubt that some of the work that’s taken place in the last month has kept the nine homicides from becoming 18 or 21 or more,” Cespedes said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cespedes added that he agreed with Mayor Schaaf that federal movement on gun control was needed to curb the killings in Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the most recent homicide on Tuesday, Armstrong announced in a press conference that he would be reorganizing and redeploying officers to “provide a greater presence in areas where we’ve seen violence continue to spike.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That shooting death marked the 96th homicide in the city this year, compared to 102 by the same time last year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Group and gang violence continues to be the predominant driver of violence in the city of Oakland,” Armstrong said. “Of our 450 shootings this year, 137 have been attributed to group and gang violence.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At an Oakland Unified School District board meeting Wednesday night, the board addressed the school shooting, and members of the public spoke about the impact that gun violence has had on school communities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Our young people have been expressing that they aren't feeling safe, and besides, school safety should be the board's priority,” said Linh Li, a student on the school board. “Our schools, our school sites, should not be easy to enter. No one should be able to enter our school with a gun.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story includes reporting from KQED's Julia McEvoy.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The school shooting is the latest in a rash of recent gun violence in Oakland, including nine homicides in as many days, prompting city officials to announce plans to ramp up police presence in the most affected areas.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1665096044,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":805},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Mayor Calls for Federal Gun Control After Shooting Leaves 6 Wounded | KQED","description":"The school shooting is the latest in a rash of recent gun violence in Oakland, including nine homicides in as many days, prompting city officials to announce plans to ramp up police presence in the most affected areas.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Oakland Mayor Calls for Federal Gun Control After Shooting Leaves 6 Wounded","datePublished":"2022-09-30T00:40:43.000Z","dateModified":"2022-10-06T22:40:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11927207 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11927207","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/09/29/oakland-mayor-calls-for-federal-gun-control-after-shooting-leaves-6-wounded-oakcrime/","disqusTitle":"Oakland Mayor Calls for Federal Gun Control After Shooting Leaves 6 Wounded","WpOldSlug":"oakland-mayor-calls-for-federal-gun-control-after-shooting-leaves-6-wounded","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11927207/oakland-mayor-calls-for-federal-gun-control-after-shooting-leaves-6-wounded-oakcrime","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf on Thursday called on the “obstructionists in Congress” to take action to stop the flow of guns into Oakland after a school shooting wounded six people Wednesday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I want to acknowledge that Oakland, California, has long struggled with gun violence and has made incredible progress,” Schaaf said in a press conference Thursday. “And yet we will never be able to address this alone, or in isolation, without federal leadership.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11927080","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1428570615-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The shooting is the latest in a series of devastating violent incidents in Oakland, with nine people killed in as many days and more injured. Four of those deaths occurred in a 24-hour period between Sept. 19 and 20. The spate of homicides has prompted city leadership to announce a ramping up of police presence in Oakland, and to renew calls for federal gun-control reform. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wednesday also marks the second school shooting in Oakland in as many months. In the previous incident at Madison Park Academy, one middle school student reportedly accidentally shot another. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said officers suspect the shooting on Wednesday specifically targeted at least one person — and possibly multiple people — at the school. He said footage at the King Estates campus, which contains three schools, showed at least two shooters and an accomplice, but there could have been more.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We do believe that this incident is group- and gang-related,” Armstrong said. “We believe that this is related to ongoing conflicts in our city that has driven violence.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Armstrong said that in the footage, two shooters can be seen entering Rudsdale High School and that, soon after, they appear to identify a target and begin shooting. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the end, six adults, including two students, were wounded but survived, although two remain in critical condition. Officers determined that over 30 rounds were fired on the campus.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Group and gang violence continues to be the predominant driver of violence in the city of Oakland. Of our 450 shootings this year, 137 have been attributed to group and gang violence.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"LeRonne Armstrong, Oakland police chief","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chief Armstrong said footage of the shooting is still being reviewed, but will be released to the public eventually. No arrests have yet been made. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guillermo Cespedes, chief of Oakland’s Department of Violence Prevention, said the department has been working hard to interrupt the cycles of violence occurring in Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After any shooting, violence-prevention staff are dispatched to speak with victims and family members. The staff try to address the needs of victims and direct them to services as well as assess for the possibility of retaliation. By speaking with those affected and “ensuring cooler heads prevail,” Cespedes says, they can break that cycle. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the shootings that occurred earlier this month, Cespedes says several could have a high potential for retaliation, and the department has even temporarily relocated some families to prevent more attacks. He declined to share which specific cases he was referring to. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I can tell you without a doubt that some of the work that’s taken place in the last month has kept the nine homicides from becoming 18 or 21 or more,” Cespedes said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cespedes added that he agreed with Mayor Schaaf that federal movement on gun control was needed to curb the killings in Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the most recent homicide on Tuesday, Armstrong announced in a press conference that he would be reorganizing and redeploying officers to “provide a greater presence in areas where we’ve seen violence continue to spike.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That shooting death marked the 96th homicide in the city this year, compared to 102 by the same time last year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Group and gang violence continues to be the predominant driver of violence in the city of Oakland,” Armstrong said. “Of our 450 shootings this year, 137 have been attributed to group and gang violence.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At an Oakland Unified School District board meeting Wednesday night, the board addressed the school shooting, and members of the public spoke about the impact that gun violence has had on school communities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Our young people have been expressing that they aren't feeling safe, and besides, school safety should be the board's priority,” said Linh Li, a student on the school board. “Our schools, our school sites, should not be easy to enter. No one should be able to enter our school with a gun.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story includes reporting from KQED's Julia McEvoy.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11927207/oakland-mayor-calls-for-federal-gun-control-after-shooting-leaves-6-wounded-oakcrime","authors":["11761"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18246","news_28042","news_416","news_3202","news_1826","news_31714","news_3366","news_22766"],"featImg":"news_11927208","label":"news"},"news_11924343":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11924343","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11924343","score":null,"sort":[1662123647000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-is-investing-billions-in-student-mental-health-how-one-school-is-using-the-money","title":"How One Oakland School Is Using California's Billion-Dollar Investment in Student Mental Health","publishDate":1662123647,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/\">\u003cem>This story was produced in partnership with the local civic media organization El Tímpano.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesabel Inga works at Bridges Academy at Melrose in East Oakland, where she is the only therapist for some 400 students, a quarter of them newcomers. The majority are from Guatemala and speak Mam, a Mayan language spoken by some half a million people in that country and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them, when they first came in, only spoke Mam, they didn't speak Spanish or English,” said Inga. “And so they were just kind of lost, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As these children and others return to school this month across the Bay Area, one constant is their mental health needs: Reports of increased depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and emergency hospital visits exacerbated by the pandemic are considered a crisis, according to reports from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0331-youth-mental-health-covid-19.html\">CDC\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aecf.org/blog/national-state-by-state-data-show-depth-of-youth-mental-health-pandemic\">The Annie E. Casey Foundation \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://mhanational.org/issues/2022/mental-health-america-youth-data#:~:text=Youth%20with%20Severe%20Major%20Depressive%20Episode%202022&text=10.6%25%20of%20youth%20(or%20over,197%2C000%20from%20last%20year's%20dataset.\">Mental Health America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet these needs, California is investing billions of new dollars, on top of state and federal pandemic relief funds. Bridges Academy at Melrose, which is a public school, found a way to leverage the money to maximize impact, pivoting from crisis management to prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The principal at Bridges at the time, Anita Comelo, was having to make tough decisions about which kids would get to see the therapist and which would not.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Vivian Yen, fourth grade teacher, Bridges Academy at Melrose\"]'I do think the murder of George Floyd did kind of push us to adjust our curriculum and make it a little bit more social justice-oriented and more ethnic studies-oriented.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we always have to pick which trauma is the bigger trauma, you know?” said Comelo. “We often end up giving the services to what we call ‘externalizers,’ the kids who end up disrupting class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those students are typically the boys, Comelo said, adding that means other students who tend to internalize the trauma of their anxiety and depression don’t get the help they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the school therapist, Inga, should only carry a maximum caseload of 15 students at any time, scores of other kids at Bridges who could have used help were not getting it, and the result was a lot of disruption in class and on the playground, says community schools project manager Rosana Covarrubias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of cyberbullying and so we were seeing it erupt here at school because of what was happening online,” said Covarrubias. “They were needing mental health support for that. We were having some students with suicidal ideation.”[aside postID=\"mindshift_59753,mindshift_59361\" label=\"Related Posts\"]However, when Covarrubias tried to refer students out to other community agencies they partner with, she says every one of them had a waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll say, ‘OK, thank you for the referral, we'll get back to you.’ And sometimes it's months before they get matched to an individual who can support them and be their therapist,” Covarrubias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And these were the acute cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges therapist Inga says what makes matters worse is the lack of health care coverage for preventive care. Currently, Medi-Cal managed-care plans and commercial providers such as Kaiser don’t reimburse counties’ behavioral health departments for children without a clinical diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change with legislation, namely \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB552/id/2494655\">AB 552\u003c/a>, which is now on the governor’s desk. It would nudge private health care plans to work with counties to reimburse community providers such as Seneca, Lincoln Families and East Bay Agency for Children in Alameda County for providing treatment for students with more moderate needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were to set up kids with therapy support like preventative, you know, we wouldn't have fifth graders that have suicidal ideation,” said Inga, who works for Seneca.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An investment in mental health\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California has begun an unprecedented investment toward meeting the mental health needs of K-12 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is $4.4 billion for a\u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Children-and-Youth-Behavioral-Health-Initiative-Brief.pdf\"> youth and adolescent mental health initiative\u003c/a> to reduce structural barriers to kids getting care inside schools; another $4.1 billion for\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/california-ready-to-launch-3-billion-multi-year-transition-to-community-schools/666571\"> community schools\u003c/a>, which includes money aimed at mental health needs; plus billions more in federal and state pandemic relief dollars, some of which is also aimed at helping students recover from depression and anxiety brought on during the pandemic and subsequent school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the third round of federal pandemic funding to schools, Oakland Unified got over $100 million dollars. According to records filed with the state in May this year, the district only shows spending about $650,000 of that money. And of that, the district reports nearly half went toward mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time the COVID relief money trickled down to Bridges, the school ended up with just $20,000 prioritized for mental health. The money was not enough for even one full-time therapist with benefits, which costs about $160,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it hasn’t spent all the resources yet, and is spacing out the investment. It says school sites last year requested the investments they wanted based on their site needs, and that they had flexibility in how to spend the dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comelo and staff decided to use their $20,000 to hire a part-time clinical therapist for two hours each week. Inga and the part-time clinician decided to start a six-week, group therapy session with eight to nine students, nearly all of whom were native Mam speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the beginning, everybody was really quiet and shy,” Inga said. Inga had previously worked with youth in detention camps along the border, and she could relate as an immigrant herself. “My parents brought me here when I was 15, and not having that support … my experiences led me here to this group,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the students joining in the first newly formed preventive therapy group was 10-year-old Heymer Domingo Godinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11924358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two young girls wearing red decorative shirts and long black skirts prepare food with one holding a vegetable and cutting board and the other holding the handle of a pan with food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Heymer Johana (left) and Katy Noeli Domingo Godinez cook eggs at their home in Oakland after school on Aug. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I first got here to Bridges Academy, I was afraid. I was crying, because I was scared of the students,” Heymer said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heymer had arrived from Guatemala with her dad in first grade, screaming, kicking and crying when dropped off at school. She was scared to come to school because back in Guatemala she had been too young to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heymer and her teachers describe having to hold Heymer to calm her and get her to stay in classes. By fourth grade, Heymer says she had just one friend. Inga says kids like Heymer were confused about where they fit in at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were not really feeling like they could trust other people,” Inga explained. “Like once they came here, there was no space to really talk about themselves and their culture.” On top of that, the pandemic hit families like Heymer’s living in East Oakland especially hard; her parents lost work and nearly lost their housing, before the school stepped in to help raise money for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Heymer and the other students gathered in the small group therapy session, Inga asked each of them to bring something that represented them. Inga said it was Heymer who asked if she could wear her woven huipil and corte, the traditional Mayan Mam clothing she wore at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11924357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two young girls wearing red decorative shirts and long black skirts face the kitchen counter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Heymer Johana (left) and Katy Noeli Domingo Godinez prepare food at their home in Oakland after school on Aug. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Heymer was nervous, and a bit afraid of being under the microscope. “Because some people are looking at us and some people are thinking, ‘Why is some girl wearing some corte like that?’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inga told her students they could expect to get some attention from their peers, but that they should see it as an opportunity rather than something they’d rather avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Listen, some other kids might look at you weird, but it's because they haven't been exposed to other cultures,\" Inga said she told them. \"And if they ask you or say something mean, it's like, you know, 'Let me just, let me tell you about my culture, let me tell you what this means.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the group therapy sessions were taking place, other efforts on the part of teachers throughout the school were also unfolding, aimed at creating\u003ca href=\"https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/08/belonging-helps-black-latino-students-feel-engaged/\"> a greater sense of belonging\u003c/a> for the Mam students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that during parent-teacher conferences, I — and I'm pretty sure other teachers did this as well — explicitly told students in front of their families, ‘Please keep practicing your Mam. We do not want you to lose this language,’” said fourth grade teacher Vivian Yen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yen said some teachers began taking Mam language lessons, while others were critically rethinking their curricula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that my grade-level team, and the fifth grade and third grade, both did this. We were looking at our ELA [English language arts] curriculum because all of the texts are very white-centered,” Yen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think the murder of George Floyd did kind of push us to adjust our curriculum and make it a little bit more social justice-oriented and more ethnic studies-oriented. This is so that students would also have time to think about their own identities, thinking about how they fit in and can counter these racist narratives that we're given all the time,” Yen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11924356\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two young girls wearing red decorative shirts and long black skirts sit on the grass outside a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Heymer Johana (left) and Katy Noeli Domingo Godinez sit in the grass outside their new school, Elmhurst United Middle School, in Oakland on Aug. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The joy Heymer and the other students felt in wearing their cortes spread — more Mam-speaking students began wearing their traditional cortes on Fridays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the boys!” Inga said. “It was just beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When fifth grade graduation arrived, it was Heymer who welcomed parents to the event in Mam and led the performance. And for the first time, all students who presented recited poems in English, Spanish and Mam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers point to this as a culmination, and a defining moment, of the culture change they had worked so hard to achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly I think it was just the buildup of a bunch of tiny little things that led to this movement,” Yen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Heymer started sixth grade at Elmhurst United in East Oakland. As she walks the eight blocks to her new school, she likes to sing songs from her church, Iglesia de Dios Evangelio Sana Doctrina in Oakland. She says it makes her happy and calms her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heymer scouted the school out before classes began, scrutinizing staff photos on the bulletin board outside the school office, looking for faces and names of teachers she thought might speak Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says while she is worried about going to a new school, she is more confident now of who she is and what she can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to learn. I don’t care what people say about me. I only care about my mind and achieving my dreams,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heymer says if she has to, she’ll call on her old teachers at Bridges Academy for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To help a young person who may be struggling with depression or anxiety:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Dial 988: The 24/7 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is now the\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/988\">988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/individuals/Pages/MHPContactList.aspx\">Find your California county’s mental health services phone number.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Call the Family Paths Parenting Stress Helpline (English, Spanish) at (800) 829-3777, or \u003ca href=\"https://familypaths.org/\">visit its website\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://senecacommunityresources.weebly.com/\">Use Seneca community resources for California counties.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acbhcs.org/\">Visit the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Service webpage.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California is investing billions of new dollars in trying to meet the mental health needs of K-12 students. In Oakland, Bridges Academy at Melrose found a way to leverage the money to maximize its impact.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1662675549,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":49,"wordCount":2013},"headData":{"title":"How One Oakland School Is Using California's Billion-Dollar Investment in Student Mental Health | KQED","description":"California is investing billions of new dollars in trying to meet the mental health needs of K-12 students. In Oakland, Bridges Academy at Melrose found a way to leverage the money to maximize its impact.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How One Oakland School Is Using California's Billion-Dollar Investment in Student Mental Health","datePublished":"2022-09-02T13:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2022-09-08T22:19:09.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11924343 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11924343","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/09/02/california-is-investing-billions-in-student-mental-health-how-one-school-is-using-the-money/","disqusTitle":"How One Oakland School Is Using California's Billion-Dollar Investment in Student Mental Health","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/7f8cada9-423b-46c4-8b0e-af0401249936/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11924343/california-is-investing-billions-in-student-mental-health-how-one-school-is-using-the-money","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/\">\u003cem>This story was produced in partnership with the local civic media organization El Tímpano.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesabel Inga works at Bridges Academy at Melrose in East Oakland, where she is the only therapist for some 400 students, a quarter of them newcomers. The majority are from Guatemala and speak Mam, a Mayan language spoken by some half a million people in that country and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them, when they first came in, only spoke Mam, they didn't speak Spanish or English,” said Inga. “And so they were just kind of lost, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As these children and others return to school this month across the Bay Area, one constant is their mental health needs: Reports of increased depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and emergency hospital visits exacerbated by the pandemic are considered a crisis, according to reports from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0331-youth-mental-health-covid-19.html\">CDC\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aecf.org/blog/national-state-by-state-data-show-depth-of-youth-mental-health-pandemic\">The Annie E. Casey Foundation \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://mhanational.org/issues/2022/mental-health-america-youth-data#:~:text=Youth%20with%20Severe%20Major%20Depressive%20Episode%202022&text=10.6%25%20of%20youth%20(or%20over,197%2C000%20from%20last%20year's%20dataset.\">Mental Health America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet these needs, California is investing billions of new dollars, on top of state and federal pandemic relief funds. Bridges Academy at Melrose, which is a public school, found a way to leverage the money to maximize impact, pivoting from crisis management to prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The principal at Bridges at the time, Anita Comelo, was having to make tough decisions about which kids would get to see the therapist and which would not.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I do think the murder of George Floyd did kind of push us to adjust our curriculum and make it a little bit more social justice-oriented and more ethnic studies-oriented.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Vivian Yen, fourth grade teacher, Bridges Academy at Melrose","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we always have to pick which trauma is the bigger trauma, you know?” said Comelo. “We often end up giving the services to what we call ‘externalizers,’ the kids who end up disrupting class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those students are typically the boys, Comelo said, adding that means other students who tend to internalize the trauma of their anxiety and depression don’t get the help they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the school therapist, Inga, should only carry a maximum caseload of 15 students at any time, scores of other kids at Bridges who could have used help were not getting it, and the result was a lot of disruption in class and on the playground, says community schools project manager Rosana Covarrubias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of cyberbullying and so we were seeing it erupt here at school because of what was happening online,” said Covarrubias. “They were needing mental health support for that. We were having some students with suicidal ideation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"mindshift_59753,mindshift_59361","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, when Covarrubias tried to refer students out to other community agencies they partner with, she says every one of them had a waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll say, ‘OK, thank you for the referral, we'll get back to you.’ And sometimes it's months before they get matched to an individual who can support them and be their therapist,” Covarrubias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And these were the acute cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges therapist Inga says what makes matters worse is the lack of health care coverage for preventive care. Currently, Medi-Cal managed-care plans and commercial providers such as Kaiser don’t reimburse counties’ behavioral health departments for children without a clinical diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change with legislation, namely \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB552/id/2494655\">AB 552\u003c/a>, which is now on the governor’s desk. It would nudge private health care plans to work with counties to reimburse community providers such as Seneca, Lincoln Families and East Bay Agency for Children in Alameda County for providing treatment for students with more moderate needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were to set up kids with therapy support like preventative, you know, we wouldn't have fifth graders that have suicidal ideation,” said Inga, who works for Seneca.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An investment in mental health\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California has begun an unprecedented investment toward meeting the mental health needs of K-12 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is $4.4 billion for a\u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Children-and-Youth-Behavioral-Health-Initiative-Brief.pdf\"> youth and adolescent mental health initiative\u003c/a> to reduce structural barriers to kids getting care inside schools; another $4.1 billion for\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/california-ready-to-launch-3-billion-multi-year-transition-to-community-schools/666571\"> community schools\u003c/a>, which includes money aimed at mental health needs; plus billions more in federal and state pandemic relief dollars, some of which is also aimed at helping students recover from depression and anxiety brought on during the pandemic and subsequent school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the third round of federal pandemic funding to schools, Oakland Unified got over $100 million dollars. According to records filed with the state in May this year, the district only shows spending about $650,000 of that money. And of that, the district reports nearly half went toward mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time the COVID relief money trickled down to Bridges, the school ended up with just $20,000 prioritized for mental health. The money was not enough for even one full-time therapist with benefits, which costs about $160,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it hasn’t spent all the resources yet, and is spacing out the investment. It says school sites last year requested the investments they wanted based on their site needs, and that they had flexibility in how to spend the dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comelo and staff decided to use their $20,000 to hire a part-time clinical therapist for two hours each week. Inga and the part-time clinician decided to start a six-week, group therapy session with eight to nine students, nearly all of whom were native Mam speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the beginning, everybody was really quiet and shy,” Inga said. Inga had previously worked with youth in detention camps along the border, and she could relate as an immigrant herself. “My parents brought me here when I was 15, and not having that support … my experiences led me here to this group,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the students joining in the first newly formed preventive therapy group was 10-year-old Heymer Domingo Godinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11924358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two young girls wearing red decorative shirts and long black skirts prepare food with one holding a vegetable and cutting board and the other holding the handle of a pan with food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58258_019_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Heymer Johana (left) and Katy Noeli Domingo Godinez cook eggs at their home in Oakland after school on Aug. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I first got here to Bridges Academy, I was afraid. I was crying, because I was scared of the students,” Heymer said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heymer had arrived from Guatemala with her dad in first grade, screaming, kicking and crying when dropped off at school. She was scared to come to school because back in Guatemala she had been too young to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heymer and her teachers describe having to hold Heymer to calm her and get her to stay in classes. By fourth grade, Heymer says she had just one friend. Inga says kids like Heymer were confused about where they fit in at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were not really feeling like they could trust other people,” Inga explained. “Like once they came here, there was no space to really talk about themselves and their culture.” On top of that, the pandemic hit families like Heymer’s living in East Oakland especially hard; her parents lost work and nearly lost their housing, before the school stepped in to help raise money for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Heymer and the other students gathered in the small group therapy session, Inga asked each of them to bring something that represented them. Inga said it was Heymer who asked if she could wear her woven huipil and corte, the traditional Mayan Mam clothing she wore at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11924357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two young girls wearing red decorative shirts and long black skirts face the kitchen counter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58255_017_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Heymer Johana (left) and Katy Noeli Domingo Godinez prepare food at their home in Oakland after school on Aug. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Heymer was nervous, and a bit afraid of being under the microscope. “Because some people are looking at us and some people are thinking, ‘Why is some girl wearing some corte like that?’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inga told her students they could expect to get some attention from their peers, but that they should see it as an opportunity rather than something they’d rather avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Listen, some other kids might look at you weird, but it's because they haven't been exposed to other cultures,\" Inga said she told them. \"And if they ask you or say something mean, it's like, you know, 'Let me just, let me tell you about my culture, let me tell you what this means.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the group therapy sessions were taking place, other efforts on the part of teachers throughout the school were also unfolding, aimed at creating\u003ca href=\"https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/08/belonging-helps-black-latino-students-feel-engaged/\"> a greater sense of belonging\u003c/a> for the Mam students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that during parent-teacher conferences, I — and I'm pretty sure other teachers did this as well — explicitly told students in front of their families, ‘Please keep practicing your Mam. We do not want you to lose this language,’” said fourth grade teacher Vivian Yen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yen said some teachers began taking Mam language lessons, while others were critically rethinking their curricula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that my grade-level team, and the fifth grade and third grade, both did this. We were looking at our ELA [English language arts] curriculum because all of the texts are very white-centered,” Yen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think the murder of George Floyd did kind of push us to adjust our curriculum and make it a little bit more social justice-oriented and more ethnic studies-oriented. This is so that students would also have time to think about their own identities, thinking about how they fit in and can counter these racist narratives that we're given all the time,” Yen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11924356\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two young girls wearing red decorative shirts and long black skirts sit on the grass outside a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58249_014_BridgesAcademyMamStudents_08302022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Heymer Johana (left) and Katy Noeli Domingo Godinez sit in the grass outside their new school, Elmhurst United Middle School, in Oakland on Aug. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The joy Heymer and the other students felt in wearing their cortes spread — more Mam-speaking students began wearing their traditional cortes on Fridays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the boys!” Inga said. “It was just beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When fifth grade graduation arrived, it was Heymer who welcomed parents to the event in Mam and led the performance. And for the first time, all students who presented recited poems in English, Spanish and Mam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers point to this as a culmination, and a defining moment, of the culture change they had worked so hard to achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly I think it was just the buildup of a bunch of tiny little things that led to this movement,” Yen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Heymer started sixth grade at Elmhurst United in East Oakland. As she walks the eight blocks to her new school, she likes to sing songs from her church, Iglesia de Dios Evangelio Sana Doctrina in Oakland. She says it makes her happy and calms her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heymer scouted the school out before classes began, scrutinizing staff photos on the bulletin board outside the school office, looking for faces and names of teachers she thought might speak Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says while she is worried about going to a new school, she is more confident now of who she is and what she can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to learn. I don’t care what people say about me. I only care about my mind and achieving my dreams,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heymer says if she has to, she’ll call on her old teachers at Bridges Academy for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To help a young person who may be struggling with depression or anxiety:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Dial 988: The 24/7 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is now the\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/988\">988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/individuals/Pages/MHPContactList.aspx\">Find your California county’s mental health services phone number.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Call the Family Paths Parenting Stress Helpline (English, Spanish) at (800) 829-3777, or \u003ca href=\"https://familypaths.org/\">visit its website\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://senecacommunityresources.weebly.com/\">Use Seneca community resources for California counties.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acbhcs.org/\">Visit the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Service webpage.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11924343/california-is-investing-billions-in-student-mental-health-how-one-school-is-using-the-money","authors":["231"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_31556","news_20013","news_27626","news_2109","news_3202","news_3366","news_31555"],"featImg":"news_11924355","label":"news"},"news_11912597":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11912597","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11912597","score":null,"sort":[1651267463000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-teachers-strike-in-1-day-action-over-districts-plan-to-close-schools","title":"'We're Doing This for Our Students': Oakland Teachers Go on 1-Day Strike Over District's Plan to Close Schools","publishDate":1651267463,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Chanting \"Save our schools! No cuts, no closures,\" scores of Oakland teachers, parents and students hit the picket lines Friday morning in a one-day strike protesting the district’s controversial plan to shutter some of its schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though most schools in the Oakland Unified School District remained open on Friday, the district said it didn't have enough substitutes and other staff to safely hold classes, and asked families to keep their children home for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's labor action — the second teachers' strike in just three years — comes in response to the district's decision to close seven of its small schools and merge or shrink four others over the next two years as part of a cost-savings measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says the cuts are necessary to address declining enrollment and major budget shortfalls projected for the coming years, and pledged to redirect some of the savings to its larger neighborhood schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many teachers and families say the district moved forward with its plan without the requisite community input, and argue that the closures will disproportionately affect students of color, particularly Black students and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911675/they-see-us-as-expendable-oakland-families-of-children-with-disabilities-call-school-closure-plan-discriminatory\">students of color with disabilities\u003c/a>. Hundreds of parents and community members spoke out forcefully against the plan during a series of marathon school board meetings, and two teachers went on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">18-day hunger strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/juliamcevoy1/status/1520052294833741824\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We find ourselves facing a majority school board that has gone back on its written promise to us educators and that promise was to never again ambush a school with a last-minute closure,\" Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, told the roughly 25 teachers on the picket line Friday morning outside Parker Elementary School in East Oakland — one of the schools on the chopping block. \"They told us that there isn't any money to keep our community schools open and that we have no choice. But there is always a choice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who led a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727551/oakland-teachers-go-on-strike-in-fight-for-higher-pay-more-resources\">weeklong teachers' strike\u003c/a> in 2019 over a new contract, said the district's plan will directly harm its most vulnerable students and families, without actually recouping that much money. The consolidation is estimated to save anywhere between $4.1 million and $14.7 million, according to the school board's projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are choosing to destabilize communities and take away critical resources from our children at a time when they need resources the most,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators approved Friday's walkout by a 3-to-1 margin — a move affirming their right to bargain over school-closure decisions. After picketing at individual school sites, teachers and their supporters marched from Lake Merritt to Oakland City Hall, where a rally was held in partnership with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10. That union, which opposes the city's effort to move the Oakland A's ballpark to Howard Terminal at the Port of Oakland, has joined forces with OEA in a campaign against privatization efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>H. Matthew Seawright, a first-year early literacy tutor at Carl B. Munck Elementary School in the Oakland hills, handed out donuts to his colleagues picketing in front of the school Friday morning. An ordained minister originally from Washington, D.C., Seawright said he's been inspired by the outpouring of community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912785 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl speaks into a microphone in front of a large banner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demi Johnson, 8, daughter of Moms 4 Housing co-founder Misty Cross, speaks at a rally on April 29, 2022, protesting school closures in the district. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Usually when things like this happen, it's already decided,\" he said. \"But then to see the students come together, to see the staff come together, to see the area come together and say, 'We are not taking this. We are not just going to accept it. We're going to do something about it,' that has been so powerful for me.\"[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"ousd\"]Under a plan the school board approved in February, the district is slated to close Community Day School and Parker Elementary at the end of this year, and five more schools — Brookfield Elementary, Carl Munck Elementary, Grass Valley Elementary, Korematsu Discovery Academy and Horace Mann Elementary — next summer. It also plans to merge RISE Community with New Highland Academy Elementary and eliminate grades 6-8 at La Escuelita Elementary and Hillcrest Elementary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5399120&GUID=4B4E68C0-F8F3-4276-A10E-FB32F71B35C6&Options=&Search=\">The vast majority of students \u003c/a>at the targeted schools — some 93% — are considered either lower-income, English learners or foster youth. Black students also are overrepresented, accounting for more than 40% of the student body at the schools, almost double the district-wide average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That disparity prompted the ACLU this month to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/The-ACLU-just-got-involved-in-the-Oakland-school-17073265.php\">urge California's attorney general\u003c/a> to investigate the district's closure plan, alleging it violates the rights of Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilma Serrano, a kindergarten teacher at Melrose Leadership Academy, who also serves on OEA's executive board, said Friday's strike was about fighting for the rights of all students in the district, not just those who will be immediately affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course any day lost of school is significant. But we also know this is part of a larger message, and this could be any school,\" she said. \"All of the schools on that [closure] list had different metrics that didn’t make sense. And so I want parents to really understand that we are doing this for our students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a last-minute bid to thwart the one-day walkout, the district on Thursday filed for an injunction with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board — which governs collective bargaining — arguing that the action violated labor agreements. But the state board ultimately denied the appeal, a decision the district said it was \"disappointed\" with. In a statement, it pledged to \"continue to put the needs of kids first and do what it thinks is best for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sharkfinney/status/1520143721433501696\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has long argued it operates too many schools for the declining number of students it serves. An estimated 35% of district schools are enrolled at \"below sustainable\" levels, according to officials, who attribute that drop to factors such as lower birth rates, pandemic-related moves, and a lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer students means less funding, leaving the district to shoulder an estimated deficit of $12.3 million for the coming school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Debra Washington, who lives near Parker Elementary, said closing more schools isn't the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The closure of this school would impact the community as far as the children having to go far away to other schools and other neighborhoods that they are probably not used to,\" she said. \"They’re used to this school, and some of the families, they live in this neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents, however, have come out strongly against the walkout, accusing the teachers union of prioritizing politics over the well-being of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have already missed too much school and many have fallen far behind over the last two years during the pandemic, said Lakisha Young, who runs a parent-empowerment organization called The Oakland REACH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So whose kids and whose parents is this supposed to be doing good for?\" she said, stressing that every school day is critical to getting kids back up to speed. \"We are supposed to be educating people and kids so they can have the lives they want to have ... It's just being made harder and harder by the decisions by adults.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1815px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11912786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19.jpg\" alt=\"People march down a street, holding a banner that says 'Stop Privatizing Our Schools, Our Port"\" width=\"1815\" height=\"1112\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19.jpg 1815w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19-1536x941.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1815px) 100vw, 1815px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers and members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10, march from Lake Merritt to Oakland City Hall on April 29, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Josh Connor, an OUSD parent, said it was important to support teachers and give them the benefit of the doubt, despite the inconvenience of not being able to send kids to school for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers are the people we trust with our kids every day,\" he said. \"I trust their judgment. Honestly, I think the school district rushed through the process of closing schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emmett Grout, 17, a student at Oakland Tech, said he and many of his classmates also are supporting their teachers in their fight to keep schools open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that it's important that we're at least trying to do something about the school closures,\" he said. \"I mean, it feels like sometimes the protest energy will die and go away. So I think it's good that the teachers are stepping up to do something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how missing the day would affect him personally, Grout just shrugged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I have a math test,\" he said. \"So I'm getting rescheduled, so I'm actually kind of grateful.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Friday's labor action — the second Oakland teachers' strike in just three years — comes in response to the school district's decision to close seven of its small schools and merge or shrink four others over the next two years as part of a cost-savings measure.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1651290922,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1457},"headData":{"title":"'We're Doing This for Our Students': Oakland Teachers Go on 1-Day Strike Over District's Plan to Close Schools | KQED","description":"Friday's labor action — the second Oakland teachers' strike in just three years — comes in response to the school district's decision to close seven of its small schools and merge or shrink four others over the next two years as part of a cost-savings measure.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'We're Doing This for Our Students': Oakland Teachers Go on 1-Day Strike Over District's Plan to Close Schools","datePublished":"2022-04-29T21:24:23.000Z","dateModified":"2022-04-30T03:55:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11912597 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11912597","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/04/29/oakland-teachers-strike-in-1-day-action-over-districts-plan-to-close-schools/","disqusTitle":"'We're Doing This for Our Students': Oakland Teachers Go on 1-Day Strike Over District's Plan to Close Schools","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11912597/oakland-teachers-strike-in-1-day-action-over-districts-plan-to-close-schools","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Chanting \"Save our schools! No cuts, no closures,\" scores of Oakland teachers, parents and students hit the picket lines Friday morning in a one-day strike protesting the district’s controversial plan to shutter some of its schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though most schools in the Oakland Unified School District remained open on Friday, the district said it didn't have enough substitutes and other staff to safely hold classes, and asked families to keep their children home for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's labor action — the second teachers' strike in just three years — comes in response to the district's decision to close seven of its small schools and merge or shrink four others over the next two years as part of a cost-savings measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says the cuts are necessary to address declining enrollment and major budget shortfalls projected for the coming years, and pledged to redirect some of the savings to its larger neighborhood schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many teachers and families say the district moved forward with its plan without the requisite community input, and argue that the closures will disproportionately affect students of color, particularly Black students and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911675/they-see-us-as-expendable-oakland-families-of-children-with-disabilities-call-school-closure-plan-discriminatory\">students of color with disabilities\u003c/a>. Hundreds of parents and community members spoke out forcefully against the plan during a series of marathon school board meetings, and two teachers went on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">18-day hunger strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1520052294833741824"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"We find ourselves facing a majority school board that has gone back on its written promise to us educators and that promise was to never again ambush a school with a last-minute closure,\" Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, told the roughly 25 teachers on the picket line Friday morning outside Parker Elementary School in East Oakland — one of the schools on the chopping block. \"They told us that there isn't any money to keep our community schools open and that we have no choice. But there is always a choice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who led a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727551/oakland-teachers-go-on-strike-in-fight-for-higher-pay-more-resources\">weeklong teachers' strike\u003c/a> in 2019 over a new contract, said the district's plan will directly harm its most vulnerable students and families, without actually recouping that much money. The consolidation is estimated to save anywhere between $4.1 million and $14.7 million, according to the school board's projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are choosing to destabilize communities and take away critical resources from our children at a time when they need resources the most,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators approved Friday's walkout by a 3-to-1 margin — a move affirming their right to bargain over school-closure decisions. After picketing at individual school sites, teachers and their supporters marched from Lake Merritt to Oakland City Hall, where a rally was held in partnership with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10. That union, which opposes the city's effort to move the Oakland A's ballpark to Howard Terminal at the Port of Oakland, has joined forces with OEA in a campaign against privatization efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>H. Matthew Seawright, a first-year early literacy tutor at Carl B. Munck Elementary School in the Oakland hills, handed out donuts to his colleagues picketing in front of the school Friday morning. An ordained minister originally from Washington, D.C., Seawright said he's been inspired by the outpouring of community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912785 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl speaks into a microphone in front of a large banner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-18-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demi Johnson, 8, daughter of Moms 4 Housing co-founder Misty Cross, speaks at a rally on April 29, 2022, protesting school closures in the district. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Usually when things like this happen, it's already decided,\" he said. \"But then to see the students come together, to see the staff come together, to see the area come together and say, 'We are not taking this. We are not just going to accept it. We're going to do something about it,' that has been so powerful for me.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"ousd"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Under a plan the school board approved in February, the district is slated to close Community Day School and Parker Elementary at the end of this year, and five more schools — Brookfield Elementary, Carl Munck Elementary, Grass Valley Elementary, Korematsu Discovery Academy and Horace Mann Elementary — next summer. It also plans to merge RISE Community with New Highland Academy Elementary and eliminate grades 6-8 at La Escuelita Elementary and Hillcrest Elementary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5399120&GUID=4B4E68C0-F8F3-4276-A10E-FB32F71B35C6&Options=&Search=\">The vast majority of students \u003c/a>at the targeted schools — some 93% — are considered either lower-income, English learners or foster youth. Black students also are overrepresented, accounting for more than 40% of the student body at the schools, almost double the district-wide average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That disparity prompted the ACLU this month to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/The-ACLU-just-got-involved-in-the-Oakland-school-17073265.php\">urge California's attorney general\u003c/a> to investigate the district's closure plan, alleging it violates the rights of Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilma Serrano, a kindergarten teacher at Melrose Leadership Academy, who also serves on OEA's executive board, said Friday's strike was about fighting for the rights of all students in the district, not just those who will be immediately affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course any day lost of school is significant. But we also know this is part of a larger message, and this could be any school,\" she said. \"All of the schools on that [closure] list had different metrics that didn’t make sense. And so I want parents to really understand that we are doing this for our students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a last-minute bid to thwart the one-day walkout, the district on Thursday filed for an injunction with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board — which governs collective bargaining — arguing that the action violated labor agreements. But the state board ultimately denied the appeal, a decision the district said it was \"disappointed\" with. In a statement, it pledged to \"continue to put the needs of kids first and do what it thinks is best for them.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1520143721433501696"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The district has long argued it operates too many schools for the declining number of students it serves. An estimated 35% of district schools are enrolled at \"below sustainable\" levels, according to officials, who attribute that drop to factors such as lower birth rates, pandemic-related moves, and a lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer students means less funding, leaving the district to shoulder an estimated deficit of $12.3 million for the coming school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Debra Washington, who lives near Parker Elementary, said closing more schools isn't the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The closure of this school would impact the community as far as the children having to go far away to other schools and other neighborhoods that they are probably not used to,\" she said. \"They’re used to this school, and some of the families, they live in this neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents, however, have come out strongly against the walkout, accusing the teachers union of prioritizing politics over the well-being of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have already missed too much school and many have fallen far behind over the last two years during the pandemic, said Lakisha Young, who runs a parent-empowerment organization called The Oakland REACH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So whose kids and whose parents is this supposed to be doing good for?\" she said, stressing that every school day is critical to getting kids back up to speed. \"We are supposed to be educating people and kids so they can have the lives they want to have ... It's just being made harder and harder by the decisions by adults.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1815px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11912786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19.jpg\" alt=\"People march down a street, holding a banner that says 'Stop Privatizing Our Schools, Our Port"\" width=\"1815\" height=\"1112\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19.jpg 1815w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-19-1536x941.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1815px) 100vw, 1815px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers and members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10, march from Lake Merritt to Oakland City Hall on April 29, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Josh Connor, an OUSD parent, said it was important to support teachers and give them the benefit of the doubt, despite the inconvenience of not being able to send kids to school for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers are the people we trust with our kids every day,\" he said. \"I trust their judgment. Honestly, I think the school district rushed through the process of closing schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emmett Grout, 17, a student at Oakland Tech, said he and many of his classmates also are supporting their teachers in their fight to keep schools open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that it's important that we're at least trying to do something about the school closures,\" he said. \"I mean, it feels like sometimes the protest energy will die and go away. So I think it's good that the teachers are stepping up to do something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how missing the day would affect him personally, Grout just shrugged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I have a math test,\" he said. \"So I'm getting rescheduled, so I'm actually kind of grateful.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11912597/oakland-teachers-strike-in-1-day-action-over-districts-plan-to-close-schools","authors":["1263","231"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_20013","news_27626","news_3202","news_31016","news_3366"],"featImg":"news_11912776","label":"news"},"news_11904618":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11904618","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11904618","score":null,"sort":[1644443011000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-moves-to-close-seven-schools-despite-fierce-community-opposition","title":"Oakland Moves to Close 7 Schools Despite Fierce Community Opposition","publishDate":1644443011,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After almost eight hours of heated public comment and debate, Oakland school board members narrowly approved an amended plan early Wednesday morning to close seven schools over the next two years and merge two others, amid declining enrollments and ongoing budget concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Board of Education's decision, voted on just before 1 a.m., is a slightly less severe version of the \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5399120&GUID=4B4E68C0-F8F3-4276-A10E-FB32F71B35C6&Options=&Search=\">original proposal\u003c/a> — which would have affected 16 schools — and comes after more than a week of protests by students, teachers and parents, including a hunger strike led by two educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the amended plan, seven of the eight schools on the initial closure list will still shut down, but on a delayed timeline: Community Day School and Parker K-8 will still close at the end of this school year, but the closures of Brookfield Elementary, Carl Munck Elementary and Grass Valley Elementary will be pushed to the end of the 2022-23 school year. Korematsu Discovery Academy and Horace Mann Elementary will also close in 2023, as called for in the original plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prescott Elementary in West Oakland, however, which was initially on the chopping block, will be spared under the revised plan, after the board reasoned there would be too few remaining district-run elementary schools in that part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the district will merge only two of the six schools it had originally considered consolidating: RISE Community will merge into New Highland Academy Elementary at the start of the 2022-23 school year, while La Escuelita Elementary and Hillcrest Elementary will eliminate grades 6-8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also dropped plans to merge Manzanita Community School and Fruitvale Elementary, Westlake Middle School and West Oakland Middle School, and Dewey Academy and Ralph Bunche Continuation High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday evening, ahead of the vote, students, teachers and parents pleaded with the board, via Zoom, for more than 3.5 hours, many arguing that the closures wouldn’t save enough money to justify the heartache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need our education just like how everybody else had their education,” Jelani Smith, a Parker seventh grader, told the board. “It’s not right for our school to get closed down while you’re keeping all the other schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many commenters expressed outrage at the disproportionate impact the closures would have on lower-income students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not fair. Why would you close the schools on low-income families?” asked one parent, who didn’t give her name. “Why don’t you just close the ones where they have money so they can move on? Why do they always take it out on us, the low-income families?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the schools affected by the plan, \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5399120&GUID=4B4E68C0-F8F3-4276-A10E-FB32F71B35C6&Options=&Search=\">an estimated 93% of students\u003c/a>, on average, are considered either lower-income, English learners or foster youth — compared to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Oakland-Unified\">district-wide average of about 80%\u003c/a>. Black and Latino students are also overrepresented: About 43% of students at the eight sites on the original closure list are Black, almost twice the proportion of Black students in the entire district.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"ousd\"]“I’m just really disgusted and really hurt over just the blatant attack on our communities of color,” Renia Webb, a parent of four, told the board. “We all know that these schools slated for closure will have a devastating and lasting impact on Black and Brown families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Aimee Eng said she and vice president Sam Davis drafted the amended proposal as an effort to balance the district’s fiscal needs with the desire to give families and staff more time to adjust to the changes. The amendment passed 4-2, with additional support from Board President Gary Yee and board member Shanthi Gonzales. Board members Mike Hutchinson and VanCedric Williams opposed the plan, while Clifford Thompson abstained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it’s a choice about whether people are comfortable just persisting in the status quo that we know is not working for students and it’s not working for staff, or we can actually do something,” Gonzales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also approved a second amendment put forward by Davis to provide academic and social-emotional learning supports for students affected by the closures, with funding from a special state allotment. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1840\">Assembly Bill 1840\u003c/a>, passed in 2018, makes OUSD eligible for infusions of cash from the state if it meets certain benchmarks that demonstrate it is working toward financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District leaders who support the closure plan argue the district operates too many schools for the declining number of students it serves. An estimated 35% of district schools are enrolled at \"below sustainable\" levels, according to district officials, who attribute the decline to factors such as lower birth rates, pandemic-related moves out of the district and a lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer students mean significantly less funding. Last month the board approved some $40 million in budget cuts and savings, but that doesn’t address major shortfalls projected for the coming years, including an estimated deficit of $12.3 million for 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planned school closures and consolidations are \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5399120&GUID=4B4E68C0-F8F3-4276-A10E-FB32F71B35C6&Options=&Search=\">estimated to save\u003c/a> between $4 million and almost $15 million, according to an analysis commissioned by the board. By spending more on fewer schools, district officials say they can boost teacher pay and offer students stronger academic programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics of the plan say the district hasn’t done a thorough enough analysis of past school closures — including those in 2019 and 2012 — to determine whether they resulted in better academic outcomes for kids and whether the closures actually saved money in the long run, given the number of students who left the district as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lid’s about to come off this city,” said Hutchinson, an outspoken critic of the plan who expressed his displeasure throughout the board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson, who attended Oakland schools, \u003ca href=\"https://mikehutchinsonforschoolboard.wordpress.com/platform/\">campaigned on stopping school closures \u003c/a>when he ran for school board in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just declared war on us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The closure plan approved by the Oakland Board of Education, which also includes the merger of two other schools, comes after more than a week of protests by students, teachers and parents.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1644456763,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1032},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Moves to Close 7 Schools Despite Fierce Community Opposition | KQED","description":"The closure plan approved by the Oakland Board of Education, which also includes the merger of two other schools, comes after more than a week of protests by students, teachers and parents.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Oakland Moves to Close 7 Schools Despite Fierce Community Opposition","datePublished":"2022-02-09T21:43:31.000Z","dateModified":"2022-02-10T01:32:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11904618 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11904618","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/02/09/oakland-moves-to-close-seven-schools-despite-fierce-community-opposition/","disqusTitle":"Oakland Moves to Close 7 Schools Despite Fierce Community Opposition","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11904618/oakland-moves-to-close-seven-schools-despite-fierce-community-opposition","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After almost eight hours of heated public comment and debate, Oakland school board members narrowly approved an amended plan early Wednesday morning to close seven schools over the next two years and merge two others, amid declining enrollments and ongoing budget concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Board of Education's decision, voted on just before 1 a.m., is a slightly less severe version of the \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5399120&GUID=4B4E68C0-F8F3-4276-A10E-FB32F71B35C6&Options=&Search=\">original proposal\u003c/a> — which would have affected 16 schools — and comes after more than a week of protests by students, teachers and parents, including a hunger strike led by two educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the amended plan, seven of the eight schools on the initial closure list will still shut down, but on a delayed timeline: Community Day School and Parker K-8 will still close at the end of this school year, but the closures of Brookfield Elementary, Carl Munck Elementary and Grass Valley Elementary will be pushed to the end of the 2022-23 school year. Korematsu Discovery Academy and Horace Mann Elementary will also close in 2023, as called for in the original plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prescott Elementary in West Oakland, however, which was initially on the chopping block, will be spared under the revised plan, after the board reasoned there would be too few remaining district-run elementary schools in that part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the district will merge only two of the six schools it had originally considered consolidating: RISE Community will merge into New Highland Academy Elementary at the start of the 2022-23 school year, while La Escuelita Elementary and Hillcrest Elementary will eliminate grades 6-8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also dropped plans to merge Manzanita Community School and Fruitvale Elementary, Westlake Middle School and West Oakland Middle School, and Dewey Academy and Ralph Bunche Continuation High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday evening, ahead of the vote, students, teachers and parents pleaded with the board, via Zoom, for more than 3.5 hours, many arguing that the closures wouldn’t save enough money to justify the heartache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need our education just like how everybody else had their education,” Jelani Smith, a Parker seventh grader, told the board. “It’s not right for our school to get closed down while you’re keeping all the other schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many commenters expressed outrage at the disproportionate impact the closures would have on lower-income students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not fair. Why would you close the schools on low-income families?” asked one parent, who didn’t give her name. “Why don’t you just close the ones where they have money so they can move on? Why do they always take it out on us, the low-income families?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the schools affected by the plan, \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5399120&GUID=4B4E68C0-F8F3-4276-A10E-FB32F71B35C6&Options=&Search=\">an estimated 93% of students\u003c/a>, on average, are considered either lower-income, English learners or foster youth — compared to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Oakland-Unified\">district-wide average of about 80%\u003c/a>. Black and Latino students are also overrepresented: About 43% of students at the eight sites on the original closure list are Black, almost twice the proportion of Black students in the entire district.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"ousd"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m just really disgusted and really hurt over just the blatant attack on our communities of color,” Renia Webb, a parent of four, told the board. “We all know that these schools slated for closure will have a devastating and lasting impact on Black and Brown families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Aimee Eng said she and vice president Sam Davis drafted the amended proposal as an effort to balance the district’s fiscal needs with the desire to give families and staff more time to adjust to the changes. The amendment passed 4-2, with additional support from Board President Gary Yee and board member Shanthi Gonzales. Board members Mike Hutchinson and VanCedric Williams opposed the plan, while Clifford Thompson abstained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it’s a choice about whether people are comfortable just persisting in the status quo that we know is not working for students and it’s not working for staff, or we can actually do something,” Gonzales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also approved a second amendment put forward by Davis to provide academic and social-emotional learning supports for students affected by the closures, with funding from a special state allotment. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1840\">Assembly Bill 1840\u003c/a>, passed in 2018, makes OUSD eligible for infusions of cash from the state if it meets certain benchmarks that demonstrate it is working toward financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District leaders who support the closure plan argue the district operates too many schools for the declining number of students it serves. An estimated 35% of district schools are enrolled at \"below sustainable\" levels, according to district officials, who attribute the decline to factors such as lower birth rates, pandemic-related moves out of the district and a lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer students mean significantly less funding. Last month the board approved some $40 million in budget cuts and savings, but that doesn’t address major shortfalls projected for the coming years, including an estimated deficit of $12.3 million for 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planned school closures and consolidations are \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5399120&GUID=4B4E68C0-F8F3-4276-A10E-FB32F71B35C6&Options=&Search=\">estimated to save\u003c/a> between $4 million and almost $15 million, according to an analysis commissioned by the board. By spending more on fewer schools, district officials say they can boost teacher pay and offer students stronger academic programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics of the plan say the district hasn’t done a thorough enough analysis of past school closures — including those in 2019 and 2012 — to determine whether they resulted in better academic outcomes for kids and whether the closures actually saved money in the long run, given the number of students who left the district as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lid’s about to come off this city,” said Hutchinson, an outspoken critic of the plan who expressed his displeasure throughout the board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson, who attended Oakland schools, \u003ca href=\"https://mikehutchinsonforschoolboard.wordpress.com/platform/\">campaigned on stopping school closures \u003c/a>when he ran for school board in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just declared war on us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11904618/oakland-moves-to-close-seven-schools-despite-fierce-community-opposition","authors":["11276"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_20013","news_27626","news_4281","news_3202","news_3366","news_24524"],"featImg":"news_11904281","label":"news"},"news_11904278":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11904278","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11904278","score":null,"sort":[1644339627000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teachers-and-families-rally-ahead-of-upcoming-vote-on-oakland-school-closures","title":"Teachers and Families Rally Ahead of Upcoming Vote on Oakland School Closures","publishDate":1644339627,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel Mann, a fourth grade teacher at Allendale Elementary, sat on the concrete steps of the amphitheater in front of Oakland’s City Hall on Friday, among the roughly 200 people gathered to protest the city’s recently announced school closure plans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are a school district,” Mann said. “We should be keeping schools open and cutting everything else we could possibly cut.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of January, the Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWL0ZdDNCWBGV4OgE3oyQ0nNgHi4F-Nj/view?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district's enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/01/12/how-to-watch-and-participate-in-oakland-school-board-meetings/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgP6PBhDmARIsAPWMq6l80j09E4PPDprx-M-slG7l7Ah3rqM0OtHxTiE_6wHP_MVq0izmCHAaAlsTEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will vote on the plan on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in a meeting open to the public virtually via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/boewatch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Brown, Oakland Education Association President, speaks to the crowd during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the announcement, families and teachers opposing the proposal have demonstrated on school campuses, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/protesters-caravan-to-denounce-ousd-school-closures/\">in car caravans and outside the homes of school board members\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Hutchinson, OUSD school board director\"]'We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mann said she’d rather see cuts come from the salaries of district administrators or from the money OUSD pays to lease and operate its downtown headquarters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think those things should be cut first before actual humans are made to change their whole entire lives and go to a new school or have no school in their neighborhood,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing nearby was Audrey Darnis, a teacher at Manzanita Community School, which serves students in Fruitvale and East Oakland. The district’s proposal would merge her school with Fruitvale Elementary, starting in the 2023-2024 school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many of the students live right in the neighborhood, right? So they walk to school. A majority of my students' families do not have cars,” Darnis said, noting that Fruitvale Elementary is about a mile away from Manzanita. “If their school shuts down, it's going to be very hard for them to get to another school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt='Three young people stand with their signs. One in a purple jacket, one in a red jacket and one person in a jean jacket with a sign saying \"Hands off our schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malou, a Melrose Leadership Academy student, listens to speeches with two friends during a rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she understands the district’s proposal is hard on students and teachers, especially given Oakland’s history of school closures over the last two decades — many of them campuses where the majority of students were Black. \u003c/span>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101887739,news_11900752\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We have been through so much trauma and they have every right to feel distrustful and fearful about this decision,” she said in an interview with KQED on Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment in OUSD has declined by nearly 20,000 students over the last two decades, from over 52,000 in 2002 to just under 35,500 now, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And because state funding for public schools is tied to attendance, as students left the district, so did a lot of money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf says consolidating schools is necessary to fix structural problems in the district’s budget. “When you look at districts like Stockton, Fremont, San Jose, they serve roughly the same number of students — about 33,000,” she said. “But they do it in almost half the campuses — between 41 and 48 campuses — in those three districts, whereas Oakland has 80 campuses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Schaaf, the consolidation would allow the district to redirect more funds from building upkeep and redundant administrative costs to student services. “This is an opportunity to do better for our students, our educators, and our families,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School board member Mike Hutchinson, who is opposed to the consolidation plan, said it breaks promises the district made to the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students Resolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a response to longtime efforts by community activists to call attention to the displacement of Black students and the disproportionate impact school closures in the district have had on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the resolution, the board promised, among other things, to work with the newly created Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force to develop an equity impact analysis before announcing additional school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But on January 12, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DPEJIKPw_pyiS_6ZTzya59OpvIAYtPC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the board instructed the superintendent\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to move forward on a consolidation plan, in spite of its commitments made in the Reparations for Black Students resolution. They also instructed the district to do so without consideration for previous resolutions designed to improve community engagement ahead of school closures. Instead, the board asked for a plan as soon as possible, that could be put into action in the next school year and the year after. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1020x751.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1536x1131.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-2048x1508.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1920x1413.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, school board director for District 5, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally there on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says the rush is eroding community trust in the board. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities,” Hutchinson said at a rally on Saturday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prescott, an elementary school in West Oakland, is a prime example. The school, which has served Oakland students for more than a century, is where Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first Black teacher, began teaching in the 1920s. Now it's on the chopping block.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lavena Brown, who attended a rally at Prescott on Saturday morning, says she lives near the school and was once a student there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There's a lot of memories here,” she said of Prescott, the only elementary school in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. “All my family, my parents went to this school. I went to this school in the '70s, my parents way before me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the district’s plan, Prescott students would go to either Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary — about a mile away — or Hoover Elementary — about two miles away — starting next school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904314 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black head scarf and a black hoodie with images from Mario Kart poses for a portrait the a young child wearing glasses. The child is holding a sign that reads, "Don't cut our kids." Stick into the frame above them is the top of a basketball hoop. Behind them are two cream and blue portable classrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Wade and her son Samuel pose for a portrait during a rally at Prescott School on Feb. 5, 2022. Wade is a graduate of Prescott and Samuel is a student at OUSD's Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says keeping neighborhood schools open is a basic issue of fairness. “Every community pays taxes. Every community deserves the same access to resources,” he says. “If our anchor public elementary schools close, that leaves that community, that neighborhood, without access to public resources.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across town, two OUSD staff members have turned to more drastic methods to protest the closure plan: Moses Omolade, OUSD’s program director for community schools, and Maurice André San-Chez, a choir and dance teacher at Westlake Middle School, have been on a hunger strike since last Monday. The two are camped out on the front lawn of the school, which, under the district’s proposal, would be merged with West Oakland Middle School, roughly two miles away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904317\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg\" alt='Two tents, one gray and one red stand on a lawn above a small retaining wall. A sign next to the tents reads, \"Westlake Middle School, Westlake convocation hunger strike day 5.\" In front of the tents a line of protest signs lines the edge of the retaining wall. Two read, \"No cuts, no closures.\" Behind the tents and one story white and green school building is visible. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OUSD staff members engaged in a hunger strike have set up a camp on the front lawn of Westlake Middle School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omolade says the short timeline for the approval of the plan and the lack of community engagement in the process has backed the families and teachers into a corner. When the plan was announced, he says, his world was turned upside down. “The community was struck. Kids freaking out, parents freaking out, staff freaking out,” he said. “Prescott, 150 years! At the stroke of a pen and a Zoom call, you think you're about to take Prescott?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In thinking about how to protest, Omolade said he reflected on how his body has always been politicized. “I'm in a really large Black body — 6’8”, 210, and dark as night. And it's a beautiful thing, but that hasn't always been the messaging.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904316\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904316 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A waist-up photo of a man wearing a maroon beanie and a gray Westlake Middle School t-shirt. He's sitting in a green armchair. He has two nose piercings and septum piercing. He has beaded necklaces around his neck and his arms are spread out over the arms of the armchair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses Omolade, OUSD program director of community schools, sits in an armchair outside Westlake Middle School. Omolade is one of two OUSD staff members on a hunger strike. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says his decision to go on hunger strike is a way to show the board how much these closures will affect the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is what it looks like when you continue to make choices that create harm that you are so far removed from,” he said. “You don't get to see those children and those families hurt and cry and travel across Oakland, lose hubs, community hubs, that produced their ancestors. So now this is what it looks like. I want you to see my body.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district's enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1644442885,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1601},"headData":{"title":"Teachers and Families Rally Ahead of Upcoming Vote on Oakland School Closures | KQED","description":"The Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district's enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Teachers and Families Rally Ahead of Upcoming Vote on Oakland School Closures","datePublished":"2022-02-08T17:00:27.000Z","dateModified":"2022-02-09T21:41:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11904278 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11904278","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/02/08/teachers-and-families-rally-ahead-of-upcoming-vote-on-oakland-school-closures/","disqusTitle":"Teachers and Families Rally Ahead of Upcoming Vote on Oakland School Closures","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11904278/teachers-and-families-rally-ahead-of-upcoming-vote-on-oakland-school-closures","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel Mann, a fourth grade teacher at Allendale Elementary, sat on the concrete steps of the amphitheater in front of Oakland’s City Hall on Friday, among the roughly 200 people gathered to protest the city’s recently announced school closure plans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are a school district,” Mann said. “We should be keeping schools open and cutting everything else we could possibly cut.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of January, the Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWL0ZdDNCWBGV4OgE3oyQ0nNgHi4F-Nj/view?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district's enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/01/12/how-to-watch-and-participate-in-oakland-school-board-meetings/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgP6PBhDmARIsAPWMq6l80j09E4PPDprx-M-slG7l7Ah3rqM0OtHxTiE_6wHP_MVq0izmCHAaAlsTEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will vote on the plan on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in a meeting open to the public virtually via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/boewatch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Brown, Oakland Education Association President, speaks to the crowd during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the announcement, families and teachers opposing the proposal have demonstrated on school campuses, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/protesters-caravan-to-denounce-ousd-school-closures/\">in car caravans and outside the homes of school board members\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Mike Hutchinson, OUSD school board director","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mann said she’d rather see cuts come from the salaries of district administrators or from the money OUSD pays to lease and operate its downtown headquarters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think those things should be cut first before actual humans are made to change their whole entire lives and go to a new school or have no school in their neighborhood,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing nearby was Audrey Darnis, a teacher at Manzanita Community School, which serves students in Fruitvale and East Oakland. The district’s proposal would merge her school with Fruitvale Elementary, starting in the 2023-2024 school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many of the students live right in the neighborhood, right? So they walk to school. A majority of my students' families do not have cars,” Darnis said, noting that Fruitvale Elementary is about a mile away from Manzanita. “If their school shuts down, it's going to be very hard for them to get to another school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt='Three young people stand with their signs. One in a purple jacket, one in a red jacket and one person in a jean jacket with a sign saying \"Hands off our schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malou, a Melrose Leadership Academy student, listens to speeches with two friends during a rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she understands the district’s proposal is hard on students and teachers, especially given Oakland’s history of school closures over the last two decades — many of them campuses where the majority of students were Black. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101887739,news_11900752","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We have been through so much trauma and they have every right to feel distrustful and fearful about this decision,” she said in an interview with KQED on Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment in OUSD has declined by nearly 20,000 students over the last two decades, from over 52,000 in 2002 to just under 35,500 now, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And because state funding for public schools is tied to attendance, as students left the district, so did a lot of money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf says consolidating schools is necessary to fix structural problems in the district’s budget. “When you look at districts like Stockton, Fremont, San Jose, they serve roughly the same number of students — about 33,000,” she said. “But they do it in almost half the campuses — between 41 and 48 campuses — in those three districts, whereas Oakland has 80 campuses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Schaaf, the consolidation would allow the district to redirect more funds from building upkeep and redundant administrative costs to student services. “This is an opportunity to do better for our students, our educators, and our families,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School board member Mike Hutchinson, who is opposed to the consolidation plan, said it breaks promises the district made to the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students Resolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a response to longtime efforts by community activists to call attention to the displacement of Black students and the disproportionate impact school closures in the district have had on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the resolution, the board promised, among other things, to work with the newly created Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force to develop an equity impact analysis before announcing additional school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But on January 12, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DPEJIKPw_pyiS_6ZTzya59OpvIAYtPC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the board instructed the superintendent\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to move forward on a consolidation plan, in spite of its commitments made in the Reparations for Black Students resolution. They also instructed the district to do so without consideration for previous resolutions designed to improve community engagement ahead of school closures. Instead, the board asked for a plan as soon as possible, that could be put into action in the next school year and the year after. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1020x751.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1536x1131.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-2048x1508.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1920x1413.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, school board director for District 5, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally there on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says the rush is eroding community trust in the board. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities,” Hutchinson said at a rally on Saturday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prescott, an elementary school in West Oakland, is a prime example. The school, which has served Oakland students for more than a century, is where Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first Black teacher, began teaching in the 1920s. Now it's on the chopping block.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lavena Brown, who attended a rally at Prescott on Saturday morning, says she lives near the school and was once a student there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There's a lot of memories here,” she said of Prescott, the only elementary school in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. “All my family, my parents went to this school. I went to this school in the '70s, my parents way before me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the district’s plan, Prescott students would go to either Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary — about a mile away — or Hoover Elementary — about two miles away — starting next school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904314 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black head scarf and a black hoodie with images from Mario Kart poses for a portrait the a young child wearing glasses. The child is holding a sign that reads, "Don't cut our kids." Stick into the frame above them is the top of a basketball hoop. Behind them are two cream and blue portable classrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Wade and her son Samuel pose for a portrait during a rally at Prescott School on Feb. 5, 2022. Wade is a graduate of Prescott and Samuel is a student at OUSD's Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says keeping neighborhood schools open is a basic issue of fairness. “Every community pays taxes. Every community deserves the same access to resources,” he says. “If our anchor public elementary schools close, that leaves that community, that neighborhood, without access to public resources.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across town, two OUSD staff members have turned to more drastic methods to protest the closure plan: Moses Omolade, OUSD’s program director for community schools, and Maurice André San-Chez, a choir and dance teacher at Westlake Middle School, have been on a hunger strike since last Monday. The two are camped out on the front lawn of the school, which, under the district’s proposal, would be merged with West Oakland Middle School, roughly two miles away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904317\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg\" alt='Two tents, one gray and one red stand on a lawn above a small retaining wall. A sign next to the tents reads, \"Westlake Middle School, Westlake convocation hunger strike day 5.\" In front of the tents a line of protest signs lines the edge of the retaining wall. Two read, \"No cuts, no closures.\" Behind the tents and one story white and green school building is visible. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OUSD staff members engaged in a hunger strike have set up a camp on the front lawn of Westlake Middle School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omolade says the short timeline for the approval of the plan and the lack of community engagement in the process has backed the families and teachers into a corner. When the plan was announced, he says, his world was turned upside down. “The community was struck. Kids freaking out, parents freaking out, staff freaking out,” he said. “Prescott, 150 years! At the stroke of a pen and a Zoom call, you think you're about to take Prescott?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In thinking about how to protest, Omolade said he reflected on how his body has always been politicized. “I'm in a really large Black body — 6’8”, 210, and dark as night. And it's a beautiful thing, but that hasn't always been the messaging.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904316\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904316 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A waist-up photo of a man wearing a maroon beanie and a gray Westlake Middle School t-shirt. He's sitting in a green armchair. He has two nose piercings and septum piercing. He has beaded necklaces around his neck and his arms are spread out over the arms of the armchair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses Omolade, OUSD program director of community schools, sits in an armchair outside Westlake Middle School. Omolade is one of two OUSD staff members on a hunger strike. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says his decision to go on hunger strike is a way to show the board how much these closures will affect the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is what it looks like when you continue to make choices that create harm that you are so far removed from,” he said. “You don't get to see those children and those families hurt and cry and travel across Oakland, lose hubs, community hubs, that produced their ancestors. So now this is what it looks like. I want you to see my body.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11904278/teachers-and-families-rally-ahead-of-upcoming-vote-on-oakland-school-closures","authors":["11772"],"categories":["news_18540","news_28250","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_26850","news_20013","news_27626","news_30635","news_18","news_3202","news_3366","news_1100","news_2923","news_24524","news_2998"],"featImg":"news_11904279","label":"news"},"news_11879097":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11879097","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11879097","score":null,"sort":[1624905817000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-secret-sauce-how-a-parent-led-project-is-reimagining-public-schools-for-oaklands-black-and-latino-students","title":"The ‘Secret Sauce’: How a Parent-Led Project Is Reimagining Public Schools for Oakland's Black and Latino Students","publishDate":1624905817,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After the chaos that marked the end of Oakland's 2019-20 school year, when many teachers scrambled to move classrooms online even as thousands of students lacked the required technology, Lakisha Young knew she had to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lakisha Young, executive director of The Oakland REACH\"]'These issues are not new issues, but we have a new opportunity to do something. Why can't we create something that puts folks on the right path, that brings a sense of hope and of progress?'[/pullquote]“Immediately, when COVID hit, you heard so many people saying, ‘Oh my God, it's just going to get worse for Black and brown kids. It’s just gonna get worse,’ ” she said. “Well, then what are you going to do about it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, members of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829180/how-an-oakland-parent-advocate-group-is-making-distance-learning-possible-this-summer\">The Oakland REACH\u003c/a>, the parent advocacy group Young founded, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56629/how-families-are-pushing-schools-to-teach-reading-skills-more-effectively\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have been showing up\u003c/a> at Oakland Unified School District board meetings demanding better schools, but academic outcomes for many students have barely budged. The district hasn't been able to get more than a quarter of Black and Latino kids up to state reading standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no interest in continuing the learning that our children are getting,” Young said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, and billions of dollars in state and federal relief funds began flowing into school districts, REACH saw an opportunity to remake an education system they contend was failing their kids long before COVID closed schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These issues are not new issues, but we have a new opportunity to do something,” Young said. “Why can't we create something that puts folks on the right path, that brings a sense of hope and of progress?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Young and her team built an academic program from scratch, designed to supplement, not replace, the education students get at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been able to fundraise to make sure our kids can get access to things that normally only wealthy, privileged families gain access to,” said Michael De Sousa, REACH’s chief program officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829180/how-an-oakland-parent-advocate-group-is-making-distance-learning-possible-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">began as a summer school initiative last year\u003c/a>, continued into the new school year, offering afternoon online art, karate, cooking, STEM and literature classes for kids of all ages, plus tutoring and intensive-reading help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11829275 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakisha Young, co-founder and executive director of The Oakland REACH, on July 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It served over 350 students throughout district and charter schools during the school year; about 400 are enrolled this summer in an expanded program that added new courses and one-on-one mentorship for high schoolers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young’s goal is to see the model adopted across the city, and she’s found a willing partner in OUSD. With the support of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4875&ModuleInstanceID=34476&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=35661&PageID=13526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$900,000 grant\u003c/a> from the Center on Reinventing Public Education and TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project), REACH and the district are expanding the program to six elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brilliance of this moment is we all had to stretch and do something different out of necessity,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said at a national education conference recently, where she and Young talked about their sometimes tense partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been many touchy, uncomfortable conversations that Lakisha and I have had in terms of, ‘This isn't working,’ \" she said. “But to me, \u003cem>that\u003c/em> \u003cem>is\u003c/em> the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell acknowledges that her district needs to do more to get more kids in the most underserved communities reading at grade level and better prepared for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is being radical in terms of, ‘Is there a different way to conceive of how a system operates?’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By fall, the goal is to expand the program to another 325 families, whose kids would have access to reading support and enrichment classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Elementary School in East Oakland, one of the six schools in the pilot program, had just one literacy tutor before the partnership began. Now they’ve added three, allowing for smaller groups and more targeted instruction, according to Nikki Williams, the school’s principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about increasing the depth of the support,” she said. “Going from six [students per group] to four can really make a big difference, especially when you're talking about foundational skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students were selected based on literacy levels and staff recommendations, Williams says, noting that the program offers them more opportunities than what her school could provide alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're really a partner and a support to what's happening during the school day,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Leonard Taylor’s daughter, Am’Briyah, who'll be starting second grade in the fall, the intensive literacy coaching made a difference this past year. Early in the school year, Taylor didn’t have child care, so Am’Briyah had to do her distance learning Zoom classes in the car while he delivered food for Grubhub — and she quickly started falling behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's hard to pay attention to the computer when you’re riding around and stuff is moving,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He credits the REACH program’s small class sizes and one-on-one support for getting his daughter caught up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actually, she's [now] above her reading level,” he said. “I feel better now because she's in tune, she shows interest. She doesn't even want to go to her regular school class; The Oakland REACH program, she's ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11875277 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Oakland REACH students. \u003ccite>(Olivia Obineme/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preliminary data collected by REACH last summer showed that during five weeks of online instruction, students, on average, made the kind of reading progress that’s normally expected over two months of in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that I really appreciate from the partnership is that we keep coming back to the science of reading,” said Romy Trigg-Smith, OUSD's early literacy coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means grounding not only literacy tutors, but also parents, in an evidence-based approach to teaching reading. REACH holds workshops to help parents understand their kids’ reading assessment data and to demonstrate what quality reading instruction should look like, with the goal of getting parents to advocate for it and support their kids at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oakland-reach\"]Am’Briyah was one of just two students in an afternoon reading class this year led by Irene Segura, a former OUSD reading tutor. Segura’s new title with REACH is “literacy liberator.” She and nearly all the other coaches are Black or Latino, like their students. She credits the individualized attention for helping the kids make rapid reading gains, and says the program’s focus on the whole family is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very family driven,” she said. “We involve the family so that they know exactly what they're teaching and can do a lot of the activities at home. And it's just a place where we keep each other safe and we care for each other and we solve problems together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having the program so firmly grounded in family and community is what makes it unique, says Williams, the principal at Howard Elementary. “Sometimes hearing it parent-to-parent is so much more powerful. You can say, ‘My kids struggle with the same thing. Here is what I can do to support you,’ ” she said. “I think that just brings power to the message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the program, every family gets assigned a caseworker from their own community to help them navigate the school system and access everything from housing to employment services. REACH co-founder Keta Brown works with 18 families from all over Oakland and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have these relationships, you understand the challenges of each family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes that means making a house call to help a grandparent set up a Wi-Fi hotspot, or walking a parent through the school enrollment process. Brown says her goal is always to empower parents, not do things for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a difference,” Brown said. “It's like cooking. You know, I'm not going to keep cooking all the food. We're gonna get our ingredients together and we're gonna lay out the recipe and you might want to add a little different twist. And at the end of the day it’s the dish that works for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11829280 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland REACH parents preparing to distribute computers and other school supplies last summer when they first launched the learning program. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the district has family outreach staff, a single coordinator might serve hundreds of families. The REACH model brings that ratio down to 20 families per caseworker, at most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, what was really exciting was understanding what they call their secret sauce,” Trigg-Smith, the OUSD early literacy coordinator said. “How does that family support look different from how our family liaisons work? How can we learn from those practices?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REACH’s Lakisha Young hopes her group’s model demonstrates to district administrators that outreach alone isn't enough; listening and responding to parents’ needs is also essential in getting them more involved in their kids' education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not just about engaging families,” she said. “It's helping families step into their power — making sure that the voices of families are really front and center in guiding solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says her goal is to help the district expand the program over the next couple of years, eventually handing it over to them completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to see this become the new normal,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Oakland REACH, which began as a summer school initiative in 2020, provided academic support and counseling to about 350 students and their families this last school year, with some 400 students now enrolled in the summer program. 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Why can't we create something that puts folks on the right path, that brings a sense of hope and of progress?'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Lakisha Young, executive director of The Oakland REACH","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Immediately, when COVID hit, you heard so many people saying, ‘Oh my God, it's just going to get worse for Black and brown kids. It’s just gonna get worse,’ ” she said. “Well, then what are you going to do about it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, members of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829180/how-an-oakland-parent-advocate-group-is-making-distance-learning-possible-this-summer\">The Oakland REACH\u003c/a>, the parent advocacy group Young founded, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56629/how-families-are-pushing-schools-to-teach-reading-skills-more-effectively\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have been showing up\u003c/a> at Oakland Unified School District board meetings demanding better schools, but academic outcomes for many students have barely budged. The district hasn't been able to get more than a quarter of Black and Latino kids up to state reading standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no interest in continuing the learning that our children are getting,” Young said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, and billions of dollars in state and federal relief funds began flowing into school districts, REACH saw an opportunity to remake an education system they contend was failing their kids long before COVID closed schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These issues are not new issues, but we have a new opportunity to do something,” Young said. “Why can't we create something that puts folks on the right path, that brings a sense of hope and of progress?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Young and her team built an academic program from scratch, designed to supplement, not replace, the education students get at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been able to fundraise to make sure our kids can get access to things that normally only wealthy, privileged families gain access to,” said Michael De Sousa, REACH’s chief program officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829180/how-an-oakland-parent-advocate-group-is-making-distance-learning-possible-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">began as a summer school initiative last year\u003c/a>, continued into the new school year, offering afternoon online art, karate, cooking, STEM and literature classes for kids of all ages, plus tutoring and intensive-reading help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11829275 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakisha Young, co-founder and executive director of The Oakland REACH, on July 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It served over 350 students throughout district and charter schools during the school year; about 400 are enrolled this summer in an expanded program that added new courses and one-on-one mentorship for high schoolers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young’s goal is to see the model adopted across the city, and she’s found a willing partner in OUSD. With the support of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4875&ModuleInstanceID=34476&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=35661&PageID=13526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$900,000 grant\u003c/a> from the Center on Reinventing Public Education and TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project), REACH and the district are expanding the program to six elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brilliance of this moment is we all had to stretch and do something different out of necessity,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said at a national education conference recently, where she and Young talked about their sometimes tense partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been many touchy, uncomfortable conversations that Lakisha and I have had in terms of, ‘This isn't working,’ \" she said. “But to me, \u003cem>that\u003c/em> \u003cem>is\u003c/em> the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell acknowledges that her district needs to do more to get more kids in the most underserved communities reading at grade level and better prepared for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is being radical in terms of, ‘Is there a different way to conceive of how a system operates?’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By fall, the goal is to expand the program to another 325 families, whose kids would have access to reading support and enrichment classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Elementary School in East Oakland, one of the six schools in the pilot program, had just one literacy tutor before the partnership began. Now they’ve added three, allowing for smaller groups and more targeted instruction, according to Nikki Williams, the school’s principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about increasing the depth of the support,” she said. “Going from six [students per group] to four can really make a big difference, especially when you're talking about foundational skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students were selected based on literacy levels and staff recommendations, Williams says, noting that the program offers them more opportunities than what her school could provide alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're really a partner and a support to what's happening during the school day,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Leonard Taylor’s daughter, Am’Briyah, who'll be starting second grade in the fall, the intensive literacy coaching made a difference this past year. Early in the school year, Taylor didn’t have child care, so Am’Briyah had to do her distance learning Zoom classes in the car while he delivered food for Grubhub — and she quickly started falling behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's hard to pay attention to the computer when you’re riding around and stuff is moving,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He credits the REACH program’s small class sizes and one-on-one support for getting his daughter caught up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actually, she's [now] above her reading level,” he said. “I feel better now because she's in tune, she shows interest. She doesn't even want to go to her regular school class; The Oakland REACH program, she's ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11875277 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Oakland REACH students. \u003ccite>(Olivia Obineme/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preliminary data collected by REACH last summer showed that during five weeks of online instruction, students, on average, made the kind of reading progress that’s normally expected over two months of in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that I really appreciate from the partnership is that we keep coming back to the science of reading,” said Romy Trigg-Smith, OUSD's early literacy coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means grounding not only literacy tutors, but also parents, in an evidence-based approach to teaching reading. REACH holds workshops to help parents understand their kids’ reading assessment data and to demonstrate what quality reading instruction should look like, with the goal of getting parents to advocate for it and support their kids at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"oakland-reach"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Am’Briyah was one of just two students in an afternoon reading class this year led by Irene Segura, a former OUSD reading tutor. Segura’s new title with REACH is “literacy liberator.” She and nearly all the other coaches are Black or Latino, like their students. She credits the individualized attention for helping the kids make rapid reading gains, and says the program’s focus on the whole family is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very family driven,” she said. “We involve the family so that they know exactly what they're teaching and can do a lot of the activities at home. And it's just a place where we keep each other safe and we care for each other and we solve problems together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having the program so firmly grounded in family and community is what makes it unique, says Williams, the principal at Howard Elementary. “Sometimes hearing it parent-to-parent is so much more powerful. You can say, ‘My kids struggle with the same thing. Here is what I can do to support you,’ ” she said. “I think that just brings power to the message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the program, every family gets assigned a caseworker from their own community to help them navigate the school system and access everything from housing to employment services. REACH co-founder Keta Brown works with 18 families from all over Oakland and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have these relationships, you understand the challenges of each family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes that means making a house call to help a grandparent set up a Wi-Fi hotspot, or walking a parent through the school enrollment process. Brown says her goal is always to empower parents, not do things for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a difference,” Brown said. “It's like cooking. You know, I'm not going to keep cooking all the food. We're gonna get our ingredients together and we're gonna lay out the recipe and you might want to add a little different twist. And at the end of the day it’s the dish that works for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11829280 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland REACH parents preparing to distribute computers and other school supplies last summer when they first launched the learning program. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the district has family outreach staff, a single coordinator might serve hundreds of families. The REACH model brings that ratio down to 20 families per caseworker, at most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, what was really exciting was understanding what they call their secret sauce,” Trigg-Smith, the OUSD early literacy coordinator said. “How does that family support look different from how our family liaisons work? How can we learn from those practices?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REACH’s Lakisha Young hopes her group’s model demonstrates to district administrators that outreach alone isn't enough; listening and responding to parents’ needs is also essential in getting them more involved in their kids' education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not just about engaging families,” she said. “It's helping families step into their power — making sure that the voices of families are really front and center in guiding solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says her goal is to help the district expand the program over the next couple of years, eventually handing it over to them completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to see this become the new normal,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11879097/the-secret-sauce-how-a-parent-led-project-is-reimagining-public-schools-for-oaklands-black-and-latino-students","authors":["11276"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_20013","news_24471","news_3202","news_3366"],"featImg":"news_11829281","label":"news"},"news_11867254":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11867254","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11867254","score":null,"sort":[1617225037000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"im-going-to-learn-a-lot-more-here-first-wave-of-students-return-to-oakland-public-schools","title":"'I'm Going to Learn a Lot More Here': Oakland's Youngest Public School Students Return to the Classroom","publishDate":1617225037,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Thousands of Oakland's youngest public school students returned to their classes on Tuesday, many of them seeing their teachers and classmates in person for the first time in more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following months of tense negotiations with the teachers union, the Oakland Unified School District reopened its doors this week to most pre-K through second graders, as well as some of the highest-needs students in older grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Montclair Elementary School in the Oakland Hills, parents and kids were greeted with music, soap bubbles and energetic cheering from teachers welcoming them back. Families in staged drop-off lines approached sign-in tables festooned with small, stuffed animal otters, the school’s mascot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes began in the early afternoon for about 100 students whose families opted for them to return to in-person instruction. They will, however, continue to do distance learning from home in the mornings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Maite Barloga, Montclair Elementary School principal\"]'Welcome to the first day of school like we’ve never seen before!'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Montclair, like most other elementary schools in the district, students will only initially attend school in person two days a week, as part of a rotating hybrid model to maintain small class sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muneer Hassan, who was dropping off his two children in fourth and fifth grades, said rearranging his work schedule to make sure his kids were back in school was a small price to pay. Both of his kids, he said, have been struggling with distance learning and are falling behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think even with any schedule challenges, getting in here is of the greatest priority because they need that help and assistance,” Hassan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11867256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell.jpg 2016w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montclair Elementary School parent John Mitchell drops off his son Duke for in-person classes on Tuesday — the first time back in the classroom this year. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another parent, John Mitchell, also expressed relief to be dropping off his third grader at an actual physical school building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the screen time has kind of taken over our house a little bit,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said he's been impressed with how the school and the district have kept parents updated through the constant changes over the last few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They've done a really good job and I understand most of the sides of the discussion,” he said. “So, yeah, 100% sympathy for teachers, sympathy for the parents. Like everybody's got, you know, multiple generations of families living at home. And we just want to go slow and be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the ride to school, Mitchell said, his son Duke “was trembling in the car he was so excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've actually hardly been learning anything at all on Zoom. I feel like I'm going to learn a lot more here at Montclair,” Duke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maite Barloga, the school's principal, stood outside, enthusiastically greeting the long line of families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to the first day of school like we’ve never seen before!” Barloga said, beaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families pick up their children from Montclair Elementary School on March 30, 2021 after the first day of in-person classes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents, she said, are being required to use a new health screening app and to fill out a safety agreement as part of the sign-in process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barloga said that, unlike in some other district elementary schools, most of her teachers agreed to return to the classroom over the next seven school days — the period during which in-person instruction is voluntary for teachers, per the district's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864818/oakland-school-district-and-union-reach-deal-to-reopen-some-schools-by-end-of-march\">recently approved agreement\u003c/a> with the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"ousd\"]A\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866418/some-oakland-elementary-schools-to-remain-closed-next-week-as-many-teachers-choose-to-stay-home\"> truncated reopening timeline\u003c/a> and unanswered questions about the process prompted a majority of teachers districtwide to opt out of returning to their classrooms this week, leaving scores of parents in limbo and administrators scrambling to prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H5r0YxxQ_o5MwBxUhKYUhOLXlSd6snAayykv_RL_Ca4/edit?ts=605cb414\">According to the district\u003c/a>, some 30 pre-K and elementary schools have enough teachers to reopen as planned, while about 30 others will reopen on more limited basis because only a small percentage of teachers have opted in. Meanwhile, 15 other district schools that had planned to open this week will remain shuttered until mid-April due to the lack of teachers currently willing to return in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that some parents are going to see how today goes, talk with other parents, and then they'll decide,” said Montclair fifth grade teacher Jamila Brooks. “Or they may decide they don't want to do it. This is all optional for parents and teachers right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks is also her school's union representative, and has been in the thick of negotiations between the district and teachers.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're figuring it out. I'm trying to have a positive attitude,” she said. “I'm just happy to be back in school. Everybody looks very happy. So that's good. That's good to feel. And it feels good to be back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new schedule made for a complicated day for Brooks, who taught her morning Zoom class at home until 11:30 a.m., alongside her daughter, who also attends Montclair, before driving to school to greet her students in person — for the first time this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyle Moss, a fourth grade teacher at Montclair Elementary, wore a double mask, sweating slightly in the hot afternoon sun, as he greeted students on Tuesday. This week, he said, he'll be teaching a mixed-age cohort of higher-needs students, with lots of outdoor activities planned — including a good chunk of time devoted to practicing how to take bathroom breaks and avoid sharing materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm glad that we're back at school,” Moss said. “I wish that it felt a little bit more organized. I mean, the first day of school always feels a little bit chaotic, and so there's just kind of some additional pressures and things to worry about here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867403\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in front of Sankofa United Elementary School welcoming students back. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Down the hill, in the flatlands of North Oakland, a similar scene played out on Tuesday at Sankofa United Elementary School, which is located in a less affluent neighborhood and serves a higher percentage of Black and brown students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her first day of in-person kindergarten, Latacha Roberson dressed her daughter, Montana, in a special pink T-shirt with white letters that read “Social Distancing Expert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm excited because it's her first time coming into the school,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite still feeling nervous about health conditions, Roberson said school officials have done a good job reassuring her that Montana will be in a safe environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They talked about really keeping things sanitized and making sure that [the kids] stay social distancing,” she said. “I feel safe with her being here, so that's a good thing.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Peter Wilson, Sankofa United Elementary School fourth grade teacher\"]'I got to ask, ‘Who are you? What do you like?’ I'm just thrilled to be back in school, you know. I miss them.'[/pullquote]About three hours later, students emerged from the building and ran to greet their eagerly awaiting parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa fourth grade teacher Peter Wilson said there were only eight students in his class that day, sitting at desks spaced far apart and separated with plexiglass. He is fully vaccinated and said the school provided enough personal protective equipment for him to feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a great day,” he said. “No heavy-duty academics, because this is the first time I've really seen them. I got to ask, ‘Who are you? What do you like?’ I'm just thrilled to be back in school, you know. I miss them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derrick Wesby, known as Mr. D, who is Sankofa's after-school program coordinator and safety lead in charge of parent health screenings, said the process went better than he had expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a lot of anxiety around it, just thinking leading up to it and just really trying to do a lot of pre-intervention work before this day — reaching out to parents, sending them little tutorials on how to do it. So I really think that worked,” Wesby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisimba Yazid drops off his daughter Seneca Jahi at Sankofa United on March 30, 2021, the first day of in-person classes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every pre-K through second grade teacher at Sankofa, he said, opted to come back to school during this voluntary period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were really lucky and just really blessed to be able to have a 100% teacher return,\" Wesby said. “It just shows that the community and the teachers came together and we really tried to pull through for the students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Roberson, bringing her daughter back to school just two half days a week is worth the hassle, but still far from ideal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to work around it. I'm trying to put it all together right now,” she said after picking up her daughter. “Today was an OK day, but the rest of the time it’s probably going to be a little bit of a struggle for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberson asked her daughter what she learned in school that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned about and read a book,\" Montana answered. They also ate lunch in the school garden, she added, and “went outside and played.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Vanessa Rancaño contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Scores of Oakland's youngest students returned to in-person classes on Tuesday for the first time in more than a year. More than 60 pre-K and elementary schools reopened their doors, offering afternoon classes.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1617319514,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1647},"headData":{"title":"'I'm Going to Learn a Lot More Here': Oakland's Youngest Public School Students Return to the Classroom | KQED","description":"Scores of Oakland's youngest students returned to in-person classes on Tuesday for the first time in more than a year. More than 60 pre-K and elementary schools reopened their doors, offering afternoon classes.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'I'm Going to Learn a Lot More Here': Oakland's Youngest Public School Students Return to the Classroom","datePublished":"2021-03-31T21:10:37.000Z","dateModified":"2021-04-01T23:25:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11867254 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11867254","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/03/31/im-going-to-learn-a-lot-more-here-first-wave-of-students-return-to-oakland-public-schools/","disqusTitle":"'I'm Going to Learn a Lot More Here': Oakland's Youngest Public School Students Return to the Classroom","path":"/news/11867254/im-going-to-learn-a-lot-more-here-first-wave-of-students-return-to-oakland-public-schools","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Thousands of Oakland's youngest public school students returned to their classes on Tuesday, many of them seeing their teachers and classmates in person for the first time in more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following months of tense negotiations with the teachers union, the Oakland Unified School District reopened its doors this week to most pre-K through second graders, as well as some of the highest-needs students in older grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Montclair Elementary School in the Oakland Hills, parents and kids were greeted with music, soap bubbles and energetic cheering from teachers welcoming them back. Families in staged drop-off lines approached sign-in tables festooned with small, stuffed animal otters, the school’s mascot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes began in the early afternoon for about 100 students whose families opted for them to return to in-person instruction. They will, however, continue to do distance learning from home in the mornings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Welcome to the first day of school like we’ve never seen before!'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Maite Barloga, Montclair Elementary School principal","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Montclair, like most other elementary schools in the district, students will only initially attend school in person two days a week, as part of a rotating hybrid model to maintain small class sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muneer Hassan, who was dropping off his two children in fourth and fifth grades, said rearranging his work schedule to make sure his kids were back in school was a small price to pay. Both of his kids, he said, have been struggling with distance learning and are falling behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think even with any schedule challenges, getting in here is of the greatest priority because they need that help and assistance,” Hassan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11867256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell.jpg 2016w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/John-Mitchell-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montclair Elementary School parent John Mitchell drops off his son Duke for in-person classes on Tuesday — the first time back in the classroom this year. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another parent, John Mitchell, also expressed relief to be dropping off his third grader at an actual physical school building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the screen time has kind of taken over our house a little bit,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said he's been impressed with how the school and the district have kept parents updated through the constant changes over the last few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They've done a really good job and I understand most of the sides of the discussion,” he said. “So, yeah, 100% sympathy for teachers, sympathy for the parents. Like everybody's got, you know, multiple generations of families living at home. And we just want to go slow and be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the ride to school, Mitchell said, his son Duke “was trembling in the car he was so excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've actually hardly been learning anything at all on Zoom. I feel like I'm going to learn a lot more here at Montclair,” Duke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maite Barloga, the school's principal, stood outside, enthusiastically greeting the long line of families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to the first day of school like we’ve never seen before!” Barloga said, beaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48255_007_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families pick up their children from Montclair Elementary School on March 30, 2021 after the first day of in-person classes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents, she said, are being required to use a new health screening app and to fill out a safety agreement as part of the sign-in process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barloga said that, unlike in some other district elementary schools, most of her teachers agreed to return to the classroom over the next seven school days — the period during which in-person instruction is voluntary for teachers, per the district's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864818/oakland-school-district-and-union-reach-deal-to-reopen-some-schools-by-end-of-march\">recently approved agreement\u003c/a> with the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"ousd"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866418/some-oakland-elementary-schools-to-remain-closed-next-week-as-many-teachers-choose-to-stay-home\"> truncated reopening timeline\u003c/a> and unanswered questions about the process prompted a majority of teachers districtwide to opt out of returning to their classrooms this week, leaving scores of parents in limbo and administrators scrambling to prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H5r0YxxQ_o5MwBxUhKYUhOLXlSd6snAayykv_RL_Ca4/edit?ts=605cb414\">According to the district\u003c/a>, some 30 pre-K and elementary schools have enough teachers to reopen as planned, while about 30 others will reopen on more limited basis because only a small percentage of teachers have opted in. Meanwhile, 15 other district schools that had planned to open this week will remain shuttered until mid-April due to the lack of teachers currently willing to return in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that some parents are going to see how today goes, talk with other parents, and then they'll decide,” said Montclair fifth grade teacher Jamila Brooks. “Or they may decide they don't want to do it. This is all optional for parents and teachers right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks is also her school's union representative, and has been in the thick of negotiations between the district and teachers.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're figuring it out. I'm trying to have a positive attitude,” she said. “I'm just happy to be back in school. Everybody looks very happy. So that's good. That's good to feel. And it feels good to be back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new schedule made for a complicated day for Brooks, who taught her morning Zoom class at home until 11:30 a.m., alongside her daughter, who also attends Montclair, before driving to school to greet her students in person — for the first time this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyle Moss, a fourth grade teacher at Montclair Elementary, wore a double mask, sweating slightly in the hot afternoon sun, as he greeted students on Tuesday. This week, he said, he'll be teaching a mixed-age cohort of higher-needs students, with lots of outdoor activities planned — including a good chunk of time devoted to practicing how to take bathroom breaks and avoid sharing materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm glad that we're back at school,” Moss said. “I wish that it felt a little bit more organized. I mean, the first day of school always feels a little bit chaotic, and so there's just kind of some additional pressures and things to worry about here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867403\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48253_005_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in front of Sankofa United Elementary School welcoming students back. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Down the hill, in the flatlands of North Oakland, a similar scene played out on Tuesday at Sankofa United Elementary School, which is located in a less affluent neighborhood and serves a higher percentage of Black and brown students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her first day of in-person kindergarten, Latacha Roberson dressed her daughter, Montana, in a special pink T-shirt with white letters that read “Social Distancing Expert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm excited because it's her first time coming into the school,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite still feeling nervous about health conditions, Roberson said school officials have done a good job reassuring her that Montana will be in a safe environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They talked about really keeping things sanitized and making sure that [the kids] stay social distancing,” she said. “I feel safe with her being here, so that's a good thing.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I got to ask, ‘Who are you? 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I miss them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derrick Wesby, known as Mr. D, who is Sankofa's after-school program coordinator and safety lead in charge of parent health screenings, said the process went better than he had expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a lot of anxiety around it, just thinking leading up to it and just really trying to do a lot of pre-intervention work before this day — reaching out to parents, sending them little tutorials on how to do it. So I really think that worked,” Wesby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48249_001_Oakland_SchoolReopening_03302021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisimba Yazid drops off his daughter Seneca Jahi at Sankofa United on March 30, 2021, the first day of in-person classes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every pre-K through second grade teacher at Sankofa, he said, opted to come back to school during this voluntary period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were really lucky and just really blessed to be able to have a 100% teacher return,\" Wesby said. “It just shows that the community and the teachers came together and we really tried to pull through for the students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Roberson, bringing her daughter back to school just two half days a week is worth the hassle, but still far from ideal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to work around it. I'm trying to put it all together right now,” she said after picking up her daughter. “Today was an OK day, but the rest of the time it’s probably going to be a little bit of a struggle for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberson asked her daughter what she learned in school that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned about and read a book,\" Montana answered. 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